Tom Waits
Thomas Alan Waits is an American singer, songwriter, composer and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underbelly and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He began in the folk scene during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected the influence of such diverse genres as rock, jazz, Delta blues, opera, vaudeville, cabaret, funk and experimental techniques verging on industrial music. Jim Fusilli calls him "A keen, sensitive and sympathetic chronicler of the adrift and downtrodden" who "creates three-dimensional characters who, even in their confusion and despair, are capable of insight and startling points of view." His unique voice was described by Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."
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🎬 Movies
Wild Horse Nine
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2026
Wildwood
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2026
Father Mother Sister Brother
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2025
The Absence of Eden
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2024
Licorice Pizza
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2021
The Dead Don't Die
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2019
The Old Man & the Gun
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2018
Keith Richards: Under the Influence
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2015
Seven Psychopaths
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2012
Twixt
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2011
The Book of Eli
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2010
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
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2009
Wristcutters: A Love Story
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2007
The Tiger and the Snow
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2005
Coffee and Cigarettes
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2004
Mystery Men
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1999
Short Cuts
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1993
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
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1993
Bram Stoker's Dracula
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1992
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
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1991
Queens Logic
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1991
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
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1990
Mystery Train
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1989
Cold Feet
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1989
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
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1988
Ironweed
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1987
Down by Law
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1986
The Cotton Club
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1984
Rumble Fish
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1983
The Outsiders
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1983
Paradise Alley
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1978
Ray Gunn
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