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4. No Country For Old Men

The Coen brothers’s neo-Western thriller features plenty of violence, bloodbaths and brutality. But there’s a softer meaning underneath the gore. The film’s main character is an aging sheriff afraid of receding into the obscurity of old age, and the central theme of the movie is angst about aging and retirement.

The film’s title comes from a William Butler Yeats poem, Sailing to Byzantium:

That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees Those dying generations at their song