David Lynch Filmography

Lynch

Actors: David Lynch, Laura Dern

Synopsis: Assembled from more than two years of footage captured during the production of Inland Empire, this documentary portrait of director David Lynch offers a detailed glimpse into the life and career of the acclaimed filmmaker behind such surreal classics as Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, and Twin Peaks. In Read More

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

Actors: Donovan, Astrella Celeste, Tom Mansi, Stewart Lawrence, Mike Love

Synopsis: Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A. captures a 2007 show by the British folk star. He performs over a dozen of his most well-known compositions including "Jennifer Juniper," "Hurdy Gurdy Man," "Mellow Yellow," and "Sunshine Superman." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Inland Empire

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Harry Dean Stanton, Justin Theroux, Terryn Westbrook

Synopsis: Cinema of the surreal icon David Lynch follows up the success of his critically acclaimed 2001 feature Mulholland Drive with this dark mystery, shot on a handheld Sony PD150 digital video recorder. It is the tale of an actress whose personality becomes increasingly fragmented as she delves ever Read More

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

Synopsis: Stuart Samuels's popular documentary Midnight Movies: From Margin to Mainstream grounds itself in the thesis that six revolutionary American motion pictures - Night of the Living Dead (1968), El Topo (1970), Pink Flamingoes (1972), The Harder they Come (1972), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Read More

Dumbland

Crew: Director

Synopsis: From the twisted mind of acclaimed auteur David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks), Dumbland is an animated series originally created for the director's premium website. The eight five-minute episodes feature dark absurdist humor and graphic adults-only content. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

Mulholland Dr.

Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line between truth and deception in the beautiful but dangerous netherworld of Hollywood. A beautiful woman (Laura Elena Harring) riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a Read More

I Don't Know Jack

Actors: John Achorn, Leo Bulgarini, Catherine Case, Catherine Coulson, Billy DaMota

Synopsis: He was one of the most unique yet curiously unknown actors ever to grace the screen, and now fans of longtime David Lynch cohort Jack Nance can finally hear the story of this remarkable actor straight from the mouths of those who knew him best in this unique and absorbing documentary. From his Read More

The Straight Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Everett McGill, Jennifer Edwards-Hughes

Synopsis: David Lynch offers an uncharacteristically straightforward and warmly sentimental approach to his material in this film, based on a true story, about an elderly man's journey to reconcile with his brother. Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth) is an ailing widower in his early 70's who lives in Read More

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

Actors: David Lynch

Synopsis: Director David Lynch has produced as distinctive a body of work as any filmmaker of his generation, with films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Lost Highway. Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch shows the filmmaker at work on the set of Lost Highway as well Read More

Lost Highway

Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Five years after the critical and commercial disappointment of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, director David Lynch returned to the big screen with this cryptic thriller about confused identities and erotic obsession. Fred (Bill Pullman) is an avant-garde jazz saxophonist who shares a luxurious but Read More

Lumière and Company

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using the original Cinematographe camera under the conditions endured by the brothers. The result Read More

Lumiere

Crew: Director

Synopsis: First-time feature filmmaker Laura Dunn transforms an idea suggested to her by legendary director Terence Malick into a cinematic reality with an ambitious documentary detailing the rise of a west Texas farm boy-turned-wildly successful real-estate mogul, and the landmark environmental movement Read More

Nadja

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Elina Löwensohn, Suzy Amis, Galaxy Craze, Martin Donovan, Peter Fonda, Karl Geary

Synopsis: This stylish combination of expressionistic horror and deadpan black comedy centers on the activities of a beautiful female vampire on the streets of New York City. Playing fast and loose with the Dracula legend, the film examines the legendary count's children, particularly the alluring and Read More

Crumb

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb

Synopsis: So well-regarded was the documentary Crumb (1994) that the failure of it and of the same year's equally acclaimed Hoop Dreams (1994) to result in Oscar nominations caused a media furor which forced the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to revamp its documentary nomination process. Robert Crumb Read More

Hotel Room

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hotel Room is a made-for-cable anthology, featuring three separate stories that are all set in the same New York hotel room over different years. Set in 1992, the first, "Getting Rid of Robert," features three girlfriends who devise a plan to help Sasha dump her sleazy movie executive boyfriend. Read More

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sheryl Lee, Chris Isaak, Ray Wise, David Bowie, Moira Kelly, Kyle MacLachlan, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series "Twin Peaks" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), whose plastic-wrapped corpse, found floating in a river, was the fulcrum for the television series. During the day in the town of Twin Peaks, Laura is a top Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 23

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Episode 23 of Twin Peaks, "The Condemned Woman," originally aired on February 16, 1991, and was directed by Lesli Linka Glatter. Cooper discovers the identity of the vagrant man's killer is the same person who shot him (in episode seven), but he is reluctant to make an arrest. While learning her Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 19

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Episode 19 of Twin Peaks, "The Black Widow," originally aired on January 12, 1991, and was directed by Caleb Deschanel. In this episode, Major Briggs is mysteriously missing and his message "The owls are not what they seem" is revealed to be coming from the woods. Intending to blackmail the Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 22

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Episode 22 of Twin Peaks, "Slaves and Masters," originally aired on February 9, 1991, and was directed by Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton. The episode opens with Evelyn and Malcolm telling the cops about James, while James and Donna discuss their next move at Walli's. Ed and Norma talk about Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 20

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Episode 20 of Twin Peaks, "Checkmate," originally aired on January 19, 1991, and was directed by Todd Holland. This episode opens with a sequence of Major Briggs recounting his experiences in the woods. Truman deputizes Cooper and they wire Ernie for a setup at Dead Dog Farm, leading to some Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 21

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Episode 21 of Twin Peaks, "Double Play," originally aired on February 2, 1991, and was directed by Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn). This episode opens at night, with Cooper investigating the mysterious dead body and finding a chess piece. In an effort to save her father's business, Audrey strikes Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 24

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Episode 24 of Twin Peaks, "Wounds and Scars," originally aired on March 28, 1991, and was directed by James Foley (Glengarry Glen Ross). Cooper recalls recent events to "Diane" and admits that someone dies every time Windom Earle removes a chess piece from the board. This episode also features the Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 29

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The final episode of the Twin Peaks series was broadcast as a two-hour movie on June 10, 1991, with an appropriately enigmatic ending. Part two, "Beyond Life and Death," (or Episode 29, if you prefer) was written by Mark Frost, Harley Peyton, and Robert Engels, and was directed by David Lynch. The Read More

Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Joan Cusack, Peter Gallagher, Ron Vawter, Werner Klemperer

Synopsis: Flamboyant Broadway renaissance man Peter Sellars was the director of The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez. This freewheeling musical horror spoof isn't meant to be taken seriously, so don't be fooled by those Karloffian trappings. Ron Vawter plays the title character for all it's worth. He has to, with Read More

Wild at Heart

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play a pair of lovers on the run in David Lynch's surrealist road movie Wild at Heart. Cage's Sailor Ripley is a violent ex-convict with an Elvis Presley fixation who falls in love with Dern's Lula Pace Fortune, the daughter of a rich, but mentally unstable, Southern Read More

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer

Actors: Julee Cruise

Synopsis: Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted was originally presented on-stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City on November 10, 1989. The show was part of the opening reception for the school's annual New Wave Festival. Filmmaker David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 17

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Episode 17 of Twin Peaks, "Dispute Between Brothers" originally aired on December 8, 1990, and was directed by Tina Rathborne. Taking place the day of Leland's wake, Agent Cooper reluctantly prepares to leave Twin Peaks. As he is saying goodbye to the crew at the Sheriff's office, Special Agent Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 01

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The first official episode of Twin Peaks, entitled "Traces to Nowhere," originally aired on April 12, 1990. Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) of the FBI continues to investigate the mysterious death of Laura Palmer. He interrogates James Hurley (James Marshall), Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 13

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Episode 13 of Twin Peaks, "Demons," originally aired on November 3, 1990, and was directed by Lesli Linka Glatter. This episode offers important information on the nature of Killer Bob as a spirit who requires a human host. Donna and Maddy fail at their mission to steal Laura's diary when Harold Read More

Hollywood Mavericks

Actors: Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Peter Bogdanovich, D.W. Griffith, Erich Von Stroheim

Synopsis: This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the system." It also explores the life and work of earlier American mavericks through the tributes, reflections, and recollections of the first group. Prominent among the living Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 09

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Episode nine of Twin Peaks, "Coma," originally aired on October 6, 1990, and was directed by series creator David Lynch. This episode contains the first of many significant references to owls throughout the series. Agent Cooper learns his old partner, Windom Earle, has escaped a mental institution Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 08

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The first episode of the second season of Twin Peaks, "May the Giant Be With You," originally aired on September 10, 1990, and was directed by series creator David Lynch. This episode features turning points for some major characters as well as several occurrences of supernatural visions. The Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 02

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Originally broadcast on April 19, 1990, the memorable and pivotal second episode of Twin Peaks, "Zen, or the Skill of Catching a Killer," contains the infamous surreal dream sequence with the Little Man From Another Place (Michael J. Anderson). On Saturday night, sleazy businessman Benjamin Horne (Richard Beymer Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 16

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Episode 16 of Twin Peaks, "Arbitrary Law," originally aired on December 1, 1990, and was directed by Tim Hunter. This episode features the elusive elements of Cooper's dream from Episode Two finally coming together to crack the case. The evidence shows that Maddy's killer was the same as Laura's Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 18

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Episode 18 of Twin Peaks, "Masked Ball," originally aired on December 15, 1990, and was directed by Duwayne Dunham. Cross-dressing DEA agent Dennis Bryson (David Duchovny) arrives in Twin Peaks to interrogate Agent Cooper, who pleads no defense. Talking with Cooper and Truman, Deputy Hawk reveals Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 15

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Episode 15 of Twin Peaks, "Drive With a Dead Girl," originally aired on November 17, 1990, and was directed by Caleb Deschanel. When incompetent lawyer Jerry Horne arrives to represent his brother, Ben, they share a dream sequence from their past of Louise Dombrowski (Emily Fincher) dancing with a Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 14

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Originally broadcast on November 10, 1990, Episode 14 of Twin Peaks, "Lonely Souls," was written by Mark Frost and directed by David Lynch. This pivotal episode answers some of the series' long-running questions, as well as providing insight into Laura Palmer's killer. Featuring guest singer Julee Cruise Read More

Twin Peaks

Crew: Director

Actors: Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, James Marshall, Michael Ontkean, Ray Wise, Kyle MacLachlan

Synopsis: Also known as "The Northwest Passage," the two-hour pilot episode of Twin Peaks originally aired April 8, 1990. The central plot of the series is set when Pete Martell (Jack Nance) finds the body of high school student Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) wrapped in plastic by the water at the Packard Read More

Zelly and Me

Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Glynis Johns, Alexandra Johnes, Kaiulani Lee, David Lynch

Synopsis: In this drama, young Phoebe (Alexandra Johnes) is sent to live with her wealthy grandmother (Glynis Johns) after both of her parents are tragically killed. As Phoebe attempts to accustom herself to her new life with her stern grandmother, she becomes very attached to her governess, Zelly (Isabella Rossellini Read More

The Cowboy and The Frenchman

Crew: Director

Blue Velvet

Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, Brad Dourif

Synopsis: Director David Lynch crafted this hallucinogenic mystery-thriller that probes beneath the cheerful surface of suburban America to discover sadomasochistic violence, corruption, drug abuse, crime and perversion. Kyle Maclachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a square-jawed young man who returns to his Read More

Dune

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Francesca Annis, Leo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Kyle MacLachlan, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis: David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and Read More

The Elephant Man

Crew: Director, Musical Direction/Supervision, Screenwriter, Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller

Synopsis: John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made Read More

Eraserhead

Crew: Art Director, Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Special Effects

Actors: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Allen Joseph, Judith Anna Roberts

Synopsis: Filmed intermittently over the course of a five-year period, David Lynch's radical feature debut stars Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, a man living in an unnamed industrial wasteland. Upon learning that a past romance has resulted in an impending pregnancy, Henry agrees to wed mother-to-be Mary (Charlotte Stewart Read More

The Amputee

Crew: Director

The Grandmother

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A half-hour experimental film from early in director David Lynch's career, The Grandmother anticipates his later Eraserhead in its depiction of family life as a surrealistic nightmare. The film begins with the appearance of the mother and father, who sprout from the ground-like strange plants and Read More

Alphabet

Crew: Director

Six Men Getting Sick

Crew: Director