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Jim Jarmusch

Actor · 72 credits · 32 in highly-rated films

Best known for Dead Man (1995)

Frequent collaborators: Wim Wenders, Sara Driver, Johnny Depp, Steve Buscemi, Eszter Balint

Best Jim Jarmusch movies by genre

Movies (45 total, ranked by score)

  1. Gimme Danger

    2016 · ★ 6.9 (147 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    1

  2. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

    2007 · ★ 7.3 (89 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    2

  3. Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

    2004 · ★ 7.1 (42 votes)

    History, Documentary

    3

  4. In Bad Taste

    1999 · ★ 8.0 (11 votes)

    Documentary

    4

  5. Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

    2009 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    5

  6. Fragments of Paradise

    2022 · ★ 6.5 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    6

  7. Excavating Taylor Mead

    2005

    Documentary

    7

  8. Uncle Howard

    2017 · ★ 6.5 (12 votes)

    Documentary

    8

  9. The Golden Boat

    1991 · ★ 6.1 (7 votes)

    Drama, Comedy

    9

  10. Rockets Redglare!

    2003 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    10

  11. The Ravenite

    2018

    11

  12. Behind Jim Jarmusch

    2010

    Documentary

    12

  13. Year of the Horse

    1997 · ★ 6.3 (23 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    13

  14. Hot Sugar's Cold World

    2015 · ★ 7.5 (8 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    14

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

    1997 · ★ 6.3 (7 votes)

    Documentary

    15

  16. The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

    1996 · ★ 7.2 (9 votes)

    Documentary

    16

  17. Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me

    2001 · ★ 3.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    17

  18. Living the Light: Robby Müller

    2018 · ★ 6.7 (6 votes)

    Documentary

    18

  19. Carmine Street Guitars

    2018 · ★ 7.2 (10 votes)

    Documentary

    19

  20. Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman

    1998

    Documentary

    20

  21. Some Days in January, 1984

    2001

    Documentary

    21

  22. Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

    1994 · ★ 6.8 (13 votes)

    Documentary

    22

  23. Song from the Forest

    2014 · ★ 7.8 (9 votes)

    Documentary

    23

  24. Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    2018 · ★ 6.9 (14 votes)

    Documentary

    24

  25. Cinéma Laika

    2023 · ★ 8.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    25

  26. Scab Vendor: The Life and Times of Jonathan Shaw

    2024

    Documentary

    26

  27. Don't Expect Too Much

    2011 · ★ 6.0 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    27

  28. Fräulein Berlin

    1984

    28

  29. Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

    1987 · ★ 5.7 (9 votes)

    Comedy, Crime

    29

  30. Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

    2022

    Documentary

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.