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A Ranjith Cinema
A Ranjith Cinema (എ രഞ്ജിത് സിനിമ) is a 2023 Malayalam psychological thriller, the directorial debut of Nishanth Sattu, starring Asif Ali as an aspiring filmmaker whose scripted fiction starts coming true. Released 8 December 2023; 149 minutes; streamed on Netflix from 29 December 2023.
A Real Pain
A Real Pain (Prawdziwy ból) is a 2024 comedy-drama film written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, starring Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as cousins on a Jewish-heritage tour of Poland.
A Real Young Girl
A Real Young Girl (Une vraie jeune fille) is Catherine Breillat's debut feature, adapted from her novel Le Soupirail, about adolescent Alice Bonnard's desires in the Landes; classified X, unreleased for about 25 years until 2000.
A River Runs Through It (film)
A River Runs Through It is Robert Redford's 1992 drama adapted from Norman Maclean's 1976 Montana novella, starring Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, and Tom Skerritt as a fly-fishing family; it won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
A Room with a View (1985 film)
A Room with a View (1985) is James Ivory and Ismail Merchant's British adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1908 novel, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, and Daniel Day-Lewis; it won three Oscars and was Merchant Ivory's first commercial hit.
A Royal Affair
A Royal Affair (En kongelig affære) is Nikolaj Arcel's 2012 Danish historical drama starring Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander, and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard about Struensee, Queen Caroline Mathilde, and King Christian VII; it won two Berlin Silver Bears and earned Oscar and Golden Globe foreign-language film nominations.
A Royal Night Out
A Royal Night Out is a 2015 British comedy-drama directed by Julian Jarrold, imagining Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret slipping out of Buckingham Palace on V-E Day, 8 May 1945.
A Sad and Beautiful World (عالم حزين وجميل)
A Sad and Beautiful World (نجوم الأمل والألم, Nujum al'amal w al'alam) is a 2025 Lebanese romantic comedy-drama, Cyril Aris's fiction debut, following Nino and Yasmina across three decades of Lebanese turmoil; Venice Giornate degli Autori Audience Award winner and Lebanon's 98th Oscars entry.
A Samurai in Time
A Samurai in Time (侍タイムスリッパー, Samurai Time Slipper) is a 2024 Japanese indie comedy-drama by Junichi Yasuda in which an Edo-period samurai lands on a modern jidaigeki film set and becomes a kirareyaku; it won Best Film at the 48th Japan Academy Film Prize.
A Scanner Darkly (film)
A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 American animated science-fiction film written and directed by Richard Linklater, based on Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel and starring Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr.
A Scene at the Sea (あの夏、いちばん静かな海)
A Scene at the Sea (あの夏、いちばん静かな海。) is Takeshi Kitano's 1991 third feature, a near-silent romance about a deaf garbage collector who takes up surfing, starring Kurôdo Maki and Hiroko Oshima with music by Joe Hisaishi, released by Toho on 19 October 1991.
A Second Chance (2015 film)
A Second Chance (2015) is a Filipino Star Cinema romantic drama directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina, starring John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo as Popoy and Basha, whose marriage and business struggle after their wedding; released November 25, 2015, 130 minutes, Tagalog.
A Self-Made Hero
A Self-Made Hero (Un héros très discret) is Jacques Audiard's 1996 French satire, adapted from Jean-François Deniau's novel, in which Mathieu Kassovitz's Albert Dehousse invents a Resistance past; it won Cannes Best Screenplay 1996.
A Separation (جدایی نادر از سیمین)
A Separation (جدایی نادر از سیمین) is a 2011 Iranian drama, 123 minutes, written and directed by Asghar Farhadi. It won the 2011 Berlin Golden Bear, the 2012 Golden Globe, and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the first for Iran.
A Serbian Film
A Serbian Film (Srpski film, Српски филм) is a 2010 Serbian horror thriller by Srđan Spasojević about a retired porn star drawn into a snuff production; heavily cut by the BBFC, refused classification in Australia, and withdrawn by Spanish courts.
A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004 film)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 American film directed by Brad Silberling, starring Jim Carrey as Count Olaf, adapted from the first three Snicket novels.
A Serious Man
A Serious Man is a 2009 dark comedy-drama by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Michael Stuhlbarg as 1967 Minnesota physics professor Larry Gopnik, a Job-like figure consulting three rabbis; Oscar-nominated Best Picture.
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) is Aardman's stop-motion sci-fi comedy sequel, directed by Will Becher and Richard Phelan, in which Shaun helps the alien Lu-La return home; 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, Oscar and BAFTA nominated.
A Short Film About Killing
A Short Film About Killing (Krótki film o zabijaniu) is a 1988 Polish film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, depicting a drifter sentenced to execution after murdering a taxi driver in Warsaw.
A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)
A Shot in the Dark (1964) is Blake Edwards's comedy, the second Pink Panther film and the first centered on Peter Sellers's Inspector Clouseau, adapted from Achard's L'Idiote, introducing Herbert Lom's Dreyfus and Burt Kwouk's Cato.
A Silent Voice (film)
A Silent Voice (映画 聲の形, Koe no Katachi) is a 2016 Kyoto Animation anime film directed by Naoko Yamada, adapting Yoshitoki Oima's manga about a bully seeking redemption from his deaf classmate Shoko Nishimiya; 129 minutes, Shochiku, about 2.3 billion yen gross.
A Simple Favor (film)
A Simple Favor (2018) is a Paul Feig black comedy thriller starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, adapted by Jessica Sharzer from Darcey Bell's novel; a vlogger investigates her friend's disappearance. Lionsgate release, 84% on Rotten Tomatoes, sequel Another Simple Favor (2025).
A Simple Life (桃姐)
A Simple Life (桃姐, Tao jie) is Ann Hui's 2011 Hong Kong drama starring Deanie Ip and Andy Lau, based on producer Roger Lee's real story of a family amah of 60 years who enters a nursing home after a stroke; it won Venice Best Actress and top Golden Horse and Hong Kong Film Awards.
A Simple Plan (film)
A Simple Plan (1998) is a Sam Raimi crime thriller adapted by Scott B. Smith from his 1993 novel, starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda as Minnesotans who find millions in a crashed plane.
A Simple Wish
A Simple Wish is a 1997 American family fantasy-comedy directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars Martin Short as the first male fairy godmother, alongside Mara Wilson.
A Single Man
A Single Man (2009) is Tom Ford's directorial debut film, adapted from Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel, starring Colin Firth as a grieving gay professor in 1962 Los Angeles; BAFTA winner, Oscar-nominated, later a Royal Ballet adaptation.
A Single Spark (아름다운 청년 전태일)
A Single Spark (아름다운 청년 전태일) is Park Kwang-su's 1995 Korean drama about labor activist Jeon Tae-il, who self-immolated in 1970, intercut with a fugitive writer's biography project; Blue Dragon Best Film, Berlin competition.
A Smoky Mountain Christmas
A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986 ABC TV movie, also called Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas) is a musical fantasy directed by Henry Winkler, starring Dolly Parton as singer Lorna Davis with Lee Majors, seven orphans, and a witch; never officially released on DVD or streaming.
A Soldier's Story
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 Norman Jewison mystery drama adapted by Charles Fuller from his Pulitzer-winning A Soldier's Play, starring Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, and Denzel Washington; a 1944 Louisiana murder investigation earned three Oscar nominations.
A Soul Haunted by Painting (画魂)
A Soul Haunted by Painting (画魂) is Huang Shuqin's 1994 biographical film starring Gong Li as painter Pan Yuliang, adapted from Shi Nan's novel, censored, restored in 4K in 2018.