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David Cronenberg has 30 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Fly.
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The Soul
2021
Mystery · Science Fiction

Ghost Story
1981
Horror · Drama

The Nameless
1999
Thriller · Mystery

Noroi: The Curse
2005
Horror · Mystery

Desperation
2006
Drama · Fantasy

The Cursed
2021
Horror · Drama

Dreamcatcher
2003
Drama · Horror

The 8th Night
2021
Mystery · Thriller

Ready or Not: Here I Come
2026 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Hulu · Included

Dead Ringers
1988 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 8%Prime Video · Free w/ ads

The Dead Zone
1983 · Movie · Director
Top 10%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Brood
1979 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 13%Max · Included

A History of Violence
2005 · Movie · Director
Top 24%Max · Included

Scanners
1981 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 25%Max · Included

When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits

Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.
Dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett · With Samara Weaving, Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel

Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalised wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside

The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry

A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.
Dir. Clive Barker · With Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg

A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into bloodthirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Marilyn Chambers, Terri Hanauer, Frank Moore

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm

Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
Dir. John Landis · With Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dan Aykroyd

A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.
Dir. Don McKellar · With Don McKellar, Sarah Polley, Roberta Maxwell

as The Suicidal Man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew ...") · Director
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Dir. Michael Cimino, Luc Dardenne, Atom Egoyan, Chen Kaige, Manoel de Oliveira, Bille August, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Walter Salles, Tsai Ming-liang, Theo Angelopoulos, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Olivier Assayas, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Takeshi Kitano, Roman Polanski, Gus Van Sant, Abbas Kiarostami, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Jane Campion, Raymond Depardon, Amos Gitai, Nanni Moretti, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Elia Suleiman, Aki Kaurismäki, Raúl Ruiz, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar-Wai, Ken Loach, Wim Wenders, Youssef Chahine, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Zhang Yimou · With Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with opera singer Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne

Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past.
Dir. Sarah Polley · With Sarah Gadon, Edward Holcroft, Rebecca Liddiard

With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use Tenser's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Scott Speedman

Inconsolable since the death of his wife, prominent businessman Karsh Relikh invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated, and he sets out to track down the perpetrators.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce

A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembered corpses along with perversely ironic biblical quotes.
Dir. Russell Mulcahy · With Christopher Lambert, Leland Orser, Barbara Tyson
Following the death of her mother, a young woman returns home to Niagara Falls and becomes entangled in the memory of a kidnapping she claims to have witnessed as a child.
Dir. Albert Shin · With Tuppence Middleton, Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg

Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender

Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family chase celebrity, one another, and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. Their fragile ecosystem is disrupted by the arrival of Agatha, the scarred and estranged pyromaniac daughter.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson
In a dystopic world where a plague is killing off pubescent human females, an esoteric researcher seeks his missing mentor while trying to retain morality in the sex-obsessed society he lives in.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!
Dir. James Isaac · With Kane Hodder, Jeff Geddis, Lexa Doig
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a self-made 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon