
Stephen Daldry films, ranked by your taste
Director and actor · 7 films on Boxlist
Known for The Hours, Billy Elliot and The Reader.
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Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
2025 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDBGo behind the scenes with the cast and crew of “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”, the award-winning live stage show that expands the Hawkins universe.
Directed by Stephen Daldry

The Hours
2002 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a...

Billy Elliot
2000 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDBSet against the background of the 1984 Miners' Strike, 11-year-old Billy Elliot stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, inner conflict...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
The Reader
2008 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDBThe story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her...

Trash
2014 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDBSet in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
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Together
2021 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDBA husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDBA year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
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