Jerry Lundegaard, vendeur de voitures d’occasion à Minneapolis est endetté jusqu’au cou. Pour s’en sortir, il fait appel à Carl Showalter et Gaear Grimsrud, deux escrocs à la petite semaine, pour qu’ils enlèvent son épouse Jean. Il pourra ainsi partager avec les ravisseurs la rançon que son riche beau-père paiera pour la libération de sa fille. Mais le plan va rapidement tourner au désastre.

Arrêté au volant de son automobile en état d'ivresse, Gordon Bombay, jeune avocat prétentieux, est condamné à un travail d’intérêt public : entrainer a Minneapolis l’équipe de minimes de hockey sur glace.

Les 5 jours durant lesquels le journaliste David Lipsky a interviewé le romancier David Foster, qui venait de publier son roman « Infinite Jest ».

Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. Their son is getting married in California and they decide to drive across the country to attend. Along the way, as they visit family and friends, they reflect on their tattered relationship and the events that transpired to create the estrangement.

With the passing of his estranged father, Russell inherits the only asset to his name: a bar. As relationships form and Rusty finds himself right at home, he'll soon learn that his inheritance holds a dark secret.

A dark comedy about the only female employee in the warehouse of a sausage company who forms an unlikely bond with a stranger that throws both their lives into disarray, leaving them forever changed.

Corporate researchers go behind the back of their mysterious employer to test the telepathic abilities of a traumatized girl and her father.

Jay’s Longhorn was the epicenter of the Minneapolis punk rock and indie rock scene in the late 1970s and sparked the explosion of alternative rock music that followed in the 1980s and 1990s.