Sam Riley

Sam Riley

8 January 1980

Suite Française (2015)

Directed by Saul Dibb
Produced by Romain Bremond, Andrea Cornwell, Michael Kuhn, Xavier Marchand
Screenplay by Saul Dibb, Matt Charman
Based on "Suite française" by Irène Némirovsky
Starring: Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts
Music by Rael Jones
Cinematography: Eduard Grau
Edited by Chris Dickens
Production companies: Entertainment One, BBC Films, Qwerty Films, TF1 Films Production, Radio Television TSE
Distributed by Entertainment One, UGC Distribution, The Weinstein Company
Release date: 13 March 2015 (United Kingdom)
Running time: 107 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, France, Belgium
Budget: $20 million

Box office: $15.4 million

"Suite Française" is a romantic war drama film directed by Saul Dibb and based on Irène Némirovsky's novel of the same name. It tells the love story between a French villager and a German soldier during World War II.

Byzantium (2012)

"Irresistible. Immoral. Immortal."

Directed by Neil Jordan
Produced by Sam Englebardt, William D. Johnson, Elizabeth Karlsen, Alan Moloney, Stephen Woolley
Written by Moira Buffini
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller
Music by Javier Navarrete
Cinematography: Sean Bobbitt
Edited by Tony Lawson
Distributed by StudioCanal
Release date: 31 May 2013 (United Kingdom)
Running time: 118 minutes
Country: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Budget: £8,000,000
Box office: $85,252 (US only)

"Byzantium" is a drama fantasy horror film, which is directed by Neil Jordan. The story is about two girls, Clara and Eleanor, which people find quite strange sisters. Because of their big secret they should often remove. So once Clara and Eleanor seek sanctuary in a dilapidated coastal resort. There, Clara notices a lonely man, Noel, who has just inherited the Byzantium Hotel and let them settle down. But does he know who are these girls in fact? The answer is hidden in the nineteenth century...

Maleficent (2014)

"Evil has a beginning"

Directed by Robert Stromberg
Produced by Joe Roth
Screenplay by Linda Woolverton
Based on  Disney's Sleeping Beauty, "La Belle au bois dormant" of Charles Perrault
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, Lesley Manville
Narrated by Janet McTeer
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography: Dean Semler
Editing by Chris Lebenzon, Richard Pearson

Distributed by Walt Disney Studios, Motion Pictures
Release date: May 28, 2014(United Kingdom)
Running time: 97 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States

"Maleficent" is an action adventure family film directed by Robert Stromberg from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton. It's a re-imagining of Walt Disney's 1959 animated film "Sleeping Beauty" but it portrays the story from the perspective of the witch, Maleficent. Once upon a time a young potent fairy living in the Moors meets a human boy, Stefan. As they grow older, they begin to fall in love, however the young man's love for Maleficent is eclipsed by his ambition to become a king. Because of his wish Stefan betrays the fairy taking away her main value, therefore she changes into an evil enchantress. But who is Maleficent in fact: a hero or a villain?