Inglourious Basterds

Storyline

Quentin Tarantino's revisionist historical war masterpiece Inglourious Basterds is a dialogue-driven, pulse-pounding alternate-history triumph that famously rewrites the end of World War II inside a Parisian cinema. In Nazi-occupied France, Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the massacre of her family by the urbane, terrifying SS Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz, who swept every major acting award on earth, including the Oscar and Cannes Best Actor). Fleeing to Paris, Shosanna assumes a new identity as a cinema proprietor and plots a lethal trap when Nazi high command selects her theater to premiere Joseph Goebbels' propaganda epic. Simultaneously, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) leads the 'Basterds'—a ruthless commando squad of Jewish-American soldiers who scalp Nazis and strike terror through the Reich. Collaborating with British intelligence officer Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender) and German movie star double-agent Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), the two revenge plots converge in a blazing, silver-nitrate inferno. Boasting legendary masterclass suspense scenes like the opening French farmhouse interrogation and the subterranean tavern card game, Inglourious Basterds is an unmissable cinematic triumph.