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The King's Avatar (全职高手 (网络剧))

The King's Avatar (全职高手) is a 2019 Chinese 40-episode esports web drama adapted from Butterfly Blue's novel, starring Yang Yang and Jiang Shuying, premiered July 24, 2019 on Tencent Video and the first Chinese drama to use virtual engine real-time shooting.

The King's Avatar (全职高手) (2017 web series)

The King's Avatar (全职高手), 2017 Chinese animated web series adapted from Hu Die Lan's esports novel, premiered April 7, 2017 on Tencent Video; produced by Penguin Pictures, Yuewen Group, Dongshen Pictures, and Bilibili; distinct from the 2019 live-action drama.

The King's Case Note (임금님의 사건수첩)

The King's Case Note (임금님의 사건수첩) is a 2017 South Korean comedy-adventure film by Moon Hyun-sung, adapted from Heo Yoon-mi's webtoon, starring Lee Sun-kyun as investigating King Yejong and Ahn Jae-hong; it earned 1,635,003 admissions.

The King's Daughter (2022 film)

The King's Daughter (2022), directed by Sean McNamara, is a fantasy film based on Vonda N. McIntyre's novel The Moon and the Sun, starring Pierce Brosnan as Louis XIV. Shot in 2014, shelved until Gravitas Ventures released it in 2022 to $2.2 million worldwide.

The King's Man

The King's Man is a 2021 action spy film directed by Matthew Vaughn, a prequel telling the origin of the fictional Kingsman intelligence agency during World War I.

The King's Speech

The King's Speech (2010) is Tom Hooper's historical drama starring Colin Firth as stammering King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as therapist Lionel Logue; it won four Oscars from twelve nominations and grossed $424 million.

The King's Warden (왕과 산다는 남자)

The King's Warden (왕과 산다는 남자) is a 2026 South Korean historical drama directed by Jang Hang-jun. It is set in 1457 during the exile of King Danjong.

The King's Woman (秦时丽人明月心)

The King's Woman (秦时丽人明月心, also 丽姬传) is a 2017 48-episode Chinese historical romance drama adapted from Wen Shiren's The Legend of Qin: Li Ji Story, starring Dilraba Dilmurat and Vin Zhang, aired on Zhejiang TV and Youku.

The Kingdom (2024 Philippine film)

The Kingdom is a 2024 Filipino alternate-history drama directed by Michael Tuviera, starring Vic Sotto, Piolo Pascual, Sid Lucero, Cristine Reyes, and Sue Ramirez. It imagines an uncolonized Philippines as the Kingdom of Kalayaan and won 2nd Best Picture at the 50th Metro Manila Film Festival.

The Kingdom (miniseries)

The Kingdom (Riget) is Lars von Trier's Danish supernatural hospital series set at Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, airing 1994, 1997, and 2022 (Riget Exodus), 13 episodes total, remade by Stephen King as Kingdom Hospital.

The Kingdom (المملكة) (2007 film)

The Kingdom (المملكة) is a 2007 Peter Berg action thriller, written by Matthew Michael Carnahan and produced by Michael Mann, in which FBI agents led by Jamie Foxx investigate a terrorist bombing at a Riyadh compound; mixed reviews, 51% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Kingdoms of Ruin

The Kingdoms of Ruin (Hametsu no Ōkoku, はめつのおうこく) is yoruhashi's dark fantasy manga serialized in Monthly Comic Garden from April 2019 to 2026, about Adonis's revenge after the Redia Empire's Gear Expansion witch hunts; adapted as a 12-episode 2023 anime by Yokohama Animation Lab.

The Kings of Summer

The Kings of Summer is a 2013 American coming-of-age comedy-drama, the feature debut of director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and writer Chris Galletta, starring Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, and Moisés Arias as teens who build a house in the woods; Sundance premiere, CBS Films release, $1.3 million US gross.

The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga

The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga is a 2024 three-part Netflix docuseries by Chapman and Maclain Way about Elvis impersonator Paul Kevin Curtis, his 2013 ricin-letter arrest, and rival James Everett Dutschke.

The Kingsroad

The Kingsroad is a name shared by the main highway of Westeros in George R.R. Martin's novels, a 2011 Game of Thrones episode, and a 2025 video game.

The Kinnane Brothers

The Kinnane Brothers, a Rhode Island film company of seven brothers plus brother-in-law Jeffrey Azize, known for Kevin James's Sound Guy YouTube shorts, Netflix's Home Team (2022), and the features Water Brother (2024) and Solo Mio (2026).

The Kipper Kids

The Kipper Kids: British performance art duo Brian Routh and Martin von Haselberg, both performing as Harry Kipper, active 1971 onward, known for drunken stylized 'ceremonies' and based in California from the 1970s.

The Kirishima Thing (桐島、部活やめるってよ)

The Kirishima Thing (桐島、部活やめるってよ) is a 2012 Japanese ensemble drama by Daihachi Yoshida, adapted from Ryo Asai's Subaru Prize debut novel, in which a popular volleyball captain's unexplained club resignation, and his total absence from screen, unsettle a high school's social hierarchy; it won the 36th Japan Academy Prize for Best Picture.

The Kissing Booth

The Kissing Booth is a 2018 Netflix teen rom-com directed by Vince Marcello, based on Beth Reekles' Wattpad novel written at age 15, starring Joey King, Jacob Elordi, and Joel Courtney; critically panned at 17% on Rotten Tomatoes but a hit that spawned two sequels.

The Kissing Booth 2

The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) is a Netflix teen romantic comedy directed by Vince Marcello, starring Joey King, Joel Courtney, and Jacob Elordi, based on Beth Reekles's Going the Distance; released July 24, 2020, 131 minutes, poorly reviewed (29% RT).

The Kissing Booth 3

The Kissing Booth 3 (2021) is the final Netflix teen rom-com in the trilogy based on Beth Reekles' Wattpad novels, directed by Vince Marcello, starring Joey King, Joel Courtney, and Jacob Elordi; released August 11, 2021, with a companion novel written from the script.

The Kitchen (2019 film)

The Kitchen is a 2019 American crime drama in which three mob wives run the Irish mafia rackets of their imprisoned husbands in 1978 Hell's Kitchen, New York City.

The Kite Runner (film)

The Kite Runner (film): 2007 drama directed by Marc Forster, screenplay by David Benioff from Khaled Hosseini's novel, starring Khalid Abdalla, shot mainly in Dari in China, banned in Afghanistan, Oscar-nominated.

The Knack... and How to Get It

The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) is Richard Lester's black-and-white comedy, adapted by Charles Wood from Ann Jellicoe's play, about a shy London schoolteacher seeking seduction skills; it won Cannes' Grand Prix and six BAFTA nominations.

The Kneeling Goddess

The Kneeling Goddess (La diosa arrodillada) is a 1947 Mexican film noir melodrama by Roberto Gavaldón starring María Félix and Arturo de Córdova, about a marble statue of a mistress that triggers blackmail, a suspicious death, and suicide.

The Knick

The Knick is an American medical period drama on Cinemax set in 1900 at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital, created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and directed by Steven Soderbergh.

The Knife (2024 film)

The Knife (2024) is Nnamdi Asomugha's directorial debut thriller, co-written with Mark Duplass, starring Asomugha, Melissa Leo, and Aja Naomi King; a Black family faces a detective's interrogation after a stranger is found unconscious in their kitchen. Tribeca 2024 winner, released August 15, 2025.

The Knight Before Christmas

The Knight Before Christmas is a 2019 Netflix Christmas romantic comedy directed by Monika Mitchell, starring Vanessa Hudgens as teacher Brooke and Josh Whitehouse as Sir Cole, a 14th-century knight transported to present-day Ohio; released November 21, 2019, 92 minutes, 71% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang

The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang (神探蒲松龄) is a 2019 Chinese fantasy action comedy starring Jackie Chan as the writer Pu Songling, a demon-hunting detective.

The Knight of the Burning Pestle

The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a 1607 metatheatrical comedy by Francis Beaumont in which a grocer and his wife force their apprentice Rafe into a play as a chivalric knight.