What are some good Tarantino-esque films, that Quentin didn't write or direct?

I liked Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels well enough, but I didn’t think it was trying to be the same style exactly.

Maybe it’d help if you defined what you think the genre is. Gritty violent irreverent exaggerated brutal ruthless ironic dark semi-comedic with funky characters and selected cinematic references to older pulp/camp films?

I like many spaghetti westerns, which seem to me to have some similarities, and differences.

Repo Man?

Blue Velvet?

Payback?

Shoot ‘Em Up?

The good the bad and the ugly. This film obviously strongly influenced Tarantino and it also happens to be my favorite film.

“Go” is one that is underrated and in the Tarantino style.

Go is a great film!

Kingsman. When I first saw it, I thought, “did Tarantino make this?”

Yeah, the Kingsman was good, too.

I thought Mr. Right with Sam Rockwell, Tim Roth and Anna Kendrick was Tarantino-ish.

I just saw Super, with Rainn Wilson, which reminded me of this question. Different, but shares some things in common. I thought it was good. I like when violence isn’t sanitized or idealized, so it doesn’t sanitize the horrible actuality of violence, injury and death.

What made me ask this was I just saw a movie called “Big Bad Wolves”. Wonderful, and VERY Tarantino!

Check out films by director Paco Cabezas.

Blood Simple and Fargo.

Both by the Coen brothers.

The woodchipper scene in Fargo is priceless.

Perhaps the sheer volume of slaughter in either might not be equivalent to some of Taratino, but these were the first to come to mind. Im not entirely sure precisely why, but there you have it.

They might not be Tarantino-esque enough for some, but theyre both really good films
and worth the time spent watching them.

If you like over the top violence and lots of it, theres
Grindhouse and Machete; both by Robert Rodrigues.

He also has a great 10 minute clip up on Youtube demonstrating how to make Puerco Pibil. Great recipe.

The Crook is also worth checking out. Highly stylistic for its time, and long before Tarantino.

Of course, many may say Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” is the stylistic mentor to all of Tarantino.

I saw Straw Dogs in a theater when I was 16; I didn’t know anything that violent could be filmed.

Machete
Machete Kills

A very good recent example is Staten Island starring the ever reliable Vincent D’ Onofrio.

You’re looking at the wrong end of the telescope. Tarantino didn’t originate the tropes he’s made famous; he cobbles together pastiches from genres like chop socky, blaxsploitation, and grindhouse films. If you want to see “Tarantinoesque” films, just look at the originals he copied: The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Enter the Dragon, The Five Venoms, Drunken Master, Shaft, Superfly, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssssss Song, Five Fingers of Death, Night of the Living Dead, etc.