Nick Cave Filmography

Born:: September 22, 1957 in Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:: Actor, Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter, Screenwriter, Featured Music
Biography:: A post-punk, neo-gothic balladeer with an ardent following, Australian musician Nick Cave has also lent his distinctive presence to films as both a composer and performer. Raised in small town Wangaratta, Australia, Cave attended boarding school in Melbourne, where he met future collaborator Mick Harvey...Read More

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The English Surgeon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This documentary by Geoffrey Smith tells the inspiring story of British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, who turned the run down remains of a Ukrainian hospital into a working surgery center. When Marsh visited the Kiev hospital in the 1990's, he was aghast at the deplorable conditions of both the Read More

2008
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider

Synopsis: Brad Pitt stars as legendary Wild West outlaw Jesse James in Chopper director Andrew Dominik's cinematic rendering of the events that would eventually bring about the death of the man rumored be the "fastest gun in the West." An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually Read More

9/21/07
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

Actors: Emmylou Harris, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, Philip Glass, Bob Neuwirth

Synopsis: Few musical archivists have worked as tirelessly to preserve American folk music as Harry Smith, and with this documentary filmmaker Rani Singh offers an illuminating look at the lasting impact of Smith's landmark release {^Anthology of American Folk Music}. Originally released as a compilation of Read More

3/15/07
Glastonbury

Actors: Michael Eavis, T. Rex, Radiohead, R.E.M., Coldplay

Synopsis: In 1970, a music aficionado and entrepreneur named Michael Eavis staged a "pop, folk, and blues" festival on a dairy farm in the English community of Glastonbury, not far from Stonehenge. 1,500 attended the "Glastonbury Fayre," and a second festival followed in 1971. By 2005, The Glastonbury Read More

2/23/07
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

Actors: Antony, Beth Orton, Jarvis Cocker, Julie Christensen

Synopsis: Leonard Cohen is widely regarded as one of the finest and most influential poets and songwriters of his generation, a writer whose artful mélange of love, eros, and despair has earned him a passionate international following and the respect and admiration of artists ranging from R.E.M. to Johnny Cash Read More

6/21/06
The Proposition

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter

Actors: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Danny Huston, John Hurt

Synopsis: An outlaw is goaded into taking on justice at its most brutal in this hard-edged Western set in rural Australia in the 1880s. Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is a criminal living in the outback. He and his two brothers, Arthur (Danny Huston) and Mikey (Richard Wilson), are on the run from the law for Read More

5/5/06
If I Should Fall From Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story

Actors: Shane MacGowan, Victoria Clarke, Maurice MacGowan, Therese MacGowan, Aunty Monica

Synopsis: Co-founder, lead singer, and principal songwriter for the seminal Irish band the Pogues, Shane MacGowan made music that was both beautiful and brutal, much of it driven by personal demons. This documentary portrait features extensive archival footage of MacGowan's career, inspired by the twin Read More

2003
The Blues: The Soul of a Man

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Keith B. Brown, Chris Thomas King, J.B. Lenoir, Skip James

Synopsis: Part of The Blues documentary series on PBS, The Soul of a Man is written and directed by Wim Wenders and narrated by Laurence Fishburne. This installment explores the work of the filmmaker's personal musical heroes: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, and J.B. Lenoir. Through reenactments and Read More

2003
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: God is in the House

Synopsis: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House captures a June 2001 performance at Lyon, France. They deliver a 14-song set that includes "Mercy Seat," "Lime Tree Arbour," "God Is in the House," and "Do You Love Me?" The DVD release of the show includes a documentary on the recording sessions Read More

2001
Jonas at the Ocean

2001
The Acid House

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Stephen McCole, Maurice Roeves, Garry Sweeney, Jenny McCrindle, Simon Weir, Morgan Simpson

Synopsis: This adaptation of three stories from Irvine Welsh's short-story collection of the same name reunites Annie Louise Ross, Kevin McKidd, and Ewen Bremner from the author's previous cinematic success, Trainspotting, which was also set in the author's native North Edinburgh. In the Kafka-esque "The Read More

8/6/99
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The Videos

Synopsis: After leaving the brutal and influential Australian post-punk band the Birthday Party in 1983, Nick Cave went on to a truly unique solo career, which found him tapping into the influences of blues, country, folk, and cabaret music as well as rock & roll as he conjured up sonic backdrops for his Read More

1998
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead

Crew: Featured Music, Musical Direction/Supervision, Screenwriter

Actors: David Field, Mike Bishop, Chris de Rose, Nick Cave, Vince Gil

Synopsis: Ghosts...of the Civil Dead is an Australian prison picture, ironically coproduced by a company calling itself "Correctional Services". The prison in question is a cruelly repressive institution, with a set of rules bordering on the Draconian. The inmates finally rebel in violent fashion against Read More

1998
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest

Actors: Glenn Fitzgerald, Karine Adrover, Alexei Sayle, Ewen Bremner, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: The title of this British-French production refers to the dream of the film's hero -- aka The Young Man (Glenn Fitzgerald) -- to hunt an African rhino. After a failed suicide, The Young Man treks across Europe in an effort to track the girlfriend who walked out on him. In Paris, he attempts to Read More

1997
To Have & to Hold

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, Rachel Griffiths, Steve Jacobs

Synopsis: This Australian melodrama of obsessive love and violence is as humid and brooding as the Papuan jungle in which most of was filmed. Set in a remote town in Papua, New Guinea (some scenes were shot in Northern Australia) the story begins as the bereaved widower Jack gets increasingly drunk with Sal Read More

1996
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill

Actors: Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, Betty Carter

Synopsis: This Canadian documentary profiles the work of German music-theater icon Kurt Weill, who created such enduring shows as Threepenny Opera. Most of the film offers various performers singing or reciting his songs. Among those appearing are jazz diva Betty Carter, the Brodsky String Quartet, Elvis Costello Read More

1995
Jonas in the Desert

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Allen Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Evidently shot over a decade, this documentary portrait of Lithuanian-born filmmaker-poet Jonas Mekas examines his life and career as a director (The Brig, Guns of the Trees), film critic (Village Voice), film historian, magazine editor (Film Culture), teacher (NYU), film distributor (Film-Makers' Read More

1994
Johnny Suede

Actors: Brad Pitt, Calvin Levels, Alison Moir, Catherine Keener, Tina Louise

Synopsis: Tom DiCillo directed this surrealistic black comedy starring Brad Pitt as Johnny Suede, a young man with an attitude and an immense pompadour, who wants to be a rock n' roll star like his idol Ricky Nelson. He has all the stylistic accouterments, except a pair of black suede shoes. And one night Read More

8/14/92
Until the End of the World

Actors: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill, Max von Sydow, Rüdiger Vogler

Synopsis: Wim Wenders' sprawling cyberpunk noir epic -- shot in no less than nine different countries -- is set in 1999 and stars Solveig Dommartin as Claire, a young Frenchwoman who comes into contact with a large sum of money stolen during a bank heist; in her travels she picks up a mysterious American Read More

12/25/91
The Freshman

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Marlon Brando, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Frank Whaley, Paul Benedict

Synopsis: In this farcical comedy, Matthew Broderick plays Clark Kellogg, an aspiring director who arrives in New York City to attend film school. However, moments after he arrives in the city, he's robbed by Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby), leaving him no money for the $700 in books required by his instructor Read More

7/20/90
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The Road to God Knows Where

Synopsis: This video from Mute Films includes several live performances from Nick Cave's 1989 tour in the United States. Some of the highlights include renditions of "From Her to Eternity," "Jack's Shadow," "New Morning," "In the Can," and "Lost Highway". ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Wings of Desire

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, Otto Sander, Curt Bois

Synopsis: Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are angels who watch over the city of Berlin. They don't have harps or wings (well, they usually don't have wings) and they prefer overcoats to gossamer gowns. But they can travel unseen through the city, listening to people's thoughts, watching their Read More

4/29/88
Dandy

Actors: Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave, Dieter Meier, Yoshito Ohno

Synopsis: In this potpourri of abstract, realistic and apparently unrelated imagery, numerous figures in Germany's "underground" and avant-garde cinema make brief appearances, and visually powerful shots from around the world are interlarded with close-ups apparently intended to remind the viewer of the Read More

1987