Movies by Joel Coen
As part of the cast:
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Spies Like Us (1985)
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Steve Forrest …
Directed by: John Landis
In director John Landis's slapstick comedy of errant espionage, it's up to Emmett (Chevy Chase) and Austin (Dan Aykroyd) -- two CIA spies who have never left their boring offices in…
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True Grit (2010)
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon …
Directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
After drifter Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) murders her father, 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) hires alcoholic U.S. Marshal Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to help her exact…
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A Serious Man (2009)
Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed …
Directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Larry Gopnik has hit a "rough patch," according to a colleague, and it would seem so: People are dropping dead all around him, his wife wants a "get," and his whining kids only add to the…
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Burn After Reading (2008)
Cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt …
Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
In this darkly comic farce from Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, an ousted CIA official (John Malkovich) loses his penned memoir to a pair of moronic gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand,…
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No Country for Old Men (2007)
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin …
Directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) comes looking for it, with local…
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Paris, Je T'aime (2006)
Cast: Elijah Wood, Gérard Depardieu, Maggie Gyllenhaal …
Directed by: Frederic Auburtin, Alfonso Cuarón, Emmanuel Benbihy …
Paris comes to life in this whimsical patchwork of 18 five-minute shorts united by a common theme -- love in the City of Lights -- and helmed by an international cast of filmmakers, including…
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The Ladykillers (2004)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans …
Directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
A Southern professor-turned-criminal-mastermind puts together a group of thieves to help him rob a New Orleans riverboat casino. But when the old lady who's renting them a room gets a…
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Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Cast: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush …
Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Attorney Miles goes toe-to-toe with his wealthy client's ex-wife, expert gold-digger Marylin, in this battle-of-the-sexes comedy. Just when Marylin thinks she's cinched another…
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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Adam Alexi-Malle …
Directed by: Joel Coen
In this black-and-white film noir by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Billy Bob Thornton stars as Ed Crane, an aimless barber who's dissatisfied with his life in a small northern California…
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Cast: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson …
Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
With their collective eye focused on retrieving a cache of hidden money, three convicts break out of jail in Depression-era Mississippi and embark on an epic journey that bears more than a…
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Philip Seymour Hoffman …
Directed by: Joel Coen
Slacker Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) gets involved in a gargantuan mess of events when he's mistaken for another man named Lebowski, whose wife has been kidnapped and is being…
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Fargo (1996)
Cast: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi …
Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Police chief Marge Gunderson -- a serious sleuth who's sharper than her folksy accent suggests -- is hot on the trail of a Minneapolis car dealer conspiring with two kidnappers to snatch…
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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Cast: Paul Newman, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh …
Directed by: Joel Coen
The Coen brothers deliver a screwball comedy gem about mail clerk Norville Barnes, (Tim Robbins) who falls into good -- or bad? -- luck when he becomes the CEO of a successful business. The…
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Barton Fink (1991)
Cast: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis …
Directed by: Joel Coen
Idealistic playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) believes writing should reveal the hopes, dreams and tragedies of the common man. When Hollywood taps him to write a movie, Fink develops…
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Miller's Crossing (1990)
Cast: Ethan Coen, Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden …
Directed by: Joel Coen
Trusted adviser to 1920s Irish crime boss Lee O'Bannon, Tom Reagan's loyalty is tested when he takes up with O'Bannon's gal pal, Verna Bernbaum. Meanwhile, rivals Johnny…
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Raising Arizona (1987)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman …
Directed by: Joel Coen
Ex-cop Edwina "Ed" McDonnough (Holly Hunter) and her ex-con husband, H.I. (Nicolas Cage), are devastated when they learn they can't have children. Not to worry: They reckon they'll…
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Blood Simple (1984)
Cast: Frances McDormand, John Getz, Dan Hedaya …
Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
In a jealous rage, Texas tavern owner Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) hires unscrupulous private detective Loren Visser (M. Emmet Walsh) to not only tail Marty's two-timing spouse, Abby…