Matthew Modine
Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker. He shared the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actor as part of the ensemble cast of Robert Altman's film Streamers (1983). He went on to play lead roles in several high-profile films throughout the 1980s, including Birdy (1984), Vision Quest (1985), and Married to the Mob (1988). He gained further prominence for playing U.S. Marine James T. "Joker" Davis in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987).
Other notable films include Pacific Heights (1990), Short Cuts (1993), Cutthroat Island (1995), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Oppenheimer (2023). On television, he portrayed Dr. Don Francis in the HBO film And the Band Played On (1993), Sullivan Groff on Weeds (2007), Ivan Turing in Proof (2015), and Dr. Martin Brenner on Netflix's Stranger Things (2016–2022).
Modine has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his work in And the Band Played On and What the Deaf Man Heard and received a special Golden Globe for him and the rest of the ensemble in Short Cuts. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for And the Band Played On.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthew Modine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.046 |
| Birthday | 1959-03-22 |
| Place of Birth | Loma Linda, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Мэттью Модайн, 매튜 모딘, Мэтью Модайн, マシュー・モディーン, 马修·莫迪恩, متیو مودین, |
1987
Full Metal Jacket
8.125/10706
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the...
Watch Now
Full Metal Jacket
1995
Cutthroat Island
5.8/563
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by...
Watch Now
Cutthroat Island
1993
Short Cuts
7.222/607
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a bo...
Watch Now
Short Cuts
1988
Married to the Mob
5.9/288
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affa...
Watch Now
Married to the Mob
1994
Jacob
6.8/45
Isaac's son Jacob deprives his brother Esau of his birthright and has to flee for his life. He finds shelter with his uncle Laban, but is himself dece...
Watch Now
Jacob
1993
And the Band Played On
6.5/101
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Watch Now
And the Band Played On
1990
Pacific Heights
6.3/377
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Watch Now
Pacific Heights
1982
Amy and the Angel
5.5/2
Amy, a depressed seventeen year old high school girl, is visited by her guardian angel Oliver after wishing she had never been born. Oliver shows Amy...
Watch Now
Amy and the Angel
1995
Fluke
7.1/267
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and reincarnates as a dog. Remembering some of his previous being, he returns to his wife and son t...
Watch Now
Fluke
1985
Vision Quest
6.4/128
After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge...
Watch Now
Vision Quest
1984
Birdy
7.148/525
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and h...
Watch Now
Birdy
1995
Bye Bye Love
5.9/74
With varying degrees of success, recently divorced friends Dave, Vic and Donny are trying to move on with their lives. Vic feels vilified by his ex-wi...
Watch Now
Bye Bye Love
2008
Sex and Lies in Sin City
3.563/16
Star-studded thriller about the sordid murder of reckless Las Vegas casino mogul Ted Binion. This gritty film delves into the twisted world of Binion'...
Watch Now
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2008
Garden of Eden
4.9/22
A young American writer completes his service in WWI and travels across Europe with his wife and her attractive Italian girlfriend. Based on the novel...
Watch Now
Garden of Eden
1987
Orphans
5.8/13
Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.
Watch Now
Orphans
1984
Mrs. Soffel
6.1/52
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting executio...
Watch Now
Mrs. Soffel
1997
The Blackout
5.8/57
A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out...
Watch Now
The Blackout
1999
Any Given Sunday
6.819/1672
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance an...
Watch Now
Any Given Sunday
2005
Transporter 2
6.307/3673
Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauff...
Watch Now
Transporter 2
1990
Memphis Belle
6.728/390
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bomb...
Watch Now
Memphis Belle
2001
In the Shadows
5.4/15
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man,...
Watch Now
In the Shadows
2000
Flowers for Algernon
5.5/24
Charlie Gordon is mentally handicapped and all he wants in life is to be a genius. When he gets picked for experimental surgery it looks like his drea...
Watch Now
Flowers for Algernon
1992
Wind
6.3/37
In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America's Cup race against an Austra...
Watch Now
Wind
1998
The Real Blonde
5.6/57
An aspiring actor and his girlfriend handle life's frustrations, while his friend seeks fulfillment with a blonde.
Watch Now
The Real Blonde
2007
Have Dreams, Will Travel
7.5/51
West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally...
Watch Now
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2004
Funky Monkey
6.2/28
A teen genius teams up with a super-talented chimpanzee and his caretaker to take down an animal testing lab. In exchange, the scientist gives the tee...
Watch Now
Funky Monkey
2006
Kettle of Fish
4.8/11
A lifelong bachelor confronts his intimacy issues when he sublets his apartment to a fetching biologist. His heartsick fish and his wise best buddy ar...
Watch Now
Kettle of Fish
2005
Mary
5.7/37
The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress playing Mary M...
Watch Now
Mary
2011
Too Big to Fail
6.978/226
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a f...
Watch Now
Too Big to Fail
2007
The Neighbor
5.2/26
A businessman watches as his life begins to unravel after learning his ex-wife is going to marry his best friend. A distracting battle of wills with a...
Watch Now
The Neighbor
1989
Gross Anatomy
5.7/54
Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughe...
Watch Now
Gross Anatomy
2012
The Dark Knight Rises
7.784/23044
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is...
Watch Now
The Dark Knight Rises
1983
Streamers
5.9/28
Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay.
Watch Now
Streamers
2010
The Trial
5.6/29
After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent "Mac" McClain... until he's assign...
Watch Now
The Trial
2001
Nobody's Baby
5.4/26
Two not so bright small time crooks end up with a baby girl by "accident" and find a change in their lives. Billy (Ulrich) becomes the guy to take car...
Watch Now
Nobody's Baby
1983
Private School
5.7/195
Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Chris...
Watch Now
Private School
1994
The Browning Version
6.5/53
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being...
Watch Now
The Browning Version
2009
Little Fish, Strange Pond
3.9/26
Mr. Jack and Sweet Stephen cruise aimlessly through the streets of LA speculating about life, death, divine will and the force of power that predeterm...
Watch Now
Little Fish, Strange Pond
2023
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
5.6/5
The truth can no longer be contained by those duty-bound to hide it. The truth about another intelligence engaging humanity becomes undeniably clear....
Watch Now
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations
2007
Go Go Tales
5.7/50
A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.
Watch Now
Go Go Tales
2012
Girl in Progress
5.6/117
As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding ins...
Watch Now
Girl in Progress
2004
Hollywood North
5.1/14
The making of a serious, Canadian arthouse film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his...
Watch Now
Hollywood North
1997
The Maker
5/13
Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.
Watch Now
The Maker
1997
What the Deaf Man Heard
6.6/18
In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone beco...
Watch Now
What the Deaf Man Heard
2005
Opa!
5.7/11
A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
Watch Now
Opa!
2004
The Winning Season
5/2
THE WINNING SEASON tells the story of a legendary baseball player's struggle to choose between the love of his life and his love of the game. In the f...
Watch Now
The Winning Season
2001
The Shipment
5.2/5
A mob enforcer is hired to recover a shipment of Viagra gone awry.
Watch Now
The Shipment
2023
Retribution
6.604/1193
When a mysterious caller plants a bomb under his car seat, a bank executive begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of...
Watch Now
Retribution
1992
Equinox
5.6/14
Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm, the other a hardened criminal. As a young writer...
Watch Now
Equinox
2013
Jobs
6.122/2464
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
Watch Now
Jobs
2013
Family Weekend
6.3/212
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Watch Now
Family Weekend
Cowboy
5/1
Lost in the urban jungle of Manhattan, Cowboy discovers that sometimes things aren't always what they seem.
Watch Now
Cowboy
2002
Redeemer
6.6/4
When a Black Panther raid on the house of a dope dealer goes awry, an innocent young man is killed and the leader of the raid team, a Panther named Ch...
Watch Now
Redeemer
1999
One Last Score
3.8/7
Johnnie Cooper served time for an armed robbery that also his father and brother participated in. When he's released from jail he's determined to live...
Watch Now
One Last Score
2023
The Martini Shot
8/1
This existential comedic drama follows an ailing film director as he begins to shoot what he believes to be his final work of art. What starts out as...
Watch Now
The Martini Shot
2010
Mulberry St.
6/8
Born in the Bronx and raised in upstate New York, Abel Ferrara started his professional film career on Mulberry Street in 1975. For the past year he's...
Watch Now
Mulberry St.
1983
Baby It's You
5.9/38
In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
Watch Now
Baby It's You
2024
Hard Miles
6.5/18
A strong-willed social worker at a youth prison assembles a cycling team of teenage convicts and takes them on a transformative 1000-mile ride. Inspir...
Watch Now
Hard Miles
2014
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
10/1
How Bizarre starts with Pauly at the height of his fame, appearing twice on the UK music show “Top of the Pops”, sharing the stage with Cher, the Spic...
Watch Now
How Bizarre: The Story of an Otara Millionaire
1988
The Gamble
1.7/3
When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him content, he discovers that his father has lost ever...
Watch Now
The Gamble
2021
Against the Current
0/0
Against the Current is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the journey of South African endurance swimmer Sarah Ferguson, as she attempts to...
Watch Now
Against the Current
2023
Oppenheimer
8.1/9956
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Watch Now
Oppenheimer
2011
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2/1
A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, c...
Watch Now
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2014
Altar
4.9/108
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
Watch Now
Altar
1998
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
7.7/15
Classic Saturday Night Live skits featuring the hilarious Phil Hartman.
Watch Now
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
2005
Odyssey in Rome
0/0
Alex Grazioli follows bad-boy filmmaker Abel Ferrara as he spends three grueling years battling obstacles in Italy to direct "Mary," a modern-re imagi...
Watch Now
Odyssey in Rome
2015
Unity
7.5/33
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe...
Watch Now
Unity
2015
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
4.951/41
Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.
Watch Now
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2014
Guests
6/3
When Charlie and his family move to a warmer climate for the sake of his father's illness, he finds himself teetering between battles of the thought o...
Watch Now
Guests
2016
The Confirmation
6.4/181
A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a weekend.
Watch Now
The Confirmation
2017
47 Meters Down
5.8/2745
Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling...
Watch Now
47 Meters Down
2015
The Brainwashing of My Dad
6.1/20
A filmmaker examines the rise of right-wing media through the lens of her father, whose immersion in it radicalized him and rocked the foundation of t...
Watch Now
The Brainwashing of My Dad
2017
The Hippopotamus
6.4/111
Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
Watch Now
The Hippopotamus
2011
Jesus Was a Commie
0/0
Jesus Was a Commie presents modern society with questions and leads the audience on a dialectical journey. The film challenges the viewer to seek thei...
Watch Now
Jesus Was a Commie
2016
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
6.9/236
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and co...
Watch Now
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2000
Bamboozled
6.2/134
Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 2...
Watch Now
Bamboozled
2008
I Think I Thought
0/0
Joe (Matthew Modine) is a thinker in a world that doesn't tolerate analytical thinking. His wife, boss, and friends threaten to divorce, fire, and aba...
Watch Now
I Think I Thought
2003
Overnight
6.4/64
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches stor...
Watch Now
Overnight
2000
Very Mean Men
5.8/4
A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families, t...
Watch Now
Very Mean Men
2008
Santa: The Fascist Years
5.6/7
We all think of Santa as "Jolly old St.Nick". But who knew that he has a dark hidden past that's very un-jolly? This short film uncovers and explores...
Watch Now
Santa: The Fascist Years
2018
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
6.9/3665
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
Watch Now
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
1998
The American
5.8/4
After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get...
Watch Now
The American
2018
Backtrace
5/225
The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.
Watch Now
Backtrace
2004
Mon voisin du dessus
6/10
Claire Letellier works as head of a pharmaceutical company. After dating André for a number of years, she has at long last accepted his marriage propo...
Watch Now
Mon voisin du dessus
2018
Speed Kills
5.477/131
Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire Ben Aronoff leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.
Watch Now
Speed Kills
2001
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
7.4/192
With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films....
Watch Now
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2018
Filmworker
7.06/75
The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.
Watch Now
Filmworker
2023
My Love Affair with Marriage
6.1/11
From an early age, songs and fairytales convinced Zelma that Love would solve all her problems as long as she abided by societal expectations of how a...
Watch Now
My Love Affair with Marriage
1999
Notting Hill
7.263/6216
William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in...
Watch Now
Notting Hill
2019
Miss Virginia
8.2/8
A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she l...
Watch Now
Miss Virginia
1993
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
6/2
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.
Watch Now
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
2016
Army of One
5.2/301
Gary Faulkner is an ex-con, unemployed handyman, and modern day Don Quixote who receives a vision from God telling him to capture Osama Bin Laden. Arm...
Watch Now
Army of One
2021
Wrong Turn
5.973/1174
Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into l...
Watch Now
Wrong Turn
2014
Kubrick Remembered
6.5/12
An 83-minute candid look into the life of Kubrick, including interviews with his widow, family, coworkers and actors, and featuring a tour of the Arch...
Watch Now
Kubrick Remembered
2015
Merry Xmas
6.5/2
The story of a mischievous father who calls his very busy kids to tell them that, after 55 years of marriage, he and their mom are getting divorced. H...
Watch Now
Merry Xmas
2020
Guardians of Life
5.3/10
This environmental short subject was made in collaboration of the protest group, Extinction Rebellion.
Watch Now
Guardians of Life
2020
Chance
5.9/8
A true story of a teenage love triangle leading to one of the two boys' tragic death - told through the lens of elite youth baseball.
Watch Now
Chance
1993
The Tree
4/2
An apple tree set on a rural ridge, is where we glimpse the boy mature, fall in love, go to war, return with his own son, and finally pay his last res...
Watch Now
The Tree
2003
Le Divorce
5/150
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Watch Now
Le Divorce
2019
Foster Boy
6.9/22
A lawyer finds himself at the center of a trial in which a for-profit foster care agency puts a known sex offender into the same foster home as his yo...
Watch Now
Foster Boy
2016
Revengeance
6.036/14
A low-rent bounty hunter named Rod Rosse, The One Man Posse, gets entangled in a web of danger when he takes on a job from an ex-biker/ex-wrestler tur...
Watch Now
Revengeance
2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
6.5/4
"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was...
Watch Now
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
1995
American Cinema
0/0
The history of Hollywood and filmmaking comes alive in this spectacular nine hour celebration of movie magic. It's a mesmerizing, epic analysis that c...
Watch Now
American Cinema
2021
Breaking News in Yuba County
5.8/185
An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his b...
Watch Now
Breaking News in Yuba County
1998
Surviving the Dust Bowl
0/0
In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept acros...
Watch Now
Surviving the Dust Bowl
2021
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
6.907/134
An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2...
Watch Now
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
1984
The Hotel New Hampshire
5.6/120
Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events chang...
Watch Now
The Hotel New Hampshire
1989
The Lemon Sisters
4.6/7
Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.
Watch Now
The Lemon Sisters
2009
PoliWood
6.5/4
An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.
Watch Now
PoliWood
1997
Ecce Pirate
0/0
A young boy's life is changed when he's kidnapped by sea pirates. A prisoner on board their ship, he learns to accept that his life will never be the...
Watch Now
Ecce Pirate
2027
Untitled Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Sequel
0/0
Features several new human characters alongside the beloved and iconic Titans Godzilla and Kong as they face off against a cataclysmic world-ending th...
Watch Now