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The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World
Saikyou Onmyouji no Isekai Tenseiki (最強陰陽師の異世界転生記), also The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World, is Kiichi Kosuzu's isekai fantasy about onmyoji Haruyoshi Kugano reborn as Seika Lamprogue; web novel from 2018, Futabasha light novels and Okazaki manga, 2023 Studio Blanc anime.
The Relic
The Relic is a 1997 American horror film directed by Peter Hyams, based on the novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, about a monster loose in a Chicago museum.
The Reluctant Bride
The Reluctant Bride (La Fiancée hésitante), also titled Un mariage de raison, is Auguste Toulmouche's 1866 oil painting of an angry bride at an arranged marriage, shown at the 1866 Salon, privately held, and revived as a TikTok feminist meme in 2023.
The Reluctant Debutante
The Reluctant Debutante is a 1958 MGM comedy directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Sandra Dee, and John Saxon, adapted from William Douglas Home's play about the last London debutante season.
The Reluctant Dragon (1941 film)
The Reluctant Dragon (1941) is a 73-minute Disney feature in which Robert Benchley tours the Burbank studio; Walt Disney's first feature onscreen appearance, released amid the 1941 animators' strike, with Baby Weems, How to Ride a Horse, and the title dragon cartoon.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's 2007 Booker-shortlisted novel, a dramatic monologue in which Pakistani Princeton graduate Changez recounts his post-9/11 disillusionment with America to an American stranger in a Lahore café; adapted by Mira Nair in 2013.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (film)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012), Mira Nair's film adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, stars Riz Ahmed as Changez, a Pakistani whose American Dream collapses after 9/11, interviewed in Lahore by Liev Schreiber's journalist.
The Reluctant Traveler
The Reluctant Traveler (full title The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy) is an Apple TV+ travel documentary-comedy series hosted by Eugene Levy, a self-described non-traveler. Three seasons since February 2023; season 4 announced June 2026; produced by Twofour; Emmy-nominated.
The Reluctant Vampire
The Reluctant Vampire is a 2026 BBC One family sitcom, 6 x 30 minutes, adapting Eric Morecambe's 1982 children's novel and its sequel. Written by Neil and Rob Gibbons, it stars Lenny Rush as Val, a human raised in a vampire family, premiered 4 October 2026 at 6:40pm.
The Remaining
The Remaining is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by Casey La Scala, starring Alexa PenaVega, about friends facing the Rapture at a wedding; also a 2026 Finnish short by Kimi Issakainen.
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 third novel, winner of the Booker Prize, narrated by Stevens, an unreliable butler at Darlington Hall recalling his service to a Nazi-sympathizing lord and his repressed feelings for housekeeper Miss Kenton.
The Remains of the Day (film)
The Remains of the Day (1993) is James Ivory's Merchant Ivory drama adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker-winning novel, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, with eight Oscar nominations and a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin is a 2024 Norwegian Netflix documentary by Benjamin Ree about Mats Steen, who died at 25 of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and the World of Warcraft avatar Ibelin through which he built a hidden online community.
The Remarried Empress (재혼 황후)
The Remarried Empress (재혼 황후, Jaehon Hwanghu) is a Korean romance fantasy web novel by Alphatart about Empress Navier, who demands remarriage approval when Emperor Sovieshu divorces her; it became a 2.97-billion-view webtoon and a Disney+ drama premiering November 4, 2026.
The Remarried Empress (재혼황후) (novel)
The Remarried Empress (재혼황후) is a South Korean romance-fantasy web novel by Alphatart, serialized on Naver Series from 2018, about an empress who remarries after divorce.
The Rembrandts
The Rembrandts are the American pop-rock duo of Danny Wilde and Phil Solem, formed in Los Angeles in 1989, best known for "I'll Be There for You," the Friends theme, plus the 1990 hit "Just the Way It Is, Baby" and the Platinum album L.P.
The Remedy (film)
The Remedy is a 2025 psychological supernatural horror film by director Alex Kahuam and writer Daniel Kuhlman, starring Timothy Granaderos, London Thor, Doug Jones, Jenny O'Hara, and Chris Mulkey; it premiered at SXSW London in June 2026 after Cannes Fantastic Pavilion, about a son whose herbal remedy for his dying mother unleashes a flesh-eating entity.
The Removalists
The Removalists is a 1971 play by Australian playwright David Williamson, a dark satire in which a domestic-violence complaint escalates into a police beating. It premiered at La Mama in Melbourne.
The Ren & Stimpy Show
The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991–1995) is a Nickelodeon Nicktoons cartoon by John Kricfalusi about a temperamental Chihuahua and a dimwitted cat, famous for gross-out humor, the 1992 firing of its creator, and later abuse allegations.
The Rental
The Rental is a 2020 American horror-thriller, Dave Franco's directorial debut, co-written with Joe Swanberg, starring Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand, and Jeremy Allen White as couples spied on at a vacation rental.
The Rentals
The Rentals, American rock band formed 1994 by ex-Weezer bassist Matt Sharp; new wave synth-pop project behind Return of the Rentals (1995), "Friends of P.", Seven More Minutes, Lost in Alphaville, and Q36.
The Repair Shop
The Repair Shop is a BBC television series produced by Ricochet since March 2017, in which craftspeople led by presenter Jay Blades restore family heirlooms of sentimental rather than monetary value, without competition elements.
The Repeating Island
The Repeating Island (Spanish: La isla que se repite) is a 1989 essay by Cuban writer Antonio Benítez-Rojo that reinterprets Caribbean culture through chaos theory.
The Replacement Killers
The Replacement Killers is a 1998 American action thriller, the directorial debut of Antoine Fuqua and the Hollywood debut of Hong Kong star Chow Yun-fat, alongside Mira Sorvino.
The Replacements (band)
The Replacements were a Minneapolis rock band (1979-1991) led by Paul Westerberg with the Stinson brothers and Chris Mars; albums Let It Be, Tim, and Pleased to Meet Me made them forerunners of 1990s alternative rock.
The Replacements (film)
The Replacements is a 2000 American sports comedy directed by Howard Deutch, starring Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman as a replacement-team quarterback and coach during a fictional football strike, loosely based on the 1987 NFL strike; it grossed $44.7M and scored 41% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Replacements (TV series)
The Replacements is a Disney Channel animated series (2006-2009) created by Dan Santat about orphans Todd and Riley, who use the Fleemco phone to replace adults, gaining spy mom Agent K and daredevil dad Dick Daring; 52 episodes, two seasons.
The Report (2019 film)
The Report (2019 film), directed by Scott Z. Burns, dramatizes Daniel Jones's Senate investigation of the CIA's post-9/11 torture program, starring Adam Driver and Annette Bening, released by Amazon Studios after a $14 million Sundance buy.
The Reptile
The Reptile (1966) is a Hammer Films horror directed by John Gilling, written by Anthony Hinds, starring Noel Willman, Ray Barrett, and Jacqueline Pearce as a cursed snake woman in Cornwall; shot back to back with The Plague of the Zombies and released with Rasputin the Mad Monk.
The Reptile Room
The Reptile Room is Book the Second of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), published by HarperCollins in 1999, in which the Baudelaire orphans live with herpetologist Uncle Monty while Count Olaf, disguised as Stephano, murders him.