SIN CITY

GENRE:  Action/ Crime/ Drama
MADE:  2005
CAST:  Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Jessica Alba
DIRECTOR:  Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
WRITER:  Frank Miller

PLOT:  A film set in a dark, lonely town called Basin City about three individuals caught up in violent corruption.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Desperado, Kill Bill Vol.1, Fight Club, Oldboy, 300

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GRINDHOUSE

GENRE:  Action/ Horror/ Thriller
MADE:  2007
CAST:  Kurt Russell, Rose McGowan, Danny Trejo, Josh Brolin, Bruce Willis
DIRECTOR:  Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie, Eli Roth, Robert Rodriguez
WRITER:  Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino

PLOT:  A horror film featuring two feature length films written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Sin City, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Till Dawn

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DESPERADO

GENRE:  Action/ Comedy/ Crime
MADE:  1995
CAST:  Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida
DIRECTOR:  Robert Rodriguez
WRITER:  Robert Rodriguez

PLOT:  A gunslinger and a drug runner are in the midst of a war with each other.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Once Upon A Time In Mexico, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Mask Of Zorro

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KILL BILL VOL. 1

GENRE:  Action/ Crime
MADE:  2003
CAST:  Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Chiaki Kuriyama
DIRECTOR:  Quentin Tarantino
WRITER:  Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman

PLOT:  A lady wakes up from coma and seeks revenge on the persons responsible for the death of her unborn baby and husband.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Sin City, Old Boy, Battle Royale

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TRUE ROMANCE

GENRE:  Crime/ Romance
MADE:  1993
CAST:  Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper
DIRECTOR:  Tony Scott
WRITER:  Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary

PLOT:  Things can only go south when a young man marries a hooker and steals her pimp's stash of cocaine.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Training Day, Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction

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FROM DUSK TILL DAWN

GENRE:  Action/ Crime/ Horror/ Fantasy
MADE:  1996
CAST:  George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Quentin Tarantino
DIRECTOR:  Robert Rodriguez
WRITER:  Robert Kurtzman, Quentin Tarantino

PLOT:  Two criminals on the road take a family of three as hostage in their traveling van and take refuge in a bar without realizing the bar is full of vampires.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Pulp Fiction, Desperado, Grindhouse

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NATURAL BORN KILLERS

GENRE:  Crime/ Drama/ Romance
MADE:  1994
CAST:  Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore
DIRECTOR:  Oliver Stone
WRITER:  Quentin Tarantino, David Veloz, Richard Rutowski, Olive Stone

PLOT:  A man and woman with troubled childhoods fall in love and become psychopathic murderers that are glorified by the media.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Kill Bill vol.1, Capote, Pulp Fiction

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PULP FICTION

GENRE:  Crime/ Drama
MADE:  1994
CAST:  John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
DIRECTOR:  Quentin Tarantino
WRITER:  Quentin Tarantino

PLOT:  A story about two hit men working for the mob who get entangled into troubles with the bosses wife, a restaurant hold-up, redemption and much more.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:   Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill Vol. I, Grindhouse

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INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

GENRE:  Adventure/ Drama/ War
MADE:  2009
CAST:  Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth
DIRECTOR:  Quentin Tarantino
WRITER:  Quentin Tarantino

PLOT:  Set during WWII in Nazi-occupied France a group of American soldiers, the "Basterds" spread fear in the Third Reich as they hunt down and brutally kill Nazis.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Sin City, Snatch, Fight Club

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IRON MONKEY

GENRE:  Martial Arts/Foreign
MADE:  1993
CAST:  Rongguag Yu, Donnie Yen, Jean Wang
DIRECTOR:  Woo-Ping Yuen
WRITER:  Tai-Muk Lau, Cheung Tan, Pik-Yin Tang, Hark Tsui

PLOT:  Presented by Quentin Tarantino.  A provence in China is run by corrupt official, standing up for the common people is a masked martial artist who calls himself the Iron Monkey.  The Officials holds a  child hostage to strike a deal with a traveling physician, the father, to bring in the Iron Monkey.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,  Ip Man, Tai Chi Master

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