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The One with Ross's Wedding

The One with Ross's Wedding is the two-part fourth-season finale of Friends (NBC, May 7, 1998), filmed in London after Channel 4's proposal, ending with Ross saying "I, Ross, take thee Rachel" and starting Chandler and Monica's secret relationship.

The One with the Prom Video

"The One with the Prom Video" is Friends season 2, episode 14 (NBC, February 1, 1996), written by Alexa Junge, directed by James Burrows. The gang watches Monica and Rachel's prom video, revealing Ross's devotion; Rachel kisses him, and a 2004 USA Today poll of 1.6 million votes named it the show's best episode.

The One with the Rumor

The One with the Rumor, also known as the Brad Pitt Friends episode, is season 8 episode 9 (November 22, 2001), a Thanksgiving installment in which Pitt's Will Colbert and Ross reveal their I Hate Rachel Green club and its intersex rumor.

The One-Armed Boxer (独臂拳王)

The One-Armed Boxer (獨臂拳王, Du bei chuan wang), also released as The Chinese Professionals, is Jimmy Wang Yu's 1972 Golden Harvest kung fu film about a one-armed fighter defeating foreign martial artists; followed by Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976).

The Onedin Line

The Onedin Line, BBC One drama (1971-1980) created by Cyril Abraham; eight series, 91 episodes; follows Captain James Onedin's Liverpool shipping line, 1860-1886, through the sail-to-steam transition, starring Peter Gilmore with the Khachaturian Spartacus theme.

The Oner

The Oner is episode 2 of The Studio (Apple TV+, March 26, 2025): Matt Remick visits Sarah Polley's set and ruins her magic-hour single-take shot, while the 25-minute episode is itself a stitched oner; it won two Emmys.

The Only Living Boy in New York (film)

The Only Living Boy in New York is a 2017 American drama directed by Marc Webb, written by Allan Loeb, starring Callum Turner, Jeff Bridges, Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, and Cynthia Nixon; a college graduate enters an affair with his father's mistress.

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is a 2026 Noah Segan crime drama starring John Turturro as aging Bronx pickpocket Harry Lehman, who steals a USB drive worth nearly $1 million; Sony Pictures Classics, 88 minutes, Metascore 83.

The Only Son (一人息子)

The Only Son (一人息子, Hitori musuko) is Yasujirō Ozu's first talkie, a 1936 Shochiku drama in which a widowed silk worker sacrifices to educate her son Ryosuke, then finds his Tokyo life a disappointment.

The Only Way Is Essex

The Only Way Is Essex (TOWIE) is a British structured reality series set in Brentwood, Essex, created by Ruth Wrigley and Tony Wood, on ITV2 from 10 October 2010 and later ITVBe; BAFTA Audience Award 2011, real people in planned but unscripted situations.

The Open House

The Open House is a 2018 American Netflix horror thriller, also called Open House, directed and written by Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote. Dylan Minnette and Piercey Dalton play a son and mother stalked in a mountain home; 94 minutes, TV-MA, 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Opening of Misty Beethoven

The Opening of Misty Beethoven is a 1976 hardcore adult film by Radley Metzger (as Henry Paris), a Pygmalion adaptation starring Constance Money and Jamie Gillis, widely ranked the greatest adult film of its era.

The Opium War (鸦片战争)

The Opium War (鸦片战争) is Xie Jin's 1997 Chinese historical epic about the First Opium War, Lin Zexu, and the cession of Hong Kong; a 100-million-RMB record production that won Golden Rooster Best Picture but lost money.

The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex (1956) is MGM's Technicolor musical remake of The Women (1939), from Clare Boothe Luce's play, directed by David Miller, starring June Allyson, Joan Collins, and Leslie Nielsen, notable for adding men, music, and color.

The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show (奥普拉脱口秀) was Oprah Winfrey's syndicated daytime talk show, nationally broadcast from Chicago 1986–2011 over 25 seasons; the highest-rated daytime talk show in US TV history, drawing 12–13 million daily viewers at its peak.

The Oracle (The Matrix)

The Oracle, the Matrix character played by Gloria Foster (films 1-2) and Mary Alice (film 3, games), is a guide revealed in Reloaded to be a sentient program, the Matrix's 'mother' who created the prophecy of the One and engineered the trilogy's peace.

The Oranges (film)

The Oranges is a 2011 American comedy-drama directed by Julian Farino, starring Hugh Laurie, Leighton Meester, and Catherine Keener, about an affair between neighbors in suburban New Jersey.

The Orbital Children (地球外少年少女)

The Orbital Children (地球外少年少女, Extra-Terrestrial Boys & Girls) is a 2022 six-episode original anime by Mitsuo Iso, set in 2045 on the Japanese space station Anshin, streamed on Netflix and screened in Japan as two theatrical films.

The Order (2024 film)

The Order is a 2024 crime thriller directed by Justin Kurzel, starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult in a dramatization of the FBI manhunt for a white supremacist terrorist group.

The Order (TV series)

The Order (TV series): Netflix supernatural horror drama created by Dennis Heaton, 2019-2020, two seasons, 20 episodes, set at Belgrave University, werewolves versus the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose; canceled November 2020. Distinct from the 2024 film The Order.

The Ordinary Jackpot

The Ordinary Jackpot (로또 1등도 출근합니다) is a 2026 TVING/tvN Korean workplace drama, 10 episodes, adapted from Seo In-ha's web novel. Team leader Gong Eun-tae (Lee Jun-hyuk) wins a 1.3 billion won lottery but keeps working; finale hit 6.2% Nielsen.

The Organization

The Organization is a 1971 American crime thriller directed by Don Medford, starring Sidney Poitier in his third and final film as detective Virgil Tibbs, investigating revolutionaries who steal heroin from a San Francisco drug front.

The Organizer

The Organizer (I compagni) is Mario Monicelli's 1963 Italian-French-Yugoslav drama starring Marcello Mastroianni as Professor Sinigaglia, leader of an 1890 Turin textile strike; Oscar-nominated screenplay. Also a 2017 documentary on ACORN founder Wade Rathke.

The Original (Westworld)

"The Original" is the pilot episode of HBO's Westworld (2016), written by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy and directed by Nolan, adapting Michael Crichton's 1973 film. It aired October 2, 2016, opens with Dolores in Analysis Mode, and introduces the hosts' reveries malfunction.

The Originals (TV series)

The Originals is a CW supernatural drama (2013–2018), a Vampire Diaries spin-off by Julie Plec about the Mikaelson vampire siblings Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah reclaiming New Orleans; five seasons, 92 episodes, followed by Legacies.

The Orphan of Anyang (安阳婴儿)

The Orphan of Anyang (安阳婴儿, Anyang yinger) is Wang Chao's 2001 debut feature, an unauthorized Chinese independent drama about a laid-off worker raising a prostitute's baby for 200 yuan a month, screened at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.

The Orphanage (2007 film)

The Orphanage (El orfanato) is a 2007 Spanish-Mexican supernatural horror film, Juan Antonio Bayona's debut, written by Sergio G. Sánchez and executive produced by Guillermo del Toro, starring Belén Rueda; Spain's top-grossing 2007 film with seven Goya wins.

The Orville

The Orville: Seth MacFarlane's Star Trek-homage sci-fi comedy-drama about the Planetary Union starship U.S.S. Orville; Fox 2017-2018, Hulu season 3 (New Horizons) 2022; critics panned season 1 (31%), fans loved it (93%).

The Osbournes

The Osbournes was MTV's 2002–2005 reality sitcom following Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon, Jack, and Kelly at home, the network's highest-rated show of its time and the template for celebrity-family reality TV like The Kardashians.

The Other

The Other (1972) is Robert Mulligan's psychological horror film adapted by Tom Tryon from his 1971 bestseller, starring Uta Hagen and the Udvarnoky twins as 1935 Connecticut farm boys whose deadly "game" hides a grim secret.