Director Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Films

In 2009, Quentin Tarantino did a brief interview with Sky Movies ahead of the release of Inglorious Bastards. Long regarded as a walking movie encyclopedia, Tarantino rattled off a list of his 20 favorite films from 1992 to 2009.


  • 8.8/10

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    1999

    Fight Club

    A nameless first person narrator (Edward Norton) attends support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. When he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), another fake attendee of support groups, his life seems to become a little more bearable. However when he asso ...

    absurd

    action

    cult

    dark hero

    depression

    philosophy

  • 8.7/10

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    1999

    The Matrix

    Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary com ...

    action

    alternate reality

    artificial intelligence

    computers

    cyberpunk

    dark hero

  • 8/10

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    2003

    Dogville

    Late one night, a beautiful and well-dressed young woman, Grace, arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been heard by Tom, the self-appointed moral spokesman for the town. Persuaded by Tom, the town agree to hi ...

    art house

    drama

    golden palm

    morality

    social commentary

    tragedy

  • 7.9/10

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    2004

    Shaun of the Dead

    Shaun doesn't have a very good day, so he decides to turn his life around by getting his ex to take him back, but he times it for right in the middle of what may be a zombie apocalypse... But for him, it's an opportunity to show everyone he knows how useful he is by saving them all. All he has to do ...

    absurd

    anti-hero

    black comedy

    comedy

    cult

    funny

  • 7.9/10

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    2000

    Joint Security Area

    In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining rounds in the assassin's magazine, amount to 16 cartridges for a gun that should normally hold 15. Th ...

    drama

    political

    politics

    psychological

    tragedy

    war

  • 7.9/10

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    1999

    The Insider

    Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, h ...

    conspiracy theory

    corruption

    drama

  • 7.9/10

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    1997

    Boogie Nights

    Adult film director Jack Horner is always on the lookout for new talent and it's only by chance that he meets Eddie Adams who is working as a busboy in a restaurant. Eddie is young, good looking and plenty of libido to spare. Using the screen name Dirk Diggler, he quickly rises to the top of his ind ...

    drama

    erotic

    independent film

    lgbt

    social commentary

  • 7.8/10

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    2003

    Lost in Translation

    Middle-aged American movie star Bob Harris is in Tokyo to film a personal endorsement Suntory whiskey ad solely for the Japanese market. He is past his movie star prime, but his name and image still have enough cachet for him to have gotten this lucrative $2 million job. He has an unsatisfying home ...

    depression

    independent film

    love story

    melancholy

    philosophy

    sarcasm

  • 7.7/10

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    2000

    Battle Royale

    Forty-two students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and wa ...

    absurd

    controversial

    cult

    life & death

    social commentary

    teen movie

  • 7.7/10

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    1993

    Dazed and Confused

    It's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.

    teen movie

  • 7.3/10

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    1995

    Friday

    It is Friday and Craig Jones (Ice Cube) is unemployed, having, yesterday, been fired. He is lounging around his house with his friend Smokey (Chris Tucker), a rather incompetent weed dealer. Smokey's problem is that he tends to smoke, rather than sell, his product. This has lead to trouble with Smok ...

    comedy

    funny

  • 7.2/10

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    2004

    Team America: World Police

    The North American counter-terrorism force Team America attacks a group of terrorists in Paris. Later, the leader of the organization, Spottswoode, invites the famous Broadway actor Gary Johnston to join his world police and work undercover in Cairo, infiltrating a terrorist organization in the hope ...

    absurd

    comedy

    funny

    humor

    parody

    political

  • 7.2/10

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    1999

    Audition

    In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife and raises his son Shigehiko Aoyama alone. Seven years later, the teenage Shigehiko asks why his middle-aged father does not remarry and Shigeharu meets his friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa, who is a film producer, and tells his inte ...

    art house

    bdsm

    horror

    psychological

    psychology

    surreal

  • 7.2/10

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    1994

    Speed

    Bomber terrorist's elevator plan backfires, so he rigs a bomb to a LA city bus. The stipulation is: once armed, the bus must stay above 50 mph to keep from exploding. Also if LAPD Officer tries to unload any passengers off, Payne will detonate it. Joe Morton co-stars as Jack's superior, and Jeff Dan ...

    action

    natural disaster

  • 7.1/10

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    1995

    The Blade

    After the master of the Sharp Manufacturer saber factory abdicates and appoints On, his least popular worker, as his successor, On, unwilling to lead his surly colleagues, embarks on a quest of revenge to kill the evil, flying, tattooed kung fu master who killed his father.

  • 7/10

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    2006

    The Host

    The film revolves around Park Hee-bong, a man in his late 60s. He runs a small snack bar on the banks of the Han River and lives with his two sons, one daughter, and one granddaughter. The Parks seem to lead a quite ordinary and peaceful life, but maybe they are a bit poorer than the average Seoulit ...

    family

    family drama

    horror

    natural disaster

    social commentary

  • 6.9/10

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    1992

    Supercop

    A Hong Kong police officer, Ka Kui is sent undercover to mainland China to break up a drug smuggling ring. After breaking the brother of the drug lord out of prison, he and another agent (a beautiful communist policewoman) are taken to Hong Kong to work for the syndicate. The wife of the crime boss ...

    action

    martial arts

  • 6.4/10

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    2003

    Anything Else

    Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.

    sarcasm

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