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Fair Game (2010 film)
Fair Game is a 2010 American biographical political thriller directed by Doug Liman, starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, dramatizing the 2003 Plame affair and competing at Cannes.
Falcon Express (film)
Falcon Express, released internationally as Pets on a Train, is a 2025 French animated film by Benoît Daffis and Jean-Christian Tassy in which raccoon thief Falcon and police dog Rex stop a hijacked runaway train.
Fallen (2016 film)
Fallen is a 2016 fantasy romance drama film directed by Scott Hicks, adapted from Lauren Kate's 2009 young adult novel and starring Addison Timlin and Jeremy Irvine.
Falsche Bewegung
Falsche Bewegung (Wrong Move) is Wim Wenders' 1975 West German road film, the color middle part of his road-movie trilogy, scripted by Peter Handke from Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, starring Rüdiger Vogler and a 13-year-old Nastassja Kinski, winner of six Deutscher Filmpreise and withdrawn in 2026.
Fantasia (1940 film)
Fantasia (1940) is Walt Disney's third animated feature, eight classical-music sequences conducted by Leopold Stokowski, premiered November 13, 1940, first shown in Fantasound stereo, a box-office failure until 1969, National Film Registry 1990.
Fantasia 2000
Fantasia 2000 is a 1999 American animated anthology film from Walt Disney that continues the 1940 Fantasia format, with seven new classical-music segments plus The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Fantastic Beasts
Fantastic Beasts is a Wizarding World film trilogy (2016-2022) spun off from Harry Potter, starring Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander. Planned for five films, it was parked by Warner Bros. after falling box office returns and controversies.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) is a fantasy film directed by David Yates, written by J.K. Rowling in her screenwriting debut, set in 1926 New York, starring Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, opening the five-film Wizarding World prequel series.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is a 2018 fantasy film, second in the Fantastic Beasts series, directed by David Yates from J.K. Rowling's screenplay, starring Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, and Johnny Depp, grossing $650 million.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), third Fantastic Beasts film directed by David Yates, starring Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, and Mads Mikkelsen as Grindelwald; lowest-grossing entry, franchise later paused.
Fantastic Mr. Fox (film)
Fantastic Mr. Fox is Wes Anderson's 2009 stop-motion animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1970 novel, co-written with Noah Baumbach, voiced by George Clooney and Meryl Streep, with two Oscar nominations and an 83 Metascore.
Fantastic Planet
Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage) is René Laloux's 1973 French-Czechoslovak cutout-animated sci-fi film, adapted from Stefan Wul's Oms en série, about Oms rebelling against Draags on Ygam; Cannes Special Jury Prize winner.
Fantasy film
Fantasy film: movies with improbable or impossible characters, events, or settings pervading the whole story; treated by scholars as a mode spanning science fiction and horror, from Méliès (1902) to the 2000s Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Narnia boom.
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film)
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) is John Schlesinger's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel, starring Julie Christie as Bathsheba Everdene with Alan Bates, Peter Finch, and Terence Stamp, shot by Nicolas Roeg in Dorset.
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015 film)
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Thomas Vinterberg's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel, screenplay by David Nicholls, starring Carey Mulligan as Bathsheba Everdene with Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, and Tom Sturridge; Fox Searchlight release, Metascore 71, 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control is Errol Morris's 1997 documentary interweaving a lion tamer, topiary gardener, mole-rat specialist, and MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks, whose 1989 swarm-robots paper gave the film its title.
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly (Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] II.lost butterfly)
Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] II. lost butterfly (劇場版「Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel]」Ⅱ.lost butterfly) is a 2019 ufotable anime film, second of the Heaven's Feel trilogy, directed by Tomonori Sudo with Yuki Kajiura's score, grossing 1.66 billion yen in Japan.
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song (Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] III.spring song)
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song is a 2020 Japanese anime film directed by Tomonori Sudô at ufotable, concluding the three-part adaptation of the visual novel's Heaven's Feel route.
Father Stu
Father Stu is a 2022 American biographical drama directed by Rosalind Ross, starring Mark Wahlberg as Stuart Long, a Montana boxer who became a Catholic priest.
Fatherhood (film)
Fatherhood (2021) is a Netflix comedy-drama directed by Paul Weitz, starring Kevin Hart as widower Matt Logelin, based on the memoir Two Kisses for Maddy; released June 18, 2021, produced with Higher Ground.
Fatherland (2026 film)
Fatherland (Ojczyzna) is Paweł Pawlikowski's 2026 black-and-white drama about Thomas Mann's 1949 return from US exile to divided Germany with daughter Erika; Cannes Best Director winner, Poland's Oscar submission.
Fatima (2020 film)
Fatima is a 2020 drama film directed by Marco Pontecorvo dramatizing the 1917 Marian apparitions three children reported in Fatima, Portugal, released in limited theaters and streaming.
Faye (film)
Faye (2024) is Laurent Bouzereau's 91-minute HBO documentary, the first feature documentary on actress Faye Dunaway. Premiered at Cannes 2024, released July 13, 2024 on HBO/Max, covering her career, bipolar diagnosis, and difficult reputation.
Fear Strikes Out
Fear Strikes Out (1957) is a Paramount biographical drama, the directorial debut of Robert Mulligan and producing debut of Alan J. Pakula, adapted from Jimmy Piersall's 1955 autobiography about his mental breakdown, starring Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden.
Feast (2014 film)
Feast (2014) is a six-minute Walt Disney Animation Studios short directed by Patrick Osborne, telling a man's love life through his Boston terrier Winston and shared meals; it won the 2015 Oscar for Best Animated Short and preceded Big Hero 6 in theaters.
Feature film
Feature film: the full-length motion picture, normally over 60 minutes, made as a cinema program's main attraction. Also called feature-length film. Distinguished from shorts by runtime, narrative scope, and theatrical presentation; 9,628 produced worldwide in 2024.
Ferdinand (film)
Ferdinand is a 2017 American computer-animated comedy film directed by Carlos Saldanha, based on Munro Leaf's 1936 children's book, about a peace-loving bull who prefers flowers to bullfighting.
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
FernGully: The Last Rainforest is a 1992 animated musical fantasy directed by Bill Kroyer, about fairies, logger Zak, and pollution spirit Hexxus; grossed over US$65 million and screened at the UN Earth Summit.
Fiddler on the Roof (film)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Norman Jewison's film of the Bock-Harnick-Stein Broadway musical, stars Topol as Tevye the milkman in Tsarist Russia; it won three Oscars from eight nominations and grossed over $38 million.
Film adaptation
Film adaptation: transferring a literary, dramatic, or other narrative into cinematic form. Key topics are the fidelity debate, Wagner's transposition-commentary-analogy typology, pre-sold properties, and streaming-era demand for IP adaptations.