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The Road Trip (TV series)
The Road Trip is a 2024 six-part Paramount+ romantic comedy adapted from Beth O'Leary's novel, starring Emma Appleton, Laurie Davidson, David Jonsson, Isabella Laughland, and Angus Imrie; produced by 42, filmed in Bristol and Gran Canaria, premiered December 26, 2024.
The Roaring Game (film)
The Roaring Game is a 2026 American sports comedy directed and written by Tom DeNucci, starring Darin Brooks, Mickey Rourke, Justin Chatwin, and Rob Gronkowski; a janitor forms a misfit curling team to win back his hockey-player girlfriend, released February 6, 2026 by Brainstorm Media.
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties (1939) is Raoul Walsh's Warner Bros. gangster drama starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart as WWI friends turned Prohibition bootleggers, closing the studio's 1930s gangster cycle; based on Mark Hellinger's story "The World Moves On."
The Roast of Tom Brady
The Roast of Tom Brady (GROAT) is Netflix's 2024 live comedy special from the Kia Forum, hosted by Kevin Hart, drawing 22.6 million viewers, its most-watched live broadcast.
The Robber
The Robber (Der Räuber) is a 2010 Austrian-German thriller by Benjamin Heisenberg, based on Martin Prinz's novel about marathon-runner bank robber Johann Kastenberger, "Pumpgun Ronnie"; it competed at Berlinale 2010 and won Austrian Film Awards for direction and acting.
The Robe (film)
The Robe (1953) is a Twentieth Century-Fox biblical epic directed by Henry Koster, starring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, and Victor Mature, and the first feature film released in CinemaScope with stereophonic sound.
The Robot Revolution
"The Robot Revolution" is the Doctor Who Series 15/Season 2 premiere (12 April 2025), written by Russell T Davies and directed by Peter Hoar, introducing Varada Sethu as companion Belinda Chandra, abducted by robots ruled by her ex-boyfriend Alan Budd.
The Rock (film)
The Rock (film) is a 1996 American action thriller directed by Michael Bay. It stars Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, and features a plot set on Alcatraz Island.
The Rocker (film)
The Rocker is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Rainn Wilson as a drummer who joins his nephew's high school rock band.
The Rocketeer (film)
The Rocketeer (1991) is a Disney period superhero adventure directed by Joe Johnston, based on Dave Stevens's comic, starring Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, and Timothy Dalton; it grossed $46.5M against a $40M budget and later gained a cult following.
The Rockford Files
The Rockford Files is the NBC private-eye series (1974-1980) starring James Garner as Jim Rockford, created by Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell, winner of five Emmys including 1978 Outstanding Drama Series, revived as a David Boreanaz NBC reboot in January 2027.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical sci-fi horror-comedy film by Jim Sharman and Richard O'Brien, adapted from the 1973 London stage musical, starring Tim Curry, famous for midnight audience-participation screenings and the longest theatrical run in film history.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (also The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event) is Fox's 2016 pre-taped TV musical remake of the 1975 cult film, directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Laverne Cox as Frank-N-Furter and Tim Curry as the Criminologist; it earned mixed-to-negative reviews.
The Romance of the Condor Heroes (神雕侠侣)
The Romance of the Condor Heroes (神雕侠侣), also The Return of the Condor Heroes, is Jin Yong's 1959–1961 wuxia novel, second of the Condor Trilogy, about Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü's taboo teacher–student love during the Mongol siege of Xiangyang.
The Romance of Tiger and Rose (传闻中的陈芊芊)
The Romance of Tiger and Rose (传闻中的陈芊芊) is a 2020 Tencent Video costume rom-com, 24 episodes, in which screenwriter Chen Xiaoqian is trapped in her own female-dominant (nvzun) script as Third Princess Chen Qianqian, starring Zhao Lusi and Ding Yuxi, directed by Cha Chuan Yi.
The Romancing Star (精装追女仔)
The Romancing Star (精装追女仔) is a 1987 Hong Kong Cantonese romantic comedy directed by Wong Jing and starring Chow Yun-fat, Eric Tsang, and Maggie Cheung.
The Romanoffs
The Romanoffs is a 2018 Amazon Prime Video anthology drama created, written, and directed by Mad Men's Matthew Weiner: eight standalone episodes about people claiming Romanov descent, aired October 12 to November 23, 2018, Metascore 56, Tomatometer 49%.
The Romantics (2023 TV series)
The Romantics is a 2023 four-part Netflix documentary series directed by Smriti Mundhra that celebrates Bollywood filmmaker Yash Chopra and his studio, Yash Raj Films.
The Ron Clark Story
The Ron Clark Story (2006) is a TNT television film directed by Randa Haines, starring Matthew Perry as real-life teacher Ron Clark, who moves from North Carolina to a tough Harlem elementary school; Emmy-nominated, over 12 million viewers.
The Rook (miniseries)
The Rook is a 2019 Starz supernatural spy thriller, eight episodes, based on Daniel O'Malley's 2012 novel, starring Emma Greenwell as amnesiac Checquy agent Myfanwy Thomas; cancelled in 2020 after one season.
The Rookie (1990 film)
The Rookie is a 1990 American buddy cop action film directed by Clint Eastwood, who stars as auto-theft detective Nick Pulovski opposite Charlie Sheen as his rookie partner.
The Rookie (TV series)
The Rookie is an ABC police procedural drama (premiered October 16, 2018) created by Alexi Hawley, starring Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, the LAPD's oldest rookie, inspired by William Norcross, with spinoffs The Rookie: Feds and The Rookie: North.
The Rookie: Feds
The Rookie: Feds, also called Rookie Feds, is ABC's 2022-2023 spin-off of The Rookie starring Niecy Nash-Betts as FBI rookie Simone Clark; canceled after one 22-episode season in November 2023.
The Room
The Room (2003) is Tommy Wiseau's self-financed $6 million independent drama about a San Francisco love triangle; a box-office failure now famous as the "Citizen Kane of bad movies" with participatory midnight screenings.
The Room (2019 film)
The Room (2019) is an English-language French-Luxembourgish-Belgian fantasy thriller by Christian Volckman, his first live-action feature after Renaissance. Olga Kurylenko and Kevin Janssens play a couple whose wish-granting room grants a dangerous child. Not the Tommy Wiseau film.
The Room Next Door
The Room Next Door (La habitación de al lado) is Pedro Almodóvar's 2024 first English-language drama, adapted from Sigrid Nunez's novel What Are You Going Through, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton; it won the 2024 Venice Golden Lion.
The Roommate
The Roommate (2011) is a Screen Gems psychological thriller directed by Christian E. Christiansen, starring Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester; a college-set Single White Female-style stalker film that opened number one with $15 million despite 3% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Rooster (film)
The Rooster is a 2023 Australian psychological drama, the directorial debut of Mark Leonard Winter, starring Phoenix Raei as a small-town cop and Hugo Weaving as a hermit; premiered at MIFF 2023, released in Australia February 2024.
The Rooster Prince (Fargo)
"The Rooster Prince" is the second episode of Fargo season 1 (FX, April 22, 2014), written by Noah Hawley, directed by Adam Bernstein; Molly suspects Lester while Malvo probes the Supermarket King blackmail; 2.04 million viewers, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Ropers
The Ropers is an American sitcom on ABC from 1979 to 1980, a Three's Company spin-off starring Norman Fell and Audra Lindley as Stanley and Helen Roper.