Michael Smiley — Actor (28)
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Bookworm (2024)
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Ant Timpson actor: Nell Fisher / Elijah Wood …
other title: Bookworm - Una mitica avventura / Born To Be Wild - Die Jagd nach dem schwarzen Panther …
Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding – a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.
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Stolen (2011)
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Justin Chadwick actor: Damian Lewis / Wunmi Mosaku …
A fast-paced thriller about a vital and terrifying subject - the trafficking of children - with the heart-stopping vibrancy, compassion and energy that only the fate of children inspires. This is a story that touches all our lives. And it's happening now.
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Svengali (2013)
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John Hardwick actor: Martin Freeman / Vicky McClure …
other title: Svengali - Das Leben, die Liebe und die Musik / I will rock you …
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London…
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The Silent Twins (2022)
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Agnieszka Smoczyńska actor: Letitia Wright / Tamara Lawrance …
other title: Le gemelle silenziose / Die schweigsamen Zwillinge …
June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.
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Down Terrace (2010)
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Ben Wheatley actor: Robin Hill / Robert Hill …
After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who operate out of Down Terrace aren't feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but at Down Terrace, the walls are closing in..
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Birthmarked (2018)
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Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais actor: Matthew Goode / Toni Collette …
other title: Birthmarked - Genitori contro natura
Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies in order to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
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Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches (2025)
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actor: Noah Hawley / Sydney Chandler …
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat. Go behind the scenes on the set of FX's Alien: Earth and see what's in store for humanity when technology and biology collide - with deadly consequences.
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Luther (2010)
Luther
Neil Cross actor: Idris Elba / Dermot Crowley …
other title: 路德探長 / 路德 …
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
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Kill List (2011)
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Ben Wheatley actor: Neil Maskell / MyAnna Buring …
other title: Lista Para Matar
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
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Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
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Navot Papushado actor: Karen Gillan / Lena Headey …
other title: Gunpowder Milkshake: Mistura Explosiva / Bloody Milkshake …
To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen.
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For Those in Peril (2013)
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Paul Wright actor: 乔治·麦凯 / 凯特·迪基 …
other title: 险中之人
苏格兰的偏远渔村，最近出海的渔船遭遇了海难，生性乖异内向的Aaron是船上五人中唯一的幸存者。遇难当天发生了什么，Aaron哑口不言，失去亲人的村民们因此愈发孤立他。当地流传着海中魔鬼的古老神话，而Aaron只一心想找回遇难的哥哥……
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Come to Daddy (2019)
Come to Daddy
Ant Timpson actor: Elijah Wood / Sniff …
other title: Ven con papá / 爹来靠 …
After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.
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A Field in England (2013)
A Field in England
Ben Wheatley actor: Reece Shearsmith / Michael Smiley …
other title: I disertori - A Field in England / English Revolution …
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.
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The Nun (2018)
The Nun
Corin Hardy actor: Taissa Farmiga / Demián Bichir …
other title: The Nun - La vocazione del male / The Nun - A Freira Maldita …
A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.
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Don't (2007)
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Edgar Wright actor: Nick Frost / Jason Isaacs …
In 2007, Wright directed a fake trailer insert for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse, called "Don't", it was a plotless trailer that mocked horror clichés.
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The ABCs of Death (2013)
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Hélène Cattet / Jorge Michel Grau … actor: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal / Erik Audé …
other title: O ABC da Morte / ABC of Death
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.