
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.718 |
Birthday | 1980-01-08 |
Place of Birth | Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK |
Also Known As | سم رایلی, |

2007

Control
7.5/850
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 198...
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Control

2008

Franklyn
6/358
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four...
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Franklyn

2010

Brighton Rock
5.659/107
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
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Brighton Rock

2010

13
5.84/818
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 be...
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13

2016

Robby and Toby's Fantastic Voyager
4.4/46
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 cras...
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Robby and Toby's Fantastic Voyager

2025

Islands
0/0
Tom is the tennis coach at a luxurious island hotel, filling the time between lessons with alcohol and one-night stands. The arrival of the Maguire fa...
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Islands

2012

On the Road
5.6/844
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...
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On the Road

2014

Maleficent
7.1/13189
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 th...
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Maleficent

2013

Byzantium
6.292/868
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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Byzantium

2022

Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!
6.4/8
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 adventur...
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Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!

2024

Firebrand
6.4/93
Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and parano...
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Firebrand

2024

John Cranko
8.8/4
The gifted, charismatic artist John Cranko moves to the Swabian province from London, where he is attacked for his homosexuality, and after many crise...
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John Cranko

2014

The Dark Valley
7.1/385
The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically rul...
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The Dark Valley

2015

Suite Française
7.271/1105
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...
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Suite Française

2016

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
6.156/2183
A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from differen...
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

2024

Widow Clicquot
6.7/57
After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revoluti...
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Widow Clicquot

2017

Free Fire
6.3/1139
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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Free Fire

2002

Lenny Blue
0/0
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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Lenny Blue

2000

Tough Love
0/0
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 t...
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Tough Love

2018

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
6.4/49
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 Davi...
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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

2020

Radioactive
6.6/842
The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the s...
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Radioactive

2019

Sometimes Always Never
6.3/65
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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Sometimes Always Never

2019

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
7.3/6162
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending...
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

2020

Rebecca
6.3/1099
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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Rebecca

2019

The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
0/0
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...
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The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution

2021

The Vault
6.811/964
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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The Vault

2023

She is Love
5.5/15
When Patricia arrives at a country hotel in Cornwall, she encounters her ex husband Idris, who manages the place with his girlfriend Louise. Things ar...
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She is Love

2011

Woman in Love
5.9/106
An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.
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