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).
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5748 |
| Birthday | 1953-01-22 |
| Place of Birth | Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA |
| Also Known As | 짐 자머시, 짐 자무쉬, James Robert Jarmusch, James Jarmusch, 짐 자무시, |
2011
Don't Expect Too Much
6/5
Documentary about director/artist Nicholas Ray and his time as a University professor
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Don't Expect Too Much
1995
Blue in the Face
6.511/180
A wacky group of locals visit the neighborhood cigar shop, looking for good times and finding plenty of hilarious fun. But when the greedy owner threa...
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Blue in the Face
1989
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
6.948/200
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying...
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America
2005
Punk: Attitude
7/36
From London's 1970 mod scene to Sonic Youth, punk music has always been about attitude and anarchy. This comprehensive rockumentary traces the roots o...
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Punk: Attitude
1987
Straight to Hell
5.4/44
A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full...
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Straight to Hell
1988
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
7.5/13
Recorded live at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and roll superstars including Jackson Browne, Elvis C...
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Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1995
Iron Horsemen
6/1
Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.
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Iron Horsemen
2007
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
7.25/86
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out ar...
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
1996
Sling Blade
7.544/847
Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover....
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Sling Blade
1994
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
6.75/12
In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 ye...
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Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
2010
Reel Injun
7/38
The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent era to the present day: how their image on the screen...
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Reel Injun
1996
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
6.4/7
In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into th...
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The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
2009
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
10/1
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lun...
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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2003
Rockets Redglare!
6/1
A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes bodyguard/drug...
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Rockets Redglare!
2001
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me
2/2
Portrait of an important American musician through the testimonies of fellow musicians and people from his environment, but also through archival mate...
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me
2004
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
7.1/39
A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based...
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2023
Cinéma Laika
8/2
In the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come back to life thanks to director Aki Kaurismäki and...
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Cinéma Laika
2014
Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
6/1
A portrait of the American director Jim J. at work on the set of his latest film, Only Lovers Left Alive.
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Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
2003
Chaplin Today: A King in New York
6/4
An examination of Charles Chaplin's final starring film.
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Chaplin Today: A King in New York
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
0/0
From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany...
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Fragments of Paradise
6.5/4
For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his di...
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Fragments of Paradise
2024
Scab Vendor: The Life and Times of Jonathan Shaw
0/0
Born with a silver spoon, Jonathan Shaw chose, at the height of his career as a tattoo artist, to give up on his celebrity lifestyle in order to escap...
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Scab Vendor: The Life and Times of Jonathan Shaw
2015
Hot Sugar's Cold World
7.5/8
Nick Koenig, aka Hot Sugar, is in a hot mess. Considered a modern-day Mozart, the young electronic musician/producer records sounds from everyday life...
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Hot Sugar's Cold World
1996
Cannes Man
5.2/20
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab d...
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Cannes Man
1993
Made in the USA
2/2
A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.
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Made in the USA
1997
Year of the Horse
6.348/23
A document of Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1996 concert tour. Director Jarmusch conducts interviews about the band's long history, interspersed with b...
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Year of the Horse
2010
Behind Jim Jarmusch
0/0
"Behind Jim Jarmusch" is an intimate an intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the set of his movie "The Limits of Control" (starrin...
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Behind Jim Jarmusch
2014
Song from the Forest
7.8/9
25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the Central Africa Jungle and stayed. He than recorded...
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Song from the Forest
1984
Fräulein Berlin
0/0
Berlin Underground-star Ulrike S. went to the Toronto-Filmfestival and then to New York - to find out something about the film business and also about...
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Fräulein Berlin
1991
The Golden Boat
6.1/7
Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling...
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The Golden Boat
2016
Gimme Danger
6.836/140
No other band in rock'n'roll history has rivaled The Stooges' combination of heavy primal throb, spiked psychedelia, blues-a-billy grind, complete wit...
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Gimme Danger
1980
Lightning Over Water
6.6/30
Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983)...
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Lightning Over Water
2011
Blank City
7.1/14
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circu...
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Blank City
1984
Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch
6.5/1
Documentary on American film director Jim Jarmusch made for German television. featuring interviews with cast and crew from 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 and...
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Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch
2000
Divine Trash
7.194/36
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
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Divine Trash
1981
Only You
0/0
In this ostensible murder mystery, the genre elements are merely a pretext for the series of haunting (if inconclusive and only mildly erotic) homo-so...
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Only You
1984
American Autobahn
0/0
A German journalist on the run from mobsters in New York embarks on a road trip across the United States, picking up a female auto mechanic on the run...
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American Autobahn
2013
Picasso Baby
9/2
Jay Z performs Picasso Baby at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
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Picasso Baby
2018
Living the Light: Robby Müller
6.7/6
For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diarie...
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Living the Light: Robby Müller
1993
Strummer
0/0
A 30 minute film shot by Jim Jarmusch at Rockfield Studio, Wales with never before seen footage of Joe Strummer recording the soundtrack for When Pigs...
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Strummer
2013
A Tribute To Ron Asheton
0/0
Live performance by Iggy and the Stooges in tribute to their former guitarist Ron Asheton. Recorded at the Michigan Theater in 2011, the band plays a...
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A Tribute To Ron Asheton
2004
Ramones: We're Outta Here!
0/0
Documentary covering The Ramones' long and eventful history, with footage from their final ever show at the Palace in Hollywood, 6th August 1996. Inte...
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Ramones: We're Outta Here!
2005
Excavating Taylor Mead
0/0
The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.
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Excavating Taylor Mead
2018
Carmine Street Guitars
7.2/10
Five days in the life of fabled Greenwich Village guitar store Carmine Street Guitars.
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Carmine Street Guitars
1982
Vortex
5.5/14
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate b...
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Vortex
1999
In Bad Taste
8/10
A documentary on the career of filmmaker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of the actor Divine...
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In Bad Taste
1992
In the Soup
6.643/90
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
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In the Soup
2009
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
8/1
An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in musi...
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
1985
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
0/0
Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American underground c...
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
2018
The Ravenite
0/0
1980s New York was a very different place to the bustling cosmopolitan tourist magnet we know now, and the neighborhood that housed the Ravenite Socia...
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The Ravenite
2017
Uncle Howard
6.5/11
When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two feature documentaries and was in post-production on his...
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Uncle Howard
2020
The Raconteurs Live at Electric Lady
2/1
‘The Raconteurs: Live at Electric Lady’ is a documentary and concert film showcasing the day, including their explosive 7-song live performance, the r...
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The Raconteurs Live at Electric Lady
2001
Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai
2/2
A documentary about the making of Jim Jarmusch's 1999 film GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI, including interviews with the director and stars Forest...
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Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai
2018
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
6.9/14
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting arts...
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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
1987
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
5.7/9
Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with a briefcase full of money, but unfortunately for A...
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Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1997
R.I.P. Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman
5.75/8
R.I.P Rest in Pieces is an intimate portrait of artist Joe Coleman, who is known around the world as a shamanic, moral voice diagnosing the ills of 21...
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R.I.P. Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman
1998
Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
0/0
John Boorman met Lee Marvin in London when the latter was making The Dirty Dozen and immediately they struck up a friendship. Shortly afterwards they...
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Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
2010
Sodankylä Forever
0/0
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by...
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Sodankylä Forever
2001
Some Days in January, 1984
0/0
A short behind-the-scenes documentary shot and edited on Super 8 by filmmaker Tom Jarmusch, director Jim Jarmusch’s brother, during the filming of STR...
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Some Days in January, 1984
1988
Candy Mountain
5.8/12
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker.
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Candy Mountain
2021
Jim Jarmusch: I Love to Take the Subway by Myself
0/0
Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch talks at length about his journey from Akron, Ohio to Cannes, France, via punk-rock period New York in the late sev...
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Jim Jarmusch: I Love to Take the Subway by Myself
2023
Spirit of Golf
0/0
In his new film, Spirit of Golf, photographer and documentary filmmaker Christopher Felver traces his personal 20-year odyssey in search of the essenc...
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