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The Myth (神话) (film)

The Myth (神话, 2005) is a Hong Kong–Chinese action fantasy film directed by Stanley Tong, starring Jackie Chan as an archaeologist dreaming he was Qin general Meng Yi, with Kim Hee Seon, Tony Leung Ka-fai, and Mallika Sherawat; it earned 96 million RMB in mainland China and won a Huabiao Award.

The Myth of Sisyphus

Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), Albert Camus's 1942 philosophical essay on the absurd and suicide, completed 1941, published by Gallimard, concluding "One must imagine Sisyphus happy".

The Myth of the American Sleepover

The Myth of the American Sleepover is David Robert Mitchell's 2010 debut feature, a coming-of-age drama about four teenagers on the last night of summer in suburban Detroit, starring Claire Sloma, Marlon Morton, and Amanda Bauer; SXSW Jury Prize winner distributed by Sundance Selects.

The Myth of the Rational Voter

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies is Bryan Caplan's 2007 Princeton University Press book arguing that voters' systematic biases, including anti-market, anti-foreign, make-work, and pessimistic bias, produce bad economic policy by popular demand.

The Mythical Man-Month

The Mythical Man-Month is a 1975 collection of essays by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. on managing large software projects, drawing on his experience with IBM's OS/360.

The Naked and Famous

The Naked and Famous is a New Zealand indie electronic band from Auckland formed around 2007-2008 by Alisa Xayalith and Thom Powers, named after a line in Tricky's 'Tricky Kid'; known for 'Young Blood' and the 2010 debut Passive Me, Aggressive You, distinct from the Canadian denim brand of the same name.

The Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead is Norman Mailer's 1948 debut war novel about a fourteen-man platoon on the fictitious Pacific island Anopopei, drawing on his Philippines service; 62 weeks on the NYT bestseller list, 11 at number one.

The Naked Brothers Band (TV series)

The Naked Brothers Band is a Nickelodeon mockumentary musical comedy (2007-2009) created by Polly Draper, starring her sons Nat and Alex Wolff as a fictional New York rock band, spun off from the 2005 film.

The Naked City

The Naked City (1948) is Jules Dassin's police procedural, produced and narrated by Mark Hellinger, shot on 107 New York locations from Weegee's 1945 photo book, winner of two Academy Awards and template for the TV series Naked City.

The Naked Civil Servant

The Naked Civil Servant is Quentin Crisp's 1968 autobiography and the 1975 Thames Television film adapted from it, directed by Jack Gold with John Hurt's BAFTA-winning portrayal of Crisp, broadcast on ITV on 17 December 1975.

The Naked Director (全裸監督)

The Naked Director (全裸監督) is a Netflix Japanese drama series (2019, 2021; 16 episodes) based on Nobuhiro Motohashi's nonfiction about AV director Toru Muranishi, starring Takayuki Yamada, directed by Masaharu Take.

The Naked Gun

The Naked Gun: slapstick comedy franchise from ZAZ's 1982 TV spoof Police Squad!, starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin in three films (1988, 1991, 1994) and a 2025 Liam Neeson reboot.

The Naked Gun (1988 film)

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is a 1988 Paramount spoof comedy directed by David Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin foiling a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II, adapted from the canceled 1982 TV series Police Squad! and spawning two sequels and a 2025 reboot.

The Naked Gun (2025 film)

The Naked Gun is a 2025 American action comedy directed by Akiva Schaffer, starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. in a reboot of the spoof franchise.

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) is the second Naked Gun film, directed by David Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin, with Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, and Robert Goulet; it satirizes energy corporations and the Bush administration and outgrossed the 1988 original.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is a 1988 Paramount slapstick comedy directed by David Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin foiling a mind-control plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II, based on the canceled 1982 TV series Police Squad!.

The Naked Kiss

The Naked Kiss (1964) is Samuel Fuller's black-and-white neo-noir melodrama, written, produced, and directed by Fuller, starring Constance Towers as ex-prostitute Kelly, with Anthony Eisley and Michael Dante; made for Allied Artists, famous for its subjective-camera opening beating.

The Naked Spur

The Naked Spur (1953) is Anthony Mann's third Western with James Stewart: bounty hunter Kemp, two greedy helpers, and captive Robert Ryan cross the Colorado Rockies for a $5,000 reward. Oscar-nominated screenplay, National Film Registry 1997.

The Naked Truth

The Naked Truth (1957), aka Your Past Is Showing, is a British black comedy directed by Mario Zampi, written by Michael Pertwee, starring Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, and Dennis Price as a blackmailer.

The Naked Year

The Naked Year (Golyy god; Голый год) is a 1922 novel by Boris Pilnyak portraying the revolutionary year 1919 in a fictional Russian provincial town, which brought him sudden fame.

The Name Game

The Name Game is a 1964 novelty song by Shirley Ellis and Lincoln Chase on Congress Records, teaching a name-rhyming chant; it peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1965.

The Name of the Doctor

The Name of the Doctor is the Doctor Who Series 7 finale, broadcast 18 May 2013 on BBC One. Written by Steven Moffat, it takes the Eleventh Doctor to his Trenzalore tomb, resolves Clara's Impossible Girl mystery, and introduces John Hurt's War Doctor.

The Name of the Game (comic book)

The Name of the Game (comic book) names two works: Will Eisner's 2001 DC graphic novel on the Arnheim family, and The Boys Vol. 1 by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, first six WildStorm issues.

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) is a 1980 historical murder mystery by Umberto Eco, set in a Benedictine abbey in 1327.

The Name of the Rose (film)

The Name of the Rose (1986), Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel, stars Sean Connery as friar William of Baskerville investigating deaths in a 1327 Benedictine abbey; a German-Italian-French co-production with divided reviews and a later 4K restoration.

The Name of the Wind

The Name of the Wind (2007, DAW Books) is Patrick Rothfuss's debut fantasy and first Kingkiller Chronicle volume, a framed autobiography in which the legendary Kvothe recounts his youth to Chronicler at the Waystone Inn.

The Names (Knapp novel)

The Names is Florence Knapp's 2025 debut novel, a sliding-doors literary fiction work in which Cora's 1987 choice among the names Gordon, Bear, or Julian produces three parallel 35-year timelines examining domestic abuse.

The Names: A Memoir

The Names: A Memoir is a 1976 autobiography by the Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday, tracing his boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest and the family names that shaped his identity.

The Namesake (film)

The Namesake (2006) is Mira Nair's drama adapting Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, with screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Kal Penn, Tabu, and Irrfan Khan as the Bengali-American Ganguli family, released by Fox Searchlight in March 2007.

The Nanny

The Nanny is an American sitcom that ran on CBS from 1993 to 1999, created by Fran Drescher, who starred as Fran Fine, a Jewish nanny for a wealthy Broadway producer's children.