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The East Is Red (东方不败之风云再起)
The East Is Red (东方不败之风云再起), also released as Swordsman III, is a 1993 Hong Kong wuxia film starring Brigitte Lin, the third and final entry in the Swordsman trilogy.
The Echo Chamber (film)
The Echo Chamber is a 2026 romantic drama directed by Andrea Pallaoro from Bernardo Bertolucci's final screenplay, starring Luca Marinelli, Alicia Vikander, and Susan Sarandon; it premiered in competition at the 83rd Venice Film Festival and opened in Italy on September 10, 2026.
The Eddy Duchin Story
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956), also released under working title Music by Duchin, is a Columbia Pictures Technicolor CinemaScope musical biography directed by George Sidney, starring Tyrone Power as pianist Eddy Duchin and Kim Novak as Marjorie Oelrichs, with four Oscar nominations and Carmen Cavallaro's piano.
The Edge (1997 film)
The Edge is a 1997 American survival thriller directed by Lee Tamahori, written by David Mamet, and starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin as plane-crash survivors hunted by a Kodiak bear in the Alaskan wilderness.
The Edge of Heaven
The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite; Yaşamın Kıyısında) is Fatih Akin's 2007 German-Turkish drama about six lives crossing between Germany and Turkey; it won Cannes Best Screenplay 2007 and the 2008 German Film Award for Best Film.
The Edge of Love
The Edge of Love is a 2008 British drama directed by John Maybury, written by Sharman Macdonald, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, and Matthew Rhys as Dylan Thomas's wartime circle.
The Edge of Seventeen
The Edge of Seventeen is a 2016 American coming-of-age comedy-drama directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, starring Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, and Kyra Sedgwick; distinct from the 1998 gay coming-of-age film Edge of Seventeen.
The Education of Jane Cumming
The Education of Jane Cumming (Eine Schule für Jane Cumming) is Sophie Heldman's 2026 UK-German-Swiss historical drama, premiering in Berlinale Panorama, about the 1810 Edinburgh libel case of teachers Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods, based on Lillian Faderman's Scotch Verdict.
The Eel (うなぎ)
The Eel (うなぎ, Unagi) is Shohei Imamura's 1997 Japanese drama starring Koji Yakusho as a paroled murderer who confides in a pet eel; it shared the 1997 Cannes Palme d'Or with Taste of Cherry, Imamura's second Palme after The Ballad of Narayama.
The Eiger Sanction (film)
The Eiger Sanction (1975) is a Clint Eastwood action thriller, based on Trevanian's novel, about assassin-art professor Jonathan Hemlock climbing the Eiger's north face to kill a target; Eastwood did his own climbing stunts, and a crew member died during filming.
The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (五郎八卦棍_)
The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (五郎八卦棍) is a 1984 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Lau Kar-leung, starring Gordon Liu and the late Alexander Fu Sheng, about Yang Fifth Brother inventing a pole style from the family spear art.
The Eight Hundred (八佰)
The Eight Hundred (八佰) is Guan Hu's 2020 Chinese war film about the 1937 Sihang Warehouse defense, the first Asian film shot entirely on IMAX cameras, released after COVID reopening and earning 3.11 billion RMB in mainland China.
The Eighth Happiness (八星报喜)
The Eighth Happiness (八星報喜) is a 1988 Hong Kong Lunar New Year comedy directed by Johnnie To for Cinema City, starring Chow Yun-Fat, Raymond Wong, and Jacky Cheung as three brothers; it topped the 1988 Hong Kong box office at HK$37.09 million and set the ensemble New Year comedy template.
The Electric Horseman
The Electric Horseman is a 1979 American comedy-drama-western directed by Sydney Pollack, in which former rodeo champion Robert Redford steals a drugged racehorse, pursued by television reporter Jane Fonda.
The Electric Kiss
The Electric Kiss (La Vénus électrique) is Pierre Salvadori's 2026 French-Belgian romantic comedy, 122 minutes, set in 1928 Paris, where fake medium Suzanne cons grieving painter Antoine; it opened the 79th Cannes Film Festival and scored 52% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is a 2021 British biographical drama directed by Will Sharpe, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as cat artist Louis Wain and Claire Foy as Emily Richardson; released by Amazon Studios, 68% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Element of Crime
The Element of Crime (Forbrydelsens element) is Lars von Trier's 1984 Danish debut feature, first of his Europa trilogy: a hypnotized ex-detective relives a serial-killer case in a yellow-tinted, post-apocalyptic Europe; Grand Prix de la CST, Cannes 1984.
The Elementary School
The Elementary School (Obecná škola), 1991 Czechoslovak comedy-drama, Jan Svěrák's directorial debut scripted by his father Zdeněk Svěrák; postwar Prague schoolboys, teacher Igor Hnízdo, 1992 Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Elephant Man (1980 film)
The Elephant Man (1980) is David Lynch's black-and-white biographical drama, produced by Mel Brooks, starring John Hurt as Joseph Merrick and Anthony Hopkins as Frederick Treves; eight Oscar nominations, no wins, about $26 million US box office.
The Elephant Whisperers
The Elephant Whisperers is a 2022 Netflix documentary short, 41 minutes, in Tamil, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and produced by Guneet Monga; it follows the Kattunayakan couple Bomman and Bellie raising orphaned elephants Raghu and Ammu at Theppakadu Elephant Camp, Mudumalai, and won the 2023 Oscar for Best Documentary Short, the first for an Indian production.
The Elixir
The Elixir (Abadi Nan Jaya) is a 2025 Indonesian Netflix zombie horror film directed by Kimo Stamboel, in which a jamu entrepreneur's youth elixir triggers an outbreak; it topped Netflix's Global Top 10 Non-English Films with 11 million views.
The Elusive Pimpernel
The Elusive Pimpernel: 1950 British Technicolor adventure by Powell and Pressburger, also released in the US cut and in black and white as The Fighting Pimpernel; David Niven stars as the Scarlet Pimpernel rescuing aristocrats from the guillotine.
The Emoji Movie
The Emoji Movie (2017) is a Sony Pictures Animation animated comedy directed by Tony Leondis about Gene, a multi-expressional emoji in Textopolis. It grossed $217.8 million on a $50 million budget but won four Razzies including Worst Picture.
The Emperor and the Assassin (荆轲刺秦王)
The Emperor and the Assassin (荆轲刺秦王, Japanese title 始皇帝暗殺) is Chen Kaige's 1998 China-Japan-France historical epic about Jing Ke's attempt to kill the King of Qin, starring Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, and Li Xuejian; it won the 1999 Cannes Technical Grand Prix and five Golden Rooster honors.
The Emperor in August (日本のいちばん長い日)
The Emperor in August (日本のいちばん長い日) is Masato Harada's 2015 Japanese historical drama, the second adaptation of Kazutoshi Handō's nonfiction book, starring Kōji Yakusho as War Minister Anami and Masahiro Motoki as Emperor Shōwa during Japan's 1945 surrender.
The Emperor's Club
The Emperor's Club (2002) is an American drama directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Kevin Kline as classics teacher William Hundert at St. Benedict's prep school, based on Ethan Canin's short story The Palace Thief, released November 22, 2002.
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (ゆきゆきて、神軍)
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (ゆきゆきて、神軍, Yuki Yukite Shingun) is Kazuo Hara's 1987 Japanese documentary following veteran Kenzo Okuzaki's violent investigation into post-surrender executions and cannibalism in his New Guinea unit; Caligari Film Prize winner.
The Emperor's New Groove
The Emperor's New Groove (2000) is a Disney animated comedy directed by Mark Dindal, in which Emperor Kuzco (David Spade) becomes a llama; reworked from the scrapped musical Kingdom of the Sun.
The Empire (film)
The Empire (L'Empire) is Bruno Dumont's 2024 French sci-fi comedy-drama, a Star Wars-style parody set in a northern French fishing village where the Ones and Zeros battle over a special baby; premiered at the 2024 Berlinale.
The Empire of Corpses (屍者の帝国)
The Empire of Corpses (屍者の帝国, Shisha no Teikoku) is a 2015 WIT STUDIO anime film directed by Ryutarō Makihara, adapting the novel completed by Tō Enjō from Keikaku Itō's draft; first of the Project Itoh trilogy.