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The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure (해적 Part Ⅱ: 도깨비 깃발)
The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure (해적: 도깨비 깃발) is a 2022 Korean period adventure film by Kim Jeong-hoon, starring Kang Ha-neul and Han Hyo-joo as rival treasure hunters; it topped the Lunar New Year box office with about 1.34 million admissions.
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (US title The Pirates! Band of Misfits) is Aardman's 2012 stop-motion feature directed by Peter Lord, based on Gideon Defoe's 2004 novel, starring Hugh Grant, with an Oscar nomination and $123.1 million box office.
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) is Roger Corman's second Edgar Allan Poe film for AIP, written by Richard Matheson and starring Vincent Price, John Kerr, and Barbara Steele. Released 23 August 1961, it invented a new plot around Poe's pendulum and outgrossed House of Usher.
The Pitt
The Pitt is an HBO Max medical drama created by R. Scott Gemmill, starring Noah Wyle as Dr. Robby at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center; each 15-episode season covers one 15-hour ER shift in real time and won back-to-back Outstanding Drama Series Emmys.
The Pittsburgh Cycle
The Pittsburgh Cycle, also called the Century or American Century Cycle, is August Wilson's series of ten plays, one per decade of the twentieth century, nine set in Pittsburgh's Hill District and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom in Chicago, written 1982 to 2005.
The PJs
The PJs (the Projects) is a Fox/WB stop-motion adult animated sitcom (1999-2001) created by Eddie Murphy, Steve Tompkins, and Larry Wilmore, about superintendent Thurgood Stubbs of the Hilton-Jacobs Projects, made in Will Vinton Studios' foam-latex "foamation" technique.
The Place Beyond the Pines
The Place Beyond the Pines is Derek Cianfrance's 2013 crime drama starring Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, and Eva Mendes, set in Schenectady, New York. Its triptych follows a bank-robbing stunt motorcyclist, a rookie cop, and their sons 15 years later.
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (雲のむこう、約束の場所, aka Beyond the Clouds, the Promised Place) is Makoto Shinkai's 2004, 91-minute debut feature anime from CoMix Wave Films, set in a divided alternate-history Japan where three teens promise to fly to a mysterious Union tower in Hokkaido.
The Plague (2025 film)
The Plague (2025) is Charlie Polinger's debut psychological thriller about bullying at a 2003 all-boys water polo camp, starring Everett Blunck, Kenny Rasmussen, and Joel Edgerton; it premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard and earned a 97% Tomatometer.
The Plague Dogs (film)
The Plague Dogs (1982) is Martin Rosen's adult animated drama adapted from Richard Adams's 1977 novel, following lab dogs Snitter and Rowf, voiced by John Hurt and Christopher Benjamin, hunted as plague carriers after escaping an animal research facility.
The Plainsman
The Plainsman is Cecil B. DeMille's 1936 Paramount Western starring Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok, Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane, and James Ellison as Buffalo Bill Cody, released January 1, 1937, grossing $2.27 million; distinct from the 1966 Universal remake and the Auburn Plainsman student newspaper.
The Platform (film)
The Platform (El hoyo) is a 2019 Spanish dystopian thriller by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, set in a vertical prison where a food platform feeds upper levels while lower ones starve; a 2020 Netflix hit with a 2024 sequel.
The Platform 2
The Platform 2 (El hoyo 2) is a 2024 Spanish dystopian horror film by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, a prequel to The Platform set in the Pit's 333-floor vertical prison, starring Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian, released on Netflix October 4, 2024 to weak reviews (36% Tomatometer, Metascore 45).
The Play That Goes Wrong
The Play That Goes Wrong, by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields for Mischief Theatre, is a farce about an amateur society staging a 1920s whodunit; Olivier-winning West End hit since 2014, Broadway 2017-2019, in over 50 countries.
The Playboy of the Western World
The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act comedy by Irish playwright J. M. Synge, first performed at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1907 and famous for the Playboy Riots.
The Playboys
The Playboys is a 1992 Irish drama directed by Gillies MacKinnon, written by Shane Connaughton and Kerry Crabbe, starring Robin Wright, Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, and Milo O'Shea, set in a 1957 County Cavan village.
The Player (1992 film)
The Player (1992) is Robert Altman's Hollywood satire, written by Michael Tolkin from his novel, starring Tim Robbins as executive Griffin Mill; it won Cannes Best Director and Best Actor and earned three Oscar nominations.
The Player (2015 TV series)
The Player is a 2015 NBC action crime drama created by John Fox and John Rogers, starring Philip Winchester as Alex Kane, Wesley Snipes as Mr. Johnson, and Charity Wakefield. Set in Las Vegas, the House gambles on Kane stopping crimes; cut from 13 to 9 episodes and canceled after one season.
The Players Club
The Players Club is a 1998 American comedy-drama film, Ice Cube's directorial debut, starring LisaRaye as a single mother who strips to pay for college.
The Playlist
The Playlist is a 2022 Swedish Netflix limited series dramatizing Spotify's founding by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, based on Spotify Untold; six perspective-based episodes, directed by Per-Olav Sørensen, distinct from unrelated playlist apps and film sites.
The Pleasure Garden (1925 film)
The Pleasure Garden (1925) is Alfred Hitchcock's first feature as sole director, a British-German silent drama starring Virginia Valli and Carmelita Geraghty, shot in Munich and Italy, and restored to 92 minutes by the BFI in 2012.
The Pledge (film)
The Pledge (2001) is a Sean Penn crime drama starring Jack Nicholson as retiring Nevada detective Jerry Black, adapted from Dürrenmatt's Das Versprechen; 124 min, R, Metascore 71, released January 19, 2001.
The Plot (설계자) (film)
The Plot (설계자, Seolgyeja) is a 2024 South Korean crime thriller directed by Lee Yo-sup, a remake of Hong Kong's Accident (2009), starring Gang Dong-won as a hitman who stages murders as accidents; it drew 525,369 admissions.
The Plot Against America (miniseries)
The Plot Against America is HBO's 2020 six-episode limited series by David Simon and Ed Burns adapting Philip Roth's novel about a Lindbergh presidency, fascism, and a Newark Jewish family, the Levins.
The Plough and the Stars
The Plough and the Stars is a four-act play by Seán O'Casey, set in Dublin tenements during the 1916 Easter Rising and first staged in 1926.
The Ploughman's Lunch
The Ploughman's Lunch (1983) is a British political drama directed by Richard Eyre, written by Ian McEwan, starring Jonathan Pryce as a BBC journalist rewriting Suez history during the Falklands War.
The Plow That Broke the Plains
The Plow That Broke the Plains is Pare Lorentz's 1936 Resettlement Administration documentary on the Dust Bowl, scored by Virgil Thomson, costing $19,260, seen by 10 million people in 1937, and controversial for blaming mechanized farming.
The Poddington Peas
The Poddington Peas is a British animated children's series about a community of peas living at the bottom of a garden, first broadcast on BBC One in 1989.
The Poet and the Boy (시인의 사랑)
The Poet and the Boy (시인의 사랑) is Kim Yang-hee's 2017 South Korean debut drama about a Jeju poet (Yang Ik-june), his wife (Jeon Hye-jin), and a boy (Jung Ga-ram); Jeonju Cinema Project, Toronto Discovery, 12,685 admissions.
The Pohutukawa Tree
The Pohutukawa Tree is a 1955 play by New Zealand playwright Bruce Mason, first performed in 1957, centering on a Māori matriarch defending her ancestral land from Pākehā neighbors.