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Guillermo del Toro has 27 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Pan's Labyrinth.
2013
Documentary
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013 · Movie · Writer
Top 2%Max · Included
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
2016 · Series · Creator
Top 2%Netflix · Included
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Movie · Writer
Top 3%Max · Included
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Movie · Writer
Top 4%Max · Included
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 6%Netflix · Included
Frankenstein
2025 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 7%Netflix · Included
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
Dir. Peter Jackson · With Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage
After uncovering a mysterious amulet, an average teen assumes an unlikely destiny and sets out to save two worlds.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Lexi Medrano, Charlie Saxton, Amy Landecker
Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
Dir. Peter Jackson · With Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
Dir. Peter Jackson · With Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
Dir. Mark Gustafson, Guillermo del Toro · With Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi
Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Idris Elba
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins
Hellboy, his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz, and aquatic empath, Abe Sapien, face their biggest battle when an underworld elven prince plans to reclaim Earth for his magical kindred. Tired of living in the shadow of humans, Prince Nuada tries to awaken an ancient force of killing machines, the all-powerful Golden Army, to clear the way for fantasy creatures to roam free. Only Hellboy can stop the dark prince and prevent humanity's annihilation.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones
as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Pit and the Pendulum') · Voice
Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.
Dir. Raúl García · With Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands
The Guardians of Arcadia reunite to battle the nefarious Arcane Order, who've reawakened the primordial Titans.
Dir. Johane Matte, Francisco Ruiz Velasco, Andrew L. Schmidt · With Emile Hirsch, Lexi Medrano, Charlie Saxton
Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend... The Boots.
Dir. Chris Miller · With Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinault, Zach Galifianakis
Merlin’s apprentice joins Arcadia’s heroes on a time-bending adventure in Camelot, where conflict is brewing between the human, troll and magical worlds.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Lena Headey, Alfred Molina, Colin O'Donoghue
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America against dark forces.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette
Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Giancarlo Giannini
Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro
The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.
Dir. Alexandre O. Philippe · With Emilie Germain, Osgood Perkins, Peter Bogdanovich
In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook
A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro, Carlton Cuse · With Corey Stoll, Kevin Durand, Miguel Gómez
After crash-landing on Earth, two royal teen aliens on the run struggle to blend in with humans as they evade intergalactic bounty hunters.
Dir. Guillermo del Toro · With Tatiana Maslany, Frank Welker, Cheryl Hines
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
Dir. Troy Nixey · With Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison
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