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The Romantic Agony

The Romantic Agony is a 1933 work of literary history by Italian critic Mario Praz, tracing erotic cruelty and morbid themes in European Romantic literature.

The Romantic Ideology

The Romantic Ideology is a 1983 book by Jerome J. McGann arguing that Romantic scholarship had uncritically absorbed Romanticism's own self-representations, a critique widely credited with changing Romantic studies.

The Romantic Tour

The Romantic Tour is Bruno Mars's 2026–2027 all-stadium world tour supporting his album The Romantic; launched April 10, 2026 in Las Vegas, it set a Live Nation record with 2.1 million tickets sold in one day.

The Romantics

The Romantics are an American rock band formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1977, blending power pop and new wave; their 1983 album In Heat was a commercial peak.

The Romantics (2023 TV series)

The Romantics is a 2023 four-part Netflix documentary series directed by Smriti Mundhra that celebrates Bollywood filmmaker Yash Chopra and his studio, Yash Raj Films.

The Romaunt of the Rose

The Romaunt of the Rose is a Middle English partial translation of the French allegorical poem Le Roman de la Rose, attributed in part to Geoffrey Chaucer.

The Ron Clark Story

The Ron Clark Story (2006) is a TNT television film directed by Randa Haines, starring Matthew Perry as real-life teacher Ron Clark, who moves from North Carolina to a tough Harlem elementary school; Emmy-nominated, over 12 million viewers.

The Ronettes

The Ronettes: 1960s New York girl group of Ronnie Spector, Estelle Bennett, and Nedra Talley; hits "Be My Baby" and "Baby I Love You" with Phil Spector's Wall of Sound; Rock Hall 2007.

The Rook (miniseries)

The Rook is a 2019 Starz supernatural spy thriller, eight episodes, based on Daniel O'Malley's 2012 novel, starring Emma Greenwell as amnesiac Checquy agent Myfanwy Thomas; cancelled in 2020 after one season.

The Rookie (1990 film)

The Rookie is a 1990 American buddy cop action film directed by Clint Eastwood, who stars as auto-theft detective Nick Pulovski opposite Charlie Sheen as his rookie partner.

The Rookie (TV series)

The Rookie is an ABC police procedural drama (premiered October 16, 2018) created by Alexi Hawley, starring Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, the LAPD's oldest rookie, inspired by William Norcross, with spinoffs The Rookie: Feds and The Rookie: North.

The Rookie: Feds

The Rookie: Feds, also called Rookie Feds, is ABC's 2022-2023 spin-off of The Rookie starring Niecy Nash-Betts as FBI rookie Simone Clark; canceled after one 22-episode season in November 2023.

The Room

The Room (2003) is Tommy Wiseau's self-financed $6 million independent drama about a San Francisco love triangle; a box-office failure now famous as the "Citizen Kane of bad movies" with participatory midnight screenings.

The Room (2019 film)

The Room (2019) is an English-language French-Luxembourgish-Belgian fantasy thriller by Christian Volckman, his first live-action feature after Renaissance. Olga Kurylenko and Kevin Janssens play a couple whose wish-granting room grants a dangerous child. Not the Tommy Wiseau film.

The Room Next Door

The Room Next Door (La habitación de al lado) is Pedro Almodóvar's 2024 first English-language drama, adapted from Sigrid Nunez's novel What Are You Going Through, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton; it won the 2024 Venice Golden Lion.

The Room Where It Happens

"The Room Where It Happens" is Aaron Burr's second-act showstopper in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton, sung by Leslie Odom Jr., dramatizing the 1790 dinner-table bargain trading Hamilton's debt-assumption plan for the capital on the Potomac, and marking Burr's turn from waiting to acting.

The Roommate

The Roommate (2011) is a Screen Gems psychological thriller directed by Christian E. Christiansen, starring Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester; a college-set Single White Female-style stalker film that opened number one with $15 million despite 3% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Rooster (film)

The Rooster is a 2023 Australian psychological drama, the directorial debut of Mark Leonard Winter, starring Phoenix Raei as a small-town cop and Hugo Weaving as a hermit; premiered at MIFF 2023, released in Australia February 2024.

The Rooster Prince (Fargo)

"The Rooster Prince" is the second episode of Fargo season 1 (FX, April 22, 2014), written by Noah Hawley, directed by Adam Bernstein; Molly suspects Lester while Malvo probes the Supermarket King blackmail; 2.04 million viewers, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Roots

The Roots: Philadelphia hip-hop band formed 1987 by Black Thought and Questlove, known for live instrumentation, Things Fall Apart, Undun, three Grammys, and Tonight Show house band residency since 2014.

The Ropers

The Ropers is an American sitcom on ABC from 1979 to 1980, a Three's Company spin-off starring Norman Fell and Audra Lindley as Stanley and Helen Roper.

The Rose (film)

The Rose (1979) is Mark Rydell's drama starring Bette Midler as rock singer Mary Rose Foster, loosely based on Janis Joplin, with Alan Bates and Frederic Forrest; four Oscar nominations, three Golden Globe wins, and the McBroom title song.

The Rose (song)

"The Rose" (song): 1977-1978 ballad by Amanda McBroom, recorded by Bette Midler for the 1979 film The Rose on Atlantic; peaked at No. 3 Billboard Hot 100 in 1980, won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song and a 1981 Grammy.

The Rose (theatre)

The Rose was an Elizabethan playhouse built on Bankside in Southwark, London, in 1587 by Philip Henslowe, and the site of the first recorded performances of two Shakespeare plays.

The Rose (더 로즈) (band)

The Rose (더 로즈) is a South Korean indie pop-rock quartet (Kim Woosung, Park Dojoon, Lee Hajoon, Lee Jaehyeong) that debuted August 3, 2017 with "Sorry," later signed to Transparent Arts, and charted DUAL at #83 on the Billboard 200.

The Rose and the Cross

The Rose and the Cross (Roza i krest) is a 1913 drama in four acts by the Russian poet Alexander Blok, set in thirteenth-century Languedoc and Brittany.

The Rose Field

The Rose Field is Philip Pullman's 2025 fantasy novel, the third and final Book of Dust volume, concluding Lyra and Pantalaimon's quest along the Silk Roads to the desert of Karamakan, following The Secret Commonwealth and His Dark Materials.

The Rose of the World

The Rose of the World (Роза мира) is a mystical-religious treatise and prose epic by Daniil Andreev, conceived in Vladimir Prison and completed in 1959, describing a cosmology of interworlds.

The Rose of Versailles (ベルサイユのばら)

The Rose of Versailles (ベルサイユのばら, BeruBara; Lady Oscar in France) is Riyoko Ikeda's 1972–1973 shōjo manga in Weekly Margaret about Oscar, Marie Antoinette, and the French Revolution; over 20 million copies, Takarazuka 1974, TV anime 1979, MAPPA film 2025.

The Rose Tattoo

The Rose Tattoo is Daniel Mann's 1955 Paramount film adapted from Tennessee Williams's Broadway play, starring Anna Magnani as widow Serafina Delle Rose and Burt Lancaster; it won three Oscars including Best Actress.