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The Famous Jett Jackson

The Famous Jett Jackson: Disney Channel live-action series (1998-2001), created by Fracaswell Hyman, starring Lee Thompson Young as teen actor Jett Jackson who plays secret agent Silverstone; 65 episodes, Alliance Atlantis production, plus a 2001 Disney Channel Original Movie.

The Famous Sword Bijomaru (名刀美女丸)

The Famous Sword Bijomaru (名刀美女丸, Meitō Bijomaru) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1945 Shochiku jidaigeki about a swordsmith forging a blade for his beloved's revenge, released 8 February 1945, 67 minutes, black-and-white.

The Fan (1996 film)

The Fan is a 1996 American sports thriller directed by Tony Scott, in which Robert De Niro plays an obsessed fan stalking baseball star Wesley Snipes.

The Fantastic Four (unreleased film)

The Fantastic Four is Roger Corman's 1994 low-budget Marvel adaptation, directed by Oley Sassone, completed and promoted but shelved to retain film rights, never officially released, known through bootlegs and the 2015 documentary Doomed!.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a 2025 Marvel Studios superhero film directed by Matt Shakman, introducing the Fantastic Four to the MCU on alternate Earth-828.

The Far Country

The Far Country is a 1954/1955 Anthony Mann Western starring James Stewart as cattleman Jeff Webster in the Klondike gold rush, the fourth of five Mann-Stewart Universal-International Westerns, filmed at Jasper National Park, Alberta.

The Farewell (别告诉她) (2019 film)

The Farewell (别告诉她) is Lulu Wang's 2019 A24 comedy-drama starring Awkwafina, based on her family's real lie of hiding a grandmother's cancer diagnosis behind a staged wedding in Changchun; it won the Spirit Award for Best Feature and a Golden Globe for Awkwafina.

The Farm (2018 film)

The Farm (2018) is an American horror film written and directed by Hans Stjernswärd, starring Nora Yessayan and Alec Gaylord as a couple kidnapped and farmed as human livestock; premiered at Overlook 2018, released by Red Hound Films.

The Farm (The Office)

The Farm is the unproduced Dwight Schrute spin-off of NBC's The Office, announced January 2012 with Rainn Wilson and Paul Lieberstein. NBC passed; its backdoor pilot was re-edited into a poorly received season 9 episode.

The Farmer's Wife

The Farmer's Wife (1928) is Alfred Hitchcock's silent rural romantic comedy, adapted from Eden Phillpotts's play, about widowed farmer Samuel Sweetland's disastrous search for a new wife, restored by the BFI as the first of the Hitchcock 9.

The Fast and the Furious (2001 film)

The Fast and the Furious is a 2001 American action film starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker about an undercover cop infiltrating a Los Angeles street racing crew.

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (ワイルド・スピードX3 TOKYO DRIFT), 2006, third Fast & Furious film directed by Justin Lin, starring Lucas Black and Sung Kang's Han; lowest-grossing entry ($62M US) later repositioned in the timeline and reappraised as a cult favorite.

The Fast Show

The Fast Show is a British BBC Two sketch comedy series (1994–2000) created by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson, known for rapid-fire, catchphrase-driven sketches like 'Suit you, sir'; aired in the US as 'Brilliant!'.

The Fate of Lee Khan (迎春阁之风波)

The Fate of Lee Khan (迎春阁之风波) is King Hu's 1973 Hong Kong wuxia film about Han rebels trapping a Yuan-dynasty lord at the Spring Inn to recover a war map, starring Angela Mao, Li Li-hua, Hsu Feng, and Roy Chiao with Sammo Hung action direction.

The Fate of the Furious

The Fate of the Furious, the eighth Fast & Furious film, is a 2017 Universal action movie directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Vin Diesel and Charlize Theron as Cipher; it set the $532.5 million global opening record and grossed $1.23 billion.

The Father (2020 film)

The Father (2020), Florian Zeller's directorial debut adapted from his play Le Père, stars Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman in a dementia drama told from the patient's viewpoint; it won two Oscars, including Hopkins as oldest Best Actor winner at 83.

The Fault in Our Stars (film)

The Fault in Our Stars (2014) is Josh Boone's film adaptation of John Green's novel, starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as teenage cancer patients in love; released June 6, 2014, it earned over $124 million and an 81% Rotten Tomatoes score.

The Favourite (2018 film)

The Favourite (2018) is Yorgos Lanthimos's period comedy-drama starring Olivia Colman as Queen Anne with Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone. It won Venice's Grand Jury Prize, the Best Actress Oscar, seven BAFTAs, and eight European Film Awards.

The Fearless Vampire Killers

The Fearless Vampire Killers, aka Dance of the Vampires, is Roman Polanski's 1967 horror-comedy parody of Hammer vampire films, starring Jack MacGowran, Polanski, and Sharon Tate, cut and retitled for its failed US release.

The Feed

The Feed (2019) is a British near-future sci-fi thriller series, also known by its source novel title The Feed by Nick Clark Windo, about a brain implant sharing thoughts and emotions; developed by Channing Powell, co-funded by Virgin Media and Amazon for over $40m, cancelled after one season.

The Fence (film)

The Fence (Le Cri des Gardes) is Claire Denis's 2025 drama adapting Bernard-Marie Koltès's play Black Battles with Dogs, starring Isaach de Bankolé, Matt Dillon, Mia McKenna-Bruce, and Tom Blyth at a West African construction site; it premiered at TIFF 2025 and competed at San Sebastián.

The Fencing Master

The Fencing Master (El maestro de esgrima) is Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 1988 historical mystery, English translation 1999, set in 1868 Madrid, about fencing master Don Jaime Astarloa, pupil Adela de Otero, and the unstoppable thrust; adapted as a 1992 Pedro Olea film.

The Ferryman · Legends of Nanyang

The Ferryman: Legends of Nanyang (灵魂摆渡·南洋传说), also Soul Ferry: Nanyang Legends, is a 2021 iQiyi 36-episode Mandarin supernatural drama, the platform's first Southeast Asian original, remaking the 2014 series Soul Ferry with Lawrence Wong and Qi Yuwu in Singapore and Malaysia.

The Feud (TV series)

The Feud is a 2025 six-part Channel 5 British domestic thriller starring Jill Halfpenny and Rupert Penry-Jones as neighbours on Shelbury Drive; distinct from FX's Feud anthology, it streams in the US as The Feud on Shelbury Drive on Acorn TV.

The Field

The Field (1990), Jim Sheridan's film of John B. Keane's play, stars Richard Harris as Bull McCabe, an Irish tenant farmer who kills an American rival at auction; Oscar-nominated, top Irish film of 1990.

The Fiery Priest (열혈사제)

The Fiery Priest (열혈사제, Hot Blooded Priest) is a South Korean SBS crime-comedy drama by writer Park Jae-beom and director Lee Myung-woo, starring Kim Nam-gil as ex-agent-turned-priest Kim Hae-il; season 1 aired 2019, season 2 in 2024.

The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element (Le Cinquième Élément) is Luc Besson's 1997 sci-fi comedy starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, and Chris Tucker; a 23rd-century cab driver helps Leeloo, the Fifth Element, recover four elemental stones against a cosmic Evil. Cannes opener, $263M worldwide gross, Metascore 52.

The Fifth Seal

The Fifth Seal (Az ötödik pecsét) is Zoltán Fábri's 1976 Hungarian war drama, adapted from Ferenc Sánta's novel, in which five men in 1944 Budapest face a tyrant-or-slave moral dilemma under Arrow Cross rule; it won the 1977 Moscow Golden Prize.

The Fifth Wheel (upcoming film)

The Fifth Wheel is an upcoming Netflix ensemble comedy directed by Eva Longoria, starring Kim Kardashian as an outsider who crashes a Vegas reunion trip; written by Paula Pell and Janine Brito, due 2027.

The Fighter

The Fighter (2010) is David O. Russell's biographical sports drama about boxers Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund, starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Melissa Leo; it won two of seven Oscar nominations.