Sam Riley films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 16 films on Boxlist

Known for Control, Widow Clicquot and Islands.

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Starring Sam Riley

Control
2007 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
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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Widow Clicquot
2024 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
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...
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Islands
2025 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
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...
Suite Française
2015 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
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...
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Byzantium
2012 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret—they were born 200...
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Maleficent
2014 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
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. Maleficent rises to be the land's fiercest protector...
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Free Fire
2017 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A crime drama set in 1970s Boston, about a gun sale which goes wrong.
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Firebrand
2024 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
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.
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Radioactive
2020 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
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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The Vault
2021 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
When an engineer learns of a mysterious, impenetrable fortress hidden under The Bank of Spain, he joins a crew of master thieves who plan to steal the legendary lost treasure locked inside while the whole country is distracted by Spain's...
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
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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Franklyn
2008 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
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...
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On the Road
2012 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
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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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
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...
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Rebecca
2020 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
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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13
2010 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
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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