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The Father (2020 film)

The Father (2020), Florian Zeller's directorial debut adapted from his play Le Père, stars Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman in a dementia drama told from the patient's viewpoint; it won two Oscars, including Hopkins as oldest Best Actor winner at 83.

The Father Returns

The Father Returns (Chichi kaeru) is a 1917 one-act Japanese play by Kikuchi Kan in which an abandoned father returns home and is refused forgiveness by his eldest son.

The Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars is John Green's 2012 young adult novel about Indianapolis cancer patients Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, a #1 New York Times bestseller and TIME's #1 fiction book of 2012, adapted into Josh Boone's 2014 film starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort that grossed $124.9 million domestically.

The Fault in Our Stars (film)

The Fault in Our Stars (2014) is Josh Boone's film adaptation of John Green's novel, starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as teenage cancer patients in love; released June 6, 2014, it earned over $124 million and an 81% Rotten Tomatoes score.

The Favorites

The Favorites is the title of several novels: Layne Fargo's 2025 Random House ice-dancing romance retelling Wuthering Heights, Rosemary Hennigan's 2023 Graydon House dark-academia revenge thriller, and Mary Yukari Waters's 2009 debut novel.

The Favourite (2018 film)

The Favourite (2018) is Yorgos Lanthimos's period comedy-drama starring Olivia Colman as Queen Anne with Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone. It won Venice's Grand Jury Prize, the Best Actress Oscar, seven BAFTAs, and eight European Film Awards.

The Fear Index

The Fear Index is Robert Harris's 2011 financial thriller about Alex Hoffmann, an ex-CERN physicist whose Geneva hedge fund algorithm VIXAL-4 trades on fear, set on the 6 May 2010 flash crash day; adapted by Sky Atlantic in 2022.

The Fear of Fear

The Fear of Fear is a 2023 six-song, 25-minute metalcore EP by Canada's Spiritbox on Pale Chord/Rise, their first with bassist Josh Gilbert; includes Grammy-nominated "Jaded" and lead single "The Void".

The Fearless Flyers

The Fearless Flyers: American instrumental funk quartet formed 2018 from Vulfpeck's orbit, with Cory Wong, Mark Lettieri, Joe Dart, and Nate Smith; three guitar ranges, minimal drum kit, jumpsuits, and albums through The Fearless Flyers V (2025).

The Fearless Vampire Killers

The Fearless Vampire Killers, aka Dance of the Vampires, is Roman Polanski's 1967 horror-comedy parody of Hammer vampire films, starring Jack MacGowran, Polanski, and Sharon Tate, cut and retitled for its failed US release.

The Feast in the House of Levi

The Feast in the House of Levi (Convito in casa di Levi) is a 1573 monumental oil painting by Paolo Veronese, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice.

The Feast of Sada

The Feast of Sada is a Persian miniature attributed to Sultan Muhammad, painted around 1525 in Tabriz, showing the mythical king Hushang's discovery of fire.

The Feast of the Goat

The Feast of the Goat, also known as La fiesta del Chivo, is a 2000 novel by Mario Vargas Llosa reconstructing the end of Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

The Feed

The Feed (2019) is a British near-future sci-fi thriller series, also known by its source novel title The Feed by Nick Clark Windo, about a brain implant sharing thoughts and emotions; developed by Channing Powell, co-funded by Virgin Media and Amazon for over $40m, cancelled after one season.

The Feeling

The Feeling: British pop-rock quintet formed in London in 2004 (formerly covers band Super Fly), known for Twelve Stops and Home (2006), Join with Us (2008, UK No. 1), and the Ivor Novello Songwriters of the Year award; distinct from the band the Feelies.

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) is the first volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, published by Allen & Unwin on 29 July 1954, following Frodo Baggins's flight from the Shire with the One Ring and the formation of the nine-member fellowship.

The Female of the Species (The Boys)

The Female of the Species (Kimiko Miyashiro) is a mute superhuman in The Boys comics by Ennis and Robertson and the S1E4 TV episode introducing Karen Fukuhara's reimagined character.

The Female Quixote

The Female Quixote is a 1752 novel by Charlotte Lennox in which the heroine Arabella's immersion in French romances makes her mistake the world for a romance plot.

The Femcels

The Femcels are a London electro-twee duo of Rowan Miles and Gabriella Turton, formed February 2024. Their self-released debut album I Have to Get Hotter (January 2026, Getting Hotter Records), produced by Bassvictim's Ike Clateman, earned a Pitchfork 7.6 and led to a 2026 US tour and festival slots.

The Fence (film)

The Fence (Le Cri des Gardes) is Claire Denis's 2025 drama adapting Bernard-Marie Koltès's play Black Battles with Dogs, starring Isaach de Bankolé, Matt Dillon, Mia McKenna-Bruce, and Tom Blyth at a West African construction site; it premiered at TIFF 2025 and competed at San Sebastián.

The Fencing Master

The Fencing Master (El maestro de esgrima) is Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 1988 historical mystery, English translation 1999, set in 1868 Madrid, about fencing master Don Jaime Astarloa, pupil Adela de Otero, and the unstoppable thrust; adapted as a 1992 Pedro Olea film.

The Ferryman · Legends of Nanyang

The Ferryman: Legends of Nanyang (灵魂摆渡·南洋传说), also Soul Ferry: Nanyang Legends, is a 2021 iQiyi 36-episode Mandarin supernatural drama, the platform's first Southeast Asian original, remaking the 2014 series Soul Ferry with Lawrence Wong and Qi Yuwu in Singapore and Malaysia.

The Ferryman (play)

The Ferryman, Jez Butterworth's 2017 play directed by Sam Mendes, set on a 1981 County Armagh farm during the Troubles' hunger strikes; Royal Court, Gielgud and Broadway runs, Tony Award for Best Play, 2025 Dublin premiere.

The Festival of the Greasy Pole

The Festival of the Greasy Pole, the English title of René Depestre's 1979 novel Le Mât de cocagne, satirizes Haiti's Duvalier dictatorship through an ex-senator's quest to climb a greased pole.

The Feud (TV series)

The Feud is a 2025 six-part Channel 5 British domestic thriller starring Jill Halfpenny and Rupert Penry-Jones as neighbours on Shelbury Drive; distinct from FX's Feud anthology, it streams in the US as The Feud on Shelbury Drive on Acorn TV.

The Fever Code

The Fever Code (2016) by James Dashner, Delacorte Press, is the fifth Maze Runner book and second prequel, set between The Kill Order and The Maze Runner, showing Thomas's childhood in WICKED, the maze's construction, and his memory wipe.

The Field

The Field (1990), Jim Sheridan's film of John B. Keane's play, stars Richard Harris as Bull McCabe, an Irish tenant farmer who kills an American rival at auction; Oscar-nominated, top Irish film of 1990.

The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing

The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing is a five-volume scholarly anthology edited by Seamus Deane; volumes IV and V, on Irish women's writing, followed in 2002 after controversy over women's near-absence.

The Field of Life and Death

The Field of Life and Death (生死场) is a 1935 novella by Chinese writer Xiao Hong, depicting life in a northeast China village around the 1931 Japanese occupation.

The Fields of Athenry

The Fields of Athenry, also called Fields of Athenry, is a 1970s ballad by Dublin songwriter Pete St John about a Famine-era man transported to Botany Bay, now an unofficial Irish sporting anthem.