David Fincher’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
David Fincher has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Se7en.
Recurring themes

The Purity of Vengeance
2018
Crime · Thriller

Memories of Murder
2003
Crime · Drama

The Paperboy
2012
Thriller · Drama

The Caveman's Valentine
2001
Drama · Mystery

Devil in a Blue Dress
1995
Thriller · Crime

The Salton Sea
2002
Crime · Drama

Elle
2016
Drama · Thriller

The Usual Suspects
1995
Drama · Crime

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Dir. David Fincher · With Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
Dir. David Fincher · With Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Dir. David Fincher · With Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
Dir. David Fincher · With Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
Dir. David Fincher · With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.
Dir. David Fincher · With Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.
Dir. David Fincher · With Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger

In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.
Dir. David Fincher · With Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
Dir. Christopher Kenneally · With Keanu Reeves, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
Dir. Kent Jones · With Bob Balaban, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.
Dir. David Fincher · With Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
Dir. David Fincher · With Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker
Two cops portrayed by Michelin Men chase an armed Ronald McDonald through the streets of a fictionalized, stylized city.
Dir. Hervé de Crécy, François Alaux, Ludovic Houplain · With Bob Stephenson, Sherman Augustus, Aja Evans
A documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Virtually every element in the evolution of the Fincher's film is documented here, from the project's attachment to numerous other directors during the 1990s, to its shoot in 2006 and 2007 in New Orleans, to its complex, CGI-intensive postproduction process.
Dir. David Prior · With David Fincher, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall

After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
Dir. David Fincher · With Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Dir. David Fincher · With Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins