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Rent: Live
Rent: Live is a 2019 Fox television adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Broadway musical Rent, broadcast January 27, 2019, mostly from prerecorded dress-rehearsal footage after an injury.
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Repo! The Genetic Opera is a 2008 American horror rock musical directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, written by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, set in 2056 where GeneCo repossesses organs from clients who miss payments; a flop that became a Rocky Horror-style cult film.
Rescue Dawn
Rescue Dawn (2006) is a Werner Herzog war drama based on the true story of pilot Dieter Dengler, detailing his ordeal in a Laotian jungle POW camp.
Resistance (2020 film)
Resistance is a 2020 biographical drama, also released as Niezłomni, written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz. Jesse Eisenberg plays Marcel Marceau, the French Jewish Resistance member who saved orphaned children from Klaus Barbie's Nazis; mixed reviews, 58% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Respect (2021 film)
Respect is a 2021 American biographical drama about singer Aretha Franklin, directed by Liesl Tommy in her feature debut and starring Jennifer Hudson, tracing Franklin's rise from Detroit to superstardom.
Restrepo (film)
Restrepo (2010) is a war documentary by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington following a 173rd Airborne platoon in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley; Sundance Grand Jury winner, Oscar-nominated, named for outpost honoring medic Juan Restrepo.
Retirement Plan
Retirement Plan is a 2024 Irish animated short film by John Kelly, also called a 7-minute Oscar-nominated comedy. Domhnall Gleeson voices Ray, a middle-aged Dubliner listing everything he will do in retirement; it won SXSW 2025 Grand Jury and Audience Awards.
Return of the Jungle
Return of the Jungle (रेतुर्न ऑफ़ थे जंगल) is a 2026 Hindi animated feature by Vaibhav Kumaresh's Vaibhav Studios, self-financed over about 15 years, released May 29, 2026, about schoolkids, a bully, and Panchatantra-style jungle tales.
Return to Oz
Return to Oz (1985) is Walt Disney's dark fantasy film directed by Walter Murch, starring Fairuza Balk as Dorothy, adapted from Baum's Ozma of Oz and The Land of Oz, a box-office failure that earned a Best Visual Effects Oscar nomination.
Reversal of Fortune
Reversal of Fortune is a 1990 Barbet Schroeder drama, from Alan Dershowitz's book, about Claus von Bulow's appeal; Jeremy Irons won the 1991 Best Actor Oscar. The phrase also names academic reversal-of-fortune theses.
Revisionist Western
Revisionist Western: a Western film, TV, or literary mode that subverts classical genre conventions and frontier myth, flourishing in the late 1960s and 1970s amid Vietnam-era upheaval, with films like The Wild Bunch, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Little Big Man, and Unforgiven, and debated by scholars like Barry Langford and Andrew Patrick Nelson.
Revolutionary Road (film)
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 drama directed by Sam Mendes, adapted from Richard Yates's 1961 novel, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as an unhappily married couple.
Richard III (1955 film)
Richard III (1955) is Laurence Olivier's third Shakespeare film as director and star, adapted from Shakespeare's Richard III and Henry VI Part 3, shot in VistaVision and Technicolor, a U.S. box-office failure that became a classic after its landmark NBC television premiere.
Richard III (1995 film)
Richard III (1995) is Richard Loncraine's film of Shakespeare's play, starring and co-written by Ian McKellen, set in a fascist 1930s England; it won the Silver Bear for Best Director and earned two Oscar nominations.
Richard Jewell (film)
Richard Jewell (2019) is Clint Eastwood's biographical drama, written by Billy Ray, about the security guard falsely suspected in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, starring Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Olivia Wilde, and Jon Hamm; it drew controversy over its portrayal of reporter Kathy Scruggs.
Riders of the Purple Sage (film adaptations)
Film and television adaptations of Zane Grey's 1912 Western novel Riders of the Purple Sage: five screen versions (1918 William Farnum, 1925 Tom Mix, 1931 George O'Brien, 1941 George Montgomery, all Fox; 1996 TNT with Ed Harris), plus a 2018 stage musical.
Riding in Cars with Boys
Riding in Cars with Boys is a 2001 Penny Marshall comedy-drama starring Drew Barrymore as writer Beverly Donofrio, adapted from Donofrio's 1990 memoir about teenage pregnancy, single motherhood, and a writing career; released by Columbia Pictures.
Rikidozan (力道山)
Rikidozan (역도산, 力道山), also titled Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinary, is a 2004 South Korean biographical drama by Song Hae-sung starring Sul Kyung-gu as the Korean-born wrestler who became postwar Japan's national hero; released in Korea December 15, 2004 and Japan March 4, 2006.
Rio (2011 film)
Rio (2011) is a Blue Sky Studios 3D animated musical comedy directed by Carlos Saldanha, starring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway as Spix's macaws Blu and Jewel; it grossed $483.9 million worldwide and spawned Rio 2 (2014).
Rise of the Guardians
Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 DreamWorks animated film in which Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and Jack Frost battle the Boogeyman.
Risen (2016 film)
Risen is a 2016 American biblical drama film directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Joseph Fiennes as a Roman tribune who investigates Jesus's disappearance from the tomb.
Rite Here Rite Now
Rite Here Rite Now is Ghost's 2024 debut feature concert film, co-directed by Tobias Forge and Alex Ross Perry, filmed at two sold-out 2023 Kia Forum shows, mixing live footage with narrative from the band's Chapters webisodes; it grossed $4.7M worldwide.
Road movie
Road movie: film genre in which protagonists journey by car or road, defined by movement, rebellion, escape, and transformation. Rooted in US cinema and the frontier ethos, consolidated by Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider, now a global genre.
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is Morgan Neville's 2021 Focus Features documentary on chef Anthony Bourdain, praised by critics but known for its undisclosed AI recreation of Bourdain's voice in three lines.
Roadside Romeo
Roadside Romeo (2008) is an Indian computer-animated musical comedy, the first co-production of Yash Raj Films and Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Jugal Hansraj, voiced by Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, and Jaaved Jaaferi, and winner of the National Film Award for Best Animation Film.
Roaring Currents: The Road of the Admiral (명량: 회오리 바다를 향하여)
Roaring Currents: The Road of the Admiral (명량: 회오리 바다를 향하여) is a 2015 South Korean documentary by Kim Han-min and Jung Se-kyo, a prequel to The Admiral: Roaring Currents, retracing Yi Sun-sin's 16-day naval-reconstruction route before the 1597 Battle of Myeongnyang.
Robert the Bruce (film)
Robert the Bruce (2019) is a historical drama directed by Richard Gray, written with Eric Belgau, starring Angus Macfadyen reprising his Braveheart role; released on VOD April 24, 2020 after its theatrical run was canceled; 43% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Robin and Marian
Robin and Marian (1976) is a Richard Lester adventure romance, written by James Goldman, starring Sean Connery as an aging Robin Hood and Audrey Hepburn as a Marian now a mother superior, released by Columbia.
Robin Hood (1973 film)
Robin Hood (1973) is Disney's 83-minute animated musical directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, the studio's first all-animal feature, with Robin as a fox, a $4-5 million budget, $32 million domestic gross, and an Oscar-nominated song "Love."
Robin Hood (2010 film)
Robin Hood (2010) is Ridley Scott's historical action-adventure origin story starring Russell Crowe as Robin Longstride and Cate Blanchett as Marion Loxley, written by Brian Helgeland from the spec script Nottingham, released by Universal in May 2010.