Cast: Tom Waits

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Tom Waits. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Down by Law

1986 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Tom Waits · Roberto Benigni · John Lurie · Nicoletta Braschi

Synopsis DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn't commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the English language...

Max

7.7

12K votes

7.7

12K votes

Bram Stoker's Dracula

1992 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Gary Oldman · Winona Ryder · Anthony Hopkins · Keanu Reeves

Synopsis In 1462, Elisabeta, the wife of Vlad Dracula, the ruler of Transylvania, throws herself to her death, wrongly believing that her husband has been killed while defending against the Turks. But when the church he has been defending condemns her...

7.6

86K votes

7.6

86K votes

Short Cuts

1993 · Movie · 188 min. · United States

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Madeleine Stowe · Julianne Moore · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Tim Robbins

Synopsis Robert Altman interweaves the different everyday stories of Los Angeles who are seemingly unconnected to each other. Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days....

7.5

10K votes

7.5

10K votes

Mystery Train

1989 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Youki Kudoh · Nicoletta Braschi · Cinqué Lee

Synopsis Three different tales play out in a single 24-hour period, a loose trilogy spinning around a fleabag hotel manned by a sleepy Screamin' Jay Hawkins and his eager bellboy Cinqué Lee. A young Japanese couple arrives in Memphis to take...

7.3

5K votes

7.3

5K votes

Rumble Fish

1983 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Matt Dillon · Mickey Rourke · Diane Lane · Dennis Hopper

Synopsis Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is an up-and-coming street hoodlum, lamenting the salad days of the gangs when his older brother (Mickey Rourke), The Motorcycle Boy, ran things as President of the Packers. Before disappearing two months earlier, Motorcycle Boy outlawed...

7.3

16K votes

7.3

16K votes

Coffee and Cigarettes III (S)

1993 · Movie · 12 min. · United States

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Iggy Pop · Tom Waits

Synopsis This shortcut repeats the structure of Coffee and Cigarettes. This time, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits meet in a bar. But, again, we don't know why they agreed to do that in the first place, because they don't seem to...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Keith Richards: Under the Influence

2015 · Documentary · 81 min. · United States

Direction Morgan Neville

Cast Tom Waits · Keith Richards · Waddy Wachtel · Steve Jordan

Synopsis A portrait of Keith Richards that takes us on a journey to discover the genesis of his sound as a songwriter, guitarist and performer.

6.9

550 votes

6.9

550 votes

Wristcutters: A Love Story

2006 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Goran Dukic

Cast Patrick Fugit · Shannyn Sossamon · Shea Whigham · Leslie Bibb

Synopsis A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

The Cotton Club

1984 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Richard Gere · Bob Hoskins · Diane Lane · Gregory Hines

Synopsis The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem, NYC, in the 20s. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous. In...

6.9

10K votes

6.9

10K votes

Fishing with John (TV Miniseries)

1991 · Documentary · 152 min. · United States

Direction John Lurie

Cast John Lurie · Willem Dafoe · Matt Dillon · Dennis Hopper

Synopsis John Lurie knows absolutely nothing about fishing, but that doesn't stop him from undertaking the adventure of a lifetime on Fishing With John. Traveling with his special guests to the most exotic and dangerous places on earth, John Lurie battles...

6.8

68 votes

6.8

68 votes

The Outsiders

1983 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast C. Thomas Howell · Matt Dillon · Ralph Macchio · Diane Lane

Synopsis Francis Ford Coppola's stylized teen melodrama is based on the popular novel by S. E. Hinton. In 1960s Tulsa, the "right" and "wrong" sides of the tracks are represented by rival gangs, the upscale Socs and the underprivileged Greasers. Darrel...

6.8

13K votes

6.8

13K votes

Licorice Pizza

2021 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast Alana Haim · Cooper Hoffman · Sean Penn · Bradley Cooper

Synopsis Licorice Pizza is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

6.8

11K votes

6.8

11K votes

Coffee and Cigarettes

2003 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Roberto Benigni · Steve Buscemi · Cate Blanchett · Bill Murray

Synopsis Coffee and Cigarettes is a comic series of short vignettes that build on one another to create a cumulative effect as the characters discuss things as diverse as caffeine popsicies, Paris in the twenties, and the use of nicotine as...

Max

6.7

11K votes

6.7

11K votes

The Tiger y the Snow

2005 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Jean Reno · Nicoletta Braschi · Emilia Fox

Synopsis A love-struck Italian poet is stuck in Iraq at the onset of an American invasion.

6.7

10K votes

6.7

10K votes

Author: The JT LeRoy Story

2016 · Documentary · 110 min. · United States

Direction Jeff Feuerzeig

Cast Laura Albert · Asia Argento · Stephen Beachy · Bruce Benderson

Synopsis The story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, the fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert.

6.6

141 votes

6.6

141 votes

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

2018 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Joel Coen · Ethan Coen

Cast Tim Blake Nelson · Zoe Kazan · Tom Waits · James Franco

Synopsis "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" is a six-part Western anthology film, a series of tales about the American frontier told through the unique and incomparable voice of Joel and Ethan Coen. Each chapter tells a distinct story about the American...

6.5

16K votes

6.5

16K votes

Absolute Wilson

2006 · Documentary · 105 min. · United States

Direction Katharina Otto-Bernstein

Cast Robert Wilson · William S. Burroughs · Susan Sontag · Tom Waits

Synopsis ABSOLUTE WILSON chronicles the epic life, times and creative genius of Robert Wilson, intimately revealing for the first time one of the most controversial, rule-breaking and downright mysterious artists of our era. More than a biography, the film becomes an...

6.4

32 votes

6.4

32 votes

Seven Psychopaths

2012 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Martin McDonagh

Cast Colin Farrell · Sam Rockwell · Christopher Walken · Woody Harrelson

Synopsis The comedy Seven Psychopaths follows a struggling screenwriter ('Colin Farrell' ) who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.

6.3

21K votes

6.3

21K votes

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Christopher Plummer · Heath Ledger · Lily Cole · Andrew Garfield

Synopsis Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Dr. Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. Long ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, in which he won immortality on condition that when his...

6.2

24K votes

6.2

24K votes

Ironweed

1987 · Movie · 144 min. · United States

Direction Héctor Babenco

Cast Jack Nicholson · Meryl Streep · Carroll Baker · Michael O'Keefe

Synopsis Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs...

6.1

982 votes

6.1

982 votes