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The Night Clerk

The Night Clerk (2020) is an American thriller directed and written by Michael Cristofer, starring Tye Sheridan as autistic hotel night clerk Bart Bromley, a murder suspect, with Ana de Armas, John Leguizamo, and Helen Hunt; released February 21, 2020, Metascore 44.

The Night Comes for Us

The Night Comes for Us: 2018 Indonesian action thriller, Timo Tjahjanto's first Netflix original film from Indonesia, starring Joe Taslim as Triad enforcer Ito, hunted by Iko Uwais's Arian after sparing a girl.

The Night Eats the World

The Night Eats the World (La Nuit a dévoré le monde) is a 2018 French zombie survival film, Dominique Rocher's first feature, adapted from Pit Agarmen's novel, starring Anders Danielsen Lie as a man alone in a Paris apartment after the undead invade.

The Night House

The Night House: 2021 psychological horror film directed by David Bruckner, written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, starring Rebecca Hall as a widow uncovering her husband's secrets; Sundance 2020 premiere, Searchlight release, 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. Also an upcoming Jo Nesbø adaptation.

The Night House (upcoming film)

The Night House is an upcoming horror-thriller film directed by Jesper Ganslandt, based on a best-selling novel by Jo Nesbø, and starring Aaron Paul, Jacob Trembly, and Charlie Murphy.

The Night Lands

The Night Lands is Game of Thrones season 2, episode 2, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Alan Taylor, aired April 8, 2012 on HBO; titled after the Dothraki afterlife, it covers Theon's return to Pyke, Tyrion's purge justice, and Craster's secret.

The Night Logan Woke Up

The Night Logan Woke Up (La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé) is a 2022 French-language Canadian miniseries, Xavier Dolan's first television work, adapted from Michel Marc Bouchard's play.

The Night Manager (Indian TV series)

The Night Manager (द नाइट मैनेजर) is a 2023 Hindi Disney+ Hotstar series adapting John le Carré's novel, starring Aditya Roy Kapur and Anil Kapoor, directed by Sandeep Modi, Emmy-nominated, released in two parts.

The Night Night Show with Brian Tseng (博恩夜夜秀)

The Night Night Show with Brian Tseng (博恩夜夜秀) was a Taiwanese political satire late-night talk show produced by Satir Entertainment from 2018, hosted by Brian Tseng, crowdfunded, later succeeded by The Night Night Show with Hè Lóng.

The Night Night Show with Hello (贺珑夜夜秀)

The Night Night Show with Hello (賀瓏夜夜秀) is a Taiwanese political late-night comedy show by Satar Entertainment, hosted by Horlung with Albee from October 2023, successor to The Night Night Show with Brian; known for its 2024 Wang Zhi'an disability-mockery controversy and NT$5 million season-1 loss.

The Night Of

The Night Of: 2016 HBO eight-part limited crime drama by Steven Zaillian and Richard Price, adapted from Peter Moffat's BBC Criminal Justice; Riz Ahmed as Naz Khan, John Turturro, Rikers Island, 95% Metacritic.

The Night of Counting the Years

The Night of Counting the Years (Al-Mummia, المومياء) is Shadi Abdel Salam's 1969 Egyptian drama, his only feature, about the Horabat tribe's tomb raiding and the 1881 Deir el-Bahari mummy cache; restored in 2009 and ranked among the greatest Arab films.

The Night of the Following Day

The Night of the Following Day is a 1969 neo-noir kidnapping thriller directed by Hubert Cornfield, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, and Rita Moreno, adapted from Lionel White's novel The Snatchers, filmed in France, released by Universal in 1969.

The Night of the Grizzly

The Night of the Grizzly is a 1966 Paramount Western directed by Joseph Pevney, starring Clint Walker as ex-sheriff Jim Cole, with Martha Hyer and Keenan Wynn; originally titled Clementine, filmed in San Bernardino National Forest.

The Night of the Hunter (film)

The Night of the Hunter (1955) is Charles Laughton's only film as director, a black-and-white Southern Gothic thriller starring Robert Mitchum as preacher Harry Powell, adapted from Davis Grubb's novel, a 1955 box-office failure now ranked in the Sight and Sound 2022 poll.

The Night of the Iguana (film)

The Night of the Iguana is John Huston's 1964 black-and-white drama adapted from Tennessee Williams's 1961 play, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Deborah Kerr, filmed at Mismaloya near Puerto Vallarta and credited with launching that city's tourism boom.

The Night Porter

The Night Porter (Il portiere di notte) is Liliana Cavani's 1974 Italian drama starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling as a former SS officer and camp survivor who resume a sadomasochistic relationship in 1957 Vienna; banned in Italy, savaged by US critics, later reassessed.

The Night Shift (TV series)

The Night Shift (2014–2017) is an NBC medical drama created by Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, starring Eoin Macken, Jill Flint, and Brendan Fehr as Army-veteran doctors on the night shift at San Antonio Memorial Hospital; four seasons, 48 episodes, Metacritic 44.

The Night They Raided Minsky's

The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 William Friedkin musical comedy produced by Norman Lear from Rowland Barber's 1960 novel, starring Jason Robards, Britt Ekland, and Bert Lahr, about an Amish girl who accidentally invents striptease during a 1925 burlesque raid.

The Nightingale (2018 film)

The Nightingale (2018) is Jennifer Kent's Australian period revenge thriller set in 1825 Tasmania, starring Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr, and Sam Claflin; it won the Venice Special Jury Prize and depicts the Black War.

The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore

The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore was a Comedy Central late-night satire and panel show that replaced The Colbert Report at 11:30 p.m., premiering January 2015 and canceled in August 2016 after a 19-month run marked by race-focused coverage.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) is a stop-motion animated musical directed by Henry Selick, conceived by Tim Burton, with songs by Danny Elfman, about Jack Skellington of Halloween Town kidnapping Santa Claus to take over Christmas.

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974) is Robert Taylor's R-rated animated sequel to Bakshi's Fritz the Cat, following married, unemployed Fritz through catnip fantasies; it premiered at Cannes and flopped with critics.

The Nines

The Nines (2007) is John August's directorial debut, a three-part drama in which Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, and Melissa McCarthy each play three roles whose stories interlock metaphysically; Sundance premiere, limited release, $62.7K gross.

The Ninth Configuration

The Ninth Configuration (1980), also released as Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane, is William Peter Blatty's directorial debut: a castle-set military-asylum drama starring Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson, funded partly by PepsiCo and winner of a Golden Globe screenplay.

The Ninth Gate

The Ninth Gate (La Neuvième Porte, La novena puerta) is Roman Polanski's 1999 occult thriller, adapted from Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel El club Dumas, starring Johnny Depp as rare-book dealer Dean Corso authenticating a satanic 1666 text; 133 minutes, 44% Tomatometer, $18.7M US gross.

The Nipple Talk (妮波自由式)

The Nipple Talk (妮波自由式) is a 2024 Taiwanese LGBTQ+ comedy series, 10 x 30-minute episodes directed by Jack Hsu for Sequoia Entertainment, following Pony, Xuan, Xiao Zhi, and drag bar owner MAMA in Taipei; it premiered November 1, 2024 on Hami Video, MyVideo, and friDay, and earned Kaiser Chuang a 60th Golden Bell supporting-actor nomination.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (TV series)

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a BBC and HBO comedy-drama based on Alexander McCall Smith's novels, starring Jill Scott as a detective in Gaborone, Botswana.

The Norm Show

The Norm Show is an American sitcom starring Norm Macdonald as Norm Henderson, a former hockey player banned for gambling who becomes a social worker to avoid prison.

The Normal Heart

The Normal Heart is Larry Kramer's 1985 autobiographical play about AIDS activist Ned Weeks and the founding of Gay Men's Health Crisis in early-1980s New York; premiered at the Public Theater, it won the 2011 Tony for Best Revival and was filmed for HBO in 2014.