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Earwig and the Witch (アーヤと魔女)

Earwig and the Witch (アーヤと魔女) is Studio Ghibli's first fully 3DCG animated feature, directed by Gorō Miyazaki from Diana Wynne Jones's novel, broadcast on NHK on December 30, 2020, and released theatrically in Japan in 2021.

East Is East (1999 film)

East Is East is a 1999 British comedy-drama, Damien O'Donnell's debut, adapted by Ayub Khan-Din from his play, starring Om Puri and Linda Bassett as the Khan parents in 1971 Salford; a £3m Film4/BBC production that earned over £7m in Britain.

East Los High

East Los High: Hulu original teen drama (2013-2017), created by Carlos Portugal and Kathleen Bedoya, first all-Latino cast, edutainment on teen sexual health, six Emmy nominations.

East New York (TV series)

East New York is an American CBS police procedural (2022-2023) created by William Finkelstein and Mike Flynn, starring Amanda Warren as Deputy Inspector Regina Haywood of Brooklyn's 74th Precinct; 21 episodes, canceled after one season.

East of Eden (2026 miniseries)

East of Eden (2026 miniseries): seven-episode Netflix limited drama adapted by Zoe Kazan from Steinbeck's 1952 novel, starring Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames; premiered October 1, 2026, filmed in New Zealand, 19.1 million views.

East of Eden (film)

East of Eden (1955) is Elia Kazan's Warner Bros. drama adapted by Paul Osborn from Steinbeck's novel, covering only its final third; James Dean's first major role as Cal Trask, Jo Van Fleet's Oscar, Cannes and Golden Globe wins.

East of Wall

East of Wall is a 2025 American docufiction drama, Kate Beecroft's debut, starring rancher Tabatha Zimiga and daughter Porshia playing themselves in the South Dakota Badlands; Sundance NEXT Audience Award winner released by Sony Pictures Classics.

East Palace West Palace (东宫西宫)

East Palace West Palace (东宫西宫) is Zhang Yuan's 1996 Chinese-French drama, the first explicitly gay film produced in the PRC, about A-Lan's overnight police interrogation, smuggled abroad and shown at Cannes 1997.

Eastbound & Down

Eastbound & Down: HBO comedy series (2009–2013, 4 seasons, 29 episodes) created by Ben Best, Jody Hill, and Danny McBride, starring McBride as washed-up MLB pitcher Kenny Powers teaching phys ed in North Carolina.

EastEnders

EastEnders: BBC One soap opera, first broadcast 19 February 1985, created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland, set in fictional Walford (E20), Albert Square; 30-million-viewer 1986 Christmas episode, 'The Six' 2023 mystery, 40th anniversary live episode 2025.

EastEnders: E20

EastEnders: E20 is a British online soap spin-off of EastEnders (2010-2011), set in Walford's Albert Square, written by 13 writers aged 17-22, drawing over 3 million web views and later aired on BBC3.

Easter Parade (film)

Easter Parade (1948) is an MGM Technicolor musical directed by Charles Walters, starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in their only screen pairing, with 17 Irving Berlin songs and an Oscar-winning score; Astaire replaced the injured Gene Kelly.

Easter Sunday (film)

Easter Sunday is a 2022 Universal comedy directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, starring Jo Koy as comedian Joe Valencia at a family Easter gathering; the first major Hollywood studio film centered on Filipino Americans, grossing $13 million.

Eastern Condors (东方秃鹰)

Eastern Condors (东方秃鹰, also Eastern Bald Eagles) is a 1987 Hong Kong action war film directed by and starring Sammo Hung, a Dirty Dozen-style mission to destroy a secret US missile depot in Vietnam, with Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, and Haing S. Ngor.

Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises (2007) is a David Cronenberg crime thriller, written by Steven Knight, starring Viggo Mortensen as London Russian-mob driver Nikolai and Naomi Watts as midwife Anna; it won TIFF's People's Choice Award and earned Mortensen an Oscar nomination.

EastSiders

EastSiders is an American dark comedy web series created by Kit Williamson, following a gay couple in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. It ran 2012–2019, four seasons and 27 episodes, funded by Kickstarter, airing on YouTube, Logo, Vimeo, and Netflix with eight Daytime Emmy nominations.

Eastwatch

"Eastwatch" is season 7, episode 5 of Game of Thrones (HBO), written by Dave Hill, directed by Matt Shakman, aired August 13, 2017, with 10.72 million viewers; it sets up the wight hunt beyond the Wall and takes its name from Eastwatch-by-the-Sea castle.

Easwari Rao

Easwari Rao (ఈశ్వరీ రావు), born 1973, Indian actress in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam cinema; debut Kavithai Paadum Alaigal (1990), known for Selvi opposite Rajinikanth in Kaala (2018) and roles in K.G.F: Chapter 2 and Salaar.

Easy (TV series)

Easy is a Netflix comedy-drama anthology series created by Joe Swanberg, following Chicagoans through love, sex, technology, and culture. Three seasons, 25 improvised half-hour episodes, aired 2016–2019 with a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Easy A

Easy A is a 2010 American teen comedy directed by Will Gluck, starring Emma Stone as a high school student whose small lie spreads and ruins her reputation.

Easy Living

Easy Living (1937) is a Paramount screwball comedy directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges from Vera Caspary's story, starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and Ray Milland; a $58,000 sable coat falls on a clerk, distinct from the unrelated 1949 Tourneur drama.

Easy Money (1983 film)

Easy Money is a 1983 American comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield as a Staten Island photographer who must quit his vices for a year to inherit $10 million.

Easy Rider

Easy Rider (1969) is Dennis Hopper's independent road movie starring Fonda, Hopper, and Jack Nicholson, a low-budget counterculture landmark of New Hollywood that grossed over $60 million worldwide.

Easy Street (1917 film)

Easy Street (1917) is Charlie Chaplin's ninth Mutual two-reel comedy, released 22 January 1917, in which a reformed derelict becomes a policeman fighting Eric Campbell's bully on a slum street set evoking Chaplin's South London childhood.

Easy Virtue (1928 film)

Easy Virtue (1928, also dated 1927) is Alfred Hitchcock's fifth film, a silent Gainsborough Pictures drama adapted by Eliot Stannard from Noël Coward's play, starring Isabel Jeans as a divorced woman judged guilty by society; remade in sound in 2008.

Easy Virtue (2008 film)

Easy Virtue (2008) is Stephan Elliott's romantic comedy adaptation of Noël Coward's play, starring Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Colin Firth; second film version after Hitchcock's 1928 silent.

Eat Bulaga!

Eat Bulaga! is the Philippines' longest-running noontime variety show, premiered July 30, 1979 on RPN-9, hosted by Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, and Joey de Leon (the Dabarkads), famous for Pinoy Henyo and AlDub, now on TV5 under TVJ Productions after the 2023 TAPE dispute.

Eat Drink Man Woman (饮食男女)

Eat Drink Man Woman (飲食男女) is Ang Lee's 1994 Taiwanese comedy-drama, third of his Father trilogy, about retired chef Chu and his three daughters; Oscar-nominated, Cannes Directors' Fortnight opener.

Eat Pray Bark

Eat Pray Bark (Therapie auf vier Pfoten) is a 2026 German Netflix comedy directed by Marco Petry, starring Alexandra Maria Lara and Rúrik Gíslason as a fraudulent Alpine dog trainer; released April 1, 2026.

Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love: Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 bestselling post-divorce travel memoir (Italy, India, Bali; over 12 million copies) and its 2010 Ryan Murphy film starring Julia Roberts, which grossed $204.6 million worldwide but scored 34% on Rotten Tomatoes.