Guy Maddin
Known for: Directing
Born: February 28, 1956
Place of birth: Winnipeg, Canada
Guy Maddin CM OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His most distinctive quality is his penchant for recreating the look and style of silent or early sound era films which has solidified his popularity and acclaim in alternative film circles. Since completing his first film in 1985, Maddin has become one of Canada's most well-known and celebrated film-makers. Maddin has directed eleven feature films and numerous short films, in addition to publishing three books and creating a host of installation art projects. A number of Maddin's recent films began as or developed from installation art projects, and his books also relate to his film work. Maddin has been the subject of much critical praise and academic attention, including two books of interviews with Maddin and two book-length academic studies of his work. Maddin was appointed to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour, in 2012.
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Filmography
86 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
6.5
The Vampire Lestat
2026
4.8
City Wide Fever
2026
4.9
Rumours
2024
NR
Haunted Hotel: A Melodrama in Augmented Reality
2022
2.8
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
NR
Horse Brothers
2022
7.6
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
NR
Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist
2021
4.2
The Rabbit Hunters
2020
6.5
Stump the Guesser
2020
5.5
J.T. LeRoy
2019
6.7
Accidence
2018
6.1
The Green Fog
2018
1.0
Trump Dreams
2017
NR
Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
2017
6.2
The Amazed Spectator
2016
5.6
The Forbidden Room
2015
5.0
Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton
2015
6.0
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
20157.0
Once a Chicken
2015
7.0
Lines of the Hand
2015
6.2
Louis Riel for Dinner
2014
5.5
The Hall Runner
2014
5.0
Colours
2014
4.0
Puberty
20146.5
Elms
2014
5.0
Cold
2014
5.8
Invisible World
20136.0
Only Dream Things
2012
5.4
Keyhole
2011
NR
Sinclair
2010
5.2
How to Take a Bath
2009
5.9
The Little White Cloud That Cried
2009
7.3
It Came from Kuchar
2009
6.3
Night Mayor
2009NR
Experiments in Terror 3
2009
6.4
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
2009
3.5
Glorious
2008
5.4
Spanky: To the Pier and Back
2008
NR
My Winnipeg: Live in Toronto
2008
6.2
97 Percent True
20085.2
Footsteps
2008
4.2
It's My Mother's Birthday Today
2008
6.9
My Winnipeg
2008NR
Death of the Reel
2008
NR
Berlin
2007
6.6
Brand Upon the Brain!
2007
5.8
Odin's Shield Maiden
2007
NR
Manuelle Labor
2007
NR
Lullaby
2007
7.1
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
2006
4.2
Nude Caboose
2006
NR
Workbook
2006
4.0
Audition One
2005
NR
Audition Two
2005
NR
Chimney Workbook
2005
6.0
FuseBoy
2005
6.0
Sorrowful Shadow
2004
5.3
Sissy-Boy Slap-Party
2004
5.9
A Trip to the Orphanage
2004
6.9
The Saddest Music in the World
2003
6.1
Cowards Bend the Knee
20035.1
Fancy, Fancy Being Rich
2002
6.7
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
2002
6.0
Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse
2001
5.3
It's a Wonderful Life
2001
NR
Preludes
2000
7.1
The Heart of the World
2000
7.4
Vinyl
2000
4.2
Nostradamus
2000
5.9
Hospital Fragment
1999
7.3
The Cock Crew
1998
8.0
Maldoror: Tygers
1998
5.9
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
1997
7.3
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
1997
6.0
Rooster Workbook
1997
4.3
Zookeeper Workbook
1997
6.5
Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
1995
9.0
The Hands of Ida
1995
6.0
Careful
1992
8.0
Indigo High-Hatters
1991
5.5
Archangel
1990
5.9
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
19886.3
The Dead Father
1985
8.5
The International Style
19837.5
Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms
1982
NR
The Triangular Door
—NR
Nightingale
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