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Lost Highway 1997

Directed by David Lynch · 134 mins · 1,774 views

4.3 Letterboxd 4.12(470,744)
Ratings B D C A J K H M D W

Synopsis

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

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Reviews (77)

  1. B
    Brody 8 月 25, 2026

    Bro really made a movie about how hot one woman is

    4,012 12
  2. D
    David Sims 8 月 25, 2026

    movie about headache

    6,095 19
  3. C
    coffee 8 月 25, 2026

    🚨 LOST HIGHWAY CHALLENGE 🚨 1. tell someone during sex that they will never have you 2. disappear 3. ?????????? 4. profit

    4,268
  4. A
    amaya 8 月 25, 2026

    apparently if you google lost highway ending explained 3 times david lynch appears and shoots you

    22,266 41
  5. J
    Josh Lewis 8 月 25, 2026

    “Do you own a video camera?” “No. Fred hates them.” “I like to remember things my own way.” “What do you mean by that?” “How I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened.” 50 years before David Lynch made one of the most hostile and repressed horror neo-noirs of all time, Robert Aldrich set a clear precedent and inspiration for him when he confrontationally adapted Mickey Spillane’s Kiss Me Deadly. Deliberately taking well-known tropes and images of the genre and leaning full-throttle into their perverse and corrupt implications; their ugliest most disturbing foundational tendencies. Loading them with strange, ominous atmosphere and piles of corpses in the rearview mirror until what’s on screen resembled both a half-remembered, unstable memory of…

    4,438 11
  6. K
    Karsten 8 月 25, 2026

    a movie about being a saxophonist

    7,535
  7. H
    hollie amanda 8 月 25, 2026

    dream job: david lynch’s therapist. i just want to see what’s going on up there

    4,708 16
  8. M
    maria 8 月 25, 2026

    i relate to that highway because i, too, am lost

    11,365 19
  9. D
    dylan gelula 8 月 25, 2026

    The opening titles are sick…. the music rules…. this kicks ass I’m so glad I watched it….. patricia arquette is so awesome in this like she is in everything but I’m sorry she’s so hot in this movie she’s like the hottest girl I’ve ever seen in my whole life it wouldn’t be honest if I didn’t make this review mostly about that

    3,768 17
  10. W
    Wes 8 月 25, 2026

    david lynch is the biggest mood honestly because i also have no clue what the fuck is going on at any given moment

    4,639 3
  11. B
    brendan o'hare 8 月 25, 2026

    HORRIFYING LITTLE GUY COVERED IN WHITE MAKEUP WHO JUST CAME UP TO ME AT A PARTY: I am in your house right now ME: Rock on brother

    8,214 3
  12. H
    Hudson Granade 8 月 25, 2026

    Average David Lynch Stunning Masterpiece

  13. T
    Thamer 8 月 25, 2026

    والله معرف وش اقول

    1 3
  14. Y
    Yassirsadik11 8 月 25, 2026

    The film gave me a kind of horror I’ve never experienced before an explosion in my brain trying to understand it. Yet it was an exceptional, truly unique experience. What a terrible nightmare—

  15. Y
    Yunanz 8 月 25, 2026

    jujur agak pusing sampe harus searching ganti ganti web dan harus nonton penjelasan sampe 3 kali. Inti dari film ini kira kira tentang orang yang merasa dirinya gak bisa puasin istrinya lalu merasa bersalah walaupun istrinya udah ngomong gak apa apa tapi keliatan kalau si istrinya ini juga udah muak bisa di lihat mungkin di adegan ke rumah Andre istrinya lebih deket sama dia di banding si Frednya itu sendiri, lalu muncul karakter orang misterius ini untuk manas manasin dia…

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    ismagang 8 月 25, 2026

    lynch est trop fort c’est une dinguerie

  17. F
    fikar 8 月 25, 2026

    ikutan nyasar

  18. ‮
    ‮سُليمان‬ 8 月 25, 2026

    سيد الاحلام، تجربة رائعة شعور مختلف احب افلام لينش

  19. F
    Frannn 8 月 25, 2026

    q decirte soy todos exploto d cine no aguanto chau

  20. Z
    zonnwoak 8 月 25, 2026

    im so lost, i love it

  21. M
    maryjane420ho 8 月 25, 2026

    ‘I think there’s no such thing as bad coincidence’ It’s a very straightforward movie. You make your own interaction and that’s how it is with Lynch movies — the material is there and you give meaning. Getting most context clues from Renée / Alice — the main female character. A soft spoken seductive woman, Renée appears to be the main love interest of Fred. – A sexual relationship with Fred that turns sour when Fred is overcome with jealousy and…

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    Luka Kremić 8 月 25, 2026

    Novo veče-novi Linč. Vrlo mi je nezgodno da ocenim ovaj film jak je utisak ostavio na mene i verujem da bilo koga ko pogleda baca u dubiozu i razmišljanje jer mu sigurno ništa neće biti jasno, pa ću ja u nastavku recenzije više sam za sebe protumačiti i iz svog ugla film jer mislim da je to negde i bila Linčova zamisao. Spojleri! Vidi se odmah da Fred po svom izgledu ima psihičkih problema pomešanih sa sumnjom u ženu što…

  23. V
    vitor 8 月 25, 2026

    IS THAT MARYLIN MANSON

  24. B
    bouncyforg 8 月 25, 2026

    Not the best Lynch film, but solid either way. Newest Twin Peaks season was pretty similar in some themes present in this movie.

  25. R
    ritiks25 8 月 25, 2026

    ‘Dick laurent is dead’

  26. D
    davi 8 月 25, 2026

    dick laurent is dead. eu amo esses tipos de filmes que nos deixam louco, nada faz sentido, mas, david lynch da sentido ao não sentido, e só ele o martin scorcesse sabe fazer isso de uma forma tão linda. esse filme é lindo, que direção, que história, que fotografia, direção de cameras incriveis. a patricia arquette atuou tão perfeitamente, e que trilha sonora incrivel!!! amei esse, te amo david

  27. A
    Adonisguerra 8 月 25, 2026

    J’ai même pas compris des nouveaux trucs.

  28. A
    avram 8 月 25, 2026

    tha to katalavw sto rewatch trust

  29. T
    THEUNANYMOUSONE 8 月 25, 2026

    I love Lynch’s fucked up filmography

  30. M
    Muhannd 8 月 25, 2026

    مضيعة وقت فلم محبط وكنت متوقع منه أفضل من كذا وبعيدآ على ان الفلم محبط وسيئ الفلم مليان لقطات مخله ومقززه

    1
  31. G
    Grant 8 月 24, 2026

    “We’ve met before, haven’t we?” Im unsure on this. There’s a 5 star movie in here, but there’s a lot of not 5 star movie here. I was very hooked at the beginning and slowly lost that feeling. The beginning being so engaging and strange really did it for me, but after he goes to prison… I don’t think the movie returns to much of a captivating feel. There’s a lot artistic shots that are great to look at and…

    2 1
  32. J
    jfvhall 8 月 24, 2026

    Movie about tailgating

    1
  33. C
    Crashmore 8 月 24, 2026

    I feel some pressure to adore this for film bro cred, and, man, it’s certainly worth a watch. I may have had certain elements spoiled over the years, so while this was incredibly suspenseful — and I share a common reaction in not getting it — I wasn’t having a blast getting my brain scrambled, as I usually do. But I look forward to reading more about whatever I watched tomorrow. While it doesn’t quite feel ahead of its time stylistically, I am sure the average goateed 1997 moviegoer was similarly not as quick to unravel the concepts presented here.

  34. S
    Stephen 8 月 24, 2026

    he burns of new flesh forgets what lit flame, for desires caught fresh begets a new name.

    1
  35. S
    SonDavideee 8 月 24, 2026

    le musiche sono più pornografiche delle scene di sesso in questo film

  36. F
    film_buff95 8 月 24, 2026

    Probably the horniest and grotesque effort in Lynch’s catalogue. Sitting through this was akin to watching someone else’s nightmare unfold before your very eyes. I’m going to be haunted by this one for quite some time.

  37. F
    fish :) 8 月 24, 2026

    got a bad headache while watching this just as david lynch intended

  38. M
    mollyleo 8 月 24, 2026

    Rammstein also haunts my incomprehensible nightmares so valid

  39. M
    Mohamed amine Echarqui 8 月 24, 2026

    Im not able to rate this rn

    1
  40. C
    Clayton Burridge 8 月 24, 2026

    James Sunderland maxxing

  41. E
    emilie4444 8 月 24, 2026

    fait un backflip les yeux fermés dehors une nuit de pleine lune, saute 3 fois sur chaque jambe et PEUT ETRE que l’explication à ce film te parviendra télépathiquement (aucune garantie) plus sérieusement, j’aime vrm devoir penser bien fort au film après sa fin pour le comprendre et donc j’ai adoré (ça m’a donné mal à la tête) nosferatu encore plus freaky…effrayant la soundtrack était incroyable !!! bb bowie au début et à la fin !!!

    2
  42. R
    rowan 8 月 24, 2026

    ya like pornos?

  43. A
    afistfulofmulah 8 月 24, 2026

    get yourself a driver’s manual and study it, you never know what might hit you.

  44. O
    Orfeas 8 月 24, 2026

    white easily takes second place for worst colors you could put on a white face

    1
  45. G
    gross_films69 8 月 24, 2026

    I can’t wait to rewatch this. Patricia arquette is the goat

  46. J
    JonathanB3000 8 月 24, 2026

    That’s fucking crazy man

  47. W
    wuhoops 8 月 24, 2026

    I just know my psych professors would have a field day with this movie…

  48. J
    jaqxes 8 月 24, 2026

    “I like to remember things my own way” – me what I say to the cops to definitely clear myself

  49. D
    DillonDBittner 8 月 24, 2026

    He can’t help it he’s possessed or something

    3
  50. H
    HeheJ_72 8 月 24, 2026

    Fantastic but almost a touch too straight forward for me

  51. A
    antropimal 8 月 24, 2026

    my problem with talking about lynch’s films it’s that it would mean adjusting it to one order/structure althought all parts lead to variable but working and rational (in storytelling terms) orders, leading to one only certain story of all resulting ones. i’ll only say: beware of nail polish

  52. Z
    zachviscardi 8 月 24, 2026

    I understand it now oh wait no I don’t

    1
  53. A
    axl9 8 月 24, 2026

    David lynch try to make a film that makes any sense challenge (impossible)

  54. J
    Joshua 8 月 24, 2026

    “I like to remember things my own way.” “How I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened.” I don’t think anyone can ever be better at encapsulating the feelings of dreams and nightmares like Lynch did.

    1
  55. Z
    zacchase 8 月 24, 2026

    you drive.

    1
  56. P
    Pogzilla 8 月 24, 2026

    “Shit, that wife killer’s looking pretty fucked up!” “Which one?” (Laughter) Fellas, when you cum too quick and she pats you on the back and tells you it’s ok like you’re a kid who peed the bed… make it easy on yourself, just move into a motel room and call a divorce lawyer; it’s over. Much as in Twin Peaks, evil can only take root in those already weakened by desire, jealousy, insecurity, lust. Those who covet. So, men.

  57. N
    nathaniel_h9 8 月 24, 2026

    What

  58. G
    gtm_tn 8 月 24, 2026

    Lookin for love in all the wrong places

  59. S
    samnh77 8 月 24, 2026

    Que la foudre m’abatte J’ai le cerveau qui fume Que des musiques de fous au meilleurs moments Feech des sopranos spotted

  60. C
    Connor Harrison 8 月 24, 2026

    Man I like some of the David Lynch stuff but it just gets so out of hand, bizarre, and unresolved that I end up checked out by the end. I love the guy, I just wish I could love his movies.

    3 3
  61. R
    roccocr 8 月 24, 2026

    A nightmare in film form. It’s no coincidence that the protagonist of this film is a jazz musician; it feels improvisational, like neither the audience nor even the film truly knows what will come next. I kind of felt like I understood what was happening throughout the film, but then looking back I can’t even pretend that I understood the meaning of what I just watched. From what I gathered this is a story of insanity, paranoia, loss of identity,…

    2
  62. D
    discotheque42 8 月 24, 2026

    Me: hmm I wonder what band made this music? Lost Highway: 🎸🗣️RAMMSTEIN

    1 1
  63. B
    boofieslayer 8 月 24, 2026

    This will take a rewatch

    1
  64. N
    Noah Roth 8 月 24, 2026

    It is not my custom to go where I am not wanted. Genuinely terrifying. This really feels like Lynch pulling back the curtain and letting us know how he feels about celebrity, persona, fear, and filmmaking itself. Lynch’s characters feel believable because he believed in them and felt responsible for them in some way and that really comes through in Robert Blake’s character. To me feels like a reflection of his own feelings of responsibility (and even guilt) to his…

  65. D
    Dylan 8 月 24, 2026

    epileptic jazz kinda goes crazy the soundtrack is absolutely nuts

  66. O
    Ofred 8 月 24, 2026

    I don’t even know what’s happening but David lynch might be the goat

  67. N
    nick 8 月 24, 2026

    Sheila i would never do this to you.

  68. J
    jess 8 月 24, 2026

    ughhhh reneeeee

  69. L
    lansy420 8 月 24, 2026

    confusing but still a really good plot and super entertaining

  70. M
    Mojo_Jostar 8 月 24, 2026

    Driving solo really makes you crazy

  71. L
    Larry 8 月 23, 2026

    Kickass soundtrack

  72. K
    klev 8 月 23, 2026

    “We’ve met before, haven’t we?”

  73. R
    rochele 8 月 22, 2026

    ya like pornos?

  74. S
    swirly 🎀🧸💘⭐️ 8 月 20, 2026

    formative

    1 1
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    ‮زياد‬ 8 月 20, 2026

    مو طبيعي هذا الفلم ماتقدر تنساه لازم ارفعه على الشي هذا(ماتوقعت ان مخرجين سايلنت هيل ماخذين كل شي من ديفيد لينش)

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    IpsumDolar 8 月 18, 2026

    Tbd

  77. R
    ritatorino 7 月 11, 2026

    自从看了两遍内陆帝国以后感觉已大概能懂大卫林奇的成片思路。光怪陆离的梦,反复出现的手执摄像机的那位白面老人确实有着恐怖谷效应的cult非人感。但总体上我还是更喜欢内陆帝国。

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P Patricia Arquette Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
B Bill Pullman Fred Madison
B Balthazar Getty Pete Dayton
R Robert Blake Mystery Man
R Robert Loggia Mr. Eddy / Dick Laurent
M Michael Massee Andy
N Natasha Gregson Wagner Sheila
R Richard Pryor Arnie
G Gary Busey Bill Dayton
L Lucy Butler Candace Dayton
J Jack Nance Phil
J Jack Kehler Guard Johnny Mack
H Henry Rollins Guard Henry
G Giovanni Ribisi Steve "V"
S Scott Coffey Teddy
J John Roselius Al
L Louis Eppolito Ed
J Jenna Maetlind Party Girl
M Michael Shamus Wiles Guard Mike
M Mink Stole Forewoman
Director David Lynch
Writer Barry Gifford, David Lynch
Producer Tom Sternberg, Mary Sweeney, Deepak Nayar
Editor Mary Sweeney
Original Music Angelo Badalamenti
Sound John Ross, Ossama Khuluki, Ellen Heuer, Frank Gaeta, Catherine Harper, Benjamin L. Cook, Dean Hovey, Cormac Funge, David Lynch, Derek Marcil, Elmo Weber, Jiří Zobač, Javier Bennassar, Bill Brown, David Melhase, Christopher Moriana, Frederick Howard, Mary Erstad, David Mann, Laura Laird, Marilyn Graf, Thomas Jones, Joshua E. Schneider, Lucy Sustar
Special Effects Philip Bartko, Michael Wilmot, David A. Poole, Bart Barber
Stunts Bruce Paul Barbour, Chris Howell, Gene Hartline, Joey Box
Synopsis
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Director
David Lynch
Writer
Barry Gifford, David Lynch
Studio
CiBy 2000, Asymmetrical Productions
Country
France, USA
Language
English
Year
1997
Runtime
134 mins

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