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The First Frost (难哄)
The First Frost (难哄) is a 2025 Chinese urban romance drama directed by Qu Youning, starring Bai Jingting and Zhang Ruonan, adapted from Zhu Yi's novel, streaming on Youku and Netflix from February 18, 2025, 32 episodes.
The First King: Birth of an Empire
The First King: Birth of an Empire (Il primo re) is Matteo Rovere's 2019 Italian-Belgian film on Romulus and Remus, starring Alessandro Borghi and Alessio Lapice, spoken in reconstructed archaic Latin, released 31 January 2019.
The First Lady (American TV series)
The First Lady is a 2022 Showtime anthology drama created by Aaron Cooley, starring Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford, and Viola Davis as Michelle Obama; 10 episodes directed by Susanne Bier, canceled after one season.
The First Lap (초행)
The First Lap (초행, Chohaeng) is a 2017 South Korean drama by Kim Dae-hwan, starring Kim Sae-byuk and Cho Hyun-chul as a cohabiting couple visiting parents amid marriage pressure; it won Locarno's Best Emerging Director award.
The First Law
The First Law is Joe Abercrombie's grimdark fantasy series: the trilogy The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings (2006-2008), plus standalones, the Age of Madness trilogy, and Sharp Ends, set in a low-magic world.
The First Life of Adamastor
The First Life of Adamastor is a short novel by André Brink, published in English in 1993, retelling Camões's Adamastor myth from the Khoikhoi side.
The First Man (첫 번째 남자) (TV series)
The First Man (첫 번째 남자) is MBC's 2025–2026 daily revenge drama, 140 episodes, starring Ham Eun-jung in a twin dual role and Oh Hyun-kyung as villain Chae Hwa-young; peak Nielsen rating 6.1%.
The First Monday in May
The First Monday in May is Andrew Rossi's 2016 Tribeca-opening documentary about the Met Gala and the Met's record-breaking 2015 exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass, following curator Andrew Bolton and Vogue's Anna Wintour.
The First Night with the Duke
The First Night with the Duke (남주의 첫날밤을 가져버렸다, I Took the Male Lead's First Night) is a 2025 KBS2 fantasy-romance K-drama starring Seohyun and Ok Taecyeon, adapted from Hwang Dotol's web novel and webtoon, moved from a European setting to Joseon-era Korea, 12 episodes, June–July 2025.
The First Noel
The First Noel (The First Nowell) is a traditional English Christmas carol of likely Cornish origin; text printed by Davies Gilbert in 1823, tune by William Sandys in 1833, harmonized by John Stainer in 1867.
The First Omen
The First Omen is a 2024 American supernatural horror film directed by Arkasha Stevenson, starring Nell Tiger Free, about an American nun in Rome who uncovers a Church plot to breed the Antichrist.
The First Purge
The First Purge, also known as The Purge 4, is a 2018 American dystopian horror film, a prequel showing how the Purge began as an experiment on Staten Island.
The First Responders (소방서 옆 경찰서)
The First Responders (소방서 옆 경찰서, The First Responders) is a 2022-2023 SBS Friday-Saturday Korean drama by writer Min Ji-eun and director Shin Kyung-soo about joint police-fire emergency response, starring Kim Rae-won, Son Ho-jun, and Gong Seung-yeon; its 2023 second season adds the National Forensic Service and streams on Disney+.
The First Ride (첫 트립)
The First Ride (퍼스트 라이드) is a 2025 South Korean comedy-drama road trip film directed by Nam Dae-joong, starring Kang Ha-neul, Kim Young-kwang, Cha Eun-woo, and Kang Young-seok as friends taking a delayed Thailand trip; released October 29, 2025.
The First Slam Dunk
The First Slam Dunk is a 2022 Japanese animated sports film written and directed by Slam Dunk manga creator Takehiko Inoue, produced by Toei Animation, focusing on Ryota Miyagi during the Sannoh match; it grossed $279 million worldwide and won the 2023 Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year.
The First Take (music)
The First Take is a Japanese YouTube music channel launched in 2019, filming each artist performing one song in a single unedited take in a white studio.
The First Teacher
The First Teacher (Первый учитель) is a 1962 novella by Chingiz Aitmatov about a Red Army soldier who opens the first school in a Kyrgyz village.
The First Time (2012 film)
The First Time (2012) is an American teen romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Jonathan Kasdan, starring Dylan O'Brien and Britt Robertson; premiered at Sundance 2012, limited release October 19, 2012, $92,654 worldwide gross.
The First Time (The Kid Laroi album)
THE FIRST TIME is the 2023 debut full-length album by Australian rapper The Kid LAROI (Charlton Howard), released November 10 via Columbia Records; 20 tracks featuring Jung Kook, Central Cee, Future, and others, debuting at number 3 on the ARIA albums chart.
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face: 1957 love song by Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger; Roberta Flack's 1969 recording hit Billboard number one in 1972 and won Record and Song of the Year Grammys.
The First Walpurgis Night
The First Walpurgis Night (German: Die erste Walpurgisnacht) is a ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, best known through Felix Mendelssohn's cantata setting, Op. 60.
The First Well
The First Well (البئر الأولى) is an autobiography by the Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra about his childhood in Bethlehem and Jerusalem in the 1920s and 1930s.
The First Wives Club
The First Wives Club is a 1996 Paramount comedy directed by Hugh Wilson, starring Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton as divorced friends seeking revenge, based on Olivia Goldsmith's 1992 novel, grossing $181 million worldwide.
The Fish Can Sing
The Fish Can Sing (Brekkukotsannáll) is a 1957 novel by the Icelandic writer and 1955 Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, telling of a boy raised in the Reykjavík cottage Brekkukot.
The Fisher King
The Fisher King (1991) is a Terry Gilliam comedy-drama-fantasy, written by Richard LaGravenese, starring Robin Williams as homeless Grail-seeker Parry and Jeff Bridges as guilt-ridden shock jock Jack Lucas; Mercedes Ruehl won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
The Five (composers)
The Five, or Mighty Handful (Moguchaya kuchka), were Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin, Saint Petersburg nationalist composers of the late 1850s to 1870s who built a Russian school on folk song, chant, and history against conservatory Westernism.
The Five (TV series)
The Five is a 2016 ten-episode British Sky1 crime drama created by Harlan Coben as his first original TV story, written by Danny Brocklehurst, starring Tom Cullen, O.T. Fagbenle, Lee Ingleby, and Sarah Solemani; DNA of a boy missing 20 years reappears at a murder scene.
The Five Deadly Venoms (五毒)
The Five Deadly Venoms (五毒, 1978), also The Five Venoms or Five Poisons, is a Chang Cheh Shaw Brothers kung fu mystery about a dying Poison Clan master's sixth disciple hunting five animal-style disciples; first Venom Mob film, Wu-Tang Clan and Kill Bill influence.
The Five Doctors
The Five Doctors (story code 6K) is the 1983 ninety-minute Doctor Who 20th-anniversary special by Terrance Dicks, directed by Peter Moffatt, uniting five Doctors in the Death Zone of Gallifrey, first shown on US PBS on 23 November 1983 and on BBC One 25 November during Children in Need.
The Five Heartbeats
The Five Heartbeats is a 1991 musical drama directed by and starring Robert Townsend, co-written with Keenen Ivory Wayans, about a fictional 1960s Black R&B vocal group; a Fox-funded box-office disappointment later embraced as a cult classic.