David Lynch's Full Filmography
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1. Six Men Getting Sick (1967)
TV-PG | 4 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.
Director: David Lynch
Votes: 6,480
2. The Alphabet (1969)
TV-MA | 4 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
Director: David Lynch | Star: Peggy Reavey
Votes: 8,538
3. The Grandmother (1970)
Not Rated | 34 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Dorothy McGinnis, Richard White, Virginia Maitland, Robert Chadwick
Votes: 7,346
4. The Amputee (1974)
TV-MA | 9 min | Short, Comedy
A double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Catherine E. Coulson, David Lynch
Votes: 4,823
5. Eraserhead (1977)
Not Rated | 89 min | Fantasy, Horror
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates
Votes: 127,352 | Gross: $7.00M
6. The Elephant Man (1980)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Votes: 258,287
7. Dune (1984)
PG-13 | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis to free their desert world from the emperor's rule.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino
Votes: 179,030 | Gross: $30.93M
8. Blue Velvet (1986)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Votes: 215,544 | Gross: $8.55M
9.
The French as Seen by... (1988– )
Episode:
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
(1988)
26 min | Comedy, Drama
Little seen short film by David Lynch is set on a ranch in the turn-of-the-20th Century Wild West, USA and is a collision of cultures.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Frederic Golchan, Tracey Walter, Jack Nance
Votes: 1,352
10. Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1992 TV Movie)
50 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
The performer of Twin Peaks theme Julee Cruise's experimental concert film, which opens with a short intro where a man breaks up with his girl over the phone, which devastates her. The concert is set in her nightmarish subconscious mind.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Julee Cruise, Lisa Giobbi
Votes: 1,923
11. Wild at Heart (1990)
R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, J.E. Freeman
Votes: 100,880 | Gross: $14.56M
12. American Chronicles (1990)
30 min | Documentary
A three-month series of documentaries, hosted by actor Richard Dreyfuss, look at some of the more unusual aspects of American society. Considering that the director is David Lynch, the ... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Horse
Votes: 76
13.
Twin Peaks (1990–1991)
Episode:
Northwest Passage
(1989)
Unrated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The small northwest town of Twin Peaks, Washington is shaken up when the body of the Homecoming Queen, Laura Palmer, is discovered washed up on a riverbank, wrapped in plastic.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 16,826
14.
Twin Peaks (1990–1991)
Episode:
Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
(1990)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ben Horne's brother, Jerry, arrives in Twin Peaks; together they travel to One Eyed Jack's and meet with the madam, Blackie O'Reilly. Audrey leaves a clue for Cooper. Deputy Hawk finds a bloody towel near the crime scene.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 6,702
15.
Twin Peaks (1990–1991)
Episode:
May the Giant Be with You
(1990)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wounded Agent Cooper has a vision of a giant who gives him several clues about the murder of Laura Palmer. Shelly and Pete recover from the mill fire, but Josie and Catherine are missing.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 5,659
16.
Twin Peaks (1990–1991)
Episode:
Coma
(1990)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Albert determines that neither Leo nor Jacques killed Laura, but he is unable to find any leads into who shot Cooper. Cooper says they must find the third man, who he believes to be Bob, the gray-haired man.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 4,782
17.
Twin Peaks (1990–1991)
Episode:
Lonely Souls
(1990)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Cooper and the One-Armed Man inspect guests at the Great Northern. Hawk finds Harold Smith dead - with a mysterious suicide note and the diary torn to shreds. Leo speaks to Bobby about "new shoes."
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 6,419
18.
Twin Peaks (1990–1991)
Episode:
Beyond Life and Death
(1991)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Agent Cooper follows Windom Earle and Annie into the depths of the Black Lodge. Big Ed and Norma get a shock when Nadine suffers head trauma. Andrew and Pete unlock Eckhardt's final box and Audrey stages an act of civil disobedience.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 6,206
19. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
R | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Laura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 105,071 | Gross: $4.16M
20.
On the Air (1992)
Episode:
The Lester Guy Show
(1992)
25 min | Comedy
It is hours before the debut of "The Lester Guy Show" and the cast and crew are frantically putting the final touches on the show, including rehearsing the dramatic centerpiece, the Kitchen... See full summary »
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Ian Buchanan, Nancye Ferguson, Miguel Ferrer, Gary Grossman
Votes: 156
21.
Hotel Room (1993)
Episode:
Blackout
(1993)
47 min | Drama, Mystery
Two people have come to New York in order to see a specialist Doctor. In the Hotel the night before the appointment in an electrical blackout, we get to know the client/patient and her husband.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Crispin Glover, Alicia Witt, Clark Heathcliff Brolly
Votes: 196
22.
Hotel Room (1993)
Episode:
Tricks
(1993)
31 min | Drama, Mystery
A man arrives in a hotel room in 1969 with a New York City hooker originally from Iowa. The mysteries only expand from there.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Glenne Headly, Freddie Jones, Harry Dean Stanton, Clark Heathcliff Brolly
Votes: 181
23. Lumière and Company (1995)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Drama
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.
Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda, John Boorman, Youssef Chahine, Alain Corneau, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Peter Greenaway, Lasse Hallström, Hugh Hudson, Gaston Kaboré, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Arthur Penn, Lucian Pintilie, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Nadine Trintignant, Fernando Trueba, Liv Ullmann, Jaco Van Dormael, Régis Wargnier, Wim Wenders, Yoshishige Yoshida, Yimou Zhang, Merzak Allouache, Gabriel Axel, Michael Haneke, James Ivory, Patrice Leconte, David Lynch, Ismail Merchant, Claude Miller, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Jacques Rivette | Stars: Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Merzak Allouache, Jeffe Alperi
Votes: 3,347
24. Lost Highway (1997)
R | 134 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Anonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito
Votes: 153,085 | Gross: $3.80M
25. Mulholland Dr. (1999 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 88 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a car wreck, an amnesiac woman sets out to learn what happened to her with the help of a wannabe actress.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller
Votes: 9,846
26. The Straight Story (1999)
G | 112 min | Biography, Drama
An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter
Votes: 97,388 | Gross: $6.20M
27. Mulholland Drive (2001)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates
Votes: 383,516 | Gross: $7.22M
28. Eraserhead Stories (2001 Video)
85 min | Documentary
The enduring hope that humanity may or may not persevere. A tale of love and abandonment.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Catherine E. Coulson, David Lynch, Jack Nance
Votes: 575
29. Rabbits (2002)
43 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
In a nameless city deluged by continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Scott Coffey, Rebekah Del Rio, Laura Harring, Naomi Watts
Votes: 8,246
30. DumbLand (2002)
TV-MA | 35 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A series of 5-minute line animations (drawn in the rough style and with the minimalist plots of David Lynch's The Angriest Dog in the World comic strip) featuring an angry and violent Neanderthal, and his family and neighbors.
Star: David Lynch
Votes: 3,149
31. Darkened Room (2002)
8 min | Short
John's struggle to get out of a locked room with a sinister secret inside.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Jordan Ladd, Etsuko Shikata, Cerina Vincent
Votes: 2,632
32. The Short Films of David Lynch (2002 Video)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, Animation, Drama
A collection of visionary director David Lynch's short films from the first 29 years of his career is accompanied by a special introduction to each film by the director himself.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Jeffe Alperi, Robert Chadwick, Catherine E. Coulson, Eddy Dixon
Votes: 3,403
33. Inland Empire (2006)
R | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Laura Dern
Votes: 61,884 | Gross: $0.75M
34. Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com (2007 Video)
120 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Over two hours of original content previously only available to members of DavidLynch.com.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Jordan Ladd, Etsuko Shikata, Cerina Vincent, David Lynch
Votes: 246
35. Boat (2007 Video)
8 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A journey into night.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: David Lynch, Emily Stofle
Votes: 1,371
36. 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: 5,451
37. More Things That Happened (2007 Video)
76 min | Drama, Mystery
A collection of deleted scenes from David Lynch's 2006 surrealist horror 'Inland Empire'
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Peter J. Lucas, William Maier, Krzysztof Majchrzak
Votes: 793
38. 42 One Dream Rush (2010)
42 min | Short, Fantasy
An omnibus of short films by auteur directors based on Dreams.
Directors: Kenneth Anger, Asia Argento, Tadanobu Asano, Sergei Bodrov, Charles Burnett, Brian Butler, Jonathan Caouette, Leos Carax, Niki Caro, Yung Chang, Michele Civetta, Larry Clark, Joe Coleman, Zachary Croitoroo, Abel Ferrara, Mike Figgis, James Franco, Chris Graham, Florian Habicht, Rinko Kikuchi, Terence Koh, Harmony Korine, Ye Lou, David Lynch, Griffin Marcus, Ryan McGinley, Rajan Mehta, Jonas Mekas, Chris Milk, Grant Morrison, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Gaspar Noé, Dee Poon, Cat Power, Matt Pyke, Carlos Reygadas, Lola Schnabel, Floria Sigismondi, Mote Sinabel, Taika Waititi, Arden Wohl, Yuan Zhang | Stars: Kenneth Anger, Tadanobu Asano, Brian Butler, Helena Christensen
Votes: 537
39. Lady Blue Shanghai (2010)
16 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
A nameless woman enters her Shanghai hotel room to find a vintage record playing and a blue Dior purse that seems to come from nowhere.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Clark Gong, Emily Stofle, Cheng Hong
Votes: 1,968
40. Interpol: I Touch a Red Button (2011 Music Video)
6 min | Animation, Short, Music
A short animated film that accompanies Interpol's song "Lights".
Director: David Lynch
Votes: 584
41. The 3 Rs (2011)
1 min | Short
One-minute short film, used as a trailer for the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale).
Director: David Lynch | Star: Mindy Ramaker
Votes: 1,344
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