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The Housewife (film)

The Housewife is a 2026 historical drama, Ben Shirinian's directorial debut, written by Alyssa Hill, starring Naomi Watts as Hermine Braunsteiner, a suspected Nazi living in 1964 Queens, with Tye Sheridan, Luke Evans, Michael Imperioli, and Lena Olin; premiered at TIFF 2026.

The Howling (film)

The Howling (1981) is a Joe Dante werewolf horror film starring Dee Wallace, adapted from Gary Brandner's 1977 novel, famous for Rob Bottin's practical transformation effects and spawning seven sequels.

The Hows of Us

The Hows of Us is a 2018 Philippine romantic drama directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina, starring Kathryn Bernardo as George and Daniel Padilla as Primo. A Star Cinema release of August 29, 2018, it became the highest-grossing Philippine film at the time, with P591 million worldwide.

The Hu

The Hu: Mongolian folk metal band formed 2016 in Ulaanbaatar, also called hunnu rock, fusing khoomei throat singing, morin khuur, and tovshuur with heavy metal; 2018 viral singles Yuve Yuve Yu and Wolf Totem, albums The Gereg, Rumble of Thunder, Hun.

The Huckleberry Hound Show

The Huckleberry Hound Show was an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and syndicated from 1958, starring the blue dog Huckleberry Hound with segments for Yogi Bear and Pixie and Dixie.

The Hudson Brothers

The Hudson Brothers: Bill, Mark, and Brett Hudson of Portland, Oregon; 1960s garage band My Sirs/New Yorkers turned 1970s pop-rock act behind "So You Are a Star" (#26 U.S.) and CBS/Razzle Dazzle TV shows.

The Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 screwball comedy by Joel and Ethan Coen and Sam Raimi, starring Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Paul Newman, about a stock scam built on the hula hoop; a 1994 box-office bomb later reappraised.

The Hughleys

The Hughleys is an American sitcom (1998-2002) created by and starring comedian D.L. Hughley as Darryl Hughley, a black businessman in a white suburb; two seasons on ABC, two on UPN, 89 episodes.

The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is Tom Six's 2009 Dutch horror film in which a surgeon stitches three tourists mouth to anus; Metascore 33, Ebert gave zero stars, spawned a trilogy.

The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)

The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) is Tom Six's 2011 black-and-white body horror sequel in which obsessed fan Martin (Laurence R. Harvey) builds a 12-person centipede; banned by the BBFC and Australia's Review Board before cut release.

The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)

The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) is Tom Six's 2015 horror film, third in the trilogy, in which warden Bill Boss (Dieter Laser) sutures 500 prison inmates together; released by IFC Films, rated 18/R18+, and critically panned.

The Human Comedy

The Human Comedy is a 1943 novel by Armenian American writer William Saroyan, following the Macauley family in fictional Ithaca, California, during the early years of World War II.

The Human Condition I

The Human Condition I (人間の條件 第1・2部, No Greater Love) is Masaki Kobayashi's 1959 Shochiku war drama, first of six parts adapted from Junpei Gomikawa's novel, starring Tatsuya Nakadai as Kaji, a labor manager in wartime Manchuria; it won Venice's San Giorgio and Pasinetti prizes.

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (人間の條件 第1部純愛篇/第2部激怒篇)

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (人間の條件 第1部純愛篇/第2部激怒篇) is Masaki Kobayashi's 1959 Shochiku film, first installment of the six-part antiwar epic adapted from Junpei Gomikawa's novel, starring Tatsuya Nakadai as Kaji, a Manchurian mine labor supervisor conscripted after defying a military execution.

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (人間の条件 第三・四部) is Masaki Kobayashi's 1959 second installment of his six-part adaptation of Gomikawa Junpei's novel, following Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) through army brutality in Manchuria; 178 minutes, released 20 November 1959.

The Human Equation

The Human Equation is a 2004 double concept album by the Dutch progressive rock project Ayreon, created by Arjen Lucassen, telling the story of a comatose man.

The Human Fear

The Human Fear is the sixth studio album by Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand, released 10 January 2025 on Domino, produced with Mark Ralph, first with Audrey Tait and Dino Bardot, peaking at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart.

The Human League

The Human League: English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Philip Oakey leads the trio with Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley; Dare (1981) and "Don't You Want Me", the 1981 UK Christmas No.1, made them synth-pop stars.

The Human Stain

The Human Stain is Philip Roth's 2000 novel, third of his trilogy with American Pastoral and I Married a Communist, about Coleman Silk, a classics professor undone by the word "spooks" who has passed as a white Jew while being African American; Robert Benton's 2003 film adaptation starred Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman.

The Human Stain (film)

The Human Stain (film) is a 2003 American drama directed by Robert Benton, starring Anthony Hopkins as a professor who passes as white and begins an affair with a janitor.

The Humans (film)

The Humans is a 2021 A24 drama, Stephen Karam's directorial debut adapted from his Tony-winning play, starring Richard Jenkins, Jayne Houdyshell, Amy Schumer, Beanie Feldstein, Steven Yeun, and June Squibb as a family at a tense Thanksgiving in lower Manhattan.

The Humans (play)

The Humans is Stephen Karam's Tony-winning 2016 dark-comedy play about the Blake family's Thanksgiving in a Chinatown duplex; Pulitzer finalist, Broadway run 2016-17, adapted to a 2021 A24 film.

The Hummingbird Project

The Hummingbird Project is a 2018 Canadian-Belgian drama by Kim Nguyen starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, and Salma Hayek as high-frequency traders building a Kansas-to-New Jersey fiber-optic cable; fictional, TIFF 2018, released 2019 by The Orchard.

The Humpty Dance

"The Humpty Dance" is Digital Underground's 1990 Tommy Boy single from Sex Packets, performed by Shock G as Humpty Hump; it topped Billboard's rap chart, hit No. 11 on the Hot 100, went platinum, and earned Grammy and MTV VMA nominations.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) is Universal's silent adaptation of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, directed by Wallace Worsley with Lon Chaney as Quasimodo and Patsy Ruth Miller as Esmeralda; a $1.25 million epic that made Chaney a legend.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1939 American historical drama directed by William Dieterle, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara, adapted from Victor Hugo's novel.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) is Disney's animated musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, with songs by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, starring the voices of Tom Hulce, Tony Jay, Demi Moore, and Kevin Kline.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical)

Stage musical by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz with book by Peter Parnell, based on Victor Hugo's novel and Disney's 1996 film; premiered 1999 in Berlin as Der Glöckner von Notre Dame, English version 2014 at La Jolla Playhouse, never reached Broadway.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame II

The Hunchback of Notre Dame II is Disney's 2002 direct-to-video animated sequel, directed by Bradley Raymond, in which Quasimodo falls for Madellaine while stopping Sarousch from stealing the bell La Fidèle.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, original French title Notre-Dame de Paris, is Victor Hugo's 1831 Gothic novel about Quasimodo, Esmeralda, and Frollo at Notre-Dame Cathedral, which spurred the cathedral's 19th-century restoration.