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Zoya Akhtar (ज़ोया अख़्तर)

Zoya Akhtar (ज़ोया अख़्तर), born 1972, Indian Hindi-cinema director, screenwriter, and Tiger Baby producer; directed Luck by Chance, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Dil Dhadakne Do, Gully Boy (India's Oscar entry), and The Archies, and co-created Made in Heaven.

Zsazsa Zaturnnah (film)

Zsazsa Zaturnnah (Zsazsa Zaturnnah vs the Amazonistas of Planet X), 2026 Philippine-French 2D animated LGBTQ+ superhero comedy by Avid Liongoren, adapting Carlo Vergara's 2002 graphic novel about Ada, a gay hairdresser transformed by a meteorite; premiered at Annecy 2026 and won Fantasia and Seoul Indie-AniFest awards.

Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain (新蜀山剑侠)

Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (新蜀山劍俠) is Tsui Hark's 1983 Golden Harvest fantasy wuxia film adapted from Huanzhu Louzhu's Shu Mountain novel, the first 1980s Hong Kong film to import Hollywood special effects, starring Adam Cheng, Brigitte Lin, and Yuen Biao.

Zubeida (زبیدہ بیگم)

Zubeida Begum (زبیدہ بیگم), also Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir, Indian actress (born 1911, Surat), daughter of Fatima Begum; lead of Alam Ara (1931), India's first talkie; founded Mahalakshmi Movietone; died 1988.

Zubeidaa

Zubeidaa (ज़ुबेदा) is Shyam Benegal's 2001 Hindi drama starring Karisma Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee, and Rekha, written by Khalid Mohamed about his mother Zubeida Begum, concluding his Muslim-women trilogy with Mammo and Sardari Begum, and winning the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.

Zulfiqar (জুলফিকার) (film)

Zulfiqar (জুলফিকার) is a 2016 Bengali crime drama directed by Srijit Mukherji, adapting Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra into Kolkata's underworld, starring Prosenjit Chatterjee as crime boss Zulfiqar Ahmed.

Zulu (1964 film)

Zulu (1964) is Cy Endfield's British epic war film about the 1879 defence of Rorke's Drift, starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine, scored by John Barry, shot in Technirama in apartheid South Africa, and a major British box office hit.

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn (1979), directed by Douglas Hickox and written by Cy Endfield and Anthony Story, is a prequel to Zulu (1964) depicting the British defeat by the Zulu army at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, starring Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, and John Mills.

Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita

Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita (I've Always Liked You) is a 2016 Japanese anime film by Qualia Animation adapting HoneyWorks' Confession Executive Committee Love Series songs, directed by Tetsuya Yanagisawa, released April 23, 2016 by Aniplex.

Zvenigora (Звенигора)

Zvenigora (Звенигора) is a 1928 silent film by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, produced by VUFKU in Odessa and premiered in Kyiv on 13 April 1928. Its treasure-quest plot spans two millennia of Ukrainian history and opens Dovzhenko's silent trilogy with Arsenal and Earth.

Zweiohrküken

Zweiohrküken (Rabbit Without Ears 2, also Keinohrhasen 2) is Til Schweiger's 2009 German romantic comedy sequel to Keinohrhasen, starring Schweiger and Nora Tschirner as Ludo and Anna, released 3 December 2009, 124 minutes, FSK 12.

Zwigato

Zwigato is a 2023 Hindi drama directed by Nandita Das, starring Kapil Sharma as laid-off factory manager turned food-delivery rider Manas in Bhubaneswar; title blends Swiggy and Zomato; premiered at TIFF 2022, released 17 March 2023, streamed on Prime Video from October 2024.

Zyzzyx Road

Zyzzyx Road (Zyzzyx Rd.) is a 2006 John Penney thriller starring Leo Grillo, Katherine Heigl, and Tom Sizemore, famous as the lowest-grossing U.S. film: $30 from six tickets in one rented Dallas theater, a deliberate SAG-requirement release.