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  • Coenucopia: 10 Reasons We Love the Coen Brothers - 14 January 2008
    's in these moments the Coens prove they have really thought about violence, its chaos and desolation.- - - - - -Mrs Joel Coen has proved one of the most sensitive and intelligent actresses in Hollywood. Her memorable roles range from Mississippi Burning

Joel Coen - what members say


  • Fargo
  • Fargo review by from Ringwood, Hampshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Classic Coen 13 August 2004
    ... truly superb film, well shot and uniquely directed. Joel Coen spins the compelling story of a psuedo kidnapping gone wrong (ok, this has been done before - but not thi...   Read customer review
  • The Hudsucker Proxy
  • The Hudsucker Proxy review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent
    Rated - 4.0 stars The Hudsucker Proxy 7 May 2007
    ...ockout. The set design is intricate, vast in scale and absolutely beautiful and Joel Coen makes the movie look like it cost a lot more than it probably did. It's the bro...   Read customer review

Joel Coen - filmography


  • True Grit on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Matt Damon,  Josh Brolin,  Jeff Bridges
    Director: Ethan Coen,  Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 39,103 members
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  • True Grit - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Matt Damon,  Josh Brolin,  Jeff Bridges
    Director: Ethan Coen,  Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Her father senselessly gunned down by notorious outlaw Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) seeks out trigger-happy U.S. marshal Rueben J. "Rooster" Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to follow Chaney into hostile territory and ensure that justice is served. Though initially ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 13,907 members
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  • A Serious Man - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Adam Arkin,  Richard Kind,  George Wyner
    Director: Joel Coen,  Ethan Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    "A Serious Man" is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and "F-Troop" is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 206 members
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  • A Serious Man (2009)
    Starring: Adam Arkin,  Richard Kind,  George Wyner
    Director: Joel Coen,  Ethan Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    "A Serious Man" is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and "F-Troop" is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 869 members
    Not available for rental
  • Burn After Reading on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  George Clooney,  John Malkovich
    Director: Ethan Coen,  Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich, come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction and physical fitness! When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 94,839 members
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  • The Ladykillers (2004)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Marlon Wayans,  Irma P. Hall
    Director: Ethan Coen,  Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    It is always difficult to try to recreate a classic movie, so Joel and Ethan Coen took the premise of Alexander Mackendrick's beloved 1955 Ealing Studio caper comedy, THE LADYKILLERS, as the basis for coming up with their own entertaining and bizarre remake. Tom Hanks stars as Goldthwait Higginson ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 29,785 members
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  • Intolerable Cruelty on DVD (2003)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Catherine Zeta Jones,  Geoffrey Rush
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    George Clooney establishes himself as a true Hollywood movie star and heir to the Cary Grant throne in this hysterical dark romantic comedy from the Coen brothers. Clooney plays Miles Massey, an unhappy and lonely divorce lawyer who specialises in protecting the wealth of men who have been caught ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 30,402 members
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  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Holly Hunter,  Michael Badalucco,  Wayne Duvall
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In the Depression-era deep South, three escapees from a Mississippi prison chain gang: Everett Ulysses McGill, sweet and simple Delmar, and the perpetually angry Pete, embark on the adventure of a lifetime as they set out to pursue their freedom and return to their homes. With nothing to lose and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 34,643 members
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  • The Big Lebowski - HD (1998)
    Starring: Jeff Bridges,  John Goodman,  Julianne Moore
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The Coen brothers have done it again. Mixing in Leninist philosophy, mistaken identity, crazy characters, a kidnapping plot, and a deep love of bowling, they have unleashed upon an unsuspecting world the many glories of THE BIG LEBOWSKI. Jeff Bridges plays Jeff Lebowski, known as the Dude, a laid-..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 882 members
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  • The Big Lebowski (1997)
    Starring: Jeff Bridges,  John Goodman,  Julianne Moore
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When unemployed Dude is attacked in his apartment by two thugs who mistakenly think he is millionaire Jeff Lebowski, he decides to pay a visit to his namesake in the hope of receiving compensation.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 50,233 members
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  • Fargo on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Frances McDormand,  Steve Buscemi,  Peter Stormare
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    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 awry, leading to homicide.Enter Marge Gunderson, one of the most ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 74% from 61,335 members
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  • Fargo - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Frances McDormand,  Steve Buscemi,  Peter Stormare
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    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 awry, leading to homicide.Enter Marge Gunderson, one of the most ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 2,524 members
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  • Barton Fink - Blu-ray (1991)
    Starring: John Goodman,  John Turturro,  Judy Davis
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    BARTON FINK is the Coen brothers' apocalyptic masterpiece about the creative process. John Turturro stars as the title character, an idealistic young man with an ERASERHEAD-like hairdo who believes that writing should be about the living truth, revealing the hopes, the dreams, the tragedies of the ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 20% from 1 member
    Not available for rental
  • Miller's Crossing on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Gabriel Byrne,  Albert Finney,  Marcia Gay Harden
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Joel and Ethan Coen's third collaboration, the gangster film Miller's Crossing, stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom Reagan, the right-hand man of big-city Irish mob boss Leo (Albert Finney). The film opens with Italian mobster Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito) and his second in command Eddie Dane (J.E. Freeman) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 19,303 members
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  • Miller's Crossing - Blu-ray (1990)
    Starring: Gabriel Byrne,  Albert Finney,  Marcia Gay Harden
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 they realize that they love the same woman (Marcia ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 65 members
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  • Raising Arizona on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Sam McMurray,  Nicolas Cage,  Randall 'Tex' Cobb
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Combining influences from Tex Avery cartoons to Sam Raimi horror movies to 1940s B-movies, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen followed up the stylish film noir of their debut, Blood Simple (1984), with this frantic screwball comedy. H.I. Hi McDonnough (Nicholas Cage) is a philosophical but slightly dim ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 18,216 members
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  • Blood Simple (1983)
    Starring: John Getz,  Frances McDormand,  Dan Hedaya
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    When a bar owner discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife, a complex web of deceit and double crosses ensues in a small Texas town. The Coen brothers' first picture is an intricately plotted film noir filled with surprises at each turn. The cast, largely unknown at the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 12,847 members
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Joel Coen facts

5 most recent films

True Grit - 3.5 stars
True Grit - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
A Serious Man - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
A Serious Man - 3.5 stars
Burn After Reading - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Big Lebowski - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
The Big Lebowski - HD - 4.0 stars
No Country For Old Men - HD - 4.0 stars
Miller's Crossing - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Fargo - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Barton Fink - Blu-ray - 1.0 stars
The Ladykillers - 2.5 stars
Intolerable Cruelty - 2.5 stars
Burn After Reading - 3.0 stars
Burn After Reading - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

John Turturro - 11 times - show films
John Goodman - 10 times - show films
Frances McDormand - 9 times - show films
George Clooney - 8 times - show films
Stephen Root - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ethan Coen - 12 times - show films