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The Night Of

The Night Of: 2016 HBO eight-part limited crime drama by Steven Zaillian and Richard Price, adapted from Peter Moffat's BBC Criminal Justice; Riz Ahmed as Naz Khan, John Turturro, Rikers Island, 95% Metacritic.

The Night of Counting the Years

The Night of Counting the Years (Al-Mummia, المومياء) is Shadi Abdel Salam's 1969 Egyptian drama, his only feature, about the Horabat tribe's tomb raiding and the 1881 Deir el-Bahari mummy cache; restored in 2009 and ranked among the greatest Arab films.

The Night of the Following Day

The Night of the Following Day is a 1969 neo-noir kidnapping thriller directed by Hubert Cornfield, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, and Rita Moreno, adapted from Lionel White's novel The Snatchers, filmed in France, released by Universal in 1969.

The Night of the Grizzly

The Night of the Grizzly is a 1966 Paramount Western directed by Joseph Pevney, starring Clint Walker as ex-sheriff Jim Cole, with Martha Hyer and Keenan Wynn; originally titled Clementine, filmed in San Bernardino National Forest.

The Night of the Hunter (film)

The Night of the Hunter (1955) is Charles Laughton's only film as director, a black-and-white Southern Gothic thriller starring Robert Mitchum as preacher Harry Powell, adapted from Davis Grubb's novel, a 1955 box-office failure now ranked in the Sight and Sound 2022 poll.

The Night of the Iguana (film)

The Night of the Iguana is John Huston's 1964 black-and-white drama adapted from Tennessee Williams's 1961 play, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Deborah Kerr, filmed at Mismaloya near Puerto Vallarta and credited with launching that city's tourism boom.

The Night Porter

The Night Porter (Il portiere di notte) is Liliana Cavani's 1974 Italian drama starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling as a former SS officer and camp survivor who resume a sadomasochistic relationship in 1957 Vienna; banned in Italy, savaged by US critics, later reassessed.

The Night Shift (TV series)

The Night Shift (2014–2017) is an NBC medical drama created by Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, starring Eoin Macken, Jill Flint, and Brendan Fehr as Army-veteran doctors on the night shift at San Antonio Memorial Hospital; four seasons, 48 episodes, Metacritic 44.

The Night They Raided Minsky's

The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 William Friedkin musical comedy produced by Norman Lear from Rowland Barber's 1960 novel, starring Jason Robards, Britt Ekland, and Bert Lahr, about an Amish girl who accidentally invents striptease during a 1925 burlesque raid.

The Nightingale (2018 film)

The Nightingale (2018) is Jennifer Kent's Australian period revenge thriller set in 1825 Tasmania, starring Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr, and Sam Claflin; it won the Venice Special Jury Prize and depicts the Black War.

The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore

The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore was a Comedy Central late-night satire and panel show that replaced The Colbert Report at 11:30 p.m., premiering January 2015 and canceled in August 2016 after a 19-month run marked by race-focused coverage.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) is a stop-motion animated musical directed by Henry Selick, conceived by Tim Burton, with songs by Danny Elfman, about Jack Skellington of Halloween Town kidnapping Santa Claus to take over Christmas.

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974) is Robert Taylor's R-rated animated sequel to Bakshi's Fritz the Cat, following married, unemployed Fritz through catnip fantasies; it premiered at Cannes and flopped with critics.

The Nines

The Nines (2007) is John August's directorial debut, a three-part drama in which Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, and Melissa McCarthy each play three roles whose stories interlock metaphysically; Sundance premiere, limited release, $62.7K gross.

The Ninth Configuration

The Ninth Configuration (1980), also released as Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane, is William Peter Blatty's directorial debut: a castle-set military-asylum drama starring Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson, funded partly by PepsiCo and winner of a Golden Globe screenplay.

The Ninth Gate

The Ninth Gate (La Neuvième Porte, La novena puerta) is Roman Polanski's 1999 occult thriller, adapted from Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel El club Dumas, starring Johnny Depp as rare-book dealer Dean Corso authenticating a satanic 1666 text; 133 minutes, 44% Tomatometer, $18.7M US gross.

The Nipple Talk (妮波自由式)

The Nipple Talk (妮波自由式) is a 2024 Taiwanese LGBTQ+ comedy series, 10 x 30-minute episodes directed by Jack Hsu for Sequoia Entertainment, following Pony, Xuan, Xiao Zhi, and drag bar owner MAMA in Taipei; it premiered November 1, 2024 on Hami Video, MyVideo, and friDay, and earned Kaiser Chuang a 60th Golden Bell supporting-actor nomination.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (TV series)

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a BBC and HBO comedy-drama based on Alexander McCall Smith's novels, starring Jill Scott as a detective in Gaborone, Botswana.

The Norm Show

The Norm Show is an American sitcom starring Norm Macdonald as Norm Henderson, a former hockey player banned for gambling who becomes a social worker to avoid prison.

The Normal Heart (film)

The Normal Heart (2014) is Ryan Murphy's HBO television film of Larry Kramer's 1985 play, starring Mark Ruffalo as activist Ned Weeks during New York's early AIDS crisis (1981-1984); it won two Emmys from 16 nominations and drew 1.4 million premiere viewers.

The North Remembers

The North Remembers: a vengeance saying from A Song of Ice and Fire, the title of Game of Thrones season 2 episode 1 (April 1, 2012, Benioff and Weiss, Alan Taylor), and a near-500,000-word fanfic by Silverblood continuing A Dance with Dragons.

The Northman

The Northman (2022) is Robert Eggers's Viking revenge epic, co-written with Sjón, starring Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth; based on the Saxo Grammaticus legend behind Hamlet, released April 22, 2022, 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 82.

The Notebook

The Notebook (2004) is Nick Cassavetes' romantic drama adapted from Nicholas Sparks' 1996 debut novel, starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams; it grossed $81M domestically and spawned a 2024 Broadway musical.

The Notorious Bettie Page

The Notorious Bettie Page is Mary Harron's 2005 biographical drama starring Gretchen Mol as 1950s pin-up model Bettie Page, covering her fetish modeling for the Klaws, the 1955 Kefauver Senate hearings, and her later religious life.

The Novelist's Film (소설가의 영화)

The Novelist's Film (소설가의 영화) is Hong Sang-soo's 27th feature, a 2022 black-and-white Korean drama starring Lee Hye-young and Kim Min-hee; it won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 72nd Berlinale, his third straight Berlin award.

The November Man

The November Man is a 2014 spy thriller directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Pierce Brosnan as ex-CIA agent Peter Devereaux, based on Bill Granger's novel There Are No Spies; released August 27, 2014, grossing $25 million domestically.

The Now

The Now (2021) is a dark comedy series created by Peter Farrelly, Pete Jones, and Steve Leff, starring Dave Franco as Ed Poole, a man who rethinks his life after family suicides. Originally made for Quibi, its 14 ten-minute episodes premiered December 10, 2021 on The Roku Channel.

The Number 23

The Number 23 is a 2007 psychological thriller directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Jim Carrey as Walter Sparrow, an animal control officer obsessed with a novel about the 23 Enigma; released February 23, 2007 by New Line Cinema, it grossed $77.7 million worldwide but scored 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Nun (2018 film)

The Nun is a 2018 American supernatural horror film directed by Corin Hardy, the fifth entry in the Conjuring Universe and a prequel to The Conjuring 2.

The Nun II

The Nun II (2023) is a supernatural horror sequel directed by Michael Chaves, starring Taissa Farmiga as Sister Irene facing the demon Valak in 1956 France; ninth Conjuring Universe film, $269.7 million worldwide.