Watch Badlands

Wheat fields at magic hour, locusts and fire; the most beautifully photographed film of its decade.

Two women, a Thunderbird and the Grand Canyon; Ridley Scott's road movie that ends in the air.

Belmondo and Karina drive south in primary colours; Godard at his most alive.

An old professor drives to receive an honour and revisits his life in dreams.

Two bikers ride to New Orleans with Jack Nicholson in tow; the counterculture on film.

Jack Nicholson as an oil-rig worker who was once a concert pianist; the chicken salad scene.

A cowherd and a student dream of Paris on a motorbike with horns; Senegal's New Wave.

A Texas childhood in the 1950s and the creation of the universe; Malick's Palme d'Or.