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The Island (2005 film)
The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action film directed by Michael Bay, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson as clones raised to supply donor organs.
The Island Tales (異邦人たち)
The Island Tales (異邦人たち; 有時跳舞) is a 2000 Japan–Hong Kong drama directed by Stanley Kwan, written by Jimmy Ngai, starring Takao Osawa, Michelle Reis, Shu Qi, and Kaori Momoi, about strangers quarantined on an island near Hong Kong.
The Isle (섬)
The Isle (섬, Seom) is Kim Ki-duk's 2000 South Korean drama-thriller about a mute fishing-resort keeper and a suicidal fugitive, notorious for fishhook self-mutilation scenes, Venice competition, and festival notoriety.
The Italian Job
The Italian Job (1969) is a British crime caper directed by Peter Collinson, starring Michael Caine, Noël Coward, and Benny Hill, in which thieves steal Turin gold via a traffic jam and Mini Cooper getaway; remade in 2003 in Los Angeles.
The Italian Job (2003 film)
The Italian Job is a 2003 American heist film directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron as thieves recovering betrayed gold in Los Angeles.
The Jack in the Box
The Jack in the Box is a 2019 British supernatural horror film by Welsh director Lawrence Fowler, his second feature, about a demonic clown released from an antique box at a museum; it premiered at the British Horror Film Festival and spawned two sequels.
The Jackal (1997 film)
The Jackal is a 1997 American action thriller directed by Michael Caton-Jones, in which hired assassin Bruce Willis is pursued by Richard Gere and Sidney Poitier.
The Jacket
The Jacket is a 2005 psychological thriller directed by John Maybury, starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley, in which an amnesiac Gulf War veteran discovers his own impending death.
The Jade Tiger (白玉老虎)
The Jade Tiger (白玉老虎, Jade Tiger) is a 1977 Shaw Brothers wuxia film directed by Chor Yuen, adapted from Gu Long's novel, starring Ti Lung as Zhao Wuji avenging his father against the Tang Clan.
The Jane Austen Book Club (film)
The Jane Austen Book Club is a 2007 Sony Pictures Classics romantic comedy-drama directed by Robin Swicord from Karen Joy Fowler's 2004 novel: six Sacramento friends, five women and one man, read Austen's six novels over six months as their love lives parallel the plots; 106 minutes, PG-13, 66% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Japanese Wife
The Japanese Wife: 2008 short story collection by Kunal Basu and 2010 Aparna Sen film about Snehamoy, a Sundarbans teacher married by letters to Miyage, a Japanese pen pal he never meets.
The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer (1927), directed by Alan Crosland for Warner Bros., is the first feature-length film with synchronized spoken dialogue, starring Al Jolson in blackface as a cantor's son; its Vitaphone sound-on-disc success ended the silent era.
The Jazz Singer (1980 film)
The Jazz Singer (1980) is Richard Fleischer's musical drama remake starring Neil Diamond as cantor's son Jess Robin, with Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz; critically panned (Metascore 37) but its soundtrack yielded three Hot 100 top-ten hits.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin in his feature film debut as Navin R. Johnson, a naive man raised by a sharecropper family.
The Jester (2023 film)
The Jester (2023 film), directed by Colin Krawchuk, is an American supernatural horror movie based on his YouTube shorts, starring Michael Sheffield, Lelia Symington, and Delaney White; released September 29, 2023 by Epic Pictures, 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Jesus Rolls
The Jesus Rolls is a 2020 American comedy written, directed by, and starring John Turturro as Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski, remaking Bertrand Blier's 1974 French film Going Places (Les Valseuses); released by Screen Media on February 28, 2020, 85 minutes, rated R, and poorly reviewed (Metacritic 44, RT 20%).
The Jewel of the Nile
The Jewel of the Nile is a 1985 American action-adventure romantic comedy directed by Lewis Teague, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito as a sequel to Romancing the Stone.
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst is a 2015 six-part HBO true-crime documentary by Andrew Jarecki on real estate heir Robert Durst, ending with his hot-mic confession and arrest, later continued in The Jinx - Part Two (2024).
The Jokers
The Jokers is a 1967 British comedy thriller, also known as Joker, directed by Michael Winner and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, in which Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed play brothers who steal the Crown Jewels for fame, not money.
The Jolson Story
The Jolson Story (1946) is a Columbia Pictures biographical musical about Al Jolson, starring Larry Parks with Jolson singing the soundtrack; it won two Oscars and spawned Jolson Sings Again.
The Joneses
The Joneses is a 2010 comedy-drama, Derrick Borte's debut feature, starring David Duchovny and Demi Moore as fake family members hired as stealth marketers to sell a lifestyle to suburban neighbors; released by Roadside Attractions, grossing $1.5 million.
The Journalist (新聞記者)
The Journalist (新聞記者, Shinbun Kisha) is a 2019 Japanese political thriller by Michihito Fujii, inspired by Isoko Mochizuki's book, starring Shim Eun-kyung and Tori Matsuzaka; it won three Japan Academy Prizes including Best Picture and spawned a 2022 Netflix series.
The Journey (2016 film)
The Journey (2016 film), Nick Hamm political comedy-drama written by Colin Bateman, starring Timothy Spall as Ian Paisley and Colm Meaney as Martin McGuinness; fictionalizes a 2006 St Andrews car journey, premiered Venice 2016, grossed $482,209.
The Journey of Natty Gann
The Journey of Natty Gann (also Natty Gann) is a 1985 Walt Disney family adventure film directed by Jeremy Kagan, starring Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, and Ray Wise, about a Depression-era girl riding the rails from Chicago to Washington State; it earned an Academy Award costume design nomination.
The Joy Luck Club (film)
The Joy Luck Club (喜福會) is Wayne Wang's 1993 Hollywood Pictures drama adapted from Amy Tan's novel, the first major-studio film with an all-Asian American cast, released September 8, 1993.
The Judge (2014 film)
The Judge is a 2014 American courtroom drama directed by David Dobkin, starring Robert Downey Jr. as lawyer Hank Palmer and Robert Duvall as his estranged judge father on a murder charge. Released October 10, 2014 by Warner Bros.; 141 minutes; Metascore 48; Duvall earned an Oscar nomination.
The Julia Set
The Julia Set is a 2026 American drama film about a gifted mathematician, Julia Fischer. She is recruited for the Putnam Exam while dating her teaching assistant.
The Jungle Book (1967 film)
The Jungle Book (1967) is Walt Disney Productions' 78-minute animated musical comedy, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, loosely adapting Kipling's Mowgli stories. The last film Disney supervised, it was 1967's second-highest-grossing picture and earned an Oscar nomination for "The Bare Necessities."
The Jungle Book (1994 film)
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994) is Disney's live-action adventure directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, and John Cleese; released December 25, 1994, 111 minutes, PG, $30 million budget.
The Jungle Book (2016 film)
The Jungle Book (2016) is Jon Favreau's live-action/CGI Disney adventure based on Rudyard Kipling and the 1967 animated film, starring Neel Sethi as Mowgli; it grossed $965.8 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.