Movies that feel like a Coen brothers film but aren't

Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri. Strong sense of place with heightened accents, dark actions and dark comedy, and even Joel Coen’s wife.

A Simple Plan Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Shallow Grave

"The Men Who Stare at Goats" For years I thaught it was a Coen movie.

Watch the tv show fargo if you havent.

Red Rock West this is a hot take but in my eyes, Dumb and Dumber could have been a Coen brothers movie

The Nice Guys. Out of Sight. Blue Ruin The TV show Mr Inbetween.

Logan Lucky fits the bill

Hell Or High Water

*Anora*, once the goons show up.

In Bruges

Wise Blood, and while you're at it go read all of Flannery O'Connor's short stories. She's wickedly funny and beat the Coens to their own sense of irony by about sixty years Winter's Bone The Third Man Free Fire Love Lies Bleeding Bernie Parasite Harold and Maude

The Death Of D*** Long

One Battle After Another

Its been a long time since I saw the movie so I'm a little hesitant to present it. Punch Drunk Love maybe?

Under the Silver Lake The Kid Detective Pig

LaRoy, Texas (2023) is a recent one. About a timid small-town retail worker who finds out his wife is cheating on him and is about to commit suicide but is then mistaken for a hitman. He uses the money to try to change his fortunes but then the real hitman shows up... Starring John Magaro, Steve Zahn, and Dylan Baker.

Hard Eight, PTA’s debut

Bubba Ho-Tep

Eddington

Cutter’s Way

Mouse Hunt

Red Rock West

Maybe some Robert Altman. Gosford Park. The Long Goodbye.

Preston Sturges' movies were a major influence on them - *The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, Hail the Conquering Hero, Palm Beach Story*, etc.

Go (1999)

The TV show - Barry

Movies that feel like Coen Bros comedies: The Burbs The Brothers Bloom Logan Lucky Four Rooms The Nice Guys Movies that feel like Coen Bros noirs: The Accountant Brick El Camino Chinatown Collateral The Friends of Eddie Coyle Hell or High Water A History of Violence The Limey Movies that feel like those In between Coen Bros movies like Llewyn Davis: The Descendants The Lookout Election Up in the Air Broken Flowers

Stephen Frears' films sometimes have that tone. I'm thinking The Hit (1984), and Dirty Pretty Things (2002). And since you mentioned two with Brendan Gleeson, there's also The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), by the same director as In Bruges.

Americana - violent but quirky Dead of Winter - violent, Fargo-like setting, but not very funny

I watched **Maggie Moore(s)** and was like "there's a much better version of this movie directed by the Coens".

the ice harvest

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Here's something I've often recommended because it feels like a Coen brothers' film --made long before they ever began creating: Frank Perry's **Rancho Deluxe** --starring a young, amusing, self-amused Jeff Bridges. Here are some of the reasons it feels like the Coens could have made it. It's a revisionist genre film; a "modern-day" story about a pair of cattle rustlers. It's a "sincere," laid-back satire that never winks at the audience. It's character driven, and the personal dynamics and interrelationships of all its characters drive the plot and give heft to the emotions. Its always "particular" evocation of its locations is both terrifically realized and essential to the narrative. It's quirky while remaining authentic. And it's got dialogue that is extremely precise, almost "literary" --due to its script having been written by the great American novelist Thomas McGuane. It's also got a nifty original score, with all its tracks written-and-composed by Jimmy Buffett...which was particularly unusual because it was a Country Album, rather than Buffett's usual "Gulf and Western" sound. I'll also recommend two other films, both by Richard Rush: **The Stunt Man** and **Freebie and The Bean**. Another older film that feels like a cousin to the Coen's **Burn After Reading** is Philip Kaufman's **The Right Stuff**.

The new show on HBO, DTF St. Louis feels very Coen Brothers. 

Killing Them Softly

Inherent Vice and Under the Silver Lake, both younger siblings of The Big Lebowski. A ton of Sam Raimi's stuff: Crimewave, A Simple Plan, The Quick & The Dead, Darkman, and Send Help

Rango

Rango!

You should definitely check out 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' (2017). it has that perfect blend of dark humor and sudden violence. 'A Simple Plan' (1998) also feels very Coen-esque in its exploration of greed and "normal" people getting in over their heads.

Absolutely none. Nobody can replicate their style. It's like asking what artists paintings feel like Van Gogh's. Some of the answers here are clearly imitating or inspired by then, but none of them actually feel like a coen bros film.

Why Don't You Just Die?

Paris, Texas

tbh i think what a lot of these suggestions are missing are the coen brothers love of extremely precise language in their scripts. its hard to find many directors that are as exacting about dialogue as they are (tarantino might come closest, as a contemporary)

Inherent Vice seems like a redux of Big Lebowski, or at least exists in the same universe as the Coen’s

Not a movie but a book: "Willard and His Bowling Trophies" by Richard Brautigan. It played like a Coen Bros movie in my head when I read it.

Bad Times at the El Royale. Fun movie

Watch Tarantino's Four Rooms.

If you like The Guard, you'll love one of JM McDonough's other films, Calvary, also with Brendan Gleeson. A bit darker. One of my favourite films ever. 

BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES feels like someone trying to make a Coen Bros movie and failing on every level.

Bad times at the El Royale

Bernie

Faux-en Brothers

It’s probably older than most movies that fit the bill, but The Third Man is very funny in the way that Coen Bro movies are funny.

*Love Lies Bleeding.* Made it halfway before giving up.

Hitchcock has alot of the same traits.

I thought that asteroid city was coen brothers before I read "Wes Anderson" and was like "yeah that makes sense too"

Parasite

Bugonia but they would do a different ending

Inherent Vice

Roadhouse - the original

Punch drunk love

After Hours Nebraska Beau is Afraid Marty Supreme The Monkey Caught Stealing (if they teamed up with Tarantino and Ritchie)

Wild Tales (2014) Argentinian anthology film.

The Last Stop in Yuma County The Maggie Moore(s) Vengeance  LaRoy, Texas Bad Times at El Royale Americana Two Guns Last Man Standing The Mexican

maybe Sympathy For Mr Vengeance? Can't say anything about korean dialects, though.

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