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Driving Licence (ഡ്രൈവിങ് ലൈസൻസ്) (film)

Driving Licence (ഡ്രൈവിങ് ലൈസൻസ്) is a 2019 Malayalam comedy drama directed by Lal Jr, written by Sachy, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran as superstar Hareendran and Suraj Venjaramoodu as inspector fan Kuruvila; released 20 December 2019, remade in Hindi as Selfiee.

Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 Bruce Beresford film adapted by Alfred Uhry from his Pulitzer-winning play, starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman; it won four Oscars including Best Picture.

Drohi (2010 film)

Drohi (துரோகி) is a 2010 Tamil action drama directed by Sudha Kongara Prasad. It stars Srikanth and Vishnu Vishal, set in the Royapuram slums of north Chennai.

Drohkaal (द्रोह काल)

Drohkaal (द्रोह काल), also Droh Kaal or Times of Betrayal, is Govind Nihalani's 1994 Hindi thriller starring Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah about undercover police fighting terrorists; remade as Kuruthipunal, a box office flop but acclaimed.

Droopy

Droopy, also Droopy Dog, is Tex Avery's deadpan basset hound cartoon character, debuting nameless in MGM's Dumb-Hounded (1943), voiced by Bill Thompson, named in Senor Droopy (1949), with his sole Oscar nomination for One Droopy Knight (1957).

Drop (film)

Drop (2025) is a Christopher Landon thriller starring Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar; a widowed mother on a first date is coerced via anonymous phone drops to kill her date. Blumhouse/Platinum Dunes, Universal, $28.7M worldwide.

Drop Dead Diva

Drop Dead Diva: American Lifetime comedy-drama (2009-2014, 6 seasons, 78 episodes) in which a dead model's soul returns in plus-size attorney Jane Bingum's body; Brooke Elliott stars; canceled 2013 over costs, then renewed.

Drop Dead Fred

Drop Dead Fred (1991) is a fantasy comedy directed by Ate de Jong, starring Phoebe Cates and Rik Mayall as a woman's returned imaginary friend. A Working Title/PolyGram film shot in Minneapolis, it flopped with critics (11% RT) but became a cult favorite.

Drop Dead Gorgeous (film)

Drop Dead Gorgeous is a 1999 American mockumentary black comedy directed by Michael Patrick Jann, written by Lona Williams, satirizing a Minnesota teen beauty pageant; a box office flop that became a cult classic.

Drops of God (神の雫)

Drops of God (神の雫, Kami no Shizuku) is a Japanese wine manga by Tadashi Agi (Yuko and Shin Kibayashi) and Shu Okimoto, serialized in Morning 2004–2014 in 44 volumes, about Shizuku Kanzaki and Issei Tomine competing to identify twelve Apostles wines; it sold over 15 million copies, moved real wine prices, and spawned a 2009 drama, an Emmy-winning Apple TV+ series, and a 2026 anime.

Drops of God (神の雫) (TV series)

Drops of God (神の雫) is a 2023 French-Japanese-American drama series adapted from the manga by Tadashi Agi, starring Fleur Geffrier and Tomohisa Yamashita, which won a 2024 International Emmy.

Druck (TV series)

Druck ("pressure") is a German teen web series (2018–2022), the German adaptation of Norway's Skam, produced by Bantry Bay for funk (ARD/ZDF). Eight 10-episode seasons set at a Berlin high school, released as real-time YouTube clips plus weekly compiled episodes.

Drug War (毒战)

Drug War (毒战) is a 2012 Johnnie To crime thriller, his first film set entirely on mainland China, starring Sun Honglei and Louis Koo in a cat-and-mouse anti-narcotics story; released April 2013, it earned 148 million yuan and four Golden Horse nominations.

Drugstore Cowboy

Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 Gus Van Sant black comedy crime drama starring Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch, adapted from James Fogle's autobiographical novel about pharmacy-robbing addicts in 1970s Portland, Oregon; it won NSFC Best Film and Independent Spirit Awards.

Drugstore June

Drugstore June (2024) is an American comedy directed by Nicholaus Goossen, co-written with and starring Esther Povitsky as an influencer investigating her pharmacy's robbery; limited release Feb 23, 2024, Shout! Studios.

Drumline (film)

Drumline is a 2002 American comedy-drama directed by Charles Stone III, starring Nick Cannon as a Harlem street drummer who wins a scholarship to a historically Black university in Atlanta.

Drunk History

Drunk History is an American comedy series created by Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner, begun as a 2007 Funny or Die web series, in which drunk comedians narrate historical events that actors lip-sync in reenactments; it ran six Comedy Central seasons (2013–2019), won an Emmy, and returned with YouTube shorts in 2026.

Drunk Parents

Drunk Parents is a 2019 American comedy film directed by Fred Wolf and starring Alec Baldwin and Salma Hayek as parents who hide their financial collapse.

Drunken Angel (醉いどれ天使)

Drunken Angel (醉いどれ天使, Yoidore tenshi) is Akira Kurosawa's 1948 Toho drama about an alcoholic doctor (Takashi Shimura) treating a tubercular yakuza (Toshiro Mifune) in postwar Tokyo's black market; their first of 16 collaborations and Kinema Junpo's best Japanese film of 1948.

Drunken Master II (醉拳II)

Drunken Master II (醉拳II), also released as The Legend of Drunken Master, is a 1994 Hong Kong kung fu film starring Jackie Chan as Wong Fei-hung.

Drunken Noodles

Drunken noodles, or pad kee mao, is a spicy Thai stir-fry of wide rice noodles, chicken or other protein, vegetables, Thai basil, and soy, fish, and oyster sauces, with no alcohol; also a 2025 Lucio Castro film.

Drushyam (దృశ్యం)

Drushyam (దృశ్యం) is the 2014 Telugu remake of the Malayalam hit Drishyam, directed by Sripriya, starring Venkatesh and Meena, released 11 July 2014, with a 2021 sequel Drushyam 2.

Drushyam 2 (దృశ్యం 2)

Drushyam 2 (దృశ్యం 2) is a 2021 Telugu crime thriller, the sequel to Drushyam and a remake of Jeethu Joseph's Malayalam Drishyam 2, starring Venkatesh and Meena, released 25 November 2021 on Amazon Prime Video.

Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Drusilla (Dru) is a fictional psychic vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, played by Juliet Landau; tortured to madness and sired by Angelus in 1860 London, she sired Spike in 1880, appears in 24 episodes, and debuts in "School Hard."

Dry Day

Dry Day (ड्राई डे) is a 2023 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Saurabh Shukla, starring Jitendra Kumar, Shriya Pilgaonkar, and Annu Kapoor, released on Prime Video December 22, 2023; an alcoholic campaigns to ban alcohol in fictional Jagodhar.

Dry Leaf

Dry Leaf (ხმელი ფოთოლი) is a 2025 Germany-Georgia road film by Alexandre Koberidze, 186 minutes, shot on a Sony Ericsson W595 phone, about a father searching rural Georgia's football fields for his missing photographer daughter; Locarno Special Mention and FIPRESCI winner.

Dryden Vos

Dryden Vos is a fictional Star Wars crime lord, the public face of the Crimson Dawn syndicate in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), played by Paul Bettany, based aboard the yacht First Light, secretly answering to Darth Maul, and killed by Qi'ra with his own Kyuzo petar in 10 BBY.

DSP (டிஎஸ்பி) (film)

DSP (டிஎஸ்பி) is a 2022 Tamil action comedy film directed by Ponram, starring Vijay Sethupathi as cop Vascodagama opposite Anukreethy Vas, with Prabhakar as villain Muttai Ravi; produced by Stone Bench Films, released 2 December 2022, and critically panned.

DTF St. Louis

DTF St. Louis is a 2026 HBO seven-episode limited series created, written, and directed by Steven Conrad, starring Jason Bateman, David Harbour, and Linda Cardellini in a suburban love-triangle murder mystery that premiered March 1, 2026.

Dua (film)

Dua is a 2026 Kosovo-Switzerland-France coming-of-age war drama by Blerta Basholli, her second feature. Set in late-1990s Prishtina, it premiered at Cannes Critics' Week, won the SACD Award, and is Kosovo's 99th Oscars submission.