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Fight or Flight (2025 film)
Fight or Flight (2025) is an American action comedy, James Madigan's directorial debut, starring Josh Hartnett as exiled agent Lucas Reyes protecting a target called The Ghost on an assassin-filled Bangkok to San Francisco flight; released by Vertical May 9, 2025, $3.2M US gross, 76% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Fighter (2024 film)
Fighter (2024) is a Hindi-language aerial action thriller directed by Siddharth Anand, starring Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone, and Anil Kapoor as IAF Air Dragons pilots in a fictionalized 2019 Pulwama and Balakot story; released 25 January 2024, later on Netflix.
Filipiñana
Filipiñana (2026) is Rafael Manuel's debut feature, a class satire set at a Manila country club, expanded from his Silver Bear-winning 2020 short; it won a Sundance Special Jury Award and is the Philippines' 99th Oscars entry.
Film
Film: a series of still images shown in rapid succession to create motion, also called motion pictures or movies. Covers its photochemical medium, history from the 1890s, industry economics, and preservation.
Film adaptation
Film adaptation: transferring a literary, dramatic, or other narrative into cinematic form. Key topics are the fidelity debate, Wagner's transposition-commentary-analogy typology, pre-sold properties, and streaming-era demand for IP adaptations.
Film and Television Institute of India
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune: government film school founded 1960 on former Prabhat Studios grounds, renamed 1971 with TV Wing, deemed university since April 2025, known for JET admissions and its alumni.
Film commission
Film commission: government-endorsed non-profit office attracting film and TV production to a region; also called film office. Free location scouting, permits liaison and incentives; first founded in Moab, Utah, 1949.
Film criticism
Film criticism is the study, interpretation, and evaluation of films and their place in cinema history, distinct from consumer reviews. Covers auteur theory from Truffaut and Cahiers du cinéma, formalist approaches, and the digital-era decline of professional criticism.
Film director
Film director: the creative lead of a film, guiding actors, camera, design, and editing from script to finished work. Distinguished from the producer, who controls financing; DGA contract rights and auteur theory define the role.
Film festival
Film festival: public event screening films over successive days at one location, often with prizes. Oldest is Venice (1932); Cannes (1946), Berlin (1951), Sundance, and Toronto anchor the industry circuit.
Film noir
Film noir: term coined by French critics in 1946 (Nino Frank) for dark-toned American crime films of roughly 1941–1958, from The Maltese Falcon to Touch of Evil, marked by low-key lighting, femme fatales, and disputed genre status.
Film producer
Film producer: the person who initiates, finances, and manages a film from rights and funding through delivery, hiring the director and crew and controlling budget and schedule. Also called Produced By credit; distinct from executive, line, and co-producer titles.
Film Socialisme
Film Socialisme is a 2010 Jean-Luc Godard feature, also released as Socialism, premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard. A three-movement essay film shot partly on the Costa Concordia with Navajo English subtitles, it divided critics (Metascore 64).
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool is a 2017 Paul McGuigan biographical romance, also known by Peter Turner's memoir title, starring Annette Bening as Oscar winner Gloria Grahame and Jamie Bell as Turner, dramatizing their late-1970s affair and her 1981 final days in Liverpool.
Film treatment
A film treatment is a present-tense prose document telling a film's entire story, ending included, without screenplay formatting; distinct from the shorter synopsis and the writer-facing outline, it is used to pitch projects and test structure before scripting.
Film4
Film4 is Channel 4's feature film division and free-to-air film channel. Founded as Film on Four in 1982, it has backed over 400 British films, winning 88 BAFTAs and 37 Oscars, and is the UK's largest funder of independent film.
Filmfare Awards
Filmfare Awards, "Oscars of Bollywood," annual Indian film honors by The Times Group's Filmfare magazine since 1954 (originally The Clares), honoring Hindi cinema with the Black Lady trophy via public voting plus jury, with South, East, Marathi, Punjabi, and OTT editions.
Filmfare Awards South
Filmfare Awards South: annual Times Group film awards, founded 1964, honoring Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada cinema with Black Lady trophies via public voting plus jury; 70th edition held in Kochi, February 2026.
Filth (film)
Filth (2013) is Jon S. Baird's black comedy adaptation of Irvine Welsh's 1998 novel, starring James McAvoy as corrupt Edinburgh detective Bruce Robertson. Released 27 September 2013, it earned £3.9 million in the UK and won McAvoy BIFA and BAFTA Scotland acting awards.
Final Destination
Final Destination is an American supernatural horror franchise where Death kills survivors of a disaster premonition in freakish accidents; it comprises six films released between 2000 and 2025.
Final Destination (film)
Final Destination is a 2000 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wong, in which teenager Alex Browning cheats a plane crash and Death hunts the survivors.
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 2 (2003) is a David R. Ellis horror sequel in which Kimberly Corman's premonition of a Route 23 freeway pileup saves a group Death then kills in reverse order; it grossed $90,396,664 worldwide.
Final Destination 3
Final Destination 3 is a 2006 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wong and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, the third installment of the Final Destination franchise.
Final Destination 5
Final Destination 5 is a 2011 American 3-D supernatural horror film, the fifth in the franchise, directed by Steven Quale and released by Warner Bros.
Final Destination Bloodlines
Final Destination Bloodlines, also known as Final Destination 6, is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the sixth in the franchise.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (ファイナルファンタジーVII アドベントチルドレン)
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (ファイナルファンタジーVII アドベントチルドレン) is Square Enix's 2005 CGI film sequel to the 1997 game, directed by Tetsuya Nomura, set two years later, released on DVD/UMD, later reissued as Advent Children Complete and in 4K.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 fully CGI science fiction film directed by series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, the first photorealistic CGI human cast, a $137 million production that flopped with $32.1 million US gross.
Final Girl (film)
Final Girl (film): 2015 American thriller, Tyler Shields's directorial debut, starring Abigail Breslin as Veronica, an assassin-in-training hunted by boys who kill girls for sport; R-rated, 90 minutes, 23% Tomatometer; distinct from the 2015 comedy The Final Girls.
Final Interview (최종면접)
Final Interview (최종면접) is a 2026 South Korean mystery film directed by Kim Jung-hoon, adapted from Akinari Asakura's novel, in which six job applicants vote to pick one hire among themselves; released November 4, 2026 by NEW.
Final Score (2018 film)
Final Score (2018) is a British-American action thriller directed by Scott Mann, starring Dave Bautista, Pierce Brosnan, and Ray Stevenson, filmed in West Ham's Boleyn Ground before demolition; 71% on Rotten Tomatoes.