David Cronenberg

Directing · 2.3 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: March 15, 1943
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography

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.

Works

71 films

Ready or Not: Here I Come

20267.6

The Fly

19867.4

Crash

19966.5

Jason X

20014.9

Videodrome

19837.2

To Die For

19956.6

Nightbreed

19906.4

Dead Ringers

19887.1

Humane

20245.4

Into the Night

19856.5

Extreme Measures

19966.0

Music, Fashion, Film

20267.5

Shivers

19756.4

Falling

20206.4

Disappearance at Clifton Hill

20205.5

Barney's Version

20107.0

A Special Day

20126.0

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

20107.0

The Stupids

19964.9

Resurrection

19996.1

To Each His Own Cinema

20076.5

100 Greatest Sexy Moments

20033.5

Rewind

20135.6

Last Night

19986.6

The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld

20254.0

Citizens of Cosmopolis

20126.1

Trial by Jury

19945.4

The Judge

20015.3

David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh

19997.8

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

20106.5

Room 999

20235.6

The Death of David Cronenberg

20216.1

The American Nightmare

20006.8

Masters of Horror

20027.8

Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh

20046.7

Boozecan

19946.5

Tales from the Organ Trade

20136.4

Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg

19877.4

Naked Making Lunch

19927.3

David Cronenberg, en chair et en os

2026

The Making of Dead Ringers

19888.0

The Nest

20135.0

At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World

20075.0

Cronenberg: The Early Years

2011

Produce Your Own Damn Movie!

2011

Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard

19908.5

Sangre del Toro

20256.2

On Screen!: Shivers

2008

Take One: Fear on Film

19827.0

Moonshine Highway

19966.4

Ape Sodom

20163.0

Blood & Donuts

19955.4

Palace of Pleasure

19677.0

Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche

20046.0

Too Commercial for Cannes

20068.5

The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome

19827.3

Henry & Verlin

19946.0

Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece

20197.0

David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme

19976.0

The Politics of the Dead Zone

20066.0

The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter

20059.0

Blue

19926.0

Cronenberg, à corps ouvert

2025

Buffalo Airport Visions

1967

The Grace of God

19983.3

Tomorrow's Shadows

2016

Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier

2000

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of "Jason X"

20027.0

L’inquiétante absence

20198.0

A Kaleidoscope of Meaning: Colour in Don't Look Now

20196.0

Acts of Violence

20068.0