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The Rules of Attraction
The Rules of Attraction is Bret Easton Ellis's 1987 novel (Simon & Schuster, 250 pages) about Sean Bateman, Lauren, and Paul at fictional Camden College, adapted by Roger Avary into a 2002 cult film.
The Rules of Attraction (film)
The Rules of Attraction (2002) is Roger Avary's film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's 1987 novel, starring James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, and Ian Somerhalder as students in a love triangle at fictional Camden College; released by Lions Gate, rated R after an NC-17 dispute.
The Rules of the Game
The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu), Jean Renoir's 1939 French comedy-drama satirizing aristocrats and servants at a Sologne hunting party; booed, banned, cut, reconstructed in 1959, now a top-ranked masterpiece.
The Ruling Class
The Ruling Class (1972) is a British black comedy by Peter Medak, adapted from Peter Barnes's play, starring Peter O'Toole as the mad Earl of Gurney who believes he is Jesus Christ, then Jack the Ripper; Oscar-nominated, Cannes entry, Criterion Spine #132.
The Rum Diary (film)
The Rum Diary is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Bruce Robinson, starring Johnny Depp as a journalist in 1960s Puerto Rico, adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's novel.
The Rum Diary (novel)
The Rum Diary is Hunter S. Thompson's first novel, written around 1959 at age 22 about journalist Paul Kemp in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and published in 1998 after Johnny Depp found the manuscript; filmed in 2011.
The Rumour (TV series)
The Rumour is a 2025 British five-part Channel 5 psychological thriller adapted from Lesley Kara's 2019 novel, starring Rachel Shenton as Joanna, a mother whose rumour about child killer Sally McGowan in the town of Flinstead spirals into paranoia; aired 10-18 September 2025.
The Runarounds (band)
The Runarounds: American indie rock band from North Carolina, assembled via a Jonas and Josh Pate casting call, stars of the 2025 Prime Video series, debut 17-song soundtrack album, sold-out 2025 and 2026 Minivan Tours.
The Runarounds (TV series)
The Runarounds is an eight-episode Prime Video coming-of-age music drama created by Outer Banks co-creator Jonas Pate, premiering September 1, 2025, starring the real band The Runarounds; canceled April 2026 after one season.
The Runaway (painting)
The Runaway (painting): Norman Rockwell's 1958 oil on canvas Saturday Evening Post cover of a boy at a diner counter beside a state trooper; Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge; distinct from works by Munnings, McCubbin, and N.C. Wyeth of the same title.
The Runaway Jury
The Runaway Jury is John Grisham's 1996 Doubleday legal thriller about a tobacco trial in Biloxi, Mississippi, where Juror #2 secretly controls the verdict; adapted as the 2003 film Runaway Jury, which switched the defendant to a gun maker.
The Runaways
The Runaways: American all-female teenage rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1975 by Kim Fowley, featuring Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Cherie Currie, Sandy West, and Jackie Fox; four Mercury albums, "Cherry Bomb," Japanese success, dissolved April 1979.
The Runaways (2010 film)
The Runaways is a 2010 American biographical drama written and directed by Floria Sigismondi about the 1970s all-girl rock band the Runaways, starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning.
The Rundown
The Rundown is a 2003 American action comedy film directed by Peter Berg, in which bounty hunter Dwayne Johnson is sent into the Amazon to retrieve his employer's son.
The Runenberg
The Runenberg (Der Runenberg) is a fairy-tale novella by Ludwig Tieck, written in 1802 and published in 1804, telling of a gardener's son drawn to destruction by the mountain of the title.
The Runner (2015 film)
The Runner (2015) is an American political drama, the writing and directing debut of Austin Stark, starring Nicolas Cage as Louisiana congressman Colin Price, whose career collapses in a sex scandal after the 2010 BP oil spill; also starring Sarah Paulson, Connie Nielsen, Peter Fonda, and Wendell Pierce.
The Runner (2026 film)
The Runner (2026 film): Kevin Macdonald thriller on Prime Video starring Gal Gadot as a London lawyer forced to run and obey a kidnapper's calls (Damian Lewis) to save her son; 11% on Rotten Tomatoes; distinct from the Alan Ritchson film Runner.
The Running Man (1987 film)
The Running Man (1987) is a Paul Michael Glaser sci-fi action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards, forced onto a deadly game show in a totalitarian 2019 America; loosely based on Stephen King's Richard Bachman novel, remade by Edgar Wright in 2025.
The Running Man (2025 film)
The Running Man is a 2025 American-British dystopian action thriller directed by Edgar Wright, starring Glen Powell as a man hunted on a deadly televised game show.
The Running Man (novel)
The Running Man is a dystopian science fiction novel by Stephen King, published in 1982. It follows Ben Richards, who must evade hunters for $1 billion.
The Rush That Never Ended
The Rush That Never Ended is a history of Australian mining by historian Geoffrey Blainey, first published by Melbourne University Press in 1963 and revised through 2003.
The Russia House (film)
The Russia House is a 1990 American spy drama directed by Fred Schepisi from John le Carré's 1989 novel, starring Sean Connery as a publisher recruited to assess a Soviet manuscript.
The Russian Idea
The Russian Idea (Русская идея) is a 1946 book by the Russian religious philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev, published in Paris, surveying Russian thought of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is Norman Jewison's 1966 Cold War comedy, adapted from Nathaniel Benchley's The Off-Islanders, about a grounded Soviet submarine off New England; it won two Golden Globes and earned four Oscar nominations.
The Rutles
The Rutles are a Beatles parody band created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes in 1975, known for the 1978 mockumentary All You Need Is Cash.
The S.O.S. Band
The S.O.S. Band (Sounds of Success) is an American R&B and electro-funk band formed in Atlanta in 1977, known for "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" and Jam & Lewis-produced hits like "Just Be Good to Me" that popularized the Roland TR-808.
The Sabarmati Report
The Sabarmati Report (द साबरमती रिपोर्ट), 2024 Hindi political drama by Dheeraj Sarna starring Vikrant Massey, based on the 2002 Godhra train burning; released 15 November 2024, streamed on ZEE5 from January 2025.
The Sacrament (2013 film)
The Sacrament (2013) is Ti West's found-footage-style horror thriller, produced by Eli Roth, about Vice journalists visiting the Eden Parish commune, a fictionalized retelling of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre; released by Magnolia in 2014, grossing $9,221, with a 66% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions is a 1986 essay collection by Laguna Pueblo writer Paula Gunn Allen, published by Beacon Press.
The Sacred Night
The Sacred Night (La Nuit sacrée) is a 1987 novel by Moroccan-born French writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, a sequel to The Sand Child that won the 1987 Prix Goncourt.