7 Movies Starring Sam Riley

On the Road

On the Road

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-05-23

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

France, USA, UK, Brazil, Canada, Argentina

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (30483 Reviews)

Director:

Walter Salles

Cast:

Writer:

Jack Kerouac (based on the novel by)

Jose Rivera (screenplay)

Harold Manning (french adaptation)

Fullplot:

Shaken by the death of his father and discouraged by his stalled career, writer Sal Paradise goes on a road trip hoping for inspiration. While traveling, he is befriended by charismatic and fearless Dean Moriarty and Moriarty's free-spirited and seductive young wife, Marylou. Traveling across the American southwest together, they strive to break from conformity and and search the unknown, and their decisions change the very course of their lives.

Control

Control

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-10-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA, Australia, Japan

Runtime:

122 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (48287 Reviews)

Director:

Anton Corbijn

Cast:

Writer:

Deborah Curtis (book)

Matt Greenhalgh (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he's almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn't know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him.

On the Road

On the Road

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-05-23

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

France, USA, UK, Brazil, Canada, Argentina

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (30623 Reviews)

Director:

Walter Salles

Cast:

Writer:

Jack Kerouac (based on the novel by)

Jose Rivera (screenplay)

Harold Manning (french adaptation)

Fullplot:

Shaken by the death of his father and discouraged by his stalled career, writer Sal Paradise goes on a road trip hoping for inspiration. While traveling, he is befriended by charismatic and fearless Dean Moriarty and Moriarty's free-spirited and seductive young wife, Marylou. Traveling across the American southwest together, they strive to break from conformity and and search the unknown, and their decisions change the very course of their lives.

13

13

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-03-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (32620 Reviews)

Director:

Gèla Babluani

Cast:

Writer:

Gèla Babluani (screenplay)

Greg Pruss (screenplay)

Gèla Babluani (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Talbot, Ohio, a father's need for surgeries puts the family in a financial bind. His son Vince, an electrician, overhears a man talking about making a fortune in just a day. When the man overdoses on drugs, Vince finds instructions and a cell phone that the man has received and substitutes himself: taking a train to New York and awaiting contact. He has no idea what it's about. He ends up at a remote house where wealthy men bet on who will survive a complicated game of Russian roulette: he's number 13. In flashbacks we meet other contestants, including a man whose brother takes him out of a mental institution in order to compete. Can Vince be the last one standing?

Franklyn

Franklyn

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-02-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

France, UK

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (14116 Reviews)

Director:

Gerald McMorrow

Fullplot:

Preest is a masked vigilante detective, searching for his nemesis on the streets of Meanwhile City, a monolithic fantasy metropolis ruthlessly governed by faith and religious fervor. Esser is a broken man, searching for his wayward son amongst the rough streets of London's homeless. Milo is a heartbroken thirty-something desperately trying to find a way back to the purity of first love. Emilia is a beautiful art student; her suicidal art projects are becoming increasingly more complex and deadly.

Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-02-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, France

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (4759 Reviews)

Director:

Rowan Joffe

Cast:

Writer:

Rowan Joffe

Graham Greene (novel)

Fullplot:

An adaptation of Graham Greene's classic novel about a small-town hood who marries a waitress who witnessed him murdering a rival thug in order to keep her quiet. As his gang begins to doubt his abilities, the man becomes more desperate and violent.

The Dark Valley

The Dark Valley

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-02-13

Languages:

German, English

Countries:

Austria, Germany

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (5369 Reviews)

Genres:

Western

Cast:

Writer:

Martin Ambrosch (screenplay)

Andreas Prochaska (screenplay)

Thomas Willmann (novel)

Fullplot:

Through a hidden path a lone rider reaches a little town high up in the Alpes. Nobody knows where the stranger comes from, nor what he wants there. But everyone knows that they don't want him to stay.

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