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Daniel Day-Lewis has 17 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including There Will Be Blood.
Girl, Interrupted
1999
Drama

There Will Be Blood
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

The Last of the Mohicans
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Prime Video · Included

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%MGM+ · Included

The Bounty
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Prime Video · Included

The Age of Innocence
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Tubi · Free w/ ads

A Room with a View
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Max · Included

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 pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
Dir. Jim Sheridan · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Jodhi May

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
Dir. Jim Sheridan · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz

In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.
Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville

An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when they find a tropical paradise.
Dir. Roger Donaldson · With Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Daniel Day-Lewis

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
Dir. Stephen Frears · With Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Roshan Seth

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder

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, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
Dir. James Ivory · With Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith

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. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn

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 Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
Dir. Philip Kaufman · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin

Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
Dir. Jim Sheridan · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Dir. Nicholas Hytner · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield

Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. When he invites his girlfriend, Kathleen, and her sons, Rodney and Thaddius, to move in, Rose is upset. The complicated family dynamics makes things difficult for everyone in the house.
Dir. Rebecca Miller · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener

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 relationship—one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier.
Dir. Ronan Day-Lewis · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Bean, Samantha Morton

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 inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.
Dir. Rob Marshall · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz
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