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The Unseen

The Unseen (De usynlige) is a 2013 novel by the Norwegian author Roy Jacobsen about a poor family living on a small island off the Helgeland coast.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown (film)

The Unsinkable Molly Brown, 1964 MGM musical comedy directed by Charles Walters, starring Debbie Reynolds as Titanic survivor Margaret Brown; adapted from Meredith Willson's 1960 Broadway musical, six Oscar nominations, third highest-grossing film of 1964.

The Unspeakable Act

The Unspeakable Act is a 2012 American indie drama by Dan Sallitt, his third feature, about teenager Jackie Kimball's unrequited love for her brother Matthew; 91 minutes, starring Tallie Medel, dedicated to Eric Rohmer, Metascore 76.

The Untamed (2016 film)

The Untamed (La región salvaje) is a 2016 Mexican sci-fi drama by Amat Escalante, starring Ruth Ramos and Simone Bucio, about a couple encountering a creature from a meteorite; it won the Venice Silver Lion for Best Director.

The Untamed (陈情令) (TV series)

The Untamed (陈情令) is a 2019 Chinese xianxia web drama adapted from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel Mo Dao Zu Shi, starring Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, 50 episodes on Tencent Video, famous for its advance on-demand payments and overseas success.

The Untold History of the United States

The Untold History of the United States is Oliver Stone's ten-part 2012 Showtime documentary series and companion book with historian Peter Kuznick, reexamining American empire, the atomic bombings, and the Cold War from a revisionist perspective.

The Untold Story (八仙饭店之人肉叉烧饱)

The Untold Story (八仙飯店之人肉叉燒飽) is a 1993 Hong Kong Category III crime-horror film by Herman Yau, starring Anthony Wong as killer Wong Chi Hang, based on the unsolved 1985 Macau Eight Immortals Restaurant murders; it won Wong the HK Film Award for Best Actor.

The Untold Story 2 (人肉叉烧包II之天诛地灭)

The Untold Story 2 (人肉叉燒包II之天誅地滅) is a 1998 Hong Kong Category III horror film directed by Ng Yiu-Kuen, starring Paulyn Sun, Emotion Cheung, and Anthony Wong, an in-name-only sequel based on the 1993 Tai Po burning-body case.

The Untouchables (film)

The Untouchables is a 1987 American crime drama directed by Brian De Palma and starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro as Eliot Ness fighting Al Capone.

The Unvanquished

The Unvanquished is a 1938 novel by William Faulkner, his tenth, following young Bayard Sartoris and his family through the Civil War and Reconstruction in Mississippi.

The Unworthy

The Unworthy (Las indignas) is a 2023 dystopian horror novel by Argentine writer Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses (Scribner, 2025). Set in a post-apocalyptic convent of the Sacred Sisterhood, it follows an unworthy caste woman's secret diary and her bond with Lucía.

The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is a 1987 studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was the band's third release and first to enter the Billboard 200.

The Upper Room

The Upper Room is a Chris Ofili installation of thirteen monkey paintings in a walnut room designed with David Adjaye, bought by the Tate in 2005.

The Uprising (1999 film)

The Uprising (이재수의 난) is a 1999 South Korean historical action film directed by Park Kwang-su, starring Lee Jung-jae and set during the 1901 Jeju rebellion.

The Uprising (2026 film)

The Uprising (2026) is a Paul Greengrass historical drama starring Andrew Garfield as a peasant leader in the 1381 Peasants' Revolt, released by Focus Features and controversially marketed as a Robin Hood origin story.

The Upsetters

The Upsetters were the Jamaican house band and studio tag of producer Lee "Scratch" Perry, whose 1969 hit "Return of Django" reached number 5 in Britain.

The Upshaws

The Upshaws is a Netflix multicamera sitcom created by Regina Y. Hicks and Wanda Sykes, starring Mike Epps, Kim Fields, and Sykes as an Indianapolis Black working-class family; it ran May 12, 2021 to January 15, 2026, ending with Part 7 and 60 total episodes.

The Upside

The Upside is a 2017 American comedy-drama directed by Neil Burger, starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston, that remakes the 2011 French hit Intouchables and opened in January 2019.

The Used

The Used: American post-hardcore/emo band formed in 2000 in Orem, Utah, fronted by Bert McCracken with founding bassist Jeph Howard; known for the 2002 self-titled debut, In Love and Death (No. 6 Billboard 200), and a 2025 three-nights-per-city 25th anniversary tour.

The Uses of Literacy

The Uses of Literacy is Richard Hoggart's 1957 book on how mass media was changing English working-class life, and a founding text of cultural studies.

The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects (1995) is a Bryan Singer neo-noir mystery, written by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Kevin Spacey as con man Verbal Kint, whose unreliable tale of crime lord Keyser Soze won two Oscars and became a twist-ending landmark.

The Vaccine War (द वैक्सीन वॉर)

The Vaccine War (द वैक्सीन वॉर) is a 2023 Hindi film by Vivek Agnihotri, produced by Pallavi Joshi, dramatizing Covaxin's development by ICMR, NIV Pune, and Bharat Biotech, based on Balram Bhargava's book Going Viral; released 28 September 2023, it flopped at the box office and drew criticism as one-sided.

The Vaccines

Formed in London in 2010, The Vaccines are an English indie rock band recognized for infectious hooks and melodic guitar songs; their 2011 debut was 2011's biggest-selling UK debut.

The Vagabond

The Vagabond is Charlie Chaplin's 1916 two-reel Mutual silent comedy, third of the Mutual Chaplin Specials, reworking The Tramp (1915); the Tramp as violinist rescues Edna Purviance from gypsies in an early comedy-pathos landmark.

The Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues, by V (formerly Eve Ensler), premiered in New York in 1996 and won an Obie. Built from over 200 interviews, its 17 monologues spawned V-Day, which raised over $120 million.

The Valiant Ones (忠烈图)

The Valiant Ones (忠烈圖) is King Hu's 1975 Hong Kong wuxia film about Ming general Yu Dayou fighting wokou pirates, choreographed by and co-starring Sammo Hung, restored in 4K in 2020.

The Valley (TV series)

The Valley is a Bravo reality series, a Vanderpump Rules spinoff, that premiered March 19, 2024, following Jax Taylor, Brittany Cartwright, Kristen Doute, and friends in suburban Los Angeles; three seasons have aired, with The Valley: Persian Style as a spinoff.

The Valley of Fear

The Valley of Fear (1915) is Arthur Conan Doyle's fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, serialized in the Strand 1914–1915, based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland, with a two-part murder and American flashback plot.

The Valley of Gwangi

The Valley of Gwangi is a 1969 Ray Harryhausen stop-motion fantasy film, also known as Gwangi or The Lost Valley, in which cowboys capture an allosaur in a Mexican lost world; based on Willis O'Brien's unmade 1942 RKO project and a box-office failure.

The Valley of the Bees

The Valley of the Bees (Údolí včel) is František Vláčil's 1967 Czechoslovak black-and-white medieval drama about Ondřej, a Teutonic Knight who escapes and is hunted by Armin; a reappraised Czech classic.