Matthew Ryan Filmography

Occupation:: Actor

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Actors: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace, Ciarán Hinds, Shirley Henderson

Synopsis: A late-'30s-era London governess hired to work in the home of a high-profile nightclub chanteuse gets a taste of the good life when she is assigned the task of sorting out the singer's many unseemly affairs in a period comedy starring Frances McDormand and adapted from the novel by Winifred Read More

3/7/08
Blood Monkey

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Matt Reeves, Sebastian Armesto, Matthew Ryan

Synopsis: Six American graduate students studying apes in the African jungle discover a new species of killer chimpanzees that could prove to be the most formidable threat ever known to humankind. Upon first spotting this bizarre new breed, Greg, Dani, Amy, Josh, Sydney, and Seth were all assured by their Read More

2006
Layer Cake

Actors: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris, Jamie Foreman

Synopsis: A mechanic in the British drug trade finds himself caught in the middle of some dangerous circumstances in this crime thriller. XXXX (Daniel Craig) is a nameless go-between in the British mob who buys drugs from underground wholesalers and them sells them to street dealers, keeping the system Read More

5/13/05
The Crossing Guard

Actors: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Anjelica Huston, Robin Wright Penn, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: Sean Penn wrote and directed this tale of loss, guilt, and revenge. The daughter of Freddy and Mary Gale (Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston) was killed by a drunk driver, John Booth (David Morse). The death of their child took a heavy toll on the Gales; their marriage broke up, and, while Mary Read More

1995
Murder, She Wrote: A Murderous Muse

Synopsis: This story revolves around piano prodigy Leslie Walden (Jenny Lewis) and her demanding mentor Byron (Ronald Guttman). Believing that Leslie would be nothing without him, Byron bristles at the likelihood that he is losing control of the girl's career. Soon afterward, Byron is found murdered--and it Read More

1994
A Handful of Dust

Actors: James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Anjelica Huston, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, Handful of Dust is set amongst Britain's aristocracy of the 1930s. At sumptuous Hetton Abbey, tradition-bound country squire James Wilby and his wife Kristin Scott Thomas open their doors to well-connected but impoverished Rupert Graves. Graves returns Wilby's Read More

6/24/88
Young Sherlock Holmes

Actors: Nicolas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood

Synopsis: Also released under the title Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear, this film follows the adventures of young John Watson (Alan Cox) when he is shipped off to boarding school and meets up with the brilliantly bizarre Sherlock Holmes (Nicolas Rowe). The two boys strike up a friendship and Read More

1985