Introduction Bonnie and Clyde The movie, Bonnie and Clyde can be considered as one of those films that changed the course that the American Cinemas had taken. It is a rare film that best gives a presentation of cruelty absence. As a result, this absence of cruelty causes an off balance to the people watching the film. The major characters of the film are Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (Barrow, Phillips & Weiser, 2005). They are referred to as antiheroes in the movies whose main activity is robbing banks across Midwest and southern part of their country. They do this in conjunction with the brother to a character called Clyde whose name is Buck, his wife Blanch as well as C.W. Moss whose has been branded as a trustworthy driver. The movie maybe old but has the unique ability to depict both the meaning and suspense making use of camera movements, symbols as well as sound inherited from Arthur Penn. Breathless The movie Breathless is a 50 years old movie and is regarded as unique, influential, and famous movie to ever come into existent. As such, to critics and filmmakers, it is a seminal movie. The main character in the film is an artist called Michel, who is a con, chain smoker and a lover of Patricia. His acts are demonic and barbaric as he escapes the police in a car that he had stolen after shooting down a policeman. Just like Bonnie and Clyde, the movie is shot using lightweight cameras and this shooting was mainly done on the available light. Moreover, the movie acts as a great influencer to many filmmakers. Thesis Statement The purpose of this paper is to compare the two movies, Bonnie and Clyde and Breathless in the way ethical situations of the main characters are handled. Discussion In both movies, the stories involve couples who perform acts that go against the conventionalities as well as ethics of the society. The main characters in each movie became rebellious since they were not contended with the state they resided in. Again, in each movie, each character has great affinity for his or her partner. Even though each character in the movies had a great compassion to their partners, the love between the couples was inadequate in an effort to modify the shape of the prevailing situations. Each character in both movies sought to rebel against social standards that were inflicted on them. The characters tend to drift away from what the society has endorsed as the societal values. The movie Breathless as compared to Bonnie and Clyde is not really concerned with rebellion associated with openness and sex of the 1960s and 1970s but rather it is about the common citizens who show an effort towards fitting themselves into the mold of those times. The movies do not glorify the criminal deeds attributed to the characters and neither do they show much compassion for the culprits essentially the law and to those who are pursuing the errant characters (Schneider, 2010) The main characters in both movies take it upon themselves in an effort to make their life experiences merry and more enthralling. They ensure this by breaking loose from the set societal shackles. For instance, in Bonnie and Clyde , Clyde has a desire to become a gangster and hence live in a life full of crime and also de