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Ackley Bridge
Ackley Bridge: Channel 4 British school drama (2017–2022, five series) by The Forge, creators Ayub Khan-Din, Kevin Erlis, Malcolm Campbell; merged white and Asian Yorkshire academy, RTS Yorkshire award winner.
Acme Corporation
Acme Corporation, also called ACME, is the fictional Warner Bros. conglomerate from Looney Tunes' Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons, a running gag of failure-prone products named ironically after the Greek word for peak.
Acquanetta
Acquanetta (Burnu Acquanetta), 1921–2004, American B-movie actress promoted by Universal as the Venezuelan Volcano; starred in Captive Wild Woman and Tarzan and the Leopard Woman; birth name Mildred Davenport disputed.
Acrimony (film)
Acrimony, also known as Tyler Perry's Acrimony, is a 2018 American psychological thriller written and directed by Tyler Perry and starring Taraji P. Henson as a vengeful wife.
Across 110th Street
Across 110th Street (1972) is a Barry Shear crime film, also called a Blaxploitation police procedural, starring Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto, from Wally Ferris's novel, famous for Bobby Womack's title song used in Jackie Brown.
Across the Universe (film)
Across the Universe is a 2007 Julie Taymor jukebox musical using 33 Beatles songs to tell a Vietnam-era love story of Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood). Metascore 56, Tomatometer 53% versus 82% audience, $29.4 million gross on a $70.8 million budget.
Act of Valor
Act of Valor is a 2012 American action film directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh, starring active-duty Navy SEALs playing themselves; it earned $82 million worldwide.
Action (2019 film)
Action (ஆக்ஷன்), 2019 Tamil action film by Sundar C., produced by R. Ravindran for Trident Arts, starring Vishal as army colonel Subhash with Tamannaah Bhatia and Aishwarya Lekshmi; released 15 November 2019, a commercial failure whose Hindi dub drew 74 million YouTube views.
Action figure
Action figure: poseable articulated character toy, category created with Hasbro's G.I. Joe in 1964 (term coined by Don Levine, concept by Stanley Weston). Now a licensed, collector-driven market; U.S. market about USD 2.0 billion in 2025.
Action film
An action film, also called an action movie, is a movie driven by physical conflict under immediate danger, with chases, fights, escapes, and stunts that move the plot forward.
Action Hero Biju (ആക്ഷൻ ഹീറോ ബിജു)
Action Hero Biju (ആക്ഷൻ ഹീറോ ബിജു) is a 2016 Malayalam police procedural comedy directed by Abrid Shine, starring Nivin Pauly as Sub Inspector Biju Paulose; released 4 February 2016, a commercial success that won Pauly a Filmfare Award.
Action in the North Atlantic
Action in the North Atlantic is a 1943 Warner Bros. war film directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey as Merchant Marine officers surviving U-boat attacks on a convoy to Murmansk; also known by the working titles Heroes Without Uniforms and Torpedoed.
Action Jackson (1988 film)
Action Jackson is a 1988 American action comedy film directed by Craig R. Baxley, starring Carl Weathers as a Detroit police sergeant fighting a corrupt auto magnate.
Action Jackson (एक्शन जैक्सन) (2014 film)
Action Jackson (एक्शन जैक्सन) is a 2014 Hindi action comedy directed by Prabhu Deva, starring Ajay Devgn in a double role as a Mumbai street fighter and a Bangkok hitman.
Action Jasmine
Action Jasmine (অ্যাকশন জেসমিন) is a 2015 Bengali Bangladeshi action film directed by Iftakar Chowdhury, starring Eamin Haque Bobby as dual lead Dipa/Inspector Jasmine with Symon Sadik; a Rowdy Rathore remake released May 15, 2015, 137 minutes.
Action Point
Action Point is a 2018 American comedy film directed by Tim Kirkby, starring Johnny Knoxville as the owner of a deliberately unsafe amusement park, loosely based on Action Park in New Jersey.
Action Replayy
Action Replayy is a 2010 Hindi romantic comedy-science fiction film directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, starring Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and Aditya Roy Kapur, about a son who time-travels to 1975 to fix his parents' marriage; a Diwali box office flop inspired by Back to the Future.
Action Scene
Action Scene is the original 2019 title of Die Hart, Kevin Hart's action-comedy Quibi series about a fictionalized version of himself training to become an action star; it premiered July 20, 2020 and later ran as Roku Originals.
Actor in Law
Actor in Law is a 2016 Pakistani Urdu social comedy directed by Nabeel Qureshi, written and produced by Fizza Ali Meerza, starring Fahad Mustafa, Mehwish Hayat, and Om Puri; released Eid-ul-Azha 2016, it earned PKR 30 crore.
Acts of Vengeance (film)
Acts of Vengeance is a 2017 action thriller directed by Isaac Florentine, starring Antonio Banderas as a Pittsburgh lawyer who takes a vow of silence after his family's murder; also known by its original title Stoic.
Acts of Violence
Acts of Violence is a 2018 American action-crime thriller directed by Brett Donowho, written by Nicolas Aaron Mezzanatto, starring Bruce Willis, Cole Hauser, and Shawn Ashmore, about brothers rescuing a kidnapped fiancée from traffickers in Cleveland.
Ad Astra (film)
Ad Astra (2019) is a James Gray science fiction drama starring Brad Pitt as astronaut Roy McBride, who travels to Neptune to find his father Clifford (Tommy Lee Jones) amid power surges threatening Earth; released September 20, 2019, by 20th Century Fox, 2h 4m, $50.2M US gross, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Ad Vitam (film)
Ad Vitam is a 2025 French action thriller on Netflix, directed by Rodolphe Lauga and starring Guillaume Canet as ex-GIGN agent Franck Lazareff hunting his kidnapped pregnant wife; it reached Netflix's non-English all-time top ten and a sequel is in production.
Ada Apa Dengan Cinta? 2
Ada Apa Dengan Cinta? 2 is a 2016 Indonesian romantic drama film directed by Riri Riza, a sequel reuniting Dian Sastrowardoyo and Nicholas Saputra as Cinta and Rangga.
Ada Choi (蔡少芬)
Ada Choi (蔡少芬), Hong Kong actress born 1973, third runner-up Miss Hong Kong 1991, TVB star, 1998 best actress for Secret of the Heart, Empress in Empresses in the Palace (2011), married to Max Zhang since 2008.
Ada Nicodemou (Άντα Νικοδήμου)
Ada Nicodemou (Άντα Νικοδήμου), Australian actress born 1977 in Auburn, Sydney; plays Leah Patterson on Home and Away since 2000, formerly Katerina Ioannou on Heartbreak High, appeared in The Matrix, won Dancing with the Stars 2005, engaged to James Stewart.
Adaa Khan (अदा खान)
Adaa Khan (अदा खान), born 1989 in Mumbai, is an Indian television actress best known as Shesha in Naagin. Her other roles include Behenein, Amrit Manthan, and Vish Ya Amrit: Sitara, and she has appeared in web series like Hasratein.
Adah Sharma (आदा शर्मा)
Adah Sharma (आदा शर्मा), Indian actress born in Mumbai, debuted in the horror film 1920 (2008) and starred in The Kerala Story (2023); works across Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, and Malayalam cinema.
Adalat (अदालत)
Adalat (अदालत) is a 1976 Hindi action drama film directed by Narendra Bedi, produced by A. K. Nadiadwala, starring Amitabh Bachchan in a double role as framed farmer Dharma and son Raju, with Waheeda Rehman, Neetu Singh, and Kader Khan; music Kalyanji–Anandji; distinct from the 1958 film of the same name.
Adam & Paul
Adam & Paul is a 2004 Irish dark comedy, Lenny Abrahamson's debut feature, written by and starring Mark O'Halloran with Tom Murphy, following two Dublin heroin addicts through one day; it won Galway and IFTA awards and became a cult film.