David Cronenberg
Known for: Directing
Born: March 15, 1943
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
David Paul Cronenberg (born 15 March 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a principal originator of the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infectious diseases, and the intertwining of the psychological, physical, and technological. Cronenberg is best known for exploring these themes through sci-fi horror films such as Shivers (1975), Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983), and The Fly (1986). However, he has also directed dramas, psychological thrillers, and gangster films. Cronenberg's films have polarized critics and audiences; he has earned critical acclaim and sparked controversy for his depictions of gore and violence. The Village Voice called him "the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world". His films have won numerous awards, including the Special Jury Prize for Crash at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, a unique award that is distinct from the Jury Prize as it is not given annually but only at the request of the official jury, who in this case gave the award "for originality, for daring, and for audacity". From the 2000s to the 2020s, Cronenberg collaborated on several films with Viggo Mortensen, including A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), A Dangerous Method (2011) and Crimes of the Future (2022). Seven of his films were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or, the most recent being The Shrouds (2024), which was screened at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Cronenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
132 movies · 21 TV shows, newest first
8.0
Music, Fashion, Film
2026
7.6
Ready or Not: Here I Come
2026
NR
Cronenberg, à corps ouvert
2025
4.0
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2025
6.3
Sangre del Toro
2025
5.8
The Shrouds
2025
5.4
Humane
2024
6.9
Leo
2023
5.8
Room 999
2023
NR
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
2023
5.0
Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection
2023
6.1
The Death of David Cronenberg
2023
6.0
Crimes of the Future
2022
NR
Slasher: Flesh & Blood
2021
6.4
Falling
2020
5.5
Disappearance at Clifton Hill
2020
5.8
Rabid
2019
7.0
Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece
2019
6.0
A Kaleidoscope of Meaning: Colour in Don't Look Now
2019
8.0
L’inquiétante absence
2019
5.4
The Dead Don't Die
2019
10.0
The Drema
2019
7.5
Konbini Vidéo Club
2018
7.2
Alias Grace
2017
6.9
Star Trek: Discovery
2017
3.0
Ape Sodom
2016
NR
Tomorrow's Shadows
2016
6.7
Slasher
2016
4.3
Pig Goat Banana Cricket
20155.2
The Scanners Way: Creating the Special Effects in 'Scanners'
2014
6.2
Maps to the Stars
2014NR
Mental Saboteur
2014
6.5
The Double
2014
2.0
Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk
2014
6.4
Tales from the Organ Trade
20132.5
Candy
2013
5.0
The Nest
2013
5.6
Rewind
2013
6.9
Pacific Rim
20136.1
Citizens of Cosmopolis
2012
5.7
Cosmopolis
2012
5.3
A Special Day
2012
6.3
A Dangerous Method
2011
NR
Down to Sleep
2011
NR
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
2011
2.0
Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter
2011
NR
Cronenberg: The Early Years
2011
7.0
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
2010
6.5
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
7.0
Barney's Version
2010
6.1
Happy Town
2010NR
Crank Up
2010
4.4
Tub
2010
NR
The Plan
2008NR
On Screen!: Shivers
2008
6.4
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
7.3
Eastern Promises
2007
5.0
At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World
2007NR
Karim
2007
6.3
Shortbus
20066.0
The Politics of the Dead Zone
2006
5.1
Skinwalkers
2006
8.5
Too Commercial for Cannes
2006
8.0
Acts of Violence
2006
8.0
Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly
2005
7.2
A History of Violence
2005
NR
Le Cercle
2005
9.0
The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter
2005
6.7
Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
2004
6.0
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2004
3.5
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
7.8
Masters of Horror
2002
6.6
Spider
2002
7.0
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of "Jason X"
2002
4.9
Jason X
2001
6.8
Alias
2001
5.3
The Judge
20014.5
The Judge
2001
NR
Resolving Power
2001
7.0
Imagining 'Total Recall'
2001
NR
Preludes
2000
6.8
The American Nightmare
2000
6.1
Camera
2000
NR
Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier
20007.8
David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh
1999
6.1
Resurrection
1999
6.8
eXistenZ
1999
6.7
Last Night
19984.0
SexTV
1998
4.9
I'm Losing You
1998
3.3
The Grace of God
1998
6.0
David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme
1997
8.0
The Newsroom
1996
6.0
Extreme Measures
1996
4.8
The Stupids
1996
6.5
Crash
1996
6.4
Moonshine Highway
1996
6.6
To Die For
1995
5.4
Blood & Donuts
1995
5.2
Scanner Cop II
1995
6.5
Boozecan
1994
5.4
Trial by Jury
1994
5.7
Scanner Cop
1994
6.0
Henry & Verlin
1994
6.6
M. Butterfly
1993
7.3
Naked Making Lunch
1992
4.4
Scanners III: The Takeover
1992
6.0
Blue
1992
7.0
Naked Lunch
1991
6.8
Highway 61
1991
5.3
Scanners II: The New Order
199110.0
Scales of Justice
1990
6.4
Nightbreed
1990
8.5
Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard
1990
5.9
Prisoners of Gravity
1989
7.1
Dead Ringers
1988
8.0
The Making of Dead Ringers
1988
7.3
Friday the 13th: The Series
1987
7.4
Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg
1987
7.4
The Fly
1986
6.5
Into the Night
1985
7.0
The Dead Zone
1983
7.3
Videodrome
1983
7.3
The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
1982
6.1
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
7.0
Take One: Fear on Film
1982
7.0
Escape from New York
1981
6.7
Scanners
1981
6.7
The Brood
1979
5.1
Fast Company
1979
6.3
Rabid
19778.0
Teleplay
1976
4.6
Cérémonie des César
19767.5
Peep Show
1975
6.4
Shivers
1975
6.6
Across This Land with Stompin' Tom Connors
1973
9.0
Winter Garden
197210.0
Scarborough Bluffs
19728.0
Lakeshore
197210.0
In the Dirt
197210.0
Fort York
197210.0
Don Valley
19727.0
Tourrettes
19717.0
Letter from Michelangelo
19719.0
Jim Ritchie Sculptor
19717.0
Programme X
1971
4.8
Crimes of the Future
1970
5.5
Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic)
1969
7.0
Palace of Pleasure
1967
4.5
From the Drain
1967
NR
Buffalo Airport Visions
1967
5.2
Transfer
1966NR
David Cronenberg, en chair et en os
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