There are few directors who can be identified with the naked eye by looking at a few frames of their films, but Quentin Tarantino has managed over the last 30 years to carve out a path that only a select few can achieve . So if you think so, we are going to do a review of his signed works as a director, those that have created his legend of enfant terrible in Hollywood.
Quentin Tarantino’s movies (in chronological order)
Born in the town of Knoxville, Tennessee, the career of one of the most acclaimed directors by critics and audiences has been marked by attention and devotion that were born practically at the same time as his first film. It was with Reservoir Dogs in 1992, but especially with Pulp Fiction in 1994, that he rose to fame and from that moment on could take on any project he wanted , endorsed by the extraordinary box office figures that his films reached.
With a fresh, direct way of making movies, but above all with a thunderous crudeness, Quentin Tarantino was soon the target of anger in his own country, which they practically accused of fomenting violence due to the coldness with which he showed blood in his films. . It is true that both Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, or his Kill Bills, are an elegy to a depraved and brutal world, but no one can doubt the tremendous originality with which he dealt with themes that until then had been classics in the history of American cinema. .
We are not going to bore you anymore because this is not a treatise on Tarantino’s cinema but rather a reminder of everything we have seen from him over the last three decades. Which is not little.
These are the movies directed by Quentin Tarantino in chronological order:
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Tarantino’s first professional film and first resounding success. The plot tells us the story of six crooks and criminals who are hired to hit a diamond warehouse, but the plan soon falls apart when the police show up at the scene of the robbery, causing some of the assailants to die. and others flee. But what has really happened?
Where to watch it: Prime Video
Pulp Fiction (1994)
This film was an absolute cultural phenomenon at the time and elevated Tarantino to the top of the most important directors in Hollywood. In it they tell us the story of two thugs (John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson), a boxer (Bruce Willis) and a couple of rather crappy robbers who find themselves involved in a spiral of violence that drags them along without them being able to avoid it.
Where to see it?: Movistar+
Four Rooms (1995)
Film that is divided into several chapters and in which Quentin Tarantino was in charge of directing one entitled The Man from Hollywood . In all the stories there is a link, which is the presence of the bellman, played by Tim Roth. Tarantino, in this film, once again abused those absurd dialogues that do not seem to contribute anything to the plot and that end up becoming classics… among his fans.
Where to see it?: Buy or rent
Jackie Brown (1997)
Tarantino changes the third and returns to one of his favorite times: the 70s. And there he builds a thriller in which the protagonist, a stewardess, decides to get a little more money by working as a courier for a mobster. Soon things will go wrong and he will have to help the police catch his old boss if he wants to see the charges against him reduced.
Where to see it?: Buy or rent
Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)
Tarantino returns to what he likes to do the most: explicit violence and absurdly terrifying situations. On this occasion, the protagonist is a murderer who sees how one of the most important days of her life is destroyed by the assassins of her boss’s gang, Bill. Black Mamba, as the protagonist calls herself, will seek revenge… at any cost.
Years later, the director himself released Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair in some theaters . This is the extended version of the footage and a point of view closer to what I would have originally wanted to present with Kill Bill Volume 1 .
Where to see it?: Buy or rent
Kill Bill Volume 2 (2004)
Direct continuation of the first volume of Kill Bill , Tarantino continues to narrate the path of revenge undertaken by Black Mamba and that leads her to continue quenching her thirst for blood with an endless string of murders. A must see if you have seen the first film.
Where to see it?: Buy or rent
Death Proof (2007)
Kurt Russell plays Mike, a retired stuntman who decides to hit the road in search of young women to kill. A film with the Tarantino brand that does not reach the brilliance of other of his productions but that serves to better understand the American cinematographic universe.
Where to see it?: Buy or rent
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Quentin Tarantino finds his way back to his cinema with a damn good movie that takes us back to World War II, where a group of Jewish soldiers begins a wild hunt for officers and soldiers of the Nazi army. As stark as violent and fun in equal parts. A real joy.
Where to watch it?: Prime Video and Movistar+
Django Unchained (2012)
Quentin Tarantino goes to the Wild West, another of the times he fell in love with thanks to Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns with music by Ennio Morricone. This time we will learn the story of a slave (Django, played by Jamie Foxx) who is freed by a German bounty hunter and, together, they will travel through the south of the country hunting down the most dangerous criminals .
Where to see it?: Movistar+
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Tarantino liked the experience of traveling to the Wild West so much that his next film also placed him in that historical time in the US. This time, a few years after the Civil War and with a bounty hunter traveling with a fugitive which must be brought to justice. The problem is that along the way they will meet other characters who will take the story down an increasingly violent path.
Where to watch it: Netflix and HBO Max
Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood (2019)
Quentin Tarantino completely changes register and creates a genre film that is based on some real events and that takes us to the heart of Hollywood in the late 60s, when the industry is revolutionized by new and innovative directors and technologies that will cause the great change of the next decade. We will see a superb cast of actors parade through this film, with Brad Pitt, Leonardo Di Caprio, Margot Robbie, Luke Perry, Damian Lewis, Al Pacino or Kurt Russell himself among others.
Where to watch it: Prime Video and HBO Max
Quentin Tarantino’s movies (from worst to best)
If you want to do a Quentin Tarantino movie marathon, you can do it in two ways: either by following the chronological order of release that we indicated above, or by quality, according to the rating that each one has right now on IMDb , the main website of reference in the world of cinema, television and audiovisual products. Of course, if you opt for this second criterion, we do not advise you to change the order of each volume of Kill Bill for obvious reasons.
This is the ranking of Quentin Tarantino’s movies, ordered from worst to best , according to the rating each one has on IMDb:
- Four Rooms ( 6.7 )
- Death Proof ( 7.0 )
- Jackie Brown ( 7.5 )
- Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood ( 7.6 )
- The Hateful Eight ( 7.8 )
- Kill Bill Volume 2 ( 8.0 )
- Kill Bill Volume 1 ( 8.2 )
- Inglourious bastards ( 8.3 )
- Reservoir Dogs ( 8.3 )
- Django Unchained ( 8.4 )
- Pulp Fiction ( 8.9 )