David Lynch

David Keith Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 15, 2025) was an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor. Lynch received critical acclaim for his films, which are often distinguished by their surrealist, dreamlike qualities. In his 58-year career, he was awarded numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2006 and an Honorary Academy Award in 2019. In 2007, a panel of critics convened by The Guardian announced that "after all the discussion, no one could fault the conclusion that David Lynch is the most important filmmaker of the current era." Lynch studied painting before he began making short films in the late 1960s. His first feature-length film was the independent surrealist film Eraserhead (1977), which saw success as a midnight movie. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the biographical drama The Elephant Man (1980) and the mystery films Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001). His romantic crime drama Wild at Heart (1990) won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the space opera adaptation Dune (1984), the surrealist neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), the biographical drama The Straight Story (1999), and the experimental film Inland Empire (2006). Lynch and Mark Frost created the ABC series Twin Peaks (1990–91), for which Lynch was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Lynch co-wrote and directed its film prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), and its limited series revival (2017). He has also worked as an actor, including his portrayals of FBI agent Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks and director John Ford in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans (2022), as well as guest roles in TV series such as The Cleveland Show (2010–13), Louie (2012), and Robot Chicken (2020, 2022). Lynch's other artistic endeavours included his work as a musician, encompassing the studio albums BlueBOB (2001), Crazy Clown Time (2011), and The Big Dream (2013), as well as painting and photography. He has written the books Images (1994), Catching the Big Fish (2006), and Room to Dream (2018). He has directed several music videos for artists such as Chris Isaak, X Japan, Moby, Interpol, Nine Inch Nails, and Donovan, and commercials for Calvin Klein, Dior, L'Oreal, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, and the New York City Department of Sanitation. A practitioner of Transcendental Meditation (TM), he founded the David Lynch Foundation, which seeks to fund the teaching of TM in schools and has since widened its scope to other at-risk populations, including the homeless, veterans, and refugees. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Lynch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

5.1

Faraway Eyes

Michael, a struggling actor, dies right after a bad breakup. He finds himself awakening in a very bright room with a very strange lady and learns that he is in singles Purgatory, where he must find his soul mate in order to cross over to the other side. With limited time to find true love among other recently deceased single New Yorkers, Michael must navigate the new customs of a ghostly dating life... as if dating in life wasn't hard enough already.

Release Date:2020-03-07

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:38

A Talk with Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee

A rare joint interview running approximately 90 minutes with the actors behind the iconic characters of Laura Palmer and Special Agent Dale Cooper. Moderated by longtime Lynch collaborator Kristine McKenna, the two stars offer a fascinating and unique perspective of the original series and its pilot, Fire Walk With Me, Twin Peaks: The Return, and their special experiences working with David Lynch.

Release Date:2019-12-10

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

6.8

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.

Release Date:2019-10-25

Character:Self

Vote Count:69

Curtains Up

American auteur David Lynch opens up about the magic of the cinema in this new profile from Stella McCartney. Created by Lynch's son Austin Lynch and fine artist Case Simmons, the creative duo behind Los Angles-based studio Tête-à-Tête, their film offers us a rare insight into Lynch behind the lens, teaching us about his theory of film as well as his lifelong pursuit of transcendental meditation.

Release Date:2018-10-05

Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon

"Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon" is a three-part short documentary briefly chronicling the history of Twin Peaks. Produced and released on YouTube as part of the build-up to the premiere of the 2017 series, it was released on home video as part of Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series and Twin Peaks: From Z to A.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

Plankton Salesmen

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov.

Release Date:2017-10-29

Character:Self (archive footage)

7.3

Lucky

Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.

Release Date:2017-09-29

Character:Howard

Vote Count:577

7.0

The Black Ghiandola

The Black Ghiandola is a story about a young man risking his life to save a young girl he has grown to love, after his family has been killed in the Apocalyptic world of Zombies.

Release Date:2017-04-22

Character:Man In Black

Vote Count:13

6.9

David Lynch: The Art Life

An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.

Release Date:2017-02-15

Character:Self

Vote Count:194

5.0

Girlfriend's Day

When he's caught up in a deadly conspiracy, an unemployed greeting card writer must create the perfect card for a new holiday to save his skin.

Release Date:2017-01-24

Character:Narrator (voice)

Vote Count:150

8.3

Rocksteppy

Phil and Colin Beverly are two inept small-town brothers with big dreams, and a song-and-dance rock group to take them there. When they learn of a 'performance competition' in Austin, Texas called South by Southwest, they set out on a cross-country journey, followed by a camera crew of student filmmakers who document their quest to the top! The top of what, they have no idea.

Release Date:2017-01-01

Character:Himself

Vote Count:3

7.0

Along for the Ride

A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.

Release Date:2016-11-03

Character:Self

Vote Count:11

5.0

Kitsune

A man trapped in purgatory must come face to face with his own demons.

Release Date:2016-10-29

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:1

5.7

Shadows of Paradise

Since the death of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in February 2008, long-time practitioner of Transcendental Meditation and well-known film director David Lynch has been embraced as the movement’s chief international ambassador. Filmmaker Sebastian Lange, who himself was raised in the movement, presents an intimate look at this new phase in the movement’s evolution.

Release Date:2016-10-11

Vote Count:3

6.9

Blue Velvet Revisited

When David Lynch was making his film Blue Velvet, German filmmaker Peter Braatz was also on set, shooting documentary footage with a Super 8 film camera. Now, on Blue Velvet's 30th anniversary, Braatz presents his footage, along with still photographs, as a "meditation" on Lynch's work.

Release Date:2016-10-07

Character:Self

Vote Count:10

8.0

Psychogenic Fugue

Captures John Malkovich impersonating seven of David Lynch’s most popular characters, from Frank Booth of Blue Velvet to Special Agent Dale Cooper of Twin Peaks to even the Lady in the Radiator of Eraserhead.

Release Date:2016-09-27

Department:Crew

Job:Creative Consultant

Vote Count:2

7.0

On Meditation

Peter Matthiessen, David Lynch, and Russell Simmons see among the many celebrity devotees interviewed in this case of Zen Buddhist meditation.

Release Date:2016-07-27

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

4.3

The Reality of Truth

In this documentary, "Zappy" Zapolin interviews spiritual gurus, celebrities, and people of various faiths about the relationship between spirituality, religion, and psychedelics—in their beliefs and in their experiences.

Release Date:2016-07-19

Character:Self

Vote Count:3

Night Flight: Born Again

Documentary tribute to what VH1 called “the single greatest rock omnibus program ever aired” and Brooklyn Vegan named “the most consistently weird and awesome thing on cable television in the ’80s.” This ‘Best Of’ episode features some of the most memorable moments of Night Flight's near-decade long run including restored interviews and segments from Kate Bush, New Wave Theatre, David Lynch, Prince, Wendy O Williams, Divine, Billy Idol, Johnny Rotten, and much more Night Flight treasures from the archive.

Release Date:2016-04-10

Character:Self

8.8

The Music of David Lynch

The David Lynch Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exploration of the director's use of immersive and ambient sound in his films, "Twin Peaks," and his original albums. This tribute concert features performances by Duran Duran, Moby, Donovan and Zola Jesus, among others.

Release Date:2016-04-10

Character:Self

Vote Count:4

7.0

This Is Sparklehorse

An comprehensive look at the life and music of Mark Linkous, a influential figure in the alternative music scene. Critically-acclaimed Linkous had a dramatic life that saw him battle with drug and alcohol addiction, paralysis, and debilitating depression that resulted in his eventual suicide. Mark's music was heralded by his peers and critics; a mix of delicate pop, discordant punk and melodic odyssey; it has been described as defiantly surrealist with all manner of references to smiling babies, organ music, birds, and celestial bodies. The film mines Marks life and music and navigates the sacrifices and highs and lows of his art.

Release Date:2016-04-02

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

6.0

Brand: A Second Coming

Comic Russell Brand uses drugs, sex and fame in a quest for happiness, only to find it remains elusive. As he explores iconic figures such as Gandhi, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and Jesus, he transforms himself into a political antagonist.

Release Date:2015-03-13

Character:Self

Vote Count:22

7.2

Between Two Worlds

"Between Two Worlds" is a featurette included in the Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery and Twin Peaks: From Z to A Blu-ray releases. It features David Lynch interviewing Grace Zabriskie, Ray Wise and Sheryl Lee, first as their characters (Sarah Palmer, Leland Palmer, and Laura Palmer, respectively), then as themselves. The second portion of the featurette was later released in the Criterion Collection release of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. The Palmer family interview was written by Lynch.

Release Date:2014-07-29

Character:Self

Vote Count:4

7.3

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of Laura Palmer’s life.

Release Date:2014-07-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Gordon Cole

Vote Count:222

The 8th Floor

On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of silence with eight artists and scientists: David Lynch, Patti Smith, William Eggleston, Takeshi Kitano, Ron Mueck, Jean Michel Alberola, Agnès Varda and Misha Gromov.

Release Date:2014-05-10

Character:Self

5.2

It's a Beautiful World

Richard Beymer first met David Lynch when Lynch cast him as Ben Horne in the series Twin Peaks. Years later, Lynch saw one of Richard's documentaries on the founder of Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and asked him to come to India to document a journey he was making tracing Maharishi's footsteps from one end of India to the other. This film is not just a record of their 10-day journey, it's also a rare and personal look at David Lynch "unplugged."

Release Date:2014-04-21

Character:Self

Vote Count:6

7.4

Duran Duran: Unstaged

Duran Duran: Unstaged is a multimedia event that takes the audience on a cinematic journey with one of the most successful acts in the world during their performance at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles.

Release Date:2014-03-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:29

6.6

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs.

Release Date:2013-09-11

Character:Self

Vote Count:40

6.4

What Is Cinema?

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.

Release Date:2013-09-06

Character:Self

Vote Count:21

8.2

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — to the film genres he so successfully satirized in Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, and Spaceballs — to the groundbreaking Broadway musical version of his first film, The Producers. The documentary also delves into his professional and personal ups and downs — his childhood, his first wife and subsequent 41-year marriage to Anne Bancroft — capturing a never-before-heard sense of reflection and confession.

Release Date:2013-05-20

Character:Self

Vote Count:11

5.8

Idem Paris

Filmed at the fine art printing studio in Paris, France, and "virtually wordless", it documents the lithographic process.

Release Date:2013-02-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:22

20 Little Films

Each year since 1995, the Viennale has asked a great, international director to make his or her own personal contribution to the festival: a contribution in the form of a small, approximately one-minute film, which is used as a kind of introduction to the festival. The concept of this "little films" (as Jonas Mekas once called them) is more to create a short, autonomous work, a cinematic moment that stands alone and for nothing and no-one else. Over the years this has resulted in a series of absolutely unique, exceptional works. Each director has created his/her own cinematic world between home movie and political essay, music film and minimal étude, mysterious story and radical, aesthetic abstraction on those little films, that will now be shown together for the first time on the occasion of the Viennale’s great 50th anniversary, premiering at the Locarno Film Festival.

Release Date:2012-02-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

6.1

2012: Time for Change

2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture. This can be achieved through a personal and global change of consciousness and the systemic implementation of ecological design.

Release Date:2010-10-08

Character:Self

Vote Count:9

7.1

David Wants to Fly

A documentary. David Sieveking takes the advice of his idol, David Lynch and tries out Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's transcendental meditation technique.

Release Date:2010-05-06

Vote Count:15

7.7

Red Fish

A mysterious turn of events leads a woman into unknown territory.

Release Date:2009-06-16

Character:O Sábio

Vote Count:3

5.9

Great Directors

Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismailos' voyage of discovering the creative personalities behind the camera.

Release Date:2009-05-19

Character:Self

Vote Count:16

5.7

La Traversée du désir

What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.

Release Date:2009-03-16

Character:Self

Vote Count:3

6.4

Early Experiments

A 16mm film experiment conducted in 1967 and 1968 in Philadelphia which feature small parts of the Alphabet and the Grandmother.

Release Date:2008-11-25

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Character:

Vote Count:7

7.3

Elvis | Viva Las Vegas

Release Date:2008-09-16

Character:Self

Vote Count:3

6.0

Surveillance

An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.

Release Date:2008-02-08

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:331

7.9

Critic

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

Release Date:2008-01-22

Character:Self (voice)

Vote Count:19

6.1

Ballerina

David Lynch turns this digital video of a ballerina into an impressionistic exercise.

Release Date:2007-12-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:17

6.5

To Each His Own Cinema

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.

Release Date:2007-10-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:137

6.9

A Slice of Lynch

David Lynch, Mädchen Amick, Kyle MacLachlan and John Wentworth reminisce about "Twin Peaks" while seated at a diner counter.

Release Date:2007-10-30

Character:Self

Vote Count:15

5.7

Lynch (one)

Rare glimpse into the fascinating mind of one of cinema's greatest directors. Footage was gathered over a two year period and documents David Lynch's many creative interests as well as his passion for filmmaking. It’s “abstract trip” which reveals new aspects of the personality and the cinematographic vision of one of the exceptional authors of contemporary cinema. Personal portrait of David Lynch and his creative universe.

Release Date:2007-10-26

Character:Self

Vote Count:18

6.7

More Things That Happened

A collection of deleted scenes from David Lynch's 2006 surrealist horror Inland Empire.

Release Date:2007-08-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:24

Lynch 2

Follow up of the Lynch documentary on the making of Inland Empire. Released as an extra on the Inland Empire DVD.

Release Date:2007-08-14

Character:Self

Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.

Musical - This incredible performance DVD was recorded in front of a packed house of adoring fans at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. On this, his first music DVD, Donovan performed all his legendary hits and cult classics. - Donovan Leitch Jr., Mike Love

Release Date:2007-01-01

Character:Himself

5.7

Le son de Lynch

This documentary explores every facet of this job of complex and exciting sound which David Lynch leads since Eraserhead, his first film and matrix work. Picture lesson of this trip, they cross three points of view: that of the very film-maker, that of his closest collaborator in this domain, the compositor Angelo Badalamenti, and that of an acknowledged critic and specialist of sound in the cinema in general and David Lynch particularly, Michel Chion.

Release Date:2007-01-01

Vote Count:6

7.0

Inland Empire

As a Hollywood actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Release Date:2006-12-06

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Character:Bucky J

Vote Count:1109

6.3

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.

Release Date:2006-06-20

Character:Himself

Vote Count:84

5.8

Edge of Outside

An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and film clips are blended together to form a chronological approach to the subject matter.

Release Date:2006-06-11

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:4

5.6

What Is It?

A young man journeys through a bizarre land inhabited by mentally impaired people, demons, and snails.

Release Date:2005-01-27

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:24

6.0

Bug Crawls

In a solemn, haunted environment, a small bug crawls over the silhouette of a house.

Release Date:2004-09-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:22

7.5

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

The inevitable fat cigar between his fingers, the American actor, director and fine artist Dennis Hopper (1936) self-mockingly looks back on his chequered life and career, at the request of Dutch director, photographer and fine artist Thom Hoffman. The latter sifted through the turbulent life story of Hopper, who is primarily known from the cult film Easy Rider (1969). Hopper went through as many high as low points. In conveniently arranged chapters, Hoffman shows the decisive moments in Hopper's life and asks colleagues like Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Sean Penn and Julian Schnabel to comment on them. The documentary is richly illustrated with film excerpts, photos, newspaper articles and anecdotes. The main reason for this film was the retrospective of Dennis Hopper's art work in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum in 2001.

Release Date:2004-05-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

6.8

The Making of ‘Mulholland Drive’

A short documentary about the making of David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive.

Release Date:2004-04-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:13

5.6

Boat

A journey into night.

Release Date:2003-12-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:The Man

Vote Count:41

4.6

Lamp

Short documentary of David Lynch building a lamp.

Release Date:2003-09-09

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Character:Self

Vote Count:9

5.7

Cabin Fever

A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.

Release Date:2003-08-15

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:1308

5.0

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

We are taken though the principal milestones of Hopper's biography, including his debut start in Hollywood, the meeting with James Dean and the influence he played upon him, his insubordination on sets and conflicts with the Hollywood directors which led to his black-listing, the years in New, the making of 'Easy Rider' (with an interesting connection of the ultimate road movie with the French new wave directors), 'Apocalypse Now', 'Blue Velvet', 'Colors', his fight with dependency on drugs and alcohol. We come to know Hopper as a complex artist, a valuable photographer who had always a camera on him and whose portraits or American life shots figure among the best in the genre, but also a rebel painter (who may still be rediscovered and become famous in posterity) and exquisite art collector.

Release Date:2003-02-10

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

6.4

The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed

The Disc of Sorrow gets installed.

Release Date:2002-06-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Vote Count:8

6.8

Rabbits

A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the rabbits also make contact with their “leader”.

Release Date:2002-06-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:258

5.4

Darkened Room

Two young women find themselves in a dark room where there is a distinctly strange feeling.

Release Date:2002-04-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:75

2.8

BlueBob Egg

Before our very eyes, BlueBob gets arrested in broad daylight.

Release Date:2002-02-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Billy Groper

Vote Count:6

7.2

The Short Films of David Lynch

This collection of David Lynch's short films cover the first 29 years of his career. Each film is given a special introduction by the director himself. His earliest underground films Six Figures Getting Sick (1966), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970) and The Amputee (1974) are showcased as well as two requisitioned works well into his successful career The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) and his addition for Lumière and Company (1995).

Release Date:2002-02-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Vote Count:60

6.2

Out Yonder — Neighbor Boy

Humorous short film in which David Lynch and his son Austin observe the follies of their neighbor.

Release Date:2002-02-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:14

5.0

Sunset #1

Time lapse of a valley with light fading. One of five segments from Intervalometer Experiments (2001-2003).

Release Date:2001-09-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

7.4

Eraserhead Stories

David Lynch discusses the making of the film "Eraserhead."

Release Date:2001-09-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Vote Count:25

7.8

Mulholland Drive

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

Release Date:2001-06-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6383

7.7

The Straight Story

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

Release Date:1999-10-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1592

7.8

Mulholland Dr.

Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.

Release Date:1999-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:495

7.0

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footage and commentary by family members, friends, fans, and people he's worked with, as well as behind-the-scenes antics of some of his most critically praised efforts.

Release Date:1997-10-14

Department:Sound

Job:Music

Character:Self

Vote Count:21

7.6

Lost Highway

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Release Date:1997-01-15

Department:Sound

Job:Sound Designer

Vote Count:2657

6.3

Lumière & Company

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

Release Date:1995-12-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:66

5.8

Nadja

In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vampire movies, forces of love are pitted against forces of destruction.

Release Date:1995-09-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Character:Morgue Receptionist

Vote Count:50

6.3

Premonitions Following an Evil Deed

A short film about the events following a murder.

Release Date:1995-02-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:17

7.4

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

Release Date:1992-06-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Chief Gordon Cole

Vote Count:1976

4.8

The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez

Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.

Release Date:1991-12-04

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:6

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

Hollywood's controversial creative genius, whose career spans multiple generations of moviegoers, is profiled in "Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper."

Release Date:1991-05-17

Character:Self

6.1

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted

After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love.

Release Date:1990-09-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:36

7.0

Wild at Heart

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

Release Date:1990-08-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1675

6.0

The Cowboy and the Frenchman

A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman.

Release Date:1988-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:65

7.0

The French as Seen by…

In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary. Includes: Werner Herzog's Les Gaulois, David Lynch's The Cowboy and the Frenchman, Andrzej Wajda's Proust contre la déchéance, Luigi Comencini's Pèlerinage à Agen, Jean-Luc Godard's Le dernier mot.

Release Date:1988-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:17

7.6

Blue Velvet

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.

Release Date:1986-09-19

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:3395

6.2

Dune

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.

Release Date:1984-12-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Spice Miner (uncredited)

Vote Count:3118

8.0

The Elephant Man

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.

Release Date:1980-10-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Man in the Bowler Hat in the Mob Chasing Merrick (uncredited)

Vote Count:3566

7.4

Eraserhead

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Release Date:1977-09-28

Department:Art

Job:Production Design

Vote Count:2475

5.1

The Amputee

A double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.

Release Date:1974-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Nurse

Vote Count:126

6.6

The Grandmother

To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.

Release Date:1970-07-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:166

6.5

The Alphabet

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

Release Date:1969-02-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:225

5.4

Absurd Encounter with Fear

A man approaches a woman in a field.

Release Date:1967-03-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:63

5.5

Six Men Getting Sick

Lynch's first film project consists of a loop of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces.

Release Date:1967-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:190

5.7

Sailing with Bushnell Keeler

In 1967, a young David Lynch grabbed his new Bolex 16mm camera, to film his friend and mentor Bushnell Keeler and brother Dave Keeler sailing on the Chesapeake Bay in Bush's King's Cruiser. This was David Lynch's very first film, which he prefers to call a "home movie". It depicts a man, a painter, who changed David's life forever pursuing the artist's life, which he continues to this day.

Release Date:1967-01-01

Department:Camera

Job:Camera Operator

Character:

Vote Count:26

Snootworld

Follows tiny creatures named Snoots who have a ritual transition at aged eight at which time they get tinier and they’re sent away for a year so they are protected. The world goes into chaos when the Snoot hero of the story disappears into the carpet and his family can’t find him and he enters a crazy, magnificent world.

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

8.0

Tríptico

After receiving it as part of her inheritance, Ana decides to move into her painter grandfather's house with her partner, Lucas. In one of the rooms, they find an unfinished triptych that will make them go deep into a paranoid artistic process.

Release Date:2023-11-25

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:1

7.2

Lynch/Oz

Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.

Release Date:2023-05-15

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:21

7.6

The Fabelmans

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Release Date:2022-11-11

Character:John Ford

Vote Count:2401

5.5

The Other Me

The life of a young architect is thrown into turmoil when he's diagnosed with a rare eye disease. As his condition worsens, he questions his life and career choices, and his relationship to his frustrated wife becomes more strained.

Release Date:2022-02-04

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:46

A Fall from Grace

Detective Michael Tabb knows the city he protects inside and out. He has felt its true heart, as much as its dark underbelly: but he does not know who, in both the dark and light - is taking the lives of young girls.

Release Date:2020-01-17

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Character:William Tabb

7.0

Waiting for Mr. Lynch

In 2018, David Lynch was once again the focus of LEFFEST Lisboa Film Festival's programme, with the extensive "Waiting for Mr. Lynch" retrospective. At the time, and because he was unable to attend the festival, Lynch offered a short film he made that week to be shown as a world premiere at the opening of the retrospective.

Release Date:2018-11-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

5.2

Ant Head

"A short video featuring my friends the ants along with cheese, etc. and one-and-a-half tracks from the Thought Gang album."

Release Date:2018-11-14

Department:Sound

Job:Music

Vote Count:25

6.4

WHAT DID JACK DO?

In a locked down train station, a homicide detective conducts an interview with a tormented monkey who is suspected of murder.

Release Date:2017-11-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Detective

Vote Count:486

Night Ride

Out in the sticks, a young drifter goes wandering where he oughtn't. When a mysterious car appears, he exhibits more lust than sense and steps right into the web of a demonic Black Widow Queen. She'll leave him buried in the ground by day while she livesa normal life in the city. By night she returns to unearth him, to wake him from his eternal daze and toss him into the backseat ofa "ghost car" that car drives itself. The windows fog up and the lovers drift off into a smoky in-between place, where she takes on monstrously sensual new forms with which to devour him.

Release Date:2017-07-14

Department:Sound

Job:Music

Land of Nothing

Short film produced by David lynch.

Release Date:2015-08-08

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Fire (Pożar)

Lynch made the animation film Pożar (Fire) in 2015 after the Polish-American composer Marek Zebrowski created a musical composition as a tribute to him. The film was included in the 2018 retrospective "Someone Is In My House".

Release Date:2015-03-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

7.1

My Beautiful Broken Brain

A profoundly personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of the human brain, after Lotje Sodderland miraculously survives a hemorrhagic stroke and finds herself starting again in an alien world, bereft of language and logic. This feature documentary takes us on a genre-twisting tale that is by turns excruciating and exquisite - from the devastating consequences of a first-time neurological experiment, through to the extraordinary revelations of her altered sensory perception.

Release Date:2014-11-21

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Character:Self

Vote Count:67

5.5

Memory Film

Short film made for the 7th annual Memory Marathon at the Serpentine Gallery in London

Release Date:2012-12-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:4

5.8

Meditation, Creativity, Peace

This documentary shot by film students follows David Lynch on a 16-country tour of Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America to spread the word about the individual and global impact of meditation. Meditation, Creativity, Peace shows the director’s commitment to Transcendental Meditation as way of changing the world, starting from within. The film also offers insight into Lynch’s creative process, through interviews and revealing moments from the tour.

Release Date:2012-11-15

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Self

Vote Count:4

7.3

Side by Side

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.

Release Date:2012-08-19

Character:Self

Vote Count:291

6.8

Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

Fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch.

Release Date:2011-11-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:6

Readymade, Emile Reynaud et la peinture s'anima

A little girl dreams that she forgets her teddy bear in a museum and that years later she finds it in the same museum, in Beaubourg.

Release Date:2010-09-22

Department:Art

Job:Set Designer

42 One Dream Rush

Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world's most awarded vodka "42 Below", known for doing things differently , with other Chinese User Generated Films.

Release Date:2010-09-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

6.0

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.

Release Date:2010-07-08

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:205

The Peaceline Project

An eye opening documentary about the children living along the Belfast peace line and how their lives have changed through transcendental meditation (TM).

Release Date:2009-09-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

The Way of Samodelkin

A mystical detective story set in the realm of Moscow art scene. Psychedelic trip through different places, characters and strategies in the search for the Author, covering mythology of Moscow art from the period of 1980-2010. The movie is based on the 'Inspection Medical Hermeneutics' group's text of the same name and on the historical research performed by the authors of the film. Production was an experiment in collective film making experience.

Release Date:2009-06-05

Character:Stranger in a dream

6.4

Twin Peaks Festival Greeting 2008

A surreal short film that Lynch made for the 2008 Twin Peaks Festival. It only screened once and is in black and white. In this film, Lynch is speaking backwards in what looks to be a cross between the floors of Eraserhead and the Twin Peaks Red Room. Sitting next to him is a plastic doll with the face of Laura Palmer.

Release Date:2008-11-25

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

7.6

Hollyshorts Greeting

A fun short piece that Lynch presented as his acceptance for the Hollyshorts 2008 Visionary Award.

Release Date:2008-11-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Himself

Vote Count:5

5.8

Out Yonder — Chicken

Lost in thought, while staring at a silent bucket filled to the brim with water, David Lynch is shocked to discover that the ailing neighbour's chicken has gone missing.

Release Date:2007-09-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:4

5.5

Dynamic:01: The Best of DavidLynch.com

Two hours of original content previously only available to paid up members of DavidLynch.com. This Best Of package includes 7 short films plus 3 intervalometer camera experiments. All shorts are written, directed, edited and scored by David Lynch with introductions from David before each item. Also includes 20 minutes of David Lynch answering an interesting variety of questions from members of his website. Contains The Darkened Room, Boat, Lamp, Out Yonder Neighbor Boy, Industrial Soundscape, The Bug Crawls, Inveralometer Experiments, Members Questions.

Release Date:2007-01-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:himself

Vote Count:2

David Lynch: 1985

An interview with director David Lynch from 1985 on his 1984 film: Dune

Release Date:2005-01-01

Character:Self

4.3

Intervalometer Experiments

Release Date:2004-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

7.5

Does That Hurt You?

A camera-eye is aimed at David Lynch's back while in Hanover a second one records the internet-stream, which connects the continents. a third one shoots parallely Agnieszka Jurek. she is interviewing Mr. Lynch.

Release Date:2003-10-18

Department:Sound

Job:Sound

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

6.2

Out Yonder — Teeth

On a quiet winter morning, Austin, son of David Lynch, breaks his silence and decides to talk about his troubling functional incapacitation.

Release Date:2003-04-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Vote Count:4

5.6

Industrial Soundscape

Music is produced by different objects in an industrial and desolate landscape.

Release Date:2002-06-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:14

7.1

Mysteries of Love

Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, and producer Fred Caruso are interviewed for this 68-minute documentary about the making of David Lynch's Blue Velvet

Release Date:2002-06-04

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:12

4.4

The Pig Walks

No one knows what has been going on behind the closed doors of the city's macabre and noisome abattoir.

Release Date:2002-06-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:12

7.7

I Don't Know Jack

The life of actor Jack Nance, whose rise to prominence after starring in David Lynch's 1977 cult classic Eraserhead led to involvement in various further projects with Lynch.

Release Date:2002-04-05

Department:Crew

Job:Presenter

Character:Self

Vote Count:10

4.4

Pierre and Sonny Jim

Life can be hard on planet Earth, especially when you're running out of air.

Release Date:2002-02-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:11

5.4

Coyote #1

A coyote somehow finds a way to a motel room.

Release Date:2002-02-11

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Vote Count:6

4.5

Dead Mouse with Ants

Features a dead mouse with ants on it.

Release Date:2002-02-11

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:8

5.4

Steps

Time lapse of a flight of stairs. One of five segments from Intervalometer Experiments (2001-2003).

Release Date:2002-02-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

4.9

Factory Mask

Suddenly, in the cramped boiler room, a pressure-relief valve opens and discharges steam. Then, a certified technician approaches to perform a routine check. But, is he wearing his factory mask?

Release Date:2001-12-28

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:10

4.7

Head with Hammer

An aspect of life.

Release Date:2001-12-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:17

4.5

One Morning All Over the World

An ad for an advertising company, consisting of 7-second sequence shots by 13 directors.

Release Date:2000-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

6.9

Don Van Vliet: Some YoYo Stuff

Don van Vliet, alias "Captain Beefheart", is one of the most influential, misunderstood, talked about, admired, copied, treasured, loved and quoted musicians and yet he is still an obscure and mysterious artist. His quite abrupt artistic transformation from working with a microphone to a paintbrush in 1982 and his consequent move from the desert to the ocean meant even less direct contact with the outside world than before. Subsequently there is very little information about Don from this time onwards and this short black-and-white film made in 1993 is an unique opportunity to see and hear this unique man

Release Date:1994-09-09

Character:Himself

Vote Count:8

8.2

Dangerous: The Short Films

Michael Jackson's Dangerous album once again rocketed the global superstar to mega-platinum success! "Dangerous - The Short Films" captures the visual and musical highlights of his most recent string of hit singles. As well as extensive behind the scenes profiles of the making of Michael's state of the art short films.

Release Date:1993-09-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:37

Twin Peaks: Visual Soundtrack

An experimental music film showcasing the filming locations of "Twin Peaks" using silent footage and eleven tracks from the original score composed by Angelo Badalamenti. It was released only on LaserDisc in Japan, and includes liner notes with lyrics to three songs performed by Julee Cruise.

Release Date:1992-10-07

Department:Sound

Job:Music Producer

4.3

The King of Ads

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.

Release Date:1991-11-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

8.4

Twin Peaks

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)

Release Date:1989-09-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:604

5.5

Zelly & Me

A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her French nanny seeks out the help of a rich suitor to take her and the orphan away when she realizes that the grandmother cannot offer the orphan the love that she needs.

Release Date:1988-04-15

Character:Willie

Vote Count:10

7.8

No Frank in Lumberton

A very surreal video shot behind the scenes during the production of Blue Velvet in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1985 by Peter Braatz.

Release Date:1988-01-19

Department:Sound

Job:Music

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

In Pursuit of Treasure

In Pursuit of Treasure was shot over 11 weeks in 1970 with Panavision cameras in Kanab, Utah, with union waivers, a $220,000 budget and even logistical help from the state’s National Guard.

Release Date:1972-03-17

Department:Art

Job:Set Painter

The Happy Worker

Follows Joe who battles to save what he and others have spent years building.

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

The Sea Behind Her Head

The second feature-length film directed by Scott Barley.

Department:Crew

Job:In Memory Of

7.4

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

Recorded live at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and roll superstars including Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, T-Bone Burnett, J.D. Souther, Jennifer Warnes, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits.

Release Date:1988-01-03

Character:Self - Audience Member

Vote Count:12

5.0

Destination Dune

A short documentary that was originally produced to promote the film at conventions and publicity events in the lead-up to its release.

Release Date:1983-01-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

The Soul Detective

A detective enters a train car where he finds different manifestations of a force that haunts the place.

Character:Himself

6.0

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

Documentary about legendary Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis who's credits range from Fellini's La Strada to today's Hannibal franchise. This profile follows octogenarian De Laurentiis in Hollywood and returning to Rome to set up a new film.

Release Date:2001-04-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

5.7

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face stylistic conventions of commercials have influenced feature films and the visual arts. A documentary film talking about art and advertising divided in three parts: 1. Crossing Over - from cinema to ads from ads to cinema 2. Humour - How humour affects us in advertising 3. Shock - The way shock is used to sell

Release Date:1996-11-17

Character:Self

Vote Count:9

2.0

Made in the USA

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

Release Date:1993-09-25

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

5.0

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

A 1990 documentary presented by Jonathan Ross, in which he interviewed filmmaker David Lynch.

Release Date:1990-10-19

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

6.0

Hollywood Mavericks

A documentary focusing on seventeen maverick directors who were not afraid to break the rules of filmmaking to advance their art. Among the classic directors profiled are D.W. Griffith, Josef von Sternberg, Erich Von Stroheim, and Preston Sturges up until more current filmmakers like David Lynch, Robert Altman, and Martin Scorsese..

Release Date:1990-09-07

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

Ruth, Roses, and Revolver

Television documentary from BBCs Arena program in which David Lynch, fresh off the release of Blue Velvet, examines his surrealistic influences in cinema which excerpts from several classics works of the avant-garde

Release Date:1987-02-20

Character:Himself

5.6

Heart Beat

An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.

Release Date:1980-04-25

Character:Painter

Vote Count:16

I Know Catherine, The Log Lady

An authorized feature documentary about Catherine E. Coulson, best known as the Log Lady in David Lynch & Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks".

Character:Self

Encholalia

Ten minutes reflecting upon one of the greats.

Release Date:2025-01-21

Character:Self (Archive Footage)

7.3

David Lynch, A Hollywood Enigma

Creator of absolute freedom, David Lynch constructed his work as an enigma to be deciphered between dream and reality. A cult director from his first films ("Eraserhead", "Elephant Man", "Blue Velvet"), Lynch forever changed the world of television with his series "Twin Peaks", before tackling the lies of Hollywood in "Mulholland Drive". Tracing the life of the most influential filmmaker of his generation, this documentary explores the hidden meaning of a relentlessly consistent filmography and delves beneath the dark, teeming surface of the American Dream.

Release Date:2025-01-17

Character:Self - Director

Vote Count:3

6.4

Beatles '64

Featuring never-before-seen footage of the band and the legions of young fans who helped fuel their ascendance, follow McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Starr as they land in New York City in February 1964 and solidify their status as the biggest band in the world.

Release Date:2024-11-28

Character:Self

Vote Count:29

4.0

The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune

A brand new feature-length documentary by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures exploring the making of the film, featuring dozens of new and archive interviews with cast and crew.

Release Date:2021-10-14

Character:Self (voice) (archive footage)

Vote Count:2

6.1

Moby Doc

A surrealist biographical documentary about trailblazing electronic musician and animal rights activist Moby.

Release Date:2021-05-28

Character:Self

Vote Count:16

Welcome Home: Mary Reber and the Twin Peaks Palmer House

An extensive interview with Palmer house owner and one-time Twin Peaks performer Mary Reber, with newly unearthed history and information about the home, and the behind the scenes surrounding the iconic location.

Release Date:2021-03-10

This Is Pop
5.8

This Is Pop

Unknown histories take center stage as the hitmakers themselves - from ABBA to T-Pain - explore dimensions of pop music you never knew existed.

Release Date:2021-03-06

Character:Self (archive footage)

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:17

6.5

Meeting the Beatles in India

Filmmaker Paul Saltzman retraces his journey of 50 years ago when he spent a life-changing time with the Beatles at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram on the banks of the Ganges River. In 1968, he discovered his own soul, learned meditation, which changed his life, and hung out with John, Paul, George and Ringo. Fifty years later, he finds "Bungalow Bill" in Hawaii; connects with David Lynch about his own inner journey; as well as preeminent Beatles historian, Mark Lewisohn; Academy Award nominated film composer, Laurence Rosenthal; and Pattie and Jenny Boyd. And much of this is due to Saltzman's own daughter, Devyani, reminding him that he had put away and forgotten these remarkably intimate photographs of that time in 1968.

Release Date:2020-09-09

Character:Self

Vote Count:4

7.0

L'Image Originelle - David Lynch

The original image or the first image. That of the first film, that of all the promises. The matrix image announcing all those to come. The history of cinema is full of legendary first movies, master strokes rather than test shots. There is a lot to be learned from the early plants of estrean directors who later became great filmmakers.

Release Date:2019-05-01

Vote Count:1

David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film

Oscar-nominated director David Lynch teaches his unconventional techniques for creating visionary films in his first-ever MasterClass.

Release Date:2019-03-18

Character:Himself

5.0

Tell It Martin

Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

6.0

The Polish Accountant

Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

5.5

The Number of Completion

Short documentary about Twin Peaks: The Return.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:3

See You on the Other Side Dear Friend

Short documentary about Twin Peaks: The Return.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

5.0

Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers

Documentary about Twin Peaks: The Return.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

8.0

Bad Binoculars

Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:4

Two Blue Balls

Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

7.0

A Very Lovely Dream: One Week in Twin Peaks

One week in the making of David Lynch's 2017 continuation of his groundbreaking television series TWIN PEAKS, capturing the cast and crew as they revisited several locations from the '90s original.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

6.2

Behind the Red Curtain

Documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:4

6.0

A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth

A short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return. This time focused in the planing and technical execution of some particular scenes.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:3

6.6

I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun

Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

6.0

A Pot of Boiling Oil

A short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return. David Lynch interacts with his cast while they tell some stories.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

7.0

The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair

Behind the scenes of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, with a focus on the work of David Lynch directing the actors.

Release Date:2017-12-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:7

The Nineties
6.8

The Nineties

Hit rewind and explore the most iconic moments and influential people of The Nineties, the decade that gave us the Internet, DVDs, and other cultural and political milestones.

Release Date:2017-07-09

Character:Self (archive footage)

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:20

8.0

Rammstein in Amerika

The concert film celebrates the band’s legendary show in New York’s Madison Square Garden – Rammstein’s return to the US after a ten-year absence. In HD and 5.1 surround sound. For the documentary, Rammstein provided extensive, previously unreleased footage and photos from the band archive. In numerous interviews from various periods in the band’s history, the band members speak about their experiences across the Atlantic.

Release Date:2015-09-25

Character:Self

Vote Count:55

6.0

Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love

Release Date:2014-01-20

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

Professor Goudet's Lessons

Stéphane Goudet is all over the Tati box-set as the preeminent Tati scholar, so it is only fitting that he conclude the disc with a half hour lecture that concludes the themes and methods of the filmmaker.

Release Date:2013-04-06

Character:Self

Ångesthunden och Malmö under vatten

If South Park met Stig "Slas" Claesson directed by Staffan Westerberg.

Release Date:2011-01-01

Character:Himself

Brunes et Blondes

Actresses' hairstyle in movies always carries a strong aesthetic statement associated with erotic, social, and historical meanings. In a bold and unexpected way, the film revisits this ultimate symbol of femininity in international cinema.

Release Date:2010-10-06

Character:Self

Louie
7.8

Louie

Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.

Release Date:2010-06-29

Character:Jack Dall

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:510

5.4

When Lynch Met Lucas

This is an animated short made using audio of Film Director David Lynch telling the story of when he met George Lucas about possibly directing Return of The Jedi.

Release Date:2010-02-13

Vote Count:5

The Cleveland Show
5.9

The Cleveland Show

The bizarre adventures of Cleveland Brown and his family.

Release Date:2009-09-27

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:416

Interview Project
4.0

Interview Project

A series of brief interviews produced by filmmaker David Lynch shot over 70 days across 20,000 miles of the United States featuring hundreds of different Americans.

Release Date:2009-06-01

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

Legends
5.0

Legends

The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.

Release Date:2006-11-17

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Robot Chicken
7.6

Robot Chicken

A series of pop-culture parodies using stop-motion animation of toys, action figures and dolls. The title character was an ordinary chicken until he was run down by a car and subsequently brought back to life in cyborg form by mad scientist Fritz Huhnmorder, who tortures Robot Chicken by forcing him to watch a random selection of TV shows, the sketches that make up the body of each episode.

Release Date:2005-02-20

Character:Mad Scientist (voice)

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:491

Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart

A documentary about the making of the movie Wild at Heart, produced for the DVD release of the film.

Release Date:2004-12-07

Leçon de Cinéma
7.0

Leçon de Cinéma

Release Date:2004-03-20

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

8.0

Return to Mulholland Drive

French documentary about David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive.

Release Date:2003-06-17

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Un film et son époque
10.0

Un film et son époque

Release Date:2003-05-17

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Rabbits

Rabbits

In a nameless city, deluged by a continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.

Release Date:2002-06-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:8

DumbLand
6.3

DumbLand

A series of eight crudely animated shorts written, directed, and voiced by director David Lynch in 2002. The series details the daily routines of a dull-witted white trash man. The man lives in a house along with his frazzled wife and squeaky-voiced child, both of whom are nameless as is the man in the shows.

Release Date:2001-12-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Randy / Wife / Sparky (voice)

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:61

5.8

In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story

Roy Orbison - In Dreams is the ultimate exclusive music documentary of the life of Roy Orbison. It provides in-depth insights into his legendary career with classic performances, personal home movies and photos, location footage and interviews with the great and the humble that he touched with his music.

Release Date:1999-10-07

Character:Self

Vote Count:6

Family Guy
7.4

Family Guy

Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and long-suffering Lois have three kids. Stewie (a brilliant but sadistic baby bent on killing his mother and taking over the world), Meg (the oldest, and is the most unpopular girl in town) and Chris (the middle kid, he's not very bright but has a passion for movies). The final member of the family is Brian - a talking dog and much more than a pet, he keeps Stewie in check whilst sipping Martinis and sorting through his own life issues.

Release Date:1999-01-31

Character:Gus (voice)

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4478

The A-Z of Separating People from their Money

Pointing to the increasingly blurred distinction between reality and fiction in the world today, Dennis Hopper leads a discussion on the methods used by advertisers, as well as the responsibilities of ad-makers. The biggest names in the business have their say on shock, humour, and sex as methods of selling.

Release Date:1998-10-18

Character:Self

Independent Focus
9.0

Independent Focus

In these insightful one-on-one interviews, the industry’s biggest and brightest join host Elvis Mitchell (film authoritarian and critic for The New York Times) in front of a live audience for an in-depth look at the art of filmmaking and a discussion about their latest and greatest works.

Release Date:1998-09-09

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Scene by Scene
6.0

Scene by Scene

Mark Cousins invites film actors and directors to watch major scenes in their career to date, and to talk us through them.

Release Date:1997-05-10

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Hotel Room
6.4

Hotel Room

The lives of several people spanning from 1936 to 1993 are chronicled during their overnight stay at a New York City hotel room.

Release Date:1993-01-08

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:33

On the Air
6.5

On the Air

The year is 1957. The cast and crew of the Lester Guy Show are extremely apprehensive about their upcoming live television broadcast on the Zoblotnick Broadcasting Co. network. Lester Guy despises fellow cast member Betty Hudson for unknowingly becoming more popular than him and schemes to destroy her career. Only two of the seven episodes were written by David Lynch.

Release Date:1992-06-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:15

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.4

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Jay Leno hosts some of the biggest celebrities in the world.

Release Date:1992-05-25

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:89

Twin Peaks
8.3

Twin Peaks

The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.

Release Date:1990-04-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Gordon Cole

Episode Count:25

Vote Count:2165

9.0

David Lynch: Don't Look at Me

A documentary about American director David Lynch from the Cinéma, de notre temps series.

Release Date:1989-01-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

American Chronicles
7.0

American Chronicles

American Chronicles is a documentary television program which was broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company as part of its 1990 fall lineup. American Chronicles was produced by David Lynch and Mark Frost, and featured many of the same quirky camera angles, unusual music, and a focus on violence and sexuality that were hallmarks of their ABC program, Twin Peaks. The half-hour weekly program was narrated by Richard Dreyfuss. This program had a relatively brief run, being cancelled just over three months after its premiere, after ranking dead last out of 98 shows with an average household rating of just 3.07.

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

The Oscars
7.0

The Oscars

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

Release Date:1953-03-19

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:65

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