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List of card games related anime and manga
This Japanese media category features playing cards as a source of power or a contested game. The market was worth ¥319.7 billion in FY2025.3, with examples like Pokémon.
List of cinematic firsts
The list of cinematic firsts, also known as the list of film firsts, documents cinema's earliest instances, from Muybridge's 1878 horse photographs to the first nickelodeon and National Film Registry milestones.
List of films featuring the United States Navy SEALs
This Hollywood subgenre of films featuring the United States Navy SEALs includes fictional action and biographical dramas, spanning from The Rescue (1988) to Warfare (2025).
List of Indian films of 1991
Indian films of 1991: about 619 features across Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali industries; notable releases Saudagar, Saajan, Lamhe, Aditya 369; Agantuk won the 39th National Best Feature Film award.
List of Marathi film families
Marathi film families (मराठी चित्रपट परिवार): dynasties of Marathi cinema artists, from the Prabhat founders Damle, Fattelal, Shantaram, and Dhaiber to the Damle family's post-1953 continuation of the Prabhat name.
List of television shows listed among the best
Best-television lists: Rolling Stone (2016, 2022), the NYT 21st-century poll, BBC Culture, and the Canon Archive aggregation, which consistently place The Sopranos, The Wire, and Breaking Bad near the top.
Lists of actors by country
Lists of actors by country: reference indexes grouping actors by nationality or country of birth. Also known as national actor directories. Cover major databases (Media Press 3.5M profiles, What's After the Movie 961,406), industry registries, and how nationality is assigned.
Meet cute
Meet cute: a screenwriting term for the charming, improbable first meeting of future romantic partners, originating with Ernst Lubitsch and Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938); now also a real-life dating trend and app feature name.
National Legion of Decency
The National Legion of Decency, also known as the Catholic Legion of Decency, was a censorship organization that dominated American film classification until a 1952 Supreme Court decision.
Nier Reincarnation
NieR Re[in]carnation (ニーア リィンカーネーション) was Square Enix and Applibot's free-to-play Nier mobile RPG, directed creatively by Yoko Taro with music by Keiichi Okabe, launched 2021, ended April 2024 after 15 million downloads.
Obsession
Obsession is a word with a psychological meaning, a persistent attachment to an object or idea, and the title of many films, songs, and albums.
Oscar bait
Oscar bait, also called awards bait, is a pejorative term for films designed at least partly to win Academy Awards, marked by biopics, period dramas, disability roles, and late-year release before January nominations.
Outline of entertainment
The Outline of entertainment, also known as List of basic entertainment topics, is an outline covering the field of entertainment, its major forms, industry, and audience theory.
Pirated movie release types
Pirated movie release types (CAM, TS, TC, SCR, R5, WEBRip, WEB-DL, DVDRip, BDRip) are piracy labels naming the source of an unauthorized film copy, from theater camcorder recordings to streaming and disc rips, each indicating quality.
Pitch
Pitch is an English word with several senses, often involving spacing or orientation: musical frequency, vehicle rotation, slope, a sports field, and a sales pitch.
PlateUp!
PlateUp! is a 2022 co-op restaurant-management roguelite by It's happening and Yogscast Games: four players cook, automate, and survive 15-day procedurally generated restaurant runs, distinguished from Overcooked by persistent franchising progression.
Project Moon
Project Moon (프로젝트문) is the South Korean studio founded by Kim Ji-hoon, creator of Lobotomy Corporation, Library of Ruina, and Limbus Company in a shared worldview. Registered as a company in 2016; Kim holds 76.5% of shares; 2024 revenue 5.83 billion won.
Rear of the Year
Rear of the Year was a British award given to celebrities with attractive buttocks, created in 1976 as a jeans promotion and last held in 2019.
Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need is Blake Snyder's 2005 screenwriting guide built on a 15-beat structure and 10 genres, best known as the beat sheet and often criticized as formulaic.
Snap
Snap: American drama TV series, 2022–2023, IMDb tt18163882, created by Devin Hampton and Eric Benét; an imperfect god A.O. is each episode's moral compass. Distinct from Snapchat's Snap Originals and KCRW's SNAP radio show.
Sting
Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, born 1951, Wallsend, England), English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor; frontman and bassist of The Police (1976–1983), solo artist from 1985, over 100 million records sold, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and star of David Lynch's Dune (1984).
Stinking badges
Stinking badges: a famous line from the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, spoken by Gold Hat (Alfonso Bedoya). Its paraphrase "We don't need no stinking badges" comes from The Monkees (1967) and Blazing Saddles (1974), not the film itself.
Stop motion
Stop motion (stop-frame animation) is a filmmaking technique photographing physical puppets, clay figures, or objects one frame at a time with tiny incremental movements, creating motion on playback; known from Aardman's Wallace and Gromit, Ray Harryhausen, and Laika.
Summer Snow
Summer Snow (Nu ren si shi, 女人，四十。) is a 1995 Hong Kong Ann Hui comedy-drama starring Josephine Siao and Roy Chiao about caring for a father-in-law with Alzheimer's; it won the Berlin Silver Bear and six Hong Kong Film Awards. Distinct from the 2014 American and 2015 Korean films of the same title.
Survivor
Survivor is a CBS American reality competition series premiered May 31, 2000 (also known as Survivor: Borneo), in which castaways vote each other out for a million-dollar prize; it averaged 28.25 million viewers in season one and reached 50 seasons by 2026.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate is a Super Evil Megacorp isometric co-op action roguelike, a Hades-style run-based rescue of Master Splinter, launched May 2023 on Apple Arcade, then Switch (July 2024), PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.
The Black List (survey)
The Black List survey: an annual December poll of Hollywood executives' favorite unproduced screenplays, founded by Franklin Leonard in 2005 at Appian Way; distinct from the paid blcklst.com platform built on it in 2012.
The Film Sense
The Film Sense is a 1942 collection of writings on film theory by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, translated by Jay Leyda, that introduced his montage theory to English readers.
The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck (Vildanden), Ibsen's 1884 five-act tragicomedy, published 11 November 1884, premiered Bergen 9 January 1885; Hjalmar Ekdal's household destroyed by Gregers Werle's truth-telling, ending in Hedvig's suicide.
Traditional animation
Traditional (cel) animation: hand-drawn animation on transparent celluloid cels photographed frame by frame over painted backgrounds; 24 drawings per second, Snow White (1937) as first feature, Disney's 1990 shift to digital CAPS.