Danny Boyle Filmography

Born:: October 20, 1956 in Manchester, England
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer
Biography:: One of Britain's most celebrated breakthrough talents of the '90s, director and producer Danny Boyle made his name with his acclaimed 1996 adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. An angry, scabrously funny film about a group of Edinburgh heroin addicts that took a non-judgmental approach to...Read More

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Slumdog Millionaire

Crew: Director

Actors: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan

Synopsis: Danny Boyle directs this ripped-from-the-headlines story of an impoverished kid (Dev Patel) on the streets of Mumbai who lucks out on India's variant of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The Full Monty's Simon Beaufoy scripts the Film4 and Celador Films production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

11/28/08
Ponte Tower

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Screenwriter Michael Thomas draws inspiration from German author Norman Ohler's book for this tale of a naïve Soweto girl who moves into the Africa's famed fifty-four story skyscraper near the end of the Apartheid-era , only to fall under the malevolent influence of an outwardly charming drug Read More

2008
Sunshine

Crew: Director

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada

Synopsis: As the sun begins to dim along with mankind's hope for the future, it's up to a desperate crew of eight astronauts to reach the dying star and re-ignite the fire that will bring life back to planet Earth in a tense, psychological sci-fi thriller that re-teams 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle Read More

7/20/07
28 Weeks Later

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Catherine McCormack

Synopsis: The devastating rage virus that annihilated the British Isles mysteriously resurfaces in Goya Award-winning director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's sequel to the Danny Boyle-directed horror hit that terrified audiences worldwide by offering a breathless new take on the familiar zombie mythos. Six Read More

5/11/07
Millions

Crew: Director

Actors: Alex Etel, Lewis Owen McGibbon, James Nesbitt, Daisy Donovan, Christopher Fulford

Synopsis: Director Danny Boyle revisits a theme from his Shallow Grave and Trainspotting days -- greed -- but focuses on a much younger protagonist with this comedy drama. Millions opens with recent widower Ronnie (James Nesbitt) moving his two precocious pre-pubescent sons to the suburbs. Missing his Read More

3/11/05
28 Days Later

Crew: Director

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, Christopher Eccleston

Synopsis: Animal rights activists free a group of infected chimpanzees to horrifying results in this speculative sci-fi horror effort from Trainspotting director Danny Boyle. Waking from a coma in a deserted London hospital 28 days later, bicycle courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) takes to the deserted city Read More

11/1/02
Alien Love Triangle

Crew: Director

2002
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

Crew: Director

Actors: Timothy Spall, Michael Begley, David Crellin, Katy Cavanagh, Sandra Gough

Synopsis: British filmmaker Danny Boyle offers a darkly comic glimpse of life in Britain in this short feature (shot on digital video equipment) produced for the BBC. Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise concerns Tommy Rag (Timothy Spall), a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman whose passion for Read More

2001
Strumpet

Crew: Director

Actors: Christopher Eccleston, Jenna Gee

Synopsis: British filmmaker Danny Boyle offers a darkly comic glimpse of life in Britain in this short feature (shot on digital video equipment) produced for the BBC. In Strumpet, Jenna Gee plays the title character, a young woman who plays guitar in a punk rock band. One day, Strumpet is sexually assaulted Read More

2001
The Beach

Crew: Director

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, Paterson Joseph

Synopsis: For his first major project after the overwhelming success of Titanic, Leonardo Di Caprio took a risky path in this adaptation of Alex Garland's acclaimed novel, directed by Danny Boyle. Richard (Di Caprio) is an American backpacking through Asia with a handful of friends from Europe. While in Read More

2/11/00
Twin Town

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Llyr Evans, Rhys Ifans, Dougray Scott, Huw Ceredig, Dorien Thomas, William Thomas

Synopsis: In British television writer-director Kevin Allen's feature film debut, the industrial town of Swansea, Wales, is viewed through the post-punk lens of disaffected youth. Lower-class, crude, drug-addled brothers Julian and Jeremy (played by real-life brothers Llyr Evans and Rhys Ifans), steal Read More

1997
A Life Less Ordinary

Crew: Director

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo, Ian Holm

Synopsis: The acclaimed Trainspotting trio (director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, scripter John Hodge) reunited for this update of '30s screwball comedies and '40s fantasies, such as Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941), Angel on My Shoulder(1946), Down to Earth(1947), and the 1946 Stairway to Heaven Read More

1997
Trainspotting

Crew: Director

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's blissful nothingness; financing his habit also provides excitement and challenges that his life Read More

1996
Shallow Grave

Crew: Director

Actors: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Keith Allen, Ken Stott

Synopsis: The feature film debut of Scottish director Danny Boyle was a dark, hip, Generation X comedy about a trio of Edinburgh roommates whose narcissistic greed fuels murder and betrayal. Boisterous journalist Alex (Ewan McGregor), flirtatious doctor Juliet (Kerry Fox), and meek accountant David (Christopher Eccleston Read More

1994
Elephant

Crew: Producer

1989