Quentin Tarantino is one of the most renowned filmmakers in the world, with a near-flawless résumé consisting of unforgettable movies that leave an irreversible imprint – for better or for worse – on their audience. But to leave that lasting impression on his viewers, Tarantino has had to end his each of his movies with the perfect final scene.

Whether it’s a swastika being carved in the villain’s forehead or two hitmen quietly leaving a diner in the midst of a robbery, Tarantino always seems to pick the ideal moment to end his films on. So, here are All Of Quentin Tarantino’s Final Scenes, Ranked.

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Updated January 28th, 2020: Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was recently nominated for 10 Academy Awards at this year’s ceremony. The story of washed-up actor Rick Dalton and his happy-go-lucky stunt double Cliff Booth didn’t feel like a typical Tarantino movie, but it still stands as one of the director’s finest works. One of the parts of the film that has been most commonly praised by critics is its ending. So, we’ve updated this list to include it.

Death Proof

Many Tarantino worshippers feel that Death Proof is his worst film. Even the director himself feels that way. But as a slasher film, it has a pretty memorable villain in Stuntman Mike, a stunt driver who uses his “death proof” car to kill vulnerable young women.

The ending of Death Proof happens a little suddenly – and it doesn’t redeem the movie – but it gives us something that slasher audiences have wanted to see at the end of a slasher movie since the horror subgenre’s inception: the young women that the killer tried and failed to victimize beating the living crap out of him.

The Hateful Eight

Mannix and Warren covered in blood in The Hateful Eight

As soon as all the outlaws are trapped in the same room together by a snowstorm in The Hateful Eight, there’s no way that they’re all making it out alive. But what audiences didn’t count on was that none of them were going to make it out alive. Warren and Mannix are the only two left breathing at the end of the movie, but they’re quickly bleeding out.

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After they hang Daisy in a gruesome, operatic, climactic scene, Warren and Mannix end the movie on a delightfully quiet note as Warren reads out his forged Lincoln letter to Mannix, who chuckles at the Mary Todd mention at the end, finding it to be a nice touch.

Jackie Brown

Out of all of Quentin Tarantino’s movies, Jackie Brown isn’t nearly as well-regarded or popular as it deserves to be. It’s not as heavy-handed or on-the-nose as Tarantino’s other work, and its central duo, Jackie and Max, develop a very real on-screen relationship.

That’s what makes the final scene work so well. Jackie has outsmarted Ordell and she’s taking off to Madrid with his money until the heat cools off. She invites Max to come with her, but he turns her down. In the film’s closing moments, we see Jackie adjust to life without Max and Max regret his decisions – all conveyed with the power of Pam Grier and Robert Forster’s performances.

Kill Bill: Volume 1

Kill Bill Volume 1 ending

When Quentin Tarantino was forced to cut his four-hour wuxia masterwork Kill Bill in half to release as two separate, easily consumable movies, he was presented with new storytelling opportunities. For one, he could end Volume 1 with a shocking cliffhanger to make audiences excited to see the story conclude with Volume 2.

It’s fair to say that Tarantino managed to entice audiences for the second part with an earth-shattering revelation. We’ve spent the whole movie watching the Bride avenge her unborn child after being left for dead in a coma for four years. Then, it ends with Bill asking Sofie if the Bride knows her daughter is alive. Her daughter is alive!

Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction ending

Due to its nonlinear narrative, the final scene of Pulp Fiction is not actually the end of the story. We see Vincent Vega avoiding a near-death experience in a diner robbery, but earlier in the film, we saw him getting murdered (chronologically, this was a few days later).

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However, it is the perfect tonal note to end on, with Vincent and Jules leaving the diner in the middle of a heist and “Surf Rider” by the Lively Ones playing us out of this pulpy, urban, rock ‘n’ roll spaghetti western saga. The scenes of Pulp Fiction aren’t in chronological order; Tarantino structured the script more like an album, and this is the ideal closing track.

Inglourious Basterds

Brad Pitt and BJ Novak standing over the camera in the Inglourious Basterds ending

The ending of Inglourious Basterds is a shocking one, with the assassination attempt of Hitler turning out successfully and Hans Landa brokering a deal with Aldo Raine to emerge as the hero of the Allied powers in the history books. However, Aldo doesn’t like the idea of Landa getting off the hook for his crimes, so he kills his friend and etches a swastika into his head, like he did to all the S.S. officers left alive to send a message to the Fuhrer.

It’s a gruesome, but fitting way to end the movie, with Raine’s meta final line clinching the whole thing: “I think this just might be my masterpiece.”

Kill Bill: Volume 2

Uma Thurman

At the end of Kill Bill: Volume 2, we see the Bride and her daughter B.B. in a good place. It was a quiet way to end a two-part martial arts epic, but that works in its favor. Over the past four hours of story material, the Bride has been through hell. Everybody she loved (except for her daughter) has been killed, and she’s been shot, beaten, stabbed, and even buried alive on her quest to kill Bill.

Tarantino has said that due to his attachment to the Bride, he “killed [him]self to put her in a good place” at the end of the film. From one perspective, this ending plays it a little safe. But from another perspective, the Bride has earned that happy ending, and we’re happy to see her in such a good place.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Rick goes to Sharon's house at the end of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino said that he came up with the ending of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood first, and worked his way back. Throughout the whole film, audiences were dreading the night that Charles Manson sent a couple of people from his cult to murder a pregnant Sharon Tate and everyone in her house. However, in Tarantino’s alternative version of events, the Manson Family change their minds at the last minute and target Tate’s neighbor, Rick Dalton, instead.

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After Rick, Cliff Booth, and Cliff’s dog Brandy brutally kill all the hippies, Cliff is taken to hospital and Rick is invited up to Tate’s house. It’s an ambiguous ending, but it provokes some interesting questions: Did Rick’s movie career take off? Did Cliff survive? We’ve come to love these characters, so we hope the answer is “yes” on both counts.

Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino’s darkly comic spaghetti western epic Django Unchained ends on kind of a quiet note. But at this point in the story, Django and his wife Broomhilda have earned themselves a quiet note. Right after slaughtering Calvin Candie’s friends and family upon their return from his funeral, Django frees his wife, sets the house on fire, and watches it burn from the back of his horse.

The film gets a classic riding-into-the-sunset ending – a staple of the western genre – but with the added twist that it’s the dead of night and Django’s adventures as a bounty hunter are just beginning, not ending.

Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Tarantino’s debut feature ends with a breathtaking moment that leaves an incredible impact on the audience. The whole movie, we’ve been waiting for the police to show up, and for the undercover cop to be revealed. In the film’s final moments, everyone realizes it’s Mr. Orange, and Mr. White – who developed a close bond with him after he was shot – feels betrayed.

He breaks down crying, holding his gun to Mr. Orange’s head, and then the police burst in. We close in on Mr. White, the bullets start flying, and he’s taken down. Cut to black. It’s the ending we dreaded and it’s exactly the ending we get.

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