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David Fincher

David Fincher
Born 28 Aug 1962, in Denver, Colorado, USA

<b>Wise words:</b> "As a director, film is about how you dole out the information so that the audience stays with you when they're supposed to stay with you, behind you when they're supposed to stay behind you, and ahead of you when they're supposed to stay ahead of you."



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David Fincher - news / articles


  • Aronofsky & Fincher lead Directors Guild nominations - 11 January 2011
    -Darren Aronofsky, David Fincher and Tom Hooper's Oscars hopes have been given a huge boost - the trio are among the nominees for the top honour at the 2011 Directors Guild of America Awards.- -Christopher Nolan and David O. Russell make up the five-strong shortlist fo


  • Cox asks Fincher for directing advice - 25 July 2009
    -Former Friends star Courteney Cox is determined to carve out a career as a director - and has turned to moviemaker David Fincher to help make her dream come true.- -The actress is set to make her directorial debut with short film The Monday Before Thanksgiving, which


  • WIN! Brad Pitt and David Fincher DVDS - 26 May 2009
    -To celebrate the release of -The Curious Case of Benjamin Button- on 8th June, we’ve got three sets of Brad Pitt and David Fincher Blu-ray DVDs for you to win.- -Three lucky winners will get copies of Zodiac, The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward

David Fincher - what members say


  • Seven
  • Seven review by from Bedford, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Seven Stars 3 September 2003
    .... Morgan Freeman is, as always, absolutely breathtakingly good and top marks to David Fincher for an epic journey into obsession, the grotesque and twisted morality. Seven i...   Read customer review
  • Alien 3
  • Alien 3 review by from Nottingham
    Rated - 5.0 stars One of the worst films I've seen. 11 July 2004
    ...It upsets me to say that I don't like a David Fincher film; Fight Club, Seven, and Panic Room are all very good. But because he was a new director at the time, he wasn't gi...   Read customer review
  • Fight Club
  • Fight Club review by A customer from London, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars What a suprise! It's not what you think! 24 October 2003
    ...oking and visually stimulating. The direction is incredibly brilliant. Director David Fincher (Aliens, Se7en and The Game) is at his finest here warping both space and time,...   Read customer review

David Fincher - filmography


  • The Social Network - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Brenda Song,  Joseph Mazzello,  Rooney Mara
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    David Fincher's The Social Network is the stunning tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and perhaps forever. Shot through with emotional brutality and unexpected humour, this superbly crafted ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 21,885 members
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  • The Social Network on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Brenda Song,  Joseph Mazzello,  Rooney Mara
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    David Fincher's The Social Network is the stunning tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and perhaps forever. Shot through with emotional brutality and unexpected humour, this superbly crafted ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 64,722 members
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  • Zodiac on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,  Robert Downey Jr,  Chloe Sevigny
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Robert Graysmith (Gyllenhaal)is a cartoonist who works for the San Francisco Chronicle. His quirky ways irritate Paul Avery (Downey Jnr.), a reporter whose drinking gets in the way of doing his job. The two become friends thanks to a shared interest: the Zodiac killer. Graysmith steadily becomes ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 62,912 members
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  • Zodiac - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,  Robert Downey Jr,  Chloe Sevigny
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    David Fincher's (FIGHT CLUB, SE7EN) adaptation of the Robert Graysmith book masterfully transports viewers to the Bay Area in the 1960s and '70s by drawing on actual case files from the notoriously unsolved Zodiac killer mystery. As a murderer with seemingly random targets starts sending terrifying ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 4,461 members
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  • Panic Room on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Ann Magnuson,  Patrick Bauchau,  Ian Buchanan
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    As David Fincher's PANIC ROOM begins, recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) halfheartedly tours through an old New York City townhouse with her restless young daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart). Using money from her divorce settlement, the unhappy mother decides to buy the spacious home. The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 18,255 members
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  • Fight Club - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Edward Norton,  Brad Pitt,  Helena Bonham-Carter
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or tourist, the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 2,771 members
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  • Fight Club on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Edward Norton,  Brad Pitt,  Helena Bonham-Carter
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or tourist, the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 86,888 members
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  • The Game on DVD (1997)
    Starring: James Rebhorn,  Carroll Baker,  Peter Donat
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director David Fincher followed the success of his dark and atmospheric crime thriller Seven (1995) with another exercise in stylish film noir, this time lifting the pallid atmosphere a notch to indulge in a fast-paced trip through the cinematic funhouse. Michael Douglas plays Nicholas Van Orton, a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 12,208 members
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  • The Game - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Sean Penn,  Deborah Unger
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    For the follow-up to his dark crime thriller SEVEN, director David Fincher decided to remain in a film noir vein. The result is THE GAME, a fast-paced cinematic roller-coaster ride that stars Michael Douglas as Nicholas Van Orton, a joyless San Francisco investment banker who receives an unusual ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 170 members
    Not available for rental
  • The Game - HD (1997)
    Starring: James Rebhorn,  Carroll Baker,  Peter Donat
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    For the follow-up to his dark crime thriller SEVEN, director David Fincher decided to remain in a film noir vein. The result is THE GAME, a fast-paced cinematic roller-coaster ride that stars Michael Douglas as Nicholas Van Orton, a joyless San Francisco investment banker who receives an unusual ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 538 members
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  • Seven on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Morgan Freeman,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    Director David Fincher's dark, stylish thriller ranks as one of the decade's most influential box-office successes. Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 91,414 members
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  • Seven - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Morgan Freeman,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    Gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, and lust--these are the seven deadly sins that are being punished with unimaginable cruelty and calculation by an enigmatic killer in David Fincher's bleak thriller SEVEN. Set in a perpetually gloomy unnamed city, the film follows Somerset (Morgan Freeman)..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 1,633 member
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  • Alien 3 on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Charles S. Dutton,  Charles Dance
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ripley finds herself the sole survivor of another alien attack. This time she finds herself on Fiorina 161, a penal colony... It's not long before Ripley realises that her doomed escape pod was contaminated with the alien. Now she is imprisoned on a planet where weapons are unavailable....
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 23,745 members
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  • Alien 3 - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Charles S. Dutton,  Charles Dance
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ripley finds herself the sole survivor of another alien attack. This time she finds herself on Fiorina 161, a penal colony... It's not long before Ripley realises that her doomed escape pod was contaminated with the alien. Now she is imprisoned on a planet where weapons are unavailable....
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 73 members
    Not available for rental

David Fincher facts

5 most recent films

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 3.5 stars
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Social Network - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Social Network - 3.5 stars
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Alien Quadrilogy - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Seven - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Fight Club - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Alien Quadrilogy - 4.0 stars
Seven - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Panic Room - 3.0 stars
Alien 3 - 3.0 stars
Zodiac - 3.5 stars
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 3.5 stars
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Brad Pitt - 8 times - show films
Andrew Kevin Walker - 8 times - show films
Jared Leto - 7 times - show films
Ann Magnuson - 5 times - show films
Patrick Bauchau - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

James Cameron - 11 times - show films
Ridley Scott - 11 times - show films
Jea - 5 times - show films