Coen, Ethan

Fargo by Joel Coen ( Visual )
168 editions published between 1985 and 2012 in 10 languages and held by 3,977 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong

O brother, where art thou? by Joel Coen ( Visual )
64 editions published between 2000 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 3,412 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", three escaped chain gang convicts have to travel home to try and recover buried loot from a bank heist. Along the way they meet up with some strange characters

No country for old men by Joel Coen ( Visual )
72 editions published between 2007 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 3,169 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Llewelyn Moss stumbles onto a drug deal gone monumentally wrong while hunting in the parched Texas scrubland near the Mexico border. A satchel filled with $2 million seems to be a ship finally arrived, and he dreams of moving his wife Carla Jean out of the trailer park and into the good life. It isn't long before he's being tracked by Anton Chigurh, a psychopathic "debt collector." Sheriff Bell sets out to find Llewelyn, not so much for the propriety of recovering the money but to protect one of his citizens from Chigurh, an evil like nothing Bell has ever seen. The border is a hard land, yet Bell finds that the reflexive murders Chigurh inflicts upon others transforms the lonely vistas, somber deserts, and austere mountains into something horrendous--into no country for old men--or for young ones

True grit by Joel Coen ( Visual )
52 editions published between 2010 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 2,933 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested

The big Lebowski by Joel Coen ( Visual )
131 editions published between 1996 and 2013 in 9 languages and held by 2,927 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A lazy, unemployed Southern Californian stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beaten up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife and gets drawn into the kidnapping of the millionaire's wife

Raising Arizona by Joel Coen ( Visual )
58 editions published between 1987 and 2011 in 8 languages and held by 2,363 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of a furniture tycoon. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter

Intolerable cruelty by George Clooney ( Visual )
49 editions published between 1985 and 2014 in 8 languages and held by 2,225 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Miles Massey, abogado sin rival en causas de divorcio, lo tiene todo. Marilyn Rexroth, cazafortunas profesional, lo quiere todo. Cuando Miles se queda prendado de la inalcanzable Marilyn, comienza una desternillante batalla de argucias y trucos en la que cada uno intenta aventajar al otro

Burn after reading by Joel Coen ( Visual )
50 editions published between 2008 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 2,080 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer, turns the disc over to the Russians with promises of more information

A serious man by Joel Coen ( Visual )
32 editions published between 2009 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 1,827 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life, His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family, delinquent behavior, and mortality

Blood simple by Joel Coen ( Visual )
57 editions published between 1983 and 2011 in 7 languages and held by 1,672 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A jealous husband hires a detective to murder his wife and her lover