Tom Waits
Actor
Tom Waits - Big Time
- Feat. Tom Waits
- Billed as a romantic opera, Tom Waits gives a typically theatrical interpretation to 20 of his street corner serenades from his illustrious career.
Paradise Alley (1978)
- Dir. Sylvester Stallone
Feat. Armand Assante, Anne Archer, Tom Waits
- Sly’s directorial debut replays the ROCKY plotline, as a Hell’s Kitchen Italian–American trying to wrestle his way out of tenements of the…
Rumble Fish (1983)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper…
- Coppola's cult fave is a highly stylised treatment of a teen delinquency drama may not be entirely appropriate, but it sure looks impressive. Equally…
Outsiders, The (1983)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio…
- Based on the gritty novel by S. E. Hinton (THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW), this ‘realistic’ depiction of teenage outsiders in 50s America is…
Made in Heaven (1987)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Maureen Stapleton…
- Quirky comedy with Timothy Hutton finding true soul–mate Kelly McGillis in heaven.
Down by Law (1988)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, John Lurie
- Three disparate misfits become friends after sharing an escape from a crummy Southern jail. Art and humour rarely mix better than in this eccentric…
Cold Feet (1989)
- Dir. Robert Dornhelm
Feat. Keith Carradine, Sally Kirkland, Tom Waits…
- A deranged assassin and a strange couple concoct a scheme to smuggle emeralds over the Mexican border. Bawdy, off–kilter Southern romp features…
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
- Dir. Hector Babenco
Feat. Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah…
- Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Darryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates and Tom Waits endured the two–year location shoot of Peter Matthiessen's…
Fishing with John (TV Series) (1992)
- Dir. John Lurie
Feat. Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe, Dennis Hopper…
- Neo–beatnik musician John Lurie hosts his own candid, off–beat TV show in which he takes a hipster celebrity pal on an exotic fishing…
Short Cuts (1993)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Waits…
- Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason–Leigh, Tom Waits and Jack Lemmon lead 18 other stars in this extraordinary observation of the ordinary. Several of…
Mystery Men (1999)
- Dir. Kinka Usher
Feat. Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Hank Azaria…
- Doing for the super–hero genre what PLEASANTVILLE did for 50s sitcoms, this frequently hilarious spoof sets a rag–tag team of…
Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Roberto Benigni, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop…
- A compendium of whimsical b&w shorts from lapsidaisical indie auteur Jim Jarmusch, set around various celebrity encounters over nicotine and…
Tiger and the Snow, The (2006)
- Dir. Roberto Benigni
Feat. Roberto Benigni, Jean Reno, Nicoletta Braschi…
- Italian jester Roberto Benigni unites comedy and tragedy within the throws of the Iraq war, playing a poet who follows his true love (real life…
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
- Dir. Goran Dukic
Feat. Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Tom Waits…
- Wilfully eccentric suicide comedy (!?) set in a warped and washed–out afterlife inhabited solely by suiciders, in which a young no–hoper…
Tom Waits - Under Review 1971-1982 (2007)
- Feat. Tom Waits
- Music doco chronicling the career of singer–songwriter Tom Waits, containing rarely seen interviews with the man himself, hit songs and rare…
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The (2009)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Andrew Garfield…
- Firing on all imaginative cylinders, dir. Terry Gilliam delivers what is possibly his magnum opus – an original, mind–bending fantasy…
Tom Waits: The Complete Review (2011)
- Feat. Tom Waits
- With the aid of plentiful archive, rare footage, interviews with the man himself plus contributions from his colleagues, this documentary set…
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
- Dir. Martin McDonagh
Feat. Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson…
- Three Hollywood deadbeats incur the wrath of a violent gangster after kidnapping his beloved shih zhu in this stinging black comedy from IN BRUGES…
Old Man & the Gun, The (The Old Man and the Gun) (2018)
- Dir. David Lowery
Feat. Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover…
- Likely to be Redford's final role, playing the career criminal and prison escape artist Forrest Tucker, who escaped from San Quentin at the age of…
Dead Don't Die, The (2019)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton…
- Zom–com from indie favourite Jim Jarmusch, assembling a stunning ensemble cast and following the police force of a small town as they struggle…
Licorice Pizza (2021)
- Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn…
- Celebrated auteur Paul Thomas Anderson amusingly runs through the fads of the 1970s while loosely following the relationship between a precocious…