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The Final Table
The Final Table is a 10-episode Netflix cooking competition that premiered November 20, 2018, hosted by Andrew Knowlton, in which 24 chefs in 12 teams cook dishes from nine countries for a panel of nine celebrity chefs; Timothy Hollingsworth won. Distinct from the JTBC drama Final Table.
The Final Wish
The Final Wish is a 2019 American horror film directed by Timothy Woodward Jr., written by Final Destination writer Jeffrey Reddick, starring Lin Shaye and Michael Welch as a mother and son entangled with a wish-granting urn and its jinn.
The Final-Boss Prince Is Somehow Obsessed with the Chubby Villainess: Reincarnated Me
The Final-Boss Prince Is Somehow Obsessed with the Chubby Villainess: Reincarnated Me (Odebu Akujo ni Tensei shitara...) is a Japanese webtoon manga by Kotoko and Kaname Hanamiya, serialized from April 17, 2023, about a woman reincarnated as the villainess Celine and obsessively loved by a yandere prince; a Studio Lings anime airs January 2027.
The Finale (Seinfeld)
"The Finale" is the two-part 1998 series finale of NBC's Seinfeld, written by Larry David and directed by Andy Ackerman, in which the four leads are jailed under a Good Samaritan law; 76.3 million viewers watched.
The Finale (What We Do in the Shadows)
"The Finale" is the December 16, 2024 series-ending episode (season 6, episode 11) of FX's What We Do in the Shadows, directed by Yana Gorskaya, in which the documentary crew quits and the episode offers multiple endings.
The Financial Expert
The Financial Expert is a 1952 novel by the Indian writer R. K. Narayan, following the moneylender Margayya in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi.
The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks
The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks is a 1948 cocktail book by New York lawyer David A. Embury, described as the seminal work on cocktails.
The Finest Hours (2016 film)
The Finest Hours is a 2016 Disney film directed by Craig Gillespie, dramatizing the Coast Guard's 1952 rescue of the tanker SS Pendleton off Cape Cod.
The Finish Line (game show)
The Finish Line is a BBC One daytime quiz show (from 21 August 2023) hosted by Roman Kemp and Sarah Greene, in which five contestants race moving podiums by answering quick-fire questions for a £5,000 prize; made in Belfast by Potato and Nice One Productions.
The Fionavar Tapestry
The Fionavar Tapestry is Guy Gavriel Kay's 1984-1986 high fantasy trilogy (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, The Darkest Road): five Toronto students fight Rakoth Maugrim in Fionavar, the first of all worlds, drawing on Arthurian, Celtic, and Norse myth.
The Fire and the Rain
The Fire and the Rain (Agni Mattu Male) is a 1998 play by Girish Karnad, adapted from his Kannada original and based on a Mahabharata myth.
The Fire Inside
The Fire Inside (2024) is a biographical sports drama, Rachel Morrison's directing debut from a Barry Jenkins script based on the T-Rex documentary, starring Ryan Destiny as Olympic boxing champion Claressa Shields.
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time (1963) is James Baldwin's two-essay book, comprising "My Dungeon Shook" and "Down at the Cross" (first published in The Progressive and The New Yorker), a bestseller on race and religion that made him a civil-rights-era voice.
The Fire of Origins
The Fire of Origins (Le Feu des origines) is a 1987 novel by Congolese writer Emmanuel Dongala that follows Mandala Mankunku through the colonization of the Congo, winning the Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1988.
The Fire Within
The Fire Within (Le feu follet) is Louis Malle's 1963 French drama about Alain Leroy's last day before suicide, adapted from Drieu la Rochelle; the title also names Werner Herzog's 2022 Krafft documentary.
The Fire Within You
The Fire Within You (Il fuoco che ti porti dentro) is a 2026 Italian drama by Edoardo De Angelis, starring Vanessa Scalera and Lino Musella, adapted from Antonio Franchini's novel, about a Neapolitan mother's Christmas Eve visit to her Milan editor son; it competed at Venice 2026.
The Firebird
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu, Жар-птица) is Stravinsky's 1910 one-act fairy-tale ballet for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, choreographed by Michel Fokine, premiered 25 June 1910 in Paris, with suites of 1911, 1919, and 1945.
The Firefighters (소방관) (2024 film)
The Firefighters (소방관) is a 2024 South Korean disaster drama by Kwak Kyung-taek, based on the 2001 Hongje-dong fire that killed six firefighters, starring Joo Won and Kwak Do-won; released December 4, 2024 after a four-year delay, it drew over 3.8 million admissions.
The Fireman (novel)
The Fireman (novel) is Joe Hill's 2016 apocalyptic horror novel, also his fourth, about the Dragonscale fungal pandemic causing spontaneous combustion; pregnant nurse Harper Grayson and the Fireman seek survival, published by William Morrow.
The Firemen's Ball
The Firemen's Ball (Hoří, má panenko) is Miloš Forman's 1967 Czechoslovak-Italian comedy about a disastrous volunteer firemen's ball; his last Czech film, first in color, banned after 1968, Oscar-nominated in 1969.
The Fires
The Fires (Eldarnir) is a 2025 Icelandic-Polish survival thriller, Ugla Hauksdóttir's debut feature, adapted from Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir's novel; volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir faces an eruption threatening Reykjavík and an affair with Danish photographer Thomas.
The Firing Squad (2024 film)
The Firing Squad (2024) is an American faith-based prison drama directed by Timothy A. Chey, starring James Barrington, Kevin Sorbo, and Cuba Gooding Jr., inspired by the 2015 execution of Christian drug prisoners in Indonesia; released August 2, 2024, grossing $1.8 million.
The Firm (1989 film)
The Firm (1989 film): Alan Clarke's BBC television drama, first broadcast 26 February 1989, starring Gary Oldman as estate agent and hooligan leader Bex Bissell of the Inter City Crew; Clarke's final film, remade by Nick Love in 2009.
The Firm (1993 film)
The Firm (1993) is Sydney Pollack's legal thriller, the first adaptation of a John Grisham novel, starring Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere, a Harvard Law graduate trapped between the Mob and the FBI at a corrupt Memphis firm; it earned $145 million domestically and two Oscar nominations.
The Firm (2012 TV series)
The Firm (2012 TV series), a Canadian–American legal thriller drama by Lukas Reiter, sequel to John Grisham's 1991 novel and 1993 film, starring Josh Lucas as Mitch McDeere; premiered January 8, 2012 on NBC and Global, ran 22 episodes, canceled after one season.
The Firm (novel)
The Firm (1991) is John Grisham's second novel and breakthrough legal thriller, published by Doubleday, about Harvard Law graduate Mitch McDeere, hired by the Memphis firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a Mafia front laundering money through the Cayman Islands; adapted into a 1993 Tom Cruise film and followed by the 2023 sequel The Exchange.
The Firm (rock band)
The Firm was a British rock supergroup formed in 1984, uniting Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin with singer Paul Rodgers of Free and Bad Company.
The First (TV series)
The First (2018) is a Hulu and Channel 4 near-future drama created by Beau Willimon about the first crewed Mars mission, starring Sean Penn as astronaut Tom Hagerty; eight episodes, cancelled after one season.
The First 48
The First 48 is an A&E reality crime documentary series (premiered June 3, 2004; produced by ITV America) following homicide detectives during the first 48 hours after a murder; 30 seasons, 407 episodes, narrator Dion Graham, marked by city departures and wrongful-conviction controversies.
The First Cut Is the Deepest
The First Cut Is the Deepest is a 1967 Cat Stevens song first released by P.P. Arnold (UK No. 18), later a UK No. 1 for Rod Stewart in 1977 and a US No. 14 hit for Sheryl Crow in 2003.