(L to R) Best Director winners Ethan and Joel Coen backstage through the eightieth Annual Academy Awards on the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 24, 2008. Credit/Provider: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.
Joel and Ethan Coen, higher generally known as the Coen brothers, virtually created their very own style and are some of the acclaimed and celebrated directing groups of all time!
Beginning their profession with trendy classics like ‘Blood Simple,’ ‘Raising Arizona,’ and ‘Miller’s Crossing,’ the brothers went on to direct such beloved movies as ‘The Big Lebowski,’ ‘O Brother Where Art Thou,’ ‘Burn After Reading,’ and the Oscar-winning ‘Fargo’ and ‘No Country for Old Men.’
In 2021, Joel Coen directed his first movie with out his brother, ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth,’ starring Denzel Washington. Now, opening in theaters on February twenty third is Ethan Coen’s new solo directing effort entitled ‘Drive-Away Dolls,’ which stars Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan.
In honor of Ethan Coen’s new movie, Moviefone is counting down each movie the Coen brothers have ever directed collectively or aside.
NOTE: For this record we’re solely together with the Coen Brothers full-length characteristic movies, each collectively and solo, however we aren’t together with their documentaries or participation in anthology films like ‘Paris, je t’aime.’
Let’s start!
(L to R) George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones in ‘Intolerable Cruelty.’ Photo: Universal Pictures.
A revenge-seeking gold digger (Catherine Zeta-Jones) marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer (George Clooney) with the intention of constructing a killing within the divorce.
“They can’t keep their hands off each others assets.”
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1 hr 40 minSep 2nd, 2003
Tim Blake Nelson is Buster Scruggs in ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,’ a movie by Joel and Ethan Coen. Photo: Netflix.
Vignettes weaving collectively the tales of six people within the previous West on the finish of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharpshooting songster (Tim Blake Nelson), a wannabe financial institution robber (James Franco), two weary touring performers (Zoe Kazan and Jefferson Mays), a lone gold prospector (Tom Waits), a girl touring the West to an unsure future (Tyne Daly) and a motley crew of strangers endeavor a carriage journey.
“Stories live forever People dont”
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2 hr 12 minNov ninth, 2018
Michael Stuhlbarg in ‘A Serious Man.’ Photo: Focus Features.
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlberg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern college, has simply been knowledgeable by his spouse, Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with certainly one of his extra pompous acquaintances, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed).
(L to R) Billy Bob Thornton and James Gandolfini in ‘The Man Who Wasn’t There.’ Photo: USA Films.
A story of homicide, crime and punishment set in the summertime of 1949. Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), a barber in a small California city, is dissatisfied together with his life, however his spouse Doris’ (Frances McDormand) infidelity and a mysterious alternative presents him with an opportunity to vary it.
Tom Hanks in ‘The Ladykillers.’ Photo: Touchstone Pictures.
An eccentric if not charming Southern professor (Tom Hanks) and his crew pose as a band with the intention to rob a on line casino all underneath the nostril of his unsuspecting landlord, a pointy previous lady (Irma P. Hall).
“The greatest criminal minds of all time have finally met their match.”
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1 hr 44 minMar twenty sixth, 2004
Denzel Washington in ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth.’ Photo: A24.
From Academy Award©-winning filmmaker Joel Coen comes the propulsive, boldly cinematic ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth,’ starring Oscar-winners Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand because the devious, ill-fated “Macbeth” and “Lady Macbeth.” An unique, putting reimagining of the basic Shakespearean story portrayed in luxurious black-and-white cinematography, ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ finds the titular basic and his loyal spouse older and warier, desperately striving in opposition to a cruel ticking clock as they try to seize upon a closing alternative for energy. In the chaos that ensues, their grasp on the throne unravels, terror mounts and remorse enshrouds each inch of their wretched world.
(L to R) John Turturro and Jon Polito in ‘Barton Fink.’ Photo: twentieth Century Fox.
A famend New York playwright (John Turturro) is enticed to California to jot down for the films and discovers the hellish reality of Hollywood.
“There’s only one thing stranger than what’s going on inside his head…what’s going on outside.”
75
1 hr 57 minAug 1st, 1991
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Frances McDormand in ‘Blood Simple.’ Photo: Circle Films.
The proprietor of a seedy smalltown Texas bar (Dan Hedaya) discovers that certainly one of his staff (John Getz) is having an affair together with his spouse (Frances McDormand). A chaotic chain of misunderstandings lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
(L to R) John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and George Clooney in ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ Photo: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.
In the deep south through the Nineteen Thirties three escaped convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro and Tom Blake Nelson) seek for hidden treasure whereas a relentless lawman (Daniel von Bargen) pursues them. On their journey they arrive throughout many comical characters and unbelievable conditions. Based upon Homer’s Odyssey.
(L to R) Holly Hunter and Nicolas Cage in ‘Raising Arizona.’ Photo: twentieth Century Fox.
When a childless couple (Holly Hunter and Nicolas Cage) resolve to assist themselves to certainly one of one other household’s quintuplets their lives turn into extra difficult than they anticipated.
“Their lawless years are behind them Their childrearing years lay ahead”
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1 hr 34 minMar 1st, 1987
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Javier Bardem in ‘No Country for Old Men.’ Photo: Miramax Films.
Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles upon useless our bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, however methodical killer Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) comes searching for it, with native sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) scorching on his path. The roles of prey and predator blur because the violent pursuit of cash and justice collide.
9. ‘Fargo’ (1996)
Frances McDormand in ‘Fargo.’ Photo: Working Title Films.
Jerry (William H. Macy) a small-town Minnesota automobile salesman is bursting on the seams with debt however he is obtained a plan. He’s going to rent two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his spouse (Kristin Rudrüd) in a scheme to gather a hefty ransom from his rich father-in-law (Harve Presnell). It’s going to be a snap and no one’s going to get damage till folks begin dying. Enter Police Chief Marge (Frances McDormand), a coffee-drinking parka-wearing and intensely pregnant investigator who’ll cease at nothing to get her man. And in case you assume her smalltime investigative expertise will give the crooks a run for his or her ransom, you betcha.
Jeff Bridges in ‘True Grit.’ Photo: Paramount Pictures.
Following the homicide of her father by a employed hand, a 14-year-old farm lady (Hailee Steinfeld) units out to seize the killer. To help her she hires the hardest US Marshal she will discover, a person with true grit, Reuben J Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges).
(L to R) Margaret Qualley as “Jamie” and Geraldine Viswanathan as “Marian” in director Ethan Coen’s ‘Drive-Away Dolls,’ a Focus Features launch. Credit: Wilson Webb / Working Title / Focus Features.
Jamie (Margaret Qualley), an uninhibited free spirit bemoaning yet one more breakup with a girlfriend, and her demure buddy Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) desperately must loosen up. In search of a contemporary begin, the 2 embark on an impromptu street journey to Tallahassee, however issues shortly go awry after they cross paths with a gaggle of inept criminals alongside the best way.
“A story of two ladies going south.”
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Channing Tatum in ‘Hail, Caesar!’ Photo: Universal Pictures.
When a Hollywood star (George Clooney) mysteriously disappears in the midst of filming, the studio sends their fixer (Josh Brolin) to get him again.
(L to R) Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Robbins in ‘The Hudsucker Proxy.’ Photo: Warner Bros.
A naive business graduate (Tim Robbins) is put in as president of a producing firm as a part of a inventory rip-off.
“They took him for a fall guy… but he threw them for a hoop.”
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1 hr 51 minJan twenty seventh, 1994
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1990’s ‘Miller’s Crossing.’ Photo: twentieth Century Fox.
Set in 1929, a political boss (Albert Finney) and his advisor (Gabriel Byrne) have a parting of the methods after they each fall for a similar lady (Marcia Gay Harden).
“Up is down, black is white, and nothing is what it seems.”
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1 hr 55 minSep twenty first, 1990
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Brad Pitt in ‘Burn After Reading.’ Photo: Focus Features.
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst (John Malkovich) falls into the palms of health club staff, Linda (Frances McDormand) and Chad (Brad Pitt), they see an opportunity to make sufficient cash for Linda to have life-changing beauty surgical procedure. Predictably, occasions whirl uncontrolled for the duo, and people of their orbit.
Oscar Isaac in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis.’ Photo: CBS Films.
In Greenwich Village within the early Sixties, gifted however unstable folks musician Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) struggles with cash, relationships, and his unsure future.
Jeff Bridges in ‘The Big Lebowski.’ Photo: Paramount Pictures.
Jeffrey ‘The Dude’ Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), a Los Angeles slacker who solely needs to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for an additional Jeffrey Lebowski (David Huddleston), a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into an odd collection of occasions involving nihilists, grownup movie producers, ferrets, errant toes, and huge sums of cash.
“They figured he was a lazy, time-wasting slacker. They were right.”
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1 hr 57 minFeb twenty sixth, 1998
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