Ethan Coen
1) Suburbicon
Formats
Description
A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
2) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Texas bar owner Marty hires a killer to murder his wife and her lover, nothing prepares him for the double and triple crosses.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventures as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
4) True grit
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. 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.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but dim-witted, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts, events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters!
7) Barton Fink
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A trendy playwright is trying to write a simple movie script, but to his misfortune has a bit of writer's block.
8) Blood simple
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A jealous husband hires a detective to murder his wife and her lover.
10) Blood Simple
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A jealous husband hires a detective to murder his wife and her lover.
A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
"Clever scripting, good acting...Highly recommended."--Video Librarian
11) Gambit
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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 Anton Chigurh, a psychopathic "debt collector." Sheriff Bell sets out to find Llewelyn, not so much for the propriety...
13) Unbroken
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2015]
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
14) A serious man
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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,...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (122 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In rural west Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Instead of reporting the discovery to the police, Moss decides to just take the two million dollars he finds for himself. This puts Anton Chigurh, a psychopathic killer, on his trail. Anton dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even his employer in the pursuit of...
16) The ladykillers
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marva Munson is a spry, elderly woman who is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Goldthwait H. Dorr moves in and gains Munson's permission to use the basement for rehearsals with his "medieval music ensemble." Dorr is masterminding the robbery of a riverboat casino, and the fellow musicians in his ensemble are actually the crew he's assembled to pull off the job. Despite their best efforts, Munson finds out about their scheme and...
18) The big Lebowski
Formats
Description
Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski doesn't want any complications in his life. He can't even be bothered with a job. But, in a case of mistaken identity, a couple of thugs break into his place and steal his rug. Now, The Dude must embark on a quest with his crazy bowling buddies to make things right and get that rug back. Their journey blends unforgettable characters, kidnapping, and White Russians.
19) Fargo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (4 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
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.
20) Unbroken
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.