20 Movies That Prove That The 1970s Was The Best Decade For Film

4. Badlands

'In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people' Terence Malick has reappeared after a long period of inactivity with critically acclaimed films like The Tree Of Life and To The Wonder, but this, his debut feature, remains his best. Badlands is a love-on-the-run film in the mould of Bonnie And Clyde. Malick has said that he wanted the film to be like a nostalgiac fairy tale as deeply-flawed characters believe that they are living in one. It must be a Grimm fairytale then, since Kit (a young Martin Sheen) goes on a killing spree in an effort to keep his and Holly's (and even younger Sissy Spacek) location a secret. The film is beautiful, Malick's soft cinematography and the charming score juxtaposing the violence on screen. It is a very American film that could have only been made in the 1970s. Badlands' influence can be seen in recent films like Mud and Moonrise Kingdom.