Jim Jarmusch: movies and TV shows
Jim Jarmusch has 150 credits in the archive: 142 films and 8 TV series, from 1980 to 2025. Highest rated: What We Do in the Shadows (8.0/10).
Career timeline
1980 – 2025 · busiest year: 1981 (10 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Father Mother Sister Brother | Film | 6.4 | 72 | |
| 2025 | Father Mother Sister Brother | Film | 6.4 | 72 | |
| 2025 | Father Mother Sister Brother | Film | 6.4 | 72 | |
| 2025 | Father Mother Sister Brother | Film | 6.4 | 72 | |
| 2025 | Adios | Film | — | 72 | |
| 2025 | Nova '78 | Film | — | 72 | |
| 2025 | Fathom | Film | — | 72 | |
| 2025 | A Short Film by Jim Jarmusch, Starring Beatrice Domond | Film | 6.0 | 72 | |
| 2025 | A Short Film by Jim Jarmusch, Starring Beatrice Domond | Film | 6.0 | 72 | |
| 2024 | Scab Vendor: The Life and Times of Jonathan Shaw | Self | Film | — | 71 |
| 2024 | Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray | Film | 6.3 | 71 | |
| 2023 | SQÜRL, Man Ray's Backing Band | Member of SQÜRL | Film | 6.0 | 70 |
| 2023 | SQÜRL, Man Ray's Backing Band | Film | 6.0 | 70 | |
| 2023 | Pre-Prom | Film | — | 70 | |
| 2023 | Spirit of Golf | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2023 | Cinéma Laika | Self | Film | 8.0 | 70 |
| 2022 | Fragments of Paradise | Self | Film | 6.5 | 69 |
| 2022 | Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors | Self | Film | — | 69 |
| 2021 | Jim Jarmusch: I Love to Take the Subway by Myself | Himself | Film | — | 68 |
| 2020 | The Raconteurs Live at Electric Lady | Self | Film | 2.0 | 67 |
| 2019 | What We Do in the Shadows | Jim Jarmusch | TV | 8.0 | 66 |
| 2019 | The Dead Don't Die | Film | 5.4 | 66 | |
| 2019 | The Dead Don't Die | Film | 5.4 | 66 | |
| 2018 | The Ravenite | Himself | Film | — | 65 |
| 2018 | Carmine Street Guitars | Self | Film | 7.2 | 65 |
| 2018 | Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat | Self | Film | 6.9 | 65 |
| 2018 | Living the Light: Robby Müller | Self | Film | 6.7 | 65 |
| 2018 | Living the Light: Robby Müller | Film | 6.7 | 65 | |
| 2017 | Uncle Howard | Self | Film | 6.5 | 64 |
| 2017 | Uncle Howard | Film | 6.5 | 64 | |
| 2017 | Porto | Film | 5.6 | 64 | |
| 2016 | Paterson | Film | 7.1 | 63 | |
| 2016 | Paterson | Film | 7.1 | 63 | |
| 2016 | Paterson | Film | 7.1 | 63 | |
| 2016 | Gimme Danger | Self (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 63 |
| 2016 | Gimme Danger | Film | 6.9 | 63 | |
| 2016 | Gimme Danger | Film | 6.9 | 63 | |
| 2015 | Hot Sugar's Cold World | Self | Film | 7.5 | 62 |
| 2014 | Song from the Forest | Himself | Film | 7.8 | 61 |
| 2014 | Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch | Self | Film | 6.0 | 61 |
| 2013 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Film | 7.2 | 60 | |
| 2013 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Film | 7.2 | 60 | |
| 2013 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Film | 7.2 | 60 | |
| 2013 | Picasso Baby | Self | Film | 9.0 | 60 |
| 2013 | A Tribute To Ron Asheton | Self | Film | — | 60 |
| 2011 | Blank City | Self | Film | 6.8 | 58 |
| 2011 | Don't Expect Too Much | Himself | Film | 6.0 | 58 |
| 2010 | Behind Jim Jarmusch | Self | Film | — | 57 |
| 2010 | Reel Injun | Self | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 2009 | Bored to Death | Self | TV | 7.2 | 56 |
| 2009 | The Limits of Control | Film | 6.0 | 56 | |
| 2009 | The Limits of Control | Film | 6.0 | 56 | |
| 2009 | Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB | Self | Film | 8.0 | 56 |
| 2009 | No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York | Self | Film | 10.0 | 56 |
| 2008 | Explicit Ills | Film | 6.5 | 55 | |
| 2007 | Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten | Self | Film | 7.3 | 54 |
| 2005 | Broken Flowers | Film | 6.9 | 52 | |
| 2005 | Broken Flowers | Film | 6.9 | 52 | |
| 2005 | Excavating Taylor Mead | Self | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 2005 | Punk: Attitude | Self | Film | 7.1 | 52 |
| 2004 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Film | 6.9 | 51 | |
| 2004 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Film | 6.9 | 51 | |
| 2004 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Film | 6.9 | 51 | |
| 2004 | Ramones: We're Outta Here! | Self | Film | 7.5 | 51 |
| 2004 | Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession | Self | Film | 7.1 | 51 |
| 2003 | Rockets Redglare! | Self | Film | 8.0 | 50 |
| 2003 | Chaplin Today: A King in New York | Self | Film | 6.6 | 50 |
| 2002 | Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet | Film | 6.9 | 49 | |
| 2002 | Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet | Film | 6.9 | 49 | |
| 2002 | Int. Trailer. Night | Film | — | 49 | |
| 2001 | Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai | Film | 2.0 | 48 | |
| 2001 | Some Days in January, 1984 | Film | — | 48 | |
| 2001 | Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me | Himself | Film | 4.0 | 48 |
| 2000 | Divine Trash | Self | Film | 7.2 | 47 |
| 1999 | SpongeBob SquarePants | Fisherman | TV | 7.7 | 46 |
| 1999 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Film | 7.3 | 46 | |
| 1999 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Film | 7.3 | 46 | |
| 1999 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Film | 7.3 | 46 | |
| 1999 | In Bad Taste | Self | Film | 8.0 | 46 |
| 1998 | V.I.P. | Jim Jarmusch | TV | 5.3 | 45 |
| 1998 | Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman | Self | Film | 10.0 | 45 |
| 1998 | Independent Focus | Self | TV | 8.3 | 45 |
| 1997 | Year of the Horse | Self | Film | 6.4 | 44 |
| 1997 | Year of the Horse | Film | 6.4 | 44 | |
| 1997 | Year of the Horse | Film | 6.4 | 44 | |
| 1997 | Coffee and Cigarettes III | Film | 7.2 | 44 | |
| 1997 | Coffee and Cigarettes III | Film | 7.2 | 44 | |
| 1997 | R.I.P. Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman | Film | 5.9 | 44 | |
| 1996 | Sling Blade | Frostee Cream Boy | Film | 7.5 | 43 |
| 1996 | The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera | Self | Film | 7.2 | 43 |
| 1996 | Cannes Man | Self | Film | 5.5 | 43 |
| 1995 | Dead Man | Film | 7.3 | 42 | |
| 1995 | Dead Man | Film | 7.3 | 42 | |
| 1995 | Blue in the Face | Bob | Film | 6.5 | 42 |
| 1995 | Iron Horsemen | Silver Rider | Film | 6.5 | 42 |
| 1994 | Space Ghost Coast to Coast | TV | 7.8 | 41 | |
| 1994 | Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made | Self | Film | 6.8 | 41 |
| 1993 | Made in the USA | Self | Film | 2.0 | 40 |
| 1993 | Strummer | Film | — | 40 | |
| 1993 | When Pigs Fly | Film | 5.4 | 40 | |
| 1992 | In the Soup | Monty | Film | 6.7 | 39 |
| 1992 | BAD I+II | Film | 8.0 | 39 | |
| 1991 | Night on Earth | Film | 7.5 | 38 | |
| 1991 | Night on Earth | Film | 7.5 | 38 | |
| 1991 | Night on Earth | Film | 7.5 | 38 | |
| 1991 | Fishing with John | Self | TV | 7.6 | 38 |
| 1991 | The Golden Boat | Stranger | Film | 6.5 | 38 |
| 1990 | Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter | Film | — | 37 | |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Jim Jarmusch (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 36 |
| 1989 | Mystery Train | Film | 7.3 | 36 | |
| 1989 | Mystery Train | Film | 7.3 | 36 | |
| 1989 | Leningrad Cowboys Go America | Car Dealer | New York | Film | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1989 | Coffee and Cigarettes II | Film | 6.8 | 36 | |
| 1989 | Coffee and Cigarettes II | Film | 6.8 | 36 | |
| 1988 | Candy Mountain | (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 35 |
| 1988 | Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night | Self - Audience Member | Film | 7.6 | 35 |
| 1988 | Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant | Film | 7.8 | 35 | |
| 1987 | Straight to Hell | Amos Dade | Film | 5.5 | 34 |
| 1987 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Film | 7.0 | 34 | |
| 1987 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Film | 7.0 | 34 | |
| 1987 | Helsinki Napoli All Night Long | Barkeeper #2 | Film | 5.9 | 34 |
| 1986 | Down by Law | Film | 7.3 | 33 | |
| 1986 | Down by Law | Film | 7.3 | 33 | |
| 1986 | Sleepwalk | Film | 6.1 | 33 | |
| 1985 | The Ballad of Sexual Dependency | Film | — | 32 | |
| 1984 | Stranger Than Paradise | Film | 7.2 | 31 | |
| 1984 | Stranger Than Paradise | Film | 7.2 | 31 | |
| 1984 | Stranger Than Paradise | Film | 7.2 | 31 | |
| 1984 | Fräulein Berlin | himself | Film | 8.0 | 31 |
| 1984 | American Autobahn | Movie Producer | Film | 7.0 | 31 |
| 1984 | Burroughs: The Movie | Film | 7.0 | 31 | |
| 1984 | Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch | Interviewee | Film | 6.5 | 31 |
| 1983 | Stranger Than Paradise | Film | 7.5 | 30 | |
| 1982 | The State of Things | Film | 6.4 | 29 | |
| 1982 | Vortex | Voice Over | Film | 5.7 | 29 |
| 1981 | Permanent Vacation | Film | 5.9 | 28 | |
| 1981 | Permanent Vacation | Film | 5.9 | 28 | |
| 1981 | Permanent Vacation | Film | 5.9 | 28 | |
| 1981 | Permanent Vacation | Film | 5.9 | 28 | |
| 1981 | Permanent Vacation | Film | 5.9 | 28 | |
| 1981 | Permanent Vacation | Film | 5.9 | 28 | |
| 1981 | You Are Not I | Film | 6.7 | 28 | |
| 1981 | You Are Not I | Film | 6.7 | 28 | |
| 1981 | You Are Not I | Film | 6.7 | 28 | |
| 1981 | Only You | Film | — | 28 | |
| 1980 | Lightning Over Water | Self (uncredited) | Film | 6.7 | 27 |
| 1980 | Underground U.S.A. | Film | 4.8 | 27 | |
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| Garden of Ashes | Film | — | — |