Soundtrack: Carter Burwell

Direction Joel Coen

Cast Gabriel Byrne · Marcia Gay Harden · Albert Finney · Jon Polito

Synopsis 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 as this threat erupts, the two sever their friendship when...

Direction Joel Coen

Cast Frances McDormand · William H. Macy · Steve Buscemi · Peter Stormare

Synopsis 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 bumbling duo to kidnap his wife--a plan that goes horribly...

Direction Lisa Cholodenko

Cast Frances McDormand · Richard Jenkins · Bill Murray · Zoe Kazan

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2014). 4 Episodes. The story focuses on middle-school math teacher Olive Kitteridge (Frances McDormand) and her relationships with her husband Henry which spans 25 years over the four parts. Based on Elisabeth Strout's Pulitzer, 'Olive Kitteridge' tells the...

Direction Martin McDonagh

Cast Frances McDormand · Woody Harrelson · Sam Rockwell · John Hawkes

Synopsis After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), the town's revered...

Direction Joel Coen

Cast Jeff Bridges · John Goodman · Julianne Moore · Steve Buscemi

Synopsis 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 gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart,...

Direction Jay Carson · Mimi Leder · David Frankel · Lynn Shelton

Cast Jennifer Aniston · Reese Witherspoon · Steve Carell · Nestor Carbonell

Synopsis What happens when the people you trust to tell the truth prove themselves to be dishonest? The Morning Show follows the free fall of an early morning newscast in the wake of a scandal, and its struggle to survive in...

Direction Joel Coen

Cast John Turturro · John Goodman · Judy Davis · Michael Lerner

Synopsis 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...

Direction Joel Coen

Cast Billy Bob Thornton · Frances McDormand · Tony Shalhoub · James Gandolfini

Synopsis 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 life around, he decides to use his wife's (Frances McDormand)...

Direction Rob Epstein · Jeffrey Friedman

Cast Lily Tomlin · Tony Curtis · Whoopi Goldberg · Harvey Fierstein

Synopsis Author Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City) wrote Lily Tomlin's narration for this superb documentary, based on a book by the late Vito Russo, about Hollywood's treatment of homosexual characters in this century. Never pointing a finger at anyone in...

Direction Joel Coen

Cast John Getz · Frances McDormand · Dan Hedaya · Samm-Art Williams

Synopsis 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 has other, more lucrative plans of his own. So begins...

Direction Spike Jonze

Cast John Cusack · Cameron Diaz · Catherine Keener · John Malkovich

Synopsis Manhattan, the present. Under pressure from his wife Lotte, street-puppeteer Craig Schwartz takes a job as a clerk with LesterCorp., run by Doctor Lester, a company located on the low-ceilinged seventh-and-a-half floor of an office tower. He falls in love...

Direction Bill Condon

Cast Ian McKellen · Brendan Fraser · Lynn Redgrave · Lolita Davidovich

Synopsis Based on Christopher Bram's novel FATHER OF FRANKENSTEIN, Bill Condon's semi-fictional 1998 sleeper stars Sir Ian McKellen in a fantastic performance as director James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, SHOW BOAT). It is 1957, and Whale is living in semiseclusion...

Direction Todd Haynes

Cast Kate Winslet · Evan Rachel Wood · Guy Pearce · Melissa Leo

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2011). 5 Episodes. Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her her ambitious elder daughter, Veda.

Direction Joel Coen · Ethan Coen

Cast Josh Brolin · Tommy Lee Jones · Javier Bardem · Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis 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 shot dead, a load of heroin, and over two million...

Direction Joel Coen · Ethan Coen

Cast Jeff Bridges · Hailee Steinfeld · Matt Damon · Josh Brolin

Synopsis 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 (Matt Damon) will help them... New adaptation from Charles Portis'...

Direction Spike Jonze

Cast Nicolas Cage · Meryl Streep · Chris Cooper · Tilda Swinton

Synopsis Despite the success of his first produced script, for which he received an Academy Award® nomination for best original screenplay, Charlie Kaufman (Cage) is plagued by insecurities, both in his career and his personal life. When he is hired to...

Direction Martin McDonagh

Cast Colin Farrell · Brendan Gleeson · Kerry Condon · Barry Keoghan

Synopsis Year 1923. A pair of lifelong friends on a remote Irish island find themselves at an awkward time in their relationship when one of them no longer wants to be friends.

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Philip Seymour Hoffman · Ethan Hawke · Albert Finney · Marisa Tomei

Synopsis A suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all – itself. Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke) into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a...

Direction Todd Haynes

Cast Cate Blanchett · Rooney Mara · Sarah Paulson · Kyle Chandler

Synopsis In New York in the early 1950s, Therese Belivet, is working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol Aird, an alluring woman trapped in a failing marriage. As an immediate connection...

Direction Charlie Kaufman · Duke Johnson

Synopsis Michael Stone, an author of books on the subject of customer service, struggle with his inability to connect to people. One night, while on a routine business trip, he meets a stranger who changes his world view.