Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan direct Dev Patel in this thrilling drama

Jamal Malik is starring on the Indian television game show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, where question by question he gets closer to the prize. But Jamal has lived a rough life through the slums of Mumbai, where he and his brother Salim have survived by any means. In the present, he is one question away from winning 20 million rupees, and the producers of the show begin to grow suspicious of this boy from the slums.