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Film noir
Film noir: term coined by French critics in 1946 (Nino Frank) for dark-toned American crime films of roughly 1941–1958, from The Maltese Falcon to Touch of Evil, marked by low-key lighting, femme fatales, and disputed genre status.
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool is a 2017 Paul McGuigan biographical romance, also known by Peter Turner's memoir title, starring Annette Bening as Oscar winner Gloria Grahame and Jamie Bell as Turner, dramatizing their late-1970s affair and her 1981 final days in Liverpool.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (ファイナルファンタジーVII アドベントチルドレン)
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (ファイナルファンタジーVII アドベントチルドレン) is Square Enix's 2005 CGI film sequel to the 1997 game, directed by Tetsuya Nomura, set two years later, released on DVD/UMD, later reissued as Advent Children Complete and in 4K.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 fully CGI science fiction film directed by series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, the first photorealistic CGI human cast, a $137 million production that flopped with $32.1 million US gross.
Final Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト 完結編)
Final Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト 完結編, Uchū Senkan Yamato: Kanketsu-hen) is the 1983 Toei-distributed anime film concluding the original Space Battleship Yamato saga: Kodai's Yamato fights the Dinguil Empire as planet Aquarius threatens to flood Earth, with a 150-minute 35mm cut and a 163-minute 70mm version.
Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo (2003), Pixar's Oscar-winning animated film directed by Andrew Stanton, follows clownfish Marlin and Dory searching for his son Nemo; highest-grossing animated film of its time, over $339 million.
Finding Neverland (film)
Finding Neverland (2004), directed by Marc Forster from David Magee's screenplay based on Allan Knee's play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, stars Johnny Depp as J.M. Barrie and Kate Winslet as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies; it won the Oscar for Best Original Score.
Fire and Ice (1983 film)
Fire and Ice (1983) is a rotoscoped animated sword-and-sorcery fantasy by Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta, released by 20th Century Fox, about Queen Juliana, Nekron, Larn, Teegra, and Darkwolf.
Fireworks (2017 film)
Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (打ち上げ花火、下から見るか？横から見るか？) is a 2017 Shaft anime film remaking Shunji Iwai's 1995 TV drama, directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, starring Suzu Hirose and Masaki Suda.
First Knight
First Knight is a 1995 American adventure-romance film directed by Jerry Zucker, retelling the Arthurian love triangle of Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, starring Sean Connery, Richard Gere, and Julia Ormond.
First Squad: The Moment of Truth
First Squad: The Moment of Truth (Первый отряд) is a 2009 Japan-Russia-Canada animated film by Studio 4°C and Molot Entertainment about Soviet teen psychics fighting Nazi occultists on the WWII Eastern Front.
First They Killed My Father (film)
First They Killed My Father is Angelina Jolie's 2017 Netflix film adaptation of Loung Ung's memoir, shot in Cambodia in Khmer with an all-Cambodian cast, released September 15, 2017.
Flamenco (1995 film)
Flamenco (1995) is a Spanish performance documentary by Carlos Saura, produced by Juan Lebrón and shot by Vittorio Storaro in a converted train station, presenting hundreds of flamenco artists in staged numbers without plot or on-screen identification.
Flash Gordon (film)
Flash Gordon (1980) is a Mike Hodges space opera produced by Dino De Laurentiis, adapted from Alex Raymond's 1934 comic strip, starring Sam J. Jones, Max von Sydow, and Timothy Dalton, with a Queen soundtrack and cult status after a poor initial reception.
Flash Gordon (serial)
Flash Gordon (serial): 1936 Universal 13-chapter movie serial adapting Alex Raymond's comic strip, also called Space Soldiers. Starred Buster Crabbe and Charles Middleton; biggest serial budget of its era and 1996 National Film Registry selection.
Flavors of Youth
Flavors of Youth (詩季織々 / 肆式青春) is a 2018 74-minute anime anthology by CoMix Wave Films and Haoliners, three shorts on food, clothing, and housing in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai, directed by Li Haoling, Yi Xiaoxing, and Yoshitaka Takeuchi.
Flee (film)
Flee (Flugt) is a 2021 animated documentary by Jonas Poher Rasmussen about Amin Nawabi, a pseudonymous gay Afghan refugee who reached Denmark at 16. It won Sundance's World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize and made Oscars history with three nominations.
Flow (2024 film)
Flow (Straume) is a 2024 dialogue-free Latvian-French-Belgian animated film by Gints Zilbalodis about a cat surviving a flood, made in Blender, and winner of the 2025 Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Latvia's first Academy Award.
Flowers in the Attic (1987 film)
Flowers in the Attic is a 1987 American psychological horror film directed and written by Jeffrey Bloom, based on V. C. Andrews's 1979 gothic novel of the same title.
Flowers in the Attic (2014 film)
Flowers in the Attic (2014) is a Lifetime television film directed by Deborah Chow, adapting V.C. Andrews' 1979 novel; starring Heather Graham, Ellen Burstyn, and Kiernan Shipka, it drew 6.1 million viewers and spawned three sequels.
Flushed Away
Flushed Away is a 2006 computer-animated comedy by DreamWorks and Aardman, in which a pampered pet rat is flushed down a London toilet into an underground rodent city.
Flynn Rider
Flynn Rider, real name Eugene Fitzherbert, is the charming thief and deuteragonist of Disney's Tangled (2010), voiced by Zachary Levi; Milo Manheim plays him in the 2028 live-action remake.
For the Birds (film)
For the Birds is a 2000 Pixar computer-animated short directed by Ralph Eggleston: small bluebirds on a wire mock a large bird and get their comeuppance. It won the 2001 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Fortunata y Jacinta
Fortunata y Jacinta is Benito Pérez Galdós's 1887 four-tome realist novel about two Madrid women of different classes linked to Juanito Santa Cruz. Adapted for stage by López Aranda (1969), film by Angelino Fons (1970), and a landmark 1980 TVE series by Mario Camus.
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (漁港の肉子ちゃん)
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (漁港の肉子ちゃん, Gyokou no Nikuko-chan) is a 2021 Studio 4°C anime film directed by Ayumu Watanabe, adapted from Kanako Nishi's novel, produced by Sanma Akashiya, released June 11, 2021, and a Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Prize winner.
Four Good Days
Four Good Days (2021) is a Rodrigo García drama starring Glenn Close and Mila Kunis, based on Eli Saslow's 2016 Washington Post article about a mother helping her daughter stay drug-free four days for a naltrexone shot.
Four Moods
Four Moods (Hsi nou ai le) is a 1970 Taiwanese portmanteau ghost-story film with segments by Pai Ching-jui, King Hu, Lee Hsing, and Li Han-hsiang, made unpaid to save Li's studio and restored by the Taiwan Film Institute.
Foxcatcher
Foxcatcher (2014) is Bennett Miller's true-crime drama starring Steve Carell as heir John du Pont and Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo as wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz; Cannes Best Director, five Oscar nominations.
Frankenstein (2015 film)
Frankenstein (2015 film): Bernard Rose's modern-day Los Angeles retelling of Mary Shelley's novel, told from the monster Adam's perspective, starring Xavier Samuel, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Danny Huston; distinct from the same year's Victor Frankenstein.
Frankenweenie (2012 film)
Frankenweenie (2012) is Tim Burton's black-and-white 3-D stop-motion Disney feature, a remake of his shelved 1984 live-action short, in which boy scientist Victor Frankenstein revives his dog Sparky; it was Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature.