John Lurie Movies

A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Lurie

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Dean Stanton

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tom Waits

Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willem Dafoe

Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harvey Keitel

A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christopher Walken

In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chris Parker

Face Addict tells the story of a unique and unrepeatable experience, that of the artistic community in New York between the late '70s and early '80s,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edo Bertoglio

Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More...

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Cast: Laurie Anderson

the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia...

Genre: Music

Cast: Glenn Branca

A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Robbie Coltrane

John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards performing live in Berlin.

Genre: Music

Cast: John Lurie

A short film narrated by John Lurie comprised of still images La Jetee-style about the middle-aged rediscovering punk rock.

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Cast: John Lurie

A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Scott B

Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roberto Benigni

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Michel Basquiat

After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nicolas Cage

Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites like Grant's Tomb and Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse...

Genre: History

Cast: David McDermott

30-minute short subject film that would become Stranger Than Paradise. This short was released as a standalone film in 1982, and shown as "Stranger...

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Cast: John Lurie

Second feature film by the French-born director is a Bertolucci-style story of a bored, rich woman looking for romance and adventure. She meets an...

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Cast: Jennifer Miro

At loose ends drifter stumbles upon a struggling painter as he searches for answers under the stars and rooftops of New York.

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Cast: Ivan Martin

The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patti Astor

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Amos Poe

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosanna Arquette

"5 Sides of a Coin" is a comprehensive overview of the worldwide cultural movement of Hip-Hop.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Afrika Bambaataa

Six million dollars suddenly goes up for grabs when an aged diner's heart fails after he discovers that he has won the lottery. Which of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery

"Lounge Lizard" John Lurie — actor, performer, and musician — talks about love and life and gives a gentle insight into modern time's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Lurie

Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nan Goldin

From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Michel Basquiat

A “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: John Lurie

Behind the scenes of 'The Last Temptation of the Christ'

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Willem Dafoe

Documentary on American film director Jim Jarmusch made for German television. featuring interviews with cast and crew from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jim Jarmusch

An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Anthony Bourdain...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anthony Bourdain

A short behind-the-scenes documentary shot and edited on Super 8 by filmmaker Tom Jarmusch, director Jim Jarmusch’s brother, during the filming...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Lurie