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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992 film)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is a 1992 American psychological thriller directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Rebecca De Mornay as a nanny seeking revenge.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (2025 film)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (2025) is a Hulu psychological thriller remake directed by Michelle Garza Cervera, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Caitlin Morales and Maika Monroe as nanny Polly Murphy; released October 22, 2025, with mixed reviews (RT 43%, Metacritic 52).
The Handan Dream
The Handan Dream (邯郸记) is a 1601 Ming play by Tang Xianzu, the last of his Four Dreams of Linchuan, following scholar Lu Sheng's dream of worldly glory.
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel, also titled Offred in draft, set in Gilead, a theocratic United States where fertile women serve as Handmaids; it won the 1986 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award.
The Handmaid's Tale (film)
The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film), directed by Volker Schlöndorff from Harold Pinter's screenplay of Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel, stars Natasha Richardson as Offred; released 7 March 1990, panned by critics, later overshadowed by the 2017 Hulu series.
The Handmaid's Tale (TV series)
The Handmaid's Tale is a 2017 American dystopian drama series developed by Bruce Miller for Hulu, based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel and starring Elisabeth Moss.
The Handmaiden (아가씨)
The Handmaiden (아가씨) is Park Chan-wook's 2016 Korean erotic thriller adapting Sarah Waters's Fingersmith to 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea; Cannes competitor, Vulcain Prize winner, 2018 BAFTA Best Film Not in the English Language, sold to 175 countries.
The Handoff
The Handoff is the seventh episode of Fallout season 2 (Prime Video, January 27, 2026), written by Kieran Fitzgerald, directed by Stephen Williams, covering Steph Harper's Canadian origin and the cold fusion handoff to the U.S. President.
The Hands in the Trap
The Hands in the Trap (La mano en la trampa) is a 1961 Argentine-Spanish drama by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, starring Elsa Daniel, Francisco Rabal, and Leonardo Favio, based on Beatriz Guido's novel; it won the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes 1961.
The Hands Resist Him
The Hands Resist Him, the "haunted eBay painting," is a 1972 oil painting by Bill Stoneham showing a boy and a doll before a glass door with hands pressing through.
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family, the Brett and Rennie Sparks duo, is an American alt-country band formed in Chicago in 1993, known for "Far From Any Road" from Singing Bones, the True Detective season one theme.
The Hanged Woman
The Hanged Woman (La ahorcada) is a 2026 Spanish supernatural horror film by Miguel Ángel Lamata, adapted from Mayte Navales' novel, starring Amaia Salamanca and Eduardo Noriega; distinct from the 1973 José Luis Merino film The Hanging Woman.
The Hanging Garden
The Hanging Garden is Thom Fitzgerald's 1997 Canadian debut feature, a surreal drama in which gay Sweet William returns to rural Nova Scotia after ten years, winning TIFF's People's Choice Award and four Genie Awards.
The Hanging Tree (1959 film)
The Hanging Tree (1959) is a Delmer Daves Western starring Gary Cooper as Doc Frail, based on Dorothy M. Johnson's novelette, filmed near Yakima, Washington; Karl Malden finished directing after Daves fell ill, and the Marty Robbins title song earned an Oscar nomination.
The Hanging Tree (The Hunger Games song)
"The Hanging Tree" is a fictional folk song from Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games series, first appearing in the novel Mockingjay. Music by the Lumineers' Fraites and Schultz, arranged by James Newton Howard; Jennifer Lawrence's 2014 recording hit No. 12 on the Hot 100.
The Hangover
The Hangover is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips, in which groomsmen retrace a forgotten Las Vegas bachelor party to find the missing groom.
The Hangover (film series)
The Hangover, also known as The Hangover Trilogy, is an American R-rated comedy film series directed by Todd Phillips, starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis as friends whose celebratory trips collapse into catastrophe.
The Hangover Part II
The Hangover Part II is a 2011 American comedy sequel directed by Todd Phillips, moving the Hangover series from Las Vegas to Bangkok, starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis.
The Hangover Part III
The Hangover Part III (2013) is Todd Phillips' R-rated comedy closing the Hangover trilogy, starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis. It drops the blackout formula for a darker crime plot, earning 21% on Rotten Tomatoes, a Metascore of 30, and $351 million worldwide.
The Happening (2008 film)
The Happening is a 2008 American apocalyptic thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel, in which plants release an airborne neurotoxin.
The Happiest Millionaire
The Happiest Millionaire, 1967 Walt Disney live-action musical comedy directed by Norman Tokar, starring Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, and Greer Garson; the last film personally overseen by Walt Disney, with twelve Sherman Brothers songs.
The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince (2018) is Rupert Everett's directorial debut biopic of Oscar Wilde's final years in exile, premiering at Sundance and Berlin, released by Sony Pictures Classics, grossing $464.5K in the US.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Happy Prince and Other Tales is Oscar Wilde's 1888 collection of five fairy tales, published by David Nutt, London, illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, containing The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket.
The Happy Return
The Happy Return (Beat to Quarters in the US) is C. S. Forester's 1937 first Horatio Hornblower novel, published 4 February by Michael Joseph, set in June 1808 off Nicaragua aboard HMS Lydia.
The Happytime Murders
The Happytime Murders is a 2018 American comedy film directed by Brian Henson, starring Melissa McCarthy and set in a Los Angeles where puppets and humans coexist.
The Harafish
The Harafish (Malhamat al-harafish, ملحمة الحرافيش) is a 1977 novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz tracing a clan and the common people of a Cairo alley across generations.
The Hard Line
The Hard Line is a 2026 action thriller novel by Mark Greaney, the fifteenth Gray Man book following assassin Court Gentry as a vengeful killer hunts him.
The Hard Times of RJ Berger
The Hard Times of RJ Berger: MTV scripted comedy (2010-2011) by Katzenberg and Grahame-Smith, starring Paul Iacono as a well-endowed unpopular teen; two seasons, 12 episodes each, canceled August 2011.
The Hardacres
The Hardacres is a British six-part Channel 5 period drama (2024) from Playground, based on C.L. Skelton's Hardacre Saga novels, following a working-class 1890s Yorkshire family from fish dock to country estate; series 2 aired in 2026, with BritBox holding North American rights.
The Harder They Come
The Harder They Come is Perry Henzell's 1972 Jamaican crime drama starring Jimmy Cliff as singer-turned-outlaw Ivanhoe Martin; its soundtrack popularized reggae worldwide and it was Jamaica's first major commercial film release.