Movies by Daniel Day-Lewis
As part of the cast:
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Lincoln (2012)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones …
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Director Steven Spielberg takes on the towering legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his stewardship of the Union during the Civil War years. The biographical saga also reveals the…
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A Man's Story (2010)
Cast: Ozwald Boateng, Giorgio Armani, Michael Bay …
Directed by: Varon Bonicos
Celebrated menswear designer Ozwald Boateng is also a man of strong passions, as recorded in this revealing documentary filmed over 10 years. Boateng's personal challenges are contrasted…
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Nine (2009)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz …
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Film director Guido Contini faces a midlife crisis and struggles to complete his latest movie while juggling relationships with several women -- including his wife, his mistress and his…
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There Will Be Blood (2007)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor …
Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
In this expansive drama, ambitious prospector Daniel Plainview strikes it rich when he buys the oil rights to a California family's ranch. As he turns the simple village into a boomtown,…
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The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener …
Directed by: Rebecca Miller
Writer-director Rebecca Miller elicits an astounding performance from husband Daniel Day-Lewis, who plays Jack, a father intent on raising his daughter (Camilla Belle) as an environmentally…
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Gangs of New York (2002)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Amid the savage Irish and Italian rivalry that dominated New York City in the mid-1800s, young Amsterdam Vallon hunts down his father's hateful murderer, Bill "the Butcher" Cutting.…
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The Boxer (1997)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Ken Stott …
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis), a promising Irish boxer who was imprisoned for 14 years at age 18 for associating with the IRA, returns to his Belfast neighborhood just as IRA leader Joe…
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The Crucible (1996)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield …
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Playwright Arthur Miller's parable of the 1950s anti-communist crusade (thinly veiled here as the Salem, Mass., witch trials of 1692) receives lush treatment in this Oscar-nominated film…
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite …
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Nominated for seven Oscars in 1993, this biopic features the dramatic prowess of Daniel Day-Lewis as the Irishman Gerry Conlon, who was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for an IRA…
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The Age of Innocence (1993)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Newland Archer, a well-bred New Yorker engaged to an appropriate match: cultured May Welland (Winona Ryder). But when her alluring cousin, Ellen Olenska (Michelle…
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The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means …
Directed by: Michael Mann
When rugged frontiersman Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) saves the Munro sisters -- two newly arrived English settlers -- from a Huron ambush, he ends up in the midst of the battle between the…
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My Left Foot (1989)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan …
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for his emotionally and physically complex portrayal of Irish writer Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy and misdiagnosed as mentally disabled for…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Special Edition (1988)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin …
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Though Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) is adept at juggling girlfriends (Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin), he has a tougher time following the dictates (or lack thereof) of his political conscience…
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My Beautiful Laundrette (1986)
Cast: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis …
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a Pakistani, and his old school chum Johnny (Daniel-Day Lewis) use stolen drug money to renovate a laundrette in a squalid London neighborhood. But conflicting…
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A Room with a View (1986)
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Daniel Day-Lewis …
Directed by: James Ivory
In this adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, Lucy travels to Florence with her chaperone in tow. There, she falls for a fellow countryman's moody son. But like any proper…
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The Bounty (1984)
Cast: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier …
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
After a month of battling sea squalls and the cruel reign of Capt. William Bligh, the HMS Bounty's crew at last finds respite on Tahiti. But the imperious Bligh soon wants to set sail,…
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Gandhi (1982)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox …
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
This awe-inspiring biopic about Mahatma Gandhi -- the diminutive lawyer who stood up against British rule in India and became an international symbol of nonviolence and understanding --…
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Cast: Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head …
Directed by: John Schlesinger
In director John Schlesinger's intriguing character study, a thorny love triangle develops as lonely divorcée Alexandra Greville and well-to-do physician Daniel Hirsh compete for…