Derek Jarman
British film director and artist (1942-1994)
1.27body-of-work score · ranked #735 of 2631 directors · 5 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- January 31, 1942 · Northwood
- Died
- February 19, 1994 · St Bartholomew's Hospital
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Work
- film director, actor, screenwriter, diarist
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 10.381 citation
- 2
1986 · United Kingdom / Australia · drama, biography
BFI Top 100 British films #93 · Hoberman's annual top 10 1986 #10
0.372 citations - 30.191 citation
- 40.161 citation
- 50.161 citation
Complete filmography
All 16 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1974In the Shadow of the Sun
- 1976Sebastiane
- 1976Time Zones
- 1978Jubilee
- 1979The Tempest
- 1983Pirate Tape
- 1985The Angelic Conversation
- 1986Caravaggio
- 1987Aria
- 1987The Last of England
- 1989War Requiem
- 1990The Garden
- 1991Edward II
- 1993Blue
- 1993Wittgenstein
- 1996Glitterbug