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The Railway Man (film)
The Railway Man (2013) is a Jonathan Teplitzky drama starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine, and Hiroyuki Sanada, adapted from Eric Lomax's memoir of torture on the Death Railway and his reconciliation with Takashi Nagase.
The Railway Men
The Railway Men: The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984 is a four-episode Netflix Hindi limited series (November 18, 2023), YRF Entertainment's first, directed by Shiv Rawail, starring Kay Kay Menon, R. Madhavan, Divyenndu, and Babil Khan as railway workers saving lives in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
The Rain (TV series)
The Rain is a Danish post-apocalyptic Netflix drama (2018-2020), the first Danish Netflix original, created by Jannik Tai Mosholt, Esben Toft Jacobsen, and Christian Potalivo for Miso Film. Three seasons, 20 episodes, about siblings surviving a rain-borne virus in Scandinavia.
The Rain Song
"The Rain Song" (Arabic: Unshudat al-Matar) is a 1954 poem by the Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, regarded as a landmark of modern Arabic poetry.
The Rainbow
The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrence's fourth novel (Methuen, 30 September 1915), tracing three generations of the Brangwen family in the Nottinghamshire–Derbyshire Midlands. Banned for obscenity in November 1915; companion to Women in Love; adapted for BBC TV (1988) and film (1989).
The Rainbow Goblins (虹伝説) (album)
The Rainbow Goblins (虹伝説, Niji Densetsu) is a 1981 jazz fusion concept album by Masayoshi Takanaka, his first double album, setting Ul de Rico's 1978 picture book of seven rainbow-eating goblins to 14 tracks with narration.
The Rainmaker (1997 film)
The Rainmaker, also known as John Grisham's The Rainmaker, is a 1997 American legal drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Matt Damon as a young lawyer battling an insurance company.
The Rainmaker (TV series)
The Rainmaker (TV series) is a 2025 USA Network legal drama adapted from John Grisham's 1995 novel, produced by Lionsgate Television and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, starring Milo Callaghan as Rudy Baylor; renewed for a second season premiering October 16, 2026.
The Rains Came
The Rains Came is a 1939 Twentieth Century-Fox drama directed by Clarence Brown, starring Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, and George Brent, based on Louis Bromfield's novel, and winner of the first Best Special Effects Oscar.
The Rains of Castamere
The Rains of Castamere, also known as the Red Wedding episode, is Game of Thrones season 3 episode 9 (2013), directed by David Nutter, depicting the Frey massacre of the Starks; it holds a 9.9 IMDb rating and 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Rainy Spell
The Rainy Spell (Jangma) is a 1973 short story by South Korean writer Yun Heunggil, portraying the Korean War's division of one family through a boy's eyes.
The RajaSaab (ప్రభాస్)
The RajaSaab (ది రాజా సాబ్), also called The Raja Saab, is a 2026 Telugu fantasy horror comedy directed by Maruthi, starring Prabhas in a dual role with Sanjay Dutt, released January 9, 2026, on a ₹400 crore budget.
The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is Igor Stravinsky's only full-length opera, a three-act neoclassical work with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, inspired by Hogarth's paintings and premiered at Venice's Teatro La Fenice on 11 September 1951.
The Ramen Girl (ラーメンガール)
The Ramen Girl (ラーメンガール) is a 2008 comedy-drama starring Brittany Murphy as an American stranded in Tokyo who apprentices to ramen chef Maezumi (Toshiyuki Nishida), directed by Robert Allan Ackerman, a Tampopo homage that grossed $179,590 internationally.
THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE
THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE is a 16-member Japanese dance and vocal boy group formed in 2014 through three auditions, which debuted in 2017 with the single "Lightning".
The Ramparts of Ice
The Ramparts of Ice (氷の城壁, Kōri no Jōheki) is a Japanese romance manga by Kocha Agasawa, serialized from 2020 on LINE Manga (117 chapters), collected by Shueisha Jump Comics in 14 full-color volumes, and adapted into a 2026 Studio Kai anime streaming on Netflix with a second season in October 2026.
The Ranch
The Ranch (2016-2020) is Netflix's first original comedy series, a multi-camera sitcom by Don Reo and Jim Patterson starring Ashton Kutcher, Sam Elliott, and Debra Winger as the Colorado Bennett family, 80 episodes, three Emmys.
The Ransom of Red Chief
The Ransom of Red Chief is O. Henry's 1907 comic short story, first printed in The Saturday Evening Post and collected in Whirligigs, in which kidnappers Bill and Sam are overpowered by their captive Johnny Dorset, the self-styled Red Chief.
The Rap of China (中国有嘻哈)
The Rap of China (中国有嘻哈) is iQiyi's 2017 hip-hop talent show, China's first, with producers Kris Wu, MC HotDog, and Will Pan; winners GAI and PG One; over 3 billion views; rebranded 中国新说唱 after 2018 censorship.
The Rape of Lucrece
Shakespeare's narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece (also titled Lucrece, published 1594 in rhyme royal) retells Lucretia's rape by Tarquin and suicide, which founded the Roman Republic.
The Rape of Proserpina
The Rape of Proserpina (Ratto di Proserpina) is a 1621–1622 Baroque marble group by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, showing Pluto abducting Proserpina, famous for fingers sinking into marble flesh, now in Rome's Galleria Borghese.
The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock: Alexander Pope's mock-epic poem, first published in two cantos in 1712 and expanded to five in 1714, satirizing Lord Petre's snipping of a lock of Arabella Fermor's hair.
The Rape of the Sabine Women
The Rape of the Sabine Women (Italian: Ratto delle Sabine) is a marble sculpture group by Giambologna, standing since 1582 under the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence.
The Rapists of Pepsi Paloma
The Rapists of Pepsi Paloma (retitled Pepsi Paloma in the Philippines) is Darryl Yap's 2025 biographical drama about actress Pepsi Paloma's 1982 rape case, which drew a P35 million cyberlibel suit from Vic Sotto, a teaser takedown order, and a postponed release.
The Rapture (band)
The Rapture is an American dance-punk band formed in 1998, known for "House of Jealous Lovers" and the DFA-produced Echoes (2003); albums Mirror, Pieces of the People We Love, In the Grace of Your Love.
The Rapture (TV series)
The Rapture is a five-part British psychological thriller broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer in 2026, adapted from Liz Jensen's 2010 novel and starring Ruth Madeley and India Amarteifio.
The Rare Breed
The Rare Breed is a 1966 Universal Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, and Juliet Mills, about an English widow bringing a Hereford bull to Texas.
The Rascals
The Rascals (the Young Rascals), American blue-eyed soul band formed 1965 in Garfield, New Jersey, by Cavaliere, Brigati, Cornish, and Danelli; No. 1 hits "Good Lovin'", "Groovin'", "People Got to Be Free"; Rock Hall 1997.
The Rasmus
The Rasmus, Finnish rock band formed in Helsinki in 1994 by Lauri Ylönen, Eero Heinonen, Pauli Rantasalmi and later Aki Hakala; broke through internationally with Dead Letters (2003) and "In the Shadows", won UMK 2022 with "Jezebel" for Eurovision, and has sold over 3.5 million albums.
The Rat Patrol
The Rat Patrol (1966–68) was ABC's half-hour WWII action series about three Americans and a Brit in jeeps battling Rommel's Afrika Korps, loosely based on the British LRDG and SAS, starring Christopher George and Eric Braeden, pulled by the BBC after six episodes.