Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures

List creator: danleary25 Created on: February 27, 2004 - 10:03 PM PST Description: In 1995 Tarantino formed Rolling Thunder Pictures, a production company bringing independent, foreign and exploitation films that he felt should be more readily available. The company closed in 1998 when Miramax pulled support due to poor sales.

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	Switchblade Sisters (1975)
A tounge-in-cheek exploitation flick centering on an all female gang.
	Chungking Express (Criterion) (1994)
Considerably the best of this catalog, Kar-Wai Wong's quintessential of Asian cinema.
	Curdled (1996)
Q.T. produced as well wrote a newscast scene featuring the same reporter in From Dusk Til Dawn.
	The Mighty Peking Man (1977)
Campy Hong-Kong giant-ape movie.
	Sonatine (1993)
Takeshi Kitano(Brother, Kikujiro) writes, directs and stars in this yakuza film. RTP released the VHS years ago and the DVD was slated for this January but was cancelled. Although the DVD was reported to be released by a company other than RTP.
	Detroit 9000 (1973)
1970s action flick, shades of exploitation.
	Hard Core Logo (1996)
Canadian punk rock-mockumentary.
	Fist of Legend (1994)
This film was planned to be released by RTP, and in fact Q.T. says so to the camera in RTP promos, but ultimately the movie received a bump up to Dimension.
	The Beyond (1981)			Not Rated
RTP was only able to give this film a theatrical run, and never released it on VHS or DVD. Other Companys have since released DVDs.