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The Camp of the Saints
The Camp of the Saints (Le Camp des saints) is Jean Raspail's 1973 French dystopian novel about a million Indian migrants landing in France and Western collapse; condemned as racist, it became a far-right reference cited by Le Pen, Bannon, Miller, and Orbán.
The Camp on Blood Island
The Camp on Blood Island is a 1958 Hammer war drama directed by Val Guest, starring Andre Morell, about Allied POWs in Malaya hiding Japan's surrender from a commandant sworn to kill them; controversial and a box-office hit.
The Campaign (film)
The Campaign is a 2012 American political satire comedy directed by Jay Roach, in which Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis play rival House candidates in a North Carolina race.
The Canal (2014 film)
The Canal (2014) is an Irish psychological horror film written and directed by Ivan Kavanagh, starring Rupert Evans, Hannah Hoekstra, Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Steve Oram; it premiered at Tribeca 2014 and was made for just under €1 million in Dublin.
The Candidate (1972 film)
The Candidate is a 1972 American political satire directed by Michael Ritchie, written by Eugene McCarthy speechwriter Jeremy Larner, and starring Robert Redford as Bill McKay, an idealistic lawyer running a long-shot California US Senate campaign who wins after compromising his ideals.
The Candy Man
"The Candy Man" is a song by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, made famous by Sammy Davis Jr.'s number-one 1972 recording.
The Cannonball Run
The Cannonball Run is a 1981 American comedy directed by Hal Needham, in which Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, and other stars play competitors in an illegal cross-country race.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of Middle English stories by Geoffrey Chaucer, written between the late 1380s and 1400. It is framed by a pilgrimage to Canterbury.
The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde's 1887 comic ghost story (A Hylo-Idealistic Romance), first published in The Court and Society Review; the American Otis family outfaces Sir Simon's haunting until Virginia secures his redemption.
The Canterville Ghost (2023 film)
The Canterville Ghost is a 2023 animated fantasy comedy film adapted from Oscar Wilde's story, directed by Kim Burdon and released in the UK in September 2023.
The Canyons (film)
The Canyons (2013) is a Paul Schrader erotic thriller written by Bret Easton Ellis, starring Lindsay Lohan and James Deen. A $250,000 Kickstarter-funded, day-and-date VOD release by IFC Films, it earned a 36 Metascore and 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Captain (2017 film)
The Captain (Der Hauptmann) is Robert Schwentke's 2017 German-French-Polish black-and-white war drama about deserter Willi Herold, the Executioner of Emsland, who impersonated a Luftwaffe captain and murdered over 120 people in April 1945.
The Captain and Me
The Captain and Me is The Doobie Brothers' third studio album, released March 2, 1973 on Warner Bros., produced by Ted Templeman, with hits "Long Train Runnin'" (#8) and "China Grove" (#15), double platinum.
The Captain's Daughter
The Captain's Daughter (Капитанская дочка) is a short historical novel by Alexander Pushkin, the last prose work he completed, published anonymously in 1836 and set during the Pugachev rebellion of 1773–1774.
The Captain's Paradise
The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British comedy directed by Anthony Kimmins, starring Alec Guinness as a bigamous Gibraltar-to-Morocco ferry captain with wives played by Celia Johnson and Yvonne De Carlo; Oscar-nominated story by Alec Coppel.
The Captive (2014 film)
The Captive (2014) is a Canadian psychological thriller by Atom Egoyan, starring Ryan Reynolds, Mireille Enos, Rosario Dawson, and Scott Speedman, about a father searching for his daughter Cassandra eight years after her abduction; it competed at Cannes 2014, was booed, and earned about $2 million worldwide.
The Captive (2025 film)
The Captive (El cautivo), 2025 Spanish-Italian historical drama by Alejandro Amenábar about Miguel de Cervantes' 1575-1580 captivity in Algiers, starring Julio Peña and Alessandro Borghi; premiered at Toronto 2025, second most-viewed Spanish film of 2025, on Netflix January 2026.
The Captive Dreamer
The Captive Dreamer is the 1974 English translation of Le Rêveur casqué (1972), Christian de La Mazière's memoir of volunteering for the French Waffen-SS Charlemagne division in 1944, combat in Pomerania, Soviet captivity, and five years' imprisonment in France.
The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind (Zniewolony umysł) is a 1953 collection of nine essays by Polish Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz on why East European intellectuals accepted and served the postwar Stalinist regimes.
The Captive's War
The Captive's War: science fiction series by James S. A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), planned trilogy plus two novellas beginning with The Mercy of Gods (2024), about humans captured by the alien Carryx empire, with an Amazon MGM adaptation announced.
The Capture (TV series)
The Capture is a British BBC One surveillance thriller created, written and directed by Ben Chanan, starring Holliday Grainger and Callum Turner, about faked CCTV, the 'Correction' programme, and deepfakes; a third series was commissioned in 2025.
The Capture of Tmogvi
The Capture of Tmogvi (Թմկաբերդի առումը) is a 1902 narrative poem by the Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan, based on a folk legend and later the basis of Spendiaryan's opera Almast.
The Car (1977 film)
The Car (1977), originally scripted as Wheels, is a Universal horror film directed by Elliot Silverstein, starring James Brolin as a sheriff fighting a demonic black Lincoln Mark III built by George Barris; released 13 May 1977, PG, 96 minutes.
The Car (album)
The Car (2022) is Arctic Monkeys' seventh studio album, released 21 October 2022 on Domino; written by Alex Turner, produced by James Ford, recorded at Butley Priory, La Frette, and RAK Studios; a strings-led follow-up to Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino that peaked at UK number 2.
The Card
The Card (US title The Promoter) is a 1952 British comedy directed by Ronald Neame, starring Alec Guinness as Denry Machin, adapted by Eric Ambler from Arnold Bennett's 1910 Five Towns novel, with Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, and Petula Clark.
The Card Counter
The Card Counter is Paul Schrader's 2021 revenge drama starring Oscar Isaac as William Tell, an ex-Abu Ghraib interrogator turned gambler, with Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, and Willem Dafoe; Venice 78 premiere, 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, $2.6 million US gross.
The Card Players
The Card Players (Les Joueurs de cartes) is Paul Cézanne's series of five 1890s oil paintings of farm laborers from his Jas de Bouffan estate playing cards, held at the Met, Barnes, Orsay, Courtauld, and a Qatari private collection; one sold in 2011 for a reported £250 million.
The Cardboard Crown
The Cardboard Crown is a 1952 novel by the Australian writer Martin Boyd, loosely based on his own family and the first of his four Langton novels.
The Cardigans
The Cardigans: Swedish pop band formed in Jönköping in 1992, fronted by Nina Persson. Known for "Lovefool" (1996) from First Band on the Moon and the 3-million-selling Gran Turismo; six albums, last in 2005.
The Cardinal
The Cardinal (1963) is Otto Preminger's 175-minute drama, adapted from Henry Morton Robinson's 1950 novel, following Boston priest Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon) to the cardinalate; six Oscar nominations, John Huston supporting nominee.