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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


  • House of Cards - Season 1 - Blu-ray (2013)
    Starring: Kevin Spacey,  Robin Wright,  Kate Mara
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    House of Cards is a political drama series that slithers behind the curtain of power, sex, ambition, love, greed and corruption in modern Washington D.C. An uncompromising exploration of power, ambition and the American way, the series orbits Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey), the House Majority ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 9 members
    Due for release on 8th July 2013
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  • House of Cards - Season 1 (2013)
    Starring: Kevin Spacey,  Robin Wright,  Kate Mara
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    House of Cards is a political drama series that slithers behind the curtain of power, sex, ambition, love, greed and corruption in modern Washington D.C. An uncompromising exploration of power, ambition and the American way, the series orbits Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey), the House Majority ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 33 members
    Due for release on 8th July 2013
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  • Side By Side on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Keanu Reeves,  Danny Boyle,  James Cameron
    Director: Christopher Kenneally
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Join Keanu Reeves and the master moviemakers of today for an eye-opening insight into the history of filmmaking. With no-holds-barred interviews from big hitters such as Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, George Lucas and James Cameron, Reeves presents a fascinating and candid look at the Film vs ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 39 members
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  • The Social Network - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Brenda Song,  Joseph Mazzello,  Rooney Mara
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    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 23,920 members
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  • The Social Network on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Brenda Song,  Joseph Mazzello,  Rooney Mara
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    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 72% from 78,091 members
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  • Zodiac - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Chloe Sevigny,  Charles Fleischer,  Brian Cox
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Director David Fincher's cut of his acclaimed thriller based on actual case files surrounding the notorious San Francisco Bay area murders of the 1970s. As the serial killer known as 'Zodiac' taunts the police with letters and cryptic clues, reporters and investigators become increasingly obsessed ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 5,149 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
    Based on the Robert Graysmith books about the real life notorious Zodiac, a serial killer who terrorized San Francisco with a string of seemingly random murders during the 1960s and 1970s.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 65,252 members
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  • Panic Room on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Kristen Stewart,  Forest Whitaker,  Patrick Bauchau
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her teenage daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) move into a luxury Manhattan townhouse they have no plans to use the ultra-secure 'panic room' installed by the previous occupant. But on their first night in their new home, three burglars break-in with plans to steal ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 18,667 members
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  • Fight Club - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Meat Loaf,  Jared Leto,  Richmond Arquette
    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 3,168 members
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  • Fight Club on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Meat Loaf,  Jared Leto,  Richmond Arquette
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's novel, David Fincher's controversial drama explores themes of masculinity and violence in contemporary society. Edward Norton stars as Jack, a bored insomniac, determined to inject some excitement into his life. He meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a charismatic soap ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 88,950 members
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  • The Game on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Peter Donat,  Jack Kehoe,  Yuji Okumoto
    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 12,833 members
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  • The Game - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Peter Donat,  Jack Kehoe,  Yuji Okumoto
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Successful San Francisco tycoon and control freak Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) approaches his forty-eighth birthday with some trepidation. For it was at this age that his father fell from his mansion roof and died. Nicholas receives an introduction to Consumer Recreation Services from his ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 336 members
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  • Seven on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Daniel Zacapa,  Richard Portnow,  Morgan Freeman
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    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 93,837 members
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  • Seven - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Daniel Zacapa,  Richard Portnow,  Morgan Freeman
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Homicide detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) has just seven days left to retirement when he is paired with his brash replacement David Mills (Brad Pitt). The pair investigate the murder of a man who has been force-fed until he burst, then that of a rich lawyer made to cut a pound of flesh ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 2,033 members
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  • Alien 3 on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Paul McGann,  Brian Glover,  Ralph Brown
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Acclaimed director David Fincher's promising career was lucky to survive this astonishingly wrong-headed, almost universally despised second sequel to Alien (1979). The film careens into oblivion virtually from the beginning, as Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor of a crash-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 24,215 members
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  • Alien 3 - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Paul McGann,  Brian Glover,  Ralph Brown
    Director: David Fincher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In the second sequel to 'Alien', Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) crash-lands on a mining colony planet worked by convicts. While coping with the difficulties of being the only woman on a planet populated by hardened criminals, Ripley comes across evidence that her nemesis, the resilient alien, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 147 members
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David Fincher facts

5 most recent films

House of Cards - Season 1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
House of Cards - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
Side By Side - 3.5 stars
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 3.5 stars
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Blu-ray - 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

Side By Side - 3.5 stars
House of Cards - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
House of Cards - Season 1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Panic Room - 3.0 stars
Alien 3 - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Andrew Kevin Walker - 8 times - show films
Brad Pitt - 8 times - show films
Jared Leto - 7 times - show films
Kristen Stewart - 5 times - show films
Dwight Yoakam - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

James Cameron - 11 times - show films
Ridley Scott - 11 times - show films
Jea - 5 times - show films
Christopher Kenneally - 1 times - show films