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The Predator (film)

The Predator (film) is a 2018 American science fiction action horror film. It follows a crew of ex-soldiers stopping genetically upgraded Predators who harvested DNA from other species.

The Predicament

The Predicament is William Boyd's 2025 spy novel, second in the Gabriel Dax trilogy after Gabriel's Moon, set in 1963 Guatemala and West Berlin as the amateur MI6 agent uncovers a plot against JFK.

The Pregnancy Pact

The Pregnancy Pact is a 2010 Lifetime TV movie directed by Rosemary Rodriguez, starring Thora Birch, Camryn Manheim, and Nancy Travis, inspired by the disputed 2008 Gloucester High School teen pregnancy pact story.

The Prelude

The Prelude is William Wordsworth's autobiographical epic in blank verse on the growth of a poet's mind, begun 1799, completed 1805, revised until 1839, and published posthumously in 1850; the 1805 text appeared only in 1926.

The Premise

The Premise (2021) is a five-episode half-hour anthology series on FX on Hulu, created, hosted, and largely written by B.J. Novak with John Lesher; cancelled after one season, Metascore 52, RT 42%.

The Prerequisite

The Prerequisite is the commonly used name for Kanye West's 15-track demo tape from about 2001, precursor to The College Dropout, leaked online in April 2013; never officially released.

The Present (2024 film)

The Present (2024 film), also called Настоящее, is an American family comedy-fantasy directed by Christian Ditter, written by Jay Martel, starring Isla Fisher and Greg Kinnear, about a boy using a grandfather clock to rewind time 12 hours and stop his parents' separation.

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman's 1956 Edinburgh monograph and 1959 US book, founded dramaturgical sociology: social interaction as staged performance, with front stage, backstage, teams, and impression management, still applied to digital life.

The President's Analyst

The President's Analyst is a 1967 Paramount satire directed by Theodore J. Flicker, starring James Coburn as psychiatrist Sidney Schaefer, hunted by spies and the Telephone Company after becoming the President's psychoanalyst.

The President's Cake

The President's Cake (كعكة الرئيس) is Hasan Hadi's 2025 Iraqi debut drama: nine-year-old Lamia must bake Saddam Hussein's mandatory birthday cake under 1990s sanctions. It won Cannes' Caméra d'Or and was Iraq's Oscar-shortlisted entry.

The President's Last Bang (그때 그사람들)

The President's Last Bang (그때 그사람들) is Im Sang-soo's 2005 South Korean black comedy on the October 26, 1979 assassination of Park Chung-hee, starring Han Suk-kyu and Baek Yoon-sik, famous for its defamation injunction and 2008 disclaimer settlement.

The Presidents of the United States of America (band)

The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA), Seattle alternative rock band formed 1993, known for basitar/guitbass, double-platinum 1995 debut, hits Lump, Peaches, Kitty.

The Prespa Bells

The Prespa Bells (Преспанските камбани) is a 1954 historical novel by Bulgarian writer Dimitar Talev, the second book of his tetralogy about the Bulgarian liberation struggles in Macedonia.

The Prestige

The Prestige is Christopher Priest's 1995 World Fantasy Award-winning epistolary novel about rival Victorian magicians Rupert Angier and Alfred Borden, adapted in 2006 into Christopher Nolan's Oscar-nominated film.

The Prestige (film)

The Prestige (2006), Christopher Nolan's mystery drama adapted from Christopher Priest's 1995 novel, stars Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as rival Victorian magicians; it earned $109 million worldwide and two Oscar nominations.

The Pretender (TV series)

The Pretender is an American NBC sci-fi drama (1996-2000, 86 episodes) created by Steven Long Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle, starring Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a genius trained by the Centre who escapes and assumes new identities while being pursued by Miss Parker; it ended on a cliffhanger and continued in two 2001 TNT movies.

The Pretenders

The Pretenders: British-American rock band formed 1978 in London by Chrissie Hynde with James Honeyman-Scott, Pete Farndon, and Martin Chambers; punk/new wave hits "Brass in Pocket" and "Back on the Chain Gang"; Rock Hall inductees 2005.

The Pretenders discography

The Pretenders discography: 13 studio albums by the Anglo-American rock band (1980's Pretenders to 2023's Relentless), plus The Singles compilation, live albums, and UK chart history.

The Pretty Reckless

The Pretty Reckless: American hard rock band formed in New York in 2009, fronted by Taylor Momsen with Ben Phillips, Mark Damon, and Jamie Perkins; albums Light Me Up, Going to Hell, Who You Selling For, Death by Rock and Roll, and Dear God (2026).

The Price (The Last of Us)

"The Price" is the sixth episode of the second season of HBO's The Last of Us, aired in 2025, revisiting Joel and Ellie through birthday flashbacks.

The Price Is Right

The Price Is Right is a long-running American game show that premiered in 1972. It is known for its studio audience competing for prizes and its use by economists.

The Price Is Right models

The Price Is Right models, known as "Barker's Beauties" from 1972 to 2007, present prizes and assist pricing games on the CBS game show; six models currently rotate, with Rachel Reynolds and James O'Halloran among them.

The Price of Confession (자백의 대가)

The Price of Confession (자백의 대가) is a 2025 Netflix Korean mystery thriller, 12 episodes, directed by Lee Jung-hyo, starring Jeon Do-yeon and Kim Go-eun as women bound by an exchanged confession and murder pact.

The Price of Salt

The Price of Salt (1952), republished as Carol, is Patricia Highsmith's only openly lesbian novel, published pseudonymously as Claire Morgan; it follows Therese Belivet and Carol Aird, is noted as the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, and inspired the 2015 film Carol.

The Prick of Conscience

The Prick of Conscience (Stimulus Conscientiae) is a Middle English devotional poem of about 9,600 lines, written anonymously in northern England in the fourteenth century.

The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees (1942) is Samuel Goldwyn's Lou Gehrig biopic, directed by Sam Wood, starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Babe Ruth as himself; 128 minutes, 11 Oscar nominations, National Film Registry 2024.

The Priest (2021 film)

The Priest (ദ പ്രീസ്റ്റ്) is a 2021 Malayalam horror mystery film, Jofin T. Chacko's directorial debut, starring Mammootty as Fr. Carmen Benedict with Manju Warrier; released 11 March 2021, streamed on Prime Video.

The Prime Minister

The Prime Minister is an 1876 novel by Anthony Trollope, part of his Palliser series, pairing a reluctant coalition government with the marriage of Emily Wharton.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 British drama directed by Ronald Neame, adapted by Jay Presson Allen from her play based on Muriel Spark's 1961 novel. Maggie Smith won the Best Actress Oscar as an unconventional 1930s Edinburgh schoolteacher; the film also won BAFTAs and a Golden Globe for the song "Jean."

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Muriel Spark's 1961 novel about a charismatic, fascist-sympathizing teacher at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in 1930s Edinburgh, her six-pupil Brodie set, Sandy Stranger's betrayal, and its flashforward narrative; adapted into the 1969 Oscar-winning film with Maggie Smith.