David Lowery

Director · b. 1980 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

David Lowery (born December 26, 1980) is an American filmmaker, known for directing independent films such as Ain't Them Bodies Saints, A Ghost Story, The Old Man & the Gun, and The Green Knight, as well as mainstream studio productions such as Pete's Dragon and Peter Pan & Wendy.

Movies12

Movie6.5
DramaRomance
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.
Queer
2024 · 579 votes
Movie7.1
DramaFantasy
Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.
A Ghost Story
2017 · 2.6K votes
Movie7.0
AnimationAdventure
A young owl meets a lost little girl in New York City. Together, they try to get home for Christmas.
An Almost Christmas Story
2024 · 100 votes
Movie6.9
Documentary
Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.
Lynch/Oz
2023 · 35 votes
Movie4.6
DramaRomance
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Alexander the Last
2009 · 24 votes
Movie5.9
ComedyDrama
Brutally self-aware, promiscuous love addict Stella Fox moves to New York after a devastating break-up and pursues disappointing romantic dalliances over the course of a summer.
Messy
2025 · 10 votes
Movie
Documentary
An hour-long journey behind the scenes of The Green Knight set in Ireland: Come for a look at Dev Patel feeding flowers to a horse, stay for the epic scenery and insight into the filmmaking process.
The Green Knight Documentary
2021
Movie5.7
DramaComedy
The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
LOL
2006 · 92 votes
Movie5.5
Drama
Set in rural Texas the story chronicles an unnamed man with a broken spirit. In the beginning we see him returning to his family. Where he’s been is unknown. Wherever it was – prison, maybe war – the years have not been kind to him. In spite of his family’s warm welcome the man can’t shake an anger that builds in him so he must leave them again. This time to return to the land that was once theirs, a land that had been in the family for generations, a land that has been stolen, plundered, and sewn with seeds of greed. There’s a force at work, a corruption that destroys homes, nature, families, and memories. The Man decides to lay his stakes down and pits himself against it all. He is on a ruinous mission to sate the hatred in his heart with the knife he carries in his hand.
Knife
2011 · 2 votes
Movie
"Looking For Love" by David Lowery was shot in a fit of inspiration over the course of two hours on Valentine's Day in 2003. It took another two hours to clean up afterwards.
Looking For Love
2003
Movie5.5
Documentary
Some Analog Lines is a playfully philosophical, surprisingly personal essay film that examines the dichotomy between digital technology and the artistic process of filmmaking. It is about animation, computers, clay, celluloid; a paper mask; a wooden shelf. More importantly, it is about what we respond to when we watch a film, and why.
Some Analog Lines
2006 · 2 votes
Movie4.8
AnimationDocumentary
It is all in the title. MY DAILY ROUTINE is a playful visual diary of filmmaker David Lowery's days, from waking in the morning to turning in at night, when his racing mind refuses to let him sleep without working over a new creative project or reading until the wee hours. It is also about the frustrations of creative work and the lure of distraction as a self-employed filmmaker and editor-for-hire in a plugged-in world. Narrated by the filmmaker and illustrated in hand-drawn sketches, it plays out like a mock slide-show (complete with the projector hum and click of changing images) by way of a tutorial. "I made MY DAILY ROUTINE at a point where I was just really frustrated with where I was and I wasn't even making things," explains Lowery. "There was a lot of red tape I was trying to cut through with other projects, but I really wanted to make something. This film is what I wound up making." - Sean Axmaker
My Daily Routine
2011 · 4 votes