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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is a 2019 Netflix crime thriller written and directed by Vince Gilligan, a sequel following Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) after the Breaking Bad finale; 2h 2m, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, Emmy-nominated.

El Cid (film)

El Cid (1961) is Anthony Mann's 184-minute epic starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, produced by Samuel Bronston in Spain, adapted from the Poema del Mío Cid, with three Oscar nominations and a 1993 restoration.

El Crimen Perfecto

El Crimen Perfecto, released as Crimen ferpecto and internationally as Ferpect Crime, is a 2004 Spanish-Italian black comedy directed by Álex de la Iglesia about department-store salesmen.

El Dorado (1966 film)

El Dorado (1966) is a Howard Hawks Western starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan, adapted by Leigh Brackett from Harry Brown's novel The Stars in Their Courses as a reworking of Rio Bravo, released by Paramount in 1967.

El Gran Calavera

El gran calavera (The Great Madcap) is a 1949 Mexican comedy by Luis Buñuel, scripted by Janet and Luis Alcoriza from an Adolfo Torrado play, starring Fernando Soler as a rich widower whose family fakes his ruin; its success enabled Los olvidados.

El Infierno

El Infierno (Hell) is a 2010 Mexican black-comedy satire by Luis Estrada about a deported migrant, El Benny, who joins the drug trade; it won the 2011 Ariel de Oro and was Mexico's second most-watched domestic film of 2010.

El Mariachi

El Mariachi (1992) is Robert Rodriguez's Spanish-language independent neo-Western action debut about a musician mistaken for a hitman, made for about $7,000 and later a Guinness record holder, spawning Desperado and the Mexico Trilogy.

El Niño

El Niño (The Kid) is a 2014 Spanish-French thriller by Daniel Monzón about teenage hashish smugglers in the Strait of Gibraltar, starring Luis Tosar and debutant Jesús Castro; it earned €16.2 million in Spain and won 4 Goyas from 16 nominations.

El Padrecito

El Padrecito (The Little Priest) is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama directed by Miguel M. Delgado, starring Cantinflas as Padre Sebastián, a young priest winning over the town of San Jerónimo el Alto.

El Puente

El puente (1977) is a Spanish road movie comedy-drama by Juan Antonio Bardem starring Alfredo Landa as a Madrid mechanic riding to Torremolinos; it won the 1977 Moscow Film Festival Grand Prize.

El Rey del Barrio

El rey del barrio (The King of the Neighborhood), 1949 Mexican Golden Age comedy by Gilberto Martínez Solares starring Tin Tan as a Robin Hood-style con man; also the Spanish title of the 2020 Apatow film The King of Staten Island.

El Sur

El Sur (The South) is Víctor Erice's 1983 Spanish drama, his second feature, adapted from Adelaida García Morales's novella about Estrella and her secretive doctor father in postwar northern Spain. Production was halted 48 days into an 81-day shoot, leaving the Andalusian half unfilmed; it competed at Cannes 1983 and is considered a Spanish cinema landmark.

El Topo

El Topo (1970) is Alejandro Jodorowsky's Mexican acid western, in which a black-clad gunfighter defeats four desert masters; its Elgin Theater midnight screenings and John Lennon endorsement launched the midnight movie phenomenon.

El Verdugo

El Verdugo (The Executioner) is a 1963 Spanish-Italian black comedy by Luis García Berlanga, scripted with Rafael Azcona and Ennio Flaiano, in which an undertaker marries an executioner's daughter and inherits the garrote job to keep a state apartment; it won FIPRESCI at Venice 1963.

Elaan (एलान)

Elaan (एलान) is a 1994 Hindi action film directed by Guddu Dhanoa, starring Akshay Kumar, Amrish Puri, and Madhoo, about a policeman's son taking vigilante justice; a Tridev Arts hit released 21 January 1994.

Eleanor the Great

Eleanor the Great (2025) is Scarlett Johansson's feature directorial debut, written by Tory Kamen, starring June Squibb as 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who passes off her late friend Bessie's Holocaust story as her own after moving to New York. Premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard; Sony Pictures Classics released it September 26, 2025.

Election (1999 film)

Election (1999) is Alexander Payne's satirical comedy, adapted with Jim Taylor from Tom Perrotta's 1998 novel, starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon in a Nebraska high-school election feud; Oscar-nominated screenplay, Criterion spine #904.

Election (2024 film)

Election (எலக்சன்) is a 2024 Tamil political thriller by director Thamizh, his second film after Seththumaan, starring Vijay Kumar as Nadarasan, an engineer who contests a panchayat election to honor his father; released 17 May 2024, streamed on Prime Video.

Election (黑社会) (2005 film)

Election (黑社会) is Johnnie To's 2005 Hong Kong triad film about the Wo Shing Society chairman election between Lok (Simon Yam) and Big D (Tony Leung Ka-fai); Cannes competitor, Hong Kong Film Awards Best Film, gun-free, with 2006 sequel Election 2.

Election 2 (黑社会以和为贵)

Election 2 (黑社會以和為貴, Triad Election) is Johnnie To's 2006 Hong Kong triad sequel to Election, in which Lok seeks a forbidden second term and Jimmy is forced into the chairmanship by mainland authorities; Cannes 2006, HK Film Critics Society Best Film.

Electra (2024 film)

Electra (2024 film) by Hala Matar, also called Electra, is an American-Italian mystery thriller starring Maria Bakalova, Abigail Cowen, Jack Farthing, and Daryl Wein, released May 2, 2025 by Level 33 Entertainment.

Electric Dreams (film)

Electric Dreams is a 1984 Virgin Pictures romantic sci-fi comedy directed by Steve Barron, starring Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, and Bud Cort as the voice of sentient computer Edgar, a love-triangle film later compared to Her.

Elektra (2005 film)

Elektra is a 2005 American superhero film directed by Rob Bowman, starring Jennifer Garner as the Marvel Comics assassin Elektra Natchios in a spin-off of Daredevil (2003).

Elena (Эле́на) (2011 film)

Elena (Эле́на) is Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2011 Russian drama, his third feature, in which former nurse Elena (Nadezhda Markina) murders her wealthy husband Vladimir (Andrey Smirnov) to secure her son's inheritance; it won the Cannes Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize.

Elephant (2003 film)

Elephant (2003) is Gus Van Sant's 81-minute drama about an ordinary American high school day ending in a Columbine-like shooting; it won the 2003 Cannes Palme d'Or and Best Director, grossed about $10 million, and scored 70 on Metacritic.

Elephants in the Fog

Elephants in the Fog (Tiniharu, तिनीहरू) is a 2026 Nepali drama-thriller, Abinash Bikram Shah's debut feature, about a Kinnar transgender matriarch in a village stalked by wild elephants; it won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes 2026 and is Nepal's Oscar submission.

Elevator to the Gallows

Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) is Louis Malle's 1958 debut feature, a French noir starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet with an improvised one-night Miles Davis score; Prix Louis-Delluc 1957.

Eleven (film)

Eleven is a 2025 Indian Tamil-Telugu bilingual slasher film directed by Lokkesh Ajls. It stars Naveen Chandra as a cop investigating a nyctophobic serial killer.

Eleven Days (film)

Eleven Days refers to two films: a 2018 Australian adventure drama by Jaginder Singh about a boy searching the outback for his brother, and a 2026 Peter Landesman prison siege thriller starring Taylor Kitsch and Diego Luna, based on the 1974 Carrasco siege in Huntsville, Texas.

Eleven Missing Days

Eleven Missing Days is an upcoming British noir mystery drama film directed by Bertie Ellwood, starring Felicity Jones as Agatha Christie and Vincent Cassel, dramatizing her real eleven-day 1926 disappearance, based on Jared Cade's 1998 book, in post-production as of October 2026.