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These are taken from his interviews and lists on the internet. I've added some comments he made about the movies.
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A list by serrabassarac
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Items on this list71%
Average Rating53h 57m
Total Runtime$1B
Total Revenue5
The Big Sleep
There is no "can't," no "have to." But what I'm doing is like in The Big Sleep [1946], where there's a guy waiting outside the door for Bogart, and Bogart makes this other guy go out. The guy is, like, "I'm not gonna go out," so Bogart shoots him in the hip, in the hand. Finally, the guy goes out and he gets shot, all right? It's tough stuff, and that's what I'm trying to do with my violence.
Movie
August 23, 1946
1h 54m
$10.7M
6
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
I remember the first movie I saw on television when I was, like, "Oh wow, you can do this in a movie?" was Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. That was my favorite movie when I was five years old. The Abbott and Costello stuff was funny, but when they were out of the room and the monsters would come on, they'd kill people! And the big brain operation when they take out Costello's brain and put in Frankenstein's Monster's brain was scary. Then this nurse gets thrown through a window! She's dead! When's the last time you saw anybody in a comedy-horror film actually kill somebody? You don't see that. I took it in, seeing that movie.
Movie
June 15, 1948
1h 23m
$4.8M
8
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
I saw Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy [1955] and I remember thinking, These are the greatest movies ever made. You get a great comedy and a great horror movie--all together.
Movie
June 23, 1955
1h 19m
$0
9
Rio Bravo
When I'm getting serious about a girl, I show her Rio Bravo and she better fucking like it
Movie
March 18, 1959
2h 21m
$5.8M
11
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The best-directed film of all time, and the greatest achievement in the history of cinema.
Movie
December 29, 1967
2h 41m
$38.9M
12
Where Eagles Dare
This is my favorite guys-on-a-mission movie. I'm gonna do a guys-on-a-mission movie one day
Movie
March 12, 1969
2h 35m
$21M
17
Taxi Driver
Scorsese's classic set the blueprint for Tarantino's fascination with ultra-violence
Movie
February 9, 1976
1h 54m
$28.6M
21
Rolling Thunder
Most movies let you down but this is ass-kicking nirvana
Movie
November 2, 1977
1h 40m
$0
22
Big Wednesday
I don't like surfers; I didn't like them when I was growing up. I lived in a surfing community, and I thought they were all jerks. I like this movie so much. Surfers don't deserve this movie
Movie
May 26, 1978
2h 0m
$0
24
Blow Out
De Palma is probably Tarantino's favorite director (he cites De Palma's Casualties of war as 'my favorite war movie'). This, before Pulp Fiction, also marked John Travolta's best screen performance.
Movie
July 24, 1981
1h 48m
$12M
26
Breathless
Here's a movie that indulges completely all my obsessions - comic books, rockabilly music and movies
Movie
May 13, 1983
1h 40m
$19.9M
27
Fandango
Kevin Reynolds is going to be the Stanley Kubrik of this decade. Fandango is one of the best directorial debuts in the history of cinema. I saw Fandango five times at the movie theater and it only played for a fucking week, all right?
Movie
January 25, 1985
1h 31m
$91.7K
28
Days of Thunder
It's like a fucking Sergio Leone movie with cars
Movie
June 27, 1990
1h 47m
$157.9M
29
Dazed and Confused
It’s my favorite movie of the 90s. Maybe the only movie that three different generations of college students have seen multiple times. It’s a real hang out movie and you really get to know this whole community of people in the film. Those people have become my friends.
Movie
September 24, 1993
1h 42m
$8.3M