Pulp Fiction

Four intersecting stories set in the Los Angeles underworld — two philosophical hitmen their boss’s volatile wife a boxer who refuses to throw a fight and two small-time robbers — are told out of sequence in Quentin Tarantino’s genre-defining masterpiece. The film announced a new voice in American cinema and its influence on independent film storytelling and popular culture in the 1990s cannot be overstated. Samuel L. Jackson’s Jules Winnfield reciting Ezekiel 25:17 before a hit remains one of cinema’s most iconic scenes.