Joel Coen

A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he is destined to become King of Scotland. Spurred by his ambition and his wife’s ruthless encouragement, he commits a heinous act of regicide to seize the throne. The narrative descends into a stark, atmospheric exploration of guilt, paranoia, and the inevitable moral decay that follows a bloody pursuit of power.

Saddle up for six tales about the American frontier from the unique minds of Joel and Ethan Coen, who wrote and directed this anthology.

A home invasion rattles a quiet family town. (imdb)

A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line. (imdb)

During the Cold War, a Brooklyn insurance lawyer is unexpectedly thrust into the center of an international crisis. He is tasked with defending a Soviet spy arrested in the U.S. and is then sent to East Berlin. His mission is to negotiate a high-stakes prisoner exchange: the captured spy for an American U-2 pilot shot down over Soviet airspace. The lawyer must navigate suspicion, danger, and moral ambiguities on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II. (imdb)

A singer-songwriter navigates New York's folk music scene during the 1960s. (imdb)

An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen. (imdb)

A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn young woman track down her father's murderer.

A black comedy set in 1967 and centered on Larry Gopnik, a professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother won't move out of the house.

A dark spy-comedy in which an ousted CIA official's memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two gym employees intent on making the most of their find.

After stumbling upon the bloody aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong, a welder in rural Texas takes a suitcase containing two million dollars. This act ignites a relentless pursuit by a chilling, psychopathic killer who uses a captive bolt pistol as his weapon. An aging sheriff attempts to track them both across the desolate landscape in this stark, violent tale of fate and morality.

A short comedy by the Coen brothers which was planned to be a part of an anthology film To Each His Own Cinema, but wasn't included in the final version of the film. A Texas cowboy goes to a movie-theater where he can't decide what non-American movie to watch and asks a ticket seller to suggest him a decent one. (imdb)

Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened.

This retelling of the critically acclaimed 1955 comedy stars Hanks as Goldthwait Higginson Dorr III, Ph.D., a charlatan professor who's assembled a gang of "experts" for the heist of the century. (Touchstone Pictures)

A romantic comedy about a man who wins in court and a woman who courts to win.

A noirish tale set in 1949, about a dissatisfied barber who hears from a customer about a speculative business venture. The barber, Ed Crane, is prompted to reflect on the direction he wishes his life to take, and on what he might do to change his current direction.

A trio of escaped prisoners (Clooney, Nelson, Turturro) embarks on the adventure of a lifetime as they set out to pursue their freedom and the promise of sharing in the division of a fortune in buried treasure. (Touchstone Pictures)

After being mistaken for a millionaire with the same name, an easy-going slacker and avid bowler known as "The Dude" is propelled into a bizarre underworld of kidnappings, nihilists, and urban achievers. Alongside his volatile friend, he must navigate a convoluted mystery involving a missing rug and a ransom payout. It is a surreal cult classic about mistaken identity and Los Angeles life.

Jerry's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of pregnant Marge Gunderson.

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam. (imdb)

In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task. (imdb)

A highly styled 'genre' film which can perhaps be seen as a pastiche of all gangster movies. Tom Reagan is the laconic anti-hero of this amoral tale which is also, paradoxically, a look at morals within the criminal underworld of the 1930s. Two rival gangs vie for control of a city where the police are pawns, and the periodic busts of illicit drinking establishments are no more than a way for one gang to get back at the other. Black humour and shocking violence compete for screen time as we question whether or not Tom, right-hand man of the Irish mob leader, really has a heart. (imdb)

A surreal, hyperactive farce in which a bumbling petty thief and the lady cop who keeps arresting him fall in love and decide to start a family. When they discover they can't have babies, they steal one from a furniture mogul who has just sired a set of quintuplets. The joys of parenthood are soon marred, however, by the difficulties of raising an infant on the run. The none-too-bright couple must flee across the southwestern desert in order to elude the villainous biker that has been hired to retrieve the tyke. (20th Century Fox)

A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.

A bar-owner in Texas is certain that his wife is cheating on him and hires a private detective to spy on her. This is just the beginning of a complex plot which is full of misunderstandings and deceit. Ethan and Joel Coen's first feature film. (imdb)