Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2025 | Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) | Director, Executive Producer, Original Music, Screenwriter |
| 2022 | Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist (2024) | Self |
| 2019 | The Dead Don't Die | Director, Screenwriter |
| 2017 | Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat | Self |
| 2016 | Uncle Howard | Actor, Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Gimme Danger | Director, Writer |
| 2016 | Paterson | Director, Screenwriter |
| 2016 | Porto | Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Hot Sugar's Cold World | Actor |
| 2013 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Director, Screenwriter |
| 2011 | Don't Expect Too Much | Self |
| 2009 | The Limits of Control | Director, Screenwriter |
| 2008 | Explicit Ills | Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Broken Flowers | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2003 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Director, Screenwriter |
| 2002 | Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet | Director |
| 1999 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1998 | Divine Trash | Actor |
| 1997 | Year of the Horse | Cinematographer, Director, Self |
| 1996 | Sling Blade | Frostee Cream Boy |
| 1995 | Dead Man | Director, Writer |
| 1995 | Blue in the Face | Bob |
| 1994 | Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made | Self |
| 1993 | When Pigs Fly | Executive Producer |
| 1992 | Night on Earth | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1992 | Fishing with John | Actor |
| 1992 | In the Soup | Monty |
| 1990 | The Golden Boat | Stranger |
| 1989 | Mystery Train | Director, Writer |
| 1986 | Down by Law | Director, Writer |
| 1986 | Sleepwalk | Cinematographer |
| 1984 | Stranger Than Paradise | Director, Film Editing, Writer |
| 1984 | American Autobahn | Movie Producer |
| 1982 | Permanent Vacation | Director, Film Editor, Music, Producer, Writer |
| 1981 | You Are Not I | Cinematographer, Producer, Screenwriter |
