List of the best Stephen Daldry movies: Billy Elliot the Musical(2014), The Reader(2008), The Hours(2002), Trash(2014), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close(2011) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
UK
2014
162 Minutes
Director
Elliott Hanna Ruthie Henshall Deka Walmsley Ann Emery Chris Grahamson Liam Mower
A talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval.
Romance, Drama
Germany|USA
2008
123 Minutes
Director
Kate Winslet Ralph Fiennes David Kross Lena Olin Bruno Ganz Alexandra Maria Lara Hannah Herzsprung Volker Bruch Jeanette Hain Moritz Grove
student lawyer old flame criminal dark emotional germany courtroom jail train auschwitz romance nazism trial suicide coming of age love mystery discovery 20th century
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Drama
USA|UK|France|Canada|Germany
2002
114 Minutes
Director
Meryl Streep Julianne Moore Nicole Kidman Ed Harris Toni Collette Claire Danes Jeff Daniels Stephen Dillane John C. Reilly Miranda Richardson Eileen Atkins
author housewife editor former lover emotional gripping moving household london los angeles new york city hotel suicide death party mental illness homosexuality discovery 1940s
The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Drama
UK|Brazil|Germany
2014
113 Minutes
Director
Selton Mello Wagner Moura Rooney Mara Martin Sheen Rickson Tevis Eduardo Luís Gabriel Weinstein Nelson Xavier André Ramiro Jesuíta Barbosa Daniel Zettel
young boy friend young man police officer villain engaging emotional melodramatic suspenseful slum rio de janeiro secret past secret danger money adventure discovery growing up escape mystery
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.
Drama
USA
2011
129 Minutes
Director
Tom Hanks Sandra Bullock Thomas Horn Zoe Caldwell Viola Davis Jeffrey Wright Max von Sydow John Goodman Dennis Hearn Stephen McKinley Henderson Hazelle Goodman
young boy father mute person mother widow emotional moving new york city central park apartment bridge 9/11 attacks death of father grief mother/son relationship investigation quest discovery growing up 2000s
A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.