Movies by Lists - Coen brothers favourite movies (31 [31]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| American Friend, TheTom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man. | 1977 | Wim Wenders (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (15.7K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Bad News Bears, TheAn aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league. | 1976 | Michael Ritchie | Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport | 7.3 (22.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Boeing BoeingA friend visits his philandering friend just as that man's scheme of being secretly simultaneously engaged to three flight attendants goes awry. | 1965 | John Rich | Comedy | 6.5 (3K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Brother's KeeperThis compelling documentary details the strange-but-true murder trial of Delbert Ward, accused of the mercy killing of his brother in rural upstate NY. This real-life murder mystery won the Audience Award at Sundance. | 1992 | Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Documentary, Crime, Mystery | 7.5 (4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Chapman Report, TheBased on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four women (Claire Bloom, Jane Fonda, Shelley Winter | 1962 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Romance | 5.5 (912 votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| ChinatownA private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. | 1974 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (315K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| DamesA multimillionaire decides to boycott "filthy" forms of entertainment such as Broadway shows. | 1934 | Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley | Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance | 7.1 (2.1K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| DetourChance events trap hitchhiking nightclub pianist Al Roberts in a tightening net of death, deception and blackmail. | 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.4 (16.9K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| DocDoc Holliday, the cold-blooded sharp-shooter, reunites with his old friend, Marshall Wyatt Earp, to take down the Clanton gang in the dusty town of Tombstone, in Arizona. | 1971 | Frank Perry | Western | 6.2 (1.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Dr. StrangeloveAn insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Comedy, War | 8.4 (474.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Easy RiderTwo bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware. | 1969 | Dennis Hopper (*) | Adventure, Drama | 7.3 (107.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Fortune, TheTwo bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder. | 1975 | Mike Nichols (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 5.7 (2.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Global Affair, AAs an employee at the United Nations building in New York City, Bob Hope finds himself in charge of an infant abandoned at the UN. Besides being a bachelor trying to cope with an infant, he must determine which nationality the baby i | 1964 | Jack Arnold | Comedy | 5.4 (418 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Greaser's PalaceA parable based on the life of Christ. This ain't your father's Bible story, full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a New Mexican setting. | 1972 | Robert Downey Sr. | Comedy, Western | 5.9 (1K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Guns of Navarone, TheA team of Allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers. | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | 7.5 (49.3K votes) | 158 | 20211228 |
| High and Low [Tengoku to jigoku]An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom. | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (41.4K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Il BidoneA trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures. | 1955 | Federico Fellini (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (5.9K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Knife In The WaterA couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevitab | 1962 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (21.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, TheIn Vinegaroon, Texas, former outlaw Roy Bean appoints himself the judge for the region and dispenses his brand of justice as he sees fit. | 1972 | John Huston (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western | 6.9 (8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Once Upon a Time in The WestA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. | 1968 | Sergio Leone (*) | Western | 8.5 (319.7K votes) | 165 | 20211228 |
| Outlaw Josey Wales, TheMissouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family. | 1976 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Western | 7.8 (71.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Palm Beach Story, TheA New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister. | 1942 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 (11.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Pillow TalkAn interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up. | 1959 | Michael Gordon | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 (17K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| RepulsionA sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence. | 1965 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.6 (52.5K votes) | 105 | 20220414 |
| Rosemary's BabyA young couple trying for a baby move into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, but find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors. | 1968 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.0 (207.9K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| SalesmanFour dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics. | 1969 | Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin | Documentary, Drama | 7.7 (5.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Swindlers (Il Bidone) (English subtitles), TheA trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures. | 1955 | Federico Fellini (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (5.9K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Tarzan's New York AdventureTarzan and Jane go to New York to rescue Boy after he is kidnapped into a circus. | 1942 | Richard Thorpe | Action, Adventure | 6.6 (3.3K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Tenant, TheA bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. | 1976 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (42.8K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| That Touch Of MinkA rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save herself for marriage. | 1962 | Delbert Mann (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 (9.6K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Where Eagles DareAllied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on. | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton | Action, Adventure, War | 7.6 (56.8K votes) | 158 | 20211228 |