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Alpha (2025 film)

Alpha (2025) is Julia Ducournau's third feature, a France-Belgium body-horror drama about a 13-year-old girl whose tattoo sparks fears of a marble-inducing blood-borne disease; an AIDS allegory that premiered in Cannes 2025 competition.

Alpha (2026 film)

Alpha (2026) is a Hindi-language YRF Spy Universe action thriller directed by Shiv Rawail, starring Alia Bhatt, Sharvari, Anil Kapoor, and Bobby Deol; released 3 July 2026, distinct from Julia Ducournau's French film of the same name.

Alpha and Omega (film)

Alpha and Omega is a 2010 Lionsgate/Crest CGI-animated wolf comedy directed by Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck, starring Justin Long and Hayden Panettiere; it grossed $25.1 million and spawned direct-to-video sequels.

Alpha Dog

Alpha Dog (2007) is Nick Cassavetes' crime drama, also known by its real-case basis, the Jesse James Hollywood kidnapping and murder of Nicholas Markowitz, starring Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, and Bruce Willis, released January 12, 2007 amid legal controversy.

Alpha Group Co.

Alpha Group Co., also known as Alpha Animation, is a Chinese toy and entertainment company that owns the Super Wings and Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf franchises.

Alpha House

Alpha House is an American political comedy series created by Garry Trudeau for Amazon Prime Video (2013-2014), its first original series, starring John Goodman, Clark Johnson, Matt Malloy, and Mark Consuelos as four Republican senators sharing a Capitol Hill row house.

Alpha Males

Alpha Males (Machos Alfa) is a Spanish Netflix comedy created by Alberto and Laura Caballero, premiering December 30, 2022, about four Madrid friends in their forties struggling with changing masculinity; six seasons, international remakes, final season in production 2026.

Alphas

Alphas (2011-2012) is a Syfy science fiction drama created by Zak Penn and Michael Karnow, also known by its development title Section 8, about a Department of Defense team of people with superhuman abilities led by David Strathairn's Dr. Lee Rosen; it ran 24 episodes over two seasons before cancellation in January 2013.

Alphaville (film)

Alphaville (Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution) is Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 French-Italian science fiction noir, his only sci-fi film, starring Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution against the Alpha 60 computer; it won the 1965 Berlin Golden Bear.

Alphonse Puthren (ആൽഫോൻസ് പുത്രൻ)

Alphonse Puthren (ആൽഫോൻസ് പുത്രൻ), born 1984 in Aluva, Kerala, is an Indian Malayalam film director, editor, writer, and actor, director of Neram (2013), Premam (2015), and Gold (2022), now reuniting with Nivin Pauly on Vijayam.

Alpine Fire

Alpine Fire (Höhenfeuer) is a 1985 Swiss drama by Fredi M. Murer about an isolated Alpine farm family and an incestuous relationship between a deaf brother and his sister; it won the 1985 Locarno Golden Leopard.

Alps (2011 film)

Alps (Alpeis, Άλπεις) is a 2011 Greek drama by Yorgos Lanthimos, written with Efthimis Filippou, about a secret group impersonating the dead for grieving families; it won Venice's Best Screenplay Osella.

AlRawabi School for Girls (مدرسة الروابي للبنات)

AlRawabi School for Girls (مدرسة الروابي للبنات) is a Jordanian Netflix teen drama created by Tima Shomali, premiering 12 August 2021, about bullied girls at an elite Amman school seeking revenge; two seasons, 12 episodes.

also 爸爸,你凶我我也爱你 (护崽计划)

爸爸,你凶我我也爱你 (护崽计划) is a 2025 Chinese vertical micro short drama by Beijing Dianzhong Kuankan, starring Cui Xiuzi and Sun Feixiang, 92 episodes, released 13 July 2025; it topped DataEye charts and reached 900 million combined Douyin plays under its two cut titles.

also 顶级偏爱!妈咪,我找到爹地了 (好孕甜妻被钻石老公宠上天)

顶级偏爱!妈咪,我找到爹地了 (好孕甜妻被钻石老公宠上天) is Yuewen's 2025 80-episode vertical sweet-romance short drama starring Zhan Ni and Wang Zhaoyang; 20 million yuan revenue in 24 hours, No. 4 in Yunhe's 2025 ranking.

Alt porn

Alt porn (alternative pornography, also alternaporn or indie porn) is independent pornography featuring subcultural performers with tattoos, piercings, or dyed hair, associated with sites like Blue Blood and SuicideGirls and with feminist and queer cultural activism.

Altar Boy

Altar Boy (2021) is a Canadian coming-of-age drama, Serville Poblete's debut feature, written by and starring Mark Bacolcol as a shy Filipino-Canadian teen; premiered at Whistler 2021, released by Mongrel Media in 2022. Distinct from The Altar Boys (2025), The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), and the Altar Boyz musical.

Altered (2024 film)

Altered (2024 film) is Timo Vuorensola's sci-fi action film starring Tom Felton as Leon, a disabled inventor in a genetically stratified dystopia; shot in Kazakhstan, released November 21, 2025, distinct from Altered Reality (2024).

Altered Carbon (TV series)

Altered Carbon is a Netflix cyberpunk noir series (2018–2020, 2 seasons, 18 episodes) adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from Richard K. Morgan's 2002 novel, starring Joel Kinnaman and Anthony Mackie as Takeshi Kovacs; cancelled after season 2.

Altered States

Altered States (1980) is Ken Russell's American science fiction film, adapted by Paddy Chayefsky (credited as Sidney Aaron) from his 1978 novel, starring William Hurt as a scientist whose sensory deprivation and hallucinogen experiments transform him physically.

Alternative versions of Batman

Alternative versions of Batman: depictions of Batman outside DC main continuity, spanning the Multiverse, Elseworlds (Gotham by Gaslight, Red Rain, Kingdom Come), Flashpoint's Thomas Wayne, the Dark Multiverse's Batman Who Laughs, Absolute Batman, and separate film and animation continuities.

Alternative versions of Spider-Man

Alternative versions of Spider-Man: the many Marvel Comics and screen portrayals beyond Peter Parker of Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962), including Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man 2099, and the 2014 Spider-Verse crossover that named the concept.

Alternative versions of Superman

Alternative versions of Superman: parallel-Earth, Elseworlds, and screen incarnations of DC's Superman (Clark Kent/Kal-El, Action Comics #1, 1938), spanning Ultraman, Superboy-Prime, Calvin Ellis, Val-Zod, Jon Kent, Red Son, Injustice, and film variants.

Althea Ablan

Althea Ablan (Ma. Altheyah Sofia Olaivar Ablan, born 2004) is a Filipino actress known for Prima Donnas (Donna Belle), AraBella (Bella), Encantadia, and Mulawin vs Ravena; a GMA artist for ten years, she signed with Viva Artists Agency in 2026.

Alto Knights

The Alto Knights is a 2025 Warner Bros. gangster drama, also formerly titled Wise Guys, directed by Barry Levinson and written by Nicholas Pileggi. Robert De Niro plays both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese; it flopped, grossing $6.1 million against a $45 million budget.

Altovise Davis

Altovise Davis (Altovise Joanne Gore, 1943-2009), American dancer and actress, Broadway chorus performer and third wife of Sammy Davis Jr.; married 1970, adopted son Manny 1989, later managed his estate and tax debts.

Alucard (アーカード) (Hellsing)

Alucard (アーカード, Ākādo), formerly Count Dracula, is the vampire antihero of Kohta Hirano's Hellsing manga; his name is Dracula reversed. He serves the Hellsing Organization under Integra, wields the Casull and Jackal, and longs to be killed by a human.

Alucarda

Alucarda (Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas) is a 1977 Mexican cult horror film by Juan López Moctezuma, starring Tina Romero and Susana Kamini as possessed convent orphans; panned in Mexico, later a nunsploitation classic.

Alun Armstrong

Alun Armstrong (born Robert Alun Armstrong, 1946) is an English character actor, not to be confused with the astronaut Neil Armstrong or unrelated Armstrong companies. Known for nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Thénardier in the original 1985 London Les Misérables, an Olivier Award for Sweeney Todd, Brian Lane in New Tricks (2003–2013), and roles in Get Carter, The Mummy Returns, Van Helsing, and The Choral (2025).

Alvarez Kelly

Alvarez Kelly (1966) is a Columbia Pictures Civil War Western directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring William Holden and Richard Widmark, loosely based on the 1864 Beefsteak Raid, in which a cattleman is forced to drive a stolen herd to Richmond.