Last Updated on 25 March 2024
The following list is the Official Definitive Ranked List of all the movies that the Coen Brothers have directed so far.
This is probably the closest list I’ve ever made, with most of the movies being within a very tight range of scores.
I found 35 different ranked lists online of “best Coen Brothers movies” and pulled them all into Excel and merged them all to get this definitive compilation. See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 35 lists that were averaged. Below is a checklist you can print to track which Coen Brothers movies you’ve seen, followed by the ranked list.
- Fargo (1996)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
- Miller’s Crossing (1990)
- Barton Fink (1991)
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- Blood Simple (1984)
- A Serious Man (2009)
- True Grit (2010)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
- Burn After Reading (2008)
- Hail, Caesar! (2016)
- The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
- Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
- The Ladykillers (2004)
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
- Drive-Away Dolls (2024)