Stephen Daldry

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Dir. Stephen Daldry · With Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters

The 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 actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

Dir. Stephen Daldry · With Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross

Set 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.

Dir. Stephen Daldry · With Rickson Tevez, Eduardo Luís, Gabriel Weinstein

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 surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

Dir. Stephen Daldry · With Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep

A 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.

Dir. Stephen Daldry · With Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn

A husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Dir. Stephen Daldry · With James McAvoy, Sharon Horgan, Samuel Logan