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The Ugly Dachshund

The Ugly Dachshund is a 1966 Walt Disney live-action comedy directed by Norman Tokar, starring Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette, about a Great Dane raised as a dachshund, based on G. B. Stern's 1938 novel.

The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling (Den grimme Ælling) is Hans Christian Andersen's 1843 literary fairy tale of a rejected cygnet who discovers he is a swan; first published 11 November 1843, widely read as autobiographical, adapted by Disney in 1939.

The Ugly Stepsister

The Ugly Stepsister (Den stygge stesøsteren) is a 2025 Norwegian body-horror comedy, Emilie Blichfeldt's debut, retelling Cinderella from stepsister Elvira's view; Sundance premiere, Oscar-nominated makeup, 50,675 Norwegian admissions.

The Ugly Truth

The Ugly Truth is a 2009 American romantic comedy directed by Robert Luketic, starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler as a producer and a chauvinistic TV relationship guru. It grossed $205.6 million worldwide but scored only 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Cormier vs. Team Sonnen

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Cormier vs. Team Sonnen (TUF 33) is the UFC reality show's 20th anniversary season, premiering May 27, 2025 on ESPN2/ESPN+, with retired Hall of Famers Daniel Cormier and Chael Sonnen coaching 16 flyweight and welterweight prospects; no coach fight, finalists Idiris, Morales, Sezinando, Donchenko.

The Ultimate Gift

The Ultimate Gift is a 2006 American drama film directed by Michael O. Sajbel, adapted from Jim Stovall's novel, starring Drew Fuller, James Garner, and Abigail Breslin; released by Fox Faith in March 2007, it earned $3.4 million and mixed reviews.

The Ultimate Sin

The Ultimate Sin (1986) is Ozzy Osbourne's fourth studio album, produced by Ron Nevison, featuring Jake E. Lee. Peaked at No. 6 Billboard 200 and No. 8 UK; double platinum in the US; deleted from catalog in 2002.

The Ultimates (2024)

The Ultimates is a 24-issue Marvel Comics series launched in 2024, written by Deniz Camp, following a resistance of heroes fighting the Maker's Council on Earth-6160.

The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On

The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On is a Netflix reality series (2022, created by Chris Coelen, hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey) in which six couples at a marriage impasse enter three-week trial marriages with new partners before choosing engagement or breakup.

The Ultimatum: Queer Love

The Ultimatum: Queer Love is a Netflix reality dating spinoff of The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On, created by Chris Coelen, following women and non-binary couples through trial marriages; two seasons (2023, 2025), then canceled.

The Umbrella Academy

The Umbrella Academy: Dark Horse superhero comic by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, debuting with Apocalypse Suite in 2007, Eisner-winning, adapted into Netflix's four-season series (2019) about seven adopted superpowered siblings.

The Umbrella Academy (TV series)

The Umbrella Academy is a Netflix superhero drama (2019-2024, 36 episodes, 4 seasons) developed by Steve Blackman from Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba's Dark Horse comics, about the Hargreeves siblings reuniting after their father's death.

The Umbrella Academy season 4

The Umbrella Academy season 4 is the six-episode final season of the Netflix superhero series, released August 8, 2024; it stars Elliot Page and Aidan Gallagher, tells an original story apart from Gerard Way's comics, and drew mixed critical and negative audience scores.

The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite

The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite is the first six-issue Dark Horse Comics miniseries (2007–2008) by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, about seven adopted superpowered siblings; it won the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series and inspired the Netflix series.

The Umbrella Academy: Dallas

The Umbrella Academy: Dallas is the second six-issue Dark Horse miniseries (2008-2009) by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, in which Number Five recruits his siblings to save JFK; it inspired Netflix season 2.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) is Jacques Demy's 1964 all-sung French musical with music by Michel Legrand, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo; it won the 1964 Cannes top prize and five Oscar nominations.

The Unaware Atelier Master

The Unaware Atelier Master (勘違いの工房主), also known as Kanchigai no Atelier Meister, is a Japanese fantasy light novel by Yōsuke Tokino about Kurt Rockhans, expelled from a hero party for lowest combat rank but SSS in all other skills, adapted into a 2025 EMT Squared anime with a second season announced.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is Milan Kundera's 1982 Czech novel, first published in French in 1984, set during the Prague Spring and told through Tomas, Tereza, Sabina, and Franz.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Milan Kundera's novel, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, and Lena Olin in 1968 Prague, produced by Saul Zaentz, shot by Sven Nykvist, and restored in 4K by the Academy Film Archive.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a 2022 meta action-comedy directed by Tom Gormican, starring Nicolas Cage as a fictionalized himself opposite Pedro Pascal's superfan Javi, released by Lionsgate.

The Unborn (2009 film)

The Unborn (2009) is an American supernatural horror film written and directed by David S. Goyer, starring Odette Annable and Gary Oldman, about a teenager haunted by a dybbuk tied to a family curse from Nazi-era experiments; it grossed $42.6 million and scored 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Uncanny Counter (경이로운 소문)

The Uncanny Counter (경이로운 소문, Wonderful Rumors) is a Korean supernatural drama adapted from Jang Yi's webtoon; Counters posing as noodle-shop staff hunt evil spirits, airing on OCN 2020 and tvN/Netflix 2023.

The Unclouded Soul (逍遥)

The Unclouded Soul (逍遥) is a 2025 Chinese costume fantasy romance drama directed by Xu Jizhou and Yang Yufei, starring Tan Songyun and Hou Minghao, about humans and demons fighting over the Yuli Divine Spring; 40 episodes aired on CCTV-8, iQIYI, and Youku from December 27, 2025 to January 6, 2026.

The Unconsoled

The Unconsoled is a 1995 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, his fourth, in which a celebrated concert pianist arrives in an unnamed European city where everything dissolves around him in dream logic.

The Undeclared War

The Undeclared War is a British Channel 4/Peacock cyber-thriller created by Peter Kosminsky and Colin Callender, set in 2024 as GCHQ analysts counter Russian cyber-attacks before a UK election; season 1 (2022, six episodes) starred Hannah Khalique-Brown and Simon Pegg, and a 2026 season 2 added a mole plot and Chinese threat.

The Underachievers

The Underachievers are a Brooklyn hip-hop duo (AK/AKTHESAVIOR and Issa Gold) formed in Flatbush in 2011; signed to Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder, part of Beast Coast and Clockwork Indigo, known for Indigoism (2013) and Evermore (2015).

The Underdogs

The Underdogs (Los de abajo) is a 1915 novel by the Mexican writer Mariano Azuela that follows peasant fighters in the Mexican Revolution, ending in disillusionment.

The Underground Comedy Movie

The Underground Comedy Movie is a 1999 American sketch comedy film written, directed by, and starring Vince Offer, later the ShamWow pitchman. It grossed $856 in one theater, holds 33% on Rotten Tomatoes and 2.0/10 on IMDb, and starred Gena Lee Nolin, Slash, and Michael Clarke Duncan.

The Underground Railroad (miniseries)

The Underground Railroad is a 2021 American limited series directed by Barry Jenkins for Amazon Prime Video, adapted from Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, starring Thuso Mbedu and Joel Edgerton.

The Underland Chronicles

The Underland Chronicles is Suzanne Collins's five-book middle grade fantasy series (2003-2007), beginning with Gregor the Overlander, about an eleven-year-old New York boy who falls into an underground world of giant rats, bats, and purple-eyed humans.