| 2025 | Father Mother Sister Brother | Father | ★ 0.0 |
| 2025 | Human Nature in Eleven Parts | Narrator "Laughing Heart" (archive footage) | ★ 0.0 |
| 2024 | The Absence of Eden | Hunley | ★ 5.0 |
| 2024 | Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Concert Experience | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2022 | This Is Sparklehorse | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2022 | Robert Wilson – Die Schönheit des Geheimnisvollen | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2021 | Licorice Pizza | Rex Blau | ★ 7.0 |
| 2019 | Motherless Brooklyn | News Stand Owner (uncredited) | ★ 6.7 |
| 2019 | The Dead Don't Die | Hermit Bob | ★ 5.4 |
| 2018 | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon") | ★ 7.1 |
| 2018 | Ein Gauner & Gentleman | Waller | ★ 6.4 |
| 2018 | The Moon’s Milk | Captain Millipede (voice) | ★ 0.0 |
| 2017 | Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30 | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2017 | Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox | Self | ★ 6.7 |
| 2015 | Keith Richards: Under the Influence | Self | ★ 6.7 |
| 2013 | The Laughing Heart | Narrator | ★ 4.0 |
| 2012 | 7 Psychos | Zachariah Rigby | ★ 6.8 |
| 2012 | A Brief History of John Baldessari | Narrator | ★ 5.3 |
| 2011 | Twixt - Virginias Geheimnis | Narrator (voice) | ★ 5.1 |
| 2011 | Das Monster von Nix | Virgil (Voice) | ★ 7.0 |
| 2010 | The Book of Eli | Engineer | ★ 6.8 |
| 2009 | Das Kabinett des Doktor Parnassus | Devil | ★ 6.4 |
| 2009 | Tom Waits: Romeo Bleeding - Live from Austin | Self | ★ 3.8 |
| 2008 | Tom Waits: Under Review | Self | ★ 4.0 |
| 2008 | One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur | Self | ★ 6.8 |
| 2007 | Wristcutters - A Love Story | Kneller | ★ 7.0 |
| 2006 | Tom Waits - No Visitors After Midnight | Self | ★ 3.8 |
| 2006 | Tom Waits - Burma Shave [Live Concert] | Self | ★ 3.8 |
| 2005 | Der Tiger und der Schnee | Self / Sè stesso | ★ 6.8 |
| 2005 | Domino | Wanderer | ★ 5.9 |
| 2004 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Tom (segment "Somewhere in California") | ★ 6.9 |
| 2003 | Bukowski - Born into This | Self | ★ 6.8 |
| 1999 | Tom Waits - Bridge School Benefit | Self | ★ 3.8 |
| 1999 | Mystery Men | Doc Heller | ★ 5.8 |
| 1999 | Tom Waits: VH1 Storytellers | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1997 | Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight | Narrator (voice) | ★ 7.2 |
| 1997 | Coffee and Cigarettes III | Tom | ★ 6.9 |
| 1993 | Short Cuts | Earl Piggot | ★ 7.2 |
| 1993 | Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country | Self | ★ 6.0 |
| 1992 | Bram Stokers Dracula | R.M. Renfield | ★ 7.4 |
| 1991 | Ein Pfeil in den Himmel | Wolf | ★ 6.5 |
| 1991 | König der Fischer | Disabled Vet (uncredited) | ★ 7.3 |
| 1991 | Bis ans Ende der Welt | Singer in Bar | ★ 6.8 |
| 1991 | Geboren in Queens | Monte | ★ 5.8 |
| 1990 | Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1990 | Die Spur führt zurück - The Two Jakes | Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited) | ★ 6.0 |
| 1990 | John Lurie: A Lounge Lizard Alone | Zack (Archive footage) | ★ 0.0 |
| 1989 | Ausgespielt – Bearskin | Silva | ★ 7.5 |
| 1989 | Mystery Train | Radio DJ (voice) | ★ 7.3 |
| 1989 | Cold Feet | Kenny | ★ 4.0 |
| 1988 | Big Time | Self | ★ 7.3 |
| 1988 | Candy Mountain | Al Silk | ★ 5.7 |
| 1988 | Greasy Lake | Narrator | ★ 4.0 |
| 1988 | Roy Orbison - Black and White Night | Self - Organ/Guitar | ★ 7.5 |
| 1987 | Wolfsmilch | Rudy | ★ 6.3 |
| 1987 | Temptation | | ★ 0.0 |
| 1986 | Tom Waits - Live at Premio Tenco in Sanremo Italy | Himself | ★ 0.0 |
| 1986 | Down by Law | Zack | ★ 7.3 |
| 1985 | Tom Waits - Live On The Tube | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1984 | Cotton Club | Irving Stark | ★ 6.5 |
| 1984 | The Stone Boy | Petrified man at carnival (uncredited) | ★ 6.8 |
| 1983 | Rumble Fish | Benny | ★ 7.0 |
| 1983 | Die Outsider | Buck Merrill | ★ 7.2 |
| 1982 | Poetry in Motion | Self | ★ 7.0 |
| 1982 | The Making of 'One from the Heart' | Self | ★ 8.0 |
| 1981 | Einer mit Herz | Trumpet player (uncredited) | ★ 6.0 |
| 1981 | Wolfen | Drunken Bar Owner (uncredited) | ★ 5.9 |
| 1980 | Tom Waits at Theatre le Palace | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1979 | Tom Waits for No One | Self | ★ 5.0 |
| 1978 | Vorhof zum Paradies | Mumbles | ★ 5.8 |
| 1978 | Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna | Self | ★ 7.0 |
| 1977 | Tom Waits: Rockpalast '77 | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1976 | Tom Waits - Elephant Beer Blues - Songs After Closing Time | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| Tom Waits - One Star Shining : The First Decade | Self | ★ 6.5 |
| Wildwood | (voice) | ★ 0.0 |
| Star.Wav | The Caller | ★ 0.0 |
| Wild Horse Nine | | ★ 0.0 |
