Sam Riley

Sam Riley

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.

  • Title: Sam Riley
  • Popularity: 9.546
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1980-01-08
  • Place of Birth: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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Sam Riley Movies

  • 2007
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    Control

    Control

    7.529 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    Franklyn

    Franklyn

    6.023 2008 HD

    Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of...

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  • 2010
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    Brighton Rock

    Brighton Rock

    5.7 2010 HD

    Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

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  • 2010
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    13

    13

    5.835 2010 HD

    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...

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  • 2016
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    Robby and Toby's Fantastic Voyager

    Robby and Toby's Fantastic Voyager

    4.4 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 2025
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    Islands

    Islands

    1 2025 HD

    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,...

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  • 2012
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    On the Road

    On the Road

    5.604 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    Maleficent

    Maleficent

    7.091 2014 HD

    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...

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  • 2013
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    Byzantium

    Byzantium

    6.291 2013 HD

    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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  • 2022
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    Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!

    Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!

    6.4 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2024
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    Firebrand

    Firebrand

    6.373 2024 HD

    Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and...

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  • 2024
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    John Cranko

    John Cranko

    9 2024 HD

    The gifted, charismatic artist John Cranko moves to the Swabian province from London, where he is attacked for his homosexuality, and after many...

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  • 2014
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    The Dark Valley

    The Dark Valley

    7.1 2014 HD

    The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically...

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  • 2015
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    Suite Française

    Suite Française

    7.3 2015 HD

    France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as...

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  • 2016
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    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

    6.153 2016 HD

    A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from...

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  • 2024
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    Widow Clicquot

    Widow Clicquot

    7.1 2024 HD

    After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately...

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  • 2017
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    Free Fire

    Free Fire

    6.3 2017 HD

    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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  • 2002
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    Lenny Blue

    Lenny Blue

    1 2002 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    Tough Love

    Tough Love

    1 2000 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

    Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

    6.4 2018 HD

    Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged...

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  • 2020
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    Radioactive

    Radioactive

    6.606 2020 HD

    The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband...

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  • 2019
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    Sometimes Always Never

    Sometimes Always Never

    6.4 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 2019
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    Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

    Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

    7.3 2019 HD

    Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by...

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  • 2020
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    Rebecca

    Rebecca

    6.3 2020 HD

    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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  • 2019
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    The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution

    The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution

    1 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    The Vault

    The Vault

    6.814 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    She is Love

    She is Love

    5.5 2023 HD

    When Patricia arrives at a country hotel in Cornwall, she encounters her ex husband Idris, who manages the place with his girlfriend Louise. Things...

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  • 1999
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.934 1999 HD

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

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  • 2017
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    SS-GB

    SS-GB

    6.2 2017 HD

    Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War...

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  • 1997
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    Leute heute

    Leute heute

    3 1997 HD

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