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Adoration (2013 film)

Adoration (2013 film), directed by Anne Fontaine, is an Australian–French drama set in a seaside town where two friends begin affairs with their neighbors' sons.

Adriana Barraza

Adriana Barraza (born 1956, Toluca) is a Mexican actress, director, and acting teacher, Oscar-nominated for Babel (2006), known for Amores perros, Blue Beetle, El último vagón, and her Miami acting studio.

Adriana Caselotti

Adriana Caselotti (1916–1997), American voice actress and singer, the uncredited speaking and singing voice of Snow White in Disney's 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; paid $970, later a 1994 Disney Legend.

Adriana Chechik

Adriana Chechik (born 1991, Downingtown, Pennsylvania) is an American adult-film performer and streamer; AVN Best New Starlet 2014, Female Performer of the Year 2017, TwitchCon 2022 spinal injury.

Adrift (2018 film)

Adrift (2018) is a survival drama directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, adapted from Tami Oldham Ashcraft's memoir about her 41-day drift after a 1983 Pacific hurricane.

Adrift in Tokyo (転々)

Adrift in Tokyo (転々, Tenten) is a 2007 Japanese comedy-drama road film by Miki Satoshi, based on Yoshinaga Fujita's novel, starring Joe Odagiri and Tomokazu Miura as a student and debt collector walking from Kichijoji to Kasumigaseki.

Adrishya Jalakangal (അദൃശ്യ ജലകങ്ങൾ)

Adrishya Jalakangal (അദൃശ്യ ജാലകങ്ങൾ, Invisible Windows) is a 2023 Malayalam anti-war drama directed by Dr. Biju, starring Tovino Thomas and Nimisha Sajayan; released 24 November 2023, on Netflix 8 December 2023, and the first Malayalam film in Tallinn Black Nights official competition.

Adult Best Friends

Adult Best Friends (2024) is an American comedy directed by Delaney Buffett, co-written with and starring Katie Corwin as fictionalized versions of themselves; premiered at Tribeca, streamed on Max from May 2, 2025.

Adult movie theater

Adult movie theater: a cinema screening sexually explicit films to adult-only patrons; American heyday 1960s-1980s, 780 theaters and $450 million in ticket sales in 1978, shaped by Paris Adult Theater v. Slaton and Young v. American Mini-Theatres, then killed by zoning, AIDS, and home video.

Adult Swim Yule Log

Adult Swim Yule Log is a 2022 American comedy-horror film directed by Chris "Casper" Kelly, disguised as a yule log video before revealing a haunted cabin story.

Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin' Out

Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin' Out (2024) is Casper Kelly's surprise horror-comedy sequel to Adult Swim Yule Log, premiering midnight December 6, 2024, in which Andrea Laing's Zoe flees the murderous log into a Hallmark-style small-town romance parody.

Adult Swim's The Elephant

Adult Swim's The Elephant is a 2025 American animated television special. It was created by four prominent animation creators who worked independently in the style of exquisite corpse.

Adult World

Adult World is a 2013 American indie comedy, also called the Scott Coffey film starring Emma Roberts and John Cusack, about poet wannabe Amy working in a Syracuse sex shop; it premiered at Tribeca 2013 and was released by IFC in 2014.

Adulterers (film)

Adulterers, originally titled Avouterie, is a 2015 American psychological drama and thriller film by H.M. Coakley, in which Sean Faris plays a husband who finds his wife (Danielle Savre) with her lover (Mehcad Brooks).

Adulthood (2025 film)

Adulthood, aka The Adults, is a 2025 American dark comedy crime film directed by Alex Winter, starring Josh Gad and Kaya Scodelario as siblings who find a corpse in their parents' basement; it premiered at TIFF 2025 and streams via Republic Pictures.

Adventure film

Adventure film: a movie genre built on a protagonist's quest, exploration, and peril in exotic or fantastical settings; also called action-adventure (term from 1927). Distinct from pure action spectacle; subtypes include swashbuckler, pirate, sea, empire, fortune hunter.

Adventureland (film)

Adventureland (2009) is an American comedy-drama-romance written and directed by Greg Mottola, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart. Set in summer 1987, it follows a college grad working at an amusement park; quasi-autobiographical, Miramax, Metascore 76.

Adventures in Babysitting

Adventures in Babysitting: 1987 Touchstone comedy, Chris Columbus's directing debut, starring Elisabeth Shue as a babysitter stranded in Chicago with the Anderson kids; 102 min, PG-13, remade by Disney Channel in 2016.

Adventures in Babysitting (2016 film)

Adventures in Babysitting (2016) is a Disney Channel Original Movie, the 100th DCOM, directed by John Schultz, starring Sabrina Carpenter and Sofia Carson as rival babysitters in a remake of the 1987 film, premiering June 24, 2016.

Adventures of Zatoichi (座頭市関所破り)

Adventures of Zatoichi (座頭市関所破り, Zatoichi Breaks the Barrier) is a 1964 Daiei jidaigeki, the ninth Zatoichi film, directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda, written by Shozaburo Asai from Kan Shimozawa's story, released December 30, 1964, 86 minutes, the series' first New Year's feature, set in Kasama.

Advise & Consent

Advise & Consent (1962), Otto Preminger's political drama adapted from Allen Drury's Pulitzer-winning 1959 novel, depicts a Senate confirmation battle over Henry Fonda's Secretary of State nominee, filmed with rare access to Capitol Hill.

Adyaksha (ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ)

Adhyaksha (ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ, Adhyaksha), 2014 Kannada comedy directed by Nanda Kishore, starring Sharan, Hebah Patel, Chikkanna; remake of Tamil Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam, released 15 August 2014, music Arjun Janya.

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (ऐ दिल है मुश्किल)

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (ऐ दिल है मुश्किल) is a 2016 Karan Johar Hindi romantic drama starring Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan about unrequited love, released Diwali 2016 amid a Fawad Khan casting controversy, grossing 237.56 crore worldwide with a hit Pritam album.

Ae Watan Mere Watan

Ae Watan Mere Watan (ए वतन मेरे वतन) is a 2024 Hindi Prime Video biographical drama directed by Kannan Iyer, starring Sara Ali Khan as freedom fighter Usha Mehta, who ran the underground Congress Radio during the 1942 Quit India Movement.

Aegan

Aegan (ஏகன்) is a 2008 Tamil action comedy film, Raju Sundaram's directorial debut, starring Ajith Kumar and Nayanthara; released Diwali 2008 by Ayngaran International, music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, reviews average. Also the name of a Tamil actor starring in Haiku (2026).

Aelita: Queen of Mars

Aelita: Queen of Mars (Аэлита) is Yakov Protazanov's 1924 Soviet silent science-fiction film based on Aleksei Tolstoy's novella, the first Soviet space-travel feature, with constructivist Martian sets and costumes by Alexandra Exter, a dream-frame plot, and a 2018 NFSA restoration.

Æon Flux (film)

Æon Flux is a 2005 American science fiction action film directed by Karyn Kusama, starring Charlize Theron as an assassin in Earth's last surviving city, adapted from the MTV animated series.

Affection (2025 film)

Affection (2025) is an American sci-fi horror film, the debut of writer-director BT Meza, starring Jessica Rothe as an amnesiac woman whose memory resets cyclically. Premiered at Screamfest 2025; released May 8, 2026; 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Afflicted (film)

Afflicted (2013) is a Canadian found-footage horror film directed by and starring Clif Prowse and Derek Lee, about a world trip turned vampiric infection; premiered at TIFF 2013, won Fantastic Fest horror awards, released by CBS Films in 2014.

Affliction (1997 film)

Affliction is a 1997 drama directed and written by Paul Schrader from Russell Banks's novel, starring Nick Nolte as a unraveling New Hampshire cop, with James Coburn winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar; premiered at Venice 1997, released by Lionsgate in 1998-99.