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The Coen Brothers

The Coen Brothers

11 Episodes

Built around offbeat characters, ultraquotable dialogue, and a total command of craft, the films of Joel and Ethan Coen make up one of the most illustrious bodies of work in contemporary American cinema. For four decades, the prolific Minnesotans have been putting their cleverly idiosyncratic spin on an array of genres—from film noir (BLOOD SIMPLE) and screwball comedy (RAISING ARIZONA) to the gangster drama (MILLER’S CROSSING) and the western (TRUE GRIT)—while bending and subverting their conventions at will. Featuring colorful performances from regular collaborators like Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, and John Turturro, the Coens’ wickedly entertaining, endlessly surprising films constitute a delightfully strange and twisted universe all their own.

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The Coen Brothers

11 Episodes

  • The Coen Brothers Teaser
    01:01
    The Coen Brothers Teaser
    Episode 1

    The Coen Brothers Teaser

    Episode 1

  • No Country for Old Men
    2:02:17
    No Country for Old Men
    Episode 2

    No Country for Old Men

    Episode 2

    Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 2007 • United States
    Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin

    A deadly game of chance and destiny plays out against the stark backdrop of early-1980s West Texas in Joel and Ethan Coen’s powerful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel. When he hap...

  • The Big Lebowski
    1:57:15
    The Big Lebowski
    Episode 3

    The Big Lebowski

    Episode 3

    Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 1998 • United States
    Starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore

    With its ultraquotable dialogue and unforgettable characters who have imprinted themselves onto pop culture, this outrageously entertaining comedy has taken its place as one of the def...

  • Raising Arizona
    1:34:10
    Raising Arizona
    Episode 4

    Raising Arizona

    Episode 4

    Directed by Joel Coen • 1987 • United States
    Starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman

    The delightfully sophomoric sophomore feature from the Coen brothers stars Nicolas Cage as a dim-bulb bandit whose solution to the infertility of his ex-cop wife (Holly Hunter) is to babynap one fourth...

  • Miller’s Crossing
    1:53:17
    Miller’s Crossing
    Episode 5

    Miller’s Crossing

    Episode 5

    Directed by Joel Coen • 1990 • United States
    Starring John Turturro, Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney

    A Roaring Twenties gangster saga that only the Coen brothers could concoct, MILLER’S CROSSING marries the hard-boiled sensibility of classic noir fiction with the filmmakers’ trademark savory dialog...

  • Barton Fink
    1:56:43
    Barton Fink
    Episode 6

    Barton Fink

    Episode 6

    Directed by Joel Coen • 1991 • United States
    Starring John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis

    The Coen brothers’ darkly surreal journey through 1940s Hollywood casts John Turturro as the titular, Clifford Odets–esque New York playwright who moves to LA to work as a screenwriter for Capitol Pictu...

  • A Serious Man
    1:45:32
    A Serious Man
    Episode 7

    A Serious Man

    Episode 7

    Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 2009 • United States
    Starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed

    The Coen brothers’ acerbic, anxiety-inducing portrait of a man in crisis features a sensational performance from Michael Stuhlbarg as a 1960s Jewish physics professor at a Minnesota...

  • True Grit
    1:50:21
    True Grit
    Episode 8

    True Grit

    Episode 8

    Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 2010 • United States
    Starring Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin

    Originally filmed in 1969 as a John Wayne vehicle, Charles Portis’s classic western novel gets a truer, grittier adaptation courtesy of the Coen brothers. Jeff Bridges is marvelously ...

  • The Hudsucker Proxy
    1:50:46
    The Hudsucker Proxy
    Episode 9

    The Hudsucker Proxy

    Episode 9

    Directed by Joel Coen • 1994 • United States
    Starring Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman

    The Coen brothers’ sparky satire of corporate greed is an irresistibly inventive take on the Preston Sturges/Frank Capra–style screwball comedy constructed with clockwork precision. When the foun...

  • Inside Llewyn Davis
    1:44:53
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    Episode 10

    Inside Llewyn Davis

    Episode 10

    Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 2013 • United States
    Starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake

    The visionary chroniclers of eccentric Americana Joel and Ethan Coen present one of their greatest creations in Llewyn Davis, a singer barely eking out a living on the peripheries ...

  • Blood Simple
    1:35:39
    Blood Simple
    Episode 11

    Blood Simple

    Episode 11

    Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 1984 • United States
    Starring John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya

    Joel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases...

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