David Cronenberg

Directing · 2.4 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

Into the Night

19856.5

Humane

20245.4

Extreme Measures

19966.0

Rewind

20135.6

Shivers

19756.4

Disappearance at Clifton Hill

20205.5

Music, Fashion, Film

20267.5

A Special Day

20126.0

Barney's Version

20107.0

Falling

20206.4

Resurrection

19996.1

To Each His Own Cinema

20076.5

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

20107.0

The Stupids

19964.9

100 Greatest Sexy Moments

20033.5

Last Night

19986.6

Trial by Jury

19945.4

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

20106.5

The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld

2025

David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh

19997.8

The Judge

20015.3

Citizens of Cosmopolis

20126.1

Masters of Horror

20027.8

The Death of David Cronenberg

20216.1

The American Nightmare

20006.8

Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg

19877.4

Tales from the Organ Trade

20136.4

The Nest

20135.0

Naked Making Lunch

19927.3

Produce Your Own Damn Movie!

2011

Room 999

20235.6

The Making of Dead Ringers

19888.0

Boozecan

19946.5

Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh

20046.7

Sangre del Toro

20256.2

Moonshine Highway

19966.4

Take One: Fear on Film

19827.0

Ape Sodom

20163.0

Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard

19908.5

The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome

19827.3

Blood & Donuts

19955.4

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

20046.0

Too Commercial for Cannes

20068.5

The Politics of the Dead Zone

20066.0

Cronenberg: The Early Years

2011

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

20075.0

Palace of Pleasure

19677.0

Henry & Verlin

19946.0

Blue

19926.0

David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme

19976.0

David Cronenberg, en chair et en os

2026

The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter

20059.0

On Screen!: Shivers

2008

Tomorrow's Shadows

2016

Cronenberg, à corps ouvert

2025

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

20027.0

The Grace of God

19983.3

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

2000

Buffalo Airport Visions

1967

L’inquiétante absence

20198.0

Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece

20197.0

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

20196.0

Acts of Violence

20068.0