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The Personal History of David Copperfield
The Personal History of David Copperfield is a 2019 comedy-drama film directed by Armando Iannucci, adapting Dickens's 1849 novel, starring Dev Patel with Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, and Peter Capaldi.
The personal is political
Feminist slogan and 1970 Carol Hanisch essay holding that private experiences such as housework, sexuality, and child care are political; rooted in consciousness-raising, contested across feminist waves.
The Personals
The Personals (徵婚啟事) is a 1998 Taiwanese romantic drama directed by Chen Kuo-fu, starring Rene Liu as an ophthalmologist who places a marriage ad; adapted from Chen Yuhui's 1992 novel, it won Golden Horse and Asia-Pacific awards and screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 1999.
The Persuaders!
The Persuaders! (Amicalement Votre, Die 2): 1971-72 ITC/ITV action-comedy, 24 x 50-min episodes, Tony Curtis and Roger Moore as playboy detectives recruited by Judge Fulton; John Barry theme; US flop, European hit.
The Pet Detective
The Pet Detective (ദി പെറ്റ് ഡിറ്റക്ടീവ്) is a 2025 Malayalam comedy thriller directed by Praneesh Vijayan, starring Sharafudheen as detective Tony Jose Alula and Anupama Parameswaran; released 16 October 2025, streamed on ZEE5 from 28 November 2025.
The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (さくら荘のペットな彼女)
The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (さくら荘のペットな彼女) is a Dengeki Bunko light novel series by Hajime Kamoshida, adapted into a 2012 24-episode J.C.STAFF anime directed by Atsuko Ishizuka.
The Pet Goat
"The Pet Goat", often mislabeled "My Pet Goat", is a 1994 children's reading exercise by Siegfried Engelmann, famously read by President Bush with second-graders on September 11, 2001.
The Petty Demon
The Petty Demon (Melky bes) is a novel by the Russian Symbolist writer Fyodor Sologub, first published in 1905 and one of the central prose texts of Russian modernism.
The Phantom
The Phantom (Kit Walker) is Lee Falk's 1936 King Features comic strip, the first costumed comic-strip superhero, predating Superman; still syndicated, with Frew, Team Fantomen, and Mad Cave editions.
The Phantom (1996 film)
The Phantom (1996) is a Simon Wincer action-adventure film starring Billy Zane as Kit Walker, the 21st Phantom, fighting Xander Drax for the Skulls of Touganda; a US flop that succeeded in Australia.
The Phantom Lover (夜半歌声)
The Phantom Lover (夜半歌声) is Ronny Yu's 1995 Hong Kong musical drama starring Leslie Cheung as a disfigured Shanghai opera star, remaking Ma-Xu Weibang's 1937 Song at Midnight from Leroux's Phantom of the Opera; it won two Hong Kong Film Awards.
The Phantom of Liberty
The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantôme de la liberté) is a 1974 surrealist comedy directed by Luis Buñuel, built as loosely connected episodes without a protagonist.
The Phantom of the Convent
El fantasma del convento (The Phantom of the Convent/Monastery) is a 1934 Mexican horror film by Fernando de Fuentes: a couple and their friend shelter in a haunted monastery, a precursor of Mexican horror cinema.
The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)
Universal's 1925 silent horror film directed by Rupert Julian, starring Lon Chaney as Erik opposite Mary Philbin; adapted from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel, famous for Chaney's self-designed skull makeup, the unmasking scene, and the Technicolor Bal Masque.
The Phantom of the Opera (1943 film)
Phantom of the Opera (1943), Universal's Technicolor remake of the 1925 Lon Chaney silent, directed by Arthur Lubin, starring Claude Rains as Erique Claudin, Susanna Foster, and Nelson Eddy, released 27 August 1943.
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
The Phantom of the Opera (1986) is Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical based on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel, premiered in London 9 October 1986 and on Broadway 26 January 1988; original cast Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, Steve Barton; longest-running Broadway musical.
The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film), Joel Schumacher's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical, starring Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, and Patrick Wilson; released December 2004, 32% Tomatometer, three Golden Globe nominations, two Academy Awards.
The Phantom of the Opera (novel)
The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is Gaston Leroux's 1910 Gothic novel set in the Paris Opera House, featuring Erik the Phantom, Christine Daaé, and Raoul de Chagny, basis of the 1925 film and 1986 musical.
The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall
The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall is the 2011 fully staged 25th-anniversary production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, produced by Cameron Mackintosh, starring Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess with a cast and orchestra of over 200, screened live in cinemas and released on DVD and Blu-ray.
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth is a 1961 children's fantasy adventure novel by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer, following bored Milo through Dictionopolis and Digitopolis to rescue princesses Rhyme and Reason.
The Phantom Tollbooth (1970 film)
The Phantom Tollbooth (1970) is MGM's first feature-length animated film, directed by Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, and David Monahan from Norton Juster's 1961 novel, with Butch Patrick as Milo and voices by Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, and Hans Conried.
The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde is an American alternative hip hop group formed in 1989 in South Central Los Angeles, known for "Passin' Me By" and the 1992 album Bizarre Ride II.
The Phenomenology of Spirit
The Phenomenology of Spirit (Phänomenologie des Geistes) is an 1807 book by Hegel, his first major work, tracing experience from simple consciousness toward absolute knowledge.
The Phil Donahue Show
The Phil Donahue Show, later titled Donahue, was an American daytime talk show that debuted November 6, 1967 on WLWD-TV Dayton, Ohio, and pioneered the audience-participation format with a roving microphone, controversial topics, and phone-in questions. It ran nearly 29 years and about 7,000 shows in national syndication before ending in May 1996, winning 20 Daytime Emmys.
The Phil Silvers Show
The Phil Silvers Show, also known as Sergeant Bilko or You'll Never Get Rich, is a CBS sitcom (1955-1959) created by Nat Hiken, starring Phil Silvers as scheming Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko at Fort Baxter, Kansas; it won Emmys and topped a 2003 Radio Times sitcom ranking.
The Philadelphia Experiment (film)
The Philadelphia Experiment (film): 1984 American sci-fi movie directed by Stewart Raffill, starring Michael Paré and Nancy Allen, based on the Moore and Berlitz book about the USS Eldridge legend; two sailors thrown from 1943 to 1984, followed by a 1993 sequel and 2012 remake.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer, also known as the Pennsylvania Inquirer, is a Philadelphia daily newspaper founded in 1829, the third-longest continuously operating in the United States, with 20 Pulitzer Prizes.
The Philadelphia Story (film)
The Philadelphia Story (1940) is George Cukor's MGM screwball comedy starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart, adapted from Philip Barry's Broadway play; it won two Oscars and revived Hepburn's career.
The Philanthropic Ogre
The Philanthropic Ogre (El ogro filantrópico) is a 1979 essay collection by Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, whose title essay defines the twentieth-century Mexican state as a paternalistic ogre.
The Philip DeFranco Show
The Philip DeFranco Show (PDS) is Philip DeFranco's daily YouTube news and pop-culture commentary program, running since 2006 with about 6.7 million subscribers, a Center AllSides rating, and a daily podcast edition.