David Cronenberg
1) Scanners
Series
Criterion collection volume 712
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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, and that some of the other "scanners" have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
[Widescreen edition].
Language
English
Description
Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...
3) The fly
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Collector's edition, Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Seth Brundle develops a system to transport objects in a matter of seconds, but when he tries it on himself, Seth's genes and molecules are accidentally fused with those of a fly. Seth's excitement over his new physical abilities turns into a nightmare as his insect half begins to take over.
4) Cosmopolis
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Little does he know his perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.
5) Scanners
Series
Criterion collection volume 712
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Telepathic people wage a war against "normals," blowing their heads apart with the strength of their thoughts.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Tom is a loving, well-respected family man from a small Indiana town. When two criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a local hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all the media attention attracts the likes of the mob, who show up at Tom's doorstep. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie, a fresh graduate of rehab at age thirteen. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town, mysteriously scarred...
9) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
10) The dead zone
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
After being in a coma for years, a man awakens with strange psychic abilities that come into effect whenever he touches someone.
11) Existenz
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A designer of a virtual reality game is hunted by an assassin intent on killing her and destroying her creation.
15) Videodrome
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
A cable operator stumbles into Videodrome, a project using television to cause brain damage and thereby control people.
16) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[Director-approved special edition].
Language
English
Description
A cable channel programmer stumbles into Videodrome, a project using television to control people.
17) Crash
Series
Criterion collection volume 1059
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After nearly dying in a car crash, a man is obsessed with recreating accidents and having sex in cars.
19) Fast company
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The story of a corporate-sponsored racing team and the explosive obsessions that speed them through lives of fast cars, fast cash and fast company.
20) The dead zone
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After being in a coma for years, a man awakens with strange psychic abilities that come into effect whenever he touches someone. Bonus features include featurettes, interviews with the cast and crew, and much more.
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