Matthew Goode
Biography: Matthew Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's TV film feature Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty (2004), for which he received a nomination at Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male. He then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films like Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the German-British romantic comedy Imagine Me and You (2006), and the period drama Copying Beethoven (2006). He won praise for his performance as Charles Ryder in Julian Jarrold's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (2008), and as Ozymandias in the American neo-noir superhero film Watchmen (2009), based on the comics by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. He then starred in romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and Australian drama Burning Man (2011), the latter earning him a nomination for Best Actor at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Other notable film roles include The Lookout (2007), A Single Man (2009), Cemetery Junction (2010), Stoker (2013), Belle (2013), The Imitation Game (2014) and Self/less (2015). As well as appearing in films, Goode has appeared in numerous television shows. His most notable television roles include Henry Talbot in the final season of historical drama Downton Abbey, and Finley "Finn" Polmar in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife. He also had a lead role in the critically acclaimed British mini-serial Dancing on the Edge, as music journalist Stanley Mitchell. In 2017, Goode portrayed Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the Netflix biographical drama series The Crown, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. As of 2018, he stars in Sky One's fantasy-romance series, A Discovery of Witches, as Professor Matthew Clairmont.
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Birthday: April 03, 1978
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Imagine Me & You
2006-01-27
Imagine Me & You
Overview: During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-27
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Copying Beethoven
2006-09-10
Copying Beethoven
Overview: A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, loneliness and personal trauma. A copyist is urgently needed to help the composer. A fictional character is introduced in the form of a young conservatory student and aspiring composer named Anna Holtz. The mercurial Beethoven is skeptical that a woman might become involved in his masterpiece but slowly comes to trust in Anna's assistance and in the end becomes quite fond of her. By the time the piece is performed, her presence in his life is an absolute necessity. Her deep understanding of his work is such that she even corrects mistakes he has made, while her passionate personality opens a door into his private world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-10
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The Lookout
2007-03-09
The Lookout
Overview: Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-09
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Leap Year
2010-01-08
Leap Year
Overview: When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-08
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Brideshead Revisited
2008-07-25
Brideshead Revisited
Overview: Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Based on the classic British novel by Evelyn Waugh.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-25
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Watchmen
2009-03-04
Watchmen
Overview: In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so they uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
Genres: Mystery Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-04
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A Single Man
2009-12-11
A Single Man
Overview: The life of George Falconer, a British college professor, is reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will to live as he seeks the console of his close girl friend Charley, who is struggling with her own questions about life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-11
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Cemetery Junction
2010-04-14
Cemetery Junction
Overview: In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-14
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My Family and Other Animals
2005-12-27
My Family and Other Animals
Overview: An English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-27
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The House
2022-01-14
The House
Overview: Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.
Genres: Animation Drama Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-14
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Burning Man
2011-09-10
Burning Man
Overview: An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-10
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Stoker
2013-02-28
Stoker
Overview: After India Stoker's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-28
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Belle
2013-05-01
Belle
Overview: Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-01
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Self/less
2015-07-10
Self/less
Overview: An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-10
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Pressure
2015-06-04
Pressure
Overview: Four divers are stuck deep underwater in a vessel after a freak storm destroys their ship. Will they survive?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-04
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Match Point
2005-10-26
Match Point
Overview: Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris. But Chris has his eye on Tom's fiancee Nola.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-26
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South from Granada
2003-01-09
South from Granada
Overview: Brenan arrives at Yegen on foot, interrupting the funeral held for the daughter of the local cacique. He collapses from dysentery and soon learns that the local cacique, Don Fernando, is leaving for Granada with his wife. Brenan rents Fernando’s house for a year and soon enlists the services of María as housekeeper and cook and becomes friends with a local man named Paco. Brenan spends most of his time reading, walking, and trying to write poetry.His friends Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey (who is ill), and Ralph Partridge visit for a couple of days. Brenan, who has been maintaining a correspondence with Carrington, learns during the visit that Partridge and Carrington are engaged. He is crushed, as he had been in love with Carrington.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-01-09
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The Imitation Game
2014-11-14
The Imitation Game
Overview: Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
Genres: History Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-14
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Freud's Last Session
2023-12-22
Freud's Last Session
Overview: On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-22
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
2002-03-10
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Overview: A look at the classic "Cinderella" story from the perspective of one of her 'ugly' stepsisters
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-10
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Magik
Magik
Overview: Lewis Clark is a brilliant author who stumbles upon a world of Magic after the disappearance of his two young children. He begins a quest to try to stop the insidious evil that threatens to destroy both his new world and his old one.
Genres: Fantasy Animation
Original Language: en
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Abigail
2024-04-16
Abigail
Overview: A group of criminals kidnap a teenage ballet dancer, the daughter of a notorious gang leader, in order to obtain a ransom of $50 million, but over time, they discover that she is not just an ordinary girl. After the kidnappers begin to diminish, one by one, they discover, to their increasing horror, that they are locked inside with no normal little girl.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-16
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Allied
2016-02-12
Allied
Overview: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Genres: Action Drama War Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-12
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Destroyer
Destroyer
Overview: Based on the sinking of the HMS Coventry at the end of the 1980s conflict between the U.K. and Argentina.
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Original Language: en
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The Sense of an Ending
2017-03-10
The Sense of an Ending
Overview: A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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The Hatton Garden Job
2017-04-14
The Hatton Garden Job
Overview: In April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled by 4 elderly men. With the stolen property having a value of up to £200 million, the incident has been called the "largest burglary in English history".
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-14
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018-04-19
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Overview: Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-19
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Birthmarked
2018-03-30
Birthmarked
Overview: Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies in order to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-30
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Official Secrets
2019-08-30
Official Secrets
Overview: The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
Genres: Thriller History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-30
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Four Kids and It
2020-04-03
Four Kids and It
Overview: A group of kids on holiday in Cornwall meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to grant wishes.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-03
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia
2005-01-01
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The King's Man
2021-12-22
The King's Man
Overview: As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-22
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Silent Night
2021-12-03
Silent Night
Overview: Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-03
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Medieval
2022-09-08
Medieval
Overview: The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord, Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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The Duke
2021-07-23
The Duke
Overview: In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-23
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Downton Abbey
2019-09-12
Downton Abbey
Overview: The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-12
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The Colour Room
2021-11-12
The Colour Room
Overview: A pioneering ceramic artist Clarice Cliff rises to prominence in the 1920s while working in Britain’s Stoke-on-Trent pottery industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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Chasing Liberty
2004-01-09
Chasing Liberty
Overview: The President's daughter, unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while traveling in Europe. She falls in love with a handsome British stranger, who also happens to be working undercover for her father.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-09
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