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Facing the Giants
Facing the Giants is a 2006 Christian sports drama from Sherwood Pictures, directed by and starring pastor Alex Kendrick, made for about $100,000 with church volunteers, released September 29, 2006, and grossing $10.1 million.
Failan (파이란)
Failan (파이란) is a 2001 South Korean drama by Song Hae-sung, adapted from Jiro Asada's novella Love Letter, starring Choi Min-sik and Cecilia Cheung as a paper-married couple who never meet; it won Blue Dragon, Grand Bell, and Deauville awards.
Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven is Todd Haynes's 2002 melodrama starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, and Dennis Haysbert, a 1957-set homage to Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows that makes race and homosexuality explicit.
Felon (film)
Felon (2008) is an American prison drama directed and written by Ric Roman Waugh, starring Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer, and Harold Perrineau; released July 18, 2008, shot partly at New Mexico State Penitentiary, Metascore 58.
Finding Forrester
Finding Forrester is a 2000 American drama directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Sean Connery as a reclusive novelist who mentors a talented Bronx teenager, played by Rob Brown.
Fireproof (film)
Fireproof is a 2008 American Christian drama film directed by Alex Kendrick about a firefighter who tries to save his failing marriage through a 40-day program.
Fish and Elephant (今年夏天)
Fish and Elephant (今年夏天) is Li Yu's 2001 underground 16mm debut, mainland China's first lesbian-themed fiction film, following elephant keeper Qun and stall owner Ling in Beijing; it won Venice's Elvira Notari Prize and was banned at home.
Flight of the Red Balloon
Flight of the Red Balloon (Le voyage du ballon rouge, 红气球) is Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 2007 France-Taiwan drama starring Juliette Binoche, inspired by Lamorisse's 1956 short and commissioned for the Musée d'Orsay's 20th anniversary.
Fujian Blue
Fujian Blue (金碧辉煌, Jin Bi Hui Huang) is a 2007 Chinese independent drama, Robin Weng's (Weng Shouming) feature debut, set in Fujian province; two linked stories about youth crime, blackmail, and illegal emigration; Dragons and Tigers Award co-winner, Vancouver 2007.
Full-Court Miracle
Full-Court Miracle is a 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie, also a Hanukkah sports drama, directed by Stuart Gillard and starring Alex D. Linz and Richard T. Jones as real-life coach Lamont Carr.
Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York is Martin Scorsese's 2002 historical drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz, set in Manhattan's Five Points and ending in the 1863 Draft Riots; based on Herbert Asbury's 1927 book, it earned ten Oscar nominations.
Garage
Garage (2007) is an Irish drama by Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O'Halloran, starring Pat Shortt as lonely petrol station attendant Josie; Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Torino Best Film, four IFTAs.
Genova
Genova (2008), also released as A Summer in Genoa, is a Michael Winterbottom drama with Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, and Willa Holland about a widowed professor raising two daughters in Genoa; it won Best Director at San Sebastián 2008.
Ghosts of the Abyss
Ghosts of the Abyss is James Cameron's 2003 IMAX 3D documentary about his 2001 return to the Titanic wreck aboard the Keldysh, with Bill Paxton, Sony-Pace 3D cameras, and the ROVs Jake and Elwood.
Girl with a Pearl Earring (film)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) is Peter Webber's feature debut drama, adapted from Tracy Chevalier's novel, starring Scarlett Johansson as maid Griet and Colin Firth as Vermeer in 17th-century Delft.
Goal II: Living the Dream
Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) is the second film of the Goal! trilogy, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, in which Kuno Becker's Santiago Muñez transfers from Newcastle United to Real Madrid amid fame, family drama, and a Champions League final against Arsenal.
Goal III: Taking on the World
Goal III: Taking on the World, 2009 sports drama, final Goal! film, directed by Andrew Morahan, starring Kuno Becker, JJ Feild, Leo Gregory; straight-to-DVD UK release 15 June 2009, set at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, poorly received.
Goal! (film)
Goal! (Goal! The Dream Begins), 2005 Danny Cannon drama starring Kuno Becker as Santiago Muñez, a Mexican immigrant who trials for Newcastle United; first of a FIFA-backed trilogy with Real Madrid and World Cup sequels.
Good Night, and Good Luck
Good Night, and Good Luck. is George Clooney's 2005 black-and-white drama, co-written with Grant Heslov, about Edward R. Murrow's CBS showdown with Senator Joseph McCarthy; six Oscar nominations, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 2025 five-time Tony-nominated Broadway adaptation.
Gran Torino
Gran Torino is a 2008 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, who stars as Walt Kowalski, a prejudiced widowed Korean War veteran whose Hmong neighbors transform him.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), Lasse Hallström drama starring Richard Gere as Professor Parker Wilson, an American remake of Hachikō Monogatari (1987) about the loyal Akita Hachikō; filmed in Rhode Island, released mainly in Japan.
Hadewijch
Hadewijch: 13th-century beguine mystic and poet near Antwerp, author of Middle Dutch Poems in Stanzas, Visions, and letters on Minne; also the title of Bruno Dumont's 2009 film.
Half Nelson (film)
Half Nelson (2006) is an American drama by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, expanded from the short Gowanus, Brooklyn, starring Ryan Gosling as an addicted Brooklyn teacher; his first Oscar nomination, 85 Metascore.
Hanging Garden (空中庭園)
Hanging Garden (空中庭園, Kūchū Teien) is a 2005 Japanese family drama by director Toshiaki Toyoda, adapted from Mitsuyo Kakuta's award-winning novel, starring Kyoko Koizumi as a mother whose no-secrets family rule collapses.
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (À la folie... pas du tout) is a 2002 French psychological thriller, Laetitia Colombani's debut feature, starring Audrey Tautou as Angélique, an art student whose delusional obsession with a married cardiologist is retold from his perspective.
Head-On
Head-On (Gegen die Wand) is Fatih Akin's 2004 German-Turkish drama starring Birol Ünel and Sibel Kekilli as Hamburg Turks in a sham marriage that turns to love; it won the 2004 Golden Bear and European Film Award.
Heaven (2002 film)
Heaven (2002) is Tom Tykwer's romantic thriller drama, from Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz's last screenplay, starring Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi; it opened the 2002 Berlinale and won the German Film Prize in Silver.
Heavenly Forest (ただ、君を愛してる)
Heavenly Forest (ただ、君を愛してる, Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru) is a 2006 Japanese romance film directed by Shinjo Takehiko, adapted from Ichikawa Takuji's novel Ren'ai Shashin: Mou Hitotsu no Monogatari, starring Tamaki Hiroshi and Miyazaki Aoi as students bonded by photography; released October 28, 2006 by Toei.
Help Me Eros (帮帮我爱神)
Help Me Eros (幫幫我愛神, Bangbang wo aishen) is a 2007 Taiwanese drama by Lee Kang-sheng, his second feature, about a ruined stockbroker, a suicide hotline, and a betel-nut seller; Golden Lion nominee at Venice 2007.
Historias Extraordinarias
Historias Extraordinarias (Extraordinary Stories) is a 2008 Argentine film by Mariano Llinás: 245 minutes, three never-crossing stories of men X, Z, and H, 18 chapters, BAFICI 2008 awards, El Pampero Cine, about 30,000-dollar budget.