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Acting

Nick Cave

Career

Active from 1988 to 2025, busiest in 2017 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles
10
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score69/100
Highest rated
Poster for One More Time with Feeling
One More Time with Feeling
GoodWatch score90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 32 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 4.4 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 4.3 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 1.8 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 6.3 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 6.1 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 7.0 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Nick Cave Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Situational Comedy
    0.9, average 2.7
  • Physical Comedy
    0.7, average 2.4
  • Romance
    2.6, average 3.8
  • Fantasy
    0.5, average 1.7

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Historical Drama 4
  • Character Study 4
  • Musical Journey 3
  • Biographical Drama 3
  • Slow Burn Thriller 2
  • Father-Son Bond 2
  • Emotionally Devastating 2
  • American South 2
  • Atmospheric Tension 2
  • Melancholy 2
  • Thought-Provoking 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

58
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

Upcoming

3 titles
Before They Were Gods
Before They Were Gods

as (voice)

Woyzeck
Woyzeck

Music

The Circumventing Mind
The Circumventing Mind

Music

2020s

14 titles · average score 71
Train Dreams
Train Dreams (2025)
GoodWatch score 84

Vocals, Songs

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough (2025)

as Narrator

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour (2025)

Compositor, Author

Back to Black
Back to Black (2024)
GoodWatch score 49

Original Music Composer

Memoir of a Snail
Memoir of a Snail (2024)
GoodWatch score 85

as Bill Clarke (voice)

The New Boy
The New Boy (2023)
GoodWatch score 54

Original Music Composer

Blonde
Blonde (2022)
GoodWatch score 46

Original Music Composer

This Much I Know to Be True
This Much I Know to Be True (2022)
GoodWatch score 86

Original Music Composer

The Velvet Queen
The Velvet Queen (2021)
GoodWatch score 83

Original Music Composer

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
GoodWatch score 67

as H.G. Wells

Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace (2020)
GoodWatch score 81

Director

The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal
The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal (2020)

as Mr. Invisible

2010s

19 titles · average score 70
Wind River
Wind River (2017)
GoodWatch score 79

Original Music Composer

War Machine
War Machine (2017)
GoodWatch score 52

Original Music Composer

Kings
Kings (2017)
GoodWatch score 33

Original Music Composer

Hell or High Water
Hell or High Water (2016)
GoodWatch score 85

Original Music Composer

One More Time with Feeling
One More Time with Feeling (2016)
GoodWatch score 90

Music, Original Music Composer

Far from Men
Far from Men (2015)
GoodWatch score 76

Original Music Composer

Prophet's Prey
Prophet's Prey (2015)
GoodWatch score 79

as Narrator

20,000 Days on Earth
20,000 Days on Earth (2014)
GoodWatch score 81

Original Music Composer, Writer

Tender
Tender (2014)

Original Music Composer

Lawless
Lawless (2012)
GoodWatch score 66

Screenplay, Original Music Composer

West of Memphis
West of Memphis (2012)
GoodWatch score 82

Original Music Composer

A Few Hours of Spring
A Few Hours of Spring (2012)
GoodWatch score 62

Original Music Composer

2000s

10 titles · average score 77
The Road
The Road (2009)
GoodWatch score 70

Original Music Composer

The Cat Piano
The Cat Piano (2009)
GoodWatch score 74

as Narrator

The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw (2008)

Original Music Composer

Angel of the Wind
Angel of the Wind (2008)

Music

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
GoodWatch score 74

as Bowery Saloon Singer

The English Surgeon
The English Surgeon (2007)
GoodWatch score 87

Original Music Composer

The Proposition
The Proposition (2005)
GoodWatch score 77

Vocals, Screenplay

Seele Brennt
Seele Brennt (2005)

as Nick Cave

The Goddess: How I Fell in Love. Film about the film
The Goddess: How I Fell in Love. Film about the film (2004)

Music

Winged Migration
Winged Migration (2001)
GoodWatch score 84

Theme Song Performance

1990s

9 titles · average score 45
Expelling the Demon
Expelling the Demon (1999)

Music

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos (1998)

Music

Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest (1997)

as Jerry

To Have and to Hold
To Have and to Hold (1996)
GoodWatch score 49

Original Music Composer

Baby Trouble Hole
Baby Trouble Hole (1996)

as Singer

Later... with Jools Holland
Later... with Jools Holland (1992)
GoodWatch score 46

TV show

Johnny Suede
Johnny Suede (1991)
GoodWatch score 39

as Freak Storm

Just Visiting This Planet
Just Visiting This Planet (1991)

Music

IDn2
IDn2 (1990)

as Entry

1980s

2 titles · average score 59
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988)
GoodWatch score 66

as Maynard

Dogs in Space
Dogs in Space (1986)
GoodWatch score 52

Thanks

1970s

1 title · average score 63
The South Bank Show
The South Bank Show (1978)
GoodWatch score 63

TV show