Director and actor
Jim Jarmusch averages 6.99, Tom Waits averages 6.74. Apart that suggests 6.87; together they average 6.63, a lift of −0.24.
Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.
1986Best
1991
2003
2019
2025Dot size shows IMDb votes; lines are rolling five-film averages. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes are left out.
| Permanent Vacation '80 | Stranger Than Par… '84 | Down by Law '86 | Coffee and Cigare… '03 | Broken Flowers '05 | Only Lovers Left … '13 | Paterson '16 | The Dead Don't Die '19 | Father Mother Sis… '25 | |
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| Tom Waits | |||||||||
| Bill Murray | |||||||||
Each column is a film in release order. Filled squares mark who was in it, colored by the film's rating.
 Down by Law | 1986 | 7.6 | 59,318 | Director, Writer | as Zack |
 Night on Earth | 1991 | 7.6 | 71,866 | Director, Producer, Writer | Composer (not counted) |
 Coffee and Cigarettes | 2003 | 7.0 | 71,399 | Writer, Editor, Director | as Tom (segment: Somewhere in California) |
 The Dead Don't Die | 2019 | 5.4 | 104K | Writer, Director | as Hermit Bob |
 Father Mother Sister Brother | 2025 | 6.5 | 15,731 | Director, Writer, Composer | as Father |
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| Tilda Swinton |
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| Roberto Benigni |
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