Danny Boyle's Major Works

Shallow Grave (1994) – Boyle’s first film tells the story of greed and bloodshed between three roommates who discover a large amount of money. It marks Boyle’s first collaboration with Ewan McGregor and was the highest-grossing film of 1995 in Britain.

Trainspotting (1996) – Boyle directed this energetic descent into the underworld of drug abuse based on the novel by Irvine Welsh. Trainspotting was Boyle’s first international success, his second collaboration with Ewan McGregor, and contains several of Boyle’s most famous scenes, including a horrifying sequence where the drug addicts that serve as our main characters discover they’ve killed their child.

28 Days Later (2002) – Boyle singlehandedly re-energized the zombie movie genre with this visceral and gory masterpiece. It was his first collaboration with Cillian Murphy and his first movie to find success in America, going on to gross $45 million in the States. It was followed by 28 Weeks Later in 2007, and Boyle did some second-unit directing on a few action scenes.

Sunshine (2007) – Boyle’s best film is a deeply intelligent sci-fi piece about a group of astronauts travelling to the sun in order to jumpstart its core and save humanity. Boyle regular Cillian Murphy returns, as does musical composer John Murphy (who also worked on 28 Days Later).