Jim Jarmusch is an American independent filmmaker and screenwriter. His filmography includes fourteen feature films, two documentaries, six music videos, and four short films. In addition, Jarmusch has worked on several other films and has appeared on screen on multiple occasions as an actor and as himself.
| Year | Name | Director | Writer | Producer | Composer | Editor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Permanent Vacation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 1984 | Stranger Than Paradise | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| 1986 | Down by Law | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| 1989 | Mystery Train | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| 1991 | Night on Earth | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| 1995 | Dead Man | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| 1999 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| 2003 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2005 | Broken Flowers | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| 2009 | The Limits of Control | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| 2013 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| 2016 | Paterson | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| 2019 | The Dead Don't Die | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| 2025 | Father Mother Sister Brother | Yes | Yes | executive | No | No |
| Year | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Year of the Horse | Follows the 1996 tour of Neil Young and Crazy Horse Jarmusch also functioned as the documentary's cinematographer |
| 2016 | Gimme Danger | The Stooges documentary |
| Year | Name | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | "The Lady Don't Mind" | Talking Heads | |
| 1987 | "Sightsee M.C!" | Big Audio Dynamite | |
| 1990 | "It's All Right with Me" | Tom Waits | Shown as a segment of the television series Red, Hot & Blue in 1990 |
| 1992 | "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" | Tom Waits | |
| 1995 | "Dead Man Theme" | Neil Young | |
| 2006 | "Steady as She Goes" | The Raconteurs |
| Year | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Coffee and Cigarettes: Strange to Meet You | Commissioned as a Saturday Night Live sketch; incorporated as one of the vignettes in Jarmusch's 2003 feature Coffee and Cigarettes [1] |
| 1989 | Coffee and Cigarettes: Memphis Version | |
| 1993 | Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California | |
| 2002 | Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet | "Int. Trailer Night" segment |
| 2021 | French Water | Collaboration with Womanry |
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Underground U.S.A. | Sound recordist |
| 1984 | American Autobahn | Movie producer |
| 1987 | Straight to Hell | Amos Dade |
| Helsinki Napoli All Night Long | Barkeeper #2 | |
| 1988 | Candy Mountain | |
| 1989 | Leningrad Cowboys Go America | New York car dealer |
| 1990 | The Golden Boat | Stranger |
| 1992 | In the Soup | Monty |
| 1995 | Iron Horsemen | Silver Rider |
| Blue in the Face | Bob | |
| 1996 | Cannes Man | Cameo appearance |
| Sling Blade | Frostee Cream guy |
| Year | Name | Medium | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Fräulein Berlin | Feature film | |
| 1991 | Fishing with John | TV series | Jarmusch appears in "Episode 1: Montauk with Jim Jarmusch" in which he and star John Lurie hunt shark [2] |
| 1994 | Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made | Documentary | |
| 1995 | American Cinema | TV series | |
| 1996 | The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera | Documentary | |
| 1997 | R.I.P. – Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman | Documentary | |
| We're Outta Here! | Video | Alternate title: The Ramones | |
| Year of the Horse | Documentary | Follows the band Neil Young and Crazy Horse on tour | |
| 1998 | Pop Odyssee 2 - House of the Rising Punk | TV | |
| Divine Trash | Documentary | ||
| Space Ghost Coast to Coast | TV | ||
| Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman | TV special | ||
| 1999 | In Bad Taste: The John Waters Story | TV special | Jarmusch is an interviewee |
| 2001 | SpongeBob SquarePants | TV series | Archival footage from Fishing With John (episode: "Hooky") |
| Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me | Documentary | ||
| V.I.P. | TV series | ||
| 2002 | ¿Quién es Alejandro Chomski? | Documentary | |
| Focus on Jim Jarmusch | TV | ||
| 2003 | Chaplin Today: A King in New York | TV documentary | |
| Hollywood High | TV documentary | ||
| Rockets Redglare! | Documentary | ||
| 2004 | Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession | TV documentary | |
| 2005 | Cinema Mil | TV | |
| Excavating Taylor Mead | Documentary | ||
| Punk: Attitude | TV documentary | ||
| Magacine 2005 | TV | ||
| 2008 | Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten | Documentary | Chronicles the life of The Clash frontman Joe Strummer, who starred in Jarmusch's Mystery Train (1989) |
| The Simpsons | TV | Episode "Any Given Sundance" | |
| 40X15: Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight | Documentary | Focuses on the Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival | |
| 2009 | Blank City | Documentary | Covers the New York City underground film movement |
| Bored to Death | TV series | "The Case of the Missing Screenplay" episode 3 | |
| 2014 | Song from the Forest | Documentary | Friend of Louis Sarno |
| 2019 | The Raconteurs: Live at Electric Lady | Concert Documentary | Interviews the Raconteurs |
| 2022 | What We Do in the Shadows | TV show | Himself |
| Year | Name | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Lightning Over Water | Observer |
| 1981 | You Are Not I | Producer/cinematographer |
| 1982 | The State of Things | Composer |
| 1983 | Burroughs | Sound recordist |
| 1986 | Sleepwalk | Camera operator/cinematographer |
| 1993 | When Pigs Fly | Executive producer |
| 1994 | Clerks | Special thanks |
| 2005 | Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture | Featured rapper |
| Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Special thanks | |
| 2008 | Explicit Ills | Executive producer |
| 2015 | Uncle Howard | Executive producer |
| 2016 | Porto | Executive producer [3] |