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Frank and Percy

Frank and Percy is a British comedy-drama, also known as a 2023 two-hander play by Ben Weatherill, about two older dog walkers on Hampstead Heath who fall in love. Ian McKellen and Roger Allam starred in the play and its 2026 Sean Mathias film adaptation, released in UK cinemas in early 2027.

Frank Darabont

Frank Darabont (Ferenc Árpád Darabont, born 1959, Montbéliard, France) is an American screenwriter-director, a three-time Oscar nominee famous for Stephen King adaptations The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist, creator of AMC's The Walking Dead, who returned from retirement to direct Stranger Things 5 episodes.

Frank Faylen

Frank Faylen, born Francis Charles Ruf, was an American character actor known as the male nurse in The Lost Weekend (1945) and the cabdriver Ernie in It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Frank Grillo

Frank Grillo (Frank Anthony Grillo, born 1965, New York City) is an American actor known as Crossbones in the MCU, Rick Flag Sr. in the DCU, Leo Barnes in The Purge films, and star of Kingdom, Wolf Warrior 2, and Boss Level.

Frank Marshall (filmmaker)

Frank Marshall (born 1946) is an American film producer and director, co-founder of Amblin Entertainment and The Kennedy/Marshall Company, producer of Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Bourne series, and 2018 Thalberg Award recipient.

Frank McGrath (actor)

Frank McGrath (Benjamin Franklin McGrath, 1903-1967) was an American character actor and stuntman from Mound City, Missouri, known as cook Charlie Wooster on Wagon Train (1957-1965) and as Warner Baxter's stunt double.

Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan (Francis Philip Wuppermann, 1890–1949), American character actor, played five roles including the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz (1939); MGM contract player, two Oscar nominations, radio star.

Frank Perry

Frank Perry (1930–1995), American independent film director and producer of David and Lisa, The Swimmer, Diary of a Mad Housewife, and Mommie Dearest; Oscar-nominated for David and Lisa.

Frankenstein (1931 film)

Frankenstein (1931) is James Whale's Universal horror film starring Boris Karloff as the flat-headed, bolt-necked Monster and Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein; adapted via the Peggy Webling play, released 21 November 1931, a box-office hit that defined the movie monster.

Frankenstein (2015 film)

Frankenstein (2015 film): Bernard Rose's modern-day Los Angeles retelling of Mary Shelley's novel, told from the monster Adam's perspective, starring Xavier Samuel, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Danny Huston; distinct from the same year's Victor Frankenstein.

Frankenstein (2025 film)

Frankenstein (2025) is Guillermo del Toro's Netflix adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, starring Oscar Isaac as Victor and Jacob Elordi as the Creature; released October 17, 2025 in theaters and November 7 on Netflix, it won the 2026 Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

Frankenstein and Me

Frankenstein and Me (Frankenstein et moi) is a 1996 Canadian family fantasy-horror comedy directed by Robert Tinnell, starring Jamieson Boulanger, Burt Reynolds, Louise Fletcher, and a young Ryan Gosling; released July 12, 1996.

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) is Universal's first monster-team-up horror film, directed by Roy William Neill and written by Curt Siodmak, starring Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster, and starting the Universal shared-universe cycle.

Frankenweenie (1984 film)

Frankenweenie is a 1984 Tim Burton live-action Disney short in which a boy revives his dog Sparky with electricity; shelved at first, released in 1992, remade in 2012.

Frankenweenie (2012 film)

Frankenweenie (2012) is Tim Burton's black-and-white 3-D stop-motion Disney feature, a remake of his shelved 1984 live-action short, in which boy scientist Victor Frankenstein revives his dog Sparky; it was Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature.

Frankie and Johnny (1991 film)

Frankie and Johnny (Frankie & Johnny), 1991 Paramount romantic comedy-drama directed by Garry Marshall, starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, adapted by Terrence McNally from his 1987 play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

Frankie Freako

Frankie Freako is a 2024 Canadian puppet creature-feature comedy-horror film written and directed by Steven Kostanski, starring Conor Sweeney, about a yuppie whose party hotline call unleashes goblin chaos; premiered at Fantasia 2024.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" is Rhett Butler's closing line in Gone with the Wind (1939), ranked number 1 movie quote by the AFI, fought over with Hollywood censors, and fined $5,000.

Frantic (film)

Frantic is a 1988 mystery thriller directed by Roman Polanski, starring Harrison Ford as an American doctor searching Paris for his wife, who vanished from their hotel.

Frantz

Frantz is a 2016 French-German drama by François Ozon, starring Paula Beer and Pierre Niney, set in post-WWI Germany, loosely adapting Rostand's play and Lubitsch's Broken Lullaby, shot mostly in black and white.

Franz (2025 film)

Franz (2025) is Agnieszka Holland's kaleidoscopic biographical drama of Franz Kafka, starring Idan Weiss, 127 minutes, a Czech-German-Polish co-production, Poland's 98th Academy Awards International Feature submission.

Fraser Clarke Heston

Fraser Clarke Heston, born 1955 in Los Angeles, is an American director, screenwriter, and producer, son of Charlton Heston; known for Needful Things (1993), Treasure Island (1990), Alaska (1996), and Agamemnon Films.

Frat Pack

The Frat Pack, also called the Slacker Pack, was a 2000s Hollywood comedy-actor collective of Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, and Vince Vaughn, named in 2004 after the Rat and Brat Packs.

Freak Show (film)

Freak Show (2017) is Trudie Styler's comedy-drama, adapted from James St. James's novel, starring Alex Lawther as Billy Bloom, a gay teen running for homecoming queen; premiered at Berlinale, released by IFC Films in 2018.

Freaked

Freaked (1993) is an American cult comedy directed by Tom Stern and Alex Winter, written with Tim Burns, about a former child star mutated at a mad scientist's freak farm; a Fox release that flopped on two screens and later received a 4K restoration.

Freakier Friday

Freakier Friday (2025) is Disney's sequel to Freaky Friday, directed by Nisha Ganatra, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in a four-way body swap; it earned $153.2M worldwide and a 73% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Freaks (1932 film)

Freaks (1932) is Tod Browning's MGM pre-Code horror drama, also known as Nature's Mistakes, about circus sideshow performers who avenge a trapeze artist's betrayal; cut, banned in the UK, later a cult classic.

Freaks (2018 film)

Freaks (2018 film), also listed as Freaks (2019), a sci-fi thriller by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein starring Lexy Kolker, Emile Hirsch, and Bruce Dern; TIFF 2018 premiere, $368,410 worldwide gross, Metascore 63, 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Freaks of Nature (film)

Freaks of Nature is a 2015 American horror-comedy film directed by Robbie Pickering, in which a human, a vampire, and a zombie teen fight an alien invasion in Ohio.

Freaks Part II

Freaks Part II (also Freaks Underground) is a 2026 Canadian sci-fi horror sequel to Freaks (2018), written, directed, and produced by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, starring Amanda Crew, Lili Taylor, and Lorelei Olivia Mote; it premiered as Fantasia 2026's closing film and was acquired by Paramount.