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- 127 Hours (2010) “This is a feature film that proves the cliché that no man is an island… And that even in- especially in- the loneliest place in the world, it begins and ends with people.”
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008) “Slumdog Millionaire” might seem to be a film tailor-made for awards season. It’s a crowd-pleaser through and through; it has a love story between two likable and attractive actors, it celebrates a foreign culture, there are clear-cut villains, there’s depiction of struggle and poverty, and it’s about an underdog overcoming inconceivable odds.
- Trance (2013) This is a typical example of a film that couldn’t have worked as well as it did without its great director. Without Danny Boyle, it could have been a ridiculously convoluted mess.
- Millions (2004) In order to survive in this cruel world, we must lose our innocence. Holden Caulfield, the neurotic hero of “Catcher in the Rye”, dreamed of preserving the innocence of children by keeping them playing in this imaginary field of rye at the edge of a cliff.
- A Life Less Ordinary
- Yesterday
- Sunshine
- Trance
- T2 Trainspotting
- The Beach
- Millions
- 127 Hours
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Shallow Grave
To put it simply, A Life Less Ordinary is a mess. There's no part of this film which works and it's best pushed to the bottom of any Boyle-centric viewing order one might have. On paper, it's a film that might have worked: Ewan McGregor is an overworked employer who kidnaps the boss's daughter and goes on the lam. They fall in love, get into some v...
It's a shame that Yesterday doesn't quite pay off on its incredibly attractive elevator pitch ("What if we lived in a world without The Beatles?") because it's a premise with serious promise. Boyle comes together with writer/director Richard Curtis on this one and surprisingly, the sum does not equal the previous success of its parts. Boyle and Cur...
Boyle's return to apocalyptic storytelling with Sunshine and does the bare minimum in crafting an engaging story. Sunshine follows astronaut Robert Capa (Cillian Murphy) and his crew aboard the Icarus II. The crew has been tasked with literally reigniting the sun, traveling from Earth to the dying star to drop a nuclear payload into its heart to re...
James McAvoy partners with Boyle for Trance, a crime drama folded together with a Hitchcockian psychological thriller that is all style and seemingly little to no substance. McAvoy plays Simon, a thief who betrays his partner, Franck (Vincent Cassel), by stealing the painting they were going to sell off for a big payday together. Simon suffers a se...
There's no real reason T2 Trainspotting should exist. Adapted from Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting sequel Porno, T2 simplycatches up with mischievous Edinburgh lowlifes Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, Tommy, and Begbie in 2017. The men are still more or less aimless, having traded up on their drugs with the emergence of social media and new drugs. Boyle is on...
The Beach is the last arguably middling film Boyle has made (so far), as bad as it is good. Catching Leonardo DiCaprio in his immediate post-Titanic glow, The Beach follows DiCaprio's Richard, an American traveling through Southeast Asia who hears about an idyllic, remote island which serves as the Utopian home for a disparate group of bohemians. R...
Millions is fine. Neither immediately bad nor immediately acclaim-worthy, the biggest credit this film has it that Boyle is able to blend in surreal elements with an otherwise straightforward story about two brothers who fight over what to do when a bag containing millions of British pounds literally lands in their laps. Boyle's exploration of the ...
127 Hours is new territory for Boyle by this point in his career since he'd never done a film focused on an actual person. The retelling of the true story of outdoors man and thrill-seeker Aron Ralston's fight for survival will make jaws drop of the floor. After becoming trapped in a crevasse in the hills of the Moab Desert in Utah, his forearm pin...
It's not only the smart casting of wide-eyed Dev Patel (back then, he was still only known for his role on UK's Skins) that makes Slumdog Millionaire a compelling watch, but it's Boyle's telling of the story about a young boy who goes from living in poverty to trying to win back the woman of his dream which works, too. Boyle is best when working fr...
Boyle arrived on the British indie film scene with 1994's Shallow Grave after churning out a few shorts. Shallow Grave is the best primer Boyle's artistic inclinations and, as it happens, it's his first feature-length film, too. Suspenseful, claustrophobic, darkly humorous, and dabbling in the social issues of its day, Shallow Grave is a sharp whod...
- Trainspotting. "Shallow Grave" is the film that started Danny Boyle's career, but "Trainspotting" is what really cemented his reputation as a director to watch throughout the late '90s and early '00s.
- Shallow Grave. "Shallow Grave" is the first film that Danny Boyle ever directed, and in terms of pure nerve he's rarely matched its quality. It stars Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox as a trio of roommates on the hunt for a new person to share their apartment.
- Slumdog Millionaire. "Slumdog Millionaire" was the sleeper hit that no one saw coming. Based on the novel "Q & A" by Viras Swarup, it tells the life story of Jamal (Dev Patel, in a star-making performance) through one extraordinary game of the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
- A Life Less Ordinary. We'll just say it straight out: No one appreciated the vibe that "A Life Less Ordinary" was going for when it first came out. Watch it now and it's impossible not to be struck by how bold and beguilingly off-kilter it all is, and you'll wonder why it never got the credit it so clearly deserves.
Jul 21, 2024 · Danny Boyle's filmography is a dynamic tapestry of cinematic innovation and versatility. The British director has left an indelible mark on the industry with a wide range of genres and styles.
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- 'Yesterday' (2019) - IMDb: 6.8/10. One of Boyle's more lighthearted films, Yesterday stars Himesh Patel as Jack, a struggling musician who wakes up one day to find that he is the only person on earth who can remember the Beatles' music.
- 'Trance' (2013) - IMDb: 6.9/10. Trance is a psychological thriller about an art theft gone wrong. A gang of thieves breaks into the gallery where Simon (James McAvoy) works as an auctioneer, hellbent on stealing Francisco Goya's painting The Witches in the Air.
- 'T2 Trainspotting' (2017) - IMDb: 7.2/10. T2 Trainspotting is the sequel to Boyle's 1996 classic about drug addicts in Edinburgh. It takes place 21 years after Renton (Ewan McGregor) stole a large sum of drug money from his pals and hightailed it to Amsterdam.
- 'Steve Jobs' (2015) - IMDb: 7.2/10. Boyle teamed up with Aaron Sorkin for this biopic about the larger-than-life Apple founder. As usual, Sorkin's dialogue is a delight.
Nov 2, 2023 · From Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting to Cillian Murphy in Sunshine, these are the ten best performances in Danny Boyle movies, ranked.
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Nov 8, 2023 · Boyle’s credits have a good share of both, which is no coincidence. His birthday was some days ago, and to bring you all of his works in one list, we have come up with this one. So here is a list of all Danny Boyle films ranked according to our preference.
