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The Evil Lawyer (ทนายปีศาจ)

The Evil Lawyer (ทนายปีศาจ, Thanai Pisat) is a Thai Netflix legal drama, 8 episodes released June 11, 2026, directed by Nottapon Boonprakob. A framed lawyer teams with the loophole-exploiting 'Evil Lawyer' Jittri; it hit No. 1 in Thailand and No. 5 globally.

The Evil of the Daleks

The Evil of the Daleks: 1967 seven-part Doctor Who serial by David Whitaker, the Daleks' intended final 1960s story; only episode two survives, with a 2021 animated reconstruction.

The Evil Within (2017 film)

The Evil Within (2017) is a horror film, originally titled The Storyteller, written, directed, and self-financed by oil heir Andrew Getty. Production ran from 2002; Getty died in 2015, and the film was completed posthumously and released in 2017.

The Ex-Wife

The Ex-Wife is a British Paramount+ psychological thriller (2022-2025), adapted by Catherine Steadman from Jess Ryder's novel, starring Celine Buckens, Tom Mison, Janet Montgomery, and Katie McGrath across two four-episode seasons.

The Exception

The Exception (The Kaiser's Last Kiss) is a 2016 WWII romantic war drama directed by David Leveaux, adapted from Alan Judd's 2003 novel, starring Lily James, Jai Courtney, and Christopher Plummer as exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II; distinct from the 2021 Danish thriller of the same name.

The Exchange: After The Firm

The Exchange: After The Firm is John Grisham's 2023 sequel to The Firm, a #1 New York Times bestseller following Mitch McDeere, now a Manhattan law partner, into a Libyan hostage crisis with a $100 million ransom demand.

The Excursion

The Excursion is a long philosophical poem by William Wordsworth, published in London in 1814 and the only part he published of his planned three-part work The Recluse.

The Execution of Emperor Maximilian

The Execution of Emperor Maximilian is a series of paintings and a lithograph made by Édouard Manet between 1867 and 1869, depicting Maximilian's 1867 execution in Mexico.

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, Paul Delaroche's 1833 oil painting (246 × 297 cm, National Gallery NG1909), shows the blindfolded nine-day queen groping for the block before her 1554 beheading; a Paris Salon 1834 sensation, lost after the 1928 Thames flood, rediscovered in 1973.

The Executioner

The Executioner (El verdugo, 1963) is a Spanish-Italian black comedy by Luis García Berlanga in which undertaker José Luis (Nino Manfredi) marries executioner Amadeo's daughter and inherits the state executioner's post; Venice FIPRESCI winner, Franco-era satire of capital punishment.

The Executioner and Her Way of Life (処刑少女の生きる道)

The Executioner and Her Way of Life (処刑少女の生きる道, Shokei Shōjo no Virgin Road) is a GA Bunko light novel by Mato Sato and nilitsu, 2018 GA Bunko Award Grand Prize winner, with a 2022 twelve-episode anime and a seven-volume manga.

The Executioner's Song

The Executioner's Song (A True Life Novel), Norman Mailer's 1979 Little, Brown nonfiction narrative of Gary Gilmore's 1977 Utah execution; 1980 Pulitzer for Fiction, distinct from other works of the same name.

The Exes

The Exes is a TV Land sitcom (2011–2015) created by Mark Reisman, starring Donald Faison, Wayne Knight, David Alan Basche, Kelly Stables, and Kristen Johnston as a divorce attorney landlord to three divorced men, running 64 episodes over four seasons.

The Exeter Book Riddles

The Old English riddles are about ninety-five poetic riddles in Old English preserved in the tenth-century Exeter Book, the oldest surviving vernacular riddle collection in western Europe.

The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System

The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System (追放された転生重騎士はゲーム知識で無双する) is a Japanese isekai manga by Nekoko and BroccoLee: exiled noble Elymas Edvaughn uses past-life gaming knowledge to prove the despised Heavy Knight class is strongest. Serialized in Young Magazine since 2022; GoHands anime premiered July 2026 on TBS and Crunchyroll.

The Exiles (upcoming film)

The Exiles (Chinese title 美梦) is an upcoming Midi Z crime thriller starring Sam Worthington, David Duchovny, and Ke-Xi Wu, his English-language debut, shot in Taipei from January 2026 and planned for 2027 release.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) is a Scott Derrickson horror-courtroom hybrid starring Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, and Jennifer Carpenter, loosely based on the Anneliese Michel exorcism death and 1978 negligent homicide trial in Germany.

The Exorcist

The Exorcist (1973) is William Friedkin's horror film adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel about Regan MacNeil's demonic possession; it earned $441 million, ten Oscar nominations, and spawned a franchise.

The Exorcist (franchise)

The Exorcist franchise: American horror series from William Friedkin's 1973 film, spanning six films including two rival prequels, a Fox TV series, Believer (2023), and Flanagan's Martyrs (2027).

The Exorcist (novel)

The Exorcist, also published as El exorcista, is William Peter Blatty's 1971 horror novel about Regan MacNeil's demonic possession by Pazuzu, inspired by a 1949 Maryland exorcism, a number one best-seller adapted into the 1973 Oscar-winning film.

The Exorcist (TV series)

The Exorcist is an American supernatural horror drama series created by Jeremy Slater, broadcast on Fox from 2016 to 2017, continuing the 1973 film's universe with new characters.

The Exorcist III

The Exorcist III (1990), also known as Legion, is William Peter Blatty's adaptation of his 1983 novel, a supernatural horror sequel to The Exorcist starring George C. Scott, with a reshot exorcism finale and a later Legion director's cut.

The Exorcist: Believer

The Exorcist: Believer (2023), David Gordon Green's direct sequel to the 1973 classic, starring Leslie Odom Jr. and Ellen Burstyn; a Blumhouse-Universal reboot that flopped critically and commercially, scrapping the planned trilogy in favor of Mike Flanagan's Exorcist: Martyrs.

The Exorcist: Martyrs

The Exorcist: Martyrs is Mike Flanagan's seventh Exorcist film, starring Scarlett Johansson as detective Julie Miller and John Leguizamo as Father Sunday, releasing March 12, 2027 from Universal and Blumhouse.

The Expanse (novel series)

The Expanse is a nine-novel space opera series (2011–2021) by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck writing as James S.A. Corey, set in a 24th-century colonized solar system, Hugo Award-winning, over 10 million copies sold, adapted into a six-season TV series.

The Expanse (TV series)

The Expanse (2015–2022) is a hard science fiction TV series adapted from James S.A. Corey's novels, airing three seasons on Syfy before Amazon revived it, depicting Earth, Mars, and the Belt on the brink of war.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is an epistolary novel by Tobias Smollett, published in London in 1771 and generally regarded as his final and finest work.

The Expendables (2010 film)

The Expendables is a 2010 American action film directed, co-written by, and starring Sylvester Stallone, leading a mercenary team alongside Jason Statham and Jet Li.

The Expendables (franchise)

The Expendables is a four-film American action franchise (2010-2023) about mercenaries led by Barney Ross, created by Sylvester Stallone, grossing about $842 million worldwide before Expend4bles flopped.

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 2 (2012) is a Simon West-directed action sequel starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger; rated R, it opened at $28.59 million and grossed about $305 million worldwide.