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Upendra Kumar
Upendra Kumar (ಉಪೇಂದ್ರ ಕುಮಾರ್) was an Indian film music director who worked chiefly in Kannada cinema, scoring films for Dr Rajkumar from Katariveera (1966) onward.
Upendra Limaye (उपेंद्र लिमये)
Upendra Limaye (उपेंद्र लिमये), Marathi stage-trained Indian actor, National Film Award Best Actor winner for Jogwa (2009); films include Mukta, Chandni Bar, Page 3, Mulshi Pattern, and Freddy Patil in Animal (2023).
Upendranath Ashk
Upendranath Ashk (1910–1996) was an Indian novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began in Urdu in Lahore and became a major, controversial figure of 20th-century Hindi literature, best known for Girti Divarein.
Upgrade (film)
Upgrade (2018) is a cyberpunk action-thriller written and directed by Leigh Whannell, starring Logan Marshall-Green as Grey Trace, a paralyzed widower whose AI implant STEM grants superhuman abilities for revenge; a $3 million Blumhouse film that grossed $16.7 million.
Upgraded
Upgraded is a 2024 American romantic comedy on Prime Video, directed by Carlson Young, starring Camila Mendes as intern Ana Santos, Archie Renaux, and Marisa Tomei; released February 9, 2024, rated R, 104 minutes, 76% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Upin & Ipin (اوڤين دان ايڤين)
Upin & Ipin (اوڤين دان ايڤين) is a Malaysian 3D animated series by Les' Copaque about five-year-old twin boys in a kampung setting, spun off from Geng in 2007 and hugely popular in Indonesia.
Upkar (उपकार)
Upkar (उपकार) is a 1967 Hindi patriotic drama directed, written, and starring Manoj Kumar as farmer Bharat, inspired by Shastri's 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan' slogan; it was 1967's biggest hit, winning seven Filmfare Awards and National Awards, with the anthem 'Mere Desh Ki Dharti'.
Uplift Universe
Uplift Universe (Uplift Saga) is David Brin's hard science fiction setting of six novels, 1980-1998, where patron races genetically uplift species to sapience and own them for 100,000 years; unuplifted humanity, with neo-chimp and neo-dolphin clients, upends the galactic order.
Uplifting trance
Uplifting trance, also known as anthem trance or euphoric trance, is a melodic subgenre of trance music with a tempo of around 138 BPM, emerging in the late 1990s from hard trance and anthem house.
Upload (TV series)
Upload is a Prime Video sci-fi comedy created by Greg Daniels, set in 2033, where the dying can upload into corporate virtual afterlives like Lakeview; it ran four seasons, 2020 to 2025.
Upopo
Upopo (ウポポ) is a genre of Ainu traditional song, sung by people seated in a circle without instruments or dancing, chiefly by women on ritual occasions.
Uppena (ఉప్పేన)
Uppena (ఉప్పేన), 2021 Telugu romantic drama directed by Buchi Babu Sana, debuting Panja Vaisshnav Tej and Krithi Shetty opposite Vijay Sethupathi; released 12 Feb 2021, music by Devi Sri Prasad, a caste-honor love story that earned about 47 crore share on a 21 crore budget.
Upper Middle Bogan
Upper Middle Bogan is an Australian sitcom created by Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope, aired on ABC1 2013-2016 in three 8-episode seasons. Doctor Bess Denyar discovers her birth family runs a drag-racing team; AACTA 2016 Best Comedy winner.
Uppi 2 (ಉಪ್ಪಿ ೨)
Uppi 2 (ಉಪ್ಪಿ ೨), also known as Upendra 2, is a 2015 Kannada psychological thriller written, directed by, and starring Upendra, sequel to his 1999 film Upendra, released 14 August 2015 with a same-day Telugu dub.
Uppu Kappurambu (ఉప్పు కప్పురంబు)
Uppu Kappurambu (ఉప్పు కప్పురంబు, "Salt and Camphor") is a 2025 Telugu satirical comedy-drama directed by Ani I.V. Sasi, starring Keerthy Suresh and Suhas, released July 4, 2025 on Prime Video, set in fictional 1990s village Chitti Jayapuram facing a graveyard space crisis.
Uppu Puli Kaaram (உப்பு புளி காரம்)
Uppu Puli Kaaram (உப்பு புளி காரம்) is a 2024 Tamil comedy-drama web series, a remake of the Korean My Father Is Strange, directed by M. Ramesh Baarathi for Vikatan Televistas, streaming 128 episodes on Disney+ Hotstar from May 2024 to January 2025.
Uppum Mulakum (ഉപ്പും മുളകും)
Uppum Mulakum (ഉപ്പും മുളകും), Malayalam family sitcom on Flowers TV since 14 December 2015, set in Balachandran Thampi's Kulathara Shoolankudi household; Biju Sopanam and Nisha Sarang star; three seasons, 1,200-plus episodes.
Upright Citizens Brigade
Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) is an American improv and sketch comedy institution founded by Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh, behind the Comedy Central series (1998-2000), the UCB method of "game of the scene," and theatres and training centers in New York and Los Angeles.
Uprising (2024 film)
Uprising (전,란) is a 2024 South Korean action war film directed by Kim Sang-man, written by Shin Chul and Park Chan-wook, starring Gang Dong-won and Park Jeong-min as friends turned enemies during the Imjin War; released on Netflix October 11, 2024.
Uproar (film)
Uproar is a 2023 New Zealand coming-of-age comedy-drama directed by Hamish Bennett and Paul Middleditch, starring Julian Dennison, Minnie Driver, Rhys Darby, and James Rolleston, set in Dunedin in 1981 during the anti-Springbok tour protests.
Upside Down (2012 film)
Upside Down (2012) is a French-Canadian sci-fi romance by Juan Solanas starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst as lovers on twinned worlds with opposite gravities. Budgeted $50-60 million, it grossed about $22-26 million worldwide and earned 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Upside Down (Stranger Things)
Upside Down, the dark parallel dimension in Netflix's Stranger Things, first shown as Hawkins's mirror world with Demogorgons; Season 5's 'The Bridge' reveals it is actually a wormhole connecting Earth to the Abyss, held together by unstable dark matter.
Upstairs Downstairs (2010 TV series)
Upstairs Downstairs (2010–2012), BBC One revival of the 1970s ITV classic, created by Heidi Thomas, set in 1936 at 165 Eaton Place with Jean Marsh as Rose Buck; nine episodes, canceled 2012 after ratings fell against Downton Abbey.
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)
Upstairs, Downstairs is a British ITV drama created by Eileen Atkins and Jean Marsh, broadcast 1971–1975, following the Bellamy family and servants at 165 Eaton Place.
Upstart Crow
Upstart Crow is a BBC Two sitcom (2016–2020) created and written by Ben Elton, starring David Mitchell as William Shakespeare, with Liza Tarbuck as Anne Hathaway and Mark Heap as Robert Greene, whose 1592 "upstart crow" insult gives the show its title; three series, Christmas specials, a West End stage adaptation, and a 2026 BBC cancellation.
Upstream Color
Upstream Color (2013) is Shane Carruth's experimental sci-fi follow-up to Primer, starring Amy Seimetz; a parasite links a woman, pigs, and orchids in a looping narrative that won Sundance's Sound Design award.
Uptempo hardcore
Uptempo hardcore is a fast subgenre of hardcore electronic dance music that emerged in the Netherlands in the early 2010s, defined by distorted kicks, screeching leads, and tempos past 200 BPM.
Uptight
Uptight (Up Tight!), 1968 American drama by blacklisted director Jules Dassin; all-Black remake of Ford's The Informer set in Cleveland after MLK's assassination; Paramount; box-office failure; Booker T. Jones score.
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), American muckraking novelist and socialist activist, author of The Jungle (1906), whose exposé of Chicago meatpacking spurred the 1906 Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts; Pulitzer winner for Dragon's Teeth and 1934 EPIC candidate for California governor.
Uptown Funk
Uptown Funk: 2014 funk-pop single by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, lead single from Uptown Special. 14 weeks at US No. 1, best-selling single of 2015, Grammy Record of the Year, later credits changed after Gap Band similarity claim.