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The 12th Man (film)

The 12th Man (Den 12. mann) is Harald Zwart's 2017 Norwegian war drama about resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud's 1943 escape to Sweden after eleven comrades were killed, starring Thomas Gullestad and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, with 640,519 Norwegian admissions and three Amanda awards.

The 13th Warrior

The 13th Warrior (1999) is a Touchstone historical action film directed by John McTiernan, starring Antonio Banderas as Ahmad ibn Fadlan; adapted from Crichton's Eaters of the Dead, blending Beowulf with the Risala, and a famous box-office flop.

The 15:17 to Paris

The 15:17 to Paris is Clint Eastwood's 2018 Warner Bros. drama in which Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler play themselves, reenacting their 2015 foiling of the Thalys train attack; based on their 2016 book, it earned mixed-to-negative reviews.

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) is a Columbia fantasy film directed by Jack Sher, starring Kerwin Mathews, with Ray Harryhausen's Superdynamation effects adapting Swift's first two voyages to Lilliput, Blefuscu, and Brobdingnag, scored by Bernard Herrmann.

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) is a Nathan Juran fantasy film starring Kerwin Mathews, with Ray Harryhausen's Dynamation stop-motion effects, a skeleton duel, Cyclops, Roc, and dragon, grossing over $6 million.

The Accidental Prime Minister (film)

The Accidental Prime Minister (2019) is a Hindi political drama directed by Vijay Ratnakar Gutte, adapted from Sanjaya Baru's memoir, starring Anupam Kher as Manmohan Singh and Akshaye Khanna as Baru; released 11 January 2019, it was widely panned as propaganda.

The Act of Killing

The Act of Killing (Jagal) is Joshua Oppenheimer's 2012 documentary in which Indonesian death-squad leader Anwar Congo and other 1965–66 massacre perpetrators reenact their killings as gangster films, westerns, and musicals; Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning, made with anonymous Indonesian crew.

The Adderall Diaries (film)

The Adderall Diaries (film), 2016 A24 drama directed by Pamela Romanowsky, adapts Stephen Elliott's memoir. James Franco stars as the blocked writer; Ed Harris plays his father; Metacritic 42, Tomatometer 26%.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is Terry Gilliam's 1988 fantasy film starring John Neville, with Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Uma Thurman, and Robin Williams; a famously over-budget production released in 1989 that grossed $8.6 million in the US.

The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993 film)

The Adventures of Huck Finn is a 1993 American adventure drama film from Walt Disney Pictures, written and directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Elijah Wood as Huck.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is Disney's 1949 package feature, 68 minutes, adapting The Wind in the Willows and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, narrated by Basil Rathbone and Bing Crosby, released October 5, 1949.

The Adventures of Mark Twain

The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985), also listed as released in 1986, is Will Vinton's claymation feature and the first feature-length clay-animated film, following Twain and his characters toward Halley's Comet.

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) is Warner Bros.' Errol Flynn Technicolor swashbuckler, directed by Curtiz and Keighley, with Olivia de Havilland, three Oscars, and Korngold's score; it grossed nearly $4 million and entered the National Film Registry in 1995.

The Adventures of the American Rabbit

The Adventures of the American Rabbit (アメリカン・ラビットの冒険) is a 1986 American-Japanese animated film directed by Fred Wolf and Nobutaka Nishizawa, starring musician Rob Rabbit, who becomes a superhero.

The After (film)

The After is a 2023 British short drama film directed by Misan Harriman, starring David Oyelowo, released on Netflix on October 25, 2023, and nominated for an Academy Award.

The Age of Disclosure

The Age of Disclosure is a 2025 Dan Farah documentary in which 34 senior U.S. officials allege an 80-year cover-up of non-human intelligent life; it premiered at SXSW and streamed on Prime Video from November 21, 2025.

The Age of Innocence (1993 film)

The Age of Innocence (1993) is Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize novel, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder in an 1870s New York love triangle, released by Columbia Pictures.

The Alabama Solution

The Alabama Solution is a 2025 HBO documentary by Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman exposing violence and cover-ups in Alabama prisons through contraband cellphone footage; Sundance premiere, Peabody winner, 2026 Oscar nominee.

The Amazing Maurice

The Amazing Maurice is a 2022 animated film adapted from Terry Pratchett's Carnegie Medal-winning Discworld novel. Directed by Toby Genkel, voiced by Hugh Laurie and Emilia Clarke, premiering at Sundance 2023; distinct from the novel of the same subject.

The Ant Bully (film)

The Ant Bully is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy film directed by John A. Davis, based on John Nickle's picture book about a boy shrunk to ant size.

The Arbor

The Arbor (2010) is Clio Barnard's debut docu-fiction film about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and her daughter Lorraine, with actors lip-synching to real interview recordings and scenes from Dunbar's 1980 play performed on the Buttershaw Estate.

The Aristocats

The Aristocats is a 1970 Disney animated musical comedy about a Parisian millionairess's cats, lost in the countryside and helped home by the alley cat Thomas O'Malley.

The Ark and the Aardvark

The Ark and the Aardvark is an American animated adventure comedy directed by John Stevenson (Kung Fu Panda), reimagining Noah's Ark from the animals' view: outcast aardvark Gilbert, voiced by Miles Teller, leads misfit animals to the ark. Unified Pictures produces with ReDefine/DNEG; release unconfirmed (2025 or April 30, 2026).

The Art of Racing in the Rain (film)

The Art of Racing in the Rain is a 2019 American comedy-drama film directed by Simon Curtis and starring Milo Ventimiglia and Amanda Seyfried, adapted from Garth Stein's 2008 novel.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007 Western drama by Andrew Dominik, adapted from Ron Hansen's 1983 novel, starring Brad Pitt as Jesse James and Casey Affleck as Robert Ford; Deakins shot it, Cave and Ellis scored it, $3.9M US gross.

The Bad Guys (film)

The Bad Guys is a 2022 DreamWorks Animation heist comedy directed by Pierre Perifel, based on Aaron Blabey's Scholastic books, voiced by Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, and Awkwafina; it earned $250.4 million worldwide and spawned The Bad Guys 2 (2025).

The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго)

The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго), also Ballada o doblestnom rytsare Ayvengo, is a 1982 Mosfilm adventure film by Sergei Tarasov based on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, with Vladimir Vysotsky's ballads, 28.4 million Soviet viewers, ninth at the 1983 box office.

The Banquet (夜宴) (2006 film)

The Banquet (夜宴, Yeyan) is a 2006 Chinese martial-arts drama directed by Feng Xiaogang, freely adapted from Shakespeare's Hamlet and set in the Five Dynasties period.

The Basketball Diaries (film)

The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American drama film directed by Scott Kalvert, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as writer Jim Carroll and adapted from his 1978 autobiographical book.

The Beaches of Agnès

The Beaches of Agnès (Les Plages d'Agnès) is Agnès Varda's 2008 French autobiographical documentary, an "autodocumentaire" staged on beaches from Belgium to Los Angeles; it won the 2009 César for Best Documentary.