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Unchained Love (浮图缘)

Unchained Love (浮图缘, also Forbidden Love) is a 2022 Chinese costume romance drama, 36 episodes directed by Wu Qiang, adapted from You Sijie's novel Futu Ta, starring Wang Hedi and Chen Yuqi as a fake eunuch and a consort saved from sacrifice, premiered on iQIYI December 27, 2022.

Unchained Melody

Unchained Melody: 1955 Alex North/Hy Zaret song from the prison film Unchained, first sung by Todd Duncan; famously covered by the Righteous Brothers (1965) and revived by Ghost (1990), with over 1,500 recordings.

Unchild (언차일드)

Unchild (언차일드, UNCHILD) is a six-member multinational K-pop girl group under High Up Entertainment (STAYC's label), debuted April 21, 2026 with 'We Are UNCHILD'; members Park Yeeun, Heekie, Tina, Ako, Evon, Na Haeun; second single delayed, Q4 comeback planned.

Unchosen

Unchosen is a 2026 six-episode British Netflix psychological thriller by Julie Gearey, starring Molly Windsor, Asa Butterfield, and Fra Fee, about a woman in a cult called the Fellowship of the Divine whose affair with an escaped convict upends her sect.

Uncle Albert

Uncle Albert (Albert Gladstone Trotter), fictional Only Fools and Horses character played by Buster Merryfield from 1985 to 1996; Grandad's brother, great uncle of Del Boy and Rodney, famed for the catchphrase "During the war...".

Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey

Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, Paul and Linda McCartney medley from Ram (1971), first post-Beatles US Billboard Hot 100 number one for McCartney; Grammy-winning, flugelhorn-featured, unreleased as a UK single.

Uncle Ben

Uncle Ben (Benjamin Parker) is Spider-Man's uncle in Marvel Comics, debuting and dying in Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962) by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Killed by a burglar Peter let escape, he anchors the power-responsibility maxim and differs from the MCU's absent Uncle Ben.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ) is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2010 Thai film about a dying farmer visited by his wife's ghost and monkey-spirit son; it won the 2010 Cannes Palme d'Or, the first for Thailand.

Uncle Buck

Uncle Buck (1989) is a John Hughes comedy starring John Candy as a bachelor babysitting his nieces and nephew in Chicago; it opened number one, grossing $11.9 million in five days, and spawned a short-lived CBS sitcom.

Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester, or Fester Addams, is a fictional character in The Addams Family, created by cartoonist Charles Addams and named in the 1964 TV series, where Jackie Coogan played him.

Uncle Frank (film)

Uncle Frank is a 2020 American drama film, also an Amazon Prime Video original, written and directed by Alan Ball, starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, and Peter Macdissi; set in 1973, it follows a closeted gay professor's road trip to his father's funeral in South Carolina.

Uncle from Another World (異世界おじさん)

Uncle from Another World (異世界おじさん, Isekai Ojisan) is a Japanese web manga by Hotondoshindeiru, serialized on KADOKAWA's ComicWalker since June 29, 2018. A man wakes from a 17-year coma claiming to have lived in the fantasy world Granbahamal; his memory-playback magic drives the comedy. Adapted as a 13-episode 2022–2023 Atelier Pontdarc anime with Sega supervision.

Uncle Grandpa

Uncle Grandpa is a Cartoon Network animated comedy created by Peter Browngardt, airing September 2, 2013 to June 30, 2017 across five seasons and 153 episodes, about a magical uncle and grandpa helping kids from his RV, spun off from Secret Mountain Fort Awesome.

Uncle Kracker

Uncle Kracker, born Matthew Lynford Shafer (1974), Detroit-area singer and former Kid Rock DJ; solo albums Double Wide and Midnight Special; hits "Follow Me," "Drift Away" (28 weeks No. 1 AC), "When the Sun Goes Down," "Smile." Not the band Cracker or Kid Cudi.

Uncle Meat

Uncle Meat is the April 21, 1969 double album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, recorded October 1967–February 1968 as the soundtrack to an unfinished film finally released in 1987, featuring the King Kong variations and studio overdub experiments.

Uncle Murda

Uncle Murda, real name Leonard Grant (born 1978), is a Brooklyn East New York rapper known for mixtapes, Roc-A-Fella and G-Unit deals that produced no studio album, and his annual Rap Up year-in-review songs.

Uncle Ruckus

Uncle Ruckus, also called Uncle Ruckus (no relation), is the self-hating Black white-supremacist character of Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks, voiced by Gary Anthony Williams, appearing in 47 episodes from "The Garden Party" (2005) and the planned 2013 Uncle Ruckus Movie Kickstarter.

Uncle Samsik (삼식이 삼촌)

Uncle Samsik (삼식이 삼촌) is a 2024 Disney+ Korean political period drama, 16 episodes, May 15–June 19, 2024, written and directed by Shin Yeon-shik. Song Kang-ho's first drama role; 40 billion won budget; IMDb 6.6/10; set in late-1950s to early-1960s Korea.

Uncle Silas

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh is an 1864 Gothic mystery novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, narrated by the heiress Maud Ruthyn.

Uncle Tom

Uncle Tom is the enslaved Christian hero of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, partly based on Josiah Henson; stage adaptations turned his name into a slur for Black servility.

Uncle Tupelo

Uncle Tupelo, also called the architects of alt-country and the No Depression band, was an American alternative country band from Belleville, Illinois (1987–1994) led by Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy, whose four albums spawned Wilco and Son Volt.

Uncle Vanya (Дядя Ваня)

Uncle Vanya (Дядя Ваня) is Anton Chekhov's four-act play subtitled Scenes from Country Life, reworked from The Wood Demon, published 1897 and premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1899 under Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko.

Uncle Waffles

Uncle Waffles, born Lungelihle Zwane in 2000, is an Eswatini-born DJ and producer who became an early figurehead of amapiano, going viral in 2021 and topping charts with "Tanzania".

Uncommon Places

Uncommon Places is a series of large-format color photographs of motels, parking lots, and streets by Stephen Shore, made on North American road trips and collected in a 1982 book.

Uncommon Valor

Uncommon Valor (1983) is a Ted Kotcheff action war film starring Gene Hackman as a Marine colonel leading a privately funded rescue of POWs in Laos; first of the 1980s POW/MIA rescue films.

Unconditional (הבת) (TV series)

Unconditional (Hebrew: הבת) is a 2026 Israeli drama-thriller created by Dana Idisis and Adam Bizanski for Keshet 12 and Apple TV, about Orna's fight to free her daughter Gali, arrested for drug smuggling in Moscow, in eight episodes.

Uncontained

Uncontained (2025) is an American zombie horror film written, directed, produced by, and starring Morley Nelson, with Peter O'Meara and Hayley LeBlanc; released on VOD March 11, 2025 via Cineverse.

Uncontrollably Fond (함부로 애틋하게)

Uncontrollably Fond (함부로 애틋하게, Lightly, Ardently) is a 2016 KBS2 Korean melodrama starring Kim Woo-bin and Bae Suzy, written by Lee Kyung-hee, fully pre-produced, 20 episodes, weak domestic ratings but 4.1 billion Youku views.

Uncoupled

Uncoupled is a 2022 Netflix romantic comedy series created by Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman, starring Neil Patrick Harris as a newly single gay New York realtor; cancelled after one season, briefly rescued by Showtime.

Uncut Gems

Uncut Gems: 2019 American crime thriller by Josh and Benny Safdie with Ronald Bronstein, released by A24 on December 13, 2019. Adam Sandler plays Diamond District jeweler and gambler Howard Ratner betting on a rare Ethiopian black opal; Kevin Garnett, Idina Menzel, and Julia Fox co-star.