My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown, or simply My Left Foot, is a biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan and written by Sheridan and Shane Connaughton from Christy Brown's 1954 book of the same name. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown, an Irish man born with cerebral palsy who could only control his left foot in a co-production between Ireland and the United Kingdom. Brown was born into a low-income working-class household and went on to become a writer and artist. In supporting roles, Brenda Fricker, Ray McAnally, Hugh O'Conor, Fiona Shaw, and Cyril Cusack appear.

In Jim Sheridan's famous biography of artist Christy Brown, a working-class Irishman born with cerebral palsy who can only use his left foot, Day-Lewis received his first Oscar nomination and won for Best Actor. While Day-Lewis had previously established himself as a talented actor, it was this picture that catapulted him to international fame. My Left Foot is a victorious, nuanced part that showcases Day Lewis's attention to detail, realism, and empathy. It is not just his best performance, but also one of the best performances in film history.

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Directed by: Jim Sheridan

Release date: 24 February 1989

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097937

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based partially on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview, a silver miner turned oilman on a merciless pursuit for fortune amid the late 19th and early 20th-century oil boom in Southern California. Dillon Freasier, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Kevin J. O'Connor also feature.

Day-Lewis brings to life all of the craziness and misery of the increasingly aggressive Daniel Plainview in this masterful performance that earned him his second Academy Award for Best Actor. Day-Lewis is at his finest when he plays ruthless guys, which is a sharp contrast to his public demeanor, and his ferocity builds to a crescendo as every sign of sympathy and benevolence is whittled away. This outstanding performance, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, gradually grows increasingly frightening until the film's devastating conclusion.

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Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson

Release date: September 27, 2007

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494

Steven Spielberg directed and produced Lincoln, a 2012 American biographical historical drama film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as US President Abraham Lincoln. Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, and Tommy Lee Jones all appear in supporting parts in the film.

Day-Lewis is recognized for his method acting, and no other part in his career more exemplifies his commitment to the craft than this one, for which he received his third Academy Award for Best Actor. Day-Lewis' portrayal is possibly so impressive because the figure is so familiar (even if the film presents an intimate perspective of the renowned US president that most viewers—American or otherwise—don't have). A brilliant actor brings a character to life, whether or not the figure existed in real life. Day-Lewis' Lincoln is more than a grim face on a piece of paper or a monument floating over a crowd; he's still a massive figure, but one who appears credible and real in ways that most movie characters don't.

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Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Release date: October 8, 2012

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272

Phantom Thread is a 2017 American historical drama film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, and Vicky Krieps, and written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Day-Lewis plays an haute couture tailor who chooses a teenage waitress, portrayed by Krieps, as his muse in this film set in 1950s London. Day-Lewis' final cinematic role was in this picture. The film is Anderson's first to be shot outside of the United States, with main filming commencing in Lythe, England in January 2017.

Day-Lewis and filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson take a step back from the large, bold, and boisterous in their second collaboration to produce a nuanced and beautiful meditation on creative genius and the complexities of love. Reynolds Woodcock, a great designer who outfits the women of London's elite society, is played by Day-Lewis. When he meets the beautiful Alma, though, his life is turned upside down; after choosing her as his latest muse, he discovers that her presence has a permanent impact on his work—for good or for bad. Day-Lewis gives a tremendous human performance in what may be his final on-screen role, once again making the exceptional reachable and universal.

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Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson

Release date: December 11, 2017

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5776858

The Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan. It is based on Herbert Asbury's 1927 book of the same name. Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz appeared in the picture, which also features Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas, Stephen Graham, Eddie Marsan, and Brendan Gleeson.

Day-Lewis reproduced the horrifying vision of Bill the Butcher, the creator of the Bowery Boys gang in mid-nineteenth-century New York, in his second collaboration with Scorsese—and in a performance that garnered him his third Oscar nomination. Scorsese is the most well-known American director to portray the mafia in all of its aspects, therefore he put a lot of faith in Day-Lewis to portray this intimidating figure correctly. It turned out to be a superb casting move, as Day-Lewis' performance as Bill, one of the greatest—and most terrifying—movie villains of all time, overshadows his supporting cast and elevates the picture to stardom.

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Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Release date: December 20, 2002

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217505

Martin Scorsese directed The Age of Innocence, a 1993 American historical romantic drama film. Scorsese and Jay Cocks wrote the script, which is based on Edith Wharton's 1920 classic The Age of Innocence. Columbia Pictures released the picture, which stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, and Miriam Margolyes. The film follows Newland Archer (Day-Lewis), a rich New York society attorney, romance and marriage to May Welland (Ryder); Archer then meets and legally represents Countess Olenska (Pfeiffer) prior to unanticipated sexual entanglements.

Martin Scorsese's beautiful adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel is a harrowing and personal romance film—a significant change from the director's most well-known works. Day-Lewis also plays Newland Archer, a member of Manhattan's upper crust who falls in love with a wrecked lady in a scandalous way (played by Michelle Pfeiffer). Day-Lewis is known for playing gruff and belligerent characters who are usually the sharpest man in the room, in charge of numerous plots and plans. He lets down his guard here, revealing compassion that makes him an unexpected counterbalance for the strong-willed women in his orbit.

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Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Release date: October 1, 1993

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106226

Jim Sheridan co-wrote and directed the 1993 biographical crime drama film In the Name of the Father. The Guildford Four were wrongfully convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombings, which murdered four off-duty British troops and a civilian. Terry George and Jim Sheridan adapted the screenplay from Gerry Conlon's 1990 autobiography Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four.

Day-Lewis portrays the real-life Gerry Conlon, an Irishman who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for his alleged participation in a 1974 IRA explosion in Guildford, England, earning him his second Oscar nomination. Day-Lewis masterfully portrays Conlon's battle to preserve his humanity in the face of abuse, torture, and wrongful imprisonment in the film, which follows Conlon's 14-year quest to clear his name. Conlon's struggle for justice and truth was aided by Day-Lewis' ability to strike the appropriate mix between sensitivity and tenacity.

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Directed by: Jim Sheridan

Release date: 27 December 1993

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107207

My Beautiful Laundrette is a British comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and based on a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. It was released in 1985. Working Title Films distributed the film as one of their initial releases.

The novel is set in London during the Thatcher years, and the complicated, and often hilarious, connections between members of the Pakistani and English populations are portrayed in the plot. The plot revolves around Omar, a young Pakistani guy living in London, and his reunion and ultimately romance with an old buddy, Johnny, a street punk played by Daniel Day-Lewis. The two take over the maintenance and management of a launderette that was once owned by Omar's uncle Nasser.

Day-Lewis portrays the semi-fascist punk love interest of Omar, a British-Pakistani man living in South London during the height of Thatcherism, in one of his first significant cinematic roles. Like other films of its era and origin, socioeconomics and class play a key role in the conflicts of its characters with one another, as do the LGBT overtones that lead the core storyline interaction.

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Directed by: Stephen Frears

Release date: 7 September 1985

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091578

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 American drama film that is based on Milan Kundera's 1984 novel of the same name. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, and Lena Olin and was directed by Philip Kaufman, who also co-wrote the script with Jean-Claude Carrière. The film depicts Czechoslovak creative and intellectual life during the Prague Spring, as well as the impact of communist persecution following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 on the principal protagonists.

In this adaptation of the renowned Milan Kundera novel, Day-Lewis' Tomas, a Czech brain surgeon and noted playboy, falls for two women—one who is content with their loose and unattached romance, the other looking for a serious and cerebral connection. Choosing between Lena Olin and Juliette Binoche is a challenging battle in and of itself, but Day-biggest Lewis's problem is convincingly conveying Kundera's protagonist of political love story—and his internal conflicts with his own personal philosophies—to the screen. Day-Lewis, of course, is the only person capable of accomplishing such a thing.

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Directed by: Philip Kaufman

Release date: February 5, 1988

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096332

The Last of the Mohicans is a 1992 American epic historical drama film about the French and Indian War, set in 1757. It was directed by Michael Mann and was based on James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 and the 1936 film version, with the film owing more to the novel than the novel. Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe appear in the picture, which also features Jodhi May, Russell Means, Wes Studi, Eric Schweig, and Steven Waddington.

Day-Lewis plays Hawkeye, the white adopted son of a Mohican chief, in Michael Mann's big-screen adaptation of the famous James Fenimore Cooper novel. With this dramatic, historical picture set against the backdrop of the French and Indian War, Day-Lewis gets his opportunity to play the romantic action hero. It's a subtle departure from Day-more Lewis's meaty performances, but he's no less captivating to watch, even if his attraction is based largely on his rugged good looks.

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Directed by: Michael Mann

Release date: August 26, 1992

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104691