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Himmatwala (हिम्मतवाला) (2013 film)

Himmatwala (हिम्मतवाला), 2013 Hindi action comedy directed by Sajid Khan, starring Ajay Devgn and Tamannaah Bhatia; a reworking of the 1983 Jeetendra film, released 29 March 2013 and a box-office flop.

Hindi cinema

Hindi cinema, popularly called Bollywood, is the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai. It began in Bombay in 1896, adopted sound with Alam Ara (1931), and spans the 1950s Golden era, 1970s masala films, and today's box-office leader.

Hindi Medium (हिंदी मीडियम)

Hindi Medium (हिंदी मीडियम) is a 2017 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Saket Chaudhary, starring Irrfan Khan and Saba Qamar as Delhi parents faking poverty to get their daughter into an elite English-medium school; it earned 69.59 crore and won Irrfan the Filmfare Best Actor Award.

Hindustan Ki Kasam (हिन्दुस्तान की कसम) (1973 film)

Hindustan Ki Kasam (हिन्दुस्तान की कसम), also An Oath on India, is a 1973 Hindi war film by Chetan Anand on Operation Cactus Lily, 1971 Indo-Pak war, starring Raaj Kumar and Priya Rajvansh, music Madan Mohan; distinct from the 1999 film of the same name.

Hindustan Ki Kasam (हिन्दुस्तान की कसम) (1999 film)

Hindustan Ki Kasam (हिन्दुस्तान की कसम), also Swear on India, is a 1999 Hindi action drama directed by Veeru Devgan, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Ajay Devgn as separated twins on opposite sides of an Indo-Pak war; released July 23, 1999, it earned ₹13.96 crore in India.

Hirak Rajar Deshe

Hirak Rajar Deshe (হীরক রাজার দেশে, Kingdom of Diamonds) is Satyajit Ray's 1980 Bengali musical fantasy, second in the Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne series, a rhymed-verse satire of a diamond-hoarding tyrant defeated by Goopy, Bagha, and teacher Udayan Pandit.

Hiro Murai

Hiro Murai (ヒロ・ムライ, born 1983) is a Tokyo-born, Los Angeles-raised director of music videos and TV, known for Atlanta, "This Is America," and Widow's Bay, for which he won 2026 comedy directing and series Emmys.

Hirokazu Kore-eda (是枝裕和)

Hirokazu Kore-eda (是枝裕和), born 1962 in Tokyo, is a Japanese film director and former TV documentary maker whose films include Nobody Knows, Still Walking, and Shoplifters, which won the 2018 Cannes Palme d'Or; later works include Broker, Monster, Sheep in the Box, and Look Back.

Hiroshima mon amour

Hiroshima mon amour (1959) is Alain Resnais's first feature, scripted by Marguerite Duras, about a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) in Hiroshima; a France-Japan New Wave landmark that won FIPRESCI at Cannes 1959.

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday: 1940 Howard Hawks screwball comedy for Columbia, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell; a gender-flipped remake of the 1928 play The Front Page, famous for overlapping dialogue and US public-domain status since 1967.

His House

His House (2020) is Remi Weekes's debut British horror film about a South Sudanese refugee couple, Bol and Rial Majur, haunted in an English asylum house; Sundance premiere, Netflix release, BAFTA-winning debut.

Hisaab Barabar (हिसाब बराबर)

Hisaab Barabar (हिसाब बराबर) is a 2024 Hindi comedy thriller directed by Ashwni Dhir, starring R. Madhavan as a railway ticket checker exposing banker Micky Mehta's fraud; premiered at IFFI 2024, streamed on ZEE5 from 24 January 2025.

Hisss

Hisss (Nagin: The Snake Woman) is a 2010 fantasy-horror film directed by Jennifer Lynch, starring Mallika Sherawat as a shape-shifting naagin seeking revenge when an American captures her mate; Lynch disowned the edited release, which flopped.

Historias Extraordinarias

Historias Extraordinarias (Extraordinary Stories) is a 2008 Argentine film by Mariano Llinás: 245 minutes, three never-crossing stories of men X, Z, and H, 18 chapters, BAFICI 2008 awards, El Pampero Cine, about 30,000-dollar budget.

History of film technology

History of film technology traces motion picture equipment from Muybridge's 1878 motion photographs and the 1895 Lumière projector through sound, color, and the digital transition in capture, distribution, and exhibition.

History of the Occult

History of the Occult (Historia de lo oculto) is a 2020 Argentine black-and-white supernatural horror film, Cristian Ponce's directorial debut, about a final live TV broadcast exposing a government-occult conspiracy in 1980s Buenos Aires.

History of the World, Part I

History of the World, Part I is Mel Brooks's 1981 20th Century Fox sketch comedy parodying historical epics from the Dawn of Man to the French Revolution, with Brooks in five roles, Orson Welles narrating, and a 2023 Hulu sequel.

Hit and Run (2012 film)

Hit and Run is a 2012 American action comedy film directed by and starring Dax Shepard, with Kristen Bell and Bradley Cooper, about a witness protection getaway driver.

Hit List (2024 film)

Hit List (ஹிட் லிஸ்ட்) is a 2024 Tamil action thriller directed by Sooryakathir Kaakkallar and K Karthikeyan, produced by K.S. Ravikumar's RK Celluloids, starring debutant Vijay Kanishka and R. Sarathkumar; released 31 May 2024, about a masked kidnapper forcing a nonviolent man to kill.

Hit Man (2023 film)

Hit Man (2023) is a Richard Linklater romantic comedy-thriller co-written with and starring Glen Powell, loosely based on Skip Hollandsworth's 2001 Texas Monthly article about fake hit man Gary Johnson; it premiered at Venice 2023, sold to Netflix for $20 million, and scored 82 on Metacritic.

Hit the Deck

Hit the Deck is MGM's 1955 CinemaScope musical comedy directed by Roy Rowland, starring Jane Powell, Tony Martin, and Debbie Reynolds as sailors and their sweethearts, adapted from Vincent Youmans' 1927 Broadway hit and Hubert Osborne's play Shore Leave.

HIT: The First Case

HIT: The First Case is a 2020 Indian Telugu-language crime mystery thriller directed by Sailesh Kolanu, starring Vishwak Sen and Ruhani Sharma as a police officer investigating a missing woman in Hyderabad.

HIT: The First Case (2022 film)

HIT: The First Case (2022) is a Hindi-language crime thriller directed by Sailesh Kolanu, a remake of his 2020 Telugu film, starring Rajkummar Rao and Sanya Malhotra, released July 15, 2022, and streaming on Netflix.

HIT: The Second Case

HIT: The Second Case (HIT 2) is a 2022 Telugu crime thriller written and directed by Sailesh Kolanu, starring Adivi Sesh as cop KD hunting a serial killer in Visakhapatnam; released 2 December 2022, streaming on Prime Video.

HIT: The Third Case

HIT: The Third Case (హిట్: ది థర్డ్ కేస్), aka HIT 3, is a 2025 Telugu crime thriller directed by Sailesh Kolanu, starring Nani as officer Arjun Sarkaar hunting a cult of killers; released May 1, 2025, grossing ₹119.48 crore and streaming on Netflix.

Hitch (film)

Hitch is a 2005 American romantic comedy directed by Andy Tennant, starring Will Smith as Alex "Hitch" Hitchens, a New York matchmaker coaching awkward men.

Hitchcock (film)

Hitchcock (2012) is a biographical drama directed by Sacha Gervasi, starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren, dramatizing Alfred Hitchcock's making of Psycho (1960) and his marriage to Alma Reville; Fox Searchlight release, 98 minutes, Metascore 55.

Hitler (ஹிட்லர்) (2024 film)

Hitler (ஹிட்லர்) is a 2024 Tamil action thriller directed by Dhana, starring Vijay Antony as vigilante Selva opposite Riya Suman and Gautham Menon; released 27 September 2024, later on Prime Video, Sun NXT, and aha, with negative reviews.

Hitman (1998 film)

Hitman (殺手之王, also Contract Killer) is a 1998 Hong Kong action comedy directed by Wei Tung, starring Jet Li as a kind-hearted hitman chasing a $100 million bounty with con-man agent Eric Tsang; Jet Li's last Hong Kong film before Hollywood.

Hitman (2007 film)

Hitman (2007 film), Xavier Gens's adaptation of IO Interactive's Hitman games, stars Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47. Released November 21, 2007, it grossed $101.2 million worldwide but scored 16% on Rotten Tomatoes and was rebooted in 2015.