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David Lynch

Actor · 167 credits · 76 in highly-rated films

Best known for The Elephant Man (1980)

Frequent collaborators: Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, Wim Wenders, Jack Nance

Best David Lynch movies by genre

Movies (101 total, ranked by score)

  1. Lucky

    2017 · ★ 7.3 (639 votes)

    Drama

    1

  2. David Lynch: The Art Life

    2017 · ★ 7.0 (221 votes)

    Documentary

    2

  3. La Traversée du désir

    2009 · ★ 5.7 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    3

  4. Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

    2019 · ★ 6.9 (82 votes)

    Documentary, History

    4

  5. A Slice of Lynch

    2007 · ★ 6.9 (15 votes)

    Documentary

    5

  6. WHAT DID JACK DO?

    2017 · ★ 6.3 (544 votes)

    Comedy, Mystery, Crime

    6

  7. David Wants to Fly

    2010 · ★ 7.0 (18 votes)

    Documentary

    7

  8. Lynch/Oz

    2023 · ★ 6.9 (35 votes)

    Documentary

    8

  9. Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

    2013 · ★ 6.9 (48 votes)

    Documentary

    9

  10. The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair

    2017 · ★ 7.0 (7 votes)

    Documentary

    10

  11. Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

    1988 · ★ 7.6 (15 votes)

    Music

    11

  12. On Meditation

    2016 · ★ 7.0 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    12

  13. A Deadly American Marriage

    2025 · ★ 6.5 (88 votes)

    Crime, Documentary

    13

  14. Rocksteppy

    2017 · ★ 8.3 (3 votes)

    Music, Comedy, Drama

    14

  15. When Lynch Met Lucas

    2010 · ★ 5.4 (5 votes)

    Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

    15

  16. Why Are We Creative?

    2018 · ★ 7.6 (18 votes)

    Documentary

    16

  17. My Beautiful Broken Brain

    2014 · ★ 7.1 (67 votes)

    Documentary

    17

  18. Blue Velvet Revisited

    2016 · ★ 6.9 (11 votes)

    Documentary

    18

  19. The Disc of Sorrow Is Installed

    2002 · ★ 6.4 (8 votes)

    Comedy

    19

  20. Lynch 2

    2007

    Documentary

    20

  21. Lynch (one)

    2007 · ★ 5.9 (21 votes)

    Documentary

    21

  22. What Is Cinema?

    2013 · ★ 6.4 (21 votes)

    Documentary

    22

  23. The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

    1996 · ★ 6.3 (8 votes)

    Documentary

    23

  24. Mysteries of Love

    2002 · ★ 7.1 (14 votes)

    Documentary

    24

  25. Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

    2006 · ★ 6.3 (90 votes)

    Documentary, Horror

    25

  26. I Know Catherine, the Log Lady

    2026

    Documentary

    26

  27. Nadja

    1995 · ★ 5.7 (61 votes)

    Horror, Thriller

    27

  28. Eraserhead Stories

    2001 · ★ 7.3 (27 votes)

    Documentary

    28

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

    2004

    Documentary

    29

  30. Ringo Starr: A Lifetime of Peace and Love

    2014 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Music, Documentary, TV Movie

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.