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The Peeping Tom
The Peeping Tom is a 1997 Hong Kong Category III crime horror thriller directed by Ivan Lai, starring Jade Leung, Mark Cheng, Miho Nomoto, and Michael Tse.
The Pelican Brief (film)
The Pelican Brief (1993) is Alan J. Pakula's legal-political thriller adapted from John Grisham's novel, starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington; 141 minutes, Warner Bros., released December 17, 1993, grossing $100.7 million in the US.
The Pembrokeshire Murders
The Pembrokeshire Murders is a 2021 three-part ITV true crime drama starring Luke Evans as Steve Wilkins and Keith Allen as serial killer John Cooper, adapted from Wilkins and Jonathan Hill's book Catching the Bullseye Killer.
The pen is mightier than the sword
The pen is mightier than the sword: English metonymic adage meaning writing and ideas beat violence. Coined by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in Richelieu (1839), with a possible 1832 Northern Whig occurrence and ancient precedents.
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin is a 2026 American historical fantasy series for DailyWire+, adapted from Stephen R. Lawhead's novels Taliesin and Merlin, directed by Jeremy Boreing, set in post-Roman Britain.
The Penelopiad
The Penelopiad is Margaret Atwood's 2005 novella, written for the Canongate Myth Series, that retells the Odyssey from Penelope's perspective, her narration alternating with a chorus of her twelve hanged maids.
The Penguin (TV series)
The Penguin is HBO's 2024 eight-episode limited series, a spin-off of The Batman (2022) created by Lauren LeFranc, starring Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb rising in Gotham's underworld; it won eight Creative Arts Emmys and earned Cristin Milioti a lead-actress Emmy.
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, edited by poets John Tranter and Philip Mead, is a 1991 Penguin Australia anthology of twentieth-century Australian verse.
The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse
The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse is a poetry anthology edited by Stephen Gray and published by Penguin in 1989, gathering poems from eight southern African countries.
The Penguin History of New Zealand
The Penguin History of New Zealand is a single-volume general history of New Zealand by historian Michael King, published by Penguin Books in Auckland in 2003.
The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature
The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature is a 1990 critical history by Patrick Evans, the first full-length study of New Zealand literature since McCormick's 1940 survey.
The Penguin Lessons
The Penguin Lessons: 2024 Peter Cattaneo comedy-drama starring Steve Coogan, adapted from Tom Michell's memoir about an English teacher in 1976 Argentina who rescues a penguin, Juan Salvador.
The Penguin Lessons (book)
The Penguin Lessons: What I Learned from a Remarkable Bird, Tom Michell's 2015 Ballantine memoir about rescuing a Magellanic penguin, Juan Salvador, from a Uruguayan oil slick in 1975 and keeping it at his Argentine boarding school; adapted into a 2025 Steve Coogan film.
The Penguins
The Penguins: Los Angeles doo-wop quartet (Cleveland Duncan, Curtis Williams, Dexter Tisby, Bruce Tate) formed 1953, whose 1954 Dootone single "Earth Angel" hit No. 1 R&B and No. 8 pop.
The Penguins of Madagascar
The Penguins of Madagascar: DreamWorks spin-off franchise about penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private, covering the Nickelodeon TV series (2008–2015, 149 episodes, Emmy winner) and the 2014 theatrical film with Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich.
The Penitent
The Penitent (Yiddish: Der bal-tshuve) is a short novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer about a New York businessman who joins an ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem.
The Pentagon Wars
The Pentagon Wars is a 1998 HBO satirical comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Kelsey Grammer and Cary Elwes, adapted from Col. James G. Burton's 1993 book about the Bradley Fighting Vehicle's troubled testing and procurement.
The Pentaverate
The Pentaverate is a six-episode comedy miniseries released by Netflix in 2022. Mike Myers stars as members of a benevolent secret society influencing world events since 1347.
The Penthouse: War in Life
The Penthouse: War in Life (펜트하우스) is an SBS Korean revenge melodrama (2020-2021) by Kim Soon-ok and Joo Dong-min, three seasons, 48 episodes, set in Hera Palace, peaking at 31.1% Nielsen ratings.
The Penultimate Peril
The Penultimate Peril is the twelfth of thirteen books in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, published October 18, 2005 by HarperCollins. It is set at Hotel Denouement, where the Baudelaire orphans, disguised as concierges, face a trial, a harpoon-gun death, and the hotel's burning.
The Peony Pavilion
The Peony Pavilion (牡丹亭), also known as The Return of the Soul, is a 55-scene Chinese play completed in 1598 by the Ming dramatist Tang Xianzu.
The People in My Country
The People in My Country (الناس في بلادي) is a 1957 poetry collection by Egyptian poet Salah Abd al-Sabur, a landmark of free verse in modern Arabic poetry.
The People in the Trees
The People in the Trees is Hanya Yanagihara's 2013 debut novel, a faux memoir of Norton Perina, a Nobel-winning doctor who discovers longevity on the Micronesian island Ivu'ivu and is later convicted of child abuse, loosely based on Daniel Carleton Gajdusek.
The People of Hemsö
The People of Hemsö is a comic 1887 novel by August Strindberg, in which the farmhand Carlsson marries his way into owning a farm in the Stockholm archipelago.
The People of Seldwyla
The People of Seldwyla (German: Die Leute von Seldwyla) is a cycle of ten novellas by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller, published in two parts in 1856 and 1873/74.
The People of the Abyss
The People of the Abyss is Jack London's 1903 account of poverty in London's East End, based on six weeks he spent living there in disguise in 1902.
The People Under the Stairs
The People Under the Stairs is Wes Craven's 1991 horror-comedy about boy burglar Fool trapped in his landlords' fortified LA mansion with imprisoned children under the stairs; a satirical, politically charged cult film being remade by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw.
The People Upstairs (윗집 사람들) (2025 film)
The People Upstairs (윗집 사람들) is a 2025 South Korean adults-only comedy-drama directed by and starring Ha Jung-woo, with Gong Hyo-jin, Kim Dong-wook, and Lee Ha-nee; two apartment couples' dinner exposes marital cracks, adapted from the Spanish novel Sentimental, released December 3, 2025.
The People v. Gorilla Grodd
The People v. Gorilla Grodd is an upcoming eight-episode HBO Max true-crime mockumentary comedy from DC Studios and Warner Bros. Television, starring Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen and Jimmy Tatro as Gorilla Grodd, set after Man of Tomorrow.
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story is FX's 10-episode 2016 limited series, the first installment of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story anthology, adapted from Jeffrey Toobin's book The Run of His Life, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Paulson, and Courtney B. Vance; it won the 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Limited Series.