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Qi Shi

Qi Shi (棋士, The Chess Player) is a 2025 Chinese 22-episode crime drama starring Wang Baoqiang as Go teacher Cui Ye, who turns to crime, and Chen Minghao as his police brother; aired on CCTV-8 and Tencent Video X Theater from March 25, 2025.

Qi'ra

Qi'ra is a Star Wars character introduced in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), played by Emilia Clarke. A Corellia street survivor and Han Solo's first love, she becomes Dryden Vos's lieutenant, then leader of Crimson Dawn under Darth Maul, later featured in the War of the Bounty Hunters, Crimson Reign, and Hidden Empire comics and Star Wars Outlaws.

Qin Lan (秦岚)

Qin Lan (秦岚, born 1979, Shenyang) is a mainland Chinese actress and singer, a former "Chiung Yao girl" best known as Empress Fuca in Story of Yanxi Palace (2018) and for roles in We Are All Alone, Dr. Tang, and Watch Your Back.

Qismat

Qismat (2018) is a Punjabi romantic drama, Jagdeep Sidhu's directorial debut, starring Ammy Virk as Shiva and Sargun Mehta as Bani. Inspired by Virk's 2017 song, it grossed about 28 crore worldwide and spawned Qismat 2 (2021).

Qissa (क़िस्सा)

Qissa (क़िस्सा), full title Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost, is Anup Singh's 2013 Punjabi-language film starring Irrfan Khan as a Partition refugee who raises his daughter as a son; a four-country co-production premiered at Toronto 2013.

Quaden Bayles

Quaden Bayles, Aboriginal Australian actor with achondroplasia dwarfism, went viral in 2020 after a bullying video posted by mother Yarraka Bayles; led out the Indigenous All Stars, then acted in George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing and Furiosa.

Quadrophenia (film)

Quadrophenia (1979) is Franc Roddam's debut British drama film, loosely adapted from The Who's 1973 rock opera album, starring Phil Daniels as mod teenager Jimmy Cooper amid the 1965 mods-versus-rockers clashes in Brighton, with Sting in his debut role.

Quai des Orfèvres

Quai des Orfèvres is a 1947 French crime film by Henri-Georges Clouzot, adapted from Stanislas-André Steeman's Légitime défense, starring Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, and Bernard Blier; it won Venice's best director prize and revived Clouzot's post-blacklisting career.

Quantico (TV series)

Quantico is an ABC drama (2015-2018) created by Joshua Safran, starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas as FBI recruit Alex Parrish, framed for a Grand Central bombing; three seasons, canceled at 2.3 million viewers per episode.

Quantum Leap (2022 TV series)

Quantum Leap (2022 TV series), also called the Quantum Leap revival, is an NBC sci-fi sequel to the 1989-1993 series, starring Raymond Lee as Dr. Ben Song, 31 episodes, canceled April 2024, later streamed on Netflix.

Quantum of Solace

Quantum of Solace is a 2008 James Bond film, the 22nd in the series, directed by Marc Forster and starring Daniel Craig in his second outing as 007.

Quarantine (2008 film)

Quarantine (2008) is John Erick Dowdle's American found-footage horror remake of the Spanish film [REC], starring Jennifer Carpenter as a reporter sealed in a virus-quarantined apartment building; released October 10, 2008, 89 minutes, Screen Gems.

Quarantine 2: Terminal

Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011) is John Pogue's horror sequel to Quarantine, following Flight 318 passengers quarantined in an airport terminal after a rabies-like virus outbreak; it drops found footage and diverges from [REC] 2.

Quark (Star Trek)

Quark is the Ferengi bartender of Quark's Bar on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by Armin Shimerman for all seven seasons (1993-1999); family Rom, Nog, Ishka; not a Starfleet main character.

Quarry (TV series)

Quarry is a 2016 Cinemax crime drama, one season of 8 episodes, created by Michael D. Fuller and Graham Gordy from Max Allan Collins's hitman novels, starring Logan Marshall-Green as a Vietnam veteran drawn into Memphis crime; cancelled in 2017.

Quarterback (2023 TV series)

Quarterback is a Netflix sports docuseries (premiered July 12, 2023) produced by NFL Films, Omaha Productions, and 2PM Productions, following NFL quarterbacks such as Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, Joe Burrow, and Joe Flacco on and off the field across three seasons.

Quarterlife

Quarterlife is a 2007 American web drama by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick: 36 eight-minute episodes on MySpace and quarterlife.com, then NBC's first Web-to-TV prime-time series, canceled after one episode in February 2008.

Quartet (2012 film)

Quartet (2012 film) is a British comedy-drama directed by Dustin Hoffman. It stars Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay in a story set in an English opera home.

Quatermass (TV serial)

Quatermass is a British TV science-fiction franchise written by Nigel Kneale: The Quatermass Experiment (1953), Quatermass II (1955), Quatermass and the Pit (1958-59), and Quatermass (ITV 1979), plus Hammer film adaptations.

Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2 (US title Enemy from Space) is a 1957 Hammer science fiction horror film directed by Val Guest, starring Brian Donlevy, adapted by Nigel Kneale from his 1955 BBC serial about alien infiltration via a secret government complex.

Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass and the Pit is Nigel Kneale's 1958-59 BBC serial, third in the Quatermass series, in which a Martian spaceship dug up in London reveals aliens shaped human evolution; adapted by Hammer in 1967 as Five Million Years to Earth.

Quatermass and the Pit (film)

Quatermass and the Pit (US: Five Million Years to Earth) is Hammer's 1967 British sci-fi horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker, written by Nigel Kneale, starring Andrew Keir, about a Martian craft unearthed in London.

Quattro Hong Kong 2

Quattro Hong Kong 2 (香港四重奏 II) is a 2011 Hong Kong omnibus of four shorts by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brillante Mendoza, Ho Yuhang, and Stanley Kwan, commissioned by Brand Hong Kong and premiered as an opening film of the 35th HKIFF.

Qubo

Qubo was an American children's TV brand launched September 2006 by ION Media, NBC Universal, Scholastic, Classic Media, and Corus, with blocks on NBC, Telemundo, and Ion and a 24-hour digital channel from January 2007; Scripps shut it down February 28, 2021.

Qubool Hai (क़ुबूल है)

Qubool Hai (क़ुबूल है) is a Hindi Zee TV romantic drama (2012–2016) by 4 Lions Films, set in Bhopal's Muslim milieu, starring Surbhi Jyoti and Karan Singh Grover; also a 2021 ZEE5 sequel and a 2026 Kuku TV micro-drama.

Qubool Hai 2.0

Qubool Hai 2.0 is a 2021 ZEE5 Hindi romantic drama web series, sequel to the TV show Qubool Hai, with Karan Singh Grover and Surbhi Jyoti as Asad and Zoya in a 10-episode India-Pakistan love story.

Que la bête meure

Que la bête meure (This Man Must Die, The Beast Must Die) is Claude Chabrol's 1969 France-Italy thriller, adapted from Nicholas Blake's 1938 novel, starring Michel Duchaussoy, Jean Yanne, and Caroline Cellier, released 5 September 1969.

Queen (2013 film)

Queen (2013) is a Hindi comedy-drama directed by Vikas Bahl, starring Kangana Ranaut as Rani, a Delhi woman who takes her honeymoon alone in Paris and Amsterdam after her fiancé cancels the wedding; released 7 March 2014, it won the National Film Award for Best Hindi Film.

Queen (2018 film)

Queen (ക്വീൻ) is a 2018 Malayalam campus film directed by debutant Dijo Jose Antony, starring Saniya Iyappan as Chinnu, the only girl in an all-male mechanical engineering batch; released 12 January 2018, it became a box-office hit and was remade in Tamil as Friendship (2021).

Queen (2019 TV series)

Queen (2019) is a Tamil-language MX Player web series directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon and Prasath Murugesan, starring Ramya Krishnan as Shakti Seshadri, a fictionalized Jayalalithaa-like figure, adapted from Anita Sivakumaran's novel The Queen.