
Jim Jarmusch
Department: Directing
Biography
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

Don't Expect Too Much
2011

Blue in the Face
1995

Leningrad Cowboys Go America
1989

Punk: Attitude
2005

Straight to Hell
1987

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988

Iron Horsemen
1995

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
2007

Sling Blade
1996

Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
1994

Reel Injun
2010

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
1996

No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009

Rockets Redglare!
2003

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

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2004

Cinéma Laika
2023

Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch
2014

Chaplin Today: A King in New York
2003

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022

Fragments of Paradise
2022

Scab Vendor: The Life and Times of Jonathan Shaw
2024

Hot Sugar's Cold World
2015

Cannes Man
1996

Made in the USA
1993

Year of the Horse
1997

Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010

Song from the Forest
2014

Fräulein Berlin
1984

The Golden Boat
1991

Gimme Danger
2016

Lightning Over Water
1980

Blank City
2011

Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch
1984

Divine Trash
2000

Only You
1981

American Autobahn
1984

Picasso Baby
2013

Living the Light: Robby Müller
2018

Strummer
1993

A Tribute To Ron Asheton
2013

Ramones: We're Outta Here!
2004

Excavating Taylor Mead
2005

Carmine Street Guitars
2018

Vortex
1982

In Bad Taste
1999

In the Soup
1992

Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
1985

The Ravenite
2018

Uncle Howard
2017

The Raconteurs Live at Electric Lady
2020

Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai
2001

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

Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1987

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

Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
1998

Sodankylä Forever
2010

Some Days in January, 1984
2001

Candy Mountain
1988

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

Spirit of Golf
2023

Adios
2025

The Simpsons
1989

V.I.P.
1998

Bored to Death
2009

Fishing with John
1991

Independent Focus
1998

SpongeBob SquarePants
1999

Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994

What We Do in the Shadows
2019