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Dino De Laurentiis
Dino De Laurentiis (Agostino De Laurentiis, 1919-2010), Italian-American film producer of La Strada, Serpico, King Kong, Dune, and Hannibal; founded Dinocittà and DEG, pioneered pre-sales financing, won the 2001 Thalberg Award.
Dino Morea
Dino Morea (born 1975, Bangalore) is an Indian actor, model, and producer known for Raaz (2002) with Bipasha Basu, the series The Empire, Telugu debut Agent (2023), and ventures like Fresh Press and Pet Fed.
Dinosaur (2000 film)
Dinosaur, also known as Disney's Dinosaur, is a 2000 animated adventure film following Aladar, an iguanodon raised by lemurs, as he joins a herd searching for nesting grounds.
Dinotopia (miniseries)
Dinotopia (2002): a six-hour Hallmark Entertainment miniseries on ABC, directed by Marco Brambilla, adapted from James Gurney's books about castaway brothers in a human-dinosaur world; $80 million budget and record 1,800 VFX shots.
Dipika Chikhlia
Dipika Chikhlia, also credited Deepika Chikhalia Topiwala, is an Indian actress born 1965 in Mumbai, famous as Sita in Ramanand Sagar's 1987 Doordarshan Ramayan; later a 1991 member of Parliament and producer of Dhartiputra Nandini.
Direct-to-video
Direct-to-video, also called straight-to-video or direct-to-DVD, is film distribution without a theatrical run, on VHS or DVD; prominent in the US since the mid-1980s and in Japan as V-Cinema, later absorbed into streaming-era digital-first release.
Director X
Director X (Julien Christian Lutz, born 1975, Toronto), formerly Little X, is a Canadian music video and film director, protégé of Hype Williams, known for Drake's "Hotline Bling", Rihanna's "Work", and films Superfly and Across the Line.
Director's cut
Director's cut: a film version presenting the director's own edit, from the DGA's 1964 contractual right to the marketing label on longer home-video and streaming releases, distinct from the theatrical cut, final cut, and restored versions.
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing (1987), Emile Ardolino's romance starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze, written by Eleanor Bergstein; a $6 million Vestron film that grossed $214.6 million worldwide, topped 1988 video rentals, and joined the National Film Registry in 2024.
Dirty Dancing (2017 film)
Dirty Dancing (2017) is an ABC television film remake of the 1987 movie, directed by Wayne Blair, starring Abigail Breslin and Colt Prattes; it drew 6.6 million viewers but scored 39 on Metacritic and 19% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights is a 2004 romance-dance film directed by Guy Ferland, starring Romola Garai and Diego Luna, set in 1958 Havana on the eve of Castro's revolution; a poorly received prequel to the 1987 Dirty Dancing with a Patrick Swayze cameo.
Dirty Grandpa
Dirty Grandpa (2016), Dan Mazer comedy starring Robert De Niro and Zac Efron: a widowed grandfather tricks his lawyer grandson into a Daytona Beach spring break road trip; grossed about $94 million but scored 10% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Dirty Hari
Dirty Hari (Telugu: డర్టీ హరి) is a 2020 Telugu erotic thriller written and directed by M. S. Raju, starring Shravan Reddy, Ruhani Sharma, and Simrat Kaur; released 18 December 2020 on Friday Movies, certified A, later streaming on aha.
Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry is a 1971 American police thriller directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood as detective Harry Callahan, who hunts a rooftop sniper named Scorpio.
Dirty Harry (film series)
The Dirty Harry film series: five American action-thrillers (1971-1988) starring Clint Eastwood as San Francisco Inspector Harry Callahan, the renegade cop with a .44 Magnum who became a conservative icon.
Dirty Pretty Things (film)
Dirty Pretty Things is a 2002 Stephen Frears thriller, Steven Knight's first screenplay, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Audrey Tautou as undocumented London immigrants who uncover a hotel-based organ trafficking ring; Oscar-nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Frank Oz, starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin as rival con men on the French Riviera.
Dirty Work (1998 film)
Dirty Work (1998) is a Bob Saget-directed MGM comedy starring and co-written by Norm Macdonald with Artie Lange, about a revenge-for-hire business; it flopped ($10M gross on $13M budget) but became a cult classic, restored in 2025 with the long-lost Dirtier Cut.
Disappearance at Clifton Hill
Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2019) is a Canadian neo-noir thriller by Albert Shin, starring Tuppence Middleton, about a woman investigating a childhood kidnapping memory in Niagara Falls; premiered at TIFF 2019, released February 28, 2020.
Disaster film
Disaster film (disaster movie, catastrophe film): a film genre in which a man-made or natural calamity placing people in imminent danger is the core of the story. Known for US cycles in 1953–59, 1972–79, and 1993–96, the 1970s wave beginning with Airport (1970), and studies of its sublime spectacle versus hazard messaging.
Disaster Movie
Disaster Movie is a 2008 American parody comedy film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, in which twenty-somethings flee catastrophes including twisters, asteroids, and earthquakes over a single night.
Disciples of Hippocrates (ヒポクラテスたち)
Disciples of Hippocrates (ヒポクラテスたち) is a 1980 Japanese ensemble drama, 126 minutes, directed by Kazuki Omori about Kyoto medical students in clinical training; released by ATG, 3rd in Kinema Junpo Best Ten.
Disciples of Shaolin (洪拳小子)
Disciples of Shaolin (洪拳小子, Hong quan xiao zi), aka The Invincible One, is a 1975 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Chang Cheh, starring Fu Sheng and Chi Kuan-chun as rival-bonded Shaolin disciples in a textile-mill feud; it sparked the xiaozi kid-film wave.
Disciples of the 36th Chamber (霹雳十杰)
Disciples of the 36th Chamber (霹雳十杰, aka Disciples of the Master Killers) is a 1985 Shaw Brothers kung fu comedy directed by Lau Kar-leung, third in his Shaolin trilogy, starring Hsiao Hou as Fang Shiyu and Gordon Liu as monk San Te.
Disciples of the Crow
Disciples of the Crow (1983) is a John Woodward short horror film, the first screen adaptation of Stephen King's "Children of the Corn", a Dollar Baby set in Jonah, Oklahoma, released a year before the 1984 feature.
Disclosure (1994 film)
Disclosure (1994) is a Barry Levinson thriller starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, adapted from Michael Crichton's novel, about a male executive accused of harassment by his new female boss; it grossed $214 million worldwide.
Disclosure Day
Disclosure Day is a 2026 Steven Spielberg sci-fi thriller (screenplay David Koepp, Universal/Amblin, 145 min) starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, and Colin Firth, about exposing a Wardex corporate cover-up of alien contact; opened June 12, 2026 with $44 million domestic.
Disco Dancer (डिस्को डांसर)
Disco Dancer (डिस्को डांसर) is a 1982 Hindi musical drama directed by Babbar Subhash, starring Mithun Chakraborty as Jimmy, with Bappi Lahiri's soundtrack; a huge hit in India and the USSR and a Hindi-cinema cult classic.
Disco Pigs
Disco Pigs: Enda Walsh's 1996 two-hander play about Cork teenagers Pig and Runt, premiered by Corcadorca with Cillian Murphy, adapted into Kirsten Sheridan's 2001 film with Elaine Cassidy.
Disco Raja (డిస్కో రాజా)
Disco Raja (డిస్కో రాజా) is a 2020 Telugu science fiction film directed by Vi Anand and starring Ravi Teja, about a dead man revived by scientists who recovers his memories.