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David Lynch has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Mulholland Drive.
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Eraserhead
1977 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 2%Max · Included

Twin Peaks
1990 · Series · Creator
Top 3%Paramount+ · Included

Blue Velvet
1986 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 5%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Straight Story
1999 · Movie · Director
Top 6%Disney+ · Included

Inland Empire
2006 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 6%Max · Included

Lost Highway
1997 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 9%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Dir. David Lynch · With Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
Dir. David Lynch · With Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Dir. David Lynch · With Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph

The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
Dir. Mark Frost, David Lynch · With Kyle MacLachlan

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Dir. David Lynch · With Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper

Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
Dir. David Lynch · With Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
Dir. David Lynch · With Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Dir. David Lynch · With Patricia Arquette, Bill Pullman, Balthazar Getty

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
Dir. David Lynch · With Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick
A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the rabbits also make contact with their “leader”.
Dir. David Lynch · With Scott Coffey, Laura Harring, Naomi Watts

Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.
Dir. John Carroll Lynch · With Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Dir. David Lynch · With Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe
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

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

as Detective · Director · Writer
In a locked down train station, a homicide detective conducts an interview with a tormented monkey who is suspected of murder.
Dir. David Lynch · With Jack Cruz, David Lynch, Emily Stofle

An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.
Dir. Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, Olivia Neergaard-Holm · With David Lynch, Lula Lynch

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
Dir. David Lynch · With Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Patrick Stewart
To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
Dir. David Lynch · With Dorothy McGinnis, Virginia Maitland, Robert Chadwick
A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
Dir. David Lynch · With Peggy Reavey
Lynch's first film project consists of a looping animation of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces.
Dir. David Lynch
A double amputee attempts to write a letter while her nurse gets in the way.
Dir. David Lynch · With Catherine E. Coulson, David Lynch