Sam Riley

Sam Riley

Born: January 8, 1980
in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
He is best known for playing the lead role of Ian Curtis in the movie Control, a biopic about the lead singer of the 1970s post-punk band Joy Division. His performance in the role won him the British Independent Film Award for "Most Promising Newcomer".[1]. He also won a Kermode for Best Actor 2007 for the film. Prior to his portrayal of Ian Curtis, Riley played The Fall frontman Mark E. Smith in the Michael Winterbottom film 24 Hour Party People, which details the Factory Records era. His scenes, however, were omitted from the final cut. In September 2007, Riley was cast in Gerald McMorrow's British science fiction film Franklyn. He will play a lead role in 13, an English-language remake of the French thriller 13 Tzameti. He is currently playing the role of Pinkie Brown in a remake of Brighton Rock alongside Helen Mirren.

Movies for Sam Riley...

Firebrand
Title: Firebrand
Character: Thomas Seymour
Released: March 27, 2024
Type: Movie
In blood-soaked Tudor England, Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, is named Regent while tyrant Henry is fighting overseas. Katherine has done everything she can to push for a new future based on her radical Protestant beliefs. When an increasingly ailing and paranoid King returns, he turns his fury on the radicals, charging Katherine’s childhood friend with treason and burns her at the stake. Horrified and grieving, but forced to deny it, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival. Conspiracy reverberates through the palace. Everyone holds their breath – for the queen to slip up, for Henry to take her head like wives before. With the hope for a future free of tyranny at risk, will Katherine submit to the inevitable for the sake of King and country?
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Widow Clicquot
Title: Widow Clicquot
Released: September 11, 2023
Type: Movie
The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.
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She is Love
Title: She is Love
Character: Idris
Released: February 3, 2023
Type: Movie
When Patricia arrives at a country hotel in Cornwall, she encounters her ex husband Idris, who manages the place with his girlfriend Louise. Things are immediately awkward and the former couple reconnect over a long, messy night where they revisit the past while remaining open to new beginnings.
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Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!
Title: Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!
Character: Jack
Released: July 7, 2022
Type: Movie
After oversleeping yet again, Alfons manages to catch the bus to his class trip to the Baltic Sea at the last minute. In his luggage: lots of adventure, funny pranks and - wait a minute - his mother's clothes?
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The Vault
Title: The Vault
Character: James
Released: March 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a way into one of the most secure and guarded places on the planet.
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Rebecca
Title: Rebecca
Character: Jack Favell
Released: October 16, 2020
Type: Movie
After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
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Radioactive
Title: Radioactive
Character: Pierre Curie
Released: March 11, 2020
Type: Movie
The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Title: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Character: Diaval
Released: October 16, 2019
Type: Movie
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.
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The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
Title: The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
Character: Narrator English (voice)
Released: September 12, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1979, a revolution in Iran. In 1980, a revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the “King of Kings,” in Iran. Mass strikes and the foundation of Solidarność (Solidarity) in Poland. What was in the minds of the young women and men who fomented revolution in their own country? What did they think when their revolution was quelled, or – as in Iran – an authoritarian regime was instituted under the name of an “Islamic Republic”?
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Sometimes Always Never
Title: Sometimes Always Never
Character: Peter
Released: March 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.
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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Title: Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Character: David Burstead
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: Movie
Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother David unexpectedly arrives, throwing the family dynamic far off orbit.
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Free Fire
Title: Free Fire
Character: Stevo
Released: March 31, 2017
Type: Movie
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.
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Title: SS-GB
Character: Douglas Archer
Released: February 19, 2017
Type: TV
Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.
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Robby and Toby's Fantastic Voyager
Title: Robby and Toby's Fantastic Voyager
Character: Brad Blutbad
Released: December 1, 2016
Type: Movie
One day, robot Robby enters into a life of the most creative little boy, Toby. Robby had been separated from his robot parents when his spaceship crashed. Toby decides to offer his help and the two of them become friends.
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Title: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Character: Fitzwilliam Darcy
Released: February 4, 2016
Type: Movie
A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is a master of martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice. As the zombie outbreak intensifies, they must swallow their pride and join forces on the blood-soaked battlefield in order to conquer the undead once and for all.
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Suite Française
Title: Suite Française
Character: Benoit Labarie
Released: March 12, 2015
Type: Movie
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.
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Maleficent
Title: Maleficent
Character: Diaval
Released: May 28, 2014
Type: Movie
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. She rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart into stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading King's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and to Maleficent's true happiness as well.
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The Dark Valley
Title: The Dark Valley
Character: Greider
Released: February 13, 2014
Type: Movie
The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically ruled by a family clan, asking for winter accommodation.
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Byzantium
Title: Byzantium
Character: Darvell
Released: September 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local resort.
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On the Road
Title: On the Road
Character: Sal Paradise / Jack Kerouac
Released: May 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
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Brighton Rock
Title: Brighton Rock
Character: Pinkie
Released: September 13, 2010
Type: Movie
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
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13
Title: 13
Character: Vince
Released: March 12, 2010
Type: Movie
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
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Franklyn
Title: Franklyn
Character: Milo
Released: October 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four souls, whose lives are intertwined by fate, romance and tragedy. As these worlds collide, a single bullet determines the destiny of these four characters.
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Control
Title: Control
Character: Ian Curtis
Released: September 12, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
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Lenny Blue
Title: Lenny Blue
Character: James Milton
Released: July 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Two years after the events of Tough Love, Lenny Milton has been transferred, but still finds that he is hated by his colleagues, who have branded him a grass. Meanwhile, when a friend of his Lenny's son dies during a heroin-related overdose, a drug-related gang war breaks out, and Lenny seizes his opportunity to re-ignite his feud with drug trafficker Barry Hindes. Obsessed with bring Hindes to justice, Lenny ignores the advice of his colleagues as he sees a chance for vengeance.
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Tough Love
Title: Tough Love
Character: James Milton
Released: October 1, 2000
Type: Movie
DC Lenny Milton (Winstone) is not as ambitious as his best friend and popular boss DCI Michael Love (Dunbar), but the pair are drinking partners and their wives and children are close. However, this goes very wrong over the space of 7 days, when Milton is approached by the police complaints division asking him to go undercover and investigate allegations of corruption against his friend. Milton finds this difficult at first and tries to dismiss the evidence building up. But as his suspicions begin to take shape his position appears to be in danger.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Eric Bruney
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Leute heute
Character: Self
Released: July 23, 1997
Type: TV
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Cranko
Title: Cranko
Character: John Cranko
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The gifted, charismatic artist John Cranko moves to the Swabian province from London, where he is attacked for his homosexuality, and after many crises becomes the great sensation as the new pop star of the arts: the Stuttgart Ballet Miracle.
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The Duchess of Malfi
Title: The Duchess of Malfi
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A widowed Duchess falls in love with her steward Antonio.
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Islands
Title: Islands
Character: Tom
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Islands tells the story of Tom, a one-time tennis pro who, years ago, washed up on a holiday island. Now he’s the coach at a hotel resort, hitting countless balls over the net to tourists who come to escape their everyday lives. Living an endless summer, Tom fills the emptiness inside with booze and brief affairs. He’s still kidding himself that he’s in paradise, but it is beginning to dawn on him that he’s wound up in hell. When he crosses paths with a particular tourist family, it seems he’s found an escape of his own.