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The Hollars

The Hollars is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by John Krasinski, his second feature, in which a New York graphic novelist returns to his hometown for his mother's brain tumor.

The Holy Boy (film)

The Holy Boy (La valle dei sorrisi) is a 2025 Italian-Slovenian horror drama by Paolo Strippoli about a village whose members shed pain by hugging a teenage boy. Premiered out of competition at Venice 2025; Italian release September 17, 2025.

The Holy Girl

The Holy Girl (La niña santa) is Lucrecia Martel's 2004 Argentine drama, her second feature, competing at Cannes. Sixteen-year-old Amalia, groped by Dr. Jano at a hotel medical conference, treats saving him as a divine vocation.

The Holy Innocents

The Holy Innocents (Los santos inocentes), Mario Camus's 1984 Spanish drama adapted from Miguel Delibes's 1981 novel, depicts an Extremadura peasant family under a feudal landowner; Landa and Rabal shared Cannes 1984 Best Actor.

The Holy Mountain (1926 film)

The Holy Mountain (German: Der heilige Berg) is a 1926 German silent mountain film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Leni Riefenstahl in her first film role.

The Holy Mountain (1973 film)

The Holy Mountain (La montaña sagrada) is Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 Mexican surrealist cult film in which an alchemist leads a Christ-like thief and seven planetary figures up a holy mountain; Cannes scandal, Lennon funding, 32-year rights disappearance, 2007 restoration.

The Homesman

The Homesman: 1988 Glendon Swarthout novel and 2014 Tommy Lee Jones film about Mary Bee Cuddy escorting three women driven mad on the 1850s Nebraska frontier back East to Iowa, a west-to-east anti-Western.

The Honey Pot

The Honey Pot (1967) is Joseph L. Mankiewicz's comedy-mystery, also titled It Comes Up Murder, adapted from Ben Jonson's Volpone via Sterling and Knott, starring Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, and Maggie Smith.

The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (US title Beyond the Limit) is John Mackenzie's 1983 film adaptation of Graham Greene's 1973 novel, scripted by Christopher Hampton, starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere, and Bob Hoskins; Greene disowned it, calling Gere completely miscast.

The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers is John Ford's 1959 Civil War film starring John Wayne, William Holden, and Constance Towers, loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel about Grierson's 1863 Mississippi cavalry raid and Newton Station.

The Horse Thief (盗马贼)

The Horse Thief (盗马贼, Dao ma zei) is Tian Zhuangzhuang's 1986 Fifth Generation drama from Xi'an Film Studio: a 1923-set Tibetan-language story of herder Norbu, banished for theft, whose faith collapses; restored in 4K and shown at Cannes Classics 2019.

The Horse Whisperer (film)

The Horse Whisperer (1998) is Robert Redford's drama, as director, producer, and star, adapted from Nicholas Evans's 1995 novel about a Montana trainer healing a traumatized girl and her horse, released May 15, 1998 by Touchstone.

The Horse's Mouth

The Horse's Mouth (1958) is a British comedy directed by Ronald Neame, adapted by Alec Guinness from Joyce Cary's 1944 novel, starring Guinness as painter Gulley Jimson; Oscar-nominated screenplay, Venice Best Actor, paintings by John Bratby.

The Horseman on the Roof

The Horseman on the Roof (Le Hussard sur le toit) is Jean Giono's 1951 adventure novel about Angelo Pardi, an exiled Italian hussar crossing cholera-ravaged Provence in 1832; adapted by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1995.

The Hospital

The Hospital is a 1971 American black comedy satire directed by Arthur Hiller, written by Paddy Chayefsky, starring George C. Scott and Diana Rigg; it won the 1972 Oscar for Best Screenplay and the Golden Berlin Bear.

The Host (2006 film)

The Host (괴물, Gwoemul) is Bong Joon-ho's 2006 South Korean monster film in which a US-base chemical dump creates a Han River creature that abducts a snack vendor's daughter; Korea's biggest box office hit at the time with 13 million tickets.

The Host (2013 film)

The Host is a 2013 American science fiction romance film written and directed by Andrew Niccol, based on Stephenie Meyer's 2008 novel and starring Saoirse Ronan.

The Hot Chick

The Hot Chick is a 2002 American body-swap comedy directed by Tom Brady, starring Rob Schneider as a thief who swaps bodies with a popular high school girl.

The Hot Rock

The Hot Rock (1972) is a Peter Yates comedy caper, scripted by William Goldman from Donald E. Westlake's Dortmunder novel, starring Robert Redford and George Segal as thieves repeatedly re-stealing a Brooklyn Museum diamond; Oscar-nominated for film editing.

The Hot Spot

The Hot Spot (1990) is a Dennis Hopper neo-noir erotic thriller starring Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, and Jennifer Connelly, adapted from Charles Williams' novel Hell Hath No Fury, with a Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker soundtrack.

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) is Hammer Film Productions' Technicolor Sherlock Holmes film, directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing as Holmes, André Morell as Watson, and Christopher Lee as Sir Henry, the first color Holmes film.

The Hourglass Sanatorium

The Hourglass Sanatorium (Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą) is Wojciech Jerzy Has's 1973 Polish surrealist film adapted from Bruno Schulz's 1937 story collection, about Józef visiting his father in a sanatorium where time bends; it won the 1973 Cannes Jury Prize, and Has was banned from directing for defying censors.

The Hours (film)

The Hours is a 2002 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, adapted from Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, interweaving three women's lives linked by Mrs Dalloway.

The House (2005 film)

The House (凶宅, Hung Chak) is a 2005 Hong Kong Cantonese horror film directed by Ng Man-Ching, starring Maggie Shiu, Cheung Siu-fai, and Wayne Lai, about a mother and daughter haunted in a cheap apartment; distinct from the 2007 Thai film.

The House (2017 film)

The House (2017) is an American comedy, Andrew Jay Cohen's directorial debut, starring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler as parents running an illegal casino to fund their daughter's college tuition; it grossed $34.3 million on a $40 million budget and was panned by critics.

The House Bunny

The House Bunny is a 2008 American comedy directed by Fred Wolf, in which Anna Faris plays an evicted Playboy Bunny who becomes house mother to a struggling college sorority.

The House by the Cemetery

The House by the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) is Lucio Fulci's 1981 Italian horror film, third of his Gates of Hell trilogy, about a family in a New England house with Dr. Freudstein alive in the basement.

The House of 72 Tenants (七十二家房客)

The House of 72 Tenants (七十二家房客) is a 1973 Shaw Brothers Cantonese satirical comedy directed by Chor Yuen, remaking Wang Wei-yi's 1963 film; it topped the 1973 Hong Kong box office with HK$5.62 million and revived Cantonese cinema.

The House of Mirth (2000 film)

The House of Mirth (2000) is Terence Davies's 140-minute adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1905 novel, starring Gillian Anderson as Lily Bart, a New York socialite ruined by society; shot in Glasgow for $8.2 million, released by Sony Pictures Classics.

The House of Small Cubes (つみきのいえ)

The House of Small Cubes (つみきのいえ, La maison en petits cubes) is a 2008 12-minute Japanese short animated film by Kunio Katō about an old man diving through his flooded stacked house; it won the 2009 Oscar for Best Animated Short.