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The Fortune Cookie
The Fortune Cookie (1966), Spanish title En bandeja de plata, is a Billy Wilder comedy-drama starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in their first film together; Matthau won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar as lawyer Willie Gingrich.
The Foul King (반칙왕)
The Foul King (반칙왕, Ban-chik-wang) is a 2000 South Korean comedy by Kim Jee-woon, starring Song Kang-ho in his first lead as a bullied bank clerk who becomes a masked foul-playing wrestler; it drew 817,000 Seoul admissions, ranking second among 2000 Korean films.
The Founder
The Founder (2016) is a John Lee Hancock biographical drama starring Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, who built McDonald's into a franchise empire after taking it from Mac and Dick McDonald; $15M budget, $24M worldwide gross.
The Founding of a Republic (建国大业)
The Founding of a Republic (建国大业, Jianguo Daye) is a 2009 Chinese historical drama by Han Sanping and Huang Jianxin, made for the PRC's 60th anniversary with 83 star cameos; it became the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in China.
The Founding of an Army (建军大业)
The Founding of an Army (建军大业), 2017 Chinese historical drama directed by Andrew Lau, third of the founding trilogy; depicts the 1927 Nanchang Uprising and PLA founding, starring Liu Ye, Zhu Yawen, Ou Hao; 133 minutes, released 27 July 2017.
The Fountain
The Fountain (2006), Darren Aronofsky's sci-fi romance, stars Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz across three timelines; made for $35 million after the $75 million Brad Pitt version collapsed in 2002.
The Fountainhead (film)
The Fountainhead (film): 1949 Warner Bros. drama directed by King Vidor, screenplay by Ayn Rand from her 1943 novel, starring Gary Cooper as architect Howard Roark and Patricia Neal; released July 2, 1949.
The Four Feathers (1939 film)
The Four Feathers (1939) is a British Technicolor adventure film directed by Zoltán Korda, the fourth adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's 1902 novel, starring John Clements as an officer redeeming himself with white feathers in the Sudan.
The Four Feathers (2002 film)
The Four Feathers (2002) is Shekhar Kapur's sixth film adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's 1902 novel, starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, and Djimon Hounsou; a $80 million Paramount/Miramax epic that grossed $18.3M in the US.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) is Rex Ingram's 1921 Metro silent epic adapted from Vicente Blasco Ibanez's 1916 novel, the top-grossing film of 1921 that made Rudolph Valentino a star and entered the National Film Registry in 1995.
The Four Seasons (1981 film)
The Four Seasons (1981 film) is an American comedy-drama written, directed by, and starring Alan Alda, following three married couples whose friendship is tested by a husband's affair.
The Fourth Kind
The Fourth Kind is a 2009 Universal found-footage horror film by Olatunde Osunsanmi starring Milla Jovovich as Nome, Alaska psychologist Abigail Tyler; its 'archival footage' was staged, and Universal settled over fake news archives.
The Fourth Protocol (film)
The Fourth Protocol is a 1987 British Cold War spy thriller directed by John Mackenzie, starring Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan, adapted from Frederick Forsyth's novel.
The Fox (1967 film)
The Fox (1967) is a Canadian drama directed by Mark Rydell, adapted from D.H. Lawrence's 1922 novella, starring Sandy Dennis, Anne Heywood, and Keir Dullea. Released February 1968, it won a Golden Globe and earned an Oscar nomination for Lalo Schifrin's score.
The Fox and the Hound
The Fox and the Hound (1981) is a Walt Disney animated drama, directed by Berman, Rich, and Stevens from Daniel P. Mannix's novel, about the fox Tod and hound Copper, released July 10, 1981.
The Fox and the Hound 2
The Fox and the Hound 2 is DisneyToon Studios' 2006 direct-to-DVD animated midquel, directed by Jim Kammerud, in which young Tod and Copper's friendship is tested when Copper joins the Singin' Strays country dog band; released December 12, 2006, 69 minutes, rated G.
The French Connection (film)
The French Connection (1971) is William Friedkin's Oscar-winning crime thriller starring Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle, based on Robin Moore's book about the real Egan-Grosso heroin case, famous for its Brooklyn car chase and five Academy Awards.
The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch is a 2021 American comedy-drama anthology film directed by Wes Anderson, about an American magazine's last issue in a fictional French city.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Karel Reisz film with Harold Pinter screenplay from John Fowles's novel, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons; dual film-within-a-film narrative, Streep Oscar nomination, Criterion restoration.
The Freshman (1925 film)
The Freshman (1925), also released in the UK as College Days, is a Harold Lloyd silent comedy directed by Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer, about freshman Harold "Speedy" Lamb at Tate University; it was the silent era's highest-grossing comedy feature.
The Freshman (1990 film)
The Freshman (1990) is an Andrew Bergman comedy for TriStar in which Marlon Brando, in his first starring role in a decade, parodies his Godfather persona as mobster Carmine Sabatini opposite Matthew Broderick's NYU film student.
The Friend (2024 film)
The Friend (2024) is a comedy-drama by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, adapted from Sigrid Nunez's National Book Award-winning 2018 novel, starring Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, and Bing the Great Dane; released by Bleecker Street in March 2025.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Friends of Eddie Coyle: 1973 Paramount crime drama directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Mitchum as a Boston gunrunner turned informant; adapted from George V. Higgins's 1972 debut novel, foundational to later Boston crime films.
The Frighteners
The Frighteners (1996) is a Peter Jackson comedy-horror film starring Michael J. Fox as con-man exorcist Frank Bannister. Written with Fran Walsh, produced by Robert Zemeckis for Universal, shot in New Zealand, a box office flop that launched Weta Digital.
The Frisco Kid
The Frisco Kid (1979), aka No Knife, is Robert Aldrich's comedy Western starring Gene Wilder as Polish rabbi Avram Belinski and Harrison Ford as outlaw Tommy Lillard, a Warner Bros. production with mixed reviews.
The Front
The Front (1976) is Martin Ritt's comedy-drama, written by blacklisted Walter Bernstein, in which Woody Allen's cashier fronts for blacklisted TV writers; Zero Mostel co-stars, and Bernstein's script earned an Oscar nomination.
The Front Line (고지전)
The Front Line (고지전) is a 2011 South Korean war film directed by Jang Hun, set in 1953 during the final phase of Korean War armistice negotiations.
The Front Runner (film)
The Front Runner is a 2018 biographical political drama directed by Jason Reitman, starring Hugh Jackman as Senator Gary Hart, based on Matt Bai's book All the Truth Is Out, dramatizing Hart's 1987 campaign collapse over the Donna Rice affair.
The Frozen Ground
The Frozen Ground is a 2013 Scott Walker crime thriller starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, and Vanessa Hudgens, based on the real Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen case; it earned $5.5 million on a $27.2 million budget.
The Fugitive (1993 film)
The Fugitive (1993) is an Andrew Davis action thriller for Warner Bros., starring Harrison Ford as wrongly convicted Dr. Richard Kimble and Tommy Lee Jones as Marshal Samuel Gerard, adapted from Roy Huggins' 1963-1967 ABC series; it earned seven Oscar nominations and Jones won Best Supporting Actor.