Writer
Ethan Coen
Ethan Coen is credited on 27 titles across The Coen Brothers, Spiritual Trilogies, Westerns, and Steven Spielberg on OrderToWatch. In release order they run from Blood Simple (1984) to Honey Don't! (2025).
- Titles
- 27
- Wrote
- 27
- Franchises
- 4
In release order
- Blood Simple1984 · Film · 1h 37m · Coen Brothers · WriterThe Coens' debut and Frances McDormand's first film, a Texas noir of double-crosses.
- Raising Arizona1987 · Film · 1h 34m · Coen Brothers · WriterNicolas Cage and Holly Hunter steal a baby in the brothers' broadest comedy.
- Miller's Crossing1990 · Film · 1h 55m · Coen Brothers · WriterA Prohibition gang war seen through Gabriel Byrne's cool right-hand man.
- Barton Fink1991 · Film · 1h 57m · Coen Brothers · WriterJohn Turturro as a blocked playwright in 1941 Hollywood; it won the Palme d'Or.
- The Hudsucker Proxy1994 · Film · 1h 51m · Coen Brothers · WriterA 1950s screwball fable co-written with Sam Raimi, in which a mailroom clerk invents the hula hoop.
- Fargo1996 · Film · 1h 38m · Coen Brothers · WriterFrances McDormand won an Oscar as the pregnant police chief chasing a botched Minnesota kidnapping.
- The Big Lebowski1998 · Film · 1h 57m · Coen Brothers · WriterJeff Bridges as the Dude, a bowling slacker caught in a ransom plot meant for another Lebowski.
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000 · Film · 1h 47m · Spiritual Trilogies · WriterThree escaped convicts in 1930s Mississippi, retelling The Odyssey.
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000 · Film · 1h 47m · Coen Brothers · WriterThree escaped convicts in 1930s Mississippi, retelling The Odyssey.
- The Man Who Wasn't There2001 · Film · 1h 56m · Coen Brothers · WriterA black-and-white noir with Billy Bob Thornton as a silent barber turned blackmailer.
- Intolerable Cruelty2003 · Film · 1h 40m · Spiritual Trilogies · WriterA divorce lawyer falls for a gold digger.
- Intolerable Cruelty2003 · Film · 1h 40m · Coen Brothers · WriterA divorce lawyer falls for a gold digger.
- The Ladykillers2004 · Film · 1h 44m · Coen Brothers · WriterTom Hanks leads a heist crew in a remake of the 1955 Ealing comedy.
- No Country for Old Men2007 · Film · 2h 2m · Spiritual Trilogies · WriterA hunter takes drug money and a killer follows him.
- No Country for Old Men2007 · Film · 2h 2m · Coen Brothers · WriterA hunter takes drug money and a killer follows him.
- Burn After Reading2008 · Film · 1h 36m · Spiritual Trilogies · WriterTwo gym employees find a CIA analyst's memoir on a disc.
- Burn After Reading2008 · Film · 1h 36m · Coen Brothers · WriterTwo gym employees find a CIA analyst's memoir on a disc.
- A Serious Man2009 · Film · 1h 46m · Coen Brothers · WriterA Minnesota physics professor in 1967 seeks answers from rabbis as his life collapses.
- True Grit2010 · Film · 1h 50m · Coen Brothers · WriterHailee Steinfeld hires Jeff Bridges' marshal in a more faithful take on the Charles Portis novel.
- True Grit2010 · Film · 1h 50m · Westerns · WriterThe Coen brothers remake the 1969 film, closer to the novel.
- Inside Llewyn Davis2013 · Film · 1h 45m · Coen Brothers · WriterOscar Isaac as a broke folk singer in Greenwich Village, a week before Bob Dylan arrives.
- Bridge of Spies2015 · Film · 2h 21m · Spielberg · WriterA Brooklyn lawyer defends a Soviet spy, then trades him for a downed US pilot in Berlin.
- Hail, Caesar!2016 · Film · 1h 46m · Coen Brothers · WriterJosh Brolin as a 1950s studio fixer hunting a kidnapped star played by George Clooney.
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs2018 · Film · 2h 12m · Coen Brothers · WriterSix Western tales for Netflix and the last film the brothers made together.
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs2018 · Film · 2h 12m · Westerns · WriterSix Coen brothers tales of the frontier, made for Netflix.
- Drive-Away Dolls2024 · Film · 1h 24m · optional · Coen Brothers · WriterEthan Coen's solo debut, a 1999 lesbian road comedy co-written with Tricia Cooke.
- Honey Don't!2025 · Film · 1h 29m · optional · Coen Brothers · WriterMargaret Qualley as a Bakersfield private eye in Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's second B-movie.