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The Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar
The Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar (Смерть Вазир-Мухтара) is a 1929 historical novel by Yury Tynyanov recounting the final year of writer and diplomat Alexander Griboedov, murdered in Tehran in 1829.
The Death of Virgil
The Death of Virgil (German: Der Tod des Vergil) is a 1945 historical novel by the Austrian writer Hermann Broch, following the dying poet Virgil through his final eighteen hours at Brundisium.
The Death of Vivek Oji
The Death of Vivek Oji is a 2020 novel by the Nigerian writer Akwaeke Emezi, published by Riverhead Books and a New York Times bestseller.
The Deb (film)
The Deb is a 2024 Australian musical comedy and Rebel Wilson's directorial debut, adapted from Hannah Reilly and Meg Washington's 2022 stage musical. It premiered at TIFF 2024, was delayed by lawsuits, and earned $244,499 worldwide after its April 2026 Australian release.
The Debt (2010 film)
The Debt (2010) is John Madden's English-language remake of the 2007 Israeli thriller Ha-Hov (החוב), starring Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, and Sam Worthington as Mossad agents hiding a failed capture of Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel.
The Debt Collector
The Debt Collector (1999) is Anthony Neilson's debut British crime thriller, a "tartan western" starring Billy Connolly as reformed Edinburgh loan shark Nickie Dryden, hounded by Ken Stott's vengeful policeman Gary Keltie, and widely linked to Jimmy Boyle's story.
The Debut (2026 film)
The Debut (2026) is Jesse Eisenberg's A24 comedy-musical starring Julianne Moore as Mona Friedman, a housewife turned method actor in the community-theater musical Nosy Neighbors; premiered at Telluride, US release December 11, 2026.
The Decagon House Murders (十角館の殺人) (TV series)
The Decagon House Murders (十角館の殺人) is a 2024 five-episode Hulu original drama by Nippon Television, the first live-action adaptation of Yukito Ayatsuji's 1987 debut novel, directed by Akira Uchikata, starring Tomoya Oku and Munetaka Aoki, released March 22, 2024.
The Decameron
The Decameron (Decameron), Boccaccio's 100-novella frame-tale collection of c. 1350–1375, told by ten Florentines fleeing the 1348 Black Death; autograph Hamilton 90, Branca edition, Chaucer and COVID-era rewritings.
The Decameron (TV series)
The Decameron is a 2024 Netflix dark comedy limited series, eight episodes created by Kathleen Jordan through Jenji Kohan's Tilted Productions, loosely inspired by Boccaccio: nobles and servants flee the 1348 Black Death to a Tuscan villa.
The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying is an 1889 dialogue essay by Oscar Wilde arguing that life imitates art and that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is art's proper aim.
The Decemberists
The Decemberists: Portland, Oregon indie rock band formed in 2000, led by Colin Meloy, known for hyper-literate story-songs, The Crane Wife, The Hazards of Love, and the 2011 US number-one The King Is Dead.
The Decisive Moment
The decisive moment is a photography concept from Henri Cartier-Bresson's 1952 book Images à la Sauvette, describing when an event's significance and a precise arrangement of forms meet in a single frame.
The Decline of Western Civilization
The Decline of Western Civilization is a 1981 American music documentary directed by Penelope Spheeris, featuring Los Angeles punk bands X, the Germs, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and Fear.
The Deep (1977 film)
The Deep is a 1977 American underwater adventure film directed by Peter Yates, based on Peter Benchley's novel, starring Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, and Nick Nolte.
The Deep (The Boys)
The Deep (Kevin Moskowitz) is the Aquaman parody of The Seven in Prime Video's The Boys, played by Chace Crawford; gilled, fish-talking, disgraced for assaulting Starlight, and killed by sea creatures in the 2026 series finale.
The Deep Blue Sea (2011 film)
The Deep Blue Sea is a 2011 British drama adapted and directed by Terence Davies from Terence Rattigan's 1952 play, starring Rachel Weisz as a judge's wife who leaves her marriage for an ex-RAF pilot.
The Deep End of the Ocean (film)
The Deep End of the Ocean is a 1999 American drama directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, about a mother whose kidnapped son returns nine years later.
The Deep House
The Deep House (2021) is a French-Belgian underwater haunted-house horror film by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, starring Camille Rowe and James Jagger, shot practically in a Belgian water tank over a 33-day underwater shoot.
The Deer
The Deer (Gavaznha) is Masoud Kimiai's 1974 Iranian drama about a wounded robber and his heroin-addicted friend, starring Behrouz Vossoughi; censored until 1978 and screening during the Cinema Rex fire.
The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter (1978), Michael Cimino's Vietnam War drama starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, and Meryl Streep; won five Oscars including Best Picture; famous and controversial for its Russian roulette scenes.
The Deer King (鹿の王 ユナと約束の旅)
The Deer King (鹿の王 ユナと約束の旅) is a 2021 Production I.G anime film adapted from Nahoko Uehashi's 2015 Booksellers Award novel, directed by Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyaji, released in Japan February 4, 2022 after a COVID-19 postponement, distributed by Toho and GKIDS.
The Deerslayer
The Deerslayer is an 1841 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the last of five Leatherstocking Tales written yet first in the chronology, showing Natty Bumppo as a young hunter.
The Defeated
The Defeated, original title Shadowplay (Schatten der Mörder – Shadowplay), is an eight-part 2020 ZDF/Netflix historical thriller set in 1946 Berlin, created by Måns Mårlind, starring Taylor Kitsch as cop Max McLaughlin hunting the angel maker Gladow and his brother Moritz.
The Defects (TV series)
The Defects (아이쇼핑, Child Shopping) is a 2025 ENA/TVING Korean action thriller, 8 episodes, adapted from a Kakao webtoon, starring Yum Jung-ah and Won Jin-a as adversaries in an illegal adoption-trafficking revenge story.
The Defence of Poesy
The Defence of Poesy is an essay by Sir Philip Sidney defending poetry, published in 1595 and regarded as the first major work of English literary criticism.
The Defenders (1961 TV series)
The Defenders (1961-1965) was a CBS courtroom drama created by Reginald Rose from his 1957 Studio One play, starring E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys handling abortion, blacklisting, and capital punishment cases.
The Defenders (miniseries)
Marvel's The Defenders is an 8-episode Netflix miniseries premiered August 18, 2017, teaming Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist against the Hand; showrunners Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez; now streaming on Disney+.
The Defense
The Defense (Russian: Zashchita Luzhina) is a 1930 novel by Vladimir Nabokov about a Russian chess grandmaster who retreats into the game and is destroyed when life and chess merge.
The Defiant (band)
The Defiant is an American punk rock supergroup formed of members of The Offspring, Smash Mouth, and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, which released its debut album in 2023.