Directing • AGE 73
James Robert "Jim" Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio) is an American writer-director and musician. Jarmusch has been a major figure in American independent cinema since the 1980s...


Father Mother Sister Brother
Writer
2025

Fathom
Music
2025

Nova '78
Sound
2025

Adios
2025

Scab Vendor: The Life and Times of Jonathan Shaw
Self
2024

Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray
Original Music Composer
2024

Spirit of Golf
Self
2023

Cinéma Laika
Self
2023

Pre-Prom
Music
2023

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
2022

Fragments of Paradise
Self
2022

Jim Jarmusch: I Love to Take the Subway by Myself
Himself
2021

The Raconteurs Live at Electric Lady
Self
2020

The Dead Don't Die
Director
2019

What We Do in the Shadows
Jim Jarmusch
2019

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Self
2018

The Ravenite
Himself
2018

Living the Light: Robby Müller
Self
2018

Carmine Street Guitars
Self
2018

Porto
Executive Producer
2017

Uncle Howard
Self
2017

Paterson
Director
2016

Gimme Danger
Self (voice)
2016

Hot Sugar's Cold World
Self
2015

Song from the Forest
Himself
2014

Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
Self
2014

Only Lovers Left Alive
Writer
2013

A Tribute To Ron Asheton
Self
2013

Don't Expect Too Much
Himself
2011

Blank City
Self
2011

Reel Injun
Self
2010

Bored to Death
Self
2009

The Limits of Control
Director
2009

Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Self
2009

Explicit Ills
Executive Producer
2008

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Self
2007

Excavating Taylor Mead
Self
2005

Broken Flowers
Director
2005

Punk: Attitude
Self
2005

Ramones: We're Outta Here!
Self
2004

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Self
2004

Coffee and Cigarettes
Editor
2004

Rockets Redglare!
Self
2003

Chaplin Today: A King in New York
Self
2003

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Director
2002

Int. Trailer. Night
Director
2002

Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me
Himself
2001

Some Days in January, 1984
2001

Divine Trash
Self
2000

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Producer
1999

In Bad Taste
Self
1999

SpongeBob SquarePants
Fisherman
1999

V.I.P.
Jim Jarmusch
1998

Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
Self
1998

Year of the Horse
Self
1997

Coffee and Cigarettes III
Writer
1997

R.I.P. Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman
1997

Sling Blade
Frostee Cream Boy
1996

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
Self
1996

Cannes Man
Self
1996

Dead Man
Director
1995

Blue in the Face
Bob
1995

Iron Horsemen
Silver Rider
1995

Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994

Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
Self
1994

Made in the USA
Self
1993

When Pigs Fly
Executive Producer
1993

In the Soup
Monty
1992

BAD I+II
Director
1992

Night on Earth
Producer
1991

Fishing with John
Self
1991

The Golden Boat
Stranger
1991

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Director
1990

The Simpsons
Jim Jarmusch (voice)
1989

Mystery Train
Director
1989

Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Car Dealer | New York
1989

Coffee and Cigarettes II
Writer
1989

Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
Director
1988

Candy Mountain
(uncredited)
1988

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Self - Audience Member
1988

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
Barkeeper #2
1987

Straight to Hell
Amos Dade
1987

Coffee and Cigarettes
Director
1987

Down by Law
Director
1986

Sleepwalk
Camera Operator
1986

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
1985

Stranger Than Paradise
Screenplay
1984

Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch
Interviewee
1984

Burroughs: The Movie
Sound Recordist
1984

American Autobahn
Movie Producer
1984

Fräulein Berlin
himself
1984

Stranger Than Paradise
Director
1983

Vortex
Voice Over
1982

The State of Things
Music
1982

You Are Not I
Writer
1981

Permanent Vacation
Director
1981

Only You
1981

Underground U.S.A.
Sound Recordist
1980

Lightning Over Water
Self (uncredited)
1980