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Eagle vs Shark

Eagle vs Shark (working title Something Beginning With Love) is Taika Waititi's 2007 New Zealand debut romantic comedy, starring Loren Horsley as Lily and Jemaine Clement as Jarrod, produced by Whenua Films, distributed by Miramax, nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.

Eagles of the Republic

Eagles of the Republic (نسور الجمهورية) is Tarik Saleh's 2025 Arabic-language political thriller, third in his Cairo trilogy, about Egyptian star George Fahmy forced to play President al-Sisi in a propaganda biopic; it premiered in Cannes Competition and became Sweden's 2026 Oscar submission.

Earl Boen

Earl Boen (1941–2023), American character and voice actor from New York City, played Dr. Peter Silberman in the first three Terminator films and voiced LeChuck in Monkey Island until retiring from voice work in 2017.

Earl Holliman

Earl Holliman (Henry Earl Holliman, 1928–2024), American actor of films and TV; Golden Globe winner for The Rainmaker, Lt. Bill Crowley on Police Woman, and star of the first Twilight Zone broadcast.

Early Man (film)

Early Man is a 2018 British stop-motion animated comedy directed by Nick Park, in which caveman Dug and his tribe face Bronze Age rivals through a football match.

Early Spring in February (早春二月)

Early Spring in February (早春二月, Early Spring) is Xie Tieli's 1963 Beijing Film Studio drama adapted from Rou Shi's novella February, starring Sun Daolin, Xie Fang, and Shangguan Yunzhu; criticized as a poison weed in 1964, later a classic.

Early Summer (麦秋)

Early Summer (麦秋, Bakushū) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1951 Shochiku drama, released October 3, 1951, 124 minutes, starring Setsuko Hara as Noriko; the middle film of the Noriko trilogy with Late Spring and Tokyo Story, and a 1952 Kinema Junpo Best Film winner.

Earth (1930 film)

Earth (Земля, Zemlia), 1930 silent film by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, VUFKU, Ukrainian SSR, on collectivization; premiered 8 April 1930 Kyiv, banned nine days later; his Ukraine trilogy masterpiece.

Earth (1998 film)

Earth (1947: Earth), Deepa Mehta's 1998 Canada-India drama, second in her Elements Trilogy after Fire, adapts Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India, following Parsi girl Lenny in 1947 Lahore during Partition.

Earth Girls Are Easy

Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 sci-fi musical comedy directed by Julien Temple, based on Julie Brown's 1984 song, starring Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, and Damon Wayans as aliens in the San Fernando Valley.

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) is a black-and-white Columbia science fiction film directed by Fred F. Sears, produced by Charles H. Schneer, based on Donald E. Keyhoe's novel, with Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion saucers destroying Washington, D.C.

Earthquake (1974 film)

Earthquake (1974) is a Universal disaster film directed by Mark Robson, starring Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner, depicting Los Angeles destroyed by a massive quake; first film in Sensurround, grossing over $167 million and winning the Best Sound Oscar.

Earthquake Bird

Earthquake Bird is a 2019 Netflix psychological thriller directed by Wash Westmoreland, adapted from Susanna Jones's 2001 novel, starring Alicia Vikander as translator Lucy Fly, suspected in her friend Lily Bridges's disappearance in 1989 Tokyo.

Earwig and the Witch (アーヤと魔女)

Earwig and the Witch (アーヤと魔女) is Studio Ghibli's first fully 3DCG animated feature, directed by Gorō Miyazaki from Diana Wynne Jones's novel, broadcast on NHK on December 30, 2020, and released theatrically in Japan in 2021.

East Is East (1999 film)

East Is East is a 1999 British comedy-drama, Damien O'Donnell's debut, adapted by Ayub Khan-Din from his play, starring Om Puri and Linda Bassett as the Khan parents in 1971 Salford; a £3m Film4/BBC production that earned over £7m in Britain.

East of Eden (film)

East of Eden (1955) is Elia Kazan's Warner Bros. drama adapted by Paul Osborn from Steinbeck's novel, covering only its final third; James Dean's first major role as Cal Trask, Jo Van Fleet's Oscar, Cannes and Golden Globe wins.

East of Wall

East of Wall is a 2025 American docufiction drama, Kate Beecroft's debut, starring rancher Tabatha Zimiga and daughter Porshia playing themselves in the South Dakota Badlands; Sundance NEXT Audience Award winner released by Sony Pictures Classics.

East Palace West Palace (东宫西宫)

East Palace West Palace (东宫西宫) is Zhang Yuan's 1996 Chinese-French drama, the first explicitly gay film produced in the PRC, about A-Lan's overnight police interrogation, smuggled abroad and shown at Cannes 1997.

Easter Parade (film)

Easter Parade (1948) is an MGM Technicolor musical directed by Charles Walters, starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in their only screen pairing, with 17 Irving Berlin songs and an Oscar-winning score; Astaire replaced the injured Gene Kelly.

Easter Sunday (film)

Easter Sunday is a 2022 Universal comedy directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, starring Jo Koy as comedian Joe Valencia at a family Easter gathering; the first major Hollywood studio film centered on Filipino Americans, grossing $13 million.

Eastern Condors (东方秃鹰)

Eastern Condors (东方秃鹰, also Eastern Bald Eagles) is a 1987 Hong Kong action war film directed by and starring Sammo Hung, a Dirty Dozen-style mission to destroy a secret US missile depot in Vietnam, with Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, and Haing S. Ngor.

Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises (2007) is a David Cronenberg crime thriller, written by Steven Knight, starring Viggo Mortensen as London Russian-mob driver Nikolai and Naomi Watts as midwife Anna; it won TIFF's People's Choice Award and earned Mortensen an Oscar nomination.

Easwari Rao

Easwari Rao (ఈశ్వరీ రావు), born 1973, Indian actress in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam cinema; debut Kavithai Paadum Alaigal (1990), known for Selvi opposite Rajinikanth in Kaala (2018) and roles in K.G.F: Chapter 2 and Salaar.

Easy A

Easy A is a 2010 American teen comedy directed by Will Gluck, starring Emma Stone as a high school student whose small lie spreads and ruins her reputation.

Easy Living

Easy Living (1937) is a Paramount screwball comedy directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges from Vera Caspary's story, starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and Ray Milland; a $58,000 sable coat falls on a clerk, distinct from the unrelated 1949 Tourneur drama.

Easy Money (1983 film)

Easy Money is a 1983 American comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield as a Staten Island photographer who must quit his vices for a year to inherit $10 million.

Easy Rider

Easy Rider (1969) is Dennis Hopper's independent road movie starring Fonda, Hopper, and Jack Nicholson, a low-budget counterculture landmark of New Hollywood that grossed over $60 million worldwide.

Easy Street (1917 film)

Easy Street (1917) is Charlie Chaplin's ninth Mutual two-reel comedy, released 22 January 1917, in which a reformed derelict becomes a policeman fighting Eric Campbell's bully on a slum street set evoking Chaplin's South London childhood.

Easy Virtue (1928 film)

Easy Virtue (1928, also dated 1927) is Alfred Hitchcock's fifth film, a silent Gainsborough Pictures drama adapted by Eliot Stannard from Noël Coward's play, starring Isabel Jeans as a divorced woman judged guilty by society; remade in sound in 2008.

Easy Virtue (2008 film)

Easy Virtue (2008) is Stephan Elliott's romantic comedy adaptation of Noël Coward's play, starring Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Colin Firth; second film version after Hitchcock's 1928 silent.