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Flesh and Blood (1985 film)

Flesh and Blood, aka Flesh+Blood, is Paul Verhoeven's 1985 English-language debut: an American-Dutch-Spanish medieval epic starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh, shot in Spain, a Golden Calf winner and commercial flop.

Flesh and Bone (miniseries)

Flesh and Bone is Starz's 2015 eight-episode ballet miniseries created by Breaking Bad Emmy winner Moira Walley-Beckett, starring real dancer Sarah Hay as Claire Robbins at a fictional New York ballet company.

Flesh and Fuel

Flesh and Fuel (Du fioul dans les artères) is Pierre Le Gall's 2026 French-Polish debut feature, a queer romantic drama about truckers Étienne and Bartosz; it premiered at Cannes Critics' Week and won the Queer Palm Revelation award.

Flesh and the Devil

Flesh and the Devil is a 1926 MGM silent romantic drama directed by Clarence Brown, starring John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, and Lars Hanson, adapted from Hermann Sudermann's novel The Undying Past; the first Garbo-Gilbert pairing.

Flesh fly

Sarcophagidae, flesh flies, a calyptrate fly family with three subfamilies; many are larviparous, depositing live larvae on carrion; forensically important for PMI estimation but hard to identify to species.

Flesh Gordon

Flesh Gordon (1974) is an American erotic sci-fi comedy parody of the Flash Gordon serials, directed by Michael Benveniste and Howard Ziehm; hardcore footage was seized by police, and the trimmed R-rated cut runs 78 minutes.

Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood

Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood is DMX's second studio album, released December 22, 1998 on Def Jam/Ruff Ryders, seven months after his debut; it topped the Billboard 200, went 3× Platinum, and made DMX a two-number-ones-in-one-year rapper.

Flesh of the Gods

Flesh of the Gods is an upcoming Panos Cosmatos vampire thriller set in 1980s Los Angeles, written by Andrew Kevin Walker, starring Kristen Stewart and Wagner Moura (who replaced Oscar Isaac), produced by Hyperobject Industries and Augenschein, distributed by A24, expected 2027.

Flesh-n-Bone

Flesh-n-Bone (Stanley Howse, born 1973, Cleveland) is a Bone Thugs-N-Harmony rapper, brother of Layzie Bone; solo albums on Def Jam and Koch, imprisoned 2000-2008, returned on Uni5 and 2025's "Aww S--t."

Fleshlight

Fleshlight is a brand of male sex toy, a soft sleeve inside a flashlight-shaped case, patented in 1998 and sold by Interactive Life Forms of Austin, Texas.

FLET'S Hikari

FLET'S Hikari (フレッツ光) is the fiber-optic broadband access service provided by NTT East and NTT West across Japan, sold with separate Internet provider contracts since 2001.

Fletch (film)

Fletch is a 1985 American comedy-mystery directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Chevy Chase. The film follows an undercover reporter who investigates a wealthy businessman's offer to kill him.

Fletch Lives

Fletch Lives is a 1989 American comedy-mystery film directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Chevy Chase as reporter Fletch, who inherits a Louisiana plantation and probes a murder and land deal.

Fletcher (singer)

Fletcher, born Cari Elise Fletcher (1994, Asbury Park, New Jersey), is an American queer pop singer-songwriter signed to Capitol Records, known for "War Paint," "Undrunk," and the albums Girl of My Dreams, In Search of the Antidote, and Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?

Fletcher Boyd

Fletcher Boyd, born in 2008 in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a Scottish attacking midfielder who debuted for Aberdeen at 16 and moved to Aston Villa in 2025.

Fletcher Christian

Fletcher Christian (1764–1793) was an English Royal Navy master's mate who led the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty in 1789 and later founded the mutineer settlement on Pitcairn Island.

Fletcher Cox

Fletcher Cox, born 1990 in Yazoo City, Mississippi, is a retired NFL defensive tackle who spent all 12 seasons (2012-2023) with the Philadelphia Eagles, earning six Pro Bowls, one first-team All-Pro, and a Super Bowl LII title.

Fletcher Peninsula

Fletcher Peninsula, an ice-covered peninsula in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, extends into the Bellingshausen Sea between the Abbot and Venable ice shelves at 72°45′S 88°50′W; mapped by USGS 1961–66, distinct from Fletcher Promontory and Cape Fletcher.

Fletcher School alumni network

The Fletcher School alumni network, informally known among American diplomats as the "Fletcher Mafia," is the worldwide association of graduates of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Fletcher-class destroyer

The Fletcher-class destroyer was a class of 175 United States Navy destroyers introduced in 1942 that formed the core of the Navy's destroyer force in the Pacific war.

Flettner rotor

A Flettner rotor, also called a rotor sail, is a spinning vertical cylinder mounted on a ship that produces thrust through the Magnus effect, cutting fuel use by 3–15%.

Fleur (film)

Fleur (film) covers two films in production of that name: Ellie Foumbi's upcoming erotic drama starring Halle Berry as a Paris escort, and Rémi Chayé's French animated feature set in Belle Époque Paris, releasing March 2027.

Fleur Bremmer

Fleur Bremmer (born 2014, Fritzlar) is a German-Dutch child actress from Bad Wildungen who plays Edda Göring in Nuremberg (2025) and Jelka in Ted Lasso season 4.

Fleur de sel

Fleur de sel (flower of salt, flor de sal) is hand-skimmed surface sea salt with fine pyramidal crystals, classically from Guérande, France (PGI 2012); used as a finishing salt, unlike pond-floor sel gris.

Fleur East

Fleur East (born 1987, Walthamstow, London) is an English singer and presenter, X Factor 2014 runner-up behind Ben Haenow; her single Sax reached UK No. 3, and she hosts Strictly: It Takes Two and the Hits Radio Breakfast Show.

Fleur Geffrier

Fleur Geffrier, French actress and executive producer (born 1986, Rabastens, Tarn), trained at Cours Florent; plays Camille Léger in Apple TV+'s Emmy-winning Les Gouttes de Dieu (Drops of God), distinct from manga characters and anime voice cast.

Fleur Mellor

Fleur Mellor (Fleur Northey Mellor-Wenham, born 13 July 1936) is an Australian sprinter who won 1956 Olympic gold in the women's 4x100 m relay, setting world records of 44.9 and 44.5.

Fleur-de-lis

Fleur-de-lis (fleur-de-lys), a stylized three-petaled lily or iris heraldic device; emblem of the kings of France from the 12th century, reduced to three by Charles V in 1376; now official emblem of Quebec and Louisiana.

Fleury

Fleury: name of several French communes and places (Aisne, Moselle, Essonne, Fleury-sur-Orne, Fleury-devant-Douaumont) and the abbey of Fleury, from Gallo-Roman Floriacus with the Celtic suffix -acum.

Flevoland

Flevoland is the youngest, twelfth province of the Netherlands, reclaimed from the former Zuiderzee in three polders (Northeast Polder 1939, Eastern 1957, Southern 1968) and established as a province on 1 January 1986, the world's largest land reclamation project.