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The River and Death

The River and Death (El río y la muerte) is Luis Buñuel's 1954 Mexican drama about a generations-old blood feud between the Anguiano and Menchaca families, adapted from Miguel Álvarez Acosta's novel Muro blanco sobre roca negra; it competed at Venice 1954 and won a 1956 Ariel for music.

The River and the Source

The River and the Source is a 1994 novel by Kenyan author Margaret A. Ogola following generations of Luo women, winner of two 1995 literary prizes.

The River Between

The River Between is a 1965 novel by Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, published under his earlier name James Ngugi, about two rival Gikuyu villages in colonial Kenya.

The River Has Roots

The River Has Roots is Amal El-Mohtar's 2025 Tordotcom fantasy novella, her solo debut, about sisters Esther and Ysabel tending magic willows on the River Liss; it won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Aurora Awards.

The River Train

The River Train (El tren fluvial) is a 2026 Argentine debut feature by Lorenzo Ferro and the late Lucas A. Vignale, following nine-year-old malambo dancer Milo Barría as he runs away by train to Buenos Aires; it premiered in Berlinale Perspectives.

The River Wild

The River Wild is a 1994 Universal action thriller directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Meryl Streep as rafting guide Gail Hartman, with Kevin Bacon and David Strathairn; released September 30, 1994, it opened No. 1 with $10.2 million.

The Riverbank

The Riverbank (溪岸图) is a monumental tenth-century Chinese hanging scroll attributed to the Southern Tang master Dong Yuan and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1997.

The Rizzler

The Rizzler is the nickname of Christian Joseph (also reported as Christian Savasta), an American child TikTok influencer known for his "rizz face" expression and collaborations with the Costco Guys, A.J. and Big Justice, since June 2024.

The Road

The Road is Cormac McCarthy's 2006 post-apocalyptic novel about an unnamed father and son crossing ash-covered America. It won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was an Oprah's Book Club selection, and was filmed by John Hillcoat in 2009.

The Road (2009 film)

The Road (2009) is John Hillcoat's film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer-winning novel, starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and son surviving a post-apocalyptic America; it earned $8.1 million and mixed-to-favorable reviews.

The Road Back

The Road Back (German: Der Weg zurück) is a 1931 novel by Erich Maria Remarque that continues All Quiet on the Western Front, following soldiers returning to postwar Germany.

The Road from Sèvres

The Road from Sèvres (La route, vue du chemin de Sèvres) is an 1873 oil by Alfred Sisley at the Musée d'Orsay (RF 2079), now retitled Chemin de la Machine, Louveciennes; related is Corot's Louvre Le chemin de Sèvres, stolen in 1998 and never recovered.

The Road Goes Ever On (song)

The Road Goes Ever On is Bilbo Baggins's walking-song in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, set to music by Donald Swann as the title song of the 1967 Tolkien song cycle.

The Road Home (我的父亲母亲)

The Road Home (我的父亲母亲) is Zhang Yimou's 1999 Chinese romance film, adapted from Bao Shi's novel Remembrance, starring Zhang Ziyi; it won the Berlin Silver Bear and uses black-and-white present, color memory.

The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken is Robert Frost's 20-line narrative poem, first published in the Atlantic Monthly in August 1915 and opening Mountain Interval (1916); written as a joke for Edward Thomas, it is widely misread as celebrating individualism.

The Road to Calvary

The Road to Calvary (Хождение по мукам) is a trilogy of novels by the Russian writer Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, following two sisters through war, revolution, and civil war.

The Road to El Dorado

The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 DreamWorks animated musical comedy about two Spanish con men who find the legendary city of gold and are mistaken for gods.

The Road to El Dorado (soundtrack)

The Road to El Dorado (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is Elton John and Tim Rice's 2000 DreamWorks album for the animated film, with score by Hans Zimmer and John Powell; "Someday Out of the Blue" hit No. 5 Adult Contemporary.

The Road to Guantanamo

The Road to Guantánamo (2006) is a British docudrama by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross about the Tipton Three, British Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay for two years without charge; it won the Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director.

The Road to Mandalay

The Road to Mandalay (再見瓦城, Zaijian wa cheng) is a 2016 drama by Midi Z about Burmese migrants Lianqing and Guo in Thailand; Venice Days Fedeora winner, Golden Horse closing film, Metascore 80.

The Road to Mecca

The Road to Mecca is a 1984 two-act play by Athol Fugard, set in New Bethesda, South Africa, about an elderly widow's cement sculpture garden.

The Road to Sampo

The Road to Sampo (삼포 가는 길) is a 1973 short story by Hwang Sok-yong and a 1975 film directed by Lee Man-hee, following three drifters returning home.

The Road to the Racetrack (경마장 가는 길)

The Road to the Racetrack (경마장 가는 길) is a 1991 South Korean film by Jang Sun-woo, adapted from Ha Il-ji's postmodernist novel, starring Kang Soo-youn and Moon Sung-keun; a pioneering Korean realist film added to Netflix in 2023.

The Road to Wellville (film)

The Road to Wellville is Alan Parker's 1994 satirical comedy, adapted from T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel, starring Anthony Hopkins as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg at his 1907 Battle Creek sanitarium; it grossed $6.5 million and holds 41% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Road Trip (TV series)

The Road Trip is a 2024 six-part Paramount+ romantic comedy adapted from Beth O'Leary's novel, starring Emma Appleton, Laurie Davidson, David Jonsson, Isabella Laughland, and Angus Imrie; produced by 42, filmed in Bristol and Gran Canaria, premiered December 26, 2024.

The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (La Route) is Manu Larcenet's 2024 comics adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer-winning novel, approved by McCarthy before his death, published by Abrams ComicArts, an Eisner winner.

The Roaring Game (film)

The Roaring Game is a 2026 American sports comedy directed and written by Tom DeNucci, starring Darin Brooks, Mickey Rourke, Justin Chatwin, and Rob Gronkowski; a janitor forms a misfit curling team to win back his hockey-player girlfriend, released February 6, 2026 by Brainstorm Media.

The Roaring Girl

The Roaring Girl is a 1611 Jacobean city comedy by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton about Moll Cutpurse, a cross-dressing thief based on the real London figure Mary Frith.

The Roaring Lion

The Roaring Lion is a 1941 portrait photograph of Winston Churchill by Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh, taken in Ottawa moments after Karsh removed his cigar.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties (1939) is Raoul Walsh's Warner Bros. gangster drama starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart as WWI friends turned Prohibition bootleggers, closing the studio's 1930s gangster cycle; based on Mark Hellinger's story "The World Moves On."