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Adult World

Adult World is a 2013 American indie comedy, also called the Scott Coffey film starring Emma Roberts and John Cusack, about poet wannabe Amy working in a Syracuse sex shop; it premiered at Tribeca 2013 and was released by IFC in 2014.

Adulterers (film)

Adulterers, originally titled Avouterie, is a 2015 American psychological drama and thriller film by H.M. Coakley, in which Sean Faris plays a husband who finds his wife (Danielle Savre) with her lover (Mehcad Brooks).

Adulthood (2025 film)

Adulthood, aka The Adults, is a 2025 American dark comedy crime film directed by Alex Winter, starring Josh Gad and Kaya Scodelario as siblings who find a corpse in their parents' basement; it premiered at TIFF 2025 and streams via Republic Pictures.

Adulting (TV series)

Adulting (TV series) covers several unrelated shows sharing the title: Dice Media's Indian Mumbai web series (2018–2022), Showmax's South African drama (2023– ), and American #Adulting web series, plus the slang term behind the name.

Adults (TV series)

Adults is an FX/Hulu ensemble comedy created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw about five twenty-something friends in Queens, New York. Premiered May 28, 2025; renewed for a second season in October 2025; stars Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao, and Owen Thiele.

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (Community)

"Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" is Community season 2 episode 14 (NBC, February 3, 2011), in which the study group plays D&D with suicidal classmate Fat Neil while Pierce crashes the game; removed from Netflix and Hulu in June 2020 over Chang's dark-elf costume.

Adventure film

Adventure film: a movie genre built on a protagonist's quest, exploration, and peril in exotic or fantastical settings; also called action-adventure (term from 1927). Distinct from pure action spectacle; subtypes include swashbuckler, pirate, sea, empire, fortune hunter.

Adventure Time

Adventure Time is an American animated series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network (2010–2018, 10 seasons, 283 episodes) about Finn and his shape-shifting dog Jake in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo; spin-offs include Fionna and Cake and Side Quests.

Adventure Time: Distant Lands

Adventure Time: Distant Lands is a 2020-2021 HBO Max miniseries of four specials (BMO, Obsidian, Wizard City, Together Again) continuing the Cartoon Network series, created by Pendleton Ward, scoring 82 on Metacritic and 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake is a Max animated spin-off of Adventure Time starring gender-swapped Finn and Jake counterparts Fionna and Cake, created by Natasha Allegri, showrunner Adam Muto; season 1 premiered August 31, 2023, season 2 aired October–December 2025.

Adventure Time: Side Quests

Adventure Time: Side Quests is a 2026 animated prequel spinoff of Adventure Time following young Finn and Jake in Ooo; 40 episodes, premiered June 29, 2026 on Hulu and Disney+, with Victor Courtright as supervising director and Sasha Knight voicing Finn.

Adventureland (film)

Adventureland (2009) is an American comedy-drama-romance written and directed by Greg Mottola, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart. Set in summer 1987, it follows a college grad working at an amusement park; quasi-autobiographical, Miramax, Metascore 76.

Adventures in Babysitting

Adventures in Babysitting: 1987 Touchstone comedy, Chris Columbus's directing debut, starring Elisabeth Shue as a babysitter stranded in Chicago with the Anderson kids; 102 min, PG-13, remade by Disney Channel in 2016.

Adventures in Babysitting (2016 film)

Adventures in Babysitting (2016) is a Disney Channel Original Movie, the 100th DCOM, directed by John Schultz, starring Sabrina Carpenter and Sofia Carson as rival babysitters in a remake of the 1987 film, premiering June 24, 2016.

Adventures of Superman (TV series)

Adventures of Superman (1952–1958) was the first live-action Superman TV series, syndicated, 104 episodes, starring George Reeves with Phyllis Coates then Noel Neill as Lois Lane, shot in color from 1954.

Adventures of Zatoichi (座頭市関所破り)

Adventures of Zatoichi (座頭市関所破り, Zatoichi Breaks the Barrier) is a 1964 Daiei jidaigeki, the ninth Zatoichi film, directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda, written by Shozaburo Asai from Kan Shimozawa's story, released December 30, 1964, 86 minutes, the series' first New Year's feature, set in Kasama.

Advise & Consent

Advise & Consent (1962), Otto Preminger's political drama adapted from Allen Drury's Pulitzer-winning 1959 novel, depicts a Senate confirmation battle over Henry Fonda's Secretary of State nominee, filmed with rare access to Capitol Hill.

Advocate Achinta Aich

Advocate Achinta Aich (অ্যাডভোকেট অচিন্ত্য আইচ) is a Bengali courtroom drama web series on hoichoi, directed by Joydeep Mukherjee, starring Ritwick Chakraborty as a notary lawyer; three seasons from 2024, 2025, and 2026.

Advocate Anjali Awasthi

Advocate Anjali Awasthi (एडवोकेट अंजलि अवस्थी), also retitled Aarti Anjali Awasthi, is a Hindi StarPlus courtroom drama (2024–2026), a remake of Bengali Geeta LLB starring Shritama Mitra and Ankit Raizada, ending 31 May 2026.

Adyaksha (ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ)

Adhyaksha (ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ, Adhyaksha), 2014 Kannada comedy directed by Nanda Kishore, starring Sharan, Hebah Patel, Chikkanna; remake of Tamil Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam, released 15 August 2014, music Arjun Janya.

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (ऐ दिल है मुश्किल)

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (ऐ दिल है मुश्किल) is a 2016 Karan Johar Hindi romantic drama starring Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan about unrequited love, released Diwali 2016 amid a Fawad Khan casting controversy, grossing 237.56 crore worldwide with a hit Pritam album.

Ae Watan Mere Watan

Ae Watan Mere Watan (ए वतन मेरे वतन) is a 2024 Hindi Prime Video biographical drama directed by Kannan Iyer, starring Sara Ali Khan as freedom fighter Usha Mehta, who ran the underground Congress Radio during the 1942 Quit India Movement.

Aegan

Aegan (ஏகன்) is a 2008 Tamil action comedy film, Raju Sundaram's directorial debut, starring Ajith Kumar and Nayanthara; released Diwali 2008 by Ayngaran International, music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, reviews average. Also the name of a Tamil actor starring in Haiku (2026).

Aelita: Queen of Mars

Aelita: Queen of Mars (Аэлита) is Yakov Protazanov's 1924 Soviet silent science-fiction film based on Aleksei Tolstoy's novella, the first Soviet space-travel feature, with constructivist Martian sets and costumes by Alexandra Exter, a dream-frame plot, and a 2018 NFSA restoration.

Aema

Aema (애마) is a 2025 Netflix Korean limited series, six episodes, written and directed by Lee Hae-young, starring Lee Hanee, Bang Hyo-rin, Jin Sun-kyu, and Cho Hyun-chul. Set in 1980s Chungmuro, it fictionalizes the making of the 1982 erotic film Madame Aema under Chun Doo-hwan's 3S policy.

Æon Flux

Æon Flux: American adult animated science fiction series created by Peter Chung for MTV (1991–1995), also known as Aeon Flux. Wordless Liquid Television shorts about agent Æon versus Bregna's Trevor Goodchild; later ten half-hour episodes and a poorly received 2005 Charlize Theron film.

Æon Flux (film)

Æon Flux is a 2005 American science fiction action film directed by Karyn Kusama, starring Charlize Theron as an assassin in Earth's last surviving city, adapted from the MTV animated series.

Aeterna

Aeterna (Этерна) is a 2025 Russian fantasy series on Kinopoisk, adapted from Vera Kamsha's cycle Otbleski Eterny; a reboot of the poorly received 2022 pilot film, six episodes directed by Sergei Trofimov.

AEW Dark

AEW Dark was All Elite Wrestling's weekly YouTube web series (October 8, 2019 to April 25, 2023, 193 episodes) showing untelevised Dynamite matches; ended by the Warner Bros. Discovery deal, briefly revived as Dark: Stocking Stuffer in Cardiff, 2025.

Affair (รักเล่นกล)

Affair (รักเล่นกล) is a 2024 Thai girls' love drama on Channel One31, adapted from an online novel by เจ้าปลาน้อย, starring Sonya Saranphat Pedersen and Lukmhee Panyaphat Wongphongsathapon as lovers separated for thirteen years.