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Three wishes is a literary motif, often encountered in the joke format, in which a character is given three wishes by a supernatural being.

Three wishes or Three Wishes may also refer to:

Film and television

• The Three Wishes (1937 Dutch film), directed by Kurt Gerron
• The Three Wishes (1937 Italian film), directed by Giorgio Ferroni and Kurt Gerron
• Three Wishes, a 1988 Hong Kong film starring Anita Mui
• Three Wishes (film), a 1995 American film starring Patrick Swayze
• Three Wishes, a Greek TV movie starring Christoforos Papakaliatis
• Three Wishes (American TV series), a 2005 reality show
• Three Wishes (Singaporean TV series), a 2014 drama serial
• Three Wishes, a 1988 Barney and the Backyard Gang home video

Music

• Les trois souhaits (The three wishes), an opera by Bohuslav Martinů composed in the late 1920s but premiered in 1971
• Three Wishes (Miki Howard album) or the title song, 2001
• Three Wishes (Spyro Gyra album) or the title song, 1992
• "3 Wishes", a song by Billy Crawford from Big City, 2004
• "Three Wishes", a song by Dance Gavin Dance from Afterburner, 2020
• "Three Wishes", a song by Klaus Nomi from Simple Man, 1982
• "Three Wishes", a song by the Pierces from Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge, 2007
• "Three Wishes", a song by Roger Waters from Amused to Death, 1992
• "III Wishes" (song), by Terrorvision

Other

• Three Wishes (food)

See also

• All pages with titles containing Three wishes
• The Ridiculous Wishes, aka The Three Wishes folktale
• Jinn in popular culture, for examples of the three-wishes theme in fiction
• Seven Wishes (disambiguation)
• Wish (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages