Best Quentin Tarantino movies

Pulp Fiction▲ Rising

The needle-drop nonlinear crime saga that reshuffled Hollywood's DNA overnight, turning John Travolta's dead career into a resurrection and making Samuel L. Jackson's Ezekiel 25:17 speech scripture for a generation of screenwriters. Between the Jack Rabbit Slim's twist, the adrenaline shot, and the briefcase nobody explains, it's the movie that proved dialogue could be the action — the undisputed argument-ender for Tarantino's number one.

Year: 1994Director: Quentin TarantinoIMDb: 8.9/10Oscars: 1

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Django Unchained▲ Rising

A candy-colored revenge opera that hands Jamie Foxx a horse, a bounty hunter's badge, and a mission to burn Candyland to the ground, with Christoph Waltz's Oscar-winning Schultz supplying the wit before Leo DiCaprio's Calvin Candie supplies the menace. It's Tarantino at his most audaciously political and most crowd-pleasing at once, turning slavery-era brutality into pulp catharsis without ever letting you forget the rage underneath.

Year: 2012Director: Quentin TarantinoIMDb: 8.5/10Oscars: 2

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Inglourious Basterds▲ Rising

Opens with the single greatest scene of interrogation-as-suspense Tarantino ever wrote — Christoph Waltz's Hans Landa sniffing out hidden Jews under a farmhouse floor — and never lets the tension slacken even as it rewrites World War II with a movie-theater inferno finale. It's the film where Tarantino fused his film-geek love of cinema itself into the plot, literalizing 'movies can kill Hitler' as both joke and thesis.

Year: 2009Director: Quentin TarantinoIMDb: 8.4/10Oscars: 1

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Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Uma Thurman's Bride slices through the Crazy 88 in a geyser of arterial spray, set to Santa Esmeralda, in a sequence that single-handedly rebooted American appetite for stylized swordplay cinema. Equal parts grindhouse homage and anime fever dream, it's the leanest, most purely kinetic showcase of Tarantino's genre-blending id, even if it's really just the loaded first half of a longer story.

Year: 2003Director: Quentin TarantinoIMDb: 8.2/10Oscars: 0

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood▼ Falling

A hangout movie disguised as history, gliding through 1969 Los Angeles with Rick Dalton's flamethrower freakout and Cliff Booth's acid-dipped cigarette before rewriting the Manson murders into a fairy-tale bloodbath of poetic justice. It's Tarantino's most wistful, elegiac work — a eulogy for old Hollywood and stuntmen and analog fame — earning its spot as the director's late-career victory lap.

Year: 2019Director: Quentin TarantinoIMDb: 7.6/10Oscars: 2

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