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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Five People You Meet in Heaven is Mitch Albom's 2003 Hyperion novel about Eddie, an 83-year-old Ruby Pier maintenance man who dies saving a girl and meets five people in heaven; bestseller, 2004 ABC film, 2018 sequel.
The Five Star Stories (ファイブスター物語)
The Five Star Stories (ファイブスター物語, FSS) is Mamoru Nagano's science fantasy manga serialized in Monthly Newtype since 1986, set in the Joker Solar System with knights, Fatima, and giant robots renamed from Mortar Heads to Gothicmade; a 1989 anime film and over 10 million books sold.
The Five-Star Weekend (TV series)
The Five-Star Weekend is a 2026 Peacock drama series, eight episodes, adapted by Bekah Brunstetter from Elin Hilderbrand's 2023 novel, starring Jennifer Garner as widowed food influencer Hollis Shaw; renewed for season 2 after 2.1 billion minutes viewed.
The Five-Year Engagement
The Five-Year Engagement is a 2012 American romantic comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller, starring Jason Segel and Emily Blunt as an engaged couple whose wedding keeps being postponed.
The Fix (2019 TV series)
The Fix (2019 TV series) is an ABC legal drama, March 18 to May 20, 2019, 10 episodes, created by Marcia Clark, Elizabeth Craft, and Sarah Fain, starring Robin Tunney as DA Maya Travis; cancelled after one season.
The Fix (2024 film)
The Fix (2024 film), Kelsey Egan's South African sci-fi thriller; also a Showmax Original. Grace Van Dien's model Ella mutates after a designer drug in a toxic-air future; premiered Chattanooga 2024, streamed November 22, 2024. Distinct from the 2026 Guy Moshe CIA film of the same title.
The Fix (2026 film)
The Fix is a 2026 American action thriller directed by Guy Moshe, starring Zachary Levi and Liam Neeson as disgraced ex-CIA operators on a rogue mission to Tehran.
The Fixed and the Transformative
The Fixed and the Transformative (الثابت والمتحول, al-Thābit wa-l-Mutaḥawwil) is a four-volume work of cultural criticism by the Syrian poet Adonis, first published in 1974.
The Fixer
The Fixer (1968) is John Frankenheimer's drama adapted by Dalton Trumbo from Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer Prize novel, starring Alan Bates as Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman wrongly imprisoned in Czarist Russia on ritual-murder charges based on the Mendel Beilis case.
The Fixies (Фиксики)
The Fixies (Фиксики) is a Russian educational animated series by Aeroplan/Riki, premiered December 2010, based on Uspensky's Garantiynye chelovechki, about tiny repair-creatures Simka and Nolik living inside appliances and teaching children how technology works.
The Fixx
The Fixx, British new wave band formed in London in 1979 (originally the Portraits), known for "One Thing Leads to Another," "Saved by Zero," and "Red Skies"; US hits via MTV and Reach the Beach (1983), little UK success, still touring with Every Five Seconds (2022).
The Flags
The Flags (Croatian: Zastave) is the final, five-volume novel by Croatian author Miroslav Krleža, following Kamil Emerički Jr. through World War I and the founding of Yugoslavia.
The Flame's Daughter (烈火如歌)
The Flame's Daughter (烈火如歌, Agni Cantabile) is a 2018 Chinese costume romance fantasy drama on Youku, adapted from Ming Xiao Xi's 2004 novel, starring Vic Chou and Dilraba Dilmurat in a jianghu love story, 52 episodes, over 6 billion views.
The Flamethrowers
The Flamethrowers (Los lanzallamas) is a 1931 novel by the Argentine writer Roberto Arlt, continuing Los siete locos and closing the story of Remo Erdosain and the Astrólogo's Secret Society.
The Flaming Heart (你好，火焰蓝)
The Flaming Heart (你好，火焰蓝) is a 2021 Chinese rescue romance drama on Youku, directed by Zhang Lichuan, starring Gong Jun as firefighter Huo Yan and Zhang Huiwen as doctor Yan Lan, 24 episodes, adapted from real Nanjing fire cases.
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips: Oklahoma City psychedelic alternative rock band formed in 1983, led by Wayne Coyne; known for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, The Soft Bulletin, three Grammys, and confetti-filled live shows with Coyne's space bubble.
The Flanders Road
The Flanders Road (La Route des Flandres) is a 1960 novel by Claude Simon that renders the French defeat of May 1940 as it survives in one man's memory.
The Flash
The Flash is DC Comics' Scarlet Speedster, a title held by Jay Garrick (1940), Barry Allen (1956), and Wally West (1986). Super-speed hero powered by the Speed Force, base Central City, member of the Justice Society and Justice League.
The Flash (1990 TV series)
The Flash (1990 TV series): CBS live-action superhero show, 1990–1991, one 22-episode season; John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen, created by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, $6 million pilot, Mark Hamill's Trickster.
The Flash (2014 TV series)
The Flash (2014 TV series): CW superhero drama developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns, starring Grant Gustin as Barry Allen; ran nine seasons from October 7, 2014 to May 24, 2023 as an Arrow spin-off anchoring the Arrowverse.
The Flash (comic book)
The Flash is DC Comics' shared speedster superhero: Jay Garrick debuted in Flash Comics #1 (1940), Barry Allen's Showcase #4 (1956) started the Silver Age, Wally West took over after Crisis, and Mark Waid's Speed Force (1994) powers the legacy.
The Flash (film)
The Flash is a 2023 American superhero film directed by Andy Muschietti, starring Ezra Miller as DC Comics hero Barry Allen, with Michael Keaton returning as Batman.
The Flatiron
The Flatiron is a famous early 1900s photograph of New York's Flatiron Building, made in versions by Alfred Stieglitz in 1903 and Edward Steichen in 1904.
The Flatshare
The Flatshare is a 2022 six-part Paramount+ British romantic comedy adapted from Beth O'Leary's 2019 novel, starring Jessica Brown Findlay and Anthony Welsh as strangers who timeshare a one-bed London flat, premiering 1 December 2022.
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (お茶漬の味)
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (お茶漬の味, Ochazuke no aji) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1952 Shochiku drama about an estranged middle-aged couple reconciled through ochazuke; script with Kogo Noda, starring Shin Saburi and Michiyo Kogure.
The Flea Palace
The Flea Palace (Bit Palas) is a 2002 novel by Elif Şafak about residents of a ten-flat Istanbul apartment building bound together by the stench of surrounding garbage.
The Fledgling Demon Lord's Starter Shop
The Fledgling Demon Lord's Starter Shop (Sudachi no Maōjō, すだちの魔王城) is a fantasy comedy manga by Makoto Morishita, serialized in Monthly Shōnen Magazine since October 2021, about a failing item shop after the demon lord's defeat; 14 volumes, over 1.1 million copies, anime by project No.9 in January 2027.
The Flick
The Flick is a two-act dramatic comedy by Annie Baker, premiered at Playwrights Horizons in 2013, set in a Worcester, Massachusetts movie theater with a 35mm projector; it won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The Flight of Dragons
The Flight of Dragons is a 1982 Rankin/Bass animated TV film, also called A Flight of Dragons, directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr., combining Peter Dickinson's 1979 dragon-flight book with Dickson's The Dragon and the George, animated by Topcraft, voiced by John Ritter and James Earl Jones.
The Flintstones
The Flintstones, Hanna-Barbera's animated sitcom created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, aired on ABC from September 30, 1960 as the first prime-time animated series, running 166 episodes and later spawning films and merchandising.