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The Fox's Summer (狐狸的夏天)
The Fox's Summer (狐狸的夏天, Hu Li De Xia Tian; also Lying Girlfriend) is a 2017 Chinese romantic comedy web series directed by Yu Zhongzhong, adapted from Shen Cangmei's novel When the President Falls in Love, starring Tan Songyun and Jiang Chao in two Tencent Video seasons (21 + 23 episodes) that topped 1.5 billion views.
The Frankenstein Chronicles
The Frankenstein Chronicles: British two-season period detective drama (2015–2017, ITV Encore, Netflix) created by Benjamin Ross and Barry Langford, starring Sean Bean as Inspector John Marlott investigating re-animation experiments in 1827 London.
The Freak Brothers
The Freak Brothers is a Tubi adult animated comedy (2021) adapting Gilbert Shelton's 1968 underground comic The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, starring Woody Harrelson, John Goodman, Pete Davidson, and Tiffany Haddish as time-displaced stoners in modern San Francisco.
The Freelancer (TV series)
The Freelancer is a 2023 Indian Hindi action thriller series by Neeraj Pandey, directed by Bhav Dhulia, adapted from Shirish Thorat's A Ticket to Syria, starring Mohit Raina as ex-cop mercenary Avinash Kamath rescuing Aliya from ISIS-held Syria; Disney+ Hotstar, two seasons.
The French Chef
The French Chef was Julia Child's public television cooking series on WGBH, which debuted February 11, 1963 and ran until 1973, introducing French cuisine to Americans, making Child a cultural icon, and defining the TV cooking-show genre.
The French Connection (film)
The French Connection (1971) is William Friedkin's Oscar-winning crime thriller starring Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle, based on Robin Moore's book about the real Egan-Grosso heroin case, famous for its Brooklyn car chase and five Academy Awards.
The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch is a 2021 American comedy-drama anthology film directed by Wes Anderson, about an American magazine's last issue in a fictional French city.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Karel Reisz film with Harold Pinter screenplay from John Fowles's novel, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons; dual film-within-a-film narrative, Streep Oscar nomination, Criterion restoration.
The Frenchman (The Boys)
The Frenchman, called Frenchie (real name Serge), is a character from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic The Boys and its Prime Video adaptation, played by Tomer Capone; the team's chemist and weapons maker, killed by Homelander in the series' penultimate episode.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American sitcom starring rapper Will Smith as a West Philadelphia teen living with wealthy relatives in Bel Air, airing on NBC from 1990 to 1996.
The Freshman (1925 film)
The Freshman (1925), also released in the UK as College Days, is a Harold Lloyd silent comedy directed by Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer, about freshman Harold "Speedy" Lamb at Tate University; it was the silent era's highest-grossing comedy feature.
The Freshman (1990 film)
The Freshman (1990) is an Andrew Bergman comedy for TriStar in which Marlon Brando, in his first starring role in a decade, parodies his Godfather persona as mobster Carmine Sabatini opposite Matthew Broderick's NYU film student.
The Friend (2024 film)
The Friend (2024) is a comedy-drama by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, adapted from Sigrid Nunez's National Book Award-winning 2018 novel, starring Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, and Bing the Great Dane; released by Bleecker Street in March 2025.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Friends of Eddie Coyle: 1973 Paramount crime drama directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Mitchum as a Boston gunrunner turned informant; adapted from George V. Higgins's 1972 debut novel, foundational to later Boston crime films.
The Frighteners
The Frighteners (1996) is a Peter Jackson comedy-horror film starring Michael J. Fox as con-man exorcist Frank Bannister. Written with Fran Walsh, produced by Robert Zemeckis for Universal, shot in New Zealand, a box office flop that launched Weta Digital.
The Frisco Kid
The Frisco Kid (1979), aka No Knife, is Robert Aldrich's comedy Western starring Gene Wilder as Polish rabbi Avram Belinski and Harrison Ford as outlaw Tommy Lillard, a Warner Bros. production with mixed reviews.
The Frog (아무도 없는 숲속에서) (South Korean TV series)
The Frog (아무도 없는 숲속에서, Amudo Eobsneun Supsokeseo) is a 2024 South Korean Netflix limited thriller series, 8 episodes, directed by Mo Wan-il, written by Son Ho-young, starring Kim Yun-seok, Yoon Kye-sang, Go Min-si, and Lee Jung-eun; formerly titled Alone in the Woods.
The Front
The Front (1976) is Martin Ritt's comedy-drama, written by blacklisted Walter Bernstein, in which Woody Allen's cashier fronts for blacklisted TV writers; Zero Mostel co-stars, and Bernstein's script earned an Oscar nomination.
The Front Line (고지전)
The Front Line (고지전) is a 2011 South Korean war film directed by Jang Hun, set in 1953 during the final phase of Korean War armistice negotiations.
The Front Page
The Front Page is a 1928 Broadway comedy by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, set in a Chicago pressroom and credited with defining the hard-boiled reporter stereotype.
The Front Runner (film)
The Front Runner is a 2018 biographical political drama directed by Jason Reitman, starring Hugh Jackman as Senator Gary Hart, based on Matt Bai's book All the Truth Is Out, dramatizing Hart's 1987 campaign collapse over the Donna Rice affair.
The Frozen Ground
The Frozen Ground is a 2013 Scott Walker crime thriller starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, and Vanessa Hudgens, based on the real Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen case; it earned $5.5 million on a $27.2 million budget.
The Fugitive (1963 TV series)
The Fugitive, ABC crime drama 1963–1967 created by Roy Huggins, stars David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, a wrongfully convicted doctor hunting the one-armed man while evading Lt. Gerard; record 72-share 1967 finale.
The Fugitive (1993 film)
The Fugitive (1993) is an Andrew Davis action thriller for Warner Bros., starring Harrison Ford as wrongly convicted Dr. Richard Kimble and Tommy Lee Jones as Marshal Samuel Gerard, adapted from Roy Huggins' 1963-1967 ABC series; it earned seven Oscar nominations and Jones won Best Supporting Actor.
The Full Monty
The Full Monty is a 1997 British comedy-drama, directed by Peter Cattaneo, in which six unemployed Sheffield steelworkers form a male striptease act and promise to go completely naked.
The Full Monty (2023 TV series)
The Full Monty (2023) is an eight-episode British comedy-drama sequel to the 1997 film, reuniting Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, and the original cast 25 years later in Sheffield, on FX on Hulu and Disney+, created by Simon Beaufoy and Alice Nutter.
The Fuller Brush Girl
The Fuller Brush Girl is a 1950 Columbia Pictures slapstick comedy directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Lucille Ball as door-to-door cosmetics saleswoman Sally Elliott opposite Eddie Albert, a follow-up to The Fuller Brush Man with a Red Skelton cameo.
The Fundamentals of Caring
The Fundamentals of Caring is a 2016 Netflix dramedy, also known from Jonathan Evison's novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. Directed by Rob Burnett, it stars Paul Rudd, Craig Roberts, and Selena Gomez in a caregiver-and-teen road trip; Sundance 2016 premiere, 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Funeral (お葬式)
The Funeral (お葬式, Osōshiki) is Juzo Itami's 1984 directorial debut comedy about an actor couple staging a three-day traditional funeral, a Kinema Junpo No. 1 hit and Japan Academy Best Film winner.
The Funhouse
The Funhouse (1981) is a Tobe Hooper horror film, written by Larry Block and released by Universal on 13 March 1981, in which four teens spending the night in a carnival funhouse are stalked by a deformed killer in a Frankenstein mask; Dean Koontz novelized it as Owen West.