David Gordon Green

David Gordon Green

1975-04-09 Little Rock, Arkansas, USA 56 Credits

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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Cornucopia

2025

Producer

Producing

Nearing a cult's prophesized cosmic exaltation, the founder and his son grapple with their diverging worldviews and life priorities.

Hippo

Hippo

2024

Executive Producer

Producing

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

Nutcrackers

2024

Director, Executive Producer

5.8
Directing Producing

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*

*smiles and kisses you*

2024

Executive Producer

Producing

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

Good One

2024

Thanks

6.4

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

The Exorcist: Believer

2023

Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay

5.9
Directing Producing Writing

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

Metal Monsters: The Righteous Redeemer

2023

Executive Producer

8.0
Producing

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

Bones and All

2022

as Brad

7.0
Acting

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

Mississippi River Styx

2022

Executive Producer

Producing

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

Halloween Ends

2022

Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer

6.1
Directing Writing Producing

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

Halloween in Hollywood

2022

as Self

Acting

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

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

2022

as Director

6.8
Acting

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

Halloween Kills

2021

Writer, Director, Executive Producer

6.4
Writing Directing Producing

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

The King of North Sudan

2021

Executive Producer

8.0
Producing

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

Fatman

2020

Executive Producer

5.6
Producing

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

Halloween

2018

Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer

6.6
Directing Writing Producing

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

City of Joel

2018

Executive Producer

Producing

"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

Support the Girls

2018

Thanks

6.1

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

Arizona

2018

Executive Producer

5.5
Producing

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

An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn

2018

Executive Producer

5.5
Producing

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

The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter

2018

Executive Producer

5.1
Producing

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

Stronger

2017

Director

7.0
Directing

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

Dayveon

Dayveon

2017

Executive Producer

6.7
Producing

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

Flower

2017

Executive Producer

6.4
Producing

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

Goat

2016

Screenplay

5.4
Writing

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

Fraud

2016

Executive Producer

5.0
Producing

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

Producing

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

Our Brand Is Crisis

2015

Director

5.9
Directing

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

Manglehorn

Manglehorn

2015

Director, Producer

5.4
Directing Producing

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

Hot Sugar's Cold World

2015

Executive Producer

7.5
Producing

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!

Land Ho!

2014

Executive Producer

5.5
Producing

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

Producing

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

Joe

2014

Director, Producer

6.5
Directing Producing

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

Person to Person

2014

Executive Producer

7.1
Producing

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

Prince Avalanche

2013

Producer, Director, Writer

6.2
Producing Directing Writing

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

The Comedy

2012

Executive Producer

5.8
Producing

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

Compliance

2012

Executive Producer

6.4
Producing

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

See Girl Run

2012

Executive Producer

4.9
Producing

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

Nature Calls

2012

Executive Producer

4.1
Producing

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

The Sitter

2011

Director

5.6
Directing

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

Your Highness

2011

Director

5.3
Directing

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

Pineapple Express

2008

Director

6.6
Directing

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

Shotgun Stories

2007

Producer

6.9
Producing

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

Snow Angels

2007

Director, Screenplay

6.4
Directing Writing

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

Great World of Sound

2007

Producer

5.2
Producing

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

Undertow

2004

Director, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

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

All the Real Girls

2003

Director, Writer, Story

5.9
Directing Writing

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

George Washington

2000

Director, Screenplay, Story

6.7
Directing Writing Producing

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

5.2
Directing Writing

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

4.4
Directing Writing

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

Acting

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

Directing

A drama telling the story of Walt Disney's journey to build Disneyland.

The Prima Donna

N/A

Executive Producer

Producing

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

Producing

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

Writing

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

Producing

When two lifelong friends suspect their beloved best friend is the infamous Infinity Killer, they become reluctant detectives, uncovering dark truths ...