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The Prince

The Prince (Il Principe) is Machiavelli's 1513 treatise on acquiring and keeping political power, published in 1532, dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici, and famous for separating power from moral legitimacy.

The Prince (2014 film)

The Prince (2014) is an American action thriller directed by Brian A. Miller, starring Jason Patric, Bruce Willis, and John Cusack; a retired mob enforcer searches for his kidnapped daughter, released to near-universal negative reviews.

The Prince (2026 film)

The Prince (2026) is an American satirical drama directed by Cameron Van Hoy, written by David Mamet, starring Scott Haze as an addict son of a political dynasty, with Nicolas Cage, J.K. Simmons, Giancarlo Esposito, and Andy García; publicly framed around Hunter Biden but presented by its makers as nonpartisan.

The Prince (TV series)

The Prince is a 2021 HBO Max adult animated satire by Gary Janetti about a fictionalized Prince George and the British royal family; 12 episodes, delayed after Prince Philip's death, canceled in 2022.

The Prince & Me

The Prince & Me is a 2004 romantic comedy directed by Martha Coolidge, starring Julia Stiles as Wisconsin pre-med student Paige and Luke Mably as Danish Crown Prince Edvard, released by Paramount on April 2, 2004.

The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper is Mark Twain's 1881 historical novel, his first, in which Tom Canty, a beggar boy, and Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII, trade places in 1547 Tudor England, exploring identity, poverty, and justice through an enduring lookalike plot.

The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), also known by its working title The Sleeping Prince, is a romantic comedy directed by Laurence Olivier, starring Marilyn Monroe as Elsie Marina, the only film of Marilyn Monroe Productions, adapted from Terence Rattigan's play.

The Prince of Egypt

The Prince of Egypt is DreamWorks' 1998 animated musical retelling the Book of Exodus, directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells, with Val Kilmer and Ralph Fiennes.

The Prince of Homburg

The Prince of Homburg (Prinz Friedrich von Homburg) is Heinrich von Kleist's last drama, about a cavalry commander who disobeys orders, wins a battle, and is sentenced to death.

The Prince of Tennis (テニスの王子様)

The Prince of Tennis (テニスの王子様, Tenisu no Ōjisama) is Takeshi Konomi's tennis manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 1999–2008 (42 volumes), continued by The New Prince of Tennis until 2026, with a 178-episode anime, hit 2.5D musicals since 2003, and over 51 million copies in circulation.

The Prince of the Pagodas

The Prince of the Pagodas is Benjamin Britten's only full-length ballet score (Op. 57), premiered 1 January 1957 at Covent Garden with John Cranko's choreography, later restaged by Kenneth MacMillan in 1989 for Darcey Bussell and by David Bintley in 2011.

The Prince of Tides

The Prince of Tides is a 1991 Columbia Pictures drama directed, produced, and co-starring Barbra Streisand with Nick Nolte, adapted from Pat Conroy's 1986 novel; it earned seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture.

The Prince of Tides (novel)

The Prince of Tides is Pat Conroy's 1986 Houghton Mifflin novel about Tom Wingo, who recounts his South Carolina family's traumatic history to his twin sister Savannah's psychiatrist Susan Lowenstein; a bestseller adapted into Barbra Streisand's 1991 film with Nick Nolte.

The Prince of Winterfell

"The Prince of Winterfell" is episode 8 of Game of Thrones season 2 (May 20, 2012), written by Benioff and Weiss, titled from Yara's sarcastic greeting to Theon, covering the Winterfell deception, Ros's kidnapping, and Robb's betrayal.

The Prince's Head

The Prince's Head is a Fuller's public house on Richmond Green in Richmond, London, known as the Crown and Anchor in the series Ted Lasso.

The Princes of Malibu

The Princes of Malibu was a 2005 Fox half-hour reality series about producer David Foster, wife Linda Thompson, and her sons Brody and Brandon Jenner at their Malibu estate, co-created by Spencer Pratt and canceled after two episodes.

The Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog (2009) is Disney's hand-drawn animated musical directed by Clements and Musker, featuring Tiana, Disney's first African American princess, set in 1920s New Orleans with Randy Newman songs, 86% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Princess and the Goblin

The Princess and the Goblin is an 1872 children's fantasy novel by Scottish author George MacDonald, featuring Princess Irene, the miner Curdie, and underground goblins.

The Princess and the Pea

The Princess and the Pea (Prindsessen paa Ærten), Hans Christian Andersen's 1835 literary fairy tale, ATU 704: a pea under twenty mattresses tests a princess's sensitivity; no Danish folk variants exist.

The Princess and the Queen

The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens is George R. R. Martin's 2013 novella in Dangerous Women, an abridged Archmaester Gyldayn history of the Dance of the Dragons covering the Targaryen civil war's first two years, later expanded into Fire & Blood.

The Princess and the Werewolf (郎君不如意)

The Princess and the Werewolf (郎君不如意, Go Princess Go 2) is a 2023 Chinese costume fantasy romantic comedy, 30 episodes on Youku from July 20, 2023, directed by Cheng Feng, starring Wu Xuanyi as Princess Qi Pa and Chen Zheyuan as the double-faced wolf king Kui Mu Lang, adapted from Xian Cheng's novel and sequel to Go Princess Go (2015).

The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy-comedy film directed by Rob Reiner from William Goldman's novel, about Buttercup and Westley, the farm boy who returns as the Dread Pirate Roberts.

The Princess Bride (novel)

The Princess Bride (1973) is William Goldman's fantasy-satire novel, framed as his abridgment of a fictional S. Morgenstern classic set in Florin; Goldman also wrote the 1987 Rob Reiner film screenplay.

The Princess Diaries

The Princess Diaries is Meg Cabot's diary-form young adult series (2000-2009) about Mia Thermopolis, heir to fictional Genovia, adapted into two Disney films (2001, 2004) starring Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway.

The Princess Diaries (film)

The Princess Diaries is a 2001 G-rated Disney comedy directed by Garry Marshall, starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews, adapted from Meg Cabot's novel; it grossed $165,335,153 worldwide and spawned a 2004 sequel.

The Princess Diaries (TV series)

The Princess Diaries is an ITV2/ITVX reality series following Princess Andre, daughter of Katie Price and Peter Andre, launched 10 August 2025; distinct from the Disney film franchise.

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

The Princess Diaries 2, or The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, is a 2004 American family comedy directed by Garry Marshall, starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews.

The Princess of Andalusia

The Princess of Andalusia (أميرة الأندلس) is a 1932 prose drama by Egyptian poet Ahmad Shawqi, his only play in prose, centered on the poet-king al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad of Seville.

The Princess of Cleves

The Princess of Cleves (French: La Princesse de Clèves) is a novel by Madame de La Fayette, published anonymously in Paris in 1678 and often considered the first modern psychological novel.

The Princess of His Heart

The Princess of His Heart (好孕甜妻被钻石老公宠上天), aka A Baby, a Billionaire, and Me, is a 2025 Chinese vertical micro-drama of 80 two-minute episodes on DramaBox, a secret-child billionaire romance starring Ni Zhan and Chaoyang Wang.