Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch

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. He is best known for his work on "Dead Man" (1995), "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" (1999), "Broken Flowers" (2005), and "Only Lovers Left Alive" (2013).

Father Mother Sister Brother
2025
Director
A Short Film by Jim Jarmusch, Starring Beatrice Domond
2025
Director
Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray
2024
Original Music Composer
Scab Vendor: The Life and Times of Jonathan Shaw
2024
Self
Pre-Prom
2023
Music
Cinéma Laika
2023
Self
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Self
Fragments of Paradise
2022
Self
French Water
2021
Writer
Jim Jarmusch: I Love to Take the Subway by Myself
2021
Himself
The Raconteurs Live at Electric Lady
2020
Self
The Dead Don't Die
2019
Director
Living the Light: Robby Müller
2018
Original Music Composer
Carmine Street Guitars
2018
Self
The Ravenite
2018
Himself
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
2018
Self
Porto
2017
Executive Producer
Uncle Howard
2017
Executive Producer
Paterson
2016
Director
Gimme Danger
2016
Writer
Hot Sugar's Cold World
2015
Self
Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
2014
Self
Song from the Forest
2014
Himself
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013
Writer
A Tribute To Ron Asheton
2013
Self
Don't Expect Too Much
2011
Himself
Blank City
2011
Self
Reel Injun
2010
Self
Sodankylä Forever
2010
Self
The Limits of Control
2009
Director
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009
Self
Explicit Ills
2008
Executive Producer
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
2007
Self
Broken Flowers
2005
Director
Punk: Attitude
2005
Self
Excavating Taylor Mead
2005
Self
Coffee and Cigarettes
2004
Editor
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2004
Self
Ramones: We're Outta Here!
2004
Himself
Rockets Redglare!
2003
Self
Chaplin Today: 'A King in New York'
2003
Self
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
Writer
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me
2001
Himself
Some Days in January, 1984
2001
Divine Trash
2000
Self
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999
Director
In Bad Taste
1999
Self
Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
1998
Self
Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Year of the Horse
1997
Director
Coffee and Cigarettes III
1997
Writer
Cannes Man
1997
Self
R.I.P. Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman
1997
Sling Blade
1996
Frostee Cream Boy
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
1996
Self
Dead Man
1995
Director
Blue in the Face
1995
Bob
Iron Horsemen
1995
Silver Rider
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
1994
Self
When Pigs Fly
1993
Executive Producer
Made in the USA
1993
Self
BAD I+II
1992
Director
In the Soup
1992
Monty
Night on Earth
1991
Screenplay
The Golden Boat
1991
Stranger
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990
Director
Mystery Train
1989
Director
Coffee and Cigarettes II
1989
Writer
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
1989
Car Dealer | New York
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
1988
Director
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988
Self - Audience Member
Candy Mountain
1988
(uncredited)
Straight to Hell
1987
Amos Dade
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1987
Barkeeper #2
Down by Law
1986
Director
Sleepwalk
1986
Camera Operator
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
1985
Stranger Than Paradise
1984
Editor
Burroughs: The Movie
1984
Sound Recordist
Fräulein Berlin
1984
himself
Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch
1984
Interviewee
American Autobahn
1984
Movie Producer
The State of Things
1982
Music
Vortex
1982
Voice Over
Permanent Vacation
1981
Director
You Are Not I
1981
Writer
Only You
1981
Lightning Over Water
1980
Self (uncredited)