| Movie | 2009 | The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | Patti Smith: Dream of Life | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | WBCN and the American Revolution | Self | |
| Movie | 2015 | U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015 | | |
| Movie | 2021 | 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Self | |
| Movie | 2023 | Chornobyl | Self | |
| Movie | 2022 | Patti Smith: Electric Poet | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2001 | Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock | Self | |
| Movie | 2010 | William S. Burroughs: A Man Within | Self | |
| Movie | 2023 | Ron Delsener Presents | Self | |
| Movie | 2010 | Film Socialisme | La chanteuse | |
| Movie | 1971 | West Side Stories | | |
| Movie | 2012 | Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005 | Herself | |
| Movie | 2007 | NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell | | |
| Movie | 2008 | One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur | Self | |
| Movie | 1977 | Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976 | Self | |
| Movie | 2013 | Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' | Self | |
| Movie | 2000 | Benjamin Smoke | Herself | |
| Movie | 2014 | Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute | Self | |
| Movie | 1971 | Robert Having His Nipple Pierced | Narrator (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2011 | Sleepless Nights Stories | Self | |
| Movie | 1970 | Chelsea Hotel | Self | |
| Movie | 2014 | Three Stones for Jean Genet | | |
| Movie | 2022 | Werner Herzog - Radikaler Träumer | Self | |
| Movie | 2024 | Turn in the Wound | | |
| Movie | 2024 | One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2003 | R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.) | | |
| Movie | 2003 | Brian Wilson: On Tour | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | Spheres | Narrator (Voice) | |
| Movie | 2012 | West of Memphis | Self – WM3 Supporter | |
| Movie | 2000 | Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | Song to Song | Patti Smith | |
| Movie | 1984 | Burroughs: The Movie | Self | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town | Self | |
| Movie | 2007 | 365 Day Project | Self | |
| Movie | 2002 | What the Punk - An MVD Sampler | | |
| Movie | 2016 | Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures | Self (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1976 | The Blank Generation | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit | Self | |
| Movie | 2009 | All Tomorrow's Parties | Self | |
| Movie | 1998 | The Rugrats Movie | Newborn Baby (singing voice) | |
| Movie | 1980 | No. 18: Mahagonny | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | The Book of Conrad | | |
| Movie | 2018 | Kurt Everywhere | | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1 | Self | |
| Movie | 2007 | You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band | Herself | |
| Movie | 1979 | Patti Smith Group: Rockpalast 1979 | Performer | |
| Movie | 2009 | Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York) | herself | |
| Movie | 2017 | Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives | Self | |
| Movie | 1978 | Still Moving/Patti Smith | Herself | |
| Movie | 2014 | The 8th Floor | Self | |
| Movie | 2001 | 25 Years of Punk | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1975 | Night Lunch | Self | |
| Movie | 2002 | Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | Ex Libris: The New York Public Library | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese | The Punk Poet | |
| Movie | 2015 | Girls in Bands at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2009 | Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB | Self | |
| Movie | 1998 | John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1984 | Rock My Religion | | |
| Movie | 2016 | I Am La Scala | Self | |
| Movie | 1995 | Dancing Barefoot | Self | |
| Movie | 2007 | Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | Uncle Howard | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2021 | Now | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal | Self | |
| Movie | 2020 | Wim Wenders, Desperado | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | New York Rock at the BBC | | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Big Empty | Traveler | |
| Movie | 2006 | The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave | Self | |
| Movie | 2007 | Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe | Self | |
| Movie | 1986 | Women in Rock | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2018 | Film catastrophe | | |
| Movie | 1998 | Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998 | Self | |
| Movie | 1996 | New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film | Self | |
| Movie | 2025 | Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin | Narrator | |
| TV Show | 1999 | The Early Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | The Colbert Report | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Musical Guest | 3 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Saturday Night Special | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Cleo Alexander | 1 |
| TV Show | 2017 | Popular Voices at the BBC | Self (archive footage) | 3 |
| TV Show | 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2004 | The Culture Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Musical Guest | 1 |
| TV Show | 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2017 | The Defiant Ones | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Kulturplatz | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Gero von Boehm begegnet... | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | NeXt | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Rockpolitik | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2013 | Sternstunde Musik | Self | 1 |
