IInfluential writer-director Quentin Tarantino was born March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tenn., but moved to Los Angeles with his mother when he was 2. After dropping out of high school, he discovered his passion for movies while working at a video store in California.
While there, Tarantino co-wrote his first feature, Reservoir Dogs, which generated critical acclaim after its 1992 premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. He went on to helm Pulp Fiction (1994), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
A short film for the Four Rooms anthology followed, along with Jackie Brown (1997) and screenplays for Natural Born Killers (1994) and From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). Tarantino made his directorial mark again in 2003 with the two-volume Kill Bill saga. The epic Inglourious Basterds (2009) brought Golden Globe, Oscar and BAFTA nods for his direction and his script.
Django Unchained
2012 3.6 ★ Action & Adventure Rated: NR
Accompanied by a German bounty hunter, a freed slave named Django travels across America to free his wife from a sadistic plantation owner. Quentin Tarantino directs this modern-day spaghetti Western.
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Inglourious Basterds: Bonus Material
2009 3.2 ★ 68 mins Action & Adventure Rated: NR
The bonus material for Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" includes a roundtable discussion with Tarantino, Brad Pitt, and Elvis Mitchell; a "Making-of 'Nation's Pride'" featurette; the original "Inglourious Basterds"; a conversation with Rod Taylor; a "Quentin Tarantino's Camera Angle" featurette; "Hi Sallys" footage; and a film poster gallery tour.
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Inglourious Basterds
  2009 3.9 ★ 153 mins Action & Adventure Rated: R RT:88%
A Jewish cinema owner (Mélanie Laurent) in occupied Paris is forced to host a Nazi movie premiere, where a radical group of American Jewish soldiers called the Basterds, led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), plans to roll out a score-settling scheme.
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Grindhouse: Death Proof
2007 3.5 ★ 113 mins Action & Adventure Rated: NR
In this thriller from Quentin Tarantino, a tough-talking, psychotic serial murderer transforms his Dodge Charger into an indestructible weapon, then climbs behind the wheel of his well-oiled killing machine to terrorize a group of women on the road.
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Grindhouse: Death Proof: Bonus Material
2007 3.4 ★ 60 mins Action & Adventure Rated: UR
The bonus material to Quentin Tarantino's ode to B-movie horror includes the following featurettes: "Stunts on Wheels: The Legendary Drivers of Death Proof," "Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike," "Finding Quentin's Gals," "The Guys of Death Proof," "Introducing Zoe Bell" and more.
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Grind House
2006 4.4 ★ 191 mins Horror Rated: R
Two directors with a huge cult following -- Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino -- roll out a horror double bill that pays homage to grind house cinema, complete with an intermission screening fake trailers. Freddy Rodriguez, Rose McGowan, Marley Shelton, the Black Eyed Peas' Stacy Ferguson and Josh Brolin co-star in Rodriguez's Planet Terror. Tarantino's Death Proof features Rosario Dawson, Danny Trejo and Naveen Andrews.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 3.8 ★ 136 mins Action & Adventure Rated: R
In the second installment of Quentin Tarantino's outrageously inventive Kill Bill series, the Bride unwaveringly continues on her "roaring rampage of revenge" against the band of assassins who tried to kill her and her unborn child at the altar.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003 3.8 ★ 111 mins Action & Adventure Rated: R
In the first volume of this gritty revenge saga, an assassin is shot at the altar by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle. But she survives and sets out to kill all those who wronged her, saving Bill for last.
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Jackie Brown
1997 3.7 ★ 154 mins Action & Adventure Rated: R RT:86%  until 01-Jan-2025  
Jackie Brown is an aging flight attendant who smuggles cash on the side. But when she's busted and pressured to help with an investigation, she plans to play the opposing forces against each other and walk away with the dough.
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Jackie Brown: Collector's Series: Bonus Material
1997 3.5 ★ 198 mins Action & Adventure Rated: NR
The Jackie Brown Bonus disc includes the following extras: six deleted/alternate scenes with introductions by Quentin Tarantino; an original making-of documentary, "How It Went Down"; the "Chicks with Guns" full-length video; featurettes; cast and crew interviews; a Siskel and Ebert review; production stills; cast and crew filmographies; publicity materials; a trivia game; and DVD-ROM features, such as screenplay access.
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Four Rooms
1995 3.6 ★ 98 mins Comedies Rated: R RT:14% until 01-Jan-2025
One mad New Year's Eve, an overwhelmed bellboy (Tim Roth) copes with witches and diabolical children, gets caught in the middle of a sour relationship and settles a bloody bet for members of a superstar's entourage. Madonna, Antonio Banderas and Bruce Willis co-star in this uncommon comedy like no other that features four stories by a quartet of hot directors: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.
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Pulp Fiction
1994 4.1 ★ 154 mins Thrillers Rated: R RT:95% starting 01-May-2013
A burger-loving hit man (John Travolta), his philosophical partner (Samuel L. Jackson), a drug-addled gangster's moll (Uma Thurman) and a washed-up boxer (Bruce Willis) converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper.
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Pulp Fiction: Bonus Material
1994 3.9 ★ 149 mins Independent Movies Rated: NR
The Pulp Fiction Bonus Disc includes some fun extras: a behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes with Quentin Tarantino's introductions, trailers, extensive interviews, DVD-ROM features and a trivia game.
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Reservoir Dogs: Bonus Material
1992 3.9 ★ 100 mins Thrillers Rated: R
The Bonus Disc for Quentin Tarantino's violent feature debut includes a full-screen version of the film, as well as three critics' commentaries (accompanying montages of selected scenes), audio features that combine music selections and interviews, a re-enactment of a key scene as performed by Reservoir Dogs action figures, a Sundance retrospective, a bibliography of Tarantino's references, a bevy of other production featurettes and more.
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Reservoir Dogs
1992 4.0 ★ 100 mins Thrillers Rated: R RT:96% starting 01-Aug-2012
Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut is raw, violent, often mimicked -- and unforgettable. A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors unravel.
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