Question: Which movies released before February 23, 2001 was Ryan Gosling in?
Answer(s):
answer: Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
answer: The Believer
answer: Remember the Titans

SPARQL query:
PREFIX ns: <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?x
WHERE {
FILTER (?x != ns:m.03m6_z)
FILTER (!isLiteral(?x) OR lang(?x) = '' OR langMatches(lang(?x), 'en'))
ns:m.03m6_z ns:film.actor.film ?y .
?y ns:film.performance.film ?x .
?x ns:film.film.release_date_s ?c .
?c ns:film.film_regional_release_date.release_date ?num .
FILTER (?num < "2001-02-23"^^xsd:dateTime) . 
}