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Paquita Salas

Paquita Salas: Spanish mockumentary comedy series by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo (los Javis), starring Brays Efe as a 1990s talent agent. Three seasons, 16 episodes, Flooxer 2016 then Netflix, one Ondas and four Feroz awards.

Parachute (2024 TV series)

Parachute (பாராசூட்) is a 2024 Tamil drama thriller web series on Disney+ Hotstar/JioHotstar, directed by Rasu Ranjith, starring Kishore, Kani Thiru, Krishna, and child actors Shakthi Rithvik and Iyal; five 30-minute episodes about two missing siblings, distinct from the 2024 Brittany Snow film Parachute.

Parade's End (TV series)

Parade's End (2012) is a five-part BBC Two/HBO miniseries adapted by Tom Stoppard from Ford Madox Ford's tetralogy, directed by Susanna White, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, and Adelaide Clemens; critically acclaimed but with modest, declining ratings.

Paradesi (பரதேசி) (2013 film)

Paradesi (பரதேசி), English title Vagabond, is Bala's 2013 Tamil period drama starring Atharvaa, Vedhika, and Dhansika, adapted from Eriyum Panikadu (Paul Harris Daniel's Red Tea) about 1930s tea-plantation bonded labor; it won the National Award for Best Costume Design.

Paradise (1982 film)

Paradise (1982), also known as Paradis, is a Canadian adventure-romance film written and directed by Stuart Gillard, starring Willie Aames and Phoebe Cates as teenagers fleeing a slaver across an 1823 desert; a Blue Lagoon imitator that flopped critically and commercially.

Paradise (2023 film)

Paradise is a 2023 Indian-Sri Lankan drama directed by Prasanna Vithanage, following a couple whose anniversary trip in Sri Lanka turns into a hunt for stolen belongings.

Paradise (2025 TV series)

Paradise (2025 TV series), Hulu political thriller by Dan Fogelman starring Sterling K. Brown as Secret Service agent Xavier Collins investigating President Cal Bradford's murder in a bunker after a climate apocalypse; three planned seasons, 86% Rotten Tomatoes, Emmy-nominated.

Paradise (2026 film)

Paradise (2026 film), Jérémy Comte's debut feature drama, a Canada-France-Ghana co-production about Ghanaian teen Kojo and Quebec teen Tony; premiered at Berlinale 14 February 2026, French release 19 August 2026. Distinct from The Paradise (Telugu), Attack on Paradise, and Paradise Lost.

Paradise Alley

Paradise Alley (1978), also known as Hell's Kitchen, is Sylvester Stallone's directorial debut, a Universal drama about three Italian-American brothers in 1946 Hell's Kitchen who turn brother Victor into a wrestler; originally a boxing script tied to the Rocky lawsuit.

Paradise City (2021 TV series)

Paradise City (2021 TV series): American music drama on Amazon Prime Video, spin-off of the 2017 film American Satan. Created by Ash Avildsen; stars Andy Biersack as Johnny Faust; one season of 8 episodes, premiered March 25, 2021; Cameron Boyce's final role.

Paradise Hills (film)

Paradise Hills is a 2019 sci-fi fantasy thriller, the feature debut of Spanish director Alice Waddington, starring Emma Roberts, Milla Jovovich, Danielle Macdonald, Awkwafina, and Eiza González as inmates of an island reform school. Premiered at Sundance 2019; released by Samuel Goldwyn Films October 25, 2019.

Paradise Hotel

Paradise Hotel is a reality TV format created by Howard Davidson and Phil Roberts for Mentorn Media, first on Fox in 2003, in which singles pair up at a luxury resort to survive eliminations. Most successful in Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden on TV3/Viaplay); the Swedish 2021 season was halted over assault allegations.

Paradise in Service

Paradise in Service (軍中樂園) is Doze Niu's 2014 Taiwanese drama about a 1969 Kinmen conscript assigned to Unit 831, the military's special tea room brothel; it won two Golden Horse supporting awards and sparked a naval security scandal.

Paradise Kiss (パラダイス・キス)

Paradise Kiss (パラダイス・キス, ParaKiss) is Ai Yazawa's fashion-world romance manga serialized in Zipper (Shodensha), five volumes 2000-2003, over 5 million copies; adapted into a 12-episode 2005 Madhouse TV anime and a 2011 live-action film.

Paradise Lost (2020 TV series)

Paradise Lost (2020) is a Spectrum Originals and Paramount Network Southern Gothic mystery drama, 10 episodes starring Josh Hartnett, Bridget Regan, and Nick Nolte, created by Rodes Fishburne, premiered April 13, 2020, ended after one season.

Paradise Lost (2026 film)

Paradise Lost (실낙원, Silnakwon) is a 2026 South Korean psychological thriller by Yeon Sang-ho, adapted from Oh Sung-eun's novel Black Inferno, starring Kim Hyun-joo and Bae Hyeon-seong; it premiered at TIFF 2026 and opened in Korea on 21 October 2026.

Paradise Lost (실락원) (1997 film)

Paradise Lost (失楽園, Shitsurakuen; 실락원) is Yoshimitsu Morita's 1997 Japanese film adapting Junichi Watanabe's bestseller, starring Koji Yakusho and Hitomi Kuroki as adulterous lovers; it earned 4.5 billion yen, ranked second among 1997 Japanese films, and made "shitsurakuen" a buzzword of the year.

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is a 1996 HBO documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the West Memphis Three trials, which won Emmy and Peabody awards and sparked the movement to free the accused.

Paradise Now (الجنة الآن)

Paradise Now (الجنة الآن) is a 2005 Palestinian drama by Hany Abu-Assad, co-written with Bero Beyer, following two Nablus mechanics recruited for a Tel Aviv suicide bombing; it won the 2006 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and was Oscar-nominated.

Paradise PD

Paradise PD is a Netflix adult animated comedy (2018-2022) by Brickleberry creators Waco O'Guin and Roger Black, about an inept small-town police force; 4 seasons, 40 episodes, ended on a cliffhanger, continued as a Kickstarter graphic novel.

Paradise Records (film)

Paradise Records is Logic's (Bobby Hall) 2025 directorial debut comedy, premiering at Tribeca, about record store owner Cooper's $178,000 debt, foreclosure, and robbery, executive produced by Kevin Smith.

Paradox (2017 film)

Paradox (殺破狼・貪狼) is a 2017 Hong Kong–Chinese action thriller directed by Wilson Yip, the third film in the SPL series, starring Louis Koo and Tony Jaa.

Paradox Effect

Paradox Effect is a 2023 action thriller directed by Scott Weintrob, starring Olga Kurylenko, Harvey Keitel, and Oliver Trevena; shot in Bari, Italy in 18 days on a $2 million budget, released 2024.

Parahormonal Activity

Parahormonal Activity is The Simpsons season 37 episode 11 (801st overall), aired December 14, 2025 on Fox. A non-canon flash-forward by Loni Steele Sosthand in which Marge faces perimenopause, teenage Bart and Lisa, and Lindsay Lohan voices a speaking Maggie.

Parallel Mothers

Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas) is Pedro Almodóvar's 2021 Spanish drama starring Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit as two mothers who give birth the same day, intertwining motherhood melodrama with Spain's Civil War mass graves; Venice premiere, Volpi Cup, 8 Goya nominations.

Parallel Tales

Parallel Tales (Histoires parallèles) is Asghar Farhadi's 2026 French-language drama, in Cannes Competition, loosely based on Kieślowski's Dekalog VI, starring Isabelle Huppert as a novelist whose spied-upon neighbors enter her fiction; critically poorly received.

Parallel Universe (Red Dwarf)

"Parallel Universe" is the Series II finale of Red Dwarf (BBC2, 11 October 1988), in which Holly's Hop Drive strands the crew with female counterparts Deb Lister and Arlene Rimmer, leaving Lister pregnant, resolved by the Backwards text crawl.

Parallels

Parallels (Para//èles) is a 2022 French Disney+ original sci-fi mystery series created by Quoc Dang Tran: six episodes in which four teenage friends are scattered into parallel dimensions by a collider-related event.

Param Sundari (film)

Param Sundari (परम सुंदरी) is a 2025 Hindi romantic comedy by Maddock Films, directed by Tushar Jalota, starring Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor; released 29 August 2025, set in Kerala, titled after A.R. Rahman's Mimi song.

Paramasivan Fathima

Paramasivan Fathima (பரமசிவன் பாத்திமா) is a 2025 Tamil horror thriller written, directed, and produced by Esakki Karvannan, starring Vemal and Chaya Devi. Released 6 June 2025 with an A certificate, it depicts interfaith love and murders in rival Hindu and Christian villages, and received negative reviews.