--- description: Find out why Bonnie and Clyde (1967) was selected for the list title: 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades: Bonnie and Clyde (1967) image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc13ba34e8c6ee372/698a3ef347ca38f43e3bafd5/top-100-movies-1960s-bonnieandclyde.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jul 26, 2023 # _Bonnie and Clyde_ (1967) by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde.Mary Evans/AF Archive/Warner Home Video/Everett Collection The French New Wave took American gangster films and interpreted them anew. With [_Bonnie and Clyde_](https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atime.com+Bonnie+and+Clyde&rlz=1C5GCEM%5FenUS992US992&sxsrf=AB5stBgY7FlWEjwM250pFEhIVodEpIiP3Q%3A1689907022025&ei=Tu-5ZKmdAavbptQP9J6EmA8&ved=0ahUKEwip%5FICe4p6AAxWrrYkEHXQPAfMQ4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=site%3Atime.com+Bonnie+and+Clyde&gs%5Flp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiHnNpdGU6dGltZS5jb20gQm9ubmllIGFuZCBDbHlkZUhdUABYAHAAeACQAQCYATugATuqAQExuAEDyAEA-AEC-AEB4gMEGAAgQYgGAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#:~:text=Bonnie%20and%20Clyde%20Movie,com%20%E2%80%BA%20History%20%E2%80%BA%20Crime "undefined"), Arthur Penn—by that point an established, Oscar-nominated director in his mid-40s—refracted the vision of directors like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut and made a fresh American gangster film with New Wave energy, only it was more violent and more nervy in its stylized brutality than any New Wave film had been. Faye Dunaway is a dazzling, surprisingly vulnerable Bonnie Parker; Warren Beatty is her swaggering beau Clyde Barrow, fearless when it comes to robbing banks but tragically unable to perform in the bedroom. The movie divided audiences at first—some thought it glorified real-life bloodshed. But its preoccupation with bloody remorselessness isn’t beside the point; it _is_ the point. _Bonnie and Clyde_ is one of the most exhilarating pictures of its decade, or even its century, thanks in large part to its editing, by Dede Allen. The film’s finale, in which the [doomed couple](https://time.com/4167462/bonnie-and-clyde-meeting-video/ "undefined") meet their [end in a hail of bullets](https://time.com/5549362/the-highwaymen-true-story-bonnie-clyde/ "undefined") prodigious enough to kill a whole platoon, is both merciless and elegiac, a wordless summation of all the conflicting things movies can make us feel. Bonnie and Clyde (1967): 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-movies/6295280/bonnie-and-clyde-1967/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-movies/6295280/bonnie-and-clyde-1967/"},"headline":"Bonnie and Clyde (1967)","datePublished":"2023-07-26T11:32:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:16:54.127Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-movies/6295280/bonnie-and-clyde-1967/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc13ba34e8c6ee372/698a3ef347ca38f43e3bafd5/top-100-movies-1960s-bonnieandclyde.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc13ba34e8c6ee372/698a3ef347ca38f43e3bafd5/top-100-movies-1960s-bonnieandclyde.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-movies/6295280/bonnie-and-clyde-1967/","name":"Bonnie and Clyde (1967)"}}]}] ```