Pulp Fiction
It's from 1994, before you were born.
- Director
- Quentin Tarantino
- Genre
- Crime
- Honor
- Palme d'Or, 1994
- Released
- 1994
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About
As of 2026, it's 32 years old.
Pulp Fiction detonated in 1994 and made an entire generation of filmmakers want to write twisty, time-scrambled crime stories full of pop-culture monologues and sudden violence. Tarantino's interlocking tales of hitmen, boxers, and a very eventful date were so cool, quotable, and structurally bold that movies were never quite the same.
The dance scene, the briefcase nobody opens, the long conversations about burgers — it found electricity in the spaces other crime films skip.
Sharp, stylish, and hugely influential, Pulp Fiction is the movie that made nonlinear storytelling and diner philosophy the height of cinematic cool.
