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More is a 1969 English-language romantic drama film written and directed by Barbet Schroeder in his directorial debut. [ 1][ 2] Starring Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grünberg, [ 3] the film deals with heroin addiction as drug fascination [ 4] on the island of Ibiza, Spain. [ 5][ 6] Made in the political fallout of the 1960s counterculture, [ 7] it ...
The BFG (titled onscreen as Roald Dahl's The BFG) is a 2016 fantasy adventure film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and based on Roald Dahl 's 1982 novel of the same name. The film stars Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill in her film debut, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Rebecca Hall, Rafe Spall and Bill ...
Hereditary is a 2018 American horror film written and directed by Ari Aster in his feature directorial debut. Starring Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne, the film follows a grieving family tormented by sinister occurrences after the death of their secretive grandmother.
Genius is a 2016 biographical drama film directed by Michael Grandage and written by John Logan, based on the 1978 National Book Award -winner Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg. The film stars Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Dominic West, and Guy Pearce. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 66th ...
Big Brother Brasil[ a] is the Brazilian version of the Big Brother reality franchised television show based on the original Dutch television series of the same name, that was created in 1997 by John de Mol. [ 1] It is the second one with more finished seasons (only after the American version) and the only one with more than 20 years of ...
A wolf whistle is a distinctive two-note glissando whistled sound made to show high interest in or approval of something or someone (usually a woman), especially at someone viewed as physically or sexually attractive. Today, a wolf whistle directed at a person is sometimes considered a precursor to sexual harassment, or a form of sexual ...
A list of comedy films originally released in the 2020s. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between comedy and other genres (including, teen, adult, romance, drama, animation, and action); the list should attempt to document films which are more closely related to comedy, even if they bend genres.
Francis Barlow's illustration of the fable, 1687. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. [1] From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable [2] and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true claims are ...