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Camp Rock 3

Camp Rock 3 (2026) is the third Disney Channel Original Movie musical in the Camp Rock franchise, premiering August 13, 2026, with the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato returning as Connect 3 and Mitchie Torres.

Camp X-Ray (film)

Camp X-Ray is Peter Sattler's 2014 debut drama, also known as Camp X-Ray (film), starring Kristen Stewart and Peyman Moaadi as a Guantanamo Bay guard and detainee who form an unlikely friendship; it premiered at Sundance and earned a 74% Tomatometer.

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama directed by Marielle Heller, starring Melissa McCarthy as literary forger Lee Israel and Richard E. Grant as Jack Hock, adapted from Israel's 2008 memoir.

Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story

Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story is a 2025 Lifetime TV biopic of freestyle singer Lisa Lisa (Lisa Velez), starring Jearnest Corchado, with Velez as her own mother; premiered February 1, 2025, later streaming on Netflix.

Can You Keep a Secret? (film)

Can You Keep a Secret? (2019) is an American romantic comedy directed by Elise Duran, adapted from Sophie Kinsella's novel, starring Alexandra Daddario and Tyler Hoechlin; released by Vertical Entertainment, it earned $755,568 and poor reviews.

Can't Buy Me Love (film)

Can't Buy Me Love is a 1987 American teen romantic comedy, also known by its original title Boy Rents Girl, directed by Steve Rash and starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson; it grossed $31.6 million domestically on a $1.7 million budget and was remade in 2003 as Love Don't Cost a Thing.

Can't Hardly Wait

Can't Hardly Wait is a 1998 American teen romantic comedy set at a single high school graduation party, directed by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont.

Can't Help Falling in Love (film)

Can't Help Falling in Love is a 2017 Star Cinema Filipino romantic comedy directed by Mae Cruz-Alviar, starring Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla as strangers accidentally married, which grossed P200 million in the Philippines.

Canadian Bacon

Canadian Bacon is a 1995 political satire comedy, Michael Moore's only non-documentary film, starring John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, and Rip Torn, about a U.S. president starting a fake cold war with Canada; it flopped but is seen as prescient. Also a term for back bacon.

Canadian Screen Awards

Canadian Screen Awards (Les prix Écrans canadiens), annual awards by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Canadian film, English-language TV, and digital media; created 2012 from the Gemini and Genie Awards, first held 2013, presented during Canadian Screen Week in Toronto.

Candida Royalle

Candida Royalle (Candice Vadala, 1950-2015) was an American adult film performer turned feminist director who founded Femme Productions in 1984 to make erotic films from a woman's perspective; her papers are at Harvard's Schlesinger Library.

Candle in the Tomb

Candle in the Tomb (鬼吹灯, Ghost Blows Out the Light) is a Chinese tomb-raiding adventure franchise from Tianxia Bachang's 2006 novel series about Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang, and Fatty Wang, adapted into the 2016 Tencent drama and later Pan Yueming seasons and films.

Candleshoe

Candleshoe (1977) is a Walt Disney comedy-adventure directed by Norman Tokar, adapted from Michael Innes's Christmas at Candleshoe, starring Jodie Foster, David Niven in four roles, Helen Hayes, and Leo McKern.

Candy (2006 film)

Candy is a 2006 Australian drama directed by Neil Armfield, adapted from Luke Davies's novel, starring Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, and Geoffrey Rush as Sydney lovers destroyed by heroin addiction.

Candy and the Pizza Ggirl

Candy and the Pizza Ggirl is a 2026 Hindi dark comedy directed by Akkhil Kapur, starring Ninad Kamat, Priya Banerjee, and Dara Sandhu, released April 10, 2026 on Amazon Prime Video; CBFC certified it category A.

Candy Barr

Candy Barr (Juanita Dale Slusher, 1935-2005), Texas striptease star of Dallas's Colony Club and the 1951 stag film Smart Aleck; imprisoned for marijuana, pardoned, and questioned over Jack Ruby.

Candy Darling

Candy Darling (James Lawrence Slattery, 1944-1974), American transgender actress and Warhol superstar of Flesh and Women in Revolt; inspired Lou Reed's "Candy Says" and "Walk on the Wild Side"; subject of Carr's 2024 NBCC-winning biography.

Candyman (1992 film)

Candyman (1992) is Bernard Rose's supernatural horror film adapted from Clive Barker's "The Forbidden," starring Virginia Madsen and Tony Todd, set in Chicago's Cabrini-Green, with a Philip Glass score, a $23.5M US gross, and two sequels plus a 2021 spiritual sequel.

Candyman (2021 film)

Candyman is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Jordan Peele, a spiritual sequel to the 1992 film set in Chicago's gentrified Cabrini-Green.

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995), also called Candyman 2, is Bill Condon's horror sequel to Candyman (1992), set in New Orleans at Mardi Gras, starring Tony Todd and Kelly Rowan, revealing the Candyman's real name Daniel Robitaille; grossed $13.4 million and scored 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), founded 31 May 1939 and first held in 1946, is the annual May film festival in Cannes, France, awarding the Palme d'or and hosting the Marché du Film, the world's largest film market.

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, French Prix d'interprétation féminine: the Cannes Film Festival's main-competition acting prize for women. Recent winner Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto (2026, Soudain); notable past winners include Maggie Cheung and Isabelle Huppert.

Cannibal Ferox

Cannibal Ferox (aka Make Them Die Slowly) is a 1981 Italian cannibal horror film directed and written by Umberto Lenzi, starring Giovanni Lombardo Radice as drug dealer Mike Logan and Lorraine De Selle as anthropology student Gloria Davis; notorious for real animal killings, the 'banned in 31 countries' tagline, and the UK video nasties list.

Cannibal film

Cannibal film: Italian exploitation horror subgenre, 1972 to late 1980s, launched by Man from Deep River and defined by Cannibal Holocaust, known for jungle settings, real animal killings, censorship, and pioneering found footage.

Cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Holocaust, also known as Holocausto caníbal, is Ruggero Deodato's 1980 Italian found-footage horror film about a documentary crew killed in the Amazon, notorious for unsimulated animal killings and its UK video nasty censorship history.

Cannibal! The Musical

Cannibal! The Musical, originally Alferd Packer: The Musical, is a 1993 comedy-horror musical by Trey Parker and Matt Stone about Alferd Packer, who was never convicted of cannibalism.

Cannonball Run II

Cannonball Run II is a 1984 American action comedy centering on an illegal cross-country dash between the Pacific and Atlantic, featuring con men and mobsters.

Cantinflas

Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes, 1911–1993), Mexican film comedian and creator of the peladito character; star of ¡Ahí está el detalle! and Around the World in 80 Days; gave Spanish the verb cantinflear.

Canvas of Blood (몽유도원도)

Canvas of Blood (몽유도원도) is Jang Hoon's upcoming 2026 Joseon-era historical film starring Kim Nam-gil, Park Bo-gum, and Lee Hyun-wook about royal brothers Suyang and Anpyeong, whose brotherhood fractures after An Gyeon paints the 1447 landscape Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land; released by Plus M Entertainment.

Canyon Passage

Canyon Passage (1946) is a Jacques Tourneur Technicolor Western produced by Walter Wanger for Universal, adapted from Ernest Haycox's novel, starring Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, and Brian Donlevy, set in 1856 Oregon.