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Flash Gordon (1936 film)

Flash Gordon (1936), also released as Space Soldiers, is Universal's 13-chapter Buster Crabbe science fiction serial based on Alex Raymond's comic strip, pitting Flash, Dale Arden, and Dr. Zarkov against Ming the Merciless on Mongo; a record-budget serial entered into the National Film Registry in 1996.

Flash Gordon (film)

Flash Gordon (1980) is a Mike Hodges space opera produced by Dino De Laurentiis, adapted from Alex Raymond's 1934 comic strip, starring Sam J. Jones, Max von Sydow, and Timothy Dalton, with a Queen soundtrack and cult status after a poor initial reception.

Flash Gordon (serial)

Flash Gordon (serial): 1936 Universal 13-chapter movie serial adapting Alex Raymond's comic strip, also called Space Soldiers. Starred Buster Crabbe and Charles Middleton; biggest serial budget of its era and 1996 National Film Registry selection.

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) is Universal's third and final Flash Gordon serial, 12 chapters directed by Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor, starring Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, and Charles Middleton as Ming battling the Purple Death.

Flash Point (导火线) (2007 film)

Flash Point (導火綫, Dou fo sin) is a 2007 Hong Kong action film by Wilson Yip starring Donnie Yen as Detective Ma Jun fighting Vietnamese gangster brothers; its MMA choreography won Best Action Choreography at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.

Flashdance

Flashdance (1983) is an American romantic drama directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jennifer Beals as welder-bar dancer Alex Owens. Paramount release, $7.5M budget, Oscar-winning song "Flashdance… What a Feeling," third-highest-grossing U.S. film of 1983.

Flatliners

Flatliners (1990) is a Joel Schumacher psychological horror film, written by Peter Filardi, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and Oliver Platt as medical students who induce clinical death to explore the afterlife; it opened number 1 in August 1990 and was remade in 2017.

Flatliners (2017 film)

Flatliners is a 2017 American psychological horror film directed by Niels Arden Oplev, in which five medical students stop their hearts and are haunted by visions of past wrongs.

Flavors of Youth

Flavors of Youth (詩季織々 / 肆式青春) is a 2018 74-minute anime anthology by CoMix Wave Films and Haoliners, three shorts on food, clothing, and housing in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai, directed by Li Haoling, Yi Xiaoxing, and Yoshitaka Takeuchi.

Flawless (2007 film)

Flawless (2007) is a British-Luxembourgish heist drama directed by Michael Radford, starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore as a janitor and executive robbing the London Diamond Corporation in 1960 London; grossed $6.8M on a $20M budget.

Flee (film)

Flee (Flugt) is a 2021 animated documentary by Jonas Poher Rasmussen about Amin Nawabi, a pseudonymous gay Afghan refugee who reached Denmark at 16. It won Sundance's World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize and made Oscars history with three nominations.

Fleet of Time

Fleet of Time, also released as Back in Time (匆匆那年), is a 2014 Chinese romantic drama directed by Zhang Yibai, based on Jiu Yehui's novel and starring Eddie Peng and Ni Ni.

Flesh and Blood (1985 film)

Flesh and Blood, aka Flesh+Blood, is Paul Verhoeven's 1985 English-language debut: an American-Dutch-Spanish medieval epic starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh, shot in Spain, a Golden Calf winner and commercial flop.

Flesh and Fuel

Flesh and Fuel (Du fioul dans les artères) is Pierre Le Gall's 2026 French-Polish debut feature, a queer romantic drama about truckers Étienne and Bartosz; it premiered at Cannes Critics' Week and won the Queer Palm Revelation award.

Flesh and the Devil

Flesh and the Devil is a 1926 MGM silent romantic drama directed by Clarence Brown, starring John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, and Lars Hanson, adapted from Hermann Sudermann's novel The Undying Past; the first Garbo-Gilbert pairing.

Flesh Gordon

Flesh Gordon (1974) is an American erotic sci-fi comedy parody of the Flash Gordon serials, directed by Michael Benveniste and Howard Ziehm; hardcore footage was seized by police, and the trimmed R-rated cut runs 78 minutes.

Flesh of the Gods

Flesh of the Gods is an upcoming Panos Cosmatos vampire thriller set in 1980s Los Angeles, written by Andrew Kevin Walker, starring Kristen Stewart and Wagner Moura (who replaced Oscar Isaac), produced by Hyperobject Industries and Augenschein, distributed by A24, expected 2027.

Fletch (film)

Fletch is a 1985 American comedy-mystery directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Chevy Chase. The film follows an undercover reporter who investigates a wealthy businessman's offer to kill him.

Fletch Lives

Fletch Lives is a 1989 American comedy-mystery film directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Chevy Chase as reporter Fletch, who inherits a Louisiana plantation and probes a murder and land deal.

Fleur (film)

Fleur (film) covers two films in production of that name: Ellie Foumbi's upcoming erotic drama starring Halle Berry as a Paris escort, and Rémi Chayé's French animated feature set in Belle Époque Paris, releasing March 2027.

Flex Alexander

Flex Alexander (Marc Alexander Knox, born 1970, New York City) is an American actor, comedian, dancer, and producer, known for starring in UPN's One on One (2001–2006) and playing Michael Jackson in VH1's Man in the Mirror (2004); married to singer Shanice since 2000.

Flies (2026 film)

Flies (Moscas) is a 2026 black-and-white Spanish-language comedy-drama by Fernando Eimbcke; Olga rents a room to Tulio and bonds with his nine-year-old son Cristian; it won two Berlinale 2026 prizes.

Flight of the Navigator

Flight of the Navigator is Disney's 1986 sci-fi family film directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Joey Cramer as a boy who vanishes in 1978 and returns eight years later unaged after a faster-than-light trip aboard the alien ship Trimaxion with robot Max, voiced by Paul Reubens.

Flight of the Red Balloon

Flight of the Red Balloon (Le voyage du ballon rouge, 红气球) is Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 2007 France-Taiwan drama starring Juliette Binoche, inspired by Lamorisse's 1956 short and commissioned for the Musée d'Orsay's 20th anniversary.

Flight Risk (film)

Flight Risk is a 2025 American action thriller directed by Mel Gibson, in which a pilot flying a fugitive witness over Alaska is a hitman. It stars Mark Wahlberg.

Flipper (1996 film)

Flipper is a 1996 American family adventure film directed by Alan Shapiro, starring Elijah Wood as a teenager who befriends an orphaned dolphin in the Florida Keys.

Flirting (1991 film)

Flirting (1991) is John Duigan's Australian coming-of-age sequel to The Year My Voice Broke, starring Noah Taylor and Thandie Newton at 1965 boarding schools; it won the 1990 AFI Best Film award.

Flirting with Disaster (film)

Flirting with Disaster is David O. Russell's 1996 screwball comedy starring Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, and Téa Leoni, in which a new father searches for his birth parents; Cannes premiere, 88% Tomatometer, $14.8M US gross.

Floating Clouds (浮雲)

Floating Clouds (浮雲, Ukigumo) is Mikio Naruse's 1955 Toho drama adapted from Fumiko Hayashi's final novel, starring Hideko Takamine and Masayuki Mori as lovers unable to part in postwar Japan; it topped the 1955 Kinema Junpo critics' poll.

Floating Weeds (浮草)

Floating Weeds (浮草, Ukigusa) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1959 Daiei color drama, a self-remake of his 1934 silent A Story of Floating Weeds, shot by Kazuo Miyagawa with Nakamura Ganjirō II, Machiko Kyō, and Ayako Wakao.