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The Player (1992 film)

The Player (1992) is Robert Altman's Hollywood satire, written by Michael Tolkin from his novel, starring Tim Robbins as executive Griffin Mill; it won Cannes Best Director and Best Actor and earned three Oscar nominations.

The Player (2015 TV series)

The Player is a 2015 NBC action crime drama created by John Fox and John Rogers, starring Philip Winchester as Alex Kane, Wesley Snipes as Mr. Johnson, and Charity Wakefield. Set in Las Vegas, the House gambles on Kane stopping crimes; cut from 13 to 9 episodes and canceled after one season.

The Players Championship

The Players Championship, the PGA Tour's flagship event founded in 1974 and held at TPC Sawgrass since 1982, features the island-green 17th, a $25 million purse, and a $4.5 million winner's share; Cameron Young won the 2026 edition.

The Players Club

The Players Club is a 1998 American comedy-drama film, Ice Cube's directorial debut, starring LisaRaye as a single mother who strips to pay for college.

The Playlist

The Playlist is a 2022 Swedish Netflix limited series dramatizing Spotify's founding by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, based on Spotify Untold; six perspective-based episodes, directed by Per-Olav Sørensen, distinct from unrelated playlist apps and film sites.

The Plaza Macao Casino

The Plaza Macao, a boutique luxury integrated resort on Cotai, Macao, opened August 2008 by Sands China; features Plaza Casino, Four Seasons Hotel Macao (360 suites), Shoppes at Four Seasons mall, and 19 invitation-only Paiza Mansions.

The Pleasure Garden (1925 film)

The Pleasure Garden (1925) is Alfred Hitchcock's first feature as sole director, a British-German silent drama starring Virginia Valli and Carmelita Geraghty, shot in Munich and Italy, and restored to 92 minutes by the BFI in 2012.

The Pledge (film)

The Pledge (2001) is a Sean Penn crime drama starring Jack Nicholson as retiring Nevada detective Jerry Black, adapted from Dürrenmatt's Das Versprechen; 124 min, R, Metascore 71, released January 19, 2001.

The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel

The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel (Das Versprechen) is a 1958 crime novella by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt in which a detective's promise destroys him.

The Plot (설계자) (film)

The Plot (설계자, Seolgyeja) is a 2024 South Korean crime thriller directed by Lee Yo-sup, a remake of Hong Kong's Accident (2009), starring Gang Dong-won as a hitman who stages murders as accidents; it drew 525,369 admissions.

The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America is Philip Roth's 2004 alternate-history novel in which Charles Lindbergh defeats Roosevelt in 1940; a Newark Jewish family's story, later adapted into a 2020 HBO miniseries by David Simon.

The Plot Against America (miniseries)

The Plot Against America is HBO's 2020 six-episode limited series by David Simon and Ed Burns adapting Philip Roth's novel about a Lindbergh presidency, fascism, and a Newark Jewish family, the Levins.

The Plot in You (album)

The Plot in You (album): self-titled sixth album by the Ohio metalcore band The Plot in You, released July 10, 2026 on Fearless Records; 12 tracks, 40 minutes, collecting the Volume Series EPs plus new singles You Get One and Carved.

The Plough and the Stars

The Plough and the Stars is a four-act play by Seán O'Casey, set in Dublin tenements during the 1916 Easter Rising and first staged in 1926.

The Ploughman's Lunch

The Ploughman's Lunch (1983) is a British political drama directed by Richard Eyre, written by Ian McEwan, starring Jonathan Pryce as a BBC journalist rewriting Suez history during the Falklands War.

The Plow That Broke the Plains

The Plow That Broke the Plains is Pare Lorentz's 1936 Resettlement Administration documentary on the Dust Bowl, scored by Virgil Thomson, costing $19,260, seen by 10 million people in 1937, and controversial for blaming mechanized farming.

The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence

The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence (Spanish: Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia) is a 1647 book of 300 aphorisms on prudence by the Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracián.

The Poddington Peas

The Poddington Peas is a British animated children's series about a community of peas living at the bottom of a garden, first broadcast on BBC One in 1989.

The Poems of Avetik Isahakyan

The Poems of Avetik Isahakyan are the lyric and narrative verse of Avetik Isahakyan (1875–1957), an Armenian classic whose poems on love, longing, and homeland became folk songs.

The Poems of Silva Kaputikyan

The Poems of Silva Kaputikyan are the lyric works of the most prominent Armenian woman poet of the twentieth century, centered on love, homeland, longing, and the Armenian language.

The Poems of Yose ben Yose

The Poems of Yose ben Yose are Hebrew liturgical poems by Yose ben Yose, the earliest Jewish liturgical poet known by name, whose Shofar-service poems remain in the Ashkenazi liturgy.

The Poet and the Boy (시인의 사랑)

The Poet and the Boy (시인의 사랑) is Kim Yang-hee's 2017 South Korean debut drama about a Jeju poet (Yang Ik-june), his wife (Jeon Hye-jin), and a boy (Jung Ga-ram); Jeonju Cinema Project, Toronto Discovery, 12,685 admissions.

The Poet and the Citizen

The Poet and the Citizen (Поэт и гражданин) is a poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1855 and published in 1856 as a dialogue on the poet's civic duty, opening his collection Poems.

The Poetics of Old Russian Literature

The Poetics of Old Russian Literature (Поэтика древнерусской литературы) is a 1967 monograph by Dmitry Likhachev analyzing the artistic system of Russian literature from the tenth to the seventeenth century.

The Pogues

The Pogues, originally Pogue Mahone, were a London band formed in 1982 fusing punk with Irish folk, led by Shane MacGowan; best known for "Fairytale of New York" and albums including Rum Sodomy & the Lash, active 1982–1996 and 2001–2014.

The Pohutukawa Tree

The Pohutukawa Tree is a 1955 play by New Zealand playwright Bruce Mason, first performed in 1957, centering on a Māori matriarch defending her ancestral land from Pākehā neighbors.

The Pointer Sisters

The Pointer Sisters, Oakland vocal group of sisters Ruth, Anita, Bonnie, and June Pointer; 1973 "Yes We Can Can," 1975 country Grammy for "Fairytale," and triple-platinum 1983 album Break Out.

The Pointy End

"The Pointy End" is Game of Thrones season 1, episode 8, aired June 5, 2011; written by George R. R. Martin, directed by Daniel Minahan. Covers Ned Stark's imprisonment, Robb calling the banners, Arya's escape, and the wight attack at the Wall.

The Poison Rose

The Poison Rose is a 2019 Italian-American crime mystery thriller directed by George Gallo, starring John Travolta as a private detective drawn into a web of crimes in Galveston, Texas.

The Poisonwood Bible

The Poisonwood Bible is Barbara Kingsolver's 1998 novel about the family of Baptist missionary Nathan Price in the Belgian Congo from 1959, narrated by his wife and four daughters; a political allegory of American intervention, an Oprah's Book Club pick and Pulitzer nominee.