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The First Ride (첫 트립)

The First Ride (퍼스트 라이드) is a 2025 South Korean comedy-drama road trip film directed by Nam Dae-joong, starring Kang Ha-neul, Kim Young-kwang, Cha Eun-woo, and Kang Young-seok as friends taking a delayed Thailand trip; released October 29, 2025.

The First Slam Dunk

The First Slam Dunk is a 2022 Japanese animated sports film written and directed by Slam Dunk manga creator Takehiko Inoue, produced by Toei Animation, focusing on Ryota Miyagi during the Sannoh match; it grossed $279 million worldwide and won the 2023 Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year.

The First Time (2012 film)

The First Time (2012) is an American teen romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Jonathan Kasdan, starring Dylan O'Brien and Britt Robertson; premiered at Sundance 2012, limited release October 19, 2012, $92,654 worldwide gross.

The First Wives Club

The First Wives Club is a 1996 Paramount comedy directed by Hugh Wilson, starring Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton as divorced friends seeking revenge, based on Olivia Goldsmith's 1992 novel, grossing $181 million worldwide.

The Fisher King

The Fisher King (1991) is a Terry Gilliam comedy-drama-fantasy, written by Richard LaGravenese, starring Robin Williams as homeless Grail-seeker Parry and Jeff Bridges as guilt-ridden shock jock Jack Lucas; Mercedes Ruehl won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

The Five (TV series)

The Five is a 2016 ten-episode British Sky1 crime drama created by Harlan Coben as his first original TV story, written by Danny Brocklehurst, starring Tom Cullen, O.T. Fagbenle, Lee Ingleby, and Sarah Solemani; DNA of a boy missing 20 years reappears at a murder scene.

The Five Deadly Venoms (五毒)

The Five Deadly Venoms (五毒, 1978), also The Five Venoms or Five Poisons, is a Chang Cheh Shaw Brothers kung fu mystery about a dying Poison Clan master's sixth disciple hunting five animal-style disciples; first Venom Mob film, Wu-Tang Clan and Kill Bill influence.

The Five Doctors

The Five Doctors (story code 6K) is the 1983 ninety-minute Doctor Who 20th-anniversary special by Terrance Dicks, directed by Peter Moffatt, uniting five Doctors in the Death Zone of Gallifrey, first shown on US PBS on 23 November 1983 and on BBC One 25 November during Children in Need.

The Five Heartbeats

The Five Heartbeats is a 1991 musical drama directed by and starring Robert Townsend, co-written with Keenen Ivory Wayans, about a fictional 1960s Black R&B vocal group; a Fox-funded box-office disappointment later embraced as a cult classic.

The Five-Star Weekend (TV series)

The Five-Star Weekend is a 2026 Peacock drama series, eight episodes, adapted by Bekah Brunstetter from Elin Hilderbrand's 2023 novel, starring Jennifer Garner as widowed food influencer Hollis Shaw; renewed for season 2 after 2.1 billion minutes viewed.

The Five-Year Engagement

The Five-Year Engagement is a 2012 American romantic comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller, starring Jason Segel and Emily Blunt as an engaged couple whose wedding keeps being postponed.

The Fix (2019 TV series)

The Fix (2019 TV series) is an ABC legal drama, March 18 to May 20, 2019, 10 episodes, created by Marcia Clark, Elizabeth Craft, and Sarah Fain, starring Robin Tunney as DA Maya Travis; cancelled after one season.

The Fix (2024 film)

The Fix (2024 film), Kelsey Egan's South African sci-fi thriller; also a Showmax Original. Grace Van Dien's model Ella mutates after a designer drug in a toxic-air future; premiered Chattanooga 2024, streamed November 22, 2024. Distinct from the 2026 Guy Moshe CIA film of the same title.

The Fix (2026 film)

The Fix is a 2026 American action thriller directed by Guy Moshe, starring Zachary Levi and Liam Neeson as disgraced ex-CIA operators on a rogue mission to Tehran.

The Fixer

The Fixer (1968) is John Frankenheimer's drama adapted by Dalton Trumbo from Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer Prize novel, starring Alan Bates as Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman wrongly imprisoned in Czarist Russia on ritual-murder charges based on the Mendel Beilis case.

The Fixies (Фиксики)

The Fixies (Фиксики) is a Russian educational animated series by Aeroplan/Riki, premiered December 2010, based on Uspensky's Garantiynye chelovechki, about tiny repair-creatures Simka and Nolik living inside appliances and teaching children how technology works.

The Flame's Daughter (烈火如歌)

The Flame's Daughter (烈火如歌, Agni Cantabile) is a 2018 Chinese costume romance fantasy drama on Youku, adapted from Ming Xiao Xi's 2004 novel, starring Vic Chou and Dilraba Dilmurat in a jianghu love story, 52 episodes, over 6 billion views.

The Flaming Heart (你好,火焰蓝)

The Flaming Heart (你好,火焰蓝) is a 2021 Chinese rescue romance drama on Youku, directed by Zhang Lichuan, starring Gong Jun as firefighter Huo Yan and Zhang Huiwen as doctor Yan Lan, 24 episodes, adapted from real Nanjing fire cases.

The Flash

The Flash is DC Comics' Scarlet Speedster, a title held by Jay Garrick (1940), Barry Allen (1956), and Wally West (1986). Super-speed hero powered by the Speed Force, base Central City, member of the Justice Society and Justice League.

The Flash (1990 TV series)

The Flash (1990 TV series): CBS live-action superhero show, 1990–1991, one 22-episode season; John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen, created by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, $6 million pilot, Mark Hamill's Trickster.

The Flash (2014 TV series)

The Flash (2014 TV series): CW superhero drama developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns, starring Grant Gustin as Barry Allen; ran nine seasons from October 7, 2014 to May 24, 2023 as an Arrow spin-off anchoring the Arrowverse.

The Flash (film)

The Flash is a 2023 American superhero film directed by Andy Muschietti, starring Ezra Miller as DC Comics hero Barry Allen, with Michael Keaton returning as Batman.

The Flatshare

The Flatshare is a 2022 six-part Paramount+ British romantic comedy adapted from Beth O'Leary's 2019 novel, starring Jessica Brown Findlay and Anthony Welsh as strangers who timeshare a one-bed London flat, premiering 1 December 2022.

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (お茶漬の味)

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (お茶漬の味, Ochazuke no aji) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1952 Shochiku drama about an estranged middle-aged couple reconciled through ochazuke; script with Kogo Noda, starring Shin Saburi and Michiyo Kogure.

The Fledgling Demon Lord's Starter Shop

The Fledgling Demon Lord's Starter Shop (Sudachi no Maōjō, すだちの魔王城) is a fantasy comedy manga by Makoto Morishita, serialized in Monthly Shōnen Magazine since October 2021, about a failing item shop after the demon lord's defeat; 14 volumes, over 1.1 million copies, anime by project No.9 in January 2027.

The Flick

The Flick is a two-act dramatic comedy by Annie Baker, premiered at Playwrights Horizons in 2013, set in a Worcester, Massachusetts movie theater with a 35mm projector; it won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Flight of Dragons

The Flight of Dragons is a 1982 Rankin/Bass animated TV film, also called A Flight of Dragons, directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr., combining Peter Dickinson's 1979 dragon-flight book with Dickson's The Dragon and the George, animated by Topcraft, voiced by John Ritter and James Earl Jones.

The Flintstones

The Flintstones, Hanna-Barbera's animated sitcom created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, aired on ABC from September 30, 1960 as the first prime-time animated series, running 166 episodes and later spawning films and merchandising.

The Flintstones (film)

The Flintstones (1994) is Brian Levant's live-action Universal/Amblin comedy adapting the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, starring John Goodman as Fred, with Halle Berry and Elizabeth Taylor; it grossed about $358.5 million worldwide despite poor reviews.

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) is a live-action prequel to The Flintstones (1994), directed by Brian Levant, starring Mark Addy, Kristen Johnston, Stephen Baldwin, and Alan Cumming as the Great Gazoo; it earned $59.5M on an $83M budget.