Quentin Tarantino Movies in Order: All 10 Releases

Watch Quentin Tarantino's feature films in release order, starting with Reservoir Dogs (1992) and ending with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). This list counts the two original Kill Bill volumes separately. For the distinction between those ten releases and his own nine-film tally, see how many movies Tarantino directed.

Quentin Tarantino movies in order

Theatrical features he directed, in release order. Kill Bill arrived as two volumes; he has said he still counts it as one film in his own tally.

1. Reservoir Dogs (1992) — Heist aftermath as a pressure cooker. The debut that still teaches his talk-first method.
2. Pulp Fiction (1994) — Chapters, needle drops, and the film most people should start with.
3. Jackie Brown (1997) — His quietest feature: Elmore Leonard, grown-up desire, and patience instead of fireworks.
4. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) — Revenge as a tour of genres he loves.
5. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004) — The same story, slower, after the spectacle.
6. Death Proof (2007) — The Grindhouse half that became its own film: cars, stunt work, and a look into the camera. See Kurt Russell on the fourth wall.
7. Inglourious Basterds (2009) — War-film daydream built from conversations that can kill you.
8. Django Unchained (2012) — A western that treats American history as a genre he is allowed to rewrite.
9. The Hateful Eight (2015) — A blizzard, a stagecoach stop, and talk as a siege.
10. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) — Late-style sunshine: Hollywood as a place you can almost save.

Related, not in that ten: Four Rooms (1995) includes his segment "The Man from Hollywood." He wrote True Romance (1993) and From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) for other directors. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is the two volumes shown as one cut — the same film, not an eleventh title.

If you want a ranked path through these ten, use our editorial ranking. If you want the films he named, use his favorite movies after becoming a director.

Before Reservoir Dogs

Tarantino's signature is confidence in talk. A basement interrogation, a farmhouse lunch, a booth at a diner: scenes run long because he trusts rhythm, performance, and the audience's appetite for character. Watching in release order also reveals the move from compact crime stories toward revenge fantasies and imagined histories.

The first feature he tried to finish was My Best Friend's Birthday, shot over years on borrowed 16mm while he worked at Video Archives. In a 1991 interview later published by Variety, he said the early footage embarrassed him next to the later scenes: "I don't have a movie here, this is not She's Gotta Have It, but I learned a lot doing this. This was my film school." He did not release it. Reservoir Dogs is the first feature that exists as a finished film. Completists can treat the unfinished comedy as context, not as homework before the debut.

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