Sam Riley
Also Known As: سم رایلی
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Birthday: January 08, 1980
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Control
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-12
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Franklyn
Overview: 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.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-16
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Brighton Rock
Overview: Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-13
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13
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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Robby and Toby's Fantastic Voyager
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-12-01
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Islands
Overview: 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 family pulls Tom out of his normal routine and he strikes up a relationship with Anne, her husband Dave and their son Anton. Tom is unable to shake the feeling that he has met Anne before, and this tension grows between them until one night, Dave goes missing and the police investigation points to both Anne and Tom as suspects.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-08
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On the Road
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-22
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Maleficent
Overview: 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.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-28
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Byzantium
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-11
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Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!
Overview: 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?
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-07-07
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Firebrand
Overview: Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-27
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John Cranko
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-10-03
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The Dark Valley
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-02-13
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Suite Française
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-12
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Horror Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-04
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Widow Clicquot
Overview: After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revolutionizing the champagne industry, establishing her as one of the world's first great businesswomen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-18
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Free Fire
Overview: Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-31
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Lenny Blue
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-01
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Tough Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-01
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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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Radioactive
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-11
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Sometimes Always Never
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-14
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-16
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Rebecca
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-16
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The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution
Overview: 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”?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-09-12
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The Vault
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-04
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She is Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-03
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Woman in Love
Overview: An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-12-15
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