Joel Coen
Director · 42 credits · 22 in highly-rated films
Best known for No Country for Old Men (2007)
Frequent collaborators: Ethan Coen, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Mary Zophres, Tim Blake Nelson
Best Joel Coen movies by genre
Directed movies (22 total, ranked by score)
1No Country for Old Men
2007 · ★ 7.9 (13,651 votes)
Crime, Thriller, Western
2The Big Lebowski
1998 · ★ 7.8 (12,407 votes)
Comedy, Crime
3Fargo
1996 · ★ 7.9 (9,295 votes)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
4O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · ★ 7.3 (4,684 votes)
Adventure, Comedy, Crime
5True Grit
2010 · ★ 7.3 (5,858 votes)
Drama, Adventure, Western
6The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · ★ 7.1 (4,520 votes)
Western, Comedy, Drama
7Miller's Crossing
1990 · ★ 7.4 (1,882 votes)
Drama, Thriller, Crime
8Inside Llewyn Davis
2013 · ★ 7.2 (2,988 votes)
Drama, Music
9Barton Fink
1991 · ★ 7.5 (1,906 votes)
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
10Raising Arizona
1987 · ★ 7.1 (2,387 votes)
Comedy, Crime
11Blood Simple
1985 · ★ 7.3 (1,653 votes)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
12Burn After Reading
2008 · ★ 6.7 (5,357 votes)
Comedy, Drama
13The Man Who Wasn't There
2001 · ★ 7.5 (1,768 votes)
Crime, Drama
14The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 · ★ 6.9 (890 votes)
Drama
15The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · ★ 7.1 (1,205 votes)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
16Paris Je T'aime
2006 · ★ 6.8 (856 votes)
Drama, Romance
17A Serious Man
2009 · ★ 6.7 (2,396 votes)
Comedy, Drama
18Hail, Caesar!
2016 · ★ 5.9 (4,044 votes)
Comedy, Mystery
19The Ladykillers
2004 · ★ 6.1 (1,785 votes)
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
20Intolerable Cruelty
2003 · ★ 6.0 (1,684 votes)
Comedy, Romance, Crime
21To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · ★ 6.5 (155 votes)
Comedy, Drama
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Jack of Spades
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Drama, Mystery
Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.