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Promising Young Woman
Promising Young Woman (2020) is Emerald Fennell's Oscar-winning directorial debut, a black comedy thriller starring Carey Mulligan as Cassie, a med-school dropout avenging her friend's rape; released by Focus Features, it won Best Original Screenplay.
Proof (2005 film)
Proof is a 2005 American drama film directed by John Madden, adapted from David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Proof of Life
Proof of Life is a 2000 American thriller directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Tony Gilroy, starring Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe in a kidnapping-for-ransom drama.
Prop
Prop (short for "property") is the movable object used in theater, film, or TV performance that is neither set nor costume. Covers etymology, prop categories, the props department, and reuse.
Prop Culture
Prop Culture is an 8-episode Disney+ docuseries, also called Cinema Relics: Iconic Art of the Movies, hosted by collector Dan Lanigan; it premiered May 1, 2020, was removed from Disney+ in 2023.
Propaganda film
Propaganda film is a motion picture whose primary purpose is persuasion rather than entertainment or record-keeping. It is used by governments, such as Russia, to promote specific political narratives.
Propeller One-Way Night Coach
Propeller One-Way Night Coach (Vol de nuit pour Los Angeles) is John Travolta's 2026 directorial debut, a 61-minute Apple TV family film adapted from his 1997 children's book about a boy's 1962 multi-stop TWA flight to Hollywood; it premiered at Cannes, where Travolta received an honorary Palme d'Or.
Property Brothers
Property Brothers is a Canadian HGTV reality series starring twins Drew Scott, a real estate agent, and Jonathan Scott, a licensed contractor, who help homebuyers buy fixer-uppers and renovate them; first aired 2011 on W Network, produced by Cineflix, spun into many franchises.
Prophet Joseph (یوسف پیامبر) (TV series)
Prophet Joseph (یوسف پیامبر, Yousef-e Payambar) is a 45-episode 2008 Iranian religious TV series directed by Farajollah Salahshoor for IRIB, based on the Quranic story of Yusuf, starring Mostafa Zamani and dubbed into dozens of languages.
Proscenium
Proscenium, or picture-frame stage (Dutch lijsttheater, German Guckkastenbühne): a theatre form with an arch separating auditorium from stagehouse; its etymology, history, masking, fourth wall, and comparison with thrust and arena stages.
Prosenjit Chatterjee (প্রসেনজিৎ চট্টোপাধ্যায়)
Prosenjit Chatterjee (প্রসেনজিৎ চট্টোপাধ্যায়), Bumba Da, Bengali actor-producer, son of Biswajit Chatterjee; over 345 lead roles, National Award for Dosar, Padma Shri, Kakababu franchise, OTT debut Jubilee.
Prosenjit Chatterjee filmography
The Prosenjit Chatterjee filmography covers five decades of the Indian actor and producer, from his 1968 debut to over 270 Bengali films and recent Hindi streaming series like Jubilee.
Proshai, Livushka
Proshai, Livushka is The Sopranos season 3, episode 2 (March 4, 2001), written by David Chase, directed by Tim Van Patten, in which Livia Soprano dies after actress Nancy Marchand's real death, with a CGI final scene.
Prospect (film)
Prospect (2018) is an American space-western sci-fi film by Zeek Earl and Christopher Caldwell, starring Sophie Thatcher and Pedro Pascal; a $4M SXSW 2018 feature adapted from a Kickstarter-funded 2014 short, shot in the Hoh Rainforest.
Prospero
Prospero, the magician-duke of Milan in Shakespeare's The Tempest, exiled with Miranda, Ariel, and Caliban; deposed by Antonio, he raises the tempest, rules the island, and abjures his rough magic.
Prospero's Books
Prospero's Books (1991) is Peter Greenaway's experimental film adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, starring John Gielgud as Prospero, structured around 24 books and pioneering high-definition television imagery.
Prosthetic makeup
Prosthetic makeup is a special effects discipline using sculpted silicone, foam latex, or gelatine appliances applied to performers to create aging, wounds, and creatures; pioneered by Lon Chaney and Dick Smith, recognized by the Emmy category Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup.
Protecting Jared
Protecting Jared is a Netflix action-comedy feature (2027 expected), formerly Untitled Andy Samberg & Jason Momoa Comedy Project, directed by Ruben Fleischer; Momoa plays guard William Ikaika protecting billionaire Jared Bachman (Samberg), filmed in Honolulu Feb–Apr 2026.
Protector (2025 film)
Protector (2025 film), Korean-American action thriller directed by Adrian Grunberg, written by Moon Bong-seop, starring Milla Jovovich as war hero Nikki Halsted rescuing her kidnapped daughter; released US March 6, 2026, Korea March 25, 2026; distinct from Gasteazoro's The Protector and the Malayalam The Protector.
Protégé (门徒)
Protégé (門徒, Moon to) is a 2007 Hong Kong crime drama directed by Derek Yee, produced by Peter Chan, starring Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Zhang Jingchu, and Louis Koo, about an undercover cop infiltrating a heroin lord for eight years.
Protestant Film Commission
The Protestant Film Commission (PFC) was an American ecumenical Protestant agency representing denominational interests in Hollywood after World War II, offering voluntary script review and promoting films to churchgoers; it produced Beyond Our Own and My Name Is Han and merged into the National Council of Churches' Broadcasting and Film Commission in December 1950.
Proteus (Marvel Comics)
Proteus (Kevin MacTaggert, Mutant X) is a Marvel Comics X-Men villain created by Claremont and Byrne, debuting in X-Men #125-128 (1979). A reality-warping mutant son of Moira MacTaggert who possesses and burns out host bodies and is vulnerable to metal.
Protima Bedi (प्रोतिमा गौरी बेदी)
Protima Bedi (प्रोतिमा गौरी बेदी, born Protima Gupta, 1948-1998), Indian model turned Odissi dancer and disciple of Kelucharan Mohapatra; founder of Nrityagram, the dance village near Hesaraghatta, Bangalore, inaugurated in 1990; died in a Himalayan landslide in 1998.
Proud (TV series)
Proud is a 2026 Polish HBO Max drama series created by Karol Klementewicz, starring Ignacy Liss as gay model Filip Raczyński, who adopts his niece after his sister's death; it won the Series Mania Grand Prix.
Proud Mary (film)
Proud Mary is a 2018 American action thriller directed by Babak Najafi and starring Taraji P. Henson as a hitwoman for an organized crime family in Boston.
Proven Innocent
Proven Innocent is a 2019 Fox legal drama created by David Elliot, starring Rachelle Lefevre as a wrongfully convicted Chicago attorney whose firm exonerates the innocent; canceled after 13 episodes.
Providence (1977 film)
Providence (1977) is Alain Resnais's only English-language feature, written by David Mercer and starring John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, David Warner, and Elaine Stritch; a dying novelist's drunken night of invention, it won seven Césars.
Providence (American TV series)
Providence (1999-2002) is an NBC family drama created by John Masius, starring Melina Kanakaredes as plastic surgeon Sydney Hansen, who returns to Rhode Island after her mother's death; 5 seasons, 99 episodes.
Provincetown Players
The Provincetown Players was an American amateur theater company founded in 1915 by Greenwich Village writers to stage experimental new plays, launching Eugene O'Neill's career.
Provincial Anecdotes
Provincial Anecdotes (Провинциальные анекдоты) is a 1968 diptych of two tragicomic one-act plays by the Soviet Russian playwright Alexander Vampilov, set in a provincial hotel.