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The Patty Duke Show
The Patty Duke Show, ABC sitcom 1963-1966 created by Sidney Sheldon and William Asher, starred sixteen-year-old Patty Duke as identical cousins Patty and Cathy Lane in Brooklyn Heights; 105 episodes, first teen-girl star series.
The Pawnbroker
The Pawnbroker is Sidney Lumet's 1964 American drama, released 1965, starring Rod Steiger as Holocaust survivor Sol Nazerman running an East Harlem pawnshop; adapted from Wallant's 1961 novel, it broke the Production Code and joined the National Film Registry in 2008.
The Peacemaker (1997 film)
The Peacemaker (1997) is DreamWorks' first film release, an action thriller directed by Mimi Leder starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman tracking stolen Russian nuclear warheads to New York; $50 million budget, $110.4 million worldwide gross.
The Peach Blossom Fan
The Peach Blossom Fan (桃花扇) is a 1699 drama by Kong Shangren telling the love story of Hou Fangyu and Li Xiangjun amid the fall of the Ming dynasty.
The Peanut Butter Falcon
The Peanut Butter Falcon is a 2019 American adventure comedy-drama by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, starring Zack Gottsagen as Zak, a man with Down syndrome who escapes a nursing home to reach a wrestling school, with Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson; SXSW 2019 audience award winner, $20.5M US gross.
The Peanuts Movie
The Peanuts Movie (2015) is a Blue Sky Studios/20th Century Fox computer-animated film directed by Steve Martino, written by the Schulz family, following Charlie Brown's crush on the Little Red-Haired Girl and Snoopy's Red Baron fantasy; 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, $130.1M US gross.
The Pearl
The Pearl (La perla) is John Steinbeck's 1947 novella about Mexican pearl diver Kino, whose great pearl brings tragedy; expanded from a 1945 short story and filmed by Emilio Fernández, winning the 1947 Venice Golden Lion.
The Pebble and the Penguin
The Pebble and the Penguin is a 1995 Don Bluth and Gary Goldman animated musical from MGM and Invicom, starring Martin Short, Tim Curry, and Jim Belushi, about penguin Hubie's pebble courtship of Marina; it grossed $2.9 million in the US.
The Peeping Tom
The Peeping Tom is a 1997 Hong Kong Category III crime horror thriller directed by Ivan Lai, starring Jade Leung, Mark Cheng, Miho Nomoto, and Michael Tse.
The Pelican Brief (film)
The Pelican Brief (1993) is Alan J. Pakula's legal-political thriller adapted from John Grisham's novel, starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington; 141 minutes, Warner Bros., released December 17, 1993, grossing $100.7 million in the US.
The Pembrokeshire Murders
The Pembrokeshire Murders is a 2021 three-part ITV true crime drama starring Luke Evans as Steve Wilkins and Keith Allen as serial killer John Cooper, adapted from Wilkins and Jonathan Hill's book Catching the Bullseye Killer.
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin
The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin is a 2026 American historical fantasy series for DailyWire+, adapted from Stephen R. Lawhead's novels Taliesin and Merlin, directed by Jeremy Boreing, set in post-Roman Britain.
The Penguin (TV series)
The Penguin is HBO's 2024 eight-episode limited series, a spin-off of The Batman (2022) created by Lauren LeFranc, starring Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb rising in Gotham's underworld; it won eight Creative Arts Emmys and earned Cristin Milioti a lead-actress Emmy.
The Penguin Lessons
The Penguin Lessons: 2024 Peter Cattaneo comedy-drama starring Steve Coogan, adapted from Tom Michell's memoir about an English teacher in 1976 Argentina who rescues a penguin, Juan Salvador.
The Penguins of Madagascar
The Penguins of Madagascar: DreamWorks spin-off franchise about penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private, covering the Nickelodeon TV series (2008–2015, 149 episodes, Emmy winner) and the 2014 theatrical film with Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich.
The Pentagon Wars
The Pentagon Wars is a 1998 HBO satirical comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Kelsey Grammer and Cary Elwes, adapted from Col. James G. Burton's 1993 book about the Bradley Fighting Vehicle's troubled testing and procurement.
The Pentaverate
The Pentaverate is a six-episode comedy miniseries released by Netflix in 2022. Mike Myers stars as members of a benevolent secret society influencing world events since 1347.
The Penthouse: War in Life
The Penthouse: War in Life (펜트하우스) is an SBS Korean revenge melodrama (2020-2021) by Kim Soon-ok and Joo Dong-min, three seasons, 48 episodes, set in Hera Palace, peaking at 31.1% Nielsen ratings.
The Peony Pavilion
The Peony Pavilion (牡丹亭), also known as The Return of the Soul, is a 55-scene Chinese play completed in 1598 by the Ming dramatist Tang Xianzu.
The People Under the Stairs
The People Under the Stairs is Wes Craven's 1991 horror-comedy about boy burglar Fool trapped in his landlords' fortified LA mansion with imprisoned children under the stairs; a satirical, politically charged cult film being remade by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw.
The People Upstairs (윗집 사람들) (2025 film)
The People Upstairs (윗집 사람들) is a 2025 South Korean adults-only comedy-drama directed by and starring Ha Jung-woo, with Gong Hyo-jin, Kim Dong-wook, and Lee Ha-nee; two apartment couples' dinner exposes marital cracks, adapted from the Spanish novel Sentimental, released December 3, 2025.
The People v. Gorilla Grodd
The People v. Gorilla Grodd is an upcoming eight-episode HBO Max true-crime mockumentary comedy from DC Studios and Warner Bros. Television, starring Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen and Jimmy Tatro as Gorilla Grodd, set after Man of Tomorrow.
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story is FX's 10-episode 2016 limited series, the first installment of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story anthology, adapted from Jeffrey Toobin's book The Run of His Life, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Paulson, and Courtney B. Vance; it won the 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Limited Series.
The People vs. Larry Flynt
The People vs. Larry Flynt is Miloš Forman's 1996 Columbia Pictures biographical comedy-drama starring Woody Harrelson as Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, with Courtney Love and Edward Norton, culminating in the 1988 Supreme Court case Hustler v. Falwell.
The People's Court
The People's Court is an American arbitration-based reality court show, the first to use binding arbitration, debuting 1981 with Judge Joseph Wapner and later presided over by Ed Koch, Jerry Sheindlin, and Marilyn Milian.
The People's Deputy
The People's Deputy (Narodni poslanik) is a three-act comedy by Serbian writer Branislav Nušić, his first play, written in 1883 and first staged in Belgrade in 1896.
The Perfect Date
The Perfect Date is a 2019 American teen romantic comedy, also known as a Netflix original film based on Steve Bloom's novel The Stand-In, directed by Chris Nelson, starring Noah Centineo as Brooks Rattigan, who runs a stand-in-boyfriend app to fund college; released April 12, 2019.
The Perfect Furlough
The Perfect Furlough is a 1958 Universal-International romantic comedy directed by Blake Edwards, starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh as a soldier and psychologist on a rigged Paris furlough, with Linda Cristal and Keenan Wynn.
The Perfect Game
The Perfect Game (2009) is William Dear's family sports drama about Mexico's 1957 Monterrey Industrials, the first non-U.S. Little League World Series champions, starring Clifton Collins Jr., Cheech Marin, and Jake T. Austin; distinct from the 2000 Disney film and the 2011 Korean baseball film of similar name.
The Perfect Guy (2015 film)
The Perfect Guy is a 2015 American thriller directed by David M. Rosenthal and starring Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, and Morris Chestnut, released by Screen Gems in September 2015.