Daniel Day-Lewis films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 16 films on Boxlist

Known for There Will Be Blood, Phantom Thread and My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown.

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Starring Daniel Day-Lewis

There Will Be Blood
2007 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a...
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Phantom Thread
2017 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Renowned British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock comes across Alma, a young, strong-willed woman, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover.
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly...
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The Age of Innocence
1993 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
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Lincoln
2012 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery...
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The Last of the Mohicans
1992 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
In war-torn Colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, Cora Munro, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors...
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In the Name of the Father
1993 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's...
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A Room with a View
1985 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but...
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Gangs of New York
2002 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket...
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Gandhi
1982 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a...
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Spielberg
2017 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the...
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The Crucible
1996 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Based upon the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller (who wrote the screen adaptation), the Salem witch trials in 1692 plunge the Massachusetts Bay colony into chaos.
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The Bounty
1984 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant...
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Anemone
2025 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Middle-aged Jem sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother Ray. Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender...
Nine
2009 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and...
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