Badlands

1973 · directed by Terrence Malick

Rating: 87/100
Hit: yes
Prestige lists: Criterion

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

Badlands (1973), directed by Terrence Malick, rates 87/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

Martin Sheen
Sissy Spacek
Warren Oates
Ramon Bieri
Alan Vint
Gary Littlejohn
John Carter
Bryan Montgomery
Gail Threlkeld
Charles Fitzpatrick

Crew

Brian Probyn — Director of Photography
Stevan Larner — Director of Photography
Tak Fujimoto — Director of Photography
Robert Estrin — Editor
George Aliceson Tipton — Original Music Composer
Terrence Malick — Writer

More from Terrence Malick

The Tree of Life (2011) — 90/100 · hit
Days of Heaven (1978) — 87/100 · hit
The Thin Red Line (1998) — 80/100 · hit
A Hidden Life (2019) — 76/100
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016) — 75/100
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2017) — 70/100

How these numbers work: Methodology