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The Outsider (1981 film)

The Outsider (Hungarian: Szabadgyalog) is a 1981 Hungarian drama film directed by Béla Tarr, his second feature, about an irresponsible violinist played by András Szabó.

The Outsider (2018 film)

The Outsider (2018 film): Netflix crime drama directed by Martin Zandvliet, starring Jared Leto as American POW Nick Lowell who joins the yakuza in post-WWII Osaka; released March 9, 2018; 13% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 30. Not the 2018 Nobu Su documentary or the HBO Stephen King series.

The Outsiders (film)

The Outsiders (1983) is Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of S.E. Hinton's 1967 novel about Greasers versus Socs in 1960s Tulsa. Released March 25, 1983, 91 minutes, PG; re-cut in 2005 as The Complete Novel.

The Overnight

The Overnight is a 2015 American comedy film written and directed by Patrick Brice, in which a couple new to Los Angeles accepts a dinner invitation from a neighbor.

The Owl and the Pussycat

The Owl and the Pussycat is a 1970 Columbia romantic comedy directed by Herbert Ross, starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal, adapted from Bill Manhoff's Broadway play, Streisand's first non-singing film role.

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943 film)

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) is William A. Wellman's 75-minute Western, adapted by Lamar Trotti from Walter Van Tilburg Clark's 1940 novel, starring Henry Fonda; it depicts a Nevada lynch mob hanging three innocent men, was Oscar-nominated for Best Picture, and joined the National Film Registry in 1998.

The Ox-Bow Incident (1950 film)

The Ox-Bow Incident is William A. Wellman's 1943 Twentieth Century-Fox Western (not a 1950 film), adapted from Walter Van Tilburg Clark's 1940 novel, starring Henry Fonda; a posse lynches three innocent men in 1885 Nevada, and it earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination.

The Oxford Murders

The Oxford Murders (Los crímenes de Oxford) is a 2008 Álex de la Iglesia thriller starring Elijah Wood and John Hurt, adapted from Guillermo Martínez's novel, about mathematically linked murders at Oxford.

The Pacifier

The Pacifier is a 2005 American family action-comedy directed by Adam Shankman, starring Vin Diesel as a Navy SEAL protecting the five children of an assassinated scientist.

The Package (2018 film)

The Package (2018) is a Netflix teen comedy directed by Jake Szymanski, written by Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider, once titled Eggplant Emoji, about friends racing to reattach a friend's severed penis after a camping accident.

The Pact (2012 film)

The Pact (2012) is Nicholas McCarthy's supernatural horror feature debut, expanded from his 2011 Sundance short, starring Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, and Agnes Bruckner; released by IFC Midnight after premiering at Sundance 2012.

The Page of Madness

The Page of Madness (狂った一頁, Kurutta ichipeiji, aka A Page of Madness) is a 1926 Japanese silent avant-garde film by Kinugasa Teinosuke with a script by Kawabata Yasunari, set in an asylum, shown without intertitles, lost for 45 years and rediscovered in 1971.

The Page Turner

The Page Turner (La tourneuse de pages) is a 2006 French psychological thriller by Denis Dercourt, 85 minutes, starring Catherine Frot and Déborah François, about a failed piano student's revenge as a concert pianist's page turner; Cannes Un Certain Regard, 77% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Pagemaster

The Pagemaster is a 1994 American live-action/animated family film, released by 20th Century Fox, in which Macaulay Culkin plays a fearful boy who journeys through classic literature.

The Painted Bird (film)

The Painted Bird (Nabarvené ptáče) is Václav Marhoul's 2019 black-and-white 169-minute Czech adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński's 1965 novel, spoken largely in Interslavic, following a Jewish boy through wartime Eastern Europe; it premiered at Venice 2019 and won eight Czech Lions.

The Painted Veil (2006 film)

The Painted Veil (2006) is John Curran's drama, written by Ron Nyswaner from Maugham's 1925 novel, starring Naomi Watts and Edward Norton as Kitty and Walter Fane, whose broken marriage is tested in a 1920s Chinese cholera epidemic; third adaptation after 1934 and 1957.

The Painter (2024 film)

The Painter (2024) is an American action thriller directed by Kimani Ray Smith, starring Charlie Weber, Madison Bailey, and Jon Voight as an ex-CIA operative; released limited January 5, 2024 by Republic Pictures, it earned a 0% Tomatometer.

The Pajama Game (1957 film)

The Pajama Game (1957 film): Warner Bros. musical comedy directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen, starring Doris Day and John Raitt, adapted from the 1954 Broadway hit based on Bissell's novel 7½ Cents, with Adler and Ross songs and Fosse choreography.

The Palace

The Palace (宫锁沉香, Gong Suo Chen Xiang) is a 2013 Chinese Qing-dynasty palace romance film directed by Pan Anzi, written by Yu Zheng, starring Zhou Dongyu, Chen Xiao, and Zhao Liying; released 13 August 2013, grossing 54.461 million RMB in mainland China.

The Palace: Lock Sinensis

The Palace: Lock Sinensis (宫锁沉香, The Palace) is a 2013 Chinese Qing-court romance film directed by Pan Anzi, written by Yu Zheng, the fourth Gong series work, starring Zhou Dongyu and Chen Xiao, released 13 August 2013.

The Pale Blue Eye

The Pale Blue Eye is a 2022 Scott Cooper gothic mystery film, adapted from Louis Bayard's novel, in which detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) and cadet Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) investigate murders at West Point in 1830.

The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story: 1942 Paramount screwball comedy written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, and Rudy Vallee; released 10 December 1942.

The Panic

The Panic (2025) is an American period drama by Daniel Adams about the Panic of 1907, starring Cary Elwes as Charles Barney and Colm Meaney as J.P. Morgan; premiered October 16, 2025 at the Buffalo International Film Festival, US release 2026.

The Panic in Needle Park

The Panic in Needle Park is Jerry Schatzberg's 1971 drama starring Al Pacino and Kitty Winn as addicts around Sherman Square, Manhattan, from James Mills's novel, scripted by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne; Winn won Best Actress at Cannes 1971.

The Paper (1994 film)

The Paper (1994) is a Ron Howard comedy-drama, also called a newsroom drama, about one day at the fictional New York Sun tabloid, starring Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, and Marisa Tomei, released by Universal on March 18, 1994.

The Paper Chase (film)

The Paper Chase (1973) is a James Bridges comedy-drama, adapted from John Jay Osborn Jr.'s novel, starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and Oscar-winning John Houseman as Professor Kingsfield at Harvard Law School.

The Paper Crane

The Paper Crane (Hana no Orizurugasa, 花の折鶴笠) is a 1962 Toei Japanese period drama directed by Toshikazu Kōno, starring Hashizō Ōkawa, about a vagrant protecting a blind girl from con artists on the road to Edo.

The Paperboy (2012 film)

The Paperboy is a 2012 American crime drama directed by Lee Daniels, based on Pete Dexter's 1995 novel, starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, and John Cusack.

The Parade

The Parade (Parada) is a 2011 Serbian comedy-drama directed by Srđan Dragojević about a homophobic gangster protecting Belgrade Pride; Berlinale Panorama Audience Award winner, four-country co-production.

The Paradine Case

The Paradine Case is Alfred Hitchcock's 1947 courtroom drama for David O. Selznick, his last film under the Selznick contract, starring Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton, and Ann Todd, adapted from Robert Hichens' 1933 novel.