David Cronenberg films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 26 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for A History of Violence, Eastern Promises and Dead Ringers.

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Dead Ringers
1988 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly...
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To Die For
1995 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with...
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Videodrome
1983 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the...
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Ready or Not: Here I Come
2026 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her...
Alias Grace
2017 · TV
7.4/10 · TMDB
Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are...
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Falling
2020 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.
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Humane
2024 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
In the wake of an environmental collapse that has forced humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.
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Disappearance at Clifton Hill
2020 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Following the death of her mother, a young woman returns home to Niagara Falls and becomes entangled in the memory of a kidnapping she claims to have witnessed as a child.
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Extreme Measures
1996 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the...
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Nightbreed
1990 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.
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Into the Night
1985 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
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Jason X
2001 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to...
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A History of Violence
2005 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
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Eastern Promises
2007 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
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Dead Ringers
1988 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly...
Where to watch:+2+ rent/buy
Videodrome
1983 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
The Dead Zone
1983 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into...
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eXistenZ
1999 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
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.
The Brood
1979 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
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Spider
2002 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
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.
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The Shrouds
2025 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Inconsolable since the death of his wife, Karsh, a prominent businessman, invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including...
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A Dangerous Method
2011 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under...
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Naked Lunch
1991 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he...
Shivers
1975 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
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.
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Scanners
1981 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other...
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Crimes of the Future
2022 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin, an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their...
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Maps to the Stars
2014 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
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Cosmopolis
2012 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.
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M. Butterfly
1993 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
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.
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