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The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film)

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 2008 American science fiction film directed by Scott Derrickson, starring Keanu Reeves as an alien whose arrival threatens humanity.

The Day Today

The Day Today is a 1994 BBC Two British comedy series by Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci, adapted from Radio 4's On the Hour, parodying TV news with six episodes and launching Alan Partridge and Brass Eye.

The Day Will Come When You Won't Be

The Day Will Come When You Won't Be is The Walking Dead season 7 premiere (AMC, October 23, 2016), episode 84, written by Scott Gimple, directed by Greg Nicotero, depicting Negan's killings of Abraham and Glenn.

The Days

The Days is an eight-episode 2023 Netflix docudrama by Warner Bros. Japan dramatizing the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, starring Koji Yakusho as plant manager Masao Yoshida, based on the Yoshida account and accident reports.

The Days (1991 film)

The Days (Dongchun de rizi, 冬春的日子) is Wang Xiaoshuai's 1993 black-and-white independent debut about a Beijing artist couple, starring painters Liu Xiaodong and Yu Hong, banned in China and a founding Sixth Generation festival film.

The Days of the Turbins

The Days of the Turbins (Дни Турбиных) is a Mikhail Bulgakov play, adapted from his novel The White Guard, that premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1926.

The Dead (1987 film)

The Dead (1987) is John Huston's final film, an adaptation of James Joyce's short story from Dubliners, written by Tony Huston and starring Anjelica Huston and Donal McCann as Gretta and Gabriel Conroy at a 1904 Epiphany dinner in Dublin.

The Dead and the Deadly (人吓人)

The Dead and the Deadly (人吓人) is a 1982 Hong Kong supernatural kung-fu comedy directed by Wu Ma, produced by Sammo Hung, and starring Hung, Wu Ma, and Cherie Chung.

The Dead Center

The Dead Center is a 2018 supernatural horror thriller written and directed by Billy Senese, starring Shane Carruth as psychiatrist Daniel Forrester treating a revived suicide victim (Jeremy Childs). Premiered at LA Film Festival 2018; released by Arrow Films October 2019; 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Dead Don't Die (2019 film)

The Dead Don't Die (2019) is Jim Jarmusch's zombie comedy for Focus Features, starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver, and Tilda Swinton; it opened Cannes 2019 and scored 55% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Dead End (烈日灼心)

The Dead End (烈日灼心), also known as Sunspots, is a 2015 Chinese crime-suspense film by Cao Baoping, adapted from Xu Yigua's novel, about three fugitives raising an orphan; it won three shared Best Actor awards at the Shanghai festival.

The Dead Files

The Dead Files is an American paranormal reality series on Travel Channel since September 23, 2011, pairing physical medium Amy Allan (later Cindy Kaza) and retired NYPD detective Steve DiSchiavi, who investigate haunted locations independently.

The Dead Girls

The Dead Girls (Las muertas) is a 2025 Netflix Mexican miniseries by Luis Estrada, adapted from Ibargüengoitia's 1977 novel about the Baladro sisters, fictional versions of the serial-killer brothel owners Las Poquianchis.

The Dead Man and Being Happy

The Dead Man and Being Happy (El muerto y ser feliz) is Javier Rebollo's 2012 Spain-Argentina-France road movie starring José Sacristán as a dying hitman fleeing Buenos Aires with morphine; it won the FIPRESCI Prize and a Silver Shell for Best Actor at San Sebastián 2012.

The Dead Pool

The Dead Pool is a 1988 American action thriller directed by Buddy Van Horn, the fifth and final film in the Dirty Harry series, with Clint Eastwood returning as inspector Harry Callahan.

The Dead Zone (film)

The Dead Zone is a 1983 American psychological thriller directed by David Cronenberg from Stephen King's 1979 novel, with Christopher Walken as a schoolteacher who sees the future through touch.

The Dead Zone (TV series)

The Dead Zone (2002–2007) is a USA Network supernatural drama based on Stephen King's novel, created by Michael and Shawn Piller, starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, a coma survivor with psychic visions; six seasons, 81 episodes, cancelled December 2007.

The Deadful Melody (六指琴魔)

The Deadful Melody (六指琴魔), also Deadly Melody, is a 1994 Hong Kong-mainland wuxia film by Ng Min Kan, adapted from Ni Kuang's novel, starring Brigitte Lin, Yuen Biao, and Carina Lau; it earned about HK$4.55 million in Hong Kong.

The Deadly Affair

The Deadly Affair is Sidney Lumet's 1966/1967 Columbia cold war spy thriller adapting John le Carré's Call for the Dead, with James Mason as Charles Dobbs, the renamed George Smiley, alongside Simone Signoret, Maximilian Schell, and Harriet Andersson.

The Deadly Assassin

The Deadly Assassin (1976): Doctor Who serial 4P by Robert Holmes; Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor, companionless and first full Gallifrey story, framed for the President's assassination; introduced the 12-regeneration limit, the Matrix, and the Eye of Harmony.

The Deadly Breaking Sword

The Deadly Breaking Sword (風流斷劍小小刀, also Breaking Sword of Death) is a 1979 Shaw Brothers wuxia film directed by Sun Chung, starring Ti Lung and Fu Sheng as heroes fighting the Killer Doctor Dr. Guo Tiansheng.

The Deal (The Americans)

"The Deal" is episode 5 of season 2 of The Americans, aired on FX March 26, 2014. Written by Angelina Burnett, it centers on trading a captured Mossad agent for physicist Anton Baklanov, ending with the USSR releasing Refuseniks.

The Deal (거래)

The Deal (거래, Georae) is a 2023 South Korean Wavve original crime thriller, 8 episodes, directed by Lee Jung-gon, adapted from Woonam 20's Naver webtoon, starring Yoo Seung-ho, Kim Dong-hwi, Yoo Su-bin, and Lee Joo-young in a 1-billion-won kidnapping plot; distinct from the Paramount+ series Bargain.

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: NBC comedy specials (1974-1984, after a 1973-74 segment on The Dean Martin Show) hosted by Dean Martin, Vegas-taped, Friars Club-style celebrity insult roasts.

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan is a 2018 drama film directed by Xavier Dolan, his first in English, about a TV star's exposed correspondence with an 11-year-old boy.

The Death of a Bureaucrat

Death of a Bureaucrat (La muerte de un burócrata) is Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's 1966 Cuban black comedy, produced by ICAIC, about a nephew exhuming his uncle to recover a labor card needed for a pension; Karlovy Vary Special Jury Prize winner.

The Death of Bunny Munro (TV series)

Sky Original six-part 2025 limited series adapting Nick Cave's 2009 novel, starring Matt Smith as sex-addict salesman Bunny Munro opposite newcomer Rafael Mathé as his son; directed by Isabella Eklöf, scored by Cave and Warren Ellis, released 20 November 2025.

The Death of Dick Long

The Death of Dick Long (2019) is Daniel Scheinert's solo directorial debut, an A24 dark comedy written by Billy Chew, in which Alabama bandmates Zeke and Earl cover up how their drummer died; 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Death of Ivan the Terrible

The Death of Ivan the Terrible (Смерть Иоанна Грозного) is a five-act verse tragedy by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, published in 1866 and dramatizing Tsar Ivan IV's final days.

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu), Cristi Puiu's 2005 Romanian New Wave drama, follows a dying 63-year-old through Bucharest hospitals; it won Cannes' Un Certain Regard Prize.