Biography
Warren Ellis is an Australian-French musician and composer. He is a member of several groups: Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. He has also composed film scores with Nick Cave. Ellis plays violin, piano, accordion, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin, tenor guitar, and viola
Known For
Complete Filmography

Ellis Park
2025
as Self
An Australian musician guides us through his musical career and his wildlife sanctuary in Sumatra, where rescued trafficked animals are nursed back to...

Ellis Park
2025
Music
An Australian musician guides us through his musical career and his wildlife sanctuary in Sumatra, where rescued trafficked animals are nursed back to...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour
2025
as Self
The triumphant return of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds to France bring with them a full stage show brimming with elegant fury and mystical fervour. Reco...

I'm Still Here
2024
Original Music Composer
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her fa...

Back to Black
2024
Original Music Composer
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Bl...

Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock
2023
as Self
Featuring new and classic songs, this concert documentary celebrates the profound relationship that Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have developed with the...

Blonde
2022
Original Music Composer
From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood le...

Not Dark Yet
2022
Music
Confined to his room in an aged care facility, an elderly man with a debilitating disease struggles with his sons abrupt departure.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
2022

Earwig
2022
Original Music Composer
Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shu...

This Much I Know to Be True
2022
as Self
Like all musicians in 2021, Nick Cave was unable to connect with his audience in person. He uses this concert film to break the vocal and instrumental...

This Much I Know to Be True
2022
Original Music Composer
Like all musicians in 2021, Nick Cave was unable to connect with his audience in person. He uses this concert film to break the vocal and instrumental...

The Velvet Queen
2021
Original Music Composer
High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undisco...

ARTIFICIALIS
2021
Music
ARTIFICIALIS presents an ambiguous, spectral territory, undergoing mutation, where reality and virtuality are superimposed on one another, and where o...

Mystify: Michael Hutchence
2019
Original Music Composer
Michael Hutchence was flying high as the lead singer of the legendary rock band INXS until his untimely death in 1997. Richard Lowenstein’s documentar...

Shelley's Blaze
2018
as Docteur Polidori / Echos (voice)
A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and words of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an infamous young p...

Shelley's Blaze
2018
Music
A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and words of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an infamous young p...

Distant Sky
2018
as Self
Recorded at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena in October 2017, Distant Sky captures an extraordinary and triumphant live concert from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds...

Kings
2017
Original Music Composer
A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti
2017
Original Music Composer
In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventiona...

Wind River
2017
Original Music Composer
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

War Machine
2017
Original Music Composer
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true stor...

Django
2017
Original Music Composer
The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling
2016
as Self
Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' al...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling
2016
Original Music Composer, Music, Conductor
Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' al...

Hell or High Water
2016
Original Music Composer
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

Bad Girl
2016
Original Music Composer
Bad girl Amy is given one last chance by her adoptive parents, who think her friendship with local girl Chloe is a step in the right direction. But wh...

Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2016
as Self
Case bound book containing 3 CDs and a two hour DVD featuring live performances, rare footage and interviews with a 36 page book.

Prophet's Prey
2015
Music
Filmmaker Amy Berg sheds light on the sexual, financial and spiritual abuses heaped upon members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latte...

Paradise Lost?
2015
Original Music Composer
After discovering that John Milton is buried within London's Barbican grounds, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard reimagined his epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ as...

Mustang
2015
Original Music Composer
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.

Far from Men
2015
Original Music Composer
A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the a...

20,000 Days on Earth
2014
as Self
A semi-fictionalized documentary about a day in the life of Australian musician Nick Cave's persona.

20,000 Days on Earth
2014
Music
A semi-fictionalized documentary about a day in the life of Australian musician Nick Cave's persona.

West of Memphis
2012
Original Music Composer
The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who l...

A Few Hours of Spring
2012
Original Music Composer
Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past relationship...

Lawless
2012
Original Music Composer
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging....

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 12: Nocturama)
2012
as Self
A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album Nocturama (originally released in 2003). The result is a determinedly human p...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 14: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!)
2012
as Self
A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (originally released in 2008). The result is a determine...
Submission
2011
Music
Submission is set in the world of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu where you learn to use your opponent’s strength to vanquish them. The unlikely winner engages us...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 9: Murder Ballads)
2011
as Self
A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album Murder Ballads (originally released in 1996). The result is a determinedly hu...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 10: The Boatman's Call)
2011
as Self
A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album The Boatman's Call (originally released in 1997). The result is a determinedl...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 11: No More Shall We Part)
2011
as Self
A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album No More Shall We Part (originally released in 2001). The result is a determin...

Medea Miracle
2011
as Violiniste
Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends ...

The Road
2009
Original Music Composer
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough t...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 1: From Her to Eternity)
2009
as Self
A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album From Her to Eternity (originally released in 1984). The result is a determine...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 2: The Firstborn is Dead)
2009
as Self
A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album The Firstborn is Dead (originally released in 1985). The result is a determin...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 3: Kicking Against the Pricks)
2009
as Self
A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album Kicking Against the Pricks (originally released in 1986). The result is a det...

Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 4: Your Funeral... My Trial)
2009
as Self
A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album Your Funeral... My Trial (originally released in 1986). The result is a deter...

All Tomorrow's Parties
2009
as Self
Covers the history of the long running All Tomorrow's Parties music festival, utilizing footage generated by the fans and musicians attending the even...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions
2008
as Self
Series of unique concerts featuring musicians from around the world at St Luke's in London. Nick Cave and his band perform a set drawn from their late...
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
2008
Original Music Composer
Explores the true story of the notorious Jesse James, how the myth developed during his lifetime, and how the legends have persisted over 100 years af...

The English Surgeon
2007
Music
This documentary offers a glimpse into the life of an English neurosurgeon (Henry Marsh) situated in Ukraine as we are exposed to the overwhelming dil...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
Original Music Composer
Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous o...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House
2007
as Self
The centerpiece of this DVD is a 90-minute concert by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, performing live in Lyon, France, in the summer of 2001 during a Europ...

The Dirty Three
2007
as Self
The Dirty Three are the rough and ready jewels in the crown of Australian rock and roll history. Born from the need to put food on the table and spawn...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour
2007
as Self - violin, mandolin, bouzouki, flute
1. Hiding All Away 2. Messiah Ward 3. Easy Money 4. Supernaturally 5. The Lyre of Orpheus 6. Babe, You Turn Me On 7. Nature Boy 8. Get Ready for Love ...

The Proposition
2005
Original Music Composer, Musician
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hun...

Praise
1999
Original Music Composer
An unfocused twentysomething moves in with a former co-worker, who is suffering from low self-esteem because of her weight, looks, and a case of eczem...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos
1998
as Self
A collection of the best of music videos by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds from 1984 to 1997, all with a "making of" commentary. Each of them excellent, de...

Woyzeck
N/A
Music
The excitedly physical staging of Georg Buchner’s tragic and fragmented play about a young man struggling to make the best from what life has dealt hi...