The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast<\/a>, Tarantino unveiled his top picks for this century. The only rule: one film per director. Much to our expectations, most of Tarantino\u2019s picks are violent and lean into the horror genre. The filmmaker even described why he loved them.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ecac9f8a0b5ee785e03d521978459365.jpeg\"\/)
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Just so you know, Tarantino only named those from 20 through 11; the rest will be revealed on the next episode, which drops every Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s the list so far.<\/p>\n
Ranking<\/p>\n
Movie Name<\/p>\n
Director<\/p>\n
Year<\/p>\n
IMDb<\/p>\n
20<\/p>\n
West Side Story<\/p>\n
Steven Spielberg<\/p>\n
2021<\/p>\n
7.1<\/p>\n
19<\/p>\n
Cabin Fever<\/p>\n
Eli Roth<\/p>\n
2002<\/p>\n
6.2<\/p>\n
18<\/p>\n
Moneyball<\/p>\n
Bennett Miller<\/p>\n
2011<\/p>\n
7.6<\/p>\n
17<\/p>\n
Chocolate<\/p>\n
Prachya Pinkaew<\/p>\n
2008<\/p>\n
7.0<\/p>\n
16<\/p>\n
The Devil’s Rejects<\/p>\n
Rob Zombie<\/p>\n
2005<\/p>\n
6.7<\/p>\n
15<\/p>\n
The Passion of the Christ<\/p>\n
Mel Gibson<\/p>\n
2004<\/p>\n
7.2<\/p>\n
14<\/p>\n
School of Rock<\/p>\n
Richard Linklater<\/p>\n
2003<\/p>\n
7.2<\/p>\n
13<\/p>\n
Jackass: The Movie<\/p>\n
Jeff Tremaine<\/p>\n
2002<\/p>\n
6.6<\/p>\n
12<\/p>\n
Big Bad Wolves<\/p>\n
Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado<\/p>\n
2013<\/p>\n
6.8<\/p>\n
11<\/p>\n
Battle Royale<\/p>\n
Kinji Fukasaku<\/p>\n
2002<\/p>\n
7.5<\/p>\n
Let us know in the comments below which of Tarantino’s picks you have seen, and which are on your watchlist.<\/p>\n
Related: Quentin Tarantino Rips Apart The Hunger Games for Being a Copy of This Japanese Film<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have seen legendary Quentin Tarantino whip up masterpieces, but have we seen him name his favourite movies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344,18350],"class_list":{"0":"post-312527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-quentin-tarantino"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}