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The After Hours (Severance)

"The After Hours" is the ninth, penultimate episode of Severance season 2 (Apple TV+, March 2025), written by Dan Erickson, directed by Uta Briesewitz; titled after a 1960 Twilight Zone episode, it ends with "She's alive" before the 76-minute finale.

The Aftermath (2019 film)

The Aftermath (2019) is a post-WWII romantic drama directed by James Kent, starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, and Jason Clarke, adapted from Rhidian Brook's 2013 novel about a shared Hamburg house; it earned 26% on Rotten Tomatoes and $1.6 million US gross.

The Afterparty (TV series)

The Afterparty is an Apple TV+ murder-mystery comedy created by Chris Miller with Phil Lord, 2022-2023, two seasons (8 and 10 episodes), Rashomon-style genre-per-episode retellings, canceled after season 2.

The Agatha Christie Hour

The Agatha Christie Hour is a 1982 Thames Television ITV anthology of ten hour-long dramas adapting Christie short stories without Poirot or Marple, featuring Maurice Denham as Parker Pyne, later shown on PBS Mystery!.

The Age of Adaline

The Age of Adaline is a 2015 American romantic fantasy drama directed by Lee Toland Krieger and starring Blake Lively as a woman who stops aging.

The Age of Disclosure

The Age of Disclosure is a 2025 Dan Farah documentary in which 34 senior U.S. officials allege an 80-year cover-up of non-human intelligent life; it premiered at SXSW and streamed on Prime Video from November 21, 2025.

The Age of Innocence (1993 film)

The Age of Innocence (1993) is Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize novel, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder in an 1870s New York love triangle, released by Columbia Pictures.

The Age of Innocence (TV series)

The Age of Innocence (TV series) is an upcoming eight-episode Netflix limited series adapted from Edith Wharton's 1920 Pulitzer-winning novel, created by Emma Frost, starring Ben Radcliffe, Camila Morrone, Kristine Froseth, and Margo Martindale, filmed in Prague 2025-2026, distinct from the 2002 Korean SBS drama of similar name.

The Age of Shadows (밀정)

The Age of Shadows (밀정, Mil-jeong) is Kim Jee-woon's 2016 Korean spy thriller starring Song Kang-ho and Gong Yoo, set in 1920s Japanese-occupied Korea; the first Warner Bros.-produced Korean film, reaching 7 million viewers.

The Agency (2001 TV series)

The Agency (2001 TV series) is a CBS CIA drama, 2001-2003, 44 episodes, created by Michael Frost Beckner; first series allowed to film inside CIA headquarters; canceled after season 2, distinct from the 2024 remake.

The Agency (2024 TV series)

The Agency (2024 TV series) is a Paramount+ with Showtime espionage drama adapted from the French series Le Bureau des Légendes, starring Michael Fassbender as CIA agent Martian, with Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Richard Gere; season 2 streamed June 21, 2026.

The Aimless Bullet (오발탄)

The Aimless Bullet (오발탄, Obaltan; also The Stray Bullet) is Yu Hyun-mok's 1961 Korean drama based on Yi Beom-seon's novel, depicting a destitute postwar Seoul family; banned after the 1961 coup, restored by KOFA in 2015, now a canonical Korean realist masterpiece.

The Air (เสน่หาวาโย)

The Air (เสน่หาวาโย; 4 Elements: The Air) is a 2026 Thai GL action-romance series, third in the 4 Elements anthology, adapted from Salmon's novel. Freen Sarocha and Becky Armstrong star as a bodyguard and princess; 8 episodes aired May 16 to July 4, 2026 on Channel 7HD and iQIYI, becoming Thailand's highest-rated GL series.

The Airport Chaplain

The Airport Chaplain is an eight-part Australian SBS drama (2026) starring Hugo Weaving as airport chaplain Tobias Wallace and Shabana Azeez as manager Mira Ansari-Cole, inspired by producer Jude Troy's lost handbag and Melbourne Airport chaplain Martyn Scrimshaw, streaming globally on Netflix.

The Alabama Solution

The Alabama Solution is a 2025 HBO documentary by Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman exposing violence and cover-ups in Alabama prisons through contraband cellphone footage; Sundance premiere, Peabody winner, 2026 Oscar nominee.

The Alamo (1960 film)

The Alamo (1960) is John Wayne's only film as director, an epic Western in which he stars as Davy Crockett. Budgeted at $7.5 million but costing $12 million, it earned six Oscar nominations, winning Best Sound.

The Alamo (2004 film)

The Alamo (2004 film) is a historical war drama directed by John Lee Hancock. It stars Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston and Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett.

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour season 8

Season 8 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, retitled The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, was the show's first hour-long season: 32 episodes on CBS from September 20, 1962 to May 24, 1963, including Hitchcock's final TV directing job, "I Saw the Whole Thing."

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour season 9

Season 9 of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, the anthology's second hour-long season (CBS, 1963–64, 32 episodes), numbered continuing from Alfred Hitchcock Presents; disrupted by JFK assassination coverage preemptions.

The Alibi (TV series)

The Alibi is a 2025 Philippine mystery-romance series on Prime Video, also called The Alibi: Ang Buong Katotohanan, starring Kim Chiu and Paulo Avelino; 14 episodes, Dreamscape Entertainment, number one on Prime Video Philippines.

The Almighty Johnsons

The Almighty Johnsons: New Zealand TV3 fantasy comedy-drama (2011–2013), created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang for South Pacific Pictures; brothers reincarnated as Norse gods quest for Frigg.

The Altruists

The Altruists is an eight-episode Netflix limited drama (premiering November 19, 2026) from Graham Moore and the Obamas' Higher Ground, starring Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison and Anthony Boyle as Sam Bankman-Fried in the FTX collapse story.

The Alvin Show

The Alvin Show (CBS, 1961–1962) is a 26-episode prime-time animated series by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. and Format Films featuring Alvin, Simon, Theodore, Dave Seville, Clyde Crashcup, and Sinbad Jr.

The Amanda Show

The Amanda Show is an American live-action sketch comedy and variety series broadcast by Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2002, built around teenage host Amanda Bynes.

The Amateur (2024 film)

The Amateur (2024 film), released April 11, 2025, is a James Hawes spy thriller starring Rami Malek as CIA cryptographer Charlie Heller, adapted from Robert Littell's 1981 novel, with Rachel Brosnahan and Laurence Fishburne.

The Amazing Colossal Man

The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) is a Bert I. Gordon American International Pictures sci-fi film, also known as The Colossal Man, in which Lt. Col. Glenn Manning grows into a giant after a plutonium bomb test and rampages through Las Vegas before falling from Hoover Dam.

The Amazing Criswell

The Amazing Criswell, born Jeron Criswell King (1907-1982), was an American showman psychic known for claimed 87 percent prediction accuracy, the Criswell Predicts TV show, three prediction books, and narrating Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space.

The Amazing Digital Circus

The Amazing Digital Circus (TADC) is an Australian indie animated web series by Gooseworx and Glitch Productions: six humans, including Pomni, are trapped in a virtual circus run by the AI ringmaster Caine. Pilot premiered on YouTube October 13, 2023; nine-episode run ended June 2026 with a theatrical finale.

The Amazing Grace of Σ (我愿意)

The Amazing Grace of Σ (我願意) is a 2022 Taiwanese cult-crime drama series, 12 episodes on CHT MOD and Hami Video, created by Wu Lo-ying, starring Yao Chun-yao and Aaron Yan, a 58th Golden Bell nominee.

The Amazing Johnathan

The Amazing Johnathan, born John Edward Szeles (1958 to 2022), was an American stand-up comedian and magician whose gory, botched magic act headlined Las Vegas for 13 years.