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The Jackal (1997 film)
The Jackal is a 1997 American action thriller directed by Michael Caton-Jones, in which hired assassin Bruce Willis is pursued by Richard Gere and Sidney Poitier.
The Jacket
The Jacket is a 2005 psychological thriller directed by John Maybury, starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley, in which an amnesiac Gulf War veteran discovers his own impending death.
The Jacksons: An American Dream
The Jacksons: An American Dream is a 1992 ABC two-part, five-hour biographical miniseries about the Jackson family, based on Katherine Jackson's autobiography, starring Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Angela Bassett, and three actors as Michael, a ratings hit with an Emmy-winning choreography.
The Jade Tiger (白玉老虎)
The Jade Tiger (白玉老虎, Jade Tiger) is a 1977 Shaw Brothers wuxia film directed by Chor Yuen, adapted from Gu Long's novel, starring Ti Lung as Zhao Wuji avenging his father against the Tang Clan.
The Jamie Foxx Show
The Jamie Foxx Show, WB sitcom (1996-2001), 100 episodes, five seasons; Jamie Foxx as Jamie King, aspiring entertainer at his aunt and uncle's LA hotel King's Towers, with Garrett Morris, Ellia English, Garcelle Beauvais; co-created by Bentley Kyle Evans.
The Jane Austen Book Club (film)
The Jane Austen Book Club is a 2007 Sony Pictures Classics romantic comedy-drama directed by Robin Swicord from Karen Joy Fowler's 2004 novel: six Sacramento friends, five women and one man, read Austen's six novels over six months as their love lives parallel the plots; 106 minutes, PG-13, 66% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Japanese Wife
The Japanese Wife: 2008 short story collection by Kunal Basu and 2010 Aparna Sen film about Snehamoy, a Sundarbans teacher married by letters to Miyage, a Japanese pen pal he never meets.
The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer (1927), directed by Alan Crosland for Warner Bros., is the first feature-length film with synchronized spoken dialogue, starring Al Jolson in blackface as a cantor's son; its Vitaphone sound-on-disc success ended the silent era.
The Jazz Singer (1980 film)
The Jazz Singer (1980) is Richard Fleischer's musical drama remake starring Neil Diamond as cantor's son Jess Robin, with Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz; critically panned (Metascore 37) but its soundtrack yielded three Hot 100 top-ten hits.
The Jeffersons
The Jeffersons is a CBS sitcom (1975-1985, 253 episodes), a Norman Lear spin-off of All in the Family about George and Louise Jefferson, owners of a seven-store dry-cleaning chain, who move from Queens to Manhattan's Upper East Side; first TV series with an interracial married couple.
The Jengaburu Curse
The Jengaburu Curse is a 2023 SonyLIV Hindi thriller, billed as India's first cli-fi web series, directed by Nila Madhab Panda. Seven episodes follow analyst Priya Das in Odisha uncovering secret uranium mining, tribal displacement, and an international conspiracy.
The Jenny Jones Show
The Jenny Jones Show was an American syndicated daytime tabloid talk show hosted by Jenny Jones, taped in Chicago, running 1991-2003, best known for the 1995 Scott Amedure murder case.
The Jeremy Kyle Show
The Jeremy Kyle Show was an ITV daytime confrontational talk show hosted by Jeremy Kyle from July 2005 to May 2019, known for lie detector and DNA test segments; cancelled after Steve Dymond's death.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin in his feature film debut as Navin R. Johnson, a naive man raised by a sharecropper family.
The Jerma985 Dollhouse
The Jerma985 Dollhouse (also the Sims Stream) was a three-day interactive Twitch event, August 18-21, 2021, in which viewers controlled streamer Jerma985 via a custom Dollhouse extension in a real-life Sims set, peaking above 101,200 concurrent viewers.
The Jerry Springer Show
The Jerry Springer Show (1991–2018) was a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Jerry Springer. It began as a serious political talk show, was reformatted in 1994 under Richard Dominick, and peaked above Oprah in late-1990s ratings.
The Jester (2023 film)
The Jester (2023 film), directed by Colin Krawchuk, is an American supernatural horror movie based on his YouTube shorts, starring Michael Sheffield, Lelia Symington, and Delaney White; released September 29, 2023 by Epic Pictures, 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Jesus Rolls
The Jesus Rolls is a 2020 American comedy written, directed by, and starring John Turturro as Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski, remaking Bertrand Blier's 1974 French film Going Places (Les Valseuses); released by Screen Media on February 28, 2020, 85 minutes, rated R, and poorly reviewed (Metacritic 44, RT 20%).
The Jetsons
The Jetsons is an American animated sitcom created by Hanna-Barbera about a family living in the future with flying cars and robot maids, first aired in 1962.
The Jewel in the Crown (TV series)
The Jewel in the Crown is Granada Television's 14-part 1984 ITV serial adapting Paul Scott's Raj Quartet, dramatizing British India from 1942 to independence in 1947, starring Tim Pigott-Smith, Art Malik, and Peggy Ashcroft.
The Jewel of the Nile
The Jewel of the Nile is a 1985 American action-adventure romantic comedy directed by Lewis Teague, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito as a sequel to Romancing the Stone.
The Jim Gaffigan Show
The Jim Gaffigan Show is a TV Land single-camera sitcom (2015-2016, 23 episodes) starring comedian Jim Gaffigan as a fictionalized version of himself, a clean comic and father of five in New York, created with Peter Tolan and ended by mutual agreement after two seasons.
The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company, founded as Muppets Inc. in 1958 by Jim and Jane Henson, is a family-owned American producer of puppet-based film and television (Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal), operator of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, and distinct from Disney's Muppets and Sesame Workshop.
The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour
The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour, a 2004 Nickelodeon crossover special between The Fairly OddParents and Jimmy Neutron in which Timmy Turner and Jimmy Neutron swap universes across 2D and 3D animation; followed by two 2006 sequels.
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst is a 2015 six-part HBO true-crime documentary by Andrew Jarecki on real estate heir Robert Durst, ending with his hot-mic confession and arrest, later continued in The Jinx - Part Two (2024).
The Job (The Office)
The Job is the two-part season 3 finale of The Office (US), aired May 17, 2007 on NBC. Michael, Jim, and Karen interview for Jan's corporate job, Dwight runs Scranton with Schrute Bucks, Ryan gets Jan's old job, and Jim asks Pam out.
The Joe Schmo Show
The Joe Schmo Show is an American reality parody series (Spike TV 2003, 2004, 2013; TBS reboot 2025) in which an unsuspecting 'schmo' believes he is in a real reality competition while all other contestants and the host are actors. Created by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale was a weekly half-hour Netflix topical comedy series (2018) hosted by Joel McHale, a TV-MA successor to The Soup with guests, sketches, and clips; cancelled August 2018 after 19 episodes.
The Joker's Wild
The Joker's Wild: American TV game show (CBS 1972–75, syndicated 1977–86, 1990, TBS 2017) where a giant slot machine sets trivia categories and values; created and hosted by Jack Barry, later Bill Cullen and Snoop Dogg.
The Jokers
The Jokers is a 1967 British comedy thriller, also known as Joker, directed by Michael Winner and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, in which Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed play brothers who steal the Crown Jewels for fame, not money.