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Best Matthew Macfadyen movies

We present our ranking of the best Matthew Macfadyen movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Matthew Macfadyen.

TOP 15: Incendiary

Matthew Macfadyen as: Terrance
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Release: 2008
An adulterous woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.


TOP 14: Maybe Baby

Matthew Macfadyen as: Nigel
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2000
Sam and Lucie Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, succesful careers, matching motorikes, and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing they want more—a baby.

TOP 13: The Three Musketeers

Matthew Macfadyen as: Athos
Genre: Adventure, Action, Thriller
Release: 2011
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.


TOP 12: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Matthew Macfadyen as: Benjamin Stahlbaum
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Family
Release: 2018
When Clara’s mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—where she discovers her greatest strength could change the world.


TOP 11: The Reckoning

Matthew Macfadyen as: King’s Justice
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 2003
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they Arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman bing sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.

TOP 10: Robin Hood

Matthew Macfadyen as: Sheriff of Nottingham
Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama
Release: 2010
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.


TOP 9: Enigma

Matthew Macfadyen as: Cave
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance, War
Release: 2001
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.


TOP 8: The Assistant

Matthew Macfadyen as: Wilcock
Genre: Drama
Release: 2020
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

TOP 7: Anna Karenina

Matthew Macfadyen as: Stiva Oblonsky
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2012
Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.


TOP 6: The Current War

Matthew Macfadyen as: J.P. Morgan
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2019
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.


TOP 5: Death at a Funeral

Matthew Macfadyen as: Daniel
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2007
A myriad of outrageous calamities befall an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets, when its patriarch dies an unexpected death. Soon, every complication imaginable befall the grief-stricken mourners.

TOP 4: Don't

Genre: Comedy, Horror
Release: 2007
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.


TOP 3: Frost/Nixon

Matthew Macfadyen as: John Birt
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2008
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Likewise, Frost's team harboured doubts about their boss's ability to hold his own. But as the cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted.


TOP 2: In My Father's Den

Matthew Macfadyen as: Paul Prior
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2004
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.


TOP 1: Pride & Prejudice

Matthew Macfadyen as: Mr. Darcy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2005
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

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