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Sam Riley has 17 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Maleficent.
Recurring themes

Road to Paloma
2014
Thriller · Drama

Despite the Falling Snow
2016
Drama · Romance

The Outsider
2016
Thriller · Drama

5 Is the Perfect Number
2019
Drama · Thriller

11.6
2013
Thriller · Drama

Aftermath
2017
Drama · Thriller

The Highwaymen
2019
Crime · Drama

Dreamland
2019
Drama · Thriller

Maleficent
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Disney+ · Included

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Disney+ · Included

Control
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Suite Française
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Prime Video · Included

The Dark Valley
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Vault
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 51%Prime Video · Included

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.
Dir. Robert Stromberg · With Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Imelda Staunton

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.
Dir. Joachim Rønning · With Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Harris Dickinson

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.
Dir. Anton Corbijn · With Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara

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.
Dir. Saul Dibb · With Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts

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.
Dir. Andreas Prochaska · With Sam Riley, Tobias Moretti, Paula Beer

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.
Dir. Jaume Balagueró · With Freddie Highmore, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Jose Coronado
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.
Dir. Ben Wheatley · With Cillian Murphy, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer

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.
Dir. Thomas Napper · With Haley Bennett, Tom Sturridge, Sam Riley

The story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-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.
Dir. Marjane Satrapi · With Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, Aneurin Barnard

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.
Dir. Ben Wheatley · With Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas

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.
Dir. Gerald McMorrow · With Eva Green, Ryan Phillippe, Bernard Hill

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.
Dir. Karim Aïnouz · With Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Eddie Marsan

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

Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley

Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Dir. Rowan Joffé · With Andy Serkis, Helen Mirren, John Hurt

Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.
Dir. Walter Salles · With Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart
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.
Dir. Gela Babluani · With Sam Riley, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke
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