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The Answer Studio
The Answer Studio (株式会社アンサー・スタジオ) is a Tokyo animation studio founded June 2004 by ex-Walt Disney Animation Japan staff under Motoyoshi Tokunaga; producer of Golgo 13, Flag, and Anne Shirley, and support contractor on Suzume and Dragon Ball Daima.
The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Ant and the Grasshopper (Perry Index 373, ATU 280A) is Aesop's fable of the industrious ant and the singing cicada-turned-grasshopper who starves in winter; retold by Caxton, La Fontaine, Bierce, Maugham, and the Morrisons.
The Ant Bully (film)
The Ant Bully is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy film directed by John A. Davis, based on John Nickle's picture book about a boy shrunk to ant size.
The Anthem of the Heart (心が叫びたがってるんだ。)
The Anthem of the Heart (心が叫びたがってるんだ。, Kokosake) is a 2015 A-1 Pictures original anime film by the Anohana trio Nagai, Okada, and Tanaka, about a girl cursed to silence who finds her voice through a class musical; it earned over 1 billion yen and got a 2017 live-action remake.
The Anthropocene Reviewed
The Anthropocene Reviewed is a podcast and 2021 Dutton book by John Green reviewing facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale; Complexly and WNYC Studios co-produced the show, and the book became a #1 New York Times bestseller.
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory is the Nobel Lecture delivered by Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott in Stockholm in December 1992, after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Antiquary
The Antiquary is an 1816 novel by Sir Walter Scott, the third of the Waverley Novels, set on Scotland's east coast in 1794 and his personal favorite.
The Anxiety of Influence
The Anxiety of Influence is a 1973 work of literary criticism by Harold Bloom arguing that poets create through a creative misreading of powerful predecessors.
The Apartment
The Apartment (1960) is Billy Wilder's comedy-drama starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, about a clerk lending his apartment to executives; it won five Oscars including Best Picture.
The Apartment (1996 film)
The Apartment (L'Appartement) is Gilles Mimouni's 1996 French romantic thriller debut, starring Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, and Romane Bohringer, a nonlinear flashback tale of a man searching for a lost lover, later remade as Wicker Park (2004).
The Apartment Job
The Apartment Job (아파트, Apartment) is a 2026 South Korean crime-comedy series starring Ji Sung as a former gang boss who runs for apartment president to steal its fund.
The Apollo Murders
The Apollo Murders is Chris Hadfield's 2021 debut novel, an alternate-history technothriller in which a secret 1973 Apollo 18 mission, funded by the Defense Department, targets the Soviet Almaz spy station, featuring Kaz Zemeckis, a murder, and a Russian mole.
The Apology (2022 film)
The Apology (2022 film): American Christmas-set thriller, directorial debut of Alison Star Locke, starring Anna Gunn, Linus Roache, Janeane Garofalo; released December 16, 2022 on Shudder and AMC+, 55% Tomatometer, distinct from the 2016 documentary.
The Apostle
The Apostle is Robert Duvall's 1997 independent drama about Pentecostal preacher Sonny Dewey, who flees Texas as Apostle E.F. after a crime of passion. Duvall wrote, directed, starred, and self-financed it with $5 million; it earned an Oscar nomination and $34 million gross.
The Apothecary Diaries (薬屋のひとりごと)
The Apothecary Diaries (薬屋のひとりごと, Kusuriya no Hitorigoto) is Hyuganatsu's Japanese mystery light novel series about apothecary Maomao solving rear palace mysteries in the fictional China-inspired empire Ryū; adapted into two manga and an anime.
The Apothecary Diaries (薬屋のひとりごと) (TV series)
The Apothecary Diaries (薬屋のひとりごと, Kusuriya no Hitorigoto) is a Japanese TV anime by TOHO animation STUDIO and OLM adapting Natsu Hyuuga's light novels; three seasons since October 2023, plus a December 2026 film.
The Apotheosis of Washington
The Apotheosis of Washington, also known as The Apotheosis of George Washington, is an 1865 fresco by Constantino Brumidi depicting Washington rising to the heavens in the US Capitol dome.
The Appaloosa
The Appaloosa (1966) is a Universal border Western directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Marlon Brando as buffalo hunter Matt Fletcher, whose stallion is stolen by John Saxon's bandit Chuy Medina; based on Robert MacLeod's 1963 novel, 98 minutes, released 14 September 1966.
The Apple (1980 film)
The Apple (1980) is a disco science-fiction musical written and directed by Menahem Golan for Cannon Films, set in dystopian 1994 where producer Mr. Boogalow controls the music industry; a box office flop that became a cult camp classic.
The Apple (سیب) (1998 film)
The Apple (سیب, Sib) is Samira Makhmalbaf's 1998 feature debut, a docudrama in which the real Naderi family re-enacts the confinement of twin daughters in Tehran; shown in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 1998.
The Apple Dumpling Gang
The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1975 Disney Western comedy starring Bill Bixby, Don Knotts, and Tim Conway, about a gambler who inherits three orphans.
The Appointment
The Appointment is the title of two unrelated novels: Katharina Volckmer's 2020 monologue debut and Herta Müller's 1997 novel about a tram ride to a secret-police interrogation.
The Apprentice (2024 film)
The Apprentice (2024) is Ali Abbasi's biographical drama of young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan) mentored by Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong). Premiered at Cannes 2024, fought US distribution battles, earned two Oscar nominations.
The Apprentice (American TV series)
The Apprentice is the NBC reality competition series (2004) hosted by Donald Trump for 14 seasons, created by Mark Burnett, famous for "You're fired," the boardroom, and its role in Trump's political rise; later hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger and streamed by Amazon.
The Apprentice (American TV series) season 1
Season 1 of The Apprentice (US), NBC reality series created by Mark Burnett, premiered January 8, 2004; 16 contestants from 215,000 applications competed for a Trump Organization job, averaging 20.7 million viewers and making Donald Trump a TV star.
The Apprentice (American TV series) season 2
The Apprentice (American TV series) season 2: NBC reality competition hosted by Donald Trump, premiered September 9, 2004; 16 episodes, 18 candidates, tasks for Mattel and M&M Mars, finale December 16, 2004.
The Apprentice (British TV series)
The Apprentice is a British reality television game show where candidates compete in business tasks. Since 2010, the winner receives a £250,000 investment in their business idea.
The Apprentice (British TV series) series 20
Series 20 of The Apprentice (UK) is the 2026, 20th-anniversary BBC One series: 20 candidates, £250,000 prize, Hong Kong first episode, double firing, winner Karishma Vijay over Pascha Myhill.
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (film)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (L'Apprentissage de Duddy Kravitz) is Ted Kotcheff's 1974 Canadian film adapted from Mordecai Richler's 1959 novel, starring Richard Dreyfuss; it won the 1974 Berlin Golden Bear and an Oscar nomination for adapted screenplay.
The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (El acercamiento a Almotásim) is Borges's 1935 fake book review of a nonexistent Bombay detective novel by Mir Bahadur Ali, first printed in Historia de la eternidad (1936) and later collected in Ficciones.