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Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

Name: Stranger Than Paradise
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Genre: drama film, comedy film, road movie
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 7.4

Stranger Than Paradise is a 1984 American black-and-white absurdist deadpan comedy film directed, co-written and co-edited by Jim Jarmusch, and starring jazz musician John Lurie, former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson, and Hungarian-born actress and violinist Eszter Balint. It features a minimalist plot in which the main character, Willie, is visited by Eva, his cousin from Hungary. Eva stays with…

Directed by Jim Jarmusch · Shot by Tom DiCillo · Cut by Jim Jarmusch · Music by John Lurie · 88 min

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Permanent Vacation — 1980
Stranger than Paradise — 1983
Down by Law — 1986
Coffee and Cigarettes: Strange to Meet You — 1986
Mystery Train — 1989
Coffee and Cigarettes II — 1989
Night on Earth — 1991
Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California — 1993
Dead Man — 1995
Year of the Horse — 1997
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai — 1999
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet — 2002
Int. Trailer Night — 2002
Coffee and Cigarettes — 2004
Broken Flowers — 2005
The Limits of Control — 2009
Only Lovers Left Alive — 2013
Paterson — 2016
Gimme Danger — 2016
The Dead Don't Die — 2019
Father Mother Sister Brother — 2025

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