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Jim Jarmusch

Highest Rated: 100% Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

Lowest Rated: 33% Rockets Redglare! (2004)

Birthday: Jan 22, 1953

Birthplace: Akron, Ohio, USA

Jim Jarmusch was an American independent filmmaker whose long list of films, among them "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" (1999), "Broken Flowers" (2005), and "Paterson" (2016), received widespread critical praise. Born and raised in 1950s Akron, Ohio, Jarmusch first became fascinated with movies as a young boy. His mother would drop him off at the local cinema while she ran errands, and it was there that Jarmusch would catch double features of monster movies like "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954). By the time he was a teenager, Jarmusch knew he wanted to create art for a living, so he enrolled in Columbia University in New York. He studied English and Literature while attending the University, and began writing poetry and short fiction pieces. After graduating in 1975 Jarmusch enrolled in the film program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. During his final year at Columbia Jarmusch worked as an assistant for the legendary film director Nicholas Ray. The experience was transformative for the aspiring young filmmaker, as Ray encouraged Jarmusch to make his first feature film on his terms. Jarmusch followed Ray's advice and in 1980 he released his first feature film "Permanent Vacation" (1980). That film, which was made for about $15,000, was about a young man who drifts around Manhattan aimlessly. "Permanent Vacation" showed a good deal of promise, but was never released theatrically. Jarmusch's next film, "Stranger Than Paradise" (1984), received widespread praise, and earned the young director the Camera d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. Over the next two decades Jarmusch cemented his reputation as one of the most respected indie filmmakers of his generation, with his films like "Mystery Train" (1989), "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai," and "Broken Flowers," now considered landmarks of independent cinema. In 2019 Jarmusch wrote and directed the zombie comedy "The Dead Don't Die." That film, which starred Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Tom Waits, was nominated for the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

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Highest rated movies

100% 88% Stranger Than Paradise
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100% Fragments of Paradise
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97% 92% Sling Blade
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96% 72% Paterson Watchlist
95% 71% Gimme Danger
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92% 65% Uncle Howard Watchlist
89% 87% Mystery Train
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88% 93% Down by Law
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88% 57% Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
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87% 70% Broken Flowers
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist Self - 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fragments of Paradise Self - 2022
100% No Score Yet Fragments of Paradise Self - 2022
54% 38% The Dead Don't Die Director,
Screenwriter
$6.5M 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Living the Light: Robby Müller Original Music - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ravenite Unknown (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Living the Light Unknown (Character) - 2018
88% 57% Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat Self $164.5K 2017
52% 39% Porto Executive Producer $11.8K 2016
96% 72% Paterson Director,
Screenwriter
$2.1M 2016
92% 65% Uncle Howard Unknown (Character),
Executive Producer
- 2016
95% 71% Gimme Danger Director,
Writer
$440.0K 2016
No Score Yet 50% Hot Sugar's Cold World Unknown (Character) - 2015
86% 75% Only Lovers Left Alive Director,
Screenwriter
$1.9M 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Don't Expect Too Much Self - 2011
43% 43% The Limits of Control Director,
Screenwriter
$425.0K 2009
54% 39% Explicit Ills Executive Producer $28.6K 2008
87% 70% Broken Flowers Producer,
Director,
Writer
$13.7M 2005
33% 57% Rockets Redglare! Unknown (Character) - 2004
63% 75% Coffee and Cigarettes Director,
Screenwriter
$2.0M 2003
86% 77% Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet Director - 2002
84% 86% Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Director,
Writer,
Producer
$3.3M 1999
80% 85% Divine Trash Unknown (Character) $39.8K 1998
48% 74% Year of the Horse Self,
Director,
Cinematographer
$255.7K 1997
97% 92% Sling Blade Frostee Cream Boy (Character) $24.5M 1996
69% 88% Dead Man Director,
Writer
$1.1M 1995
43% 76% Blue in the Face Bob (Character) $586.3K 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Iron Horsemen Silver Rider (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 55% Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made Self - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet When Pigs Fly Executive Producer - 1993
77% 91% Night on Earth Director,
Writer,
Producer
$2.0M 1992
83% 76% In the Soup Monty (Character) $13.9K 1992
No Score Yet 86% Fishing With John Unknown (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 80% The Golden Boat Stranger (Character) - 1990
89% 87% Mystery Train Director,
Writer
- 1989
No Score Yet 50% Sleepwalk Cinematographer - 1986
88% 93% Down by Law Director,
Writer
$106.5K 1986
100% 88% Stranger Than Paradise Director,
Writer,
Film Editing
- 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet American Autobahn Movie Producer (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 55% Permanent Vacation Director,
Writer,
Producer,
Music,
Film Editor
- 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Der Stand Der Dinge Original Music - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet You Are Not I Screenwriter,
Producer,
Cinematographer
- 1981

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 99% Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Self 2018
85% 76% The Simpsons Himself (Guest Voice) 2008
No Score Yet 69% SpongeBob SquarePants Unknown (Guest Voice) 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Space Ghost: Coast to Coast Guest 1998