Some Well-Connected Movies
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
2008
Brad Pitt
actor
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
2000
Ethan Coen
writer
No Country for Old Men

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
2007
Ethan Coen
director
North Country

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
2005
Frances McDormand
actor
Ocean's Thirteen

Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist, after casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses one of the original eleven, Reuben Tishkoff.
2007
George Clooney
actor
No Country for Old Men

2007
Joel Coen
writer
No Country for Old Men

2007
Joel Coen
director
The Libertine

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
2004
John Malkovich
actor
Burn After Reading
A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it.
2008
Brad Pitt
actor
Ethan Coen
writer
Ethan Coen
director
Frances McDormand
actor
George Clooney
actor
Joel Coen
writer
Joel Coen
director
John Malkovich
actor
Inglourious Basterds

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
2009
Brad Pitt
actor
A Serious Man

Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.
2009
Ethan Coen
writer
A Serious Man

2009
Ethan Coen
director
Moonrise Kingdom

A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.
2012
Frances McDormand
actor
Fantastic Mr. Fox

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
2009
George Clooney
actor
A Serious Man

2009
Joel Coen
writer
A Serious Man

2009
Joel Coen
director
Jonah Hex

The U.S. military makes a scarred bounty hunter with warrants on his own head an offer he cannot refuse: in exchange for his freedom, he must stop a terrorist who is ready to unleash Hell on Earth.
2010
John Malkovich
actor