Screenplay: Joel Coen
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Joel Coen. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Miller's Crossing
1990 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen
Cast Gabriel Byrne · Marcia Gay Harden · Albert Finney · Jon Polito
Plot The 20s. An Irish gangster (Albert Finney) and his trusted lieutenant (Gabriel Byrne) and counselor find their domination of the town threatened by an ambitious Italian underboss (Jon Polito). Just...
7.8
58K votes
7.8
58K votes
Fargo
1996 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen
Cast Frances McDormand · William H. Macy · Steve Buscemi · Peter Stormare
Plot Poor Jerry Lundegaard. He's deep in debt. His wealthy father-in-law has no respect for him. He cheats customers at the car dealership where he works. And now he's hired a...
7.8
97K votes
7.8
97K votes
The Big Lebowski
1998 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen
Cast Jeff Bridges · John Goodman · Julianne Moore · Steve Buscemi
Plot When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to...
7.6
117K votes
7.6
117K votes
Barton Fink
1991 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen
Cast John Turturro · John Goodman · Judy Davis · Michael Lerner
Plot 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...
7.4
25K votes
7.4
25K votes
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen
Cast Billy Bob Thornton · Frances McDormand · Tony Shalhoub · James Gandolfini
Plot In the summer of 1949, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), the local barber in a small northern California town, is dissatisfied with his life. In the hopes of turning his...
7.3
29K votes
7.3
29K votes
Blood Simple
1984 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen
Cast John Getz · Frances McDormand · Dan Hedaya · Samm-Art Williams
Plot Abby is cheating on her saloonkeeper husband, Marty. The object of her affections is Ray, one of Marty's bartenders. Marty hires Visser, an unscrupulous detective, to kill them. But Visser...
7.3
22K votes
7.3
22K votes
No Country for Old Men
2007 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen · Ethan Coen
Cast Josh Brolin · Tommy Lee Jones · Javier Bardem · Kelly MacDonald
Plot Set along a bloody frontier in our own time, this film is based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men...
7.2
109K votes
7.2
109K votes
True Grit
2010 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen · Ethan Coen
Cast Jeff Bridges · Hailee Steinfeld · Matt Damon · Josh Brolin
Plot Aging marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) is hired by young girl Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) to find her father's killer, Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin). A ranger from Texas named LaBoeuf...
7.1
55K votes
7.1
55K votes
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen
Cast George Clooney · John Turturro · Tim Blake Nelson · Charles Durning
Plot Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang...
6.8
35K votes
6.8
35K votes
Bridge of Spies
2015 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Steven Spielberg
Cast Tom Hanks · Mark Rylance · Amy Ryan · Scott Shepherd
Plot In 1957 New York City, Rudolf Abel is arrested and charged with spying for the Soviet Union. Insurance lawyer James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) is appointed to defend Abel, so...
6.8
38K votes
6.8
38K votes
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen · Ethan Coen
Cast Oscar Isaac · Carey Mulligan · John Goodman · Ethan Phillips
Plot Follow a week in the life of Llewyn Davis, a folk singer, as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New...
6.7
25K votes
6.7
25K votes
Raising Arizona
1987 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen
Cast Nicolas Cage · Holly Hunter · Trey Wilson · John Goodman
Plot H.I. (Nicolas Cage) and Edwina (Holly Hunter) met and fell in love when she took his mug shots, every time he was arrested for a convenience store robbery. That kind...
6.6
19K votes
6.6
19K votes
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen
Cast Tim Robbins · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Paul Newman · Charles Durning
Plot When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of...
6.6
12K votes
6.6
12K votes
Burn After Reading
2008 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen · Ethan Coen
Cast George Clooney · Frances McDormand · Brad Pitt · John Malkovich
Plot A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it. CIA agent Osbourne Cox is writing...
6.5
52K votes
6.5
52K votes
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen
Cast Denzel Washington · Frances McDormand · Alex Hassell · Corey Hawkins
Plot 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...
6.5
3K votes
6.5
3K votes
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen · Ethan Coen
Cast Tim Blake Nelson · Zoe Kazan · Tom Waits · James Franco
Plot "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" is a six-part Western anthology film, a series of tales about the American frontier told through the unique and incomparable voice of Joel and Ethan...
6.5
16K votes
6.5
16K votes
Unbroken
2014 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction Angelina Jolie
Cast Jack O'Connell · Domhnall Gleeson · Garrett Hedlund · Takamasa Ishihara
Plot A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
6.3
17K votes
6.3
17K votes
To Each His Cinema
2007 · Movie · 111 min. · France
Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion
Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani
Plot To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
A Serious Man
2009 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Joel Coen · Ethan Coen
Cast Michael Stuhlbarg · Richard Kind · Fred Melamed · Sari Lennick
Plot A black comedy set in 1967 and centered on on Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg), a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his...
6.1
23K votes
6.1
23K votes
Tuileries (S)
2006 · Movie · 6 min. · France
Direction Joel Coen · Ethan Coen
Cast Steve Buscemi · Axel Kiener · Julie Bataille
6.1
47 votes
6.1
47 votes