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The Riot Club

The Riot Club is a 2014 British drama directed by Lone Scherfig, adapted by Laura Wade from her play Posh, about two Oxford first-years joining an elite ten-member dining club whose annual dinner turns violent; inspired by the Bullingdon Club.

The Rip (film)

The Rip is a 2026 Netflix crime thriller directed by Joe Carnahan, starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as Miami narcotics officers whose trust frays after finding over $20 million in a stash house; released January 16, 2026 by Artists Equity.

The Ripper

The Ripper is a 2020 four-part Netflix true crime documentary directed by Jesse Vile and Ellena Wood about the Yorkshire Ripper murders, in which Peter Sutcliffe killed 13 women from 1975 to 1980 during Britain's largest police manhunt.

The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is Chappell Roan's debut album, released September 22, 2023 on Amusement/Island Records; produced by Dan Nigro, it initially missed the Billboard 200 before her 2024 Coachella breakthrough.

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a 2018 popular science book by paleontologist Steve Brusatte tracing dinosaurs from their origins to the end-Cretaceous extinction.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) is David Bowie's fifth studio album, a glam concept record about an alien rock star, released by RCA, peaking at UK No 5.

The Rise of Ashoka

The Rise of Ashoka (ದಿ ರೈಸ್ ಆಫ್ ಆಶೋಕ), formerly Ashoka Blade, is a 2026 Kannada period action drama starring Sathish Ninasam and Sapthami Gowda, directed by the late Vinod V Dhondale and completed by editor Manu Shedgar; released 27 February 2026, streaming on Sun NXT from 5 June 2026.

The Rise of David Levinsky

The Rise of David Levinsky is a 1917 novel by Abraham Cahan following a Russian Jewish immigrant's rise from poverty to wealth in New York's garment trade.

The Rise of Phoenixes (天盛长歌)

The Rise of Phoenixes (天盛长歌, 凰权·弈天下) is a 2018 Chinese historical political drama adapted from Tianxia Guiyuan's novel Huang Quan, starring Chen Kun and Ni Ni, cut from 70 to 56 episodes on Hunan TV, and streamed by Netflix.

The Rise of Silas Lapham

The Rise of Silas Lapham is an 1885 novel by William Dean Howells about a self-made paint manufacturer seeking entry into Boston old-money society, his business fall mirroring his moral rise.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic

The Rise of the Dutch Republic is an 1856 three-volume history by the American historian John Lothrop Motley, narrating the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule from 1555 to 1584.

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is the first volume of Edmund Morris's trilogy, published in 1979, covering Roosevelt's rise until McKinley's death made him president in 1901.

The Rising (album)

The Rising (2002) is Bruce Springsteen's twelfth studio album and first with the E Street Band in 18 years, produced by Brendan O'Brien. A 15-song response to 9/11, it debuted at number one, went gold in a week, and won the Best Rock Album Grammy.

The Rising of the Moon

The Rising of the Moon (1957) is John Ford's Irish anthology film, also titled Three Leaves of the Shamrock, with three segments from Frank O'Connor, Martin J. McHugh, and Lady Gregory, starring Tyrone Power and Abbey Theatre players.

The Rising of the Shield Hero (盾の勇者の成り上がり)

The Rising of the Shield Hero (盾の勇者の成り上がり, Tate no Yūsha no Nariagari) is Aneko Yusagi's isekai dark fantasy: Naofumi Iwatani, summoned as the Shield Hero, is betrayed and framed, then rises from the bottom. Web novel on Narō, 22-volume MF Books light novel, manga, and Kinema Citrus anime with Season 5 set for 2027.

The Rising of the Shield Hero (盾の勇者の成り上がり) (TV series)

The Rising of the Shield Hero (盾の勇者の成り上がり) is a Kinema Citrus TV anime (2019–) adapting Aneko Yusagi's light novel; four seasons, 62 episodes, a fifth due 2027, following betrayed Shield Hero Naofumi Iwatani.

The Rising of the Shield Hero season 4

The Rising of the Shield Hero season 4 (盾の勇者の成り上がり Season 4), 2025 Kinema Citrus anime, 12 episodes from July 9, 2025, directed by Hitoshi Haga, adapting light novel volumes 13-15; season 5 set for 2027.

The Rite (2011 film)

The Rite is a 2011 American supernatural horror film directed by Mikael Håfström, in which a skeptical seminarian at the Vatican is apprenticed to a veteran exorcist played by Anthony Hopkins.

The Rite of Spring (Весна священная)

The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps, Весна священная) is Stravinsky's 1913 Ballets Russes ballet with Nijinsky choreography and Roerich designs, whose Paris premiere caused a famous scandal and whose score became a landmark of twentieth-century music.

The Rite of Spring discography

The Rite of Spring discography: recorded history of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps, from the first complete 1929 recordings by Monteux, Stokowski, and Stravinsky to 170-plus versions, landmark accounts, and score variants.

The Ritual (2017 film)

The Ritual is a 2017 British folk-horror film directed by David Bruckner, based on Adam Nevill's novel, about four friends lost in a Scandinavian forest.

The Ritual (2025 film)

The Ritual (2025) is a horror film directed by David Midell, starring Al Pacino and Dan Stevens as priests performing the 1928 Emma Schmidt exorcism in Earling, Iowa; released June 6, 2025, grossing $525.9K.

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, founded in Atlanta in 1983 by William B. Johnson and owned by Marriott International since 1995-1997, is a luxury hotel brand with 126 hotels, 32,279 rooms, nine Reserve properties, and the Gold Standards service culture.

The Rivals

The Rivals is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 comedy of manners set in Bath, his first play, source of the word malapropism via Mrs. Malaprop, and still regularly revived on stage.

The Rivals of Amziah King

The Rivals of Amziah King is a 2025 Andrew Patterson crime thriller starring Matthew McConaughey as an Oklahoma beekeeper and bluegrass musician; premiered at SXSW 2025, released by Black Bear August 14, 2026.

The River (1938 film)

The River (1938) is Pare Lorentz's Farm Security Administration documentary short about the Mississippi River, soil erosion, and floods, with music by Virgil Thomson; it premiered in New Orleans in 1937 and won Best Documentary at Venice 1938.

The River (1951 film)

The River (1951) is Jean Renoir's first color feature, a Technicolor coming-of-age drama adapted from Rumer Godden's novel, shot on the Hooghly River in Calcutta, winner of the 1951 Venice First International Prize.

The River (1984 film)

The River (1984) is a Mark Rydell drama starring Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, and Scott Glenn about Tennessee farmers fighting floods and a dam scheme; Universal release, John Williams score, Oscar for sound effects editing.

The River (1997 film)

The River (河流, He liu) is Tsai Ming-liang's 1997 Taiwanese drama, his third feature, about Hsiao-Kang's incurable neck pain after floating in the polluted Tanshui River; it won the Berlin Silver Bear Jury Award.

The River (Bruce Springsteen album)

The River (1980) is Bruce Springsteen's fifth album and first double, 20 songs on Columbia recorded at the Power Station from March 1979; his first Billboard 200 number one, led by Hungry Heart, later collected in The Ties That Bind box set.