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Terrence Malick
Director 82 years old

Terrence Malick

Ottawa, Illinois, USA

Terrence Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning over five decades, Malick has directed nine feature films. He is known for his singular style that combines loose narrative and editing structure with... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

10 titles
A Hidden Life

A Hidden Life

Terrence Malick 2019 2h 53m 9.0

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

Song to Song

Song to Song

Terrence Malick 2017 2h 9m 6.0

In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

Terrence Malick 2016 1h 30m 6.7

A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos and the minute life systems of our planet. (Wide release version with narration by Cate Blanchett.)

Knight of Cups

Knight of Cups

Terrence Malick 2015 1h 58m 5.3

Rick is a slave to the Hollywood system. He is addicted to success but simultaneously despairs at the emptiness of his life. He is at home in a world of illusions but seeks real life. Like the tarot card of the title, Rick is easily bored and needs outside stimulation. But the Knight of Cups is also an artist, a romantic and an adventurer.

To the Wonder

To the Wonder

Terrence Malick 2012 1h 52m 5.4

A romantic drama centered on a man who reconnects with a woman from his hometown after his marriage to a European woman falls apart.

The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick 2011 2h 19m 7.6

The story centers around a family with three boys in the 1950s. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence.

The New World

The New World

Terrence Malick 2005 2h 31m 7.0

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick 1998 2h 51m 8.1

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal.

Days of Heaven

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick 1978 1h 34m 7.7

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

Badlands

Badlands

Terrence Malick 1973 1h 34m 8.0

Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

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