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The River (1984 film)
The River (1984) is a Mark Rydell drama starring Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, and Scott Glenn about Tennessee farmers fighting floods and a dam scheme; Universal release, John Williams score, Oscar for sound effects editing.
The River (1997 film)
The River (河流, He liu) is Tsai Ming-liang's 1997 Taiwanese drama, his third feature, about Hsiao-Kang's incurable neck pain after floating in the polluted Tanshui River; it won the Berlin Silver Bear Jury Award.
The River and Death
The River and Death (El río y la muerte) is Luis Buñuel's 1954 Mexican drama about a generations-old blood feud between the Anguiano and Menchaca families, adapted from Miguel Álvarez Acosta's novel Muro blanco sobre roca negra; it competed at Venice 1954 and won a 1956 Ariel for music.
The River Train
The River Train (El tren fluvial) is a 2026 Argentine debut feature by Lorenzo Ferro and the late Lucas A. Vignale, following nine-year-old malambo dancer Milo Barría as he runs away by train to Buenos Aires; it premiered in Berlinale Perspectives.
The River Wild
The River Wild is a 1994 Universal action thriller directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Meryl Streep as rafting guide Gail Hartman, with Kevin Bacon and David Strathairn; released September 30, 1994, it opened No. 1 with $10.2 million.
The Road (2009 film)
The Road (2009) is John Hillcoat's film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer-winning novel, starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and son surviving a post-apocalyptic America; it earned $8.1 million and mixed-to-favorable reviews.
The Road Home (我的父亲母亲)
The Road Home (我的父亲母亲) is Zhang Yimou's 1999 Chinese romance film, adapted from Bao Shi's novel Remembrance, starring Zhang Ziyi; it won the Berlin Silver Bear and uses black-and-white present, color memory.
The Road to El Dorado
The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 DreamWorks animated musical comedy about two Spanish con men who find the legendary city of gold and are mistaken for gods.
The Road to Guantanamo
The Road to Guantánamo (2006) is a British docudrama by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross about the Tipton Three, British Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay for two years without charge; it won the Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director.
The Road to Mandalay
The Road to Mandalay (再見瓦城, Zaijian wa cheng) is a 2016 drama by Midi Z about Burmese migrants Lianqing and Guo in Thailand; Venice Days Fedeora winner, Golden Horse closing film, Metascore 80.
The Road to the Racetrack (경마장 가는 길)
The Road to the Racetrack (경마장 가는 길) is a 1991 South Korean film by Jang Sun-woo, adapted from Ha Il-ji's postmodernist novel, starring Kang Soo-youn and Moon Sung-keun; a pioneering Korean realist film added to Netflix in 2023.
The Road to Wellville (film)
The Road to Wellville is Alan Parker's 1994 satirical comedy, adapted from T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel, starring Anthony Hopkins as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg at his 1907 Battle Creek sanitarium; it grossed $6.5 million and holds 41% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Roaring Game (film)
The Roaring Game is a 2026 American sports comedy directed and written by Tom DeNucci, starring Darin Brooks, Mickey Rourke, Justin Chatwin, and Rob Gronkowski; a janitor forms a misfit curling team to win back his hockey-player girlfriend, released February 6, 2026 by Brainstorm Media.
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties (1939) is Raoul Walsh's Warner Bros. gangster drama starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart as WWI friends turned Prohibition bootleggers, closing the studio's 1930s gangster cycle; based on Mark Hellinger's story "The World Moves On."
The Roast of Tom Brady
The Roast of Tom Brady (GROAT) is Netflix's 2024 live comedy special from the Kia Forum, hosted by Kevin Hart, drawing 22.6 million viewers, its most-watched live broadcast.
The Robber
The Robber (Der Räuber) is a 2010 Austrian-German thriller by Benjamin Heisenberg, based on Martin Prinz's novel about marathon-runner bank robber Johann Kastenberger, "Pumpgun Ronnie"; it competed at Berlinale 2010 and won Austrian Film Awards for direction and acting.
The Robe (film)
The Robe (1953) is a Twentieth Century-Fox biblical epic directed by Henry Koster, starring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, and Victor Mature, and the first feature film released in CinemaScope with stereophonic sound.
The Rock (film)
The Rock (film) is a 1996 American action thriller directed by Michael Bay. It stars Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, and features a plot set on Alcatraz Island.
The Rocker (film)
The Rocker is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Rainn Wilson as a drummer who joins his nephew's high school rock band.
The Rocketeer (film)
The Rocketeer (1991) is a Disney period superhero adventure directed by Joe Johnston, based on Dave Stevens's comic, starring Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, and Timothy Dalton; it grossed $46.5M against a $40M budget and later gained a cult following.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical sci-fi horror-comedy film by Jim Sharman and Richard O'Brien, adapted from the 1973 London stage musical, starring Tim Curry, famous for midnight audience-participation screenings and the longest theatrical run in film history.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (also The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event) is Fox's 2016 pre-taped TV musical remake of the 1975 cult film, directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Laverne Cox as Frank-N-Furter and Tim Curry as the Criminologist; it earned mixed-to-negative reviews.
The Romancing Star (精装追女仔)
The Romancing Star (精装追女仔) is a 1987 Hong Kong Cantonese romantic comedy directed by Wong Jing and starring Chow Yun-fat, Eric Tsang, and Maggie Cheung.
The Ron Clark Story
The Ron Clark Story (2006) is a TNT television film directed by Randa Haines, starring Matthew Perry as real-life teacher Ron Clark, who moves from North Carolina to a tough Harlem elementary school; Emmy-nominated, over 12 million viewers.
The Rookie (1990 film)
The Rookie is a 1990 American buddy cop action film directed by Clint Eastwood, who stars as auto-theft detective Nick Pulovski opposite Charlie Sheen as his rookie partner.
The Room
The Room (2003) is Tommy Wiseau's self-financed $6 million independent drama about a San Francisco love triangle; a box-office failure now famous as the "Citizen Kane of bad movies" with participatory midnight screenings.
The Room (2019 film)
The Room (2019) is an English-language French-Luxembourgish-Belgian fantasy thriller by Christian Volckman, his first live-action feature after Renaissance. Olga Kurylenko and Kevin Janssens play a couple whose wish-granting room grants a dangerous child. Not the Tommy Wiseau film.
The Room Next Door
The Room Next Door (La habitación de al lado) is Pedro Almodóvar's 2024 first English-language drama, adapted from Sigrid Nunez's novel What Are You Going Through, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton; it won the 2024 Venice Golden Lion.
The Roommate
The Roommate (2011) is a Screen Gems psychological thriller directed by Christian E. Christiansen, starring Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester; a college-set Single White Female-style stalker film that opened number one with $15 million despite 3% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Rooster (film)
The Rooster is a 2023 Australian psychological drama, the directorial debut of Mark Leonard Winter, starring Phoenix Raei as a small-town cop and Hugo Weaving as a hermit; premiered at MIFF 2023, released in Australia February 2024.