Tvůrčí duo Joel a Ethan Coenovi, známí jako bratři Coenové, jsou renomovaní američtí filmaři. Jejich práce se vyznačuje mistrovským prolínáním žánrů, od svěžích komedií po temné kriminální příběhy. Jsou proslulí svou jedinečnou vizi a jednotným autorským přístupem, který jim umožnil vytvořit rozsáhlé a kriticky uznávané filmové dílo.
The screenplay to another offbeat movie by the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. As a result of a case of mistaken identity, Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bag man - a situation that goes from bad to even worse due to the interference of his hapless bowling partners.
Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greewich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis is at a crossroads, guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles - some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find. Llewyn's misadventures take him from the basket houses of the village to an empty Chicago club - on an obyssey to audition for a music mogul - and back again
Hail, Caesar! is the story of Eddie Mannix, tireless pursuer of the interests of fictional Capitol Pictures, circa 1951. He is the ultimate studio fixer and---since the studio is his world---the ultimate earthly one. There is no star scandal he cannot cover up, no studio misstep he cannot repair, no sin he cannot make right. His powers are tested, though, when production on the studio's most expensive picture ever---biblical epic Hail, Caesar!---is halted by the kidnapping of its star. The kidnappers are a mysterious gaggle seeking not just ransom but the destruction of everything Eddie Mannix lives for, and everything he lives by. . .
In 1967, physics professor Larry Gopnik faces a cascade of personal crises: his wife is leaving him for a colleague, his brother is couch-surfing, and his children are misbehaving. Amidst academic pressures and distractions, including a troublesome graduate student and a tempting neighbor, Larry's quest for balance unfolds with Coen brothers' signature humor.
These six stories escort them with a care that either respects, or mocks, the dignity of all. The film stars Tom Waits, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tim Bake Nelson and Zoe Kazan and is shot with the harsh grandeur of the classic John Ford westerns.
The latest script from the Academy Award-winning filmmakers behind Fargo and No Country for Old Men In Burn After Reading, two gym instructors (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) accidentally stumble across and try to sell a disk containing the memoirs of CIA agent Osborne Cox (John Malkovich), who has recently been fired from the agency. Their attempts at blackmail go wildly awry, gradually engulfing Osborne Cox's estranged wife (Tilda Swinton) and her lover (George Clooney), whose involvement triggers a series of tragic consequences.
The greatest criminal minds of all time finally meet their match in this, the Coen brothers' riotous Deep South reinvention of Alexander Mackendrick's beloved 1955 Ealing comedy. Tom Hanks stars as Goldthwait Higginson Dorr, Ph.D., a charlatan professor who has assembled a motley crew of crooks to try and pull off the heist of the century.