Nick Cave
Known for: Acting
Born: September 22, 1957
Place of birth: Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He has appeared in some 15 feature films and video shorts, plus a heap of documentaries. Nick Cave has also composed a large number of scores, some of them with his musical partner Warren Ellis.
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Filmography
136 movies · 12 TV shows, newest first
8.7
Kylie
2026
7.6
Broken English
2026
5.7
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025
7.3
Train Dreams
2025
7.0
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025
6.0
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
2025
5.0
The Extraordinary Miss Flower
2025
9.0
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour
2025
NR
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert
2025
NR
The Making of Wild God
2024
8.1
Memoir of a Snail
2024
NR
But We Had Music
2024
6.7
Back to Black
2024
NR
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
2023
NR
Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock
2023
5.9
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
2023
7.6
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
2023
6.1
The New Boy
2023
6.0
Kylie at the BBC
2022
8.0
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
2022
5.9
Blonde
2022
NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
2022
7.2
This Much I Know to Be True
2022
7.9
The Velvet Queen
2021
6.9
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021
5.8
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
2021
7.0
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
NR
FeeLee. History of a Single Label
2020NR
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
2020
8.1
Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
2020
5.7
Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later
2020
2.0
The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal
2020
NR
Love Eats Up Life
2019
7.2
The Creative Brain
2019
7.5
Why Are We Creative?
2018
7.0
Fuse
2018
7.0
TAPE
2018
8.0
Distant Sky
2018
NR
Popular Voices at the BBC
2017
5.6
Kings
2017
7.0
L7: Pretend We're Dead
2017
7.4
Wind River
2017
5.6
War Machine
2017
NR
Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2017
NR
Boredom
2017
NR
Do You Pray?
2017
NR
Snowman
2017
4.4
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
2016
7.8
One More Time with Feeling
2016
6.4
Nocturama
2016
7.3
Hell or High Water
2016
NR
Stranded
2015
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
7.4
Prophet's Prey
2015NR
Artsnight
2015
7.7
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015
6.8
Far from Men
2015
NR
Wilde Jahre West-Berlin
2015
8.6
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits
2014
5.0
Goth at the BBC
2014
7.1
20,000 Days on Earth
2014
NR
Tender
2014
NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre
2013
7.4
West of Memphis
2012
6.7
A Few Hours of Spring
2012
7.1
Lawless
2012
7.5
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
20115.5
Submission
2011
6.9
Millhaven
2011
7.0
The Road
200910.0
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009
NR
On/Off: Mark Stewart
2009
6.5
All Tomorrow's Parties
2009
7.4
The Cat Piano
2009
NR
Blixa Bargeld
2008NR
Angel of the Wind
2008
6.5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008
2008
NR
Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues
2008
9.0
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions
2008
6.0
Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party
2008
6.7
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
2008NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2008
10.0
365 Day Project
2007
7.3
Pixote In Memoriam
2007
7.9
The English Surgeon
2007
7.1
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
5.9
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House
2007
7.0
The Dirty Three
2007
NR
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007
NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour
2007
6.4
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
2006
NR
The Harry Smith Project Live
2006
7.6
The Story of 'Fairytale of New York'
2005
NR
Seele Brennt
2005
7.0
The Proposition
2005
7.8
The Work of Director Anton Corbijn
2005
NR
The Goddess: How I Fell in Love. Film about the film
2004NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
2004
7.4
The Blues
2003
4.8
The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn
2003NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama
2003
7.6
Winged Migration
2001NR
Listen With Pain
2001
10.0
Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten
2001NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part
2001
6.4
If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story
2001
7.0
Expelling the Demon
1999
8.0
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos
1998
NR
The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan
1997NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call
1997
8.0
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997
4.3
To Have and to Hold
1996
NR
Baby Trouble Hole
1996
5.3
Australian Story
1996NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
1996
7.5
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994
NR
Die Haut - Sweat
1994NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In
1994
8.0
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
1994
7.0
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
1994
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream
1992
7.0
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso
1992
NR
The Song
1991
NR
IDn4
19915.0
Just Visiting This Planet
1991
5.2
Johnny Suede
1991
6.5
The Road to God Knows Where
1990
NR
IDn3
1990
NR
IDn2
1990NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son
1990
6.8
Dandy
1988NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey
1988
5.8
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
1988
7.8
Wings of Desire
1987
NR
Kings of Independence
1987
6.0
Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land
1987
6.0
Dogs in Space
1986NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial
1986NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks
1986NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead
1985NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity
1984
7.0
The Oscars
1953
NR
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996
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NR
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998)
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NR
Before They Were Gods
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The Circumventing Mind
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NR
Woyzeck
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