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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (Japanese title 現金作戦) is a 1966 Columbia comedy crime caper directed by Bernard Girard, starring James Coburn as con man Eli Kotch plotting an LAX bank robbery; it marks Harrison Ford's film debut as a bellboy.
Dead Hot
Dead Hot is a 2024 British six-part comedy thriller created by Charlotte Coben for Prime Video, set in Liverpool, starring Bilal Hasna and Vivian Oparah as friends investigating the disappearance of Peter.
Dead Leaves (DEAD LEAVES)
Dead Leaves (デッドリーブス) is a 2004 Japanese animated sci-fi action film, Hiroyuki Imaishi's directorial debut for Production I.G and Manga Entertainment, following amnesiacs Pandy and Retro in a lunar prison break.
Dead Like Me
Dead Like Me is a 2003–2004 Showtime comedy-drama created by Bryan Fuller, also known for Wonderfalls, about grim reapers in Seattle. Ellen Muth plays George Lass, an 18-year-old killed by a falling Mir toilet seat who becomes a reaper; two seasons, 29 episodes, plus a 2009 film.
Dead Mail (film)
Dead Mail is a 2024 American horror-thriller directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy, premiering at SXSW and TIFF. A blood-stained help note reaches dead letter investigator Jasper (Tomas Boykin), uncovering a kidnapping by synth-obsessed Trent (John Fleck); Shudder release April 18, 2025.
Dead Man
Dead Man (1995), Jim Jarmusch's black-and-white anti-Western starring Johnny Depp as accountant William Blake and Gary Farmer as Nobody, premiered at Cannes, with a Neil Young score and Robby Müller cinematography.
Dead Man Down
Dead Man Down is a 2013 American revenge thriller directed by Niels Arden Oplev. It stars Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace in the New York City criminal underworld.
Dead Man Walking (film)
Dead Man Walking (1995) is Tim Robbins's death penalty drama adapted from Sister Helen Prejean's memoir, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn; Sarandon won the 1995 Best Actress Oscar.
Dead Man's Shoes (2004 film)
Dead Man's Shoes is a 2004 British revenge thriller directed by Shane Meadows and co-written with star Paddy Considine, about an ex-soldier avenging his learning-disabled brother against a Derbyshire drug gang; a low-budget Warp Films cult classic.
Dead Man's Wire
Dead Man's Wire is Gus Van Sant's 2025 true-crime thriller, starring Bill Skarsgård as Tony Kiritsis, who held mortgage broker Richard Hall hostage in Indianapolis in 1977 with a shotgun wired to his neck; premiered at Venice, released January 2026.
Dead Meat (YouTube channel)
Dead Meat is an American horror YouTube channel founded in 2017 by James A. Janisse, co-owned with Chelsea Rebecca, known for The Kill Count series, the Dead Meat Podcast, and over 7 million subscribers.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 American black-and-white comedy parodying film noir detective movies, directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin as private eye Rigby Reardon.
Dead Money (film)
Dead Money (2024) is an American crime thriller, originally titled Degenerate, directed by Luc Walpoth and written by Josh Wilcox. Emile Hirsch plays poker pro Andy, forced into a high-stakes game after a home game robbery; released September 13, 2024 by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Dead Mountain
Dead Mountain (Перевал Дятлова, Pereval Dyatlova) is an eight-part 2020 Russian historical thriller series dramatizing the 1959 Dyatlov Pass incident, directed by Fedorovich, Nikishov, and Kostomarov, split into investigation and hiker story lines.
Dead of Night
Dead of Night (1945) is Ealing Studios' British horror anthology with four directors, a recurring-nightmare frame, and the famous Ventriloquist's Dummy segment; distinct from the 1977 Dan Curtis TV film, the 1981 Peter Haining book, and a 2017 PC game.
Dead of Summer (TV series)
Dead of Summer: 2016 Freeform supernatural horror drama by Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, and Ian Goldberg, set at Camp Stillwater in 1989; 10 episodes, canceled after one season.
Dead of Winter (2025 film)
Dead of Winter is a 2025 action thriller directed by Brian Kirk, starring Emma Thompson as a widowed fisherwoman who rescues a kidnapped teenage girl in Minnesota.
Dead or Alive (DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者) (1999 film)
Dead or Alive (DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者, Hanzaisha) is Takashi Miike's 1999 Japanese action crime film, first of a trilogy, starring Show Aikawa and Riki Takeuchi as a Shinjuku detective and gang leader clashing in Kabuki-cho.
Dead Outlaw
Dead Outlaw is a one-act musical by David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, and Itamar Moses, directed by David Cromer, about outlaw Elmer McCurdy's 65-plus years as an unburied mummified corpse. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2024, ran on Broadway at the Longacre in 2025, and earned seven Tony nominations including Best Musical.
Dead Parrot sketch
The Dead Parrot sketch, also called the Pet Shop or Parrot sketch, is Monty Python's most famous routine: John Cleese's Mr Praline returns a dead Norwegian Blue and Michael Palin's shopkeeper insists it is resting, first aired 7 December 1969.
Dead Poets Society
Dead Poets Society is a 1989 Peter Weir drama starring Robin Williams as English teacher John Keating at 1959 Welton Academy; it won the Oscar for Tom Schulman's original screenplay and the BAFTA for Best Film.
Dead Presidents
Dead Presidents (1995) is a Hughes brothers crime drama starring Larenz Tate as a Black Bronx Vietnam veteran drawn into an armored-car robbery, based on Wallace Terry's Bloods, grossing $24.1 million.
Dead Ringers
Dead Ringers: David Cronenberg's 1988 psychological horror film with Jeremy Irons as twin gynecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle, based on the Marcus twins and the novel Twins; remade as a 2023 Rachel Weisz Prime Video series.
Dead Ringers (film)
Dead Ringers (1988) is David Cronenberg's psychological horror film starring Jeremy Irons as twin gynecologists Beverly and Elliot Mantle, loosely based on the Marcus twins case and the novel Twins, originally titled Twins itself.
Dead Rising: Watchtower
Dead Rising: Watchtower is a 2015 live-action zombie film based on Capcom's Dead Rising, directed by Zach Lipovsky, premiering on Crackle and set canonically between Dead Rising 2 and 3.
Dead Sea (film)
Dead Sea is a 2024 American survival horror thriller, also titled Flycatcher, written and directed by Phil Volken. Stranded teens rescued by a trawler captain fall into an organ-harvesting operation; released July 26, 2024 by Vertical Entertainment.
Dead Set
Dead Set is a five-part British zombie horror satire created by Charlie Brooker. It depicts a national zombie outbreak during a live Big Brother eviction night.
Dead Silence
Dead Silence (2007) is a supernatural horror film directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell, about widower Jamie Ashen and the ventriloquist Mary Shaw of Ravens Fair; it earned 22% on Rotten Tomatoes and $16.5 million domestically.
Dead Snow
Dead Snow (Død snø) is a 2009 Norwegian horror comedy directed by Tommy Wirkola, in which medical students at a remote Finnmark cabin fight Nazi zombies; Sundance premiere, 140,000 Norwegian tickets, 2014 sequel.
Dead Souls (2025 film)
Dead Souls (Dead $oul$) is a 2025 American-Spanish Western directed by and starring Alex Cox as Strindler, loosely adapted from Gogol's 1842 novel; set in 1890 Arizona, co-written with Gianni Garko, released by Kino Lorber in 2026.