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A Sound of Thunder (film)

A Sound of Thunder (2005) is Peter Hyams's film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1952 short story, starring Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, and Ben Kingsley; a time-safari butterfly kill alters history via time waves, and the film flopped badly.

A Special Day

A Special Day (Una giornata particolare) is Ettore Scola's 1977 Italian-Canadian drama starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni as two outsiders who meet in Rome on the day of Hitler's 1938 visit; Cannes competitor, Golden Globe and Cesar winner, double Oscar nominee.

A Special Memory

A Special Memory (Espesyal na Alaala) is a 2026 Viva Films Philippine romance-drama directed by Jerry Lopez Sineneng, written by Ricky Lee, starring Bela Padilla and Carlo Aquino; it adapts the Japanese series Pure Soul and depicts early-onset Alzheimer's.

A Star Is Born (1937 film)

A Star Is Born (1937) is the original Hollywood-set version of the story, a William A. Wellman Technicolor drama starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, produced by David O. Selznick, which won the Best Original Story Oscar and was remade in 1954, 1976, and 2018.

A Star Is Born (1954 film)

A Star Is Born (1954) is George Cukor's musical remake of the 1937 film, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, with an Arlen-Gershwin score, cut after premiere and restored in 1983.

A Star Is Born (1976 film)

A Star Is Born (1976) is Frank Pierson's rock-musical remake starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, the third version of the story. It grossed $80 million in the US, won the Best Original Song Oscar for Evergreen, and five Golden Globes despite mixed reviews.

A Star Is Born (2018 film)

A Star Is Born (2018) is Bradley Cooper's directorial debut musical drama, starring Cooper and Lady Gaga as lovers on opposite career paths; fourth film version (after 1937, 1954, 1976), grossing about $436 million and winning the Best Original Song Oscar for "Shallow".

A Story of Floating Weeds (浮草物語)

A Story of Floating Weeds (浮草物語, Ukigusa monogatari) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1934 Shochiku silent drama about troupe leader Kihachi, his former lover and secret son; remade by Ozu in color in 1959 as Floating Weeds.

A Story of Yonosuke (横道世之介)

A Story of Yonosuke (横道世之介, Yokomichi Yonosuke) is a 2013 Japanese drama directed by Shuichi Okita, adapted from Shuichi Yoshida's Mainichi Shimbun serialized novel, starring Kengo Kora and Yuriko Yoshitaka as an ordinary 1987 Tokyo student and the friends who remember him.

A Street Cat Named Bob (film)

A Street Cat Named Bob is a 2016 British biographical drama directed by Roger Spottiswoode, adapted from James Bowen's memoir, starring Luke Treadaway and the real cat Bob; released 4 November 2016 in the UK, grossing about $16-17 million worldwide.

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film), Elia Kazan's Warner Bros. adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer-winning play, starring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden; censored under the Production Code, four Oscar wins, restored in 1993.

A Summer Place (film)

A Summer Place (1959) is a Warner Bros. melodrama written, produced, and directed by Delmer Daves from Sloan Wilson's novel, starring Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, and Troy Donahue, famous for Percy Faith's Grammy-winning theme.

A Sun (阳光普照)

A Sun (陽光普照) is a 2019 Taiwanese family drama by Chung Mong-hong, starring Chen Yi-wen, Ko Shu-chin, Wu Chien-ho, and Greg Han Hsu. It won six Golden Horse Awards including Best Feature Film and Best Director and made the Oscar international feature shortlist.

A Super Progressive Movie

A Super Progressive Movie is a 2026 Australian adult animated satirical comedy by Stepmates Studios, directed by Sebastian Peart, expanding Pauline Hanson's Please Explain series; released 26 January 2026, 86 minutes, rated M, after a Parliament House screening was cancelled as likely to cause offence.

A Tale of Love and Darkness (סיפור על אהבה וחושך) (film)

A Tale of Love and Darkness (סיפור על אהבה וחושך) is Natalie Portman's 2015 Hebrew-language directorial debut, adapted from Amos Oz's memoir about his Jerusalem childhood and his mother Fania; Cannes 2015, US release 2016.

A Tale of Two Sisters

A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa, Hongryeon; 장화, 홍련) is Kim Jee-woon's 2003 South Korean psychological horror film starring Lim Soo-jung and Moon Geun-young, loosely adapted from a Joseon-era folktale, a major Korean box-office hit remade as The Uninvited.

A Taste of Honey (film)

A Taste of Honey (1961) is a British New Wave drama directed by Tony Richardson, adapted by Shelagh Delaney from her play, starring Rita Tushingham; shot on Salford locations, it won Cannes and BAFTA awards and broke taboos on race, sexuality, and unwed motherhood.

A Taxi Driver (택시 운전사)

A Taxi Driver (택시 운전사, Taeksi Woonjunsa) is Jang Hoon's 2017 South Korean historical drama starring Song Kang-ho and Thomas Kretschmann, based on German reporter Jürgen Hinzpeter and driver Kim Sa-bok during the 1980 Gwangju Uprising; it sold over 12 million admissions and was South Korea's Oscar submission.

A Taxing Woman (マルサの女)

A Taxing Woman (マルサの女, Marusa no onna) is Juzo Itami's 1987 Japanese comedy-suspense film about tax investigator Ryoko Itakura of the National Tax Agency's Marusa division pursuing evader Gondo; it won six Japan Academy Prizes and spawned a 1988 sequel.

A Teacher

A Teacher is a 2013 American independent drama, Hannah Fidell's debut feature, starring Lindsay Burdge as a Texas English teacher obsessed with her student Eric (Will Brittain); Sundance 2013 premiere, later adapted into the 2020 FX on Hulu series.

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate is a 1996 American romantic comedy-thriller, Martin Lawrence's directorial debut, starring him as a womanizing Los Angeles club promoter.

A Thousand Words (film)

A Thousand Words is a 2012 American comedy-drama starring Eddie Murphy as a literary agent who must stop talking or die, directed by Brian Robbins.

A Thursday

A Thursday is a 2022 Hindi vigilante thriller directed by Behzad Khambata, a spiritual sequel to A Wednesday!, in which playschool teacher Naina Jaiswal (Yami Gautam Dhar) takes 16 students hostage demanding ₹5 crore and a meeting with the Prime Minister; it premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 17 February 2022.

A Time for Drunken Horses (زمانی برای مستی اسبها)

A Time for Drunken Horses (Kurdish: ساتێک بۆ مەستیی ئەسپەکان) is a 2000 Iranian drama directed by Bahman Ghobadi, the first Kurdish-language feature film produced in Iran.

A Time to Kill (1996 film)

A Time to Kill (1996) is Joel Schumacher's courtroom drama adapted from John Grisham's first novel, starring Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, and Kevin Spacey; released July 24, 1996, rated R, 149 minutes.

A Time to Live, a Time to Die

A Time to Live, a Time to Die (童年往事, Tongnian wangshi) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1985 semi-autobiographical Taiwanese film about a Mainlander family in Taiwan after 1948, second in his coming-of-age trilogy and a Taiwan New Cinema landmark.

A Time to Love (情人结)

A Time to Love (情人结) is a 2005 Chinese romance film by Huo Jianqi, starring Zhao Wei and Lu Yi as lovers kept apart by feuding families; adapted from An Dun's reportage, released for Valentine's Day 2005, with Zhao Wei winning Golden Goblet Best Actress.

A Time to Remember

A Time to Remember (红色恋人, Hong se lian ren) is a 1998 Chinese Mandarin drama directed by Ye Daying, starring Leslie Cheung and Mei Ting, set in 1930s Shanghai; it grossed CNY 25 million and was re-released in 2023.

A Touch of Class (1973 film)

A Touch of Class is a 1973 romantic comedy directed by Melvin Frank, starring George Segal and Glenda Jackson as clandestine lovers in a London-Spain affair; Jackson won her second Best Actress Oscar.

A Touch of Sin (天注定)

A Touch of Sin (天注定) is Jia Zhangke's 2013 four-story drama, based on the Hu Wenhai, Deng Yujiao, Zhou Kehua, and Foxconn cases; it won Cannes Best Screenplay but was never released in mainland China.