David Cronenberg — Playwright (17)
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Rabid (1977)
Rabid
David Cronenberg actor: Marilyn Chambers / Terri Hanauer …
other title: Rabid - Sete di sangue / Coma Profundo …
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.
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Fast Company (1979)
Fast Company
David Cronenberg actor: William Smith / Claudia Jennings …
other title: Veloci di mestiere / 10.000 PS - Vollgasrausch im Grenzbereich …
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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Dead Ringers (1988)
Dead Ringers
★ 7.3 9 ratings
David Cronenberg actor: Jeremy Irons / Geneviève Bujold …
other title: Inseparabili / Blodbrødre …
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.
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Naked Lunch (1992)
Naked Lunch
★ 7.5 8 ratings
David Cronenberg actor: Peter Weller / Judy Davis …
other title: Il pasto nudo / Nøgen frokost …
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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The Brood (1979)
The Brood
★ 7.7 7 ratings
David Cronemberg actor: Oliver Reed / Samantha Eggar …
other title: Brood - La covata malefica / Os Filhos do Medo …
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
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Scanners (1981)
Scanners
★ 6.5 8 ratings
David Cronenberg actor: Stephen Lack / Jennifer O'Neill …
other title: Scanners - Ihre Gedanken können töten / Scanners – Ihre Gedanken können töten
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.
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Shivers (1975)
Shivers
David Cronenberg actor: Paul Hampton / Joe Silver …
other title: Il demone sotto la pelle / Parasitmordene …
When the residents of a luxury apartment complex outside Montreal are infiltrated by parasites and transformed into violent, sex-crazed maniacs, it's up to Dr. Roger St. Luc to contain the outbreak from spreading to the city.
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The Shrouds (2025)
The Shrouds
David Cronenberg actor: Vincent Cassel / Diane Kruger …
other title: The Shrouds - Segreti sepolti / Les Linceuls
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.
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Videodrome (1983)
Videodrome
★ 7.7 24 ratings
David Cronenberg actor: James Woods / Debbie Harry …
other title: Experiência Alucinante / Vidéodrome …
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.
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Crimes of the Future (1970)
Crimes of the Future
David Cronenberg actor: Ronald Mlodzik / Jon Lidolt …
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.
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Crimes of the Future (2022)
Crimes of the Future
★ 7.8 9 ratings
David Cronenberg actor: Viggo Mortensen / Léa Seydoux …
other title: Les Crimes du futur / Crímenes del futuro …
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.