Guillermo del Toro

1h 34m

A Mexican debut about a vampiric clockwork device. Ron Perlman appears, and never really leaves.

1h 45m

Giant insects in the New York subway. Taken away from him in post, and he has said so ever since.

1h 46m

A ghost story in a Spanish Civil War orphanage. He calls it Pan's Labyrinth's brother.

1h 57m

A studio vampire sequel he turned into something stranger than it needed to be.

2h 2m

Ron Perlman under four hours of prosthetics, in the comic-book film that is most clearly his.

1h 58m

A fairy tale and a fascist occupation, refusing to let either become a metaphor for the other.

2h 0m

The Troll Market sequence alone justifies it. Denser and more designed than the first.

2h 11m

Giant robots against giant monsters, made entirely without irony.

1h 59m

A gothic romance that audiences went to expecting a horror film. Beautiful and mis-sold.

2h 3m

Best Picture and Best Director. The creature-feature romance he had been building towards for decades.

2h 30m

A carnival noir with no supernatural element at all — the only film of his without one.

1h 57m

Stop-motion, set under Mussolini, and about a father who cannot let go. Won the animation Oscar.

2h 29m

The film he spent thirty years trying to make, with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi.