Biography
David Gordon Green is an American filmmaker. He has directed dramas such as George Washington, All the Real Girls, and Snow Angels, as well as the thriller Undertow, all of which he wrote or co-wrote. In 2008, he transitioned into comedy, directing the films Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and The Sitter, as well as episodes of the HBO comedy Eastbound & Down. In 2013, he returned to his more dramatic roots with the independent films Prince Avalanche and Joe. Since then, he has directed the fi...
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Complete Filmography
Cornucopia
2025
Producer
Nearing a cult's prophesized cosmic exaltation, the founder and his son grapple with their diverging worldviews and life priorities.

Hippo
2024
Executive Producer
Hippo, a peculiar adolescent, and his Hungarian step-sister Buttercup struggle to come of age in late 1990s America, under the roof of a mother who ha...

Nutcrackers
2024
Director, Executive Producer
Just as Mike is on the heels of closing the biggest deal of his career, he's pulled away from his bachelor life in the big city to a farm in rural Ohi...

*smiles and kisses you*
2024
Executive Producer
The relationship between a man and his life-size AI-animated doll is explored in this moving documentary. A clear eyed and open hearted take on machin...

Good One
2024
Thanks
On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.

The Exorcist: Believer
2023
Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay
Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memor...

Metal Monsters: The Righteous Redeemer
2023
Executive Producer
A behind-the-scenes look at Rick Disharoon and his small-town, family-owned business, The Metal Shop, as the team gets the chance of a lifetime: to bu...

Bones and All
2022
as Brad
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. ...

Mississippi River Styx
2022
Executive Producer
An enigmatic drifter suffering from terminal cancer lives out his dream of floating down the Mississippi River on a ramshackle houseboat, until the tr...

Halloween Ends
2022
Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
Four years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is ...

Halloween in Hollywood
2022
as Self
Chris Hardwick hosts this epic night celebrating all things Halloween, including interviews with Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Blum and David Gordon about t...

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
2022
as Director
Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take...

Halloween Kills
2021
Writer, Director, Executive Producer
Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last enc...

The King of North Sudan
2021
Executive Producer
Danny Abel’s documentary tells the incredible, all-American story of Jeremiah Heaton and his geographical conquest. It all starts in 2014, when Heaton...

Fatman
2020
Executive Producer
A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man ...

Halloween
2018
Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree ...

City of Joel
2018
Executive Producer
"City of Joel" is documentary - with unprecedented access - to a 1.1 square mile shtetl in the suburbs that is home to 22,000 members of an one of the...

Support the Girls
2018
Thanks
Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', Double Whammies. She nurtures and protects her employees fiercely - but ove...

Arizona
2018
Executive Producer
Set in the midst of the 2009 housing crisis, the life of Cassie Fowler, a single mother and struggling realtor, goes off the rails when she witnesses ...

An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
2018
Executive Producer
Lulu Danger's unsatisfying marriage takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event called "An Evenin...

The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter
2018
Executive Producer
A star of hunting videos strives to bond with his 12-year-old son on a wilderness trip but learns familial connections can't be forced.

Stronger
2017
Director
A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.

Dayveon
2017
Executive Producer
In the wake of his big brother’s violent death, 13-year-old Dayveon struggles to find his way in an economically depressed Arkansas town. With no pare...

Flower
2017
Executive Producer
Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a 17-year-old firecracker living with her single mom, Laurie, and her mom's new boyfriend, Bob, in L.A.'s S...

Goat
2016
Screenplay
Reeling from a terrifying assault, a nineteen year old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in t...

Fraud
2016
Executive Producer
A family's home movies document a desperate crime spree and the bid to outrun the consequences. Born from a colossal trove of innocuous uploads to Yo...
Booger Red
2015
Executive Producer
Booger Red is a hybrid documentary/narrative about a veteran reporter who searches for the truth behind the largest purported child sex ring in Texas ...

Our Brand Is Crisis
2015
Director
Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.

Manglehorn
2015
Director, Producer
AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday, ...

Hot Sugar's Cold World
2015
Executive Producer
Nick Koenig, aka Hot Sugar, is in a hot mess. Considered a modern-day Mozart, the young electronic musician/producer records sounds from everyday life...

Land Ho!
2014
Executive Producer
Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz's buddy comedy Land Ho! follows former brothers-in-law Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson) and Colin (Paul Eenhoorn) as they trave...
Trouble & the Shadowy Deathblow
2014
Producer
No man is an island, but there are always exceptions. Meet Jim Funkle, played by Tony Hale. A once promising food scientist, his career came to an end...

Joe
2014
Director, Producer
The rough-hewn boss of a lumber crew courts trouble when he steps in to protect the youngest member of his team from an abusive father.

Person to Person
2014
Executive Producer
Waking up the morning after hosting a party, a man discovers a stranger passed out on his floor. He spends the rest of the day trying to convince her ...

Prince Avalanche
2013
Producer, Director, Writer
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find t...

The Comedy
2012
Executive Producer
Indifferent to the notion of inheriting his father's estate, a restless, aging New Yorker passes time with his friends in games of mock sincerity, irr...

Compliance
2012
Executive Producer
On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee...

See Girl Run
2012
Executive Producer
What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obli...

Nature Calls
2012
Executive Producer
Polar-opposite brothers Randy and Kirk never saw eye-to-eye, but their rivalry is taken to a new level when Randy hijacks Kirk's son's sleepover, taki...

The Sitter
2011
Director
Noah, is not your typical entertain-the-kids-no-matter-how-boring-it-is kind of sitter. He's reluctant to take a sitting gig; he'd rather, well, be do...

Your Highness
2011
Director
A fantasy movie about an arrogant, lazy prince and his more heroic brother who must complete a quest in order to save their father's kingdom.

Pineapple Express
2008
Director
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

Shotgun Stories
2007
Producer
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and bac...

Snow Angels
2007
Director, Screenplay
Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at gettin...

Great World of Sound
2007
Producer
When a man answers an ad to train as a record producer, he's excited by the prospect of signing undiscovered artists only to discover his new job isn'...

Undertow
2004
Director, Screenplay
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle ...

All the Real Girls
2003
Director, Writer, Story
In a sleepy little mill town in North Carolina, Paul is the town Romeo. But when his best friend's sister returns home from boarding school, he finds ...

George Washington
2000
Director, Screenplay, Story
Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world...
Physical Pinball
1998
Director, Screenplay
A character piece between a widower and his teenage daughter, as the father realizes his tomboy child is becoming a young woman.
Pleasant Grove
1997
Director, Screenplay
Short film made in 1997 while David Gordon Green was attending the North Carolina School of Arts that formed the genesis of his feature film debut, "G...
Hollywood Trailblazer: The Debra Hill Story
N/A
Debra Hill's documentary tells the story of her multifaceted life and of inspiring filmmakers around the world, and her legacy as a creative producer,...
The Happiest Place on Earth
N/A
Director
A drama telling the story of Walt Disney's journey to build Disneyland.
The Prima Donna
N/A
Executive Producer
While preparing for the role of her life in Rome, opera diva Livia Angelli needs to deal with the unexpected return of her daughter Mimi, who wants to...
Wildfire
N/A
Producer
7-year-old Lu accidentally starts a wildfire. A mute from an abusive home, Lu slyly tricks Merribelle, a hardworking trans woman, into kidnapping her ...
Friday Night Lights
N/A
Writer
A look at the lives of young American football players in a small town Del Rio, Texas. A remake of the 2004 film.
Suburban Psycho
N/A
Executive Producer
When two lifelong friends suspect their beloved best friend is the infamous Infinity Killer, they become reluctant detectives, uncovering dark truths ...