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The Real World: Seattle
The Real World: Seattle (1998) is the seventh season of MTV's The Real World, filmed at Pier 70 on Elliott Bay, the first Northwest season, with castmates David Burns, Nathan Blackburn, Irene McGee, Stephen Williams, and the infamous slap.
The Reality Dysfunction
The Reality Dysfunction (1996) by Peter F. Hamilton, first book of the Night's Dawn trilogy, a space opera set in AD 2600 where the dead possess the living, beginning on the colony world Lalonde.
The Reality War
The Reality War is the 31 May 2025 series 2 finale of Doctor Who, written by Russell T Davies, ending the Wish World two-parter and Ncuti Gatwa's era as the Fifteenth Doctor with a regeneration into Billie Piper.
The Realm
The Realm (El reino) is a 2018 Spanish-French political thriller by Rodrigo Sorogoyen starring Antonio de la Torre as a corrupt politician scapegoated by his party; it won seven Goya Awards.
The Reaping
The Reaping is a 2007 American horror thriller directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Hilary Swank as a former missionary investigating apparent biblical plagues in a Louisiana town.
The Reason (Hoobastank song)
"The Reason" is a 2004 power ballad by American rock band Hoobastank, from the album The Reason. Written by Dan Estrin and Doug Robb, it peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, went 4x platinum in the US, and earned two 2005 GRAMMY nominations.
The Rebel (book)
The Rebel (L'Homme révolté, 1951) is Albert Camus's essay on rebellion and revolution, arguing that unlimited revolt becomes murder; it triggered his 1952 break with Sartre in Les Temps Modernes.
The Rebel (South Korean TV series)
The Rebel (역적: 백성을 훔친 도적) is a 2017 MBC Monday-Tuesday historical drama, 30 episodes, reimagining outlaw Hong Gil-dong against King Yeonsan; highest rating 14.4%, ABU Prize winner, 2017 MBC Drama Awards Daesang for Kim Sang-joong.
The Rebel's Silhouette
The Rebel's Silhouette is a 1991 bilingual Urdu/English selection of Faiz Ahmed Faiz's poetry, translated by Kashmiri American poet Agha Shahid Ali for the University of Massachusetts Press.
The Rebound
The Rebound is a 2009 American romantic comedy written and directed by Bart Freundlich, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as a single mother who dates her younger nanny, played by Justin Bartha.
The Reckoners
The Reckoners (Reckoners trilogy) is Brandon Sanderson's non-Cosmere YA superhero-dystopia series: Steelheart (2013), Mitosis, Firefight, Calamity, plus the 2021 Texas audio novel Lux, in which unpowered humans kill superpowered Epics by exploiting each Epic's unique weakness.
The Reckoning
The Reckoning (1970) is a Jack Gold British drama, John McGrath screenplay from Patrick Hall's novel The Harp That Once, starring Nicol Williamson as London businessman Mick Marler returning to Liverpool to avenge his father's death; often compared with Get Carter.
The Record of Lady Sa's Journey South
The Record of Lady Sa's Journey South (Sassi namjeonggi) is a classic Korean novel by Kim Man-jung about a wife cast out by a scheming concubine.
The Recruit (American TV series)
The Recruit is an American Netflix spy-adventure series (2022-2025) created by Alexi Hawley, starring Noah Centineo as rookie CIA lawyer Owen Hendricks; two seasons, 14 episodes, canceled March 2025; distinct from the 2003 film of the same name.
The Recruit (film)
The Recruit is a 2003 American spy thriller directed by Roger Donaldson, in which CIA trainee Colin Farrell is trained by instructor Al Pacino and assigned to find a mole.
The Recruiter (Squid Game)
The Recruiter, also called The Salesman, is an unnamed Squid Game character played by Gong Yoo who recruits debt-ridden players via ddakji games and slaps, appears in Seasons 1-3, and dies by Russian roulette against Gi-hun in Season 2.
The Recruiting Officer
The Recruiting Officer is a 1706 comedy by Irish playwright George Farquhar, following Captain Plume and Captain Brazen as they recruit soldiers and court women in Shrewsbury during the War of the Spanish Succession.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir) is Stendhal's 1830 two-volume psychological novel about the ambitious Julien Sorel, based on the 1827 Berthet trial and satirizing the Bourbon Restoration.
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is Stephen Crane's Civil War novel, subtitled An Episode of the American Civil War, following Union private Henry Fleming, who flees battle, seeks a wound as his badge, and returns to fight, told through psychological realism.
The Red Balloon
The Red Balloon (Le Ballon rouge) is Albert Lamorisse's 1956 French 34-minute short in which a sentient red balloon follows a boy, played by the director's son Pascal, through Paris; it won the 1956 Short Film Palme d'Or and the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
The Red Boy
The Red Boy: nickname shared by two famous child portraits, Thomas Lawrence's Portrait of Charles William Lambton (1825, National Gallery, London) and Goya's Don Manuel Osorio (Metropolitan Museum), both named for their dominant red color.
The Red Clay Strays
The Red Clay Strays (also Red Clay Strays): Mobile, Alabama Southern rock/country band formed 2016, known for the 3x-platinum TikTok hit "Wondering Why," the Dave Cobb-produced RCA albums Made by These Moments and Grateful, and ACM, CMA, and Americana awards.
The Red Detachment of Women (红色娘子军)
The Red Detachment of Women (红色娘子军) is a 1961 color feature by director Xie Jin, written by Liang Xin for Tianma Film Studio, starring Zhu Xijuan as Wu Qionghua; it won the first Hundred Flowers Best Feature Film award and inspired the 1964 model ballet.
The Red Dragon and the Gold
"The Red Dragon and the Gold" is the fourth episode of the second season of HBO's House of the Dragon, premiered July 7, 2024, written by Ryan Condal and directed by Alan Taylor.
The Red Flag
The Red Flag: socialist song written in 1889 by Jim Connell, anthem of the British, Northern Irish, and Irish Labour parties. Usually sung to O Tannenbaum, though Connell intended The White Cockade; sung by 393 Labour MPs in 1945.
The Red Green Show
The Red Green Show is a Canadian sitcom-sketch comedy hybrid created by Steve Smith, set at Possum Lodge in Possum Lake; it ran 15 seasons and 300 episodes from 1991 to 2006 on CHCH, Global, and CBC, and became a PBS cult hit in the United States.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers (album)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984), the funk rock band's self-titled debut album on EMI America, produced by Andy Gill, recorded without founding members Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons.
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is an American post-hardcore/emo band formed in 2003 in Middleburg, Florida, led by Ronnie Winter; best known for the 2006 debut Don't You Fake It and the multi-platinum single Face Down.
The Red King (TV series)
The Red King is a 2024 British six-part crime thriller and folk-horror series created by Toby Whithouse, starring Anjli Mohindra as Sergeant Grace Narayan investigating a missing-boy cold case on the fictional Welsh island of St. Jory, home to the pagan cult of the True Way; aired on Alibi, later AMC+.
The Red Lances
The Red Lances (Las lanzas coloradas) is a 1931 historical novel by the Venezuelan writer Arturo Uslar Pietri, his first, dramatizing the fall of Venezuela's Second Republic in 1814.