Nick Cave: movies and TV shows
Nick Cave has 169 credits in the archive: 154 films and 15 TV series, from 1953 to 2026. Highest rated: Memoir of a Snail (8.0/10).
Career timeline
1953 – 2026 · busiest year: 2025 (14 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Kylie | Self | TV | 8.7 | 68 |
| 2026 | Broken English | Self | Film | 7.0 | 68 |
| 2025 | Train Dreams | Film | 7.3 | 67 | |
| 2025 | Train Dreams | Film | 7.3 | 67 | |
| 2025 | The Death of Bunny Munro | TV | 5.8 | 67 | |
| 2025 | The Death of Bunny Munro | TV | 5.8 | 67 | |
| 2025 | The Death of Bunny Munro | TV | 5.8 | 67 | |
| 2025 | The Death of Bunny Munro | TV | 5.8 | 67 | |
| 2025 | Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2025 | The Extraordinary Miss Flower | Self | Film | 5.0 | 67 |
| 2025 | Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende | Self | Film | 6.0 | 67 |
| 2025 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour | Self | Film | 9.0 | 67 |
| 2025 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour | Film | 9.0 | 67 | |
| 2025 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour | Film | 9.0 | 67 | |
| 2025 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour | Film | 9.0 | 67 | |
| 2025 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert | Self | Film | — | 67 |
| 2024 | Memoir of a Snail | Bill Clarke (voice) | Film | 8.0 | 66 |
| 2024 | Back to Black | Film | 6.7 | 66 | |
| 2024 | But We Had Music | (Voice) | Film | — | 66 |
| 2024 | The Making of Wild God | Nick Cave | Film | — | 66 |
| 2023 | The New Boy | Film | 6.0 | 65 | |
| 2023 | Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party | Self | Film | 5.9 | 65 |
| 2023 | AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex | Self | Film | 7.6 | 65 |
| 2023 | Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh | Self | Film | — | 65 |
| 2023 | Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock | Self | Film | — | 65 |
| 2022 | DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story | TV | 8.0 | 64 | |
| 2022 | Blonde | Film | 5.9 | 64 | |
| 2022 | This Much I Know to Be True | Self | Film | 7.2 | 64 |
| 2022 | This Much I Know to Be True | Film | 7.2 | 64 | |
| 2022 | Kylie at the BBC | Self | Film | 6.0 | 64 |
| 2022 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022 | Film | — | 64 | |
| 2021 | The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | H.G. Wells | Film | 6.9 | 63 |
| 2021 | The Velvet Queen | Film | 7.9 | 63 | |
| 2021 | Karen Dalton: In My Own Time | Self | Film | 5.8 | 63 |
| 2021 | Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel | Self | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 2020 | Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 62 |
| 2020 | The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal | Mr. Invisible | Film | 2.0 | 62 |
| 2020 | Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace | Self | Film | 8.1 | 62 |
| 2020 | Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace | Film | 8.1 | 62 | |
| 2020 | FeeLee. History of a Single Label | Self | Film | — | 62 |
| 2020 | Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later | Self | Film | 5.7 | 62 |
| 2019 | The Creative Brain | Self | Film | 7.2 | 61 |
| 2019 | Love Eats Up Life | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 61 |
| 2018 | TAPE | Self | TV | 7.0 | 60 |
| 2018 | Fuse | Truck Driver (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 2018 | Why Are We Creative? | Self | Film | 7.5 | 60 |
| 2018 | Distant Sky | Self | Film | 8.0 | 60 |
| 2017 | Wind River | Film | 7.4 | 59 | |
| 2017 | War Machine | Film | 5.6 | 59 | |
| 2017 | Kings | Film | 5.6 | 59 | |
| 2017 | Popular Voices at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 59 |
| 2017 | L7: Pretend We're Dead | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 2017 | Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Self | Film | — | 59 |
| 2017 | Do You Pray? | Narrator | Film | — | 59 |
| 2017 | Snowman | Narrator | Film | — | 59 |
| 2017 | Boredom | Self | Film | — | 59 |
| 2016 | Hell or High Water | Film | 7.3 | 58 | |
| 2016 | Nocturama | Film | 6.4 | 58 | |
| 2016 | One More Time with Feeling | Self | Film | 7.9 | 58 |
| 2016 | One More Time with Feeling | Film | 7.9 | 58 | |
| 2016 | One More Time with Feeling | Film | 7.9 | 58 | |
| 2016 | The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez | Self | Film | 4.4 | 58 |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self - Guest | TV | 6.1 | 57 |
| 2015 | Artsnight | Self | TV | — | 57 |
| 2015 | Far from Men | Film | 6.8 | 57 | |
| 2015 | Prophet's Prey | Narrator | Film | 7.4 | 57 |
| 2015 | Prophet's Prey | Film | 7.4 | 57 | |
| 2015 | Wilde Jahre West-Berlin | Self | Film | — | 57 |
| 2015 | B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 | Self | Film | 7.7 | 57 |
| 2015 | Stranded | Self | Film | — | 57 |
| 2014 | 20,000 Days on Earth | Self | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 2014 | 20,000 Days on Earth | Film | 7.0 | 56 | |
| 2014 | 20,000 Days on Earth | Film | 7.0 | 56 | |
| 2014 | Tender | Film | — | 56 | |
| 2014 | Goth at the BBC | Self | Film | 5.0 | 56 |
| 2014 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits | Self | Film | 8.6 | 56 |
| 2013 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre | Self | Film | — | 55 |
| 2012 | Lawless | Film | 7.1 | 54 | |
| 2012 | Lawless | Film | 7.1 | 54 | |
| 2012 | A Few Hours of Spring | Film | 6.7 | 54 | |
| 2012 | West of Memphis | Film | 7.4 | 54 | |
| 2011 | Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard | Self | Film | 7.5 | 53 |
| 2011 | Submission | Film | 5.5 | 53 | |
| 2011 | Millhaven | Film | 6.9 | 53 | |
| 2009 | The Road | Film | 7.0 | 51 | |
| 2009 | The Cat Piano | Narrator | Film | 7.4 | 51 |
| 2009 | All Tomorrow's Parties | Self | Film | 6.5 | 51 |
| 2009 | No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York | Self | Film | 10.0 | 51 |
| 2009 | On/Off: Mark Stewart | Film | — | 51 | |
| 2008 | Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party | Self | Film | 6.0 | 50 |
| 2008 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | Self | Film | — | 50 |
| 2008 | The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw | Film | 6.7 | 50 | |
| 2008 | Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues | Self | Film | — | 50 |
| 2008 | Blixa Bargeld | Self | Film | — | 50 |
| 2008 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions | Self | Film | 9.0 | 50 |
| 2008 | Angel of the Wind | Film | — | 50 | |
| 2008 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008 | Self | Film | 6.5 | 50 |
| 2007 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Bowery Saloon Singer | Film | 7.1 | 49 |
| 2007 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Film | 7.1 | 49 | |
| 2007 | Pixote In Memoriam | Self | Film | 7.3 | 49 |
| 2007 | 365 Day Project | Self | Film | 10.0 | 49 |
| 2007 | The English Surgeon | Film | 7.9 | 49 | |
| 2007 | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House | Self | Film | 5.9 | 49 |
| 2007 | The Dirty Three | Self | Film | 7.0 | 49 |
| 2007 | The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music | Self | Film | — | 49 |
| 2007 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour | Self - vocals, piano | Film | — | 49 |
| 2006 | Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man | Self | Film | 6.5 | 48 |
| 2006 | The Harry Smith Project Live | Self | Film | — | 48 |
| 2005 | The Proposition | Film | 7.0 | 47 | |
| 2005 | The Proposition | Film | 7.0 | 47 | |
| 2005 | The Proposition | Film | 7.0 | 47 | |
| 2005 | Seele Brennt | Nick Cave | Film | — | 47 |
| 2005 | The Work of Director Anton Corbijn | Self (segment "Straight to You") | Film | 7.8 | 47 |
| 2005 | The Story of 'Fairytale of New York' | Self | Film | 7.6 | 47 |
| 2004 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus | Self | Film | — | 46 |
| 2004 | The Goddess: How I Fell in Love. Film about the film | Film | — | 46 | |
| 2003 | The Blues | Self | TV | 7.4 | 45 |
| 2003 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama | Self | Film | — | 45 |
| 2003 | The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn | Self | Film | 4.8 | 45 |
| 2001 | Winged Migration | Film | 7.6 | 43 | |
| 2001 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part | Self | Film | — | 43 |
| 2001 | Listen With Pain | Self | Film | — | 43 |
| 2001 | Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten | Film | 10.0 | 43 | |
| 2001 | If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story | Self | Film | 6.4 | 43 |
| 1999 | Expelling the Demon | Film | 7.0 | 41 | |
| 1998 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos | Self | Film | 8.5 | 40 |
| 1998 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos | Film | 8.5 | 40 | |
| 1997 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call | Self | Film | — | 39 |
| 1997 | Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest | Jerry | Film | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1997 | The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan | Self | Film | — | 39 |
| 1996 | Australian Story | Self | TV | 5.3 | 38 |
| 1996 | Baby Trouble Hole | Singer | Film | — | 38 |
| 1996 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads | Self | Film | — | 38 |
| 1996 | To Have and to Hold | Film | 4.3 | 38 | |
| 1994 | Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait | Self | Film | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1994 | Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos | Self | Film | 7.5 | 36 |
| 1994 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In | Self | Film | — | 36 |
| 1994 | Die Haut - Sweat | Self | Film | — | 36 |
| 1994 | September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill | Self | Film | 8.0 | 36 |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Musical Guest | TV | 7.3 | 35 |
| 1992 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream | Self | Film | — | 34 |
| 1992 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso | Self | Film | 7.0 | 34 |
| 1991 | IDn4 | Self | Film | — | 33 |
| 1991 | Johnny Suede | Freak Storm | Film | 5.2 | 33 |
| 1991 | The Song | Self | Film | — | 33 |
| 1991 | Just Visiting This Planet | Film | 5.0 | 33 | |
| 1990 | IDn3 | Self | Film | — | 32 |
| 1990 | IDn2 | Entry | Film | — | 32 |
| 1990 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son | Self | Film | — | 32 |
| 1990 | The Road to God Knows Where | Self | Film | 6.5 | 32 |
| 1988 | Ghosts... of the Civil Dead | Maynard | Film | 5.8 | 30 |
| 1988 | Ghosts... of the Civil Dead | Film | 5.8 | 30 | |
| 1988 | Ghosts... of the Civil Dead | Film | 5.8 | 30 | |
| 1988 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey | Self | Film | — | 30 |
| 1988 | Dandy | Film | 6.8 | 30 | |
| 1987 | Wings of Desire | Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds | Film | 7.8 | 29 |
| 1987 | Kings of Independence | Self | Film | — | 29 |
| 1987 | Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land | Self | Film | 6.0 | 29 |
| 1986 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial | Self | Film | — | 28 |
| 1986 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks | Self | Film | — | 28 |
| 1986 | Dogs in Space | Film | 6.0 | 28 | |
| 1985 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead | Self | Film | — | 27 |
| 1984 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity | Self | Film | — | 26 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 4 |
| Before They Were Gods | (voice) | Film | — | — | |
| Woyzeck | Film | — | — | ||
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998) | Self | Film | — | — | |
| The Circumventing Mind | Film | — | — | ||
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996 | self | Film | — | — |