Jim Jarmusch is an American independent filmmaker and screenwriter. His filmography includes fourteen 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 YearNameDirectorWriterProducerComposerEditor 1980Permanent Vacation 1984Stranger Than Paradise 1986Down by Law 1989Mystery Train 1991Night on Earth 1995Dead Man 1999Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 2003Coffee and Cigarettes 2005Broken Flowers 2009The Limits of Control 2013Only Lovers Left Alive 2016Paterson 2019The Dead Don't Die 2025Father Mother Sister Brother
Documentary films YearNameNotes1997Year of the HorseFollows the 1996 tour of Neil Young and Crazy HorseJarmusch also functioned as the documentary's cinematographer2016Gimme DangerThe Stooges documentary
Music videos YearNameArtistNotes1986"The Lady Don't Mind"Talking Heads1987"Sightsee M.C!"Big Audio Dynamite1990"It's All Right with Me"Tom WaitsShown as a segment of the television series Red, Hot & Blue in 19901992"I Don't Wanna Grow Up"Tom Waits1995"Dead Man Theme"Neil Young2006"Steady as She Goes"The Raconteurs
Short films YearNameNotes1986Coffee and Cigarettes: Strange to Meet YouCommissioned as a Saturday Night Live sketch; incorporated as one of the vignettes in Jarmusch's 2003 feature Coffee and Cigarettes1989Coffee and Cigarettes: Memphis Version1993Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California2002Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet"Int. Trailer Night" segment2021French WaterCollaboration with Womanry
Screen appearances
Acting credits Year Film Role1984American AutobahnMovie producer1987Straight to HellAmos DadeHelsinki Napoli All Night LongBarkeeper #21988Candy Mountain1989Leningrad Cowboys Go AmericaNew York car dealer1990The Golden BoatStranger1992In the SoupMonty1995Iron HorsemenSilver RiderBlue in the FaceBob1996Cannes ManCameo appearanceSling BladeFrostee Cream guy
Appearances as himself Year Name Medium Notes1983Fräulein BerlinFeature film1991Fishing with JohnTV seriesJarmusch appears in "Episode 1: Montauk with Jim Jarmusch" in which he and star John Lurie hunt shark1994Tigrero: A Film That Was Never MadeDocumentary1995American CinemaTV series1996The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie CameraDocumentary1997R.I.P. – Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe ColemanWe're Outta Here!VideoAlternate title: The RamonesYear of the HorseDocumentaryFollows the band Neil Young and Crazy Horse on tour1998Pop Odyssee 2 - House of the Rising PunkTVDivine TrashDocumentarySpace Ghost Coast to CoastTVLee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John BoormanTV special1999In Bad Taste: The John Waters StoryJarmusch is an interviewee2001SpongeBob SquarePantsTV seriesArchival footage from Fishing With John (episode: "Hooky")Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on MeDocumentaryV.I.P.TV series2002¿Quién es Alejandro Chomski?DocumentaryFocus on Jim JarmuschTV2003Chaplin Today: A King in New YorkTV documentaryHollywood HighRockets Redglare!Documentary2004Z Channel: A Magnificent ObsessionTV documentary2005Cinema MilTVExcavating Taylor MeadDocumentaryPunk: AttitudeTV documentaryMagacine 2005TV2008Joe Strummer: The Future Is UnwrittenDocumentaryChronicles the life of The Clash frontman Joe Strummer, who starred in Jarmusch's Mystery Train (1989)The SimpsonsTVEpisode "Any Given Sundance"40X15: Forty Years of the Directors' FortnightDocumentaryFocuses on the Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival2009Blank CityCovers the New York City underground film movementBored to DeathTV series"The Case of the Missing Screenplay" episode 32014Song from the ForestDocumentaryFriend of Louis Sarno2019The Raconteurs: Live at Electric LadyConcert DocumentaryInterviews the Raconteurs2022What We Do in the Shadows TV show Himself
Other production credits YearNameCredit1980Lightning Over WaterObserver1980Underground U.S.A.Sound recordist1981You Are Not IProducer/cinematographer1982The State of ThingsComposer1983BurroughsSound recordist1986SleepwalkCamera operator/cinematographer1993When Pigs FlyExecutive producer1994ClerksSpecial thanks2005Wu-Tang Meets the Indie CultureFeatured rapperEnron: The Smartest Guys in the RoomSpecial thanks2008Explicit IllsExecutive producer2015Uncle HowardExecutive producer2016PortoExecutive producer
References
Bibliography
External links , including an extensive filmography Jim Jarmusch filmography from Senses of Cinema Jim Jarmusch filmography at the Jim Jarmusch Resource Page, including several unrealized projects