Michael Smiley

Michael Smiley
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 36 (Actor)
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Outpost
In a seedy bar in a town ravaged by war, mysterious businessman Hunt hires ex-marine D.C. to assemble a crack team of ex-soldiers to protect him on a dangerous journey into no-man's land... (imdb)
Down Terrace
A crime family looks to unmask the police informant in their midst who threatens to take down their business. (imdb)
Kill List
When a British soldier returns home from Kiev, he joins an old friend as contract killers. His disturbed past surfaces as he spins out of control during jobs and ominous employers raise the stakes. (Wikipedia.org)
Shell
Set in a striking vision of the wild Scottish Highlands, it features a star-making performance from newcomer Chloe Pirrie as Shell, a teenager living in a remote service station with her father Pete (Joseph Mawle), a dour, damaged shadow of a man. Shell is as alive as the howling wind and as glowing as the pale moonlight.
For Those in Peril
Aaron, a young misfit in a remote Scottish community, is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother. Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local superstition, the village blames him for this tragedy, making him an outcast amongst his own people. (semainedelacritique.com)
A Field in England
During the English Civil War in the 17th century, the alchemist Whitehead flees from his strict master and meets Cutler and two travelers, Jacob and Friend. Cutler is holding the two travelers hostage and captures Whitehead as well. He threatens the captives and uses hallucinogens on them to induce them to help him and an Irishman, O'Neill, find treasure buried in a field. (hollywoodreporter.com)
Svengali
Svengali tells the story of Dixie (Jonny Owen), 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... (svengalimovie.com)
Black Sea
In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold. (imdb)
Black Mirror
The Hallow
A family who move into a remote milllhouse in Ireland find themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods. (imdb)
We Are the Freaks
Three misfits embark on a weekend they will never forget. (imdb)
The Lobster
In a dystopian near future, single people are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days or are transformed into animals and released into the woods. (imdb)
Glassland
Set in Dublin Glassland tells the story of a young taxi driver (Reynor) who gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother (Collette) from addiction. (imdb)
Spaced
Spaced (1999) - TV Series
Friends Tim and Daisy, 20-something North Londoners with uncertain futures, must pretend to be a couple to live in the only apartment they can afford. (imdb)
Luther
The Aliens
The Aliens (2016) - TV Series
Nearly 40 years ago aliens crash-landed in the UK. They look like us, but are forced to live in a ghetto. Border control officer Lewis falls in love with one. (imdb)
Free Fire
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shootout and a game of survival. (imdb)
Tank 432
With nowhere else to hide, a group of mercenaries and their prisoners take cover inside a long abandoned Bulldog tank. But, while they try to keep the forces outside at bay, the real enemy is already among them, locked inside the 'Belly of the Bulldog'.
My Name Is Emily
A teenage girl runs away from a foster home with the boy who loves her. She searches for her visionary writer father who is locked up in a psychiatric institution. It is a story of redemption.
Jawbone
Former youth boxing champion Jimmy McCabe, after hitting rock bottom, returns to his childhood boxing club and his old team, gym owner Bill and corner-man Eddie. (imdb)
Birthmarked
Two scientists raise 3 children contrarily to their genetic tendencies to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature. (imdb)
Orthodox
Benjamin, a boy bullied for his Jewish faith, takes up boxing as a means of self-defense, alienating himself from his religious community. As an adult caught between two worlds, his desperation to provide for his family becomes the catalyst for a devastating series of events that ensures he may never find the acceptance he has always craved. (imdb)
Death and Nightingales
An epic tale of love, betrayal, deception, and revenge set in the Irish countryside in 1885. (imdb)
Come to Daddy
A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father. (imdb)
Doctor Who
Doctor Who (2005) - TV Series
Gunpowder Milkshake
Three generations of women fight back against those who could take everything from them.
Censor
After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.
1500 Words
1500 Words (2016) - Short Film
Sadly, a lively and happily-married young man is about to die. Not in a year, neither in a month or even a week, but precisely 1500 words from now. Not hours but words.
The Toll
A darkly-comic thriller about a lone toll-booth operator with a past that is fast catching up with him. (imdb)
Don\
Don't (2007) - Short Film
Parody of the British horrors movie trailers (imdb)
The Silent Twins
Based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins who grew up in Wales and became known as "the silent twins" because of their refusal to communicate with anyone other than each other.
Evie
On a beach, young Evie finds an accursed necklace, unwittingly freeing an evil water demon intent on claiming her and loved ones. (imdb)
Dead Still
Dead Still (2020) - TV Mini-Series
Set in 1880s Ireland in the Victorian-era heyday of 'postmortem photography,' the six-episode period drama follows a renowned memorial photographer who is drawn into a series of apparent murders that appear to be linked to his work. (imdb)
Obituary
Obituary (2023) - TV Series
24-year-old Elvira Clancy is feeling unfulfilled, although she adores her job writing obituaries. When her newspaper falls on hard times, her boss tells her he is unable to keep her on the payroll and she finds herself being paid per obituary overnight... When she "accidentally" kills a nasty piece of work in the town, she discovers she might have an untapped blood lust. She relishes using ever more crafty methods to kill off the town's unpleasant residents while making them look like accidents.
Bookworm
11-year-old Mildred's world is turned upside down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise, comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther. (imdb)