What is the best David Lynch movie?

By YPB Team

From surrealist midnight-movie chaos to heartbreaking American beauty, the films span five decades of utterly singular filmmaking. Where does your loyalty fall?

Mulholland Drive

Lynch's 2001 neo-noir fever dream widely regarded as his masterpiece, following an aspiring actress and an amnesiac woman through a labyrinthine Hollywood mystery.

1000pts

Eraserhead

Lynch's 1977 debut midnight horror classic following a man haunted by disturbing visions after his girlfriend leaves him with their severely deformed infant.

824pts

Blue Velvet

Lynch's 1986 neo-noir masterpiece about a young man who discovers a severed ear in a field and uncovers a terrifying criminal underworld beneath a picturesque American town.

549pts

Wild at Heart

Lynch's 1990 Palme d'Or-winning violent road trip romance starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as young lovers on the run from hired killers.

549pts

Lost Highway

Lynch's 1997 neo-noir mystery thriller about a jazz musician who receives disturbing videotapes and wakes up in jail accused of his wife's murder as another man entirely.

439pts

The Straight Story

Lynch's 1999 G-rated road movie following an elderly man who travels across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawn mower to reconcile with his ailing brother.

439pts

Dune

Lynch's ambitious 1984 science fiction epic adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel, following Paul Atreides as he navigates the desert planet Arrakis and its spice wars.

274pts

The Elephant Man

Lynch's 1980 black-and-white biographical drama about Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man in 19th-century London who is rescued from a brutal freak show.

0pts

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Lynch's 1992 unsettling prequel to the Twin Peaks series chronicling the final days of Laura Palmer before her murder, deeper and darker than the show.

0pts

Inland Empire

Lynch's 2006 experimental three-hour digital odyssey about an actress who begins to lose herself in the role she is playing, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.