Film and Television
- Babylon 5 is a science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski
- Odyssey 5 is a 2002 science fiction television series
- Channel 5 is a television channel that broadcasts in the United Kingdom
- The Fifth Element is a 1997 science fiction film
- Five Go Mad in Dorset was the first of the long-running series of Comic Strip Presents... television comedy films
- Yes! Pretty Cure 5 is a 2007 anime which follows the adventures of Nozomi and her friends. It is also followed by the 2008 sequel Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!
- Towards the end of the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the character of King Arthur repeatedly confuses the number five with the number three.
- The number 5 features in the television series Battlestar Galactica in regards to the Final Five cylons and the Temple of Five
- Johnny 5 is the lead character in the 1986 film Short Circuit
- The number 5 and Roman Numeral V figure prominently in the film V for Vendetta, produced by Warner Bros and directed by James McTeigue, adapted from the graphic novel V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore. V for Vendetta is based on the historical event in which a group of men attempted to destroy Parliament on November 5, 1605. November 5 is now known as Guy Fawkes Night or Guy Fawkes Day in the UK.
- Noitra Jiruga from Bleach was ranked as number 5 aka fifth strongest in Souske Aizen's army.
- Fast Five The fifth installment of the Fast and Furious series.
- The character, James the Red Engine is numbered 5.
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Famous quotes containing the words film and, film and/or television:
“The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is raised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.”
—Andrew Gordon, U.S. educator, critic. “The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1992)
“The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half- piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)