Every Daniel Day Lewis Movie Performance Ranked From Worst To Best

3. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

This 1985 drama was in many ways the movie that helped put DDL on the map, with the National Board of Review awarding him their Best Supporting Actor gong, but at a wider level, it's an extremely important film about the political climate of 1980s Britain, homosexuality and race.

The politics remain enormously relevant today even if the low-fi style perhaps makes it feel somewhat dated, but the excellent work from Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke make this a diverting effort from an on-the-rise Stephen Frears.

Though not as fiery as many of the actor's most-acclaimed turns, the film's overall social value and the impact it had on his career makes it an easy highlight of his filmography.