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Terrence Malick
Writer 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 →

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16 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.

Che: Part Two

Che: Part Two

Steven Soderbergh 2008 2h 15m 7.4

In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.

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.

Undertow

Undertow

David Gordon Green 2004 1h 48m 6.2

The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.

The Beautiful Country

The Beautiful Country

Hans Petter Moland 2004 2h 17m 7.0

After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.

Bear's Kiss

Bear's Kiss

Sergei Bodrov 2002 1h 41m 6.0

A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.

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.

The Gravy Train

The Gravy Train

Jack Starrett 1974 1h 34m

Two rural West Virginia brothers leave home, rob an armored car and become fugitives.

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.

Pocket Money

Pocket Money

Stuart Rosenberg 1972 1h 42m 5.7

Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy and his buddy get mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked cattle dealer.

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