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The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵) (1941 film)

Genroku Chūshingura (元禄忠臣蔵), released in English as The 47 Ronin, is Kenji Mizoguchi's two-part 1941–1942 Shochiku film adapting Mayama Seika's kabuki cycle about the Akō rōnin vendetta, a government-commissioned wartime production that became a box-office failure and later a celebrated formalist work.

The 47 Ronin (四十七人の刺客) (1994 film)

The 47 Ronin (四十七人の刺客, Shijūshichinin no Shikaku) is a 1994 Toho jidaigeki directed by Kon Ichikawa, starring Ken Takakura as Ōishi Kuranosuke, reinterpreting Chūshingura as an information and economic war.

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) is Columbia's live-action Seuss musical, directed by Roy Rowland, produced by Stanley Kramer, about Bart Collins dreaming of Dr. Terwilliker's giant piano; a flop that became a cult film.

The 51st State

The 51st State (aka Formula 51) is a 2001 action comedy directed by Ronny Yu, written by Stel Pavlou, starring Samuel L. Jackson as chemist Elmo McElroy selling a new drug in Liverpool, with Robert Carlyle; shot entirely in Liverpool in 2000.

The 5th Wave (film)

The 5th Wave is a 2016 American science fiction film directed by J Blakeson, starring Chloë Grace Moretz as a teenager surviving an alien invasion.

The 6000 lb Diaries with Dr. Now

The 6000 lb Diaries with Dr. Now (also The 6,000 lb Diaries) is a Lifetime medical docuseries, successor to My 600-lb Life, in which ten morbidly obese patients totaling over 6,000 lbs pursue bariatric surgery with Dr. Younan Nowzaradan while self-narrating via diary cams.

The 6th Day

The 6th Day (2000) is a Roger Spottiswoode sci-fi action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Adam Gibson, illegally cloned by Tony Goldwyn's Drucker despite the 6th Day Law; Robert Duvall co-stars, grossing $34.5M US.

The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao

The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) is a George Pal MGM fantasy film, adapted from Charles Finney's 1935 novel The Circus of Dr. Lao, in which Tony Randall plays a Chinese showman and six circus figures in Abalone, Arizona; William Tuttle won an honorary Oscar for the makeup.

The 700 Club

The 700 Club is CBN's flagship daily Christian news-magazine TV program, created by Pat Robertson in 1966 from a 1963 telethon asking 700 viewers to pledge $10 a month; hosted since 2021 by Gordon Robertson.

The 7D

The 7D is a Disney Television Animation musical comedy series (2014-2016) on Disney XD, reimagining the Seven Dwarfs of Snow White as Jollywood's defenders against the villainous Glooms, with a veteran voice cast and music by Parry Gripp.

The 7th Dawn

The 7th Dawn (第七の暁) is a 1964 Lewis Gilbert adventure drama starring William Holden, Capucine, Susannah York, and Tetsuro Tamba, adapted from Michael Keon's novel The Durian Tree and set during the Malayan Emergency.

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) is a Nathan Juran fantasy film starring Kerwin Mathews, with Ray Harryhausen's Dynamation stop-motion effects, a skeleton duel, Cyclops, Roc, and dragon, grossing over $6 million.

The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter

The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter (五郎八卦棍) is a 1983 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Lau Kar-leung, starring Gordon Liu and Alexander Fu Sheng, about Yang Wu-lang creating the Eight Diagram pole technique after the Yang family massacre.

The 8 Show

The 8 Show (더 에이트 쇼) is a 2024 Netflix Korean dark comedy limited series, eight episodes directed by Han Jae-rim, adapted from Bae Jin-soo's webtoons Money Game and Pie Game, starring Ryu Jun-yeol and Chun Woo-hee as contestants earning money per minute on an eight-story building's floors.

The 99'ers

The 99'ers is a Netflix sports drama film directed by Nicole Kassell about the 1999 US Women's Soccer team's World Cup win, starring Emily Bader as Mia Hamm and Zoey Deutch as Marla Messing, releasing in 2027.

The 9th Life of Louis Drax

The 9th Life of Louis Drax is a 2016 Alexandre Aja mystery thriller, Max Minghella's adaptation of Liz Jensen's 2004 novel, starring Jamie Dornan, Aaron Paul, and Sarah Gadon as a comatose boy's doctor and parents; it earned 38% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The A Word

The A Word is a BBC One family drama (2016–2020, 18 episodes) by Peter Bowker, adapted from the Israeli series Yellow Peppers, about the Hughes family after five-year-old Joe is diagnosed with autism, starring Max Vento, Christopher Eccleston, Morven Christie, and Lee Ingleby.

The A-Team

The A-Team, also known as Brigada A, is an American action series about fugitive Special Forces mercenaries, starring George Peppard and Mr. T on NBC from 1983 to 1987.

The A-Team (film)

The A-Team is a 2010 American action comedy film directed by Joe Carnahan, based on the 1980s TV series, starring Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper.

The Aam Aadmi Family

The Aam Aadmi Family is an Indian Hindi comedy-drama web series by TVF's The Timeliners about the middle-class Sharma family; four seasons and 25 episodes ran 2016 to 2023, moving from YouTube to ZEE5.

The Abandons

The Abandons is a 2025 Netflix Western drama created by Kurt Sutter, starring Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson as rival matriarchs in 1854 Washington Territory. Seven episodes, over $150 million budget, canceled January 2026 after one season.

The ABC Murders (TV series)

The ABC Murders is a three-part BBC One miniseries adapted by Sarah Phelps from Agatha Christie's 1936 novel, starring John Malkovich as an aging Hercule Poirot, broadcast in December 2018.

The ABCs of Death

The ABCs of Death is a 2012 horror anthology film of 26 shorts, each by a different director assigned an alphabet letter, produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, released by Magnet Releasing in March 2013 to mixed reviews.

The Abominable Bride

The Abominable Bride is a 2016 Victorian-set Sherlock special (Japanese title 忌まわしき花嫁) by Moffat and Gatiss, in which Cumberbatch's Holmes, drugged into a stupor, solves the Emilia Ricoletti bride case inside his mind palace to conclude Moriarty is dead but back.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) is a Robert Fuest horror comedy starring Vincent Price as organist Anton Phibes, who murders the surgeons he blames for his wife's death using Egypt's biblical plagues; AIP sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again followed in 1972.

The Abominable Snowman (1957 film)

The Abominable Snowman (1957) is a Hammer black-and-white horror film directed by Val Guest, written by Nigel Kneale from his BBC teleplay The Creature, starring Peter Cushing and Forrest Tucker as rival Yeti hunters in the Himalayas.

The Absence of Eden

The Absence of Eden (Beyond the Borders) is a 2024 border drama, Marco Perego's directorial debut, starring Zoe Saldaña as a migrant fleeing a cartel and Garrett Hedlund as an ICE agent; mixed reviews, 39% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Absent One (2014 film)

The Absent One (Fasandræberne, German: Schändung) is a 2014 Danish crime thriller, the second Department Q film, directed by Mikkel Nørgaard, starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares, released 2 October 2014.

The Absent-Minded Professor

The Absent-Minded Professor is Disney's 1961 black-and-white comedy directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Fred MacMurray as Ned Brainard, who invents flubber, a gravity-defying flying rubber, based on Samuel W. Taylor's story.

The Abyss

The Abyss is a 1989 American underwater science fiction film directed and written by James Cameron, in which oil rig divers investigating a sunken submarine encounter alien life.