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The Holy Mountain (1926 film)

The Holy Mountain (German: Der heilige Berg) is a 1926 German silent mountain film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Leni Riefenstahl in her first film role.

The Holy Mountain (1973 film)

The Holy Mountain (La montaña sagrada) is Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 Mexican surrealist cult film in which an alchemist leads a Christ-like thief and seven planetary figures up a holy mountain; Cannes scandal, Lennon funding, 32-year rights disappearance, 2007 restoration.

The Home Team

The Home Team is an American rock band formed in Seattle in 2013. The quartet, featuring Brian Butcher and John Baran, is known for its "heavy pop" style.

The Homesman

The Homesman: 1988 Glendon Swarthout novel and 2014 Tommy Lee Jones film about Mary Bee Cuddy escorting three women driven mad on the 1850s Nebraska frontier back East to Iowa, a west-to-east anti-Western.

The Honey Pot

The Honey Pot (1967) is Joseph L. Mankiewicz's comedy-mystery, also titled It Comes Up Murder, adapted from Ben Jonson's Volpone via Sterling and Knott, starring Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, and Maggie Smith.

The Honeycombs

The Honeycombs: English beat group formed in London in 1963 from the Sheratons, produced by Joe Meek. Known for the 1964 UK and international number one "Have I the Right?" and female drummer Honey Lantree; split in 1967.

The Honeydrippers

The Honeydrippers, English rock and roll band formed by Robert Plant in 1981, distinguishable from unrelated namesakes (California Honeydrops, Honeysliders) by its 1984 EP Volume One with Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and Nile Rodgers, and the US No. 3 hit "Sea of Love".

The Honeymoon Tour

The Honeymoon Tour was the second concert tour and first world tour by American singer Ariana Grande, staged in 2015 in support of her second studio album, My Everything.

The Honeymooners

The Honeymooners, also known as the Classic 39, is a 1955-1956 CBS sitcom created by Jackie Gleason about bus driver Ralph Kramden, wife Alice, and neighbors Ed and Trixie Norton, originating as a 1951 DuMont sketch.

The Honorable Beggars

The Honorable Beggars (Armenian: Մեծապատիվ մուրացկանները, also rendered Honourable Beggars) is a satirical novel by Hakob Paronyan, first published in Constantinople in 1880, mocking professionals who live off a rich man's patronage.

The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (US title Beyond the Limit) is John Mackenzie's 1983 film adaptation of Graham Greene's 1973 novel, scripted by Christopher Hampton, starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere, and Bob Hoskins; Greene disowned it, calling Gere completely miscast.

The Honourable Schoolboy

The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), John le Carré's second Karla Trilogy novel, follows George Smiley and journalist-spy Jerry Westerby as they pursue Karla's Russian money-laundering operation in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.

The Honourable Woman

The Honourable Woman (2014) is a BBC2/SundanceTV eight-part miniseries written, directed and produced by Hugo Blick, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as Baroness Nessa Stein, an Anglo-Israeli businesswoman converting an arms firm to fiber-optic telecoms; Peabody and BAFTA-winning spy thriller.

The Hook Up Plan

The Hook Up Plan (Plan Cœur) is a French Netflix romantic comedy series (2018–2022, 3 seasons, 20 episodes) created by Chris Lang, Noémie Saglio, and Julien Teisseire, about friends secretly hiring an escort for Elsa, played by Zita Hanrot.

The Hooters

The Hooters, American rock band formed in Philadelphia in 1980 by Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian, blending rock, ska, reggae, and folk with melodica; known for Nervous Night (1985), "And We Danced," and Live Aid, distinct from the Hooters restaurant chain.

The Hope Six Demolition Project

The Hope Six Demolition Project is PJ Harvey's ninth studio album, released 15 April 2016 on Island. Written after travels to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington DC with Seamus Murphy, recorded publicly at Somerset House, it was her first UK number-one album and a 2017 Grammy nominee.

The Horla

The Horla (French: Le Horla) is a fantastic short story by Guy de Maupassant, best known in its 1887 diary-form version about an invisible, parasitic being.

The Horror of Dolores Roach

The Horror of Dolores Roach is a 2023 Prime Video horror-comedy series, a Sweeney Todd-inspired tale of a masseuse (Justina Machado) in gentrified Washington Heights, adapted from Aaron Mark's 2015 play Empanada Loca and 2018 Gimlet podcast; cancelled after eight episodes in November 2023.

The Horror Section

The Horror Section is Eli Roth's independent horror media company, founded in 2025 with Media Capital Technologies, fan-owned via a $5 million Republic crowdfunding raise, releasing Jimmy and Stiggs, Ice Cream Man, and Don't Go In That House, Bitch! with Snoop Dogg.

The Horrors

The Horrors (ザ・ホラーズ): English rock band formed in Southend-on-Sea in 2005, known for garage-punk debut Strange House, the Geoff Barrow-produced Primary Colours, UK top-five Skying, and Night Life (2025) on Fiction with a rebuilt lineup.

The Horse and His Boy

The Horse and His Boy (1954), C. S. Lewis's fifth-published and chronologically third Chronicles of Narnia novel, follows Shasta and the talking horse Bree fleeing Calormen with Aravis and Hwin; it is the only Narnia book without Earth children as protagonists.

The Horse in Motion

The Horse in Motion is a series of sequential photographs made by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, proving that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves at once.

The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers is John Ford's 1959 Civil War film starring John Wayne, William Holden, and Constance Towers, loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel about Grierson's 1863 Mississippi cavalry raid and Newton Station.

The Horse Thief (盗马贼)

The Horse Thief (盗马贼, Dao ma zei) is Tian Zhuangzhuang's 1986 Fifth Generation drama from Xi'an Film Studio: a 1923-set Tibetan-language story of herder Norbu, banished for theft, whose faith collapses; restored in 4K and shown at Cannes Classics 2019.

The Horse Whisperer (film)

The Horse Whisperer (1998) is Robert Redford's drama, as director, producer, and star, adapted from Nicholas Evans's 1995 novel about a Montana trainer healing a traumatized girl and her horse, released May 15, 1998 by Touchstone.

The Horse's Mouth

The Horse's Mouth (1958) is a British comedy directed by Ronald Neame, adapted by Alec Guinness from Joyce Cary's 1944 novel, starring Guinness as painter Gulley Jimson; Oscar-nominated screenplay, Venice Best Actor, paintings by John Bratby.

The Horseman on the Roof

The Horseman on the Roof (Le Hussard sur le toit) is Jean Giono's 1951 adventure novel about Angelo Pardi, an exiled Italian hussar crossing cholera-ravaged Provence in 1832; adapted by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1995.

The Horus Heresy

The Horus Heresy: the fictional civil war at the heart of Warhammer 40,000 lore, plus the 54-novel Black Library series and miniatures wargame it spawned, ending with the Siege of Terra and the Scouring continuation.

The Hospital

The Hospital is a 1971 American black comedy satire directed by Arthur Hiller, written by Paddy Chayefsky, starring George C. Scott and Diana Rigg; it won the 1972 Oscar for Best Screenplay and the Golden Berlin Bear.

The Host (2006 film)

The Host (괴물, Gwoemul) is Bong Joon-ho's 2006 South Korean monster film in which a US-base chemical dump creates a Han River creature that abducts a snack vendor's daughter; Korea's biggest box office hit at the time with 13 million tickets.