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The Cure at Troy
The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's 1990 verse version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, written for the Field Day Theatre Company and famous for its "hope and history rhyme" chorus.
The Cure discography
The Cure discography: 14 studio albums by the English band The Cure (formerly Easy Cure), from Three Imaginary Boys (1979) to Songs of a Lost World (2024), plus live, remix, and compilation releases on Fiction and Geffen.
The Cured
The Cured (2017) is David Freyne's Irish horror-drama debut in which cured Maze-virus zombies, retaining memories of their actions, face societal rejection in Dublin; starring Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor.
The Curiosity Show
The Curiosity Show: Australian children's science TV series (1972–1990), hosted by Rob Morrison and Deane Hutton, produced by Banksia Productions for the Nine Network; about 500 episodes, Prix Jeunesse 1984, revived on YouTube after the hosts bought the rights in 2013.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is David Fincher's 2008 fantasy drama, adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 short story, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett; it earned 13 Oscar nominations, winning three craft awards.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (musical)
British folk musical by Jethro Compton and Darren Clark, based on Fitzgerald's Benjamin Button story, set in Cornwall with actor-musicians; Southwark Playhouse 2019, West End 2024, three 2025 Olivier Awards, Public Theater premiere 2026.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 satirical fantasy short story from Collier's and Tales of the Jazz Age, about a man born in 1860 as a seventy-year-old who ages in reverse; basis of David Fincher's 2008 film.
The Curious Case of Natalia Grace
Investigation Discovery docuseries (2023–2025, three seasons plus Natalia Speaks) about Natalia Grace, a Ukrainian adoptee with dwarfism re-aged from 8 to 22 by Michael and Kristine Barnett, her abandonment, and the neglect cases.
The Curious Case Of...
The Curious Case Of... is an Investigation Discovery true-crime anthology docuseries (2025–), a spinoff of The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, hosted by legal analyst Beth Karas, with six episodes in season 1 and eight in season 2.
The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell
The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell is a 2018 Netflix baking-craft series, six episodes, in which goth baker Christine McConnell makes horror-themed desserts alongside Henson Alternative puppets Rose, Rankle, and Edgar; one season only.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon's 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old autistic narrator, investigates a neighbor's dog's death. Won the Whitbread Book of the Year; Simon Stephens' adaptation won the 2015 Tony for Best Play. Autism is never named in the text.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play): Simon Stephens's 2012 National Theatre adaptation of Mark Haddon's 2003 novel about autistic teen Christopher Boone; seven Oliviers, five Tonys, and later accessibility-focused stagings.
The Current War
The Current War is a 2017/2019 historical drama film by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, written by Michael Mitnick, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Edison, Michael Shannon as Westinghouse, and Nicholas Hoult as Tesla, dramatizing the war of the currents; shelved after the Weinstein scandal and released in 2019 as the Director's Cut.
The Curse of Frankenstein
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) is Hammer Films' first colour gothic horror, directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing as the Baron and Christopher Lee as his creature, which launched Hammer's horror cycle.
The Curse of La Llorona
The Curse of La Llorona is a 2019 American supernatural horror film, the feature debut of director Michael Chaves, starring Linda Cardellini as a Los Angeles social worker.
The Curse of Oak Island
The Curse of Oak Island is a History channel reality series (premiered January 5, 2014) following Michigan brothers Rick and Marty Lagina hunting legendary treasure in Nova Scotia's Money Pit across 14 seasons and spin-offs, without confirmed treasure.
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty is a 2016 American dark fantasy horror film directed by Pearry Reginald Teo, starring Ethan Peck and India Eisley, based on an Everette Hartsoe comic and the Grimm tale Little Briar Rose; released by XLrator Media, it grossed $96,881 and was critically panned.
The Curse of the Cat People
The Curse of the Cat People (1944) is Val Lewton's RKO quasi-sequel to Cat People, directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, about six-year-old Amy Reed and her imaginary friend Irena, a fantasy rather than a horror film.
The Curse of the Crying Woman
The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona) is a 1961 Mexican black-and-white gothic horror film directed by Rafael Baledón, starring Rosita Arenas, Abel Salazar, and Rita Macedo, about a niece drawn into her aunt's plot to resurrect the folkloric Llorona.
The Curse of the Fly
The Curse of the Fly (1965) is a British black-and-white sci-fi horror film directed by Don Sharp, the third and final film of the original Fly trilogy, starring Brian Donlevy, George Baker, and Carole Gray, notable for having no fly monster.
The Cursed (2021 film)
The Cursed (2021), also released as Eight for Silver, is Sean Ellis's 35mm period werewolf horror starring Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, and Alistair Petrie, set in 1880s France; Sundance premiere, 71% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Cursed (2025 film)
The Cursed (귀시, Gwisi) is a 2025 South Korean supernatural horror film directed by Hong Won-ki, released September 17, 2025, about a nightly ghost market; distinct from Sean Ellis's 2021 The Cursed and Ugana's 2025 The Curse.
The Cursed Land
The Cursed Land (แดนสาป) is a 2024 Thai horror-drama by Panu Aree and Kong Rithdee: a widower and daughter unleash a djinn's 200-year curse in a Muslim Bangkok suburb; IFFR 2024 premiere, Netflix from 21 Nov 2024.
The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey (방법: 재차의)
The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey (방법: 재차의, Bangbeob: Jaechaui) is a 2021 South Korean mystery-thriller spin-off film of the tvN series The Cursed, directed by Kim Yong-wan, written by Yeon Sang-ho, starring Uhm Ji-won and Jung Ji-so, featuring shaman-controlled corpses called jaechaui.
The Cut (2024 film)
The Cut (2024) is a boxing psychological thriller directed by Sean Ellis, starring Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe, and John Turturro. Premiered at TIFF 2024; US release September 5, 2025; follows a boxer cutting dangerous weight in six days.
The Cutting Edge
The Cutting Edge is a 1992 American romantic comedy starring D. B. Sweeney and Moira Kelly as an unlikely figure skating pair training for the Winter Olympics.
The Cyanide & Happiness Show
The Cyanide & Happiness Show is an American adult animated sketch-comedy web series by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, and Dave McElfatrick, based on their webcomic; crowdfunded with $770,309 on Kickstarter in 2013, it ran four seasons and 41 episodes from 2014 to 2019 across YouTube, Seeso, and VRV.
The Cycle of Love
The Cycle of Love (2025) is Orlando von Einsiedel's documentary about PK Mahanandia, a Delhi street artist who cycled about 6,000 miles in 1977 to find Lotta von Schedvin in Sweden; Telluride premiere, 100% Rotten Tomatoes.
The Cyclist
The Cyclist (Bicycleran) is a 1989 Iranian drama directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, starring Moharram Zeinalzadeh as an Afghan refugee who pedals non-stop for a week.
The Czech Question
The Czech Question (Česká otázka) is an 1895 book by Czech philosopher and politician Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, arguing that the meaning of Czech history is humanity.