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The Plague of Doves

The Plague of Doves is a 2008 novel by Louise Erdrich about a 1911 murder and the lynching of three innocent Ojibwe men in North Dakota.

The Plains

The Plains is a 1982 novella by the Australian writer Gerald Murnane, in which an unnamed filmmaker spends twenty years trying and failing to make a film of the grasslands.

The Plainsman

The Plainsman is Cecil B. DeMille's 1936 Paramount Western starring Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok, Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane, and James Ellison as Buffalo Bill Cody, released January 1, 1937, grossing $2.27 million; distinct from the 1966 Universal remake and the Auburn Plainsman student newspaper.

The Planets

The Planets, Op. 32 (H. 125) is Gustav Holst's seven-movement orchestral suite composed 1914–16, based on the astrological characters of Mars through Neptune, premiered privately in 1918 under Adrian Boult and publicly complete in 1920 under Albert Coates.

The Platform (film)

The Platform (El hoyo) is a 2019 Spanish dystopian thriller by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, set in a vertical prison where a food platform feeds upper levels while lower ones starve; a 2020 Netflix hit with a 2024 sequel.

The Platform 2

The Platform 2 (El hoyo 2) is a 2024 Spanish dystopian horror film by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, a prequel to The Platform set in the Pit's 333-floor vertical prison, starring Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian, released on Netflix October 4, 2024 to weak reviews (36% Tomatometer, Metascore 45).

The Platters

The Platters: American vocal group founded by Herb Reed in Los Angeles, 1952-53; classic lineup with Tony Williams and Zola Taylor; four Billboard No. 1 hits including "The Great Pretender"; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1990.

The Play That Goes Wrong

The Play That Goes Wrong, by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields for Mischief Theatre, is a farce about an amateur society staging a 1920s whodunit; Olivier-winning West End hit since 2014, Broadway 2017-2019, in over 50 countries.

The Playboy of the Western World

The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act comedy by Irish playwright J. M. Synge, first performed at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1907 and famous for the Playboy Riots.

The Playboys

The Playboys is a 1992 Irish drama directed by Gillies MacKinnon, written by Shane Connaughton and Kerry Crabbe, starring Robin Wright, Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, and Milo O'Shea, set in a 1957 County Cavan village.

The Player (1992 film)

The Player (1992) is Robert Altman's Hollywood satire, written by Michael Tolkin from his novel, starring Tim Robbins as executive Griffin Mill; it won Cannes Best Director and Best Actor and earned three Oscar nominations.

The Player (2015 TV series)

The Player is a 2015 NBC action crime drama created by John Fox and John Rogers, starring Philip Winchester as Alex Kane, Wesley Snipes as Mr. Johnson, and Charity Wakefield. Set in Las Vegas, the House gambles on Kane stopping crimes; cut from 13 to 9 episodes and canceled after one season.

The Players Club

The Players Club is a 1998 American comedy-drama film, Ice Cube's directorial debut, starring LisaRaye as a single mother who strips to pay for college.

The Playlist

The Playlist is a 2022 Swedish Netflix limited series dramatizing Spotify's founding by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, based on Spotify Untold; six perspective-based episodes, directed by Per-Olav Sørensen, distinct from unrelated playlist apps and film sites.

The Pleasure Garden (1925 film)

The Pleasure Garden (1925) is Alfred Hitchcock's first feature as sole director, a British-German silent drama starring Virginia Valli and Carmelita Geraghty, shot in Munich and Italy, and restored to 92 minutes by the BFI in 2012.

The Pledge (film)

The Pledge (2001) is a Sean Penn crime drama starring Jack Nicholson as retiring Nevada detective Jerry Black, adapted from Dürrenmatt's Das Versprechen; 124 min, R, Metascore 71, released January 19, 2001.

The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel

The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel (Das Versprechen) is a 1958 crime novella by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt in which a detective's promise destroys him.

The Plot (설계자) (film)

The Plot (설계자, Seolgyeja) is a 2024 South Korean crime thriller directed by Lee Yo-sup, a remake of Hong Kong's Accident (2009), starring Gang Dong-won as a hitman who stages murders as accidents; it drew 525,369 admissions.

The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America is Philip Roth's 2004 alternate-history novel in which Charles Lindbergh defeats Roosevelt in 1940; a Newark Jewish family's story, later adapted into a 2020 HBO miniseries by David Simon.

The Plot Against America (miniseries)

The Plot Against America is HBO's 2020 six-episode limited series by David Simon and Ed Burns adapting Philip Roth's novel about a Lindbergh presidency, fascism, and a Newark Jewish family, the Levins.

The Plot in You (album)

The Plot in You (album): self-titled sixth album by the Ohio metalcore band The Plot in You, released July 10, 2026 on Fearless Records; 12 tracks, 40 minutes, collecting the Volume Series EPs plus new singles You Get One and Carved.

The Plough and the Stars

The Plough and the Stars is a four-act play by Seán O'Casey, set in Dublin tenements during the 1916 Easter Rising and first staged in 1926.

The Ploughman's Lunch

The Ploughman's Lunch (1983) is a British political drama directed by Richard Eyre, written by Ian McEwan, starring Jonathan Pryce as a BBC journalist rewriting Suez history during the Falklands War.

The Plow That Broke the Plains

The Plow That Broke the Plains is Pare Lorentz's 1936 Resettlement Administration documentary on the Dust Bowl, scored by Virgil Thomson, costing $19,260, seen by 10 million people in 1937, and controversial for blaming mechanized farming.

The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence

The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence (Spanish: Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia) is a 1647 book of 300 aphorisms on prudence by the Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracián.

The Poddington Peas

The Poddington Peas is a British animated children's series about a community of peas living at the bottom of a garden, first broadcast on BBC One in 1989.

The Poems of Avetik Isahakyan

The Poems of Avetik Isahakyan are the lyric and narrative verse of Avetik Isahakyan (1875–1957), an Armenian classic whose poems on love, longing, and homeland became folk songs.

The Poems of Silva Kaputikyan

The Poems of Silva Kaputikyan are the lyric works of the most prominent Armenian woman poet of the twentieth century, centered on love, homeland, longing, and the Armenian language.

The Poems of Yose ben Yose

The Poems of Yose ben Yose are Hebrew liturgical poems by Yose ben Yose, the earliest Jewish liturgical poet known by name, whose Shofar-service poems remain in the Ashkenazi liturgy.

The Poet and the Boy (시인의 사랑)

The Poet and the Boy (시인의 사랑) is Kim Yang-hee's 2017 South Korean debut drama about a Jeju poet (Yang Ik-june), his wife (Jeon Hye-jin), and a boy (Jung Ga-ram); Jeonju Cinema Project, Toronto Discovery, 12,685 admissions.