The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (2018)
An anthology of short films based on a fictional book of “western tales”.
Barton Fink (1991)
An intellectual screenwriter comes to Hollywood to write a script for a wrestling B movie.
The Big Lebowski (1997)
After someone puts the pee into rug, its owner goes in search of recompense from the man who shares his name.
Burn After Reading (2008)
When a disc believed to contain sensitive information falls into the wrong hands, the intelligence services rush headlong into a comedy of errors.
Blood Simple (1984)
A rich man hires a private detective to kill his wife and her lover, but things don't go quite to plan.
Fargo (1996)
A cocked up kidnap leads to mayhem and murder.
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Capitol Pictures is about to complete its biggest film of the year, but its star has been kidnapped. Can the studio fixer solve the problem in time?
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
A divorce lawyer pits his wits against the wife of a millionaire.
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
One week in the life of a talented, failed singer/songwriter in Greenwich Village, New York, in the Sixties
The Ladykillers (2004)
Coen Brothers transport the Alec Guinness classic crime caper to the American south.
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
An introspective barber in a small Californian town in the Forties initiates a blackmail that goes wrong.
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Moral ambiguity in the mob.
No Country For Old Men (2007)
A man goes on the run from a psychopath in Texas after coming across a briefcase of stolen cash.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Chain gang escapees in Deep South emulate a comic Odyssey.
Paris Je T'Aime (2006)
Twenty different glimpses of Paris.
Raising Arizona (1987)
It's downhill all the way after a couple steal a kid.
A Serious Man (2009)
Black comedy about a professor whose life starts to unravel.
True Grit (2010)
A young girl seeks out a lawman to hunt down the killer of her father.
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A dangerous woman Rebecca De Mornay on finding characters' truth and making The Gentleman Thief

Divine transformation Eriko Katagiri on the itako tradition and When You Open The Door

Learning to let go Gloria Mercer and Bethany Brown on filming sex, drugs and A Safe Distance

Framing a feature Michele Fiascaris on expanding his short Rain Catcher into a rain-slicked noir thriller

A heroine of the people Avid Liongoren on the Filipino animation industry and Zsazsa Zaturnnah

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