Joel (left) and Ethan Cohen, who won the Academy Award for Best Director, have directed some of the greatest thrillers and black comedies of all time, including Old Nobody, Earth Thunder, Big Lebowski and Ice Storm. Here's a snapshot of the films they co-directed and wrote.
Blood Labyrinth (1984)
Starring: John Gates, Frances McDormand, Dan Hadaya
The film tells a series of stories about a dishonest private detective who investigates the cheating of the bar owner's wife, and many unexpected situations are fermenting and heating up during the mission, and everything is going in a bad direction.
Raising Arizona (1987)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson
The film tells the story of the stupid thief McDonough who reformed and fell in love with the policewoman Ed and started a family, but because his wife was infertility, McDonough stole the son of the rich Arizona, which triggered a series of stories.
Miller's Crossroads (1990)
Starring: John Turtoro, Gabriel Bourne
The film is set in the early stage of the US economic depression and tells the story of Tom, the right-hand man of the gangster boss, who maneuvers between several major local gangs in an attempt to resolve the huge crisis between gangs.
Barton Fink (1991)
Starring: John Turtoro, John Goodman, Judy Davis
The film mainly tells the story of a screenwriter Barton Fink who has achieved a small career and fights himself in Hollywood.
Money Empire (1994)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Lee
The film tells the story of Norville, a small clerk, who is appointed as the puppet president by the ambitious director Masperger, but unexpectedly he becomes the key person who saves the company's fate.
Starring: William S. H. Messi, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi
The film tells the story of an unlucky car dealer who is in financial difficulty but cannot get financial support from his rich father-in-law, so he hires two kidnappers to kidnap his wife in order to demand ransom from his father-in-law, but leads to various bloody cases.
Murder of Green Toe (1998)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore
The film tells the story of Leboscoke, nicknamed "Overlord", who was misidentified and involved in a crime with two friends.
Three Kings of Prison Escape (2000)
Starring: George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson, John Turtoro
The film tells the story of three fugitives who escaped from prison in the wilderness of Mississippi and embarked on the road of escape for their respective ideals of freedom.
The Absentee (2001)
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormier, James Gandolfini
The film tells the story of Eddie, a barber with an ordinary life, who suspects that his wife is having an affair with his boss Dave, and as a result, Dave finds Eddie to vent his anger and is killed.
Love Wrong Foot (2003)
Starring: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta Jones, Billy Bob Thornton
The film tells the story of Myers, a lawyer who specializes in divorce cases, who discovers the conspiracy of a client's wife, Marilyn, and designs her to get nothing when she divorces. Marilyn plans to marry him and divorce him in revenge, but she falls in love with his story during this time.
Old Woman Killer (2004)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Irma Hall, Marlon Wayans
The film tells the story of Professor Higginson and his gang using the basement of Mrs. Olson's house to dig a tunnel to a casino vault, planning to steal money from the vault, but unexpectedly the matter was exposed, so a series of strange stories occurred with Mrs. Manson.
Paris, I Love You (2006)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Alexander Payne
In this part of the film, the Coen brothers directed a clip called "The Tuileries Palace", which tells the story of an American tourist who inadvertently becomes involved in a conflict between a young couple in Paris.
Old and Helpless (2007)
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
The film tells the story of a man who finds out that something is wrong in a drug deal, takes the money and walks away. He must escape from a world-weary sheriff and a ruthless killer. The film won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Burn After Reading (2008)
Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt
The film is adapted from the novel "Top Secret: The President, the CIA Director, and the Agent" by Stanfield Turner, who served as CIA director from 1977 to 1981, tells the story of a gym employee who is hunted down by a CIA hired killer after picking up a top-secret disc lost by a CIA agent.
Serious Men (2009)
Starring: Michael Stubba, Richard Kander, Sally Lenick
The film tells the story of ordinary people in a Jewish community in the United States in 1967.
Earth Thunder (2010)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Hayley Stanfield, Matt Damon
The film tells the story of a 14-year-old girl accompanied by two policemen to a not very friendly Indian territory to track down her father's murderer.
Drunken Country Ballad (2013)
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Kerry Mulligan, Garnett Hedland
The film tells the story of singer Levien Davis' unremitting struggle during the popularity of American folk songs in the 60s of the 20th century.
Long Live Caesar (2016)
Starring: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenridge
The film tells the story of producer Eddie solving various strange problems for a troublesome star in the crew.