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Escape from Pretoria

Escape from Pretoria is a 2020 prison-break thriller, Francis Annan's feature debut, starring Daniel Radcliffe as ANC activist Tim Jenkin, who escaped Pretoria prison in 1979 using handcrafted wooden keys; filmed in Adelaide, Australia.

Escape to Witch Mountain (1995 film)

Escape to Witch Mountain (1995) is a Disney made-for-television remake of the 1975 film, directed by Peter Rader, aired on ABC April 29, 1995, starring Robert Vaughn, Elisabeth Moss, and Erik von Detten as psychic twins pursued by a tycoon.

Escobar: Paradise Lost

Escobar: Paradise Lost (Escobar: Paraíso perdido) is a 2014 France-Spain-Belgium thriller, Andrea Di Stefano's directorial debut, starring Benicio del Toro as Pablo Escobar opposite Josh Hutcherson as a Canadian surfer in love with Escobar's niece.

Ethnic pornography

Ethnic pornography is pornography organized around performers' race, ethnicity, or nationality, from 1920s race porn stag films to tagged categories on modern platforms; scholarship documents racial stereotypes, fetishization, industry stratification, and debates over harm versus agency.

Euphoria (visual novel)

Euphoria (ユーフォリア) is a 2011 Japanese adult visual novel (eroge) by CLOCKUP for Windows, localized in English by MangaGamer in 2015. A death-game story: Keisuke Takatou and six heroines are locked in a white room and forced into sadistic tasks, with a true route revealing the plot.

Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows

Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows (交響詩篇エウレカセブン ポケットが虹でいっぱい), English title Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers, is a 2009 BONES anime film retelling Eureka Seven as an alternate-universe story of Renton and Eureka in 2054.

Europa: The Last Battle

Europa: The Last Battle is a 2017 ten-part, over-12-hour English documentary by Swedish activist Tobias Bratt presenting revisionist WWII history with antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial, classified as neo-Nazi propaganda and spread via social media.

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:序) is a 2007 anime film by Hideaki Anno and Studio Khara, the first Rebuild of Evangelion film, retelling episodes 1–6 of Neon Genesis Evangelion; released September 1, 2007, with 1.01 and 1.11 revised cuts.

Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone

Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone (ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:序) is the 2007 first Rebuild of Evangelion film by Hideaki Anno and Studio Khara, retelling the original series' first six episodes; 1.11 is the May 2009 Blu-ray director's cut with added scenes.

Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance

Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance (ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:破) is the 2010 extended home video edition of Evangelion: 2.0, the second Rebuild of Evangelion film by Hideaki Anno's Studio Khara, where the story first departs from the original series and ends in a partial Third Impact.

Everest: The Other Side

Everest: The Other Side is a 2026 National Geographic documentary by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin about ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson's attempt to climb and ski Everest's direct North Face, completed by Morrison after Nelson's 2022 avalanche death.

Everlasting Regret (长恨歌)

Everlasting Regret (长恨歌, Changhen Ge) is Stanley Kwan's 2005 film adapted from Wang Anyi's Mao Dun Prize-winning 1996 novel about Wang Qiyao and Shanghai, 1940s to 1980s; it premiered at Venice 2005 with Sammi Cheng starring.

Everybody to Kenmure Street

Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026) is a British documentary by Felipe Bustos Sierra about the 13 May 2021 Glasgow protest that stopped the Home Office deportation of Sumit Sehdev and Lakhvir Singh; Sundance Special Jury Award winner.

Everyone Is Lying to You for Money

Everyone Is Lying to You for Money is a 2025 documentary, the directorial debut of actor Ben McKenzie, investigating cryptocurrency hype and fraud; it premiered at SXSW London 2025 and opened in US theaters April 17, 2026.

Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story

Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story is a 2025 Netflix documentary by Skye Borgman about Utah therapist Jodi Hildebrandt, her partner Ruby Franke of 8 Passengers, and their child abuse convictions.

Evil Queen (Disney)

Evil Queen (Disney), also called Queen Grimhilde, is the vain villain of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), voiced by Lucille La Verne, who poisons Snow White with an apple disguised as a hag.

Evita (1996 film)

Evita (1996 film), Alan Parker's adaptation of the Lloyd Webber-Rice musical, stars Madonna as Eva Perón, Antonio Banderas as Ché, and Jonathan Pryce as Juan Perón; it won the 1997 Oscar for Best Original Song with "You Must Love Me" and five nominations total.

Excalibur (film)

Excalibur (1981) is John Boorman's 140-minute Orion Pictures fantasy film adapting Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, starring Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, and Nicol Williamson; shot in Ireland, it won the 1981 Cannes artistic contribution prize.

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Exit Through the Gift Shop is Banksy's 2010, Oscar-nominated 87-minute documentary about Thierry Guetta, the French shopkeeper who became street artist Mr. Brainwash, and its unresolved hoax debate.

Exodus (1960 film)

Exodus (1960) is Otto Preminger's epic drama, scripted by blacklisted Dalton Trumbo from Leon Uris's novel, starring Paul Newman as Ari Ben Canaan smuggling 600 refugees from Cyprus to Palestine; it won Ernest Gold an Oscar and helped end the Hollywood blacklist.

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Exodus: Gods and Kings is Ridley Scott's 2014 biblical epic starring Christian Bale as Moses and Joel Edgerton as Ramses, released December 12, 2014 by 20th Century Fox. Known for its white-casting controversy, $140 million budget, $24.5 million opening, 28% Rotten Tomatoes score, and bans in Egypt, Morocco, and the UAE.

Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning (퇴마록)

Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning (퇴마록) is a 2025 South Korean 3D animated occult action film directed by Kim Dong-chul, adapted from Lee Woo-hyuk's best-selling novel series Toemarok.

Experimental film

Experimental film, also called avant-garde or underground film, is cinema made outside the commercial industry on an artisanal basis, from the 1920s European avant-garde and city symphonies to the American underground, defined by formal experimentation, autonomy, and distance from narrative and distribution norms.

Exploitation film

Exploitation film, also called exploitation cinema, refers to low-budget films made for quick profit by exploiting topical anxieties and taboo subjects like sex, violence, and drug use.

Extinct (film)

Extinct (2021) is a Chinese-American-Canadian animated comedy directed by David Silverman and Raymond S. Persi, about flummels Op and Ed time-traveling from 1835 Galápagos to modern Shanghai; released theatrically in 2021 and on Netflix November 19, 2021.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is a 2019 Netflix true crime drama about Ted Bundy, directed by Joe Berlinger, starring Zac Efron and Lily Collins, based on Elizabeth Kendall's memoir The Phantom Prince.

F for Fake

F for Fake (1973) is Orson Welles's essay film on art forger Elmyr de Hory and hoax biographer Clifford Irving, built from François Reichenbach's footage; his last completed feature, ending with a Chartres Cathedral meditation.

Faces Places

Faces Places (Visages villages) is a 2017 French documentary road movie co-directed by Agnès Varda, 89, and street artist JR, 33, who paste giant portraits of rural French people on buildings; it won Cannes' L'Œil d'or and was Oscar-nominated.

Fahrenheit 11/9

Fahrenheit 11/9 is Michael Moore's 2018 political documentary on Trump's 2016 election victory, the Flint water crisis, Parkland activism, and Democratic failures; released September 2018 by Briarcliff Entertainment before the midterms.

Fahrenheit 9/11

Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 American political documentary directed by Michael Moore that criticizes George W. Bush's presidency and won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.