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From bloody diner shootouts to spaghetti-western revenge sagas, Quentin Tarantino's filmography is one of the most quotable and debated in modern cinema. Cast your vote on where each film belongs in the pecking order.
What counts: Ranking reflects critical consensus (Rotten Tomatoes score), cultural impact, and box office performance relative to budget; all budget, box office, and runtime figures are approximate and rounded to the nearest reasonable estimate.
The non-linear crime anthology that rewired Hollywood storytelling and turned Tarantino into a household name overnight. Vincent Vega's overdose, the gimp scene, and 'Royale with Cheese' are permanently lodged in pop culture. Still widely considered his masterpiece and the film t
Year: 1994Runtime: 154 minBudget: $8,000,000Critic Score: 9.2/10Box Office: $214,000,000
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The micro-budget debut that announced a new voice in American cinema with a torture scene set to 'Stuck in the Middle with You' and a structure told entirely in aftermath. Six guys in suits, one botched heist, and a Mexican standoff finale that became instantly iconic. Proof that
Year: 1992Runtime: 99 minBudget: $1,200,000Critic Score: 9.1/10Box Office: $2,900,000
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A revenge fantasy that rewrites WWII history with a burning cinema and Christoph Waltz's terrifying Hans Landa stealing every scene he's in. The opening farmhouse interrogation is a masterclass in slow-burn dread. It reintroduced Tarantino as a director capable of blending grindh
Year: 2009Runtime: 153 minBudget: $70,000,000Critic Score: 8.9/10Box Office: $321,000,000
added by IJRin 4 rankingsInglourious Basterds
A blaxploitation-Western hybrid that won Tarantino his second Original Screenplay Oscar and gave Christoph Waltz another iconic role as Dr. King Schultz. Jamie Foxx's Django dishing out righteous violence on plantation owners made for one of the most cathartic revenge arcs in his
Year: 2012Runtime: 165 minBudget: $100,000,000Critic Score: 8.7/10Box Office: $425,000,000
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The most mature and restrained Tarantino film, adapted from Elmore Leonard and built around Pam Grier's comeback performance as a flight attendant running a money-smuggling scheme. It trades machine-gun dialogue for slow-cooked tension and gets criminally underrated for it. Rober
Year: 1997Runtime: 154 minBudget: $12,000,000Critic Score: 8.7/10Box Office: $74,000,000
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The Bride's rampage against the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad kicks off with the House of Blue Leaves massacre, a blood-geyser sword battle against O-Ren Ishii's Crazy 88. Uma Thurman's yellow tracksuit became instantly iconic, homaging kung-fu cinema while staying unmistakabl
Year: 2003Runtime: 111 minBudget: $30,000,000Critic Score: 8.5/10Box Office: $180,000,000
added by IJRKill Bill: Volume 1
A wistful, meandering love letter to late-60s Hollywood that reimagines the Manson murders with a gloriously violent twist ending. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt's buddy chemistry as a fading star and his stunt double anchors the film's hangout-movie charm. It's Tarantino at his
Year: 2019Runtime: 161 minBudget: $90,000,000Critic Score: 8.5/10Box Office: $377,000,000
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The slower, more dialogue-driven conclusion to the Bride's saga, culminating in the legendary five-point-palm-exploding-heart technique showdown with Bill himself. It swaps Volume 1's action-movie pacing for spaghetti-western patience, including the buried-alive sequence that ran
Year: 2004Runtime: 137 minBudget: $30,000,000Critic Score: 8.4/10Box Office: $152,000,000
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A snowbound Agatha Christie-style chamber piece shot in glorious 70mm Ultra Panavision, trapping eight suspicious strangers in a stagecoach stopover during a blizzard. Jennifer Jason Leigh's Daisy Domergue takes a beating that divided critics, and the film's stagey, dialogue-heav
Year: 2015Runtime: 168 minBudget: $44,000,000Critic Score: 7.4/10Box Office: $156,000,000
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Tarantino's grindhouse throwback about a scarred stuntman-turned-serial-killer using his 'death proof' car as a murder weapon, released as half of the Grindhouse double feature with Robert Rodriguez. The lap-dance scene and a brutal, satisfying car-chase revenge finale are the hi
Year: 2007Runtime: 113 minBudget: $30,000,000Critic Score: 6.3/10Box Office: $25,000,000
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An anthology film Tarantino contributed one segment to, 'The Man from Hollywood,' a Hitchcock homage starring himself and Bruce Willis reenacting a bet from 'Man from Rio.' The other three directors' segments dragged the overall film down to some of the worst reviews of his caree
Year: 1995Runtime: 98 minBudget: $4,000,000Critic Score: 1.3/10Box Office: $4,300,000
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