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Day for Night (1973 film)

Day for Night (La nuit américaine) is François Truffaut's 1973 France/Italy comedy-drama about making a film, starring Truffaut as director Ferrand; it won the 1973 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Day of Reckoning (2025 film)

Day of Reckoning (2025) is an American action Western thriller directed by Shaun Silva, starring Zach Roerig, Billy Zane, Cara Jade Myers, Scott Adkins, and Trace Adkins; a Tubi original released March 28, 2025, about lawmen holding an outlaw's wife hostage.

Day of the Daleks

Day of the Daleks is a four-part 1972 Doctor Who serial opening Season 9, written by Louis Marks and directed by Paul Bernard, marking the Daleks' return after five years and their first colour TV appearance, with a time-paradox plot about guerrillas causing the war they try to prevent.

Day of the Dead (1985 film)

Day of the Dead (1985) is George A. Romero's third Dead-series zombie film, after Night and Dawn of the Dead. Released unrated on 3 July 1985 on a $4 million budget, shot in a Wampum, Pennsylvania limestone mine, with Tom Savini effects and the domesticated zombie Bub; restored in 4K in 2026.

Day of the Dead (2008 film)

Day of the Dead (2008) is Steve Miner's straight-to-DVD remake of George A. Romero's 1985 zombie film, written by Jeffrey Reddick, starring Ving Rhames, Mena Suvari, and Nick Cannon, with fast, wall-climbing zombies, an $18 million budget, and a 13% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Day of the Dead: Bloodline

Day of the Dead: Bloodline is a 2018 horror film, a reimagining of Romero's 1985 Day of the Dead, directed by Hèctor Hernández Vicens, starring Sophie Skelton and Johnathon Schaech, released by Saban Films on January 5, 2018 to poor reviews (11% on Rotten Tomatoes).

Day of Wrath

Day of Wrath (Vredens dag) is Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1943 Danish drama, also known as Vredens Dag, about Anne, a pastor's young wife accused of witchcraft in 1623 after loving her stepson. Shot under Nazi occupation, adapted from Wiers-Jenssens' play Anne Pedersdotter, it premiered 13 November 1943 and was read as an occupation allegory.

Day One (The Last of Us)

"Day One" is the fourth episode of The Last of Us season 2 (HBO, May 4, 2025), written by Craig Mazin, directed by Kate Herron, introducing Jeffrey Wright's Isaac Dixon and featuring Ellie's "Take On Me" scene.

Day Shift (film)

Day Shift (2022) is a Netflix action-horror-comedy, the directorial debut of stunt coordinator J.J. Perry, starring Jamie Foxx as vampire hunter Bud Jablonski, whose San Fernando Valley pool-cleaning job fronts for an international vampire hunters' union; also starring Dave Franco, Snoop Dogg, and Karla Souza.

Day Watch (Дневной Дозор)

Day Watch (Дневной Дозор) is a 2006 Russian urban fantasy film directed by Timur Bekmambetov, a sequel to Night Watch set in a Moscow divided between forces of Light and Darkness.

Daya Jethalal Gada

Daya Jethalal Gada, or Dayaben, is the Gujarati homemaker character in the sitcom Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah (2008), played by Disha Vakani; wife of Jethalal, Garba-loving, catchphrase "Hey Ma! Mataji!", absent from the show since 2020.

Dayaa

Dayaa (2023) is a Telugu-language crime thriller web series directed by Pavan Sadineni, a Disney+ Hotstar adaptation of the Bangladeshi show Taqdeer, starring J. D. Chakravarthy as a freezer van driver who finds a journalist's body in his van; 8 episodes, IMDb 6.2.

Dayana Mendoza

Dayana Mendoza, full name Dayana Sabrina Mendoza Moncada, is a Venezuelan model who won Miss Venezuela 2007 and Miss Universe 2008, the fifth Venezuelan to hold the title.

Dayanand Shetty

Dayanand Shetty (born 1969, Katapadi, India) is an Indian actor famous as Senior Inspector Daya on CID (1998-2018, over 1,500 episodes); also films Johnny Gaddaar, Singham Returns, Singham Again.

Dayavan (दयावान)

Dayavan (दयावान) is a 1988 Hindi action crime drama directed and produced by Feroz Khan, a remake of Tamil film Nayakan, starring Vinod Khanna as a benevolent gangster, with Madhuri Dixit, released 21 October 1988.

Daybreak (2019 TV series)

Daybreak (2019 TV series), Netflix post-apocalyptic comedy-drama based on Brian Ralph's graphic novel; created by Aron Eli Coleite and Brad Peyton; 10 episodes, TV-MA, canceled December 2019 after one season.

Daybreakers

Daybreakers is a 2009 science-fiction horror film directed by the Spierig brothers, starring Ethan Hawke in a world where vampires are running out of human blood.

Daylight (1996 film)

Daylight (1996) is a Universal disaster film directed by Rob Cohen, written by Leslie Bohem, starring Sylvester Stallone as ex-EMS chief Kit Latura rescuing survivors trapped in a collapsed Hudson River tunnel after a toxic-waste explosion; released December 6, 1996, shot at Cinecittà with ILM effects.

Dayo Koleosho

Dayo Koleosho (Oludayo Koleosho, born 1984) is an English autistic actor, an Access All Areas associate artist, known for Kojo Asare in EastEnders since 2024, Jitney, and Faith, Hope and Charity.

Days (日子) (2020 film)

Days (日子, Rizi) is Tsai Ming-liang's 2020 Taiwanese drama starring Lee Kang-sheng and Anong Houngheuangsy; a wordless 46-shot slow film that premiered in competition at the 2020 Berlinale and won the Teddy Jury Award.

Days and Nights in the Forest

Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Din Ratri, অরণ্যের দিনরাত্রি) is Satyajit Ray's 1970 Bengali drama, adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay's 1968 novel, about four Calcutta bachelors whose Palamu holiday exposes class prejudice; restored in 4K in 2025.

Days Gone Bye (The Walking Dead)

Days Gone Bye is the 2010 pilot of AMC's The Walking Dead, written and directed by Frank Darabont, adapting Robert Kirkman's comic opening; it drew 5.3 million viewers, AMC's largest original-series premiere, and was Darabont's only directing credit on the show.

Days of Being Wild (阿飞正传)

Days of Being Wild (阿飛正傳) is Wong Kar-wai's 1990 Hong Kong drama, his second feature and first with Christopher Doyle, starring Leslie Cheung as Yuddy, a playboy searching for his birth mother; a box-office flop that became an award-winning classic and the first of his 1960s trilogy.

Days of Heaven

Days of Heaven is Terrence Malick's 1978 drama about Chicago lovers Bill and Abby and Linda Manz on a Texas wheat farm, starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, and Sam Shepard, shot in Alberta with Oscar-winning cinematography by Néstor Almendros.

Days of Our Lives

Days of Our Lives (DOOL): American daytime soap opera set in Salem, following the Horton, Brady, DiMera, Kiriakis, and Hernandez families; premiered on NBC November 8, 1965, aired 15,000+ episodes, and streams exclusively on Peacock since 2022.

Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem

Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem is a Peacock limited-series spin-off of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, two five-episode chapters (September 2021, July 2022) following Salem characters on jewel-theft mysteries abroad, developed by Ron Carlivati.

Days of Thunder

Days of Thunder: 1990 Tony Scott NASCAR racing drama starring Tom Cruise as rookie driver Cole Trickle, with Robert Duvall and Nicole Kidman; a Simpson-Bruckheimer Paramount film grossing $80.6 million, later spawning a 2028 sequel with Anne Hathaway.

Days of Wine and Roses (film)

Days of Wine and Roses is a 1962 Warner Bros. drama directed by Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick as a couple destroyed by alcoholism, adapted from J.P. Miller's 1958 Playhouse 90 teleplay; its Mancini-Mercer title song won the Oscar.

Daytime Emmy Awards

Daytime Emmy Awards: annual NATAS-administered American television awards for daytime genres (drama, talk, culinary, legal) since 1974, genre-based since 2021, with peer judging and statuettes identical to the Primetime Emmy.

Dazed and Confused (film)

Dazed and Confused is a 1993 Richard Linklater comedy about Texas teens on the last day of school in May 1976. A box-office flop that became a cult classic, Criterion-restored and career-launching for McConaughey and Affleck.