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Matt Smith has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor.
2015
Science Fiction · Horror

House of the Dragon
2022 · Series · Actor
Top 3%Max · Included

Official Secrets
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Netflix · Included

His House
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Netflix · Included

Caught Stealing
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Netflix · Included

Terminator Genisys
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 74%Paramount+ · Included

Morbius
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 80%Disney+ · Included

as The Doctor (11)
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.
Dir. Nick Hurran · With Matt Smith, David Tennant, John Hurt

A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
Dir. Edgar Wright · With Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith

The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins when King Viserys breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm.
Dir. George R.R. Martin, Ryan Condal · With Matt Smith, Emma D'Arcy, Olivia Cooke
Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?
Dir. Toby Haynes · With Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill

as The Doctor (11)
Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe's deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them, the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe.
Dir. Jamie Payne · With Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Peter Capaldi

The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
Dir. Gavin Hood · With Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes
The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr. Simeon, who controls monsters made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in the Dalek asylum...
Dir. Saul Metzstein · With Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Richard E. Grant

as The Doctor
It's Christmas Eve, 1938, when Madge Arwell comes to the aid of an injured Spaceman Angel as she cycles home. He promises to repay her kindness - all she has to do is make a wish.
Dir. Farren Blackburn · With Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill

After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
Dir. Remi Weekes · With Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Wunmi Mosaku, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba

Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of late 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.
Dir. Darren Aronofsky · With Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz
When their son starts acting strangely, a couple unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside.
Dir. Daniel Kokotajlo · With Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Arthur Shaw

The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
Dir. Alan Taylor · With Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Arnold Schwarzenegger
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Dir. Benedek Fliegauf · With Eva Green, Matt Smith, Lesley Manville

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.
Dir. Burr Steers · With Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston

Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Michael Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.
Dir. Daniel Espinosa · With Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona
After an unprecedented global pandemic has turned the majority of humankind into violent infected beings, Morgan, a man gifted with the ability to speak the infected's new language, leads the last survivors on a hunt for patient zero and a cure.
Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky · With Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer, Clive Standen

Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murder case, but when the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment. One young graduate student was sent in to teach them – and through her we witness their transformations as they face the reality of their horrific crimes.
Dir. Mary Harron · With Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon, Marianne Rendón

Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
Dir. John Michael McDonagh · With Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Matt Smith
Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld while her teenage son, Bones, discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. Both Billy and Bones must dive deep into the mystery if their family is to survive.
Dir. Ryan Gosling · With Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Saoirse Ronan