Bonnie and Clyde

Small-time crook Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) tries to steal a car – and winds up with its owner's daughter, dissatisfied small-town girl Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway). 

Their crimes quickly spiral from petty theft to bank robbery, but tensions between the couple and the other members of their gang – hapless driver C.W. (Michael J. Pollard), Clyde's older brother Buck (Gene Hackman) and Buck's wife, Blanche (Estelle Parsons) – could run them all off the road and into ruin.

Based loosely on the true exploits of the infamous '30s criminals, Bonnie and Clyde blazed a trail for American cinema with a no-holds-barred approach that continues to hold way over the crime genre today.