edgepedia

Screen and stage

62,279 articles

Traditional animation

Traditional (cel) animation: hand-drawn animation on transparent celluloid cels photographed frame by frame over painted backgrounds; 24 drawings per second, Snow White (1937) as first feature, Disney's 1990 shift to digital CAPS.

Traffic (2000 film)

Traffic (2000 film), Steven Soderbergh crime drama adapted from the British miniseries Traffik; three interwoven, color-coded drug-war stories starring Michael Douglas and Benicio del Toro; won four Oscars, grossed $207.5 million.

Traffic (2011 film)

Traffic (ട്രാഫിക്) is a 2011 Malayalam thriller directed by Rajesh Pillai, written by Bobby-Sanjay, about a heart-transport mission from Kochi to Palakkad; credited with launching Malayalam New Generation cinema and remade in Tamil and Hindi.

Traffic (2016 film)

Traffic (ट्रैफिक), 2016 Hindi thriller directed by Rajesh Pillai, a remake of his 2011 Malayalam film, about transporting a donor heart 150 km from Mumbai to Pune; released 6 May 2016, starring Manoj Bajpayee and Jimmy Shergill.

Traffic Signal (2007 film)

Traffic Signal (2007) is a Hindi drama by Madhur Bhandarkar, third in his Page 3–Corporate trilogy, about beggars, vendors, and criminals around a Mumbai traffic signal; it won the National Film Award for Best Direction.

Trafic

Trafic (Traffic) is Jacques Tati's 1971 French-Italian comedy, the fourth and final Monsieur Hulot film, following Hulot's gadget-laden camper car from Paris to the Amsterdam auto show through a road movie of breakdowns and traffic jams.

Tragedy

Tragedy: Greek-origin drama invented in sixth-century BCE Athens, performed at the City Dionysia, defined by Aristotle in the Poetics, and the ancestor of later tragic drama from Seneca to Shakespeare.

Tragedy Girls

Tragedy Girls is a 2017 American horror-comedy directed by Tyler MacIntyre, starring Brianna Hildebrand and Alexandra Shipp as teen best friends who commit murders to boost social media fame; 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo) is a 1981 Italian drama by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Ugo Tognazzi as a Parma cheese maker whose son is kidnapped; Tognazzi won Cannes Best Actor 1981.

Tragic hero

A tragic hero is the protagonist of a tragedy whose own error, not vice or bad luck, brings a fall from prosperity to misery, as defined by Aristotle.

Tragicomedy

Tragicomedy: dramatic genre blending tragic and comic elements, first named in Plautus' Amphitryon and theorized by Guarini (1590) and Fletcher; Shakespeare's late plays and Beckett's Waiting for Godot are central examples.

Trai Nimtawat (นีโอตรัยนิ่มทวัฒน์)

Trai Nimtawat, nicknamed Neo (ตรัย นิ่มทวัฒน์), born 2001 in Bangkok, is a Thai GMMTV actor known for Fish upon the Sky, The Eclipse, and Only Friends, and a former national youth basketball player who won bronze at ASEAN Schools Games 2018.

Trail of the Pink Panther

Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), Blake Edwards comedy assembled after Peter Sellers's death from unused Clouseau footage, with Joanna Lumley as reporter Marie Jouvet investigating the inspector's disappearance.

Trailer (promotion)

Trailer (promotion): the short audiovisual advertisement for a forthcoming film, also called a movie preview. Originated 1913 with Nils Granlund at Loew's; dominated by National Screen Service until the 1960s; capped at two minutes since 2014.

Trailer Park Boys

Trailer Park Boys: Canadian mockumentary comedy series created by Mike Clattenburg about Ricky, Julian and Bubbles in fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park, Nova Scotia; Showcase 2001–2008, Netflix revival to 2018, films and spin-offs.

Trailer Park Boys: Jail

Trailer Park Boys: Jail, a SwearNet spin-off of Trailer Park Boys, follows Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles in prison; two seasons (2021, 2025), 18 episodes, ended, now on TPB+.

Trails (series)

Trails (Kiseki series, sold as The Legend of Heroes) is Nihon Falcom's story RPG franchise set on Zemuria, begun in 2004 with Trails in the Sky; 13 English mainline games across Liberl, Crossbell, Erebonia, and Calvard arcs share one continuous plot.

Train Dreams (film)

Train Dreams (2025 film), directed by Clint Bentley from Denis Johnson's novella, stars Joel Edgerton as logger Robert Grainier in the early 20th-century Pacific Northwest; Netflix release, four Oscar nominations, three Independent Spirit Award wins.

Train to Busan (부산행)

Train to Busan (부산행) is Yeon Sang-ho's 2016 Korean zombie disaster film set on a KTX train to Busan; first 2016 Korean film past 10 million admissions, Cannes Midnight Screening, spawned Peninsula and Seoul Station.

Train to Pakistan (ट्रैन टू पाकिस्तान) (1998 film)

Train to Pakistan (ट्रैन टू पाकिस्तान) is Pamela Rooks's 1998 Hindi drama adapting Khushwant Singh's novel about Partition-era village Mano Majra, starring Nirmal Pandey, Mohan Agashe, and Rajit Kapoor, produced by NFDC and Pan Pictures.

Training Day

Training Day (2001) is a Warner Bros. crime drama directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by David Ayer, starring Denzel Washington as corrupt LAPD narcotics officer Alonzo Harris and Ethan Hawke as rookie Jake Hoyt; Washington won the Best Actor Oscar.

Training Day (TV series)

Training Day (2017) is a CBS police drama, a sequel to the 2001 film, starring Bill Paxton as LAPD detective Frank Rourke and Justin Cornwell as trainee Kyle Craig. It ran one 13-episode season from February 2 to May 20, 2017, was criticized and low-rated, and was cancelled.

Trainspotting (film)

Trainspotting (1996) is Danny Boyle's British black comedy drama adapted from Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel, starring Ewan McGregor as Edinburgh heroin addict Mark Renton; a £1.5-1.7m film that grossed about $72 million worldwide and defined 1990s Cool Britannia cinema.

Trainwreck (film series)

Trainwreck is Netflix's documentary anthology of films and series about real media disasters, starting with Woodstock '99 (2022) and an eight-film weekly 2025 season covering Astroworld, Poop Cruise, Balloon Boy, and Storm Area 51; renewed for season 2.

Trainwreck (film)

Trainwreck is a 2015 American romantic comedy directed by Judd Apatow, written by and starring Amy Schumer, with Bill Hader, Brie Larson, and LeBron James. Released July 17, 2015 by Universal, it grossed about $141 million worldwide on a $35 million budget.

Trainwreck: Storm Area 51

Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 is a two-part 2025 Netflix documentary directed by Jack MacInnes about the 2019 viral Facebook event urging people to storm Area 51, created by Matty Roberts, which drew millions of RSVPs and military warnings.

Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy

Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy is a 2025 Netflix documentary directed by Yemi Bamiro, the first episode of the Trainwreck anthology, recounting the November 5, 2021 Astroworld Festival crowd crush that killed 10 people during Travis Scott's set.

Trainwreck: The Real Project X

Trainwreck: The Real Project X is a 2025 Netflix documentary, directed by Alex Wood, about the 2012 Project X Haren riot in the Netherlands, sparked when Merthe Weusthuis's public Facebook birthday invite went viral.

Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 is a 2022 three-part Netflix documentary series, directed by Jamie Crawford and produced by Raw, examining the disastrous 1999 Woodstock revival festival in Rome, New York, formerly titled Clusterfk.

Traitor (film)

Traitor is a 2008 American political thriller directed and co-written by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, starring Don Cheadle as Samir Horn and Guy Pearce as FBI agent Roy Clayton.