What is the best Coen Brothers movie of all time?

By YPB Team
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From sun-baked crime thrillers and absurdist comedies to bleak existential westerns, the Coens have made films unlike anyone else in Hollywood. Which masterpiece tops your list?

No Country for Old Men - ranking option ranked #1

No Country for Old Men

A chance encounter with a suitcase of drug money sets a relentless, unstoppable killer loose across the Texas borderlands.

1/11
Fargo - ranking option ranked #2

Fargo

A hapless car salesman hires two criminals to kidnap his wife, setting off a catastrophically bungled chain of events in snowy Minnesota.

2/11
The Big Lebowski - ranking option ranked #3

The Big Lebowski

A case of mistaken identity sends a laid-back LA bowler called the Dude on a spiraling adventure of kidnapping, nihilists, and White Russians.

3/11
True Grit - ranking option ranked #4

True Grit

A stubborn 14-year-old girl hires a grizzled, hard-drinking US Marshal to track down her father's killer in the Indian Territory.

4/11
Miller's Crossing - ranking option ranked #5

Miller's Crossing

A politically astute gangster tries to navigate a power struggle between two mob bosses while keeping his own loyalties hidden.

5/11
Blood Simple - ranking option ranked #6

Blood Simple

A jealous Texas bar owner hires a sleazy private detective to kill his wife and her lover in this tense, twisty neo-noir debut.

6/11
Raising Arizona - ranking option ranked #7

Raising Arizona

An ex-con and his policewoman wife kidnap one of a furniture tycoon's quintuplets when they discover they cannot have children of their own.

7/11
Barton Fink - ranking option ranked #8

Barton Fink

A New York playwright arrives in Hollywood to write a wrestling picture and slowly descends into a nightmarish creative block at a decaying hotel.

8/11
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - ranking option ranked #9

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Three escaped Depression-era convicts embark on a madcap odyssey through the American South in search of hidden treasure.

9/11
Burn After Reading - ranking option ranked #10

Burn After Reading

A disc containing sensitive CIA memoirs falls into the hands of two dim-witted gym employees who attempt to sell it for personal gain.

10/11
Inside Llewyn Davis - ranking option ranked #11

Inside Llewyn Davis

A week in the life of a struggling folk singer navigating the Greenwich Village music scene of 1961 with little money, a borrowed cat, and big talent.

11/11

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