Danny Boyle films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 14 films on Boxlist

Known for Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire and 28 Days Later.

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Trainspotting
1996 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from...
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Slumdog Millionaire
2008 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
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28 Days Later
2002 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and...
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28 Years Later
2025 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, Britain remains sealed off from the world. A fortified island community survives in isolation—until a young boy’s journey to the mainland reveals how both the infected and the survivors...
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127 Hours
2010 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
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Sunshine
2007 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s...
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Steve Jobs
2015 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
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T2 Trainspotting
2017 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
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Shallow Grave
1994 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
When accountant David, doctor Juliet and journalist Alex are searching for a fourth roommate for their trendy flat, they settle on the aloof Hugo. However, they soon find Hugo dead of a drug overdose, beside a large sum of cash. After some...
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Yesterday
2019 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in an English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. After a freak bus accident during a mysterious...
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Trance
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
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The Beach
2000 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
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A Life Less Ordinary
1997 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding...
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Danny Boyle films, ranked by your taste

Starring Danny Boyle

Directed by Danny Boyle