Actor

Peter Stormare

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13:00: average
39 min: in total

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Fargo

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · 1996

Fargo (1996) is a black comedy crime film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in Minnesota during a harsh winter, it follows a bungled kidnapping scheme orchestrated by car salesman Jerry Lundegaard, and the subsequent investigation led by pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson. Shot by Roger Deakins and scored by Carter Burwell, the film balances deadpan humour with sudden violence, sustained by precise dialogue, regional dialect coaching and an unblinking visual style. Though framed as 'based on a true story', it is entirely fictional — a fable about incompetence, complicity and quiet integrity.

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Hail, Caesar!

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen · 2016

Hail, Caesar! (2016) is a Coen brothers comedy set in 1951 Hollywood, following studio fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) as he manages crises across five concurrent film productions. Shot on film by Roger Deakins and costumed with meticulous period detail, it treats the studio system as a functioning bureaucracy — not a golden age to mourn, but a machine to map. Its strength lies in structural fidelity, not character depth.

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The Big Lebowski

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · 1998

The Big Lebowski (1998) follows Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a laid-back Los Angeles slacker drawn into a convoluted kidnapping plot after being mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, it leans into Raymond Chandler’s episodic structure while discarding his moral urgency. With Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi and John Turturro, and cinematography by Roger Deakins, it builds its world through precise dialogue, physical performance and sun-bleached Los Angeles atmospherics — less a crime story than a study in inertia, ritual and linguistic idiosyncrasy.