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The Physician (2013 film)
The Physician (German: Der Medicus) is a 2013 German historical adventure film directed by Philipp Stölzl, based on Noah Gordon's novel, about an 11th-century English apprentice who travels to Persia to study medicine under Ibn Sina.
The Physicists
The Physicists (Die Physiker) is a two-act comedy by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, first staged at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in 1962, set in a psychiatric clinic.
The Pianist (2002 film)
The Pianist (2002) is Roman Polanski's WWII drama starring Adrien Brody as Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman, adapted from Szpilman's memoir. It won the 2002 Palme d'Or and three Oscars, with Brody the youngest Best Actor winner.
The Piano
The Piano (La Leçon de piano) is a 1993 period drama written and directed by Jane Campion, about a mute Scottish woman in 19th-century New Zealand.
The Piano Accident
The Piano Accident (L'Accident de piano) is Quentin Dupieux's 2025 French black comedy, 88 minutes, starring Adèle Exarchopoulos as a pain-insensitive influencer blackmailed by Sandrine Kiberlain's journalist; released in France 2 July 2025.
The Piano Guys
The Piano Guys: American classical crossover quartet from St. George, Utah (Jon Schmidt, Steven Sharp Nelson, Paul Anderson, Al van der Beek), known for YouTube piano-cello mashups, Sony Masterworks albums, six Billboard classical No. 1s, and 2 billion-plus views.
The Piano in a Factory (钢的琴)
The Piano in a Factory (钢的琴, Gang de qin) is Zhang Meng's 2010 Chinese comedy-drama about laid-off steelworker Chen Guilin, who builds a steel piano in an abandoned Anshan factory to win custody of his daughter; a 2011 festival award winner with weak box office.
The Piano Lesson
The Piano Lesson is a 1987 play by August Wilson, fourth in his Pittsburgh Cycle, set in 1936 Pittsburgh, where Berniece and Boy Willie clash over selling their carved heirloom piano. It won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was adapted for CBS in 1995 and Netflix in 2024.
The Piano Lesson (2024 film)
The Piano Lesson (2024) is Malcolm Washington's feature directorial debut for Netflix, adapting August Wilson's Pulitzer-winning 1987 play about the Charles family's 1936 Pittsburgh battle over an heirloom piano, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, and Danielle Deadwyler.
The Piano Teacher (film)
The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) is Michael Haneke's 2001 Austrian-French drama adapting Elfriede Jelinek's novel Die Klavierspielerin, starring Isabelle Huppert as repressed Vienna Conservatory piano teacher Erika Kohut; it won the 2001 Cannes Grand Prix plus Best Actress and Best Actor.
The Pick of Destiny
The Pick of Destiny is Tenacious D's 2006 Epic Records soundtrack album (also called Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny) for their comedy rock opera film, produced by John King with Dave Grohl, Meat Loaf, and Dio, debuting at No. 8 in the US.
The Pickup (film)
The Pickup is a 2025 American action-comedy heist film directed by Tim Story, starring Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, and Keke Palmer, released on Prime Video August 6, 2025 to negative reviews (Metascore 38, 24% on Rotten Tomatoes).
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers, fully The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, is a comic novel by Charles Dickens, published under the pen name "Boz" in monthly parts from 1836 to 1837.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde's only novel, a Gothic tale first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in July 1890 and expanded into the 1891 Ward, Lock book edition.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) is MGM's Albert Lewin adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, starring Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, and Angela Lansbury, with Technicolor portrait inserts, an Oscar for black-and-white cinematography, and portraits by Ivan Albright.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (play)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (play): stage adaptations of Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel, chiefly Kip Williams' 2020 Sydney Theatre Company one-actor cine-theatre version with 26 roles, which won Olivier and Tony Awards for Sarah Snook on the West End and Broadway.
The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon (周处除三害)
The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon (周处除三害) is a 2023 Taiwanese crime film by Huang Ching-fu starring Ethan Juan as wanted criminal Chen Kuei-lin, who hunts Taiwan's two most-wanted men after a false terminal cancer diagnosis; a mainland box-office hit.
The Pilgrim
The Pilgrim (1923) is Charlie Chaplin's silent comedy, also titled At Large, in which an escaped convict poses as a Texas pastor; his final First National film, starring Edna Purviance, later reissued in The Chaplin Revue.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678, 1684) is John Bunyan's Christian allegory of Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, written in jail, translated into 216 languages, and second only to the Bible in English popularity.
The Pilgrimage to Cythera
The Pilgrimage to Cythera (Pèlerinage à l'île de Cythère) is a 1717 oil painting by Watteau showing elegant couples on the island of Venus, hanging in the Louvre.
The Pillars of the Earth
The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's 1989 historical novel about building a cathedral in fictional Kingsbridge, twelfth-century England, during the Anarchy; it sold about 27 million copies, spawned the Kingsbridge series, a 2010 miniseries, a video game, and a 2024 Madrid musical.
The Pillars of the Earth (miniseries)
The Pillars of the Earth (2010) is an eight-part Starz/Channel 4 miniseries adapted from Ken Follett's 1989 novel, directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, starring Ian McShane, Eddie Redmayne, and Hayley Atwell; it won one Emmy from seven nominations.
The Pillow Book
The Pillow Book (Makura no sōshi, 枕草子) is a collection of short prose pieces written around 1001 by Sei Shōnagon, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Teishi.
The Pillowman
The Pillowman is Martin McDonagh's 2003 play about writer Katurian, interrogated in a totalitarian state over child murders imitating his stories. Premiered at the National Theatre's Cottesloe with David Tennant; won the 2004 Olivier for Best New Play; 2023 West End revival starred Lily Allen.
The Pillows
The Pillows (ザ・ピロウズ) was a Japanese alternative rock band formed in Hokkaido in 1989, best known abroad for the FLCL soundtrack; it disbanded in 2025 after 35 years.
The Pilot (Friends)
"The Pilot (Friends)", also known as "The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate", is the first episode of the NBC sitcom Friends, aired September 22, 1994. Written by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, directed by James Burrows, it drew about 22 million viewers despite poor test-audience ratings.
The Pilot (It: Welcome to Derry)
The Pilot is the October 26, 2025 premiere episode of HBO's IT: Welcome to Derry, Andy Muschietti's 1962-set prequel to the It films, following Teddy, Phil, Lilly, and Ronnie as they investigate missing children in Derry, Maine, ending in a demon-baby massacre that kills three of the four leads.
The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (Flåklypa Grand Prix), 1975 Norwegian stop-motion feature by Ivo Caprino from Kjell Aukrust's characters; inventor Reodor Felgen races the Il Tempo Gigante; Norway's most-watched film, 5.5 million tickets.
The Pineapple Thief
The Pineapple Thief is an English progressive rock band formed in 1999 in Yeovil, Somerset, led by Bruce Soord; drummer Gavin Harrison (King Crimson, Porcupine Tree) joined in 2016. Known for Your Wilderness, It Leads to This, and the 2026 album Far and Wide.
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther is a comedy franchise begun with the 1963 Blake Edwards film about Inspector Jacques Clouseau, Peter Sellers's bumbling French detective, and a famous pink diamond.