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EXmas

EXmas is a 2023 Amazon Freevee holiday romantic comedy directed by Jonah Feingold, starring Leighton Meester and Robbie Amell as ex-fiancés competing for a family's Christmas favor; 93 minutes, 44% on Rotten Tomatoes, now on Prime Video.

Exo Next Door

EXO Next Door (우리 옆집에 엑소가 산다) is a 2015 South Korean web drama co-produced by SM Entertainment and LINE, airing 16 short episodes on Naver TV Cast; EXO members Chanyeol, D.O., Baekhyun, and Sehun star opposite Moon Ga-young.

Exodus (1960 film)

Exodus (1960) is Otto Preminger's epic drama, scripted by blacklisted Dalton Trumbo from Leon Uris's novel, starring Paul Newman as Ari Ben Canaan smuggling 600 refugees from Cyprus to Palestine; it won Ernest Gold an Oscar and helped end the Hollywood blacklist.

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Exodus: Gods and Kings is Ridley Scott's 2014 biblical epic starring Christian Bale as Moses and Joel Edgerton as Ramses, released December 12, 2014 by 20th Century Fox. Known for its white-casting controversy, $140 million budget, $24.5 million opening, 28% Rotten Tomatoes score, and bans in Egypt, Morocco, and the UAE.

Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning (퇴마록)

Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning (퇴마록) is a 2025 South Korean 3D animated occult action film directed by Kim Dong-chul, adapted from Lee Woo-hyuk's best-selling novel series Toemarok.

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), John Boorman's sequel to The Exorcist, starring Linda Blair and Richard Burton. A notorious flop: riots, a 100-minute recut, and the end of blind bidding.

Exorcist: The Beginning

Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) is Renny Harlin's prequel to The Exorcist, starring Stellan Skarsgård as Father Merrin in 1947 Kenya; it was entirely reshot after Paul Schrader's rejected version became Dominion (2005).

Expect the Unexpected (非常突然)

Expect the Unexpected (非常突然, Fai seung dat yin) is a 1998 Milkyway Image Hong Kong crime film directed by Patrick Yau, produced by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, starring Lau Ching-wan and Simon Yam, famous for its ending in which the whole police unit dies.

Expedition Unknown

Expedition Unknown is an American documentary-reality series hosted by archaeologist Josh Gates, who investigates unsolved legends and lost treasures worldwide. It premiered in 2015 on the Travel Channel.

Expend4bles

Expend4bles (The Expendables 4) is a 2023 Lionsgate action film directed by Scott Waugh, starring Statham, Stallone, Lundgren, Couture, 50 Cent, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, and Andy Garcia. It opened to a franchise-worst $8.3 million, grossed $51.1 million worldwide on a $100 million budget, and scored 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Experimental film

Experimental film, also called avant-garde or underground film, is cinema made outside the commercial industry on an artisanal basis, from the 1920s European avant-garde and city symphonies to the American underground, defined by formal experimentation, autonomy, and distance from narrative and distribution norms.

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (Опыты по оживлению организма)

Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (Опыты по оживлению организма) is a 1940 Soviet popular-science documentary directed by David Yashin, scripted by physiologist Sergei Bryukhonenko, showing dog organs, a severed head, and a whole dog revived with his autojector artificial-circulation apparatus.

Explained (TV series)

Explained is a Vox Media and Netflix documentary series (2018-2021, 3 seasons, 44 short episodes) created by Ezra Klein, with spin-offs The Mind, Explained and Coronavirus, Explained.

Exploding Kittens (TV series)

Exploding Kittens is Netflix's 2024 adult animated comedy adapted from the Exploding Kittens card game, starring Tom Ellis and Sasheer Zamata as Godcat and Devilcat, created by Matthew Inman and Shane Kosakowski.

Exploitation film

Exploitation film, also called exploitation cinema, refers to low-budget films made for quick profit by exploiting topical anxieties and taboo subjects like sex, violence, and drug use.

Exploration Method of Love (爱的勘探法)

Exploration Method of Love (爱的勘探法), also known as Mo Da Wei De Mi Mi, is a 2023 Mango TV Chinese urban romance drama, 22 episodes, directed by Qiu Yu, starring Song Yanfei and Gao Hanyu, adapted from Mo Li's novel.

Explorers (film)

Explorers is a 1985 Joe Dante Paramount science fiction film, written by Eric Luke, starring Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, and Jason Presson as boys who build a spaceship; rushed production, $24 million budget, $3.6 million gross.

Exposed (2016 film)

Exposed (2016), originally Daughter of God, is an American crime drama starring Keanu Reeves and Ana de Armas, credited to pseudonymous director Declan Dale after Gee Malik Linton disowned the studio's recut of his film.

Express Raja

Express Raja (ఎక్స్‌ప్రెస్ రాజా), 2016 Telugu comedy by Merlapaka Gandhi, UV Creations, starring Sharwanand and Surabhi; released 14 January 2016, 144 minutes, dog-and-diamond plot, IMDb 6.9/10.

Extant (TV series)

Extant is an American CBS science fiction mystery thriller (2014–2015, two seasons, 26 episodes) created by Mickey Fisher and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Halle Berry as astronaut Molly Woods, who returns from a 13-month solo space mission inexplicably pregnant to a family including an android son, Ethan.

Exte (エクステ)

Exte (エクステ, Exte: Hair Extensions) is a 2007 Japanese horror film directed by Sion Sono, starring Chiaki Kuriyama and Ren Osugi, about cursed hair extensions made from a murdered girl's hair, released by Toei on February 17, 2007.

Extended Family (TV series)

Extended Family is an NBC multi-camera sitcom (2023–2024, one season, 13 episodes) starring Jon Cryer, Abigail Spencer, and Donald Faison as divorced co-parents sharing the family home, inspired by Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck's life; canceled after one season.

Exterritorial

Exterritorial is a 2025 German-language Netflix action thriller by Christian Zübert, starring Jeanne Goursaud as an ex-special forces soldier whose son vanishes in the US consulate in Frankfurt; it drew 87.5 million views in H1 2025.

Extinct (film)

Extinct (2021) is a Chinese-American-Canadian animated comedy directed by David Silverman and Raymond S. Persi, about flummels Op and Ed time-traveling from 1835 Galápagos to modern Shanghai; released theatrically in 2021 and on Netflix November 19, 2021.

Extinction (2018 film)

Extinction (2018) is an American sci-fi action film directed by Ben Young, starring Michael Peña and Lizzy Caplan, released on Netflix July 27, 2018 after Universal dropped it; its twist reveals the invaders are humans reclaiming Earth from memory-implanted androids.

Extra Geography

Extra Geography is a 2026 British coming-of-age comedy-drama, Molly Manners' feature debut, adapted from Rose Tremain's 2007 short story by Miriam Battye. It premiered in Sundance's World Cinema Dramatic Competition and stars Marni Duggan, Galaxie Clear, and Alice Englert.

Extra Ordinary Man

Extra Ordinary Man (ఎక్స్‌ట్రా ఆర్డినరీ మ్యాన్) is a 2023 Telugu action comedy directed by Vakkantham Vamsi, starring Nithiin as junior artist Abhi, Sreeleela, and Rajasekhar; released December 8, 2023, with mixed reviews and Disney+ Hotstar streaming.

Extra Terrestrial Visitors

Extra Terrestrial Visitors, original title Los nuevos extraterrestres, is a 1983 Spanish-French sci-fi horror film by Juan Piquer Simón, also released as Pod People and famous as MST3K episode #303.

Extract (film)

Extract (2009) is a Mike Judge workplace comedy starring Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, and Ben Affleck, released by Miramax on September 4, 2009; it grossed about $10.8 million and scored 61 on Metacritic.

Extracted (TV series)

Extracted is a Fox survival competition series in which untrained contestants survive alone in the Canadian wilderness while family members watch on a 24/7 live feed from HQ, able to send supplies or press the Extract button; $250,000 prize, premiered February 10, 2025.