David Cronenberg's Films
by KasparM | created - 27 Nov 2011 | updated - 27 Nov 2011 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Transfer (1966)
7 min | Short, Comedy
A psychiatrist, referred to only as Doctor, is living alone in a snowy field surrounded by pine woods. When a former patient named Ralph appears, the Doctor is distraught. Ralph has been following him obsessively.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Rafe Macpherson, Mort Ritts
Votes: 604
2. From the Drain (1967)
14 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Some time in the near future two veterans from some conflict engage in a conversation while sitting in a bath.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Mort Ritts, Stefan Nosko
Votes: 796
3. Stereo (1969)
Not Rated | 65 min | Sci-Fi
A group of Canadian university students agree to partake in a grisly psychological experiment, which renders them incapable of speech but able to communicate telepathically.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Ronald Mlodzik, Jack Messinger, Paul Mulholland, Iain Ewing
Votes: 2,611
4. Crimes of the Future (1970)
Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In a dystopic world where a plague is killing off pubescent human females, an esoteric researcher seeks his missing mentor while trying to retain morality in the sex-obsessed society he lives in.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty, Paul Mulholland
Votes: 3,044
5. Letter from Michelangelo (1971 TV Movie)
27 min | Documentary
Director: David Cronenberg | Star: Paul Mulholland
Votes: 31
7. Jim Ritchie Sculptor (1971 TV Movie)
27 min | Documentary
The work of Montreal sculptor Jim Ritchie, living in France at the time. There is no narration but a music track accompanies this filler for Canadian television made by David Cronenberg while in France.
Director: David Cronenberg
Votes: 29
9.
Programme X (1970– )
Episode:
Secret Weapons
(1972)
30 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
It's 1977, the fifth year of the American Civil War, and corporations dominate society. The only resistance comes from roving motorcycle gangs.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Charles Oberdorf, Lister Sinclair, Barbara O'Kelly, Norman Snider
Votes: 107
10. Winter Garden (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 27 min
Recording and editing of the homonym ballet, choreographed by Olga Roriz, for the Companhia Olga Roriz. At the garden's house near the sea, she waits. She goes forward and then stops. She ... See full summary »
Director: David Cronenberg
Votes: 26
15.
Peep Show (1975–1976)
Episode:
The Lie Chair
(1976)
30 min | Comedy
A couple gets marooned in an isolated household. The owner and her helper live under the geise that deceased loved ones still live. This gets projected on the unrelated couple who start to become affected themselves....
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Amelia Hall, Susan Hogan, Richard Monette, Doris Petrie
Votes: 118
16.
Peep Show (1975–1976)
Episode:
The Victim
(1976)
30 min | Comedy
A woman receives a crank call from a secret admirer. After she becomes interested in him he becomes abusive, so she hatches a plan, reversing the roles, making him the victim instead.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Cedric Smith, Jonathan Welsh, Janet Wright
Votes: 14
17. Shivers (1975)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Allan Kolman
Votes: 23,570
18.
Teleplay (1976–1977)
Episode:
The Italian Machine
(1976)
30 min | Drama
This TV play, written and directed David Cronenberg, explores one of his enduring themes: obsessive relationships with technology. A group of bike fanatics determine to get their hands on a... See full summary »
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Gary McKeehan, Frank Moore, Hardee T. Lineham, Chuck Shamata
Votes: 141
19. Rabid (1977)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Terry Schonblum, Joe Silver
Votes: 21,379
20. Fast Company (1979)
R | 91 min | Drama, Sport
After his sponsor replaces him with his arch rival, a race-car driver decides to steal the car and race it himself.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon, Nicholas Campbell
Votes: 2,614
21. The Brood (1979)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman
Votes: 34,296
22. Scanners (1981)
R | 103 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane
Votes: 61,724 | Gross: $14.23M
23. Videodrome (1983)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky
Votes: 102,933 | Gross: $2.12M
24. The Dead Zone (1983)
R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom
Votes: 77,289 | Gross: $20.77M
25. The Fly (1986)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel
Votes: 201,818 | Gross: $40.46M
26.
Friday the 13th: The Series (1987–1990)
Episode:
Faith Healer
(1988)
TV-14 | 45 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
An unscrupulous faith healer discovers a powerful glove that turns him into a killer.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: John D. LeMay, Louise Robey, Chris Wiggins, Miguel Fernandes
Votes: 285
27. Dead Ringers (1988)
R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon
Votes: 53,554 | Gross: $9.13M
28.
Scales of Justice (1990– )
Episode:
Regina vs Horvath
(1991)
48 min | Crime, Drama, History
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Louis Ferreira, Leslie Carlson, Len Doncheff, Michael De Sadeleer
29.
Scales of Justice (1990– )
Episode:
Regina vs Logan
(1990)
Crime, Drama, History
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Gabriel Burrafato, Timm Zemanek
Votes: 18
30. Naked Lunch (1991)
R | 115 min | Drama, Mystery
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands
Votes: 56,643 | Gross: $2.54M
31. M. Butterfly (1993)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson
Votes: 10,950 | Gross: $1.50M
32. Crash (1996)
NC-17 | 100 min | Drama
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger
Votes: 66,337 | Gross: $2.04M
33. eXistenZ (1999)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe
Votes: 107,171 | Gross: $2.84M
34. Camera (III) (2000)
6 min | Short, Drama
While a veteran actor laments the state of film and film acting, a group of young children sneak a Panavision camera into the apartment where the actor resides and decide to make a film with it.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Leslie Carlson, Marc Donato, Harrison Kane, Stephanie Sams
Votes: 1,970
35. Spider (2002)
R | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave
Votes: 41,120 | Gross: $1.64M
36. A History of Violence (2005)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt
Votes: 252,766 | Gross: $31.49M
37. To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.
Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Kaige Chen, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Tsai Ming-liang, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raúl Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Kar-Wai Wong, Yimou Zhang | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Pegah Ahangarani, Anouk Aimée, Leonid Alexeenko
Votes: 5,452
(segment "At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World")
38. Eastern Promises (2007)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Josef Altin
Votes: 261,039 | Gross: $17.11M
39. A Dangerous Method (2011)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel
Votes: 108,328 | Gross: $5.70M
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