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FLAMES

Flames (FLAMES) is a Hindi-language Indian teenage romance web series by TVF's Timeliners, starring Ritvik Sahore and Tanya Maniktala as tuition-center students Rajat and Ishita; four seasons ran 2018-2023 on TVFPlay, MX Player, and Prime Video, rated 8.8 on IMDb.

Flamin' Hot

Flamin' Hot (2023) is Eva Longoria's biographical comedy-drama for Searchlight Pictures about Richard Montañez, the Frito-Lay janitor claiming to have invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos, a story Frito-Lay disputes; starring Jesse Garcia, streaming on Hulu and Disney+.

Flash (Jay Garrick)

Flash (Jay Garrick) is DC Comics' original Flash, debuting in Flash Comics #1 (1940) by Gardner Fox and Harry Lampert. Distinguished from Barry Allen and Wally West by his Mercury winged helmet, Keystone City base, Earth-2 Justice Society origins, and hard-water lab accident origin.

Flash animation

Flash animation: animation made with Macromedia/Adobe Flash (FutureSplash Animator, 1996), vector timeline authoring with tweening and SWF playback. Flash Player ended 2020; the authoring tool became Adobe Animate, moved to maintenance mode in 2026, with works preserved via Flashpoint and Ruffle.

Flash Gordon (1936 film)

Flash Gordon (1936), also released as Space Soldiers, is Universal's 13-chapter Buster Crabbe science fiction serial based on Alex Raymond's comic strip, pitting Flash, Dale Arden, and Dr. Zarkov against Ming the Merciless on Mongo; a record-budget serial entered into the National Film Registry in 1996.

Flash Gordon (film)

Flash Gordon (1980) is a Mike Hodges space opera produced by Dino De Laurentiis, adapted from Alex Raymond's 1934 comic strip, starring Sam J. Jones, Max von Sydow, and Timothy Dalton, with a Queen soundtrack and cult status after a poor initial reception.

Flash Gordon (serial)

Flash Gordon (serial): 1936 Universal 13-chapter movie serial adapting Alex Raymond's comic strip, also called Space Soldiers. Starred Buster Crabbe and Charles Middleton; biggest serial budget of its era and 1996 National Film Registry selection.

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) is Universal's third and final Flash Gordon serial, 12 chapters directed by Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor, starring Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, and Charles Middleton as Ming battling the Purple Death.

Flash Point (导火线) (2007 film)

Flash Point (導火綫, Dou fo sin) is a 2007 Hong Kong action film by Wilson Yip starring Donnie Yen as Detective Ma Jun fighting Vietnamese gangster brothers; its MMA choreography won Best Action Choreography at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.

Flashdance

Flashdance (1983) is an American romantic drama directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jennifer Beals as welder-bar dancer Alex Owens. Paramount release, $7.5M budget, Oscar-winning song "Flashdance… What a Feeling," third-highest-grossing U.S. film of 1983.

FlashForward

FlashForward is an American science fiction television series that aired on ABC from 2009 to 2010, and ran for a single season of 22 episodes.

Flashpoint (TV series)

Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama (2008–2012) on CTV and CBS, created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern, about Toronto's Strategic Response Unit; 75 episodes, 11 Gemini Awards, first Canadian primetime series in both countries since Due South.

Flatliners

Flatliners (1990) is a Joel Schumacher psychological horror film, written by Peter Filardi, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and Oliver Platt as medical students who induce clinical death to explore the afterlife; it opened number 1 in August 1990 and was remade in 2017.

Flatliners (2017 film)

Flatliners is a 2017 American psychological horror film directed by Niels Arden Oplev, in which five medical students stop their hearts and are haunted by visions of past wrongs.

Flatmates

Flatmates: BBC iPlayer comedy drama (2019-2021, 18 episodes), spin-off of Millie Inbetween, five Manchester teens sharing a flat; distinct from BBC Learning English's The Flatmates soap and other same-titled shows.

Flavia Cacace

Flavia Cacace (Cacace-Mistry), Italian-born British ballroom dancer born in Naples, seven-time Strictly Come Dancing professional 2006-2012, 2012 winner with Louis Smith, Vincent Simone's partner in tango titles and West End shows.

Flavor of Love

Flavor of Love: VH1 reality dating series (2006–2008, 3 seasons) starring rapper Flavor Flav, spun off from The Surreal Life/Strange Love romance with Brigitte Nielsen; clock ceremonies, gold-teeth prize, record VH1 ratings, and the I Love New York/Charm School/Rock of Love spinoff franchise.

Flavors of Youth

Flavors of Youth (詩季織々 / 肆式青春) is a 2018 74-minute anime anthology by CoMix Wave Films and Haoliners, three shorts on food, clothing, and housing in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai, directed by Li Haoling, Yi Xiaoxing, and Yoshitaka Takeuchi.

Flawless (2007 film)

Flawless (2007) is a British-Luxembourgish heist drama directed by Michael Radford, starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore as a janitor and executive robbing the London Diamond Corporation in 1960 London; grossed $6.8M on a $20M budget.

FLCL (フリクリ)

FLCL (フリクリ, Fooly Cooly) is a 2000–2001 six-episode OVA by Gainax and Production I.G, directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki, about Naota, Haruko, and Atomsk; distinct from its 2018 and 2023 sequel seasons.

Fleabag

Fleabag (伦敦生活) is a 2016-2019 BBC Three/Amazon comedy-drama written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, adapted from her 2013 Edinburgh Fringe play, known for fourth-wall breaks and six 2019 Emmy wins.

Flee (film)

Flee (Flugt) is a 2021 animated documentary by Jonas Poher Rasmussen about Amin Nawabi, a pseudonymous gay Afghan refugee who reached Denmark at 16. It won Sundance's World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize and made Oscars history with three nominations.

Fleet of Time

Fleet of Time, also released as Back in Time (匆匆那年), is a 2014 Chinese romantic drama directed by Zhang Yibai, based on Jiu Yehui's novel and starring Eddie Peng and Ni Ni.

Fleischer Studios

Fleischer Studios: American animation studio (Out of the Inkwell, Inc., 1921; Fleischer Studios, Inc., 1929) founded by Max and Dave Fleischer, Disney's main pre-war rival; creator of Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman cartoons; inventor of the Rotoscope; taken over by Paramount in 1941 and renamed Famous Studios.

Fleishman Is in Trouble (miniseries)

Fleishman Is in Trouble is an eight-episode FX/Hulu limited series (2022) adapted by Taffy Brodesser-Akner from her 2019 novel, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, and Lizzy Caplan in a perspective-shifting Manhattan divorce drama.

Flesh

Flesh is a 2020 Hindi-language Eros Now crime thriller web series, also known as Плоть, directed by Danish Aslam, starring Swara Bhasker as ACP Radha Nautiyal investigating the trafficking of missing teenager Zoya Gupta.

Flesh and Blood (1985 film)

Flesh and Blood, aka Flesh+Blood, is Paul Verhoeven's 1985 English-language debut: an American-Dutch-Spanish medieval epic starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh, shot in Spain, a Golden Calf winner and commercial flop.

Flesh and Bone (miniseries)

Flesh and Bone is Starz's 2015 eight-episode ballet miniseries created by Breaking Bad Emmy winner Moira Walley-Beckett, starring real dancer Sarah Hay as Claire Robbins at a fictional New York ballet company.

Flesh and Fuel

Flesh and Fuel (Du fioul dans les artères) is Pierre Le Gall's 2026 French-Polish debut feature, a queer romantic drama about truckers Étienne and Bartosz; it premiered at Cannes Critics' Week and won the Queer Palm Revelation award.

Flesh and the Devil

Flesh and the Devil is a 1926 MGM silent romantic drama directed by Clarence Brown, starring John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, and Lars Hanson, adapted from Hermann Sudermann's novel The Undying Past; the first Garbo-Gilbert pairing.