Jim Jarmusch filmography

Jarmusch in 2013

Jim Jarmusch is an American independent filmmaker and screenwriter. His filmography includes thirteen feature films, two documentaries, six music videos, and four short films. In addition, Jarmusch has worked on several other films and has appeared on screen on multiple occasions as an actor and as himself.

Films as director

Feature films

Year Name Director Writer Producer Composer Editor
1980 Permanent Vacation Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
1984 Stranger Than Paradise Yes Yes No No Yes
1986 Down by Law Yes Yes No No No
1989 Mystery Train Yes Yes No No No
1991 Night on Earth Yes Yes No Yes No
1995 Dead Man Yes Yes No No No
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Yes Yes No Yes No
2003 Coffee and Cigarettes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
2005 Broken Flowers Yes Yes No No No
2009 The Limits of Control Yes Yes No No No
2013 Only Lovers Left Alive Yes Yes No No No
2016 Paterson Yes Yes No No No
2019 The Dead Don't Die Yes Yes No No No
TBA Father, Mother, Sister, Brother Yes Yes No No No

Documentary films

Year Name Notes
1997 Year of the Horse Follows the 1996 tour of Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Jarmusch also functioned as the documentary's cinematographer
2016 Gimme Danger The Stooges documentary

Music videos

Year Name Artist Notes
1986 "The Lady Don't Mind" Talking Heads
1987 "Sightsee M.C!" Big Audio Dynamite
1990 "It's All Right with Me" Tom Waits Shown as a segment of the television series Red, Hot & Blue in 1990
1992 "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" Tom Waits
1995 "Dead Man Theme" Neil Young
2006 "Steady as She Goes" The Raconteurs

Short films

Year Name Notes
1986 Coffee and Cigarettes: Strange to Meet You Commissioned as a Saturday Night Live sketch; incorporated as one of the vignettes in Jarmusch's 2003 feature Coffee and Cigarettes[1]
1989 Coffee and Cigarettes: Memphis Version
1993 Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet "Int. Trailer Night" segment
2021 French Water Collaboration with Womanry

Screen appearances

Acting credits

Year Film Role
1980 Underground U.S.A. Sound recordist
1984 American Autobahn Movie producer
1987 Straight to Hell Amos Dade
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long Barkeeper #2
1988 Candy Mountain
1989 Leningrad Cowboys Go America New York car dealer
1990 The Golden Boat Stranger
1992 In the Soup Monty
1995 Iron Horsemen Silver Rider
Blue in the Face Bob
1996 Cannes Man Cameo appearance
Sling Blade Frostee Cream guy

Appearances as himself

Year Name Medium Notes
1983 Fräulein Berlin Feature film
1991 Fishing with John TV series Jarmusch appears in "Episode 1: Montauk with Jim Jarmusch" in which he and star John Lurie hunt shark[2]
1994 Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made Documentary
1995 American Cinema TV series
1996 The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera Documentary
1997 R.I.P. – Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman Documentary
We're Outta Here! Video Alternate title: The Ramones
Year of the Horse Documentary Follows the band Neil Young and Crazy Horse on tour
1998 Pop Odyssee 2 - House of the Rising Punk TV
Divine Trash Documentary
Space Ghost Coast to Coast TV
Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman TV special
1999 In Bad Taste: The John Waters Story TV special Jarmusch is an interviewee
2001 SpongeBob SquarePants TV series Archival footage from Fishing With John (episode: "Hooky")
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me Documentary
V.I.P. TV series
2002 ¿Quién es Alejandro Chomski? Documentary
Focus on Jim Jarmusch TV
2003 Chaplin Today: A King in New York TV documentary
Hollywood High TV documentary
Rockets Redglare! Documentary
2004 Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession TV documentary
2005 Cinema Mil TV
Excavating Taylor Mead Documentary
Punk: Attitude TV documentary
Magacine 2005 TV
2008 Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten Documentary Chronicles the life of The Clash frontman Joe Strummer, who starred in Jarmusch's Mystery Train (1989)
The Simpsons TV Episode "Any Given Sundance"
40X15: Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight Documentary Focuses on the Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival
2009 Blank City Documentary Covers the New York City underground film movement
Bored to Death TV series "The Case of the Missing Screenplay" episode 3
2014 Song from the Forest Documentary Friend of Louis Sarno
2019 The Raconteurs: Live at Electric Lady Concert Documentary Interviews the Raconteurs
2022 What We Do in the Shadows TV show Himself

Other production credits

Year Name Credit
1980 Lightning Over Water Observer
1981 You Are Not I Producer/cinematographer
1982 The State of Things Composer
1983 Burroughs Sound recordist
1986 Sleepwalk Camera operator/cinematographer
1993 When Pigs Fly Executive producer
1994 Clerks Special thanks
2005 Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture Featured rapper
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Special thanks
2008 Explicit Ills Executive producer
2015 Uncle Howard Executive producer
2016 Porto Executive producer[3]

References

  1. ^ Schwartz, Missy (September 24, 2004). "Coffee And Cigarettes". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on January 18, 2007. Retrieved October 2, 2009.
  2. ^ Aloi, Peg (May 1, 1997). "Fish stories". Boston Phoenix. Phoenix Media/Communications Group. Archived from the original on June 3, 2012. Retrieved October 2, 2009.
  3. ^ Rothe, E. Nina (November 8, 2017). "An American in 'Porto': Filmmaker Gabe Klinger on Jim Jarmusch, Remembering Anton Yelchin and Believing in Love". HuffPost. Retrieved November 5, 2021.