Patti Smith: movies and TV shows
Patti Smith has 110 credits in the archive: 89 films and 21 TV series, from 1961 to 2026. Highest rated: Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (7.9/10).
Career timeline
1961 – 2026 · busiest year: 2014 (8 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Little, Big, and Far | Film | 8.0 | 79 | |
| 2025 | Nova '78 | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 78 |
| 2025 | Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 78 |
| 2024 | Turn in the Wound | Film | 6.0 | 77 | |
| 2024 | Turn in the Wound | Film | 6.0 | 77 | |
| 2024 | One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.8 | 77 |
| 2024 | Go to Izzy! | Herself | Film | — | 77 |
| 2023 | Joan Baez: I Am a Noise | Film | 6.7 | 76 | |
| 2023 | Ron Delsener Presents | Self | Film | — | 76 |
| 2023 | Chornobyl | Self | Film | — | 76 |
| 2022 | Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer | Self | Film | 7.9 | 75 |
| 2022 | Patti Smith: Electric Poet | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 75 |
| 2021 | Now | Self | Film | 8.8 | 74 |
| 2021 | 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Self | Film | 4.0 | 74 |
| 2020 | Wim Wenders, Desperado | Self | Film | 7.7 | 73 |
| 2019 | Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese | The Punk Poet | Film | 7.0 | 72 |
| 2019 | Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal | Self | Film | — | 72 |
| 2019 | WBCN and the American Revolution | Self | Film | 5.0 | 72 |
| 2018 | Film catastrophe | Self | Film | 5.7 | 71 |
| 2018 | Spheres | Narrator (Voice) | Film | — | 71 |
| 2018 | Kurt Everywhere | Film | — | 71 | |
| 2018 | Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band | Herself | Film | 5.2 | 71 |
| 2017 | The Defiant Ones | Self | TV | 7.8 | 70 |
| 2017 | Song to Song | Patti Smith | Film | 5.5 | 70 |
| 2017 | Popular Voices at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 70 |
| 2017 | Ex Libris: The New York Public Library | Self | Film | 6.4 | 70 |
| 2017 | Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives | Self | Film | 6.7 | 70 |
| 2016 | Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures | Self (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 6.9 | 69 |
| 2016 | The Book of Conrad | Film | — | 69 | |
| 2016 | I Am La Scala | Self | Film | — | 69 |
| 2016 | U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris | Film | 8.4 | 69 | |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self -Guest/Musical Guest | TV | 6.1 | 68 |
| 2015 | Girls in Bands at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 68 |
| 2015 | Counting | Film | 7.7 | 68 | |
| 2015 | U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015 | Film | 7.0 | 68 | |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | TV | 5.8 | 67 |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self - Guest | TV | 5.8 | 67 |
| 2014 | Noah | Film | 5.7 | 67 | |
| 2014 | Three Stones for Jean Genet | Film | 5.6 | 67 | |
| 2014 | Three Stones for Jean Genet | Film | 5.6 | 67 | |
| 2014 | Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute | Self | Film | 7.2 | 67 |
| 2014 | Station to Station | Film | 6.8 | 67 | |
| 2014 | The 8th Floor | Self | Film | 6.0 | 67 |
| 2013 | Sternstunde Musik | Self | TV | — | 66 |
| 2013 | Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' | Self | Film | 8.0 | 66 |
| 2013 | Lou Reed - Remembered | Film | 6.5 | 66 | |
| 2012 | West of Memphis | Self – WM3 Supporter | Film | 7.4 | 65 |
| 2012 | Museum Hours | Film | 6.7 | 65 | |
| 2012 | Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005 | Herself | Film | 7.8 | 65 |
| 2011 | Sleepless Nights Stories | Self | Film | 5.3 | 64 |
| 2010 | Film Socialisme | La chanteuse | Film | 6.0 | 63 |
| 2010 | William S. Burroughs: A Man Within | Self | Film | 6.5 | 63 |
| 2010 | The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town | Self | Film | 6.8 | 63 |
| 2009 | All Tomorrow's Parties | Self | Film | 6.5 | 62 |
| 2009 | Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB | Self | Film | 8.0 | 62 |
| 2009 | The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts | Self | Film | 7.9 | 62 |
| 2009 | Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York) | herself | Film | — | 62 |
| 2009 | Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York) | Film | — | 62 | |
| 2008 | Patti Smith: Dream of Life | Self | Film | 6.1 | 61 |
| 2008 | New York Rock at the BBC | Film | 6.5 | 61 | |
| 2008 | One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur | Self | Film | 6.8 | 61 |
| 2008 | The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin | Narrator | Film | — | 61 |
| 2007 | Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens | Self | Film | 7.7 | 60 |
| 2007 | 365 Day Project | Self | Film | 10.0 | 60 |
| 2007 | NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell | Film | 7.5 | 60 | |
| 2007 | Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe | Self | Film | 4.8 | 60 |
| 2007 | You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson | Self | Film | 6.4 | 60 |
| 2006 | The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave | Self | Film | — | 59 |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report | TV | 6.9 | 58 | |
| 2005 | Rockpolitik | Self | TV | 8.0 | 58 |
| 2004 | Kulturplatz | Self | TV | 6.0 | 57 |
| 2004 | The Culture Show | Self | TV | 6.6 | 57 |
| 2003 | The Big Empty | Traveler | Film | 6.1 | 56 |
| 2003 | Brian Wilson: On Tour | Self | Film | 8.0 | 56 |
| 2003 | R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.) | Film | 5.0 | 56 | |
| 2002 | Gero von Boehm begegnet... | Self | TV | — | 55 |
| 2002 | Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You | Self | Film | 8.0 | 55 |
| 2002 | What the Punk - An MVD Sampler | Film | 5.0 | 55 | |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Cleo Alexander | TV | 7.6 | 54 |
| 2001 | 25 Years of Punk | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 54 |
| 2001 | Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock | Self | Film | 9.0 | 54 |
| 2000 | Aqua Teen Hunger Force | TV | 7.5 | 53 | |
| 2000 | Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration | Self | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 2000 | Benjamin Smoke | Herself | Film | 4.6 | 53 |
| 1999 | The Early Show | Self | TV | 6.3 | 52 |
| 1998 | The Rugrats Movie | Newborn Baby (singing voice) | Film | 6.3 | 51 |
| 1998 | John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 51 |
| 1998 | Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998 | Self | Film | — | 51 |
| 1997 | Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit | Self | Film | 5.2 | 50 |
| 1997 | The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1 | Self | Film | 8.0 | 50 |
| 1996 | Saturday Night Special | TV | 7.5 | 49 | |
| 1996 | New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film | Self | Film | 8.5 | 49 |
| 1995 | Dancing Barefoot | Self | Film | 6.3 | 48 |
| 1994 | NeXt | Self | TV | — | 47 |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Musical Guest | TV | 7.3 | 46 |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | TV | 5.4 | 45 | |
| 1986 | Women in Rock | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1984 | Burroughs: The Movie | Self | Film | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1984 | Rock My Religion | Film | — | 37 | |
| 1980 | No. 18: Mahagonny | Self | Film | 6.0 | 33 |
| 1978 | Still Moving/Patti Smith | Herself | Film | 7.0 | 31 |
| 1977 | Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976 | Self | Film | — | 30 |
| 1976 | The Blank Generation | Self | Film | 6.0 | 29 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self (uncredited) | TV | 6.9 | 28 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Musical Guest | TV | 6.9 | 28 |
| 1975 | Night Lunch | Self | Film | 5.0 | 28 |
| 1971 | West Side Stories | Film | — | 24 | |
| 1971 | Robert Having His Nipple Pierced | Narrator (uncredited) | Film | 3.0 | 24 |
| 1970 | Chelsea Hotel | Self | Film | — | 23 |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | TV | 5.8 | 14 |