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Forsaken (2015 film)

Forsaken (2015) is a Canadian Western drama directed by Jon Cassar, written by Brad Mirman, starring Kiefer and Donald Sutherland together on screen for the first time, with Demi Moore and Brian Cox; released by Momentum Pictures in 2016.

Fort Apache (film)

Fort Apache (1948), John Ford's Western with John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Shirley Temple, first of his Cavalry trilogy; based on Bellah's "Massacre," shot in Monument Valley, notable for portraying whites, not Apaches, as villains.

Fort Apache, The Bronx

Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981) is a Daniel Petrie crime drama starring Paul Newman as veteran cop Murphy in the NYPD's 41st Precinct, with Edward Asner, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello, Rachel Ticotin, and Pam Grier; it sparked community protests and lawsuits.

Fort Boyard (British game show)

Fort Boyard (British game show): UK adaptation of Jacques Antoine's French format, on Channel 5 1998-2001 with Melinda Messenger and Leslie Grantham, revived by Challenge in 2003 and as CITV's Ultimate Challenge 2012-2014.

Fort Boyard (game show)

Fort Boyard is a French adventure game show created in 1990 by Jacques Antoine and others, filmed on the real 19th-century Fort Boyard off Charente-Maritime, with teams winning boyards for charity; adapted in over 30 countries.

Fortitude (TV series)

Fortitude is a British Arctic-set thriller TV series (Sky Atlantic, 2015-2018, 3 seasons) created by Simon Donald, set in a fictional Norwegian boomtown modeled on Svalbard where a scientist's murder shatters a crime-free community.

Fortnite Friday

Fortnite Friday is a 2020 American internet talk show on Twitch and YouTube, created and hosted by streamer ConnorEatsPants, whose celebrity interviews are conducted while playing Fortnite.

Fortress

Fortress is a 1992 science fiction prison-break film directed by Stuart Gordon, starring Christopher Lambert, Loryn Locklin, and Kurtwood Smith, and filmed in Queensland, Australia.

Fortress of Solitude

Fortress of Solitude, Superman's hidden DC Comics headquarters and retreat, first named in Action Comics #241 (1958), inspired by Doc Savage's 1932 fortress; crystalline movie version from 1978, Antarctic in 1989–2005, Arctic since 2006.

Fortunata y Jacinta

Fortunata y Jacinta is Benito Pérez Galdós's 1887 four-tome realist novel about two Madrid women of different classes linked to Juanito Santa Cruz. Adapted for stage by López Aranda (1969), film by Angelino Fons (1970), and a landmark 1980 TVE series by Mario Camus.

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (漁港の肉子ちゃん)

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (漁港の肉子ちゃん, Gyokou no Nikuko-chan) is a 2021 Studio 4°C anime film directed by Ayumu Watanabe, adapted from Kanako Nishi's novel, produced by Sanma Akashiya, released June 11, 2021, and a Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Prize winner.

Forty Guns

Forty Guns (1957), also known by its working title Woman with a Whip, is a Samuel Fuller black-and-white CinemaScope Western starring Barbara Stanwyck as rancher Jessica Drummond, who rules Cochise County with forty hired guns, and Barry Sullivan as marshal Griff Bonnell.

Fosse/Verdon

Fosse/Verdon is an American biographical limited series that premiered on FX in 2019. It dramatizes the creative partnership of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, winning four Primetime Emmy Awards.

Foster Brooks

Foster Brooks (Foster Murrell Brooks, 1912-2001), American comedian and former newscaster famous as the 'Lovable Lush' drunk act on Dean Martin's Celebrity Roasts; quit drinking himself in the 1960s.

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is a Cartoon Network animated series (2004–2009) by Craig McCracken about a mansion where outgrown imaginary friends await adoption, following Mac and Bloo; 79 episodes, 5 Emmys.

Foul Play (1978 film)

Foul Play (1978) is a Colin Higgins comedy-thriller starring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase as a librarian and detective facing a plot to assassinate the Pope in San Francisco; a Hitchcock homage that ranked among 1978's top-grossing films.

Found (2012 film)

Found (2012) is an American coming-of-age horror film directed by Scott Schirmer, based on Todd Rigney's novel, starring Gavin Brown and Ethan Philbeck; it played 40+ festivals, won 15 best-film awards, and holds 71% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Found (Shameless)

"Found" (S09E14, aired March 11, 2019) is the ninth-season finale of the US series Shameless and Emmy Rossum's final episode as Fiona Gallagher; written and directed by John Wells, it sends Fiona leaving Chicago with echoes of the pilot.

Found (TV series)

Found (2023–2025) is an NBC crime drama created by Nkechi Okoro Carroll, starring Shanola Hampton as crisis manager Gabi Mosely, who finds overlooked missing people while secretly imprisoning her kidnapper Sir (Mark-Paul Gosselaar). Canceled after 35 episodes; now on Netflix.

Found footage (film technique)

Found footage is a film technique presenting fiction as recovered recordings such as camcorder tapes, security video, or phone clips. Known from Cannibal Holocaust (1980), The Blair Witch Project (1999), and the screenlife offshoot, it is chiefly a horror subgenre.

Foundation (TV series)

Foundation is an Apple TV+ science-fiction series (2021–present) created by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, adapting Isaac Asimov's novels; Jared Harris plays Hari Seldon, and a fourth season was renewed in September 2025.

Founders Day (film)

Founders Day is a 2024 American political slasher film directed by Erik Bloomquist and co-written with Carson Bloomquist, about a masked killer terrorizing the town of Fairwood during a mayoral election; released by Dark Sky Films, it scored 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Fountain of Youth (film)

Fountain of Youth (2025) is a Guy Ritchie action-adventure film for Apple TV+, written by James Vanderbilt, starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman as estranged siblings hunting the mythical Fountain of Youth; filmed in Bangkok, Liverpool, Vienna, and Giza; 125 minutes, PG-13, 35% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Four Brothers (film)

Four Brothers is a 2005 American crime drama directed by John Singleton, starring Mark Wahlberg as one of four adopted brothers who return to Detroit to avenge their foster mother's murder.

Four Christmases

Four Christmases, also known as Four Holidays, is a 2008 American holiday comedy directed by Seth Gordon, starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon as a couple visiting four divorced parents.

Four Cries of a Gibbon

Four Cries of a Gibbon (Sisheng yuan, 四声猿) is a set of four short plays by the Ming dynasty playwright Xu Wei, best known for its Female Mulan play.

Four Dan actresses (四大花旦)

四大花旦 (Four Dan actresses) is the Chinese media label for Zhang Ziyi, Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, and Xu Jinglei, first named "Four Little Huadan" by Southern Metropolis Daily in 2002, borrowed from Peking opera's Four Great Dan, with repeated successor lists since.

Four Emperors (四皇) (One Piece)

Four Emperors (四皇, Yonko) are the four most powerful pirate captains in One Piece, part of the Three Great Powers; current members are Shanks, Blackbeard, Buggy, and Luffy, after Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Kaido fell.

Four Feather Falls

Four Feather Falls is a 1960 British puppet Western by Gerry Anderson's AP Films for Granada, 39 episodes starring Sheriff Tex Tucker and his magic feathers, and the first use of electronic lip-sync leading to Supermarionation.

Four Flies on Grey Velvet

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (4 mosche di velluto grigio) is Dario Argento's 1971 Italian-French giallo, the final film of his Animal trilogy, starring Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, and Jean-Pierre Marielle, with an Ennio Morricone score and an optography-based plot.