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Ashok Selvan
Ashok Selvan (born 1989, Erode, Tamil Nadu) is an Indian Tamil film actor, producer, and screenwriter. Debut Soodhu Kavvum (2013); known for Thegidi, Oh My Kadavule, Por Thozhil, Blue Star, and Anbil Avan (2026).
Ashta Chamma (అష్టా చెమ్మా)
Ashta Chamma (అష్టా చెమ్మా) is a 2008 Telugu romantic comedy directed by Mohana Krishna Indraganti, adapted from Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest; it stars Swathi Reddy, Nani (in his debut), and Srinivas Avasarala, released 5 September 2008.
Ashutosh Gowariker (अशुतोष गोवारिकर)
Ashutosh Gowariker (अशुतोष गोवारिकर), born 1964, Indian director of Lagaan, Swades, and Jodhaa Akbar; Lagaan earned an Academy Award nomination; founder of AGPPL.
Ashutosh Rana (अशुतोष राणा)
Ashutosh Rana (अशुतोष राणा), born Ashutosh Ramnarayan Neekhra in 1967, is an Indian actor known for villainous roles in Hindi cinema who won consecutive Filmfare negative-role awards for Dushman and Sangharsh.
Ashwini Bhave (अश्विनी भावे)
Ashwini Bhave (अश्विनी भावे), also spelled Ashvini Bhave, Indian actress in Marathi and Hindi cinema of the 1990s; debut Rajlakshmi (1987), Hindi debut Henna (1991), known as Madhuri Madam in Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi; producer of Kadachit, lives in San Francisco.
Ashwini Kalsekar
Ashwini Kalsekar (अश्विनी काळसेकर), Indian actress in Hindi and Marathi TV and film; Jigyasa in Kasamh Se, Maham Anga in Jodha Akbar, Inspector Asha in C.I.D.; married to actor Murli Sharma since 2009.
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari (born 1979, Mumbai), Indian filmmaker, writer, and producer; director of Nil Battey Sannata, Bareilly Ki Barfi, Panga, and System; ex-Leo Burnett creative director; co-founder of Earthsky Pictures with Nitesh Tiwari; author of Mapping Love.
Asia Carrera
Asia Carrera (Jessica Andrea Steinhauser, born 1973) is an American former adult film performer and Mensa member who won AVN Female Performer of the Year in January 1995, entered the AVN and XRCO halls of fame, pioneered performer-owned websites, and passed the Texas bar exam in 2026.
Asif Ali (ആസിഫ് അലി) (actor)
Asif Ali (ആസിഫ് അലി), born 1986 in Thodupuzha, is a Malayalam film actor and producer who debuted in Ritu (2009), rose with Traffic and Salt N' Pepper, and had a career-best 2024 with Thalavan and Kishkindha Kandam.
Asif Basra
Asif Basra (आसिफ बसरा), 1967–2020, Indian film, TV and theatre actor from Amravati, Maharashtra, known for Outsourced, Black Friday, Parzania, Paatal Lok; died by apparent suicide in Dharamshala at 53.
Asif Kapadia
Asif Kapadia (born 1972, Hackney, London) is a British director known for the archive-only documentaries Senna, Amy, and Diego Maradona; Amy won the 2016 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, and 2073 (2024) premiered at Venice.
Asin (അസിൻ തോട്ടുങ്കൽ)
Asin Thottumkal (അസിൻ തോട്ടുങ്കൽ), born 1985 in Kochi, is a former Indian actress active 2001-2015 in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi films, known for Ghajini and three Filmfare Awards, who retired after marrying Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma.
Ask Any Girl
Ask Any Girl is a 1959 MGM romantic comedy directed by Charles Walters, starring David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, and Gig Young, based on Winifred Wolfe's 1958 novel; MacLaine won a Berlin Silver Bear and a BAFTA for it.
Ask Me Anything (film)
Ask Me Anything is a 2014 American drama, also known as Undiscovered Gyrl, written and directed by Allison Burnett from his 2009 novel. Britt Robertson stars as blogger Katie Kampenfelt; premiered at Nashville Film Festival, released December 19, 2014 by Phase 4 Films.
Ask Me What You Want
Ask Me What You Want (Pídeme lo que quieras) is a 2024 Spanish erotic romantic drama directed by Lucía Alemany, adapting Megan Maxwell's 2012 bestseller; Gabriela Andrada and Mario Ermito star as Judith Flores and Eric Zimmerman.
Asli-Naqli (असली नकली)
Asli-Naqli (असली नकली), also written Asli Naqli, is a 1962 black-and-white Hindi film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, starring Dev Anand and Sadhana, with Shankar-Jaikishan music and the hit song Tujhe Jeevan Ki Dor Se.
Asoka (2001 film)
Asoka (अशोक) is Santosh Sivan's 2001 Hindi historical drama starring Shah Rukh Khan as the Mauryan emperor, produced by Dreamz Unlimited; a box-office flop that won Filmfare Best Cinematography and drew criticism for historical inaccuracies.
Aspect ratio (image)
Aspect ratio (image), also called picture or display aspect ratio, is the width-to-height ratio of a film frame or screen, from Academy 1.37:1 and 1.85:1 theatrical widescreen to 16:9 HDTV and vertical 9:16 video.
Asrani (गोवर्धन असरानी)
Govardhan Asrani (गोवर्धन असरानी), known as Asrani, was an Indian Hindi and Gujarati film actor, director, and FTII first-batch graduate, famous as the Jailor of Sholay (1975); he acted in over 300 films and died in Mumbai on 20 October 2025 at 84.
Ass Clowns
Ass Clowns is a four-part American adult video series (2000-2002) directed by Thomas Zupko for Extreme Associates; Ass Clowns 3 became evidence in the federal obscenity case United States v. Extreme Associates.
Assassination (2015 film)
Assassination (암살; Amsal) is a 2015 South Korean spy action film directed by Choi Dong-hoon, set in 1930s occupied Korea and Shanghai, which won Best Film at the Blue Dragon Awards.
Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation is a 2018 American satirical thriller film written and directed by Sam Levinson, in which a hacker exposes a town's private data and an armed mob blames four teenage girls.
Assassins (1995 film)
Assassins is a 1995 American-French action thriller directed by Richard Donner, starring Sylvester Stallone as an assassin pursued by a younger rival played by Antonio Banderas.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film)
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) is John Carpenter's low-budget siege thriller, an homage to Rio Bravo and Night of the Living Dead, starring Austin Stoker and Darwin Joston, a 1976 US failure that became a cult classic.
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005 film)
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) is Jean-François Richet's remake of John Carpenter's 1976 siege thriller, starring Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne, set in a snowbound Detroit precinct attacked by corrupt cops on New Year's Eve.
Assembly (集结号) (2007 film)
Assembly (集结号, Ji jie hao) is Feng Xiaogang's 2007 Chinese war film starring Zhang Hanyu as Captain Gu Zidi, a civil war survivor seeking recognition for 46 dead comrades; it won Golden Rooster Best Film and grossed about RMB 260 million.
Assi (film)
Assi (अस्सी) is a 2026 Hindi-language courtroom drama directed by Anubhav Sinha, starring Taapsee Pannu and Kani Kusruti, about a Delhi schoolteacher's gang-rape trial; the title means 80, from India's daily rape-case statistics.
Association of Film Commissioners International
Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI), founded 1975, is the global 501(c)(3) nonprofit for film commissions on six continents, headquartered in Beverly Hills, offering certification, AFCI University training, best practices, and events like Cineposium and the Cannes Global Film Commission Network Summit.
Assunta Spina (1915 film)
Assunta Spina (1915) is an Italian silent drama by Gustavo Serena and Francesca Bertini, adapted from Salvatore Di Giacomo's 1909 Neapolitan play, produced by Caesar Film, a landmark of early Italian cinematic realism.
Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar
Astérix et Obélix contre César (Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar) is Claude Zidi's 1999 French live-action comedy, the first Asterix film with actors, starring Clavier, Depardieu, and Benigni, drawing about 9 million French admissions.