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Friday Night Knitting Club, The

Drama
<p>As a single mom, Georgia Walker has her hands full, juggling the demands of running the Walker and Daughter knitting store with the challenges of raising her spunky tween daughter, Dakota. To relieve the stress of everyday life, nothing beats knitting. Georgia's regular customers gather once a week to work on their latest projects and chat - and occasionally clash - about love, life, and everything else.</p><p>The members of the Friday Night Knitting Club are just as varied as the skeins of yarn in the shop's bins. And when the unthinkable happens, all of Georgia's customers are forced to realize what they've created: not just a knitting club, but a unity of work through laughter and tears that life forces us to wear on a daily basis.</p>
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Friday Night Lights

Action
<p>As darkness descends over the flatlands of West Texas every Friday from September through December, a dazzling, disorienting glow, visible on the stark horizon for miles around, ignites the blackened sky. Looming over the landscape, Ratliff Stadium, the country's biggest high school football field, overflows with 20,000 spectators, their voices raised in the trademark chant: "MO-JO! MO-JO! MO-JO!".</p> <p>The crowd's jubilation rises to fever pitch as the Permian Panthers, Odessa's "boys in black," take to the field like warriors in an ancient colleseum. Once a week during the fall, this town and its dreams are carried on the padded shoulders of these young gridiron heroes, illuminated beneath the autumnal glare of those Friday night lights that serve as a beacon of hope to the townsfolk of this dusty West Texas town.</p> <p>Since their first season in 1959, the Panthers established themselves as the most successful football program not only in Texas, but in the entire country. Now, in the last days of summer of 1988, the Permian High School Panthers of Odessa, Texas begin the season with one thing on their mindswinning their fifth state championship in their 30-year histoy.</p> <p>For their coach, Gary Gaines (Oscar winner BILLY BOB THORNTON), it all comes down to his definition of perfection: "Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn't let them down. I want you to put each other in your hearts forever because forever is about to happen. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, with love and joy in your heart? If you can do that, then you're perfect."</p> <p><i>Friday Night Lights</i> in the true American story of a group of young athletes, their town and their dreams.</p>
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Friday the 13th

Horror
<p>From Platinum Dunes and director Marcus Nispel ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre") comes a re-imagining of the classic horror film "Friday the 13th."</p><p>Searching for his missing sister, Clay heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake, where he stumbles on the creaky remains of rotting old cabins that lie in wait behind moss-covered trees.</p><p>And that's not the only thing hiding under the brush.</p><p>Against the advice of police and cautions from the locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has, with the help of a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up for an all-thrills weekend. But they are about to find much more than they bargained for.</p><p>Little do they know, they've entered the domain of one of the most terrifying specters in American film history-the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete... Jason Voorhees.</p>
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Friday the 69th

Horror
<p>Porn filmmakers in 1981 seek to cash in on the slasher craze by making their own independent ripoff that follows a group of spring breaking college coeds as they are stalked by a mysterious killer beekeeper at a camp with a tragic past.</p>
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Fried Green Tomatoes

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.
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Friend of Bill

Drama, Comedy
<p>A writer arrested for public intoxication and forced to take a sabbatical in order to kick her alcoholism. She chooses to do so back in the idyllic small town where she grew up, only to find solace and sobriety nearly impossible to achieve while dealing with a complicated relationship with her mother and a pair of male suitors; one of them a former teacher of hers and the other an eccentric who also happens to volunteer at the AA meetings she secretly attends.</p>
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Friend Request

Thriller
<p>Popular college student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has tons of friends, both on Facebook and IRL. She graciously accepts social outcast Marina's (Liesl Ahlers) online friend request, until Marina crosses the line and Laura unfriends her. To everyone's shock, Marina takes her own life in a ritual meant to torment Laura, which appears in a video posted on Laura's profile. </p><p>Even though it wasn't Laura who posted the video, or other creepy content that begins appearing on her page, her Facebook friend count begins to dwindle as a result. When her real-life friends start dying mysterious, cruel deaths, Laura must figure out how to break the deadly curse before it's too late.</p>
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Friend, The

Drama
<p>Novelist and creative writing teacher Iris (Naomi Watts) finds her comfortable, solitary New York life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor (Bill Murray) commits suicide and bequeaths his beloved Great Dane to her. The regal yet intractable beast, named Apollo, immediately creates problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, as well as more existential ones, his looming presence constantly reminding her of her friend's choice to take his own life. Yet as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding to the animal, she begins to come to terms with her past, her lost friend, and her own creative inner life.</p>
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Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary

Drama, Comedy
<p>"Friends 25th: The One With The Anniversary" will reunite fans with their longtime BFFs --- Ross (David Schwimmer), Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Monica (Courteney Cox), Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) --- to re-live some of their funniest moments. Presented by Fathom Events and Warner Bros., this special event will screen in more than 1,000 movie theaters nationwide at 7:00 p.m. local time on Monday, September 23; Saturday, September 28; and Wednesday, October 2, through the Fathom Network. Each screening will also include exclusive interviews and never-before-seen content.</p>
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Friends and Romans

Comedy
<p>A group of lifelong mob movie extras mount a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in their local Staten Island theater in order to finally get some speaking roles. But the theater is the secret hideout of a real-life gangster who fancies himself an actor, and whom the FBI are hunting for the recent murder of a Broadway producer.</p><p> The Feds insert their own undercover agent to audition for the role of Cassius, seeking to determine who is the real gangster among a cast of make-believe criminals. All the while, the oblivious cast seek only to prove to themselves, their families, and friends that they are more than just extras.</p>
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Friends Until the End

Mystery
<p>When a luxurious weekend brunch turns deadly after their host is found mysteriously murdered, a group of longtime friends must unravel buried secrets and survive a series of chilling attacks.</p>
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Friends with Benefits

Romance, Comedy
<p>Dylan is done with relationships. Jamie decides to stop buying into the Hollywood clichés of true love. When the two become friends they decide to try something new and take advantage of their mutual attraction - but without any emotional attachment.</p>
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Friends with Kids

Drama, Comedy
<p>In the wake of their friends&apos; marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming &quot;time-share&quot; parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of parenthood without significantly curbing their personal freedom. However, when Julie and Jason both become involved with others, they discover that they secretly harbor romantic feelings for each other.</p>
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Friends with Money

Comedy, Romance, Drama
<p> "Friends with Money" is the telling new comedy from the acclaimed writer/director Nicole Holofcener.</p> <p>Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack and Catherine Keener star as a quartet of west coast, life-long friends who have achieved a level of comfort in their lives and have now settled into a life of designer clothes, charity events, and caring for the men (and offspring) in their lives. But as they approach 'a certain age,' unsettling things are starting to throw their comfortable lives off balance.</p> <p>There's Olivia (Jennifer Aniston) who, reaching a personal crisis, has quit her teaching job and is now cleaning houses for a living. She is looking for support - fiscal and emotional - from her more well-heeled acquaintances and continues her search for a significant other among the slim pickings on offer.</p> <p>Jane and Aaron (Frances McDormand and Simon McBurney) are successful designers whose marriage has reached a pivotal point in which the pair have become oblivious to each other's concerns, and perhaps even to their own natures.</p> <p>Christine and her husband Patrick (Catherine Keener and Jason Isaacs) are a professionally partnered, screenwriting couple whose latest projects - co-writing a script and expanding their house - raise tensions at home to a new level.</p> <p>Franny and Matt (Joan Cusack and Bob Stephenson) are the independently wealthy ones, raising their two children amidst an abundant lifestyle that calls their united front of a partnership into question.</p> <p>As the couples move from one get together to another, a group portrait begins to emerge of people in like and love with one another, in various configurations. Friends with Money is a modern comedy drama about contemporary adults in search of love, friendship, and filthy lucre but finding everything in a state of constant flux.</p>
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friends& - Man of Constant Sorrow

<p>the friends&amp; man of constant sorrow music video is about loving 00s indie rock music while reckoning with its commercialization. the video imagines a futuristic stomp-clap band that makes the streets of Williamsburg their stage &#8212; like a demented arcade fire or edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros. tormented by a 5.7 pitchfork score, the couple at the centre of the band, played by william banks and lea rose sebastianis, descend into a frenzy of ketamine use and emotional abuse. directed by nate wilson and dozzy chroma.</p>
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Friends: The Reunion

Comedy,Romance
<p>Our favorite friends are back on the set that started it all. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer, and special guests reunite to discuss everything from their casting process to whether or not Ross and Rachel were really on a break. Witness the unbreakable bond of the group that perfectly captured the moment in life when your friends become your family.</p>
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Friendsgiving

Drama, Comedy
<p>Newly-divorced actress Molly, her recently-dumped lesbian best friend Abby and Molly&#8217;s mother Helen host a dysfunctional, comical and chaotic Thanksgiving dinner for their motley crew of close friends and strange acquaintances.</p>
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Friendship Bracelets

Drama
<p>In just five minutes, this short film weaves a tender and poignant story about connection, memory, and the small objects that carry immense emotional weight. The narrative centers on a chance encounter that brings two strangers together, their shared moment sparked by the simple, colorful loops of a friendship bracelet. As they talk, the bracelet becomes a gateway to their pasts, unlocking memories of childhood promises, lost friends, and the bittersweet nature of growing up. The film’s atmosphere is intimate and reflective, capturing the quiet power of nostalgia and the unexpected ways we find common ground with others. Through its concise runtime, it explores how a single, handmade token can symbolize the enduring bonds we forge and the ones we leave behind, ultimately asking whether a moment of shared vulnerability can rekindle a connection thought to be lost forever.</p>
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Fright Night

Horror, Thriller, Comedy
<p>Senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all going on: he's running with the popular crowd and dating the most coveted girl in his high school. In fact, he's so cool he's even dissing his best friend. But trouble arrives when Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there's something not quite right-but everyone, including Charlie's mom (Toni Collette), doesn't notice. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood. Unable to convince anyone, Charlie has to find a way to get rid of the monster himself in this Craig Gillespie-helmed revamp of the comedy-horror classic.</p>
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Frindle

Drama, Family
<p>Follows a fifth grader named Nick Allen that comes up with an argument about how objects are named and where words come from, spurring Nick to rename a pen, calling it a "frindle." Much to Mrs. Granger's dismay, Nick inadvertently starts a world-wide phenomenon with the new word.</p>
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Frog King, The

Romance, Comedy
<p>" Frog King" tells about a ne'er-do-well assistant editor whose penchant for messing up threatens a relationship with his dream girlfriend. </p>
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Frog Music

Drama
<p>A smallpox epidemic is spreading through the city, along with festering racism and fear. The story is inspired by the real-life unsolved murder of a young woman, Jenny Bonnet. In order to bring the murderer to justice her friend, a French burlesque dancer, must risk everything to piece together all the fragments of Jenny's life.</p>
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Frogkisser!

Animation, Musical
<p>"Frogkisser!" centers on Princess Anya, who has an uncanny ability to break curses with magic-assisted kisses. When her evil stepfather (aka her evil stepmother's new husband) plans a kingdom-wide takeover, she befriends a talking dog, a boy thief trapped in the body of a newt and some mischievous wizards, and sets off on a quest to free her land.</p>
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From a Buick 8

Thriller, Mystery
<p>An adaptation from Stephen King's novel, "From a Buick 8" centers around the rural town of Statler, Pennsylvania where the state police have kept a mysterious 1954 Buick Roadmaster in the shed behind the barracks for over twenty years. But when the town is plagued by strange and supernatural events, it turns out the Buick isn't exactly a car --it's a door to another dimension.</p>
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From Afar

Drama
<p>Winner of the Golden Lion ("Best Film") Award at Venice Film Festival. Wealthy, middle-aged Armando (Alfredo Castro) lures young men to his home with money. He doesn't want to touch, only watch from a strict distance. Armando's first encounter with street thug Elder (Luis Silva) is violent, but this doesn't discourage the lonely man's fascination with the tough handsome teenager. </p><p>Financial interest keeps Elder visiting him regularly and an unexpected intimacy emerges. However, Armando's haunted past looms large, and Elder commits the ultimate act of affection on Armando's behalf.</p>
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From Beijing with Love

A Chinese secret agent travels to Hong Kong to reclaim a dinosaur fossil but experiences hilarious incidents because of his incompetence.
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From Corsica to Saint Helena

<p>Dying Napoleon, review his life for the last time. He starts right at his birth on Corsica, through battles in Europe, ending on exile to Saint Helena Island</p>
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From Darkness

Park ranger Angelica seeks the help of her dog handler ex-boyfriend, Viktor, to search for a missing woman in a dangerous nature reserve in Sweden. The search is complicated by a disturbing myth about the Cave Banshee, a vengeful spirit from the Nordic folklore that once lured miners to their deaths in the reserve's treacherous caves. As they delve deeper into the forest, Viktor starts to question his own sanity and whether the rumored Banshee is more than just a myth. To make matters worse, Angelica and Viktor share a painful history with the haunted place. Viktor must now confront his troubled past and work together with Angelica to survive the night and unravel the mystery behind the woman's disappearance.
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From Dusk Till Dawn

After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.
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From Hell

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
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From Hope to Home: The Obama Presidential Center

Documentary
<p>The Obama Presidential Center&apos;s star-studded grand opening ceremony brings a slew of celebrities and dignitaries to Chicago for the big event. The festivities feature what organizers said would be &quot;legendary performances by global icons and powerful remarks from today&apos;s most prominent voices.&quot; Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera, John Legend and Bono are just some of the many big names slated to perform.</p>
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From Justin to Kelly

Musical
<p>The fairytale rise to superstardom of America's favorite "Idols" continues as Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini make the leap to the big screen in this spring's biggest beach party, FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY, a new musical romantic comedy. The music from the film features the formidable singing talents of both "Idols", and plays a major role in the excitement of this major motion picture.</p> <p>Spring break in Miami is the scene. It's where surf-drenched guys cruise girls in bikinis and raucous parties rule day and night. It's the perfect time and place for three young women from Texas and a trio of college guys from Pennsylvania to find adventure and maybe even fall in love.</p> <p>In a Texas dive bar, Kelly (Kelly Clarkson) is singing her heart out to a few local yokels when her best friends Kaya (Anika Noni Rose) and Alexa (Katherine Bailess) try and tempt her away for some fun in the Florida sun. It's an easy sell - even for the cautious Kelly - and the three head to Miami.</p> <p>Making their way to the same destination is the "Pennsylvania Posse" : college students Justin (Justin Guarini), Brandon (Greg Siff), and Eddie (Brian Dietzen). Justin and Brandon are smooth-talking party promoters, while Eddie's primed to meet Lizzie, the cyber dream girl he's been e-mailing for months.</p> <p>Miami beach, beating with a rhythm all its own, is teeming with beautiful people. Kelly's friends are drawn into the beachside fun, while Kelly tentatively navigates a sea of strangers. When her eyes meet Justin's, everything changes, in an instant. While Kaya and Alexa are content to survey the parade of eye candy, Kelly's now only interested in the guy with the irresistible smile.</p> <p>This feeling is mutual and Justin's on fire. But as luck would have it, he loses Kelly's number - and boy-crazy Alexa has already sets her sights on Justin. She will stop at nothing - even betraying a friend - to nab Justin as her own.</p> <p>Will true love win out for the star-crossed Justin and Kelly?<p>
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From Mia with Love

Drama, Comedy
<p>The pitched premise had three guys so desperate to lose their virginity that they order up a Russian mail-order bride, figuring they can send her back. She is smoking hot but arrives with baggage and no plans to bed the lads, though she helps the trio become more suitable mating material.</p>
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From Nowhere

Drama
<p>"From Nowhere" follows three undocumented teenagers - a Dominican girl, an African boy and a Peruvian girl - who are about to graduate high school in the Bronx. When one of their teachers connects them with a lawyer to help them get their papers, the teens are forced to confront their past while fighting for their future.</p>
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From Paris with Love

Action
<p>A personal aide to the U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he's offered his first senior-level assignment, he can't believe his good luck - until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta).</p><p>A trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack, Wax leads James on a white-knuckle shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job. But when James discovers he's a target of the same crime ring they're trying to bust, he realizes there's no turning back...and that Wax himself might be his only hope for making it through the next forty-eight hours alive.</p>
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From Prada to Nada

Romance, Comedy
<p>"From Prada to Nada", a modern twist on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is a new romantic comedy starring Camilla Belle, Alexa Vega, Wilmer Valderrama, Kuno Becker and Academy Award nominee Adriana Barraza.</p><p>It's a whimsical fish-out-of-water story of two spoiled sisters: Nora (Camilla Belle), a law student, and Mary (Alexa Vega), an undergrad party girl, living with their father in a luxurious mansion in Beverly Hills. Mary has become so "90210" she refuses to admit she is of Mexican decent. When dad suddenly passes away, their posh lives are turned upside down. </p><p>They discover they have been left penniless and are forced to move into their estranged aunt Aurelia's (Adriana Barraza) modest but lively home in the Latino-centric Boyle Heights neighborhood of East LA. They are terrified to leave their world of privilege; neither Nora nor Mary speak Spanish or have ever had to take on actual responsibility. The girls gradually adapt to their new environment; their BMW and Prius are traded for the public bus and a used car. </p><p>As they embrace the culture that for so long they refused to accept, they both discover romance, the true meaning of family, and they learn that the life of PRADA actually means NADA without love, family and community.</p>
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From Russia with Love

Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
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From Somebody That You Used To Know

Drama
<p>A young man has trouble finding the right greeting card for his estranged cousin.</p>
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From Straight A's to XXX

When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her friends at school, keeping her double life a secret. But soon rumours spread and Miriam becomes the subject of vicious online attacks and unwanted attention. Miriam fights back: she talks to the media, saying her new line of work empowers her as a feminist. But her confident stand has unintended consequences. Miriam is shunned by her conservative family and her colleagues in the adult film world. One impulsive decision has quickly spiralled out of control - and Miriam's problems are just beginning.
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From the Dust Returned

Fantasy
<p>A Ray Bradbury collection of short stories that focuses on a mortal boy named Timothy who is adopted into a family of benevolent ghouls.</p>
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