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Dirk Benedict
Dirk Benedict (born Dirk Niewoehner, 1945, Montana) is an American actor known as Lieutenant Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica (1978–79) and Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team (1983–87), also a stage actor, director, and author.
Dirk Blocker
Dirk Blocker (born 1957, Hollywood) is an American character actor, son of Bonanza star Dan Blocker, best known as Detective Michael Hitchcock on Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021, 153 episodes), with film roles in Poltergeist, Starman, and Short Cuts.
Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde (Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde, 1921–1999), English actor and writer: 1950s Rank matinee idol, star of Victim, The Servant, Death in Venice; twice BAFTA Best Actor, knighted 1992, memoirist and novelist.
Dirk Gently (TV series)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: 2016-2017 BBC America series created by Max Landis, starring Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood, a loose adaptation of Douglas Adams's novels, cancelled after two seasons.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV series)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016) is a BBC America/Netflix comic sci-fi detective series created by Max Landis, loosely adapting Douglas Adams's novels, starring Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood; cancelled after two seasons.
Dirty Business (TV series)
Dirty Business is a 2026 three-part Channel 4 docudrama by Joseph Bullman, starring David Thewlis and Jason Watkins as real sewage campaigners Ashley Smith and Peter Hammond of WASP, covering the Heather Preen death and England's water company sewage scandal.
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing (1987), Emile Ardolino's romance starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze, written by Eleanor Bergstein; a $6 million Vestron film that grossed $214.6 million worldwide, topped 1988 video rentals, and joined the National Film Registry in 2024.
Dirty Dancing (2017 film)
Dirty Dancing (2017) is an ABC television film remake of the 1987 movie, directed by Wayne Blair, starring Abigail Breslin and Colt Prattes; it drew 6.6 million viewers but scored 39 on Metacritic and 19% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights is a 2004 romance-dance film directed by Guy Ferland, starring Romola Garai and Diego Luna, set in 1958 Havana on the eve of Castro's revolution; a poorly received prequel to the 1987 Dirty Dancing with a Patrick Swayze cameo.
Dirty Grandpa
Dirty Grandpa (2016), Dan Mazer comedy starring Robert De Niro and Zac Efron: a widowed grandfather tricks his lawyer grandson into a Daytona Beach spring break road trip; grossed about $94 million but scored 10% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Dirty Hari
Dirty Hari (Telugu: డర్టీ హరి) is a 2020 Telugu erotic thriller written and directed by M. S. Raju, starring Shravan Reddy, Ruhani Sharma, and Simrat Kaur; released 18 December 2020 on Friday Movies, certified A, later streaming on aha.
Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry is a 1971 American police thriller directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood as detective Harry Callahan, who hunts a rooftop sniper named Scorpio.
Dirty Harry (character)
Dirty Harry is the nickname of Inspector Harry Callahan, a fictional San Francisco homicide inspector played by Clint Eastwood in five films between 1971 and 1988.
Dirty Harry (film series)
The Dirty Harry film series: five American action-thrillers (1971-1988) starring Clint Eastwood as San Francisco Inspector Harry Callahan, the renegade cop with a .44 Magnum who became a conservative icon.
Dirty Jobs
Dirty Jobs is a Discovery Channel reality series created and hosted by Mike Rowe, in which he apprentices at unpleasant American jobs. Pilots aired 2003, series 2005–2012, with Rowe'd Trip and seasons 9–10 revivals in 2020–2022.
Dirty John (TV series)
Dirty John is an American true-crime anthology drama series (2018-2020) based on Christopher Goffard's Los Angeles Times podcast: season 1 dramatizes the Debra Newell-John Meehan case on Bravo, season 2 the Betty Broderick case on USA Network.
Dirty Money
Dirty Money is a Netflix investigative documentary series from Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions on corporate corruption, two seasons of six episodes (2018, 2020), covering Volkswagen, HSBC, Trump, Wells Fargo, 1MDB, and Kushner, cancelled in 2023.
Dirty Pair (ダーティペア) (TV series)
Dirty Pair (ダーティペア) is a 24-episode Japanese science fiction anime produced by Nippon Sunrise in 1985, based on Haruka Takachiho's novels; it won the 1985 Animage Anime Grand Prix.
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam is a 2024 Netflix three-part TIME Studios docuseries about Lou Pearlman, manager of Backstreet Boys and NSYNC and architect of a roughly $500 million Ponzi scheme, notable for its AI-generated Pearlman narration.
Dirty Pretty Things (film)
Dirty Pretty Things is a 2002 Stephen Frears thriller, Steven Knight's first screenplay, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Audrey Tautou as undocumented London immigrants who uncover a hotel-based organ trafficking ring; Oscar-nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Frank Oz, starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin as rival con men on the French Riviera.
Dirty Sanchez (TV series)
Dirty Sanchez was a British MTV stunt series (2003–2008) starring Pritchard, Dainton, Pancho, and Joyce, three Welshmen and a Londoner performing extreme painful stunts, a more visceral UK counterpart to Jackass.
Dirty Sexy Money
Dirty Sexy Money is an American prime-time soap opera on ABC from 2007 to 2009, created by Craig Wright, about an idealistic lawyer working for the wealthy Darling family.
Dirty Work (1998 film)
Dirty Work (1998) is a Bob Saget-directed MGM comedy starring and co-written by Norm Macdonald with Artie Lange, about a revenge-for-hire business; it flopped ($10M gross on $13M budget) but became a cult classic, restored in 2025 with the long-lost Dirtier Cut.
Disappearance at Clifton Hill
Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2019) is a Canadian neo-noir thriller by Albert Shin, starring Tuppence Middleton, about a woman investigating a childhood kidnapping memory in Niagara Falls; premiered at TIFF 2019, released February 28, 2020.
Disaster film
Disaster film (disaster movie, catastrophe film): a film genre in which a man-made or natural calamity placing people in imminent danger is the core of the story. Known for US cycles in 1953–59, 1972–79, and 1993–96, the 1970s wave beginning with Airport (1970), and studies of its sublime spectacle versus hazard messaging.
Disaster Movie
Disaster Movie is a 2008 American parody comedy film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, in which twenty-somethings flee catastrophes including twisters, asteroids, and earthquakes over a single night.
Disciples of Hippocrates (ヒポクラテスたち)
Disciples of Hippocrates (ヒポクラテスたち) is a 1980 Japanese ensemble drama, 126 minutes, directed by Kazuki Omori about Kyoto medical students in clinical training; released by ATG, 3rd in Kinema Junpo Best Ten.
Disciples of Shaolin (洪拳小子)
Disciples of Shaolin (洪拳小子, Hong quan xiao zi), aka The Invincible One, is a 1975 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Chang Cheh, starring Fu Sheng and Chi Kuan-chun as rival-bonded Shaolin disciples in a textile-mill feud; it sparked the xiaozi kid-film wave.
Disciples of the 36th Chamber (霹雳十杰)
Disciples of the 36th Chamber (霹雳十杰, aka Disciples of the Master Killers) is a 1985 Shaw Brothers kung fu comedy directed by Lau Kar-leung, third in his Shaolin trilogy, starring Hsiao Hou as Fang Shiyu and Gordon Liu as monk San Te.