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First Squad: The Moment of Truth

First Squad: The Moment of Truth (Первый отряд) is a 2009 Japan-Russia-Canada animated film by Studio 4°C and Molot Entertainment about Soviet teen psychics fighting Nazi occultists on the WWII Eastern Front.

First They Killed My Father (film)

First They Killed My Father is Angelina Jolie's 2017 Netflix film adaptation of Loung Ung's memoir, shot in Cambodia in Khmer with an all-Cambodian cast, released September 15, 2017.

Fish and Elephant (今年夏天)

Fish and Elephant (今年夏天) is Li Yu's 2001 underground 16mm debut, mainland China's first lesbian-themed fiction film, following elephant keeper Qun and stall owner Ling in Beijing; it won Venice's Elvira Notari Prize and was banned at home.

Fish Story (フィッシュストーリー)

Fish Story (フィッシュストーリー) is a 2009 Japanese comedy-drama directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura, adapted from Kotaro Isaka's short story, in which a forgotten 1975 punk single by the band Gekirin connects strangers across decades and helps save Earth from a comet in 2012.

Fish Tank (film)

Fish Tank is Andrea Arnold's 2009 British social-realist drama about 15-year-old Mia (Katie Jarvis), her mother's boyfriend Connor (Michael Fassbender), and dance as escape; it won the Cannes Jury Prize (tied with Thirst) and the BAFTA for Best British Film.

Fisherman's Friends (film)

Fisherman's Friends is a 2019 British comedy-drama directed by Chris Foggin, starring Daniel Mays and James Purefoy, inspired by the Port Isaac sea shanty band's Island Records deal, top-ten album, and Glastonbury performance.

Fist & Faith

Fist & Faith (青禾男高) is a 2017 Chinese action film directed by Jiang Zhuoyuan and starring Jing Tian and Ou Hao, set in Japanese-occupied 1930s Manchuria.

Fist Fight

Fist Fight is a 2017 American comedy directed by Richie Keen, starring Ice Cube and Charlie Day as teachers set to brawl in the parking lot after school.

Fist of Fury (精武门)

Fist of Fury (精武門, Jingwu Men), released in the US as The Chinese Connection, is a 1972 Golden Harvest kung fu film directed by Lo Wei, starring Bruce Lee as Chen Zhen avenging master Huo Yuanjia in Shanghai; it broke Hong Kong box office records and introduced Lee's nunchaku.

Fist of the White Lotus

Fist of the White Lotus (洪文定三破白蓮教), aka Clan of the White Lotus, is a 1980 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by and starring Lo Lieh, with Gordon Liu and Kara Hui; a loose sequel to Executioners from Shaolin in which the hero learns embroidery kung fu and acupuncture.

Fitoor

Fitoor (2016 Hindi romantic drama, aka 远大前程), Abhishek Kapoor's adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations starring Aditya Roy Kapur, Katrina Kaif, and Tabu; released 12 February 2016, flopped with 15% on Rotten Tomatoes and Rs 18.61 crore in India.

Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog's 1982 West German-Peruvian drama, stars Klaus Kinski as an opera lover hauling a 320-ton steamship over an Amazon mountain; won Cannes Best Director 1982, documented in Burden of Dreams.

Fiume o morte!

Fiume o morte! ("Fiume or Death!") is a 2025 Croatian-Italian-Slovenian documentary by Igor Bezinović in which Rijeka residents re-enact Gabriele D'Annunzio's 1919-1920 occupation of Fiume; Tiger Award winner at Rotterdam and 2026 Oscar submission.

Five Dolls for an August Moon

Five Dolls for an August Moon (5 bambole per la luna d'agosto) is a 1970 Italian giallo directed and edited by Mario Bava, starring William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, and Edwige Fenech, a Christie-style island whodunit about a resin formula.

Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces (1970) is Bob Rafelson's New Hollywood drama starring Jack Nicholson as pianist-turned-oil-rigger Bobby Dupea, with Karen Black; four Oscar nominations, NYFCC Best Film, National Film Registry 2000.

Five Element Ninjas (五遁忍术)

Five Element Ninjas (五遁忍术, aka Chinese Super Ninjas) is a 1982 Shaw Brothers martial arts film directed by Chang Cheh and written with Ni Kuang, in which Japanese element-based ninja squads battle a Chinese martial alliance; it earned HK$1,628,717 in Hong Kong and became a Western cult favorite.

Five Feet Apart

Five Feet Apart is a 2019 American romantic drama directed by Justin Baldoni, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse as teenagers with cystic fibrosis who fall in love.

Five Fingers of Death

Five Fingers of Death (天下第一拳, aka King Boxer) is a 1972 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Korean filmmaker Chung Chang-wha, starring Lo Lieh. Its 1973 U.S. release launched the American kung fu craze and influenced Tarantino's Kill Bill.

Five Men of Edo

Five Men of Edo (大江戸五人男, Ōedo gonin otoko) is Daisuke Itō's 1951 Shochiku 30th-anniversary jidaigeki starring Tsumasaburō Bandō as Banzui-in Chōbei against Utaemon Ichikawa's Mizuno Jūrōzaemon, adapted from Kabuki plays and Japan's second-highest earner of 1951.

Five Nights at Freddy's (film)

Five Nights at Freddy's, also called the FNAF Movie, is a 2023 American horror film directed by Emma Tammi, released by Universal on October 27, 2023.

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (film)

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is a 2025 American horror film directed by Emma Tammi, continuing Mike, Vanessa, and Abby's story one year after the 2023 film.

Five Seconds

Five Seconds (Cinque secondi) is a 2025 Italian drama by Paolo Virzì, 105 minutes, starring Valerio Mastandrea as lawyer Adriano Sereni and Galatéa Bellugi as Matilde; premiered at the 2025 Rome Film Festival, released in Italy October 30, 2025.

Fixed Bayonets!

Fixed Bayonets! (1951) is Samuel Fuller's Twentieth Century-Fox Korean War drama, also titled Rearguard, in which Richard Basehart's Cpl. Denno must take command of a 48-man rearguard platoon holding a mountain pass.

Fiza (फ़िज़ा)

Fiza (फ़िज़ा) is Khalid Mohamed's 2000 Hindi drama debut starring Karisma Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan, and Jaya Bachchan, about a sister searching for her brother lost in the 1993 Mumbai riots.

Fjord (film)

Fjord is a 2026 drama by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as a devout Romanian-Norwegian couple whose children are seized by Norway's Barnevernet; it won the 2026 Cannes Palme d'Or and echoes the 2015 Bodnariu case.

Flag Day (film)

Flag Day (2021) is a drama directed by and starring Sean Penn with his daughter Dylan Penn, adapted from Jennifer Vogel's memoir Flim-Flam Man about counterfeiter John Vogel; it competed at Cannes 2021. Not the 2026 Shea documentary.

Flags of Our Fathers (film)

Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 Clint Eastwood war drama, produced with Steven Spielberg, based on James Bradley's book about the Iwo Jima flag-raisers and the war bond tour; companion to Letters from Iwo Jima.

Flame of My Love (わが恋は燃えぬ)

Flame of My Love (わが恋は燃えぬ, Waga Koi wa Moenu) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1949 Shochiku drama, third of his women's liberation trilogy, starring Kinuyo Tanaka as emancipation pioneer Hideko Fukuda; released 15 February 1949, 84 minutes, black and white.

Flamenco (1995 film)

Flamenco (1995) is a Spanish performance documentary by Carlos Saura, produced by Juan Lebrón and shot by Vittorio Storaro in a converted train station, presenting hundreds of flamenco artists in staged numbers without plot or on-screen identification.

Flamin' Hot

Flamin' Hot (2023) is Eva Longoria's biographical comedy-drama for Searchlight Pictures about Richard Montañez, the Frito-Lay janitor claiming to have invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos, a story Frito-Lay disputes; starring Jesse Garcia, streaming on Hulu and Disney+.