Cronenberg Filmography (Best to Worst)
The films are ranked from Best to Worst based on the Pieper Review. I have indicated their "grades" as well as which films I have yet to see.
#1 Spider
#2 Dead Ringers
#3 A History of Violence & Eastern Promises (TIE, plus they must be witnessed together)
#4 Videodrome
#5 Naked Lunch
#6 The Brood
#7 eXistenZ
#8 A Dangerous Method
#9 The Fly
#10 The Dead Zone
#11 Shivers & Rabid (TIE)
#12 Maps to the Stars
#13 Scanners
#14 Crash
#1 Spider
#2 Dead Ringers
#3 A History of Violence & Eastern Promises (TIE, plus they must be witnessed together)
#4 Videodrome
#5 Naked Lunch
#6 The Brood
#7 eXistenZ
#8 A Dangerous Method
#9 The Fly
#10 The Dead Zone
#11 Shivers & Rabid (TIE)
#12 Maps to the Stars
#13 Scanners
#14 Crash
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- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsRalph FiennesMiranda RichardsonGabriel ByrneA 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.The Pieper Review: A
RT: 85%
MC: 83
IMDB: 6.8 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJeremy IronsGeneviève BujoldHeidi von PalleskeTwin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.The Pieper Review: A-
RT: 83%
MC: 86
IMDB: 7.3 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsViggo MortensenMaria BelloEd HarrisA mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.The Pieper Review: A-
RT: 87%
MC: 81
IMDB: 7.5 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsNaomi WattsViggo MortensenArmin Mueller-StahlA teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.The Pieper Review: A-
RT: 89%
MC: 82
IMDB: 7.7 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames WoodsDebbie HarrySonja SmitsA programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.The Pieper Review: B+
RT: 78%
MC: 60
IMDB: 7.3 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsPeter WellerJudy DavisIan HolmAfter developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.The Pieper Review: B+
RT: 71%
MC: 67
IMDB: 7.1 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsOliver ReedSamantha EggarArt HindleA man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.The Pieper Review: B
RT: 78%
MC: N/A
IMDB: 6.9 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJude LawJennifer Jason LeighIan HolmA game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.The Pieper Review: B
RT: 71%
MC: 68
IMDB: 6.8 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsMichael FassbenderKeira KnightleyViggo MortensenA look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.The Pieper Review: B
RT: 77%
MC: 76
IMDB: 6.5 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJeff GoldblumGeena DavisJohn GetzA brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.The Pieper Review: B
RT: 91%
MC: 79
IMDB: 7.5 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsChristopher WalkenBrooke AdamsTom SkerrittA man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.The Pieper Review: B
RT: 90%
MC: 69
IMDB: 7.2 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsPaul HamptonJoe SilverLynn LowryThe residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.The Pieper Review: B-
RT: 87%
MC: N/A
IMDB: 6.6 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsMarilyn ChambersFrank MooreTerry SchonblumA young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.The Pieper Review: B-
RT: 68%
MC: N/A
IMDB: 6.4 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJulianne MooreMia WasikowskaRobert PattinsonA tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.The Pieper Review: C+
RT: 61%
MC: 67
IMDB: 6.2 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJennifer O'NeillStephen LackPatrick McGoohanA scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.The Pieper Review: C+
RT: 80%
MC: 60
IMDB: 6.8 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames SpaderHolly HunterElias KoteasAfter getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.The Pieper Review: D+
RT: 58%
MC: 47
IMDB: 6.4 - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsRonald MlodzikJack MessingerPaul MulhollandA group of Canadian university students agree to partake in a grisly psychological experiment, which renders them incapable of speech but able to communicate telepathically.*Ranking TBD*
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IMDB: - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsRonald MlodzikJon LidoltTania ZoltyIn a dystopic world where a plague is killing off pubescent human females, an esoteric researcher seeks his missing mentor while trying to retain morality in the sex-obsessed society he lives in.*Ranking TBD*
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IMDB: - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsWilliam SmithClaudia JenningsJohn SaxonAfter his sponsor replaces him with his arch rival, a race-car driver decides to steal the car and race it himself.*Ranking TBD*
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IMDB: - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJeremy IronsJohn LoneBarbara SukowaIn 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.*Ranking TBD*
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IMDB: - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsRobert PattinsonJuliette BinocheSarah GadonRiding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.*Ranking TBD*
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