True Grit (2010)
Drama | Western
A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, Dakin Matthews
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
Drama | History | Thriller | War
A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Corey Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Harry Melling, Sean Patrick Thomas
Director: Joel Coen
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Mystery | Romance | Western
An anthology film comprised of six stories, each dealing with a different aspect of life in the Old West.
Starring: Liam Neeson, James Franco, Zoe Kazan, David Krumholtz, Clancy Brown, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Root
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Blood Simple (1984)
Crime | Thriller
When Marty, the owner of a backwoods bar, hires a man to kill his cheating wife and her boyfriend, he opens a door into the criminal world that he'll never be able to shut. The sleazy hit man decides instead to shoot Marty, thereby collecting his unearned fee and eliminating the only person who could implicate him. Or so he thinks.
Starring: Dan Hedaya, Frances McDormand, John Getz, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams, Raquel Gavia
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Drama | Music
A week in the life of a struggling young singer-songwriter as he tries to make it big in New York's folk scene of the early 1960s. In the midst of a relentless New York winter, with no job, money, or place to live, down-on-his-luck musician Llewyn Davis spends his days flicking through his address book trying to find a bed, or a floor for the night. If things weren't bad enough, his musical partner has ended it all by jumping off of a bridge, and his lover Jean, who just happens to be the wife of his best friend Jim, has told him that she's pregnant and wants an abortion. In a last ditch bid to shed his hand-to-mouth existence, Davis, with his ever-present pet cat in tow, sets out on a road trip to Chicago in the hope of resurrecting his music career by impressing local promoter Bud Grossman.
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake, F. Murray Abraham
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Comedy | Mystery
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
Starring: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Jonah Hill, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Comedy | Mystery
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
Starring: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Jonah Hill, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Miller's Crossing (1990)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman, which eventually leads to citywide gang war.
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, Steve Buscemi
Director: Joel Coen
Fargo (1996)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Jerry Lundegaard is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father, paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper and two innocent bystanders in rural Minnesota, drawing local Police Chief Marge Gunderson into her first homicide investigation. At first unaware that the homicides are connected to a Minneapolis kidnapping, Chief Gunderson draws closer to Jerry Lundegaard as his situation further unravels.
Starring: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, John Carroll Lynch, Harve Presnell
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
The Ladykillers (2004)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord: a sharp old woman.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Tzi Ma, J.K. Simmons, Marlon Wayans, Ryan Hurst
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Burn After Reading (2008)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
An ousted CIA official's memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find.
Starring: Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Richard Jenkins
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Comedy | Drama
When the head of a large corporation dies, the Chairman installs a mailroom clerk as CEO so that he and the Board of Directors can become rich by shorting the stock. But the unassuming pawn takes his new position seriously and steadfastly pursues his own ideas, which only increase the company's worth.
Starring: Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charles Durning, John Mahoney, Jim True-Frost
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly MacDonald
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Barton Fink (1991)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Barton Fink is a scriptwriter who has become a Hollywood hit. However, he has writer's block, in desperation he turns to his neighbours for help. Fink finds the real-life inspiration he needs from the most sinister of sources!
Starring: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Crime | Drama
The Coen Brothers are back with a dark and twisted film noir unlike anything you've ever seen. Set in a small 1949 California town, this is the story of a seemingly simple barber, who turns to blackmail and revenge to escape his achingly dull life. But in the tradition of classic noir, nothing goes as planned and nothing is as it seems. And as the barber's plot unravels, the delicious surprises, stunning revelations and just plain strange occurrences will disturb and delight you long after the film has ended.
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Comedy | Crime
"Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
A Serious Man (2009)
Comedy | Drama
A black comedy drama centered on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel through multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking for meaning and answers he seems to stay stalled.
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Music
Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey", set in the deep south during the 1930's. In it, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Starring: George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson, John Turturro, Holly Hunter, John Goodman
Director: Joel Coen
Raising Arizona (1987)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Mystery
A petty crook falls in love with the woman cop who always arrests him, but when they find out she can't bear children, they steal one, hit the road, and lots of mayhem ensues.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson
Director: Joel Coen
