Directed by David Cronenberg, a list by smccrack

7.6

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74

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73

/3585/

3.9

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90

/200/

83

/20489/

83

/35/

4.0

age 18+

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

80

7.6

/221394/

75

/7530/

74

/4793/

4.0

/494038/

94

/78/

83

/3631/

81

/12/

age 16+

When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

78

7.4

/270334/

72

/6602/

71

/3572/

3.7

/242143/

88

/222/

76

/11063/

82

/37/

3.5

age 18+

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

76

7.2

/58163/

71

/1438/

71

/966/

3.9

/123826/

86

/50/

82

/1056/

86

/15/

2.5

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, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.

75

7.2

/83599/

71

/2614/

70

/1763/

3.5

/102014/

89

/54/

77

/1349/

69

/8/

3.5

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 the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

73

7.2

/111591/

71

/3684/

72

/2385/

3.9

/342287/

83

/60/

80

/2714/

58

/6/

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 show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

72

6.7

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65

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66

/910/

3.4

/30325/

84

/140/

68

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83

/35/

3.0

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.

71

6.8

/112609/

69

/3924/

68

/2095/

3.6

/121916/

77

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69

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70

/29/

3.0

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.

70

6.9

/60292/

70

/1448/

70

/1169/

3.8

/97255/

73

/40/

77

/1884/

67

/16/

2.5

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 accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

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6.4

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64

/2429/

63

/2169/

3.1

/75101/

78

/189/

50

/1765/

76

/41/

3.5

age 18+

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 Sabina’s spell.

66

6.4

/71675/

65

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65

/1274/

3.7

/227630/

65

/63/

61

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53

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3.5

A car crash victim suddenly finds himself turned on by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground sub-culture of like-minded souls.

65

5.7

/7981/

53

/523/

58

/189/

3.0

/63585/

75

/187/

51

/22/

72

/37/

4.0

age 17+

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 that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated, and he sets out to track down the perpetrators.

73

65

6.7

/5770/

67

/112/

65

/149/

3.5

/11358/

100

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71

/133/

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

64

5.8

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57

/2770/

60

/1224/

3.3

/216487/

80

/286/

50

/62/

68

/55/

3.0

age 17+

With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use the artist's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

64

6.7

/66876/

67

/2011/

67

/1307/

3.5

/143580/

69

/45/

64

/1382/

60

/8/

2.0

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. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

64

6.3

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62

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63

/693/

3.2

/54702/

85

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58

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58

/9/

2.5

The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.

63

6.8

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67

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67

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3.6

/95100/

81

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68

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63

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1.0

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.

62

6.3

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64

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63

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3.2

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78

/27/

46

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56

/9/

After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a retractable, vampiric stinger in her armpit and a thirst for human blood.

62

6.2

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60

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62

/1121/

3.3

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63

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44

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68

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3.0

age 18+

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.

59

6.7

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65

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65

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3.5

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36

/22/

67

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43

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2.5

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.

53

5.1

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52

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56

/1314/

3.0

/66637/

67

/185/

31

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58

/35/

2.0

age 17+

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.

56

49

5.4

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57

/105/

50

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2.7

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89

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29

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63

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An over the hill drag racer finds himself considering retirement and ceding the spotlight to his protégé and targeted for replacement by the oil-company executive who sponsors his team.

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45

6.9

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61

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3.7

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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.

49

44

4.7

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49

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48

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2.5

/13419/

67

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28

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58

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Crimes of the Future is set in a future where sexually mature women appear to have been obliterated by a plague produced by the use of cosmetics. The film details the wanderings of Adrian Tripod, director of the dermatological clinic the House of Skin. Tripod seems at a loss following the disappearance of his mentor Antoine Rouge.

48

40

5.1

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54

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54

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2.7

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57

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29

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42

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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.

59

31

6.1

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54

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61

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3.0

/5778/

David Cronenberg stands in a softly lit bedroom and looks deeply into the camera before his gaze shifts to a motionless figure in the bed...

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5.6

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56

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50

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3.0

/3507/

A doctor must remove a parasite infestation from within a patient's breast.

57

26

5.5

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60

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51

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3.1

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Long live the new flesh. Surgery is the new sex. These Cronenbergian epigrams come together in a tableau that reimagines the ecstasy and eroticism of Renaissance sculpture for the future. Or is it already the present?

45

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4.5

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44

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2.5

/2262/

The film is centered on two men in a bathtub; it is implied that they are veterans of some past conflict. The first man is paranoid about the drain of the tub, the second indifferent to it. As the conversation between the two men progresses, a vine-like tendril emerges from the drain…

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4.4

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44

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2.5

/2431/

A psychiatrist and his patient discuss their relationship in a snow-covered field.

64

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6.1

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3.4

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A short film made for "To Each His Own Cinema". In an unspecified future, a man prepares to kill himself in a cinema toilet. Two unseen radio commentators say he is the last Jew in the world, and that this is the last cinema, slated for destruction. They are not sorry to see it go.

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20

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Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival. Each film screened as a prelude to a feature film in the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival program. The full "Preludes" anthology was screened on the web in November 2000, and was given theatrical retrospectives at the TIFF Lightbox in the subsequent years.

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5.1

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A short documentary produced for Canadian public television.

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4.4

/32/

15

/2/

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television.

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4.6

/31/

15

/2/

A recording of the eponymous ballet choreographed by Olga Roriz, produced for Canadian public television.

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5.5

/36/

15

/2/

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television.

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5.8

/33/

15

/2/

The work of Montreal sculptor Jim Ritchie, living in France at the time. There is no narration but a music track accompanies this documentary for Canadian public television made by David Cronenberg while in France.

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5.7

/32/

15

/2/

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television.

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5.1

/29/

20

/1/

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television.

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5.5

/43/

15

/2/

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television about the medieval village of Tourrettes-sur-Loup, where Cronenberg stayed in 1971 and had since been an honorary citizen, trying to become a novelist.

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4.9

/28/

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