A rich and jealous saloon owner hires a cheap divorce detective to kill the saloon owner’s younger wife and her bartender lover. But, of course, when blood is involved, nothing can be too simple.
‘Hi’ McDonnough is a philosophical but slightly dim career criminal who wants to kidnap one of the five sons of locally famous furniture magnate Nathan Arizona, whom they believe to be Nathan Junior with his wife. But their lives get more complicated than they anticipated when a Harley-riding bounty hunter gets on their trail.
Set in the deep south during the 1930s, three convicts escape from a chain gang and set out to retrieve a supposed treasure Everett buried while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Jerry Lundegaard is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father, paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme […]
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture and finds himself with writer’;;;;;s block when required to do a B-movie wrestling script, the only relief coming from a traveling salesman living next door.
. 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.
Tom Reagan is the laconic anti-hero of this amoral tale which is also, paradoxically, a look at morals within the criminal underworld of the 1930s. Two rival gangs vie for control of a city where the police are pawns, and the periodic busts of illicit drinking establishments are no more than a way for one […]
The film tells a dark tale of infidelity and murder, crime and punishment. Set in a small northern California town of the late 40s, it follows a laconic, chain-smoking barber who blackmails his wife’s boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
Raising Arizona
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Big Lebowski
Fargo 1996
Barton Fink
Inside Llewyn Davis
Millers Crossing
Man Who Wasn’t There