Famously shy and with just a handful of movies to his credit, Terrence Malick remains one of America's most admired directors. Born Nov. 30, 1943, in Waco, Texas, Malick attended Harvard University and took his first film class while teaching philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1973, Malick made his feature-film debut with Badlands, loosely based on the 1958 killing spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann Fugate. Incorporating the naturalistic cinematography, elliptical storytelling and off-camera narration that would become Malick's hallmarks, the movie was deemed a masterpiece.
Malick followed up with Days of Heaven, an elegiac tale of corruption in America's heartland that won an Oscar for cinematography and a Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Two decades later, Malick netted two Oscar nods for his World War II drama The Thin Red Line (1998).
Days of Heaven
 1978 3.4 ★ 93 mins Dramas Rated: PG RT:93%  until 01-Jan-2025  
The story of Bill, a Chicago steel-mill worker who flees town after accidentally killing a man. In search of a better life, he moves his girlfriend Abby and younger sister to Texas. But they run into tragedy when a wealthy farmer falls for Abby.
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The Thin Red Line
1998 3.5 ★ 170 mins Dramas Rated: R RT:78% until 01-Jan-2025
In director Terrence Malick's lyrical and beautiful retelling of James Jones's novel about the 1942 battle for Guadalcanal, the men of C-Company become a tight-knit group as they each individually struggle with the horrors of war.
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Days of Heaven
1978 3.4 ★ 93 mins Drama Rated: PG until 01-Jan-2025 
The story of Bill, a Chicago steel-mill worker who flees town after accidentally killing a man. In search of a better life, he moves his girlfriend Abby and younger sister to Texas. But they run into tragedy when a wealthy farmer falls for Abby.
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The Thin Red Line
1998 3.5 ★ 170 mins Drama Rated: R until 01-Jan-2025
In director Terrence Malick's lyrical and beautiful retelling of James Jones's novel about the 1942 battle for Guadalcanal, the men of C-Company become a tight-knit group as they each individually struggle with the horrors of war.
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Badlands
1973 3.6 ★ 95 mins Classic Movies Rated: PG RT:98%
Young garbageman Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen) and his girlfriend, Holly (Sissy Spacek), kill Holly's father in South Dakota and hit the road on the run from the law. Writer-director Terrence Malick's script (for his feature film debut), based on real murders committed by a couple in 1958, does not judge its characters as they make their way to the Badlands of Montana, leaving a trail of senseless and random murders in their wake.
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The Tree of Life
2011 2.6 ★ 139 mins Dramas Rated: PG-13 RT:84%
Brad Pitt and Sean Penn star in Terrence Malick's 1950s adventure about a confused man named Jack, who sets off on a journey to understand the true nature of the world. Growing up in the Midwest with two brothers, Jack has always been torn between his mother's guidance to approach everything he encounters with an open heart and his father's advice to look after his own interests. Now, Jack must find a way to regain purpose and perspective.
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The New World
2005 2.8 ★ 135 mins Dramas Rated: PG-13 RT:61%
Set in 1607 at the founding of the Jamestown Settlement, Terrence Malick's epic adventure chronicles the extraordinary actions of explorer John Smith (Colin Farrell) and Native American princess Pocahontas (Q'Orianka Kilcher). As English settlers and Native Americans clash, Smith and Pocahontas find their worlds colliding and their hearts entwined, but ancestral loyalty may tear them apart. Christian Bale and Christopher Plummer co-star.
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Badlands
1973 3.6 ★ 95 mins Classics Rated: PG
Young garbageman Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen) and his girlfriend, Holly (Sissy Spacek), kill Holly's father in South Dakota and hit the road on the run from the law. Writer-director Terrence Malick's script (for his feature film debut), ba...
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The New World
2005 2.8 ★ 135 mins Drama Rated: PG-13
Set in 1607 at the founding of the Jamestown Settlement, Terrence Malick's epic adventure chronicles the extraordinary actions of explorer John Smith (Colin Farrell) and Native American princess Pocahontas (Q'Orianka Kilcher). A...
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The Tree of Life
2011 2.6 ★ 139 mins Drama Rated: PG-13
Brad Pitt and Sean Penn star in Terrence Malick's 1950s adventure about a confused man named Jack, who sets off on a journey to understand the true nature of the world. Growing up in the Midwest with two brothers, Jack has always been torn betwee...
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To the Wonder
2012 3.6 ★ 112 mins Drama Rated: R
Soon after returning to his native Oklahoma with a beautiful woman he met in Paris, Neil finds himself drifting toward an old friend. Meanwhile, the woman he brought back with him has unfinished business with her first husband.
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