Tom Waits
14 titles
Filmography
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Down by Law
(1986)Framed for crimes they didn’t commit, two men form an uneasy alliance with a killer who aids their daring prison escape and flight to freedom.

Big Time
(1988)This highly-theatrical concert movie crackles with the same vivacity and curve-ball humor that has animated Waits through his 15-year career.

Licorice Pizza
(2021)It was 1973 in the San Fernando Valley, and 15-year-old child actor Gary Valentine found himself falling hard for the free-spirited, 10-years-older Alana Kane. As he looks to impress her with entrepreneurial hustle and innate chutzpah, her bemused interest may give way to something more.

Keith Richards: Under the Influence
(2015)In a documentary with unparalleled access, discover the people and sounds that inspired rock 'n' roll legend Keith Richards from childhood to today.

Candy Mountain
(1988)Strumming along to the syncopated rhythms of ‘80s America, Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer’s cult film reckons with scraggy countercultural myths of the road. Gathering an alternative hit parade of faces—Jim Jarmusch! Bulle Ogier!—this rough diamond of independent cinema gleams in a new restoration.

The Old Man & the Gun
(2018)The Old Man & the Gun tells the mostly true story of bank robber Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), who escaped prison at age 70, yet refused to retire from his chosen profession.

Seven Psychopaths
(2012)A screenwriter becomes entangled in the L.A. underworld after his friends kidnap a gangster's dog.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
(2009)A traveling showman, who performs the remarkable feat of turning dreams to reality, makes the risky mistake of entering into a bet with the devil.

The Dead Don't Die
(2019)The Dead Don't Die - they rise from their graves and savagely attack and feast on the living - and the citizens must battle for their survival.

The Absence of Eden
(2024)After killing a cartel member in self-defense, private dancer Esmee (Zoe Saldaña) flees on a perilous journey across the U.S.-Mexico border, where survival is anything but guaranteed.

This Is Sparklehorse
(2022)This Is Sparklehorse is a feature length music documentary. Mark Linkous, a cult and hugely influential figure in the alternative music scene, had a dramatic life that saw him battle with drug and alcohol addiction, paralysis, and debilitating mental illness that resulted in his untimely death.

Coffee and Cigarettes
(2004)Jim Jarmusch started Coffee and Cigarettes in 1986 with a six-minute improvised caprice starring Steven Wright and Roberto Benigni. Two guys meet in a coffee bar to sip, smoke and chat.

The Book of Eli
(2010)Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west on a mission he doesn’t fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Eli keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into explosive conflict with a resourceful warlord set on possessing the book.

Poetry in Motion
(1982)Called the "Woodstock of Poetry" by American Film, and "Dazzling" by the Los Angeles Times, Poetry in Motion is an unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry's ancient oral tradition. And an energetic demonstration that verse is alive and thriving in the media-blitzed age.