25,183 articles
The Celebration
The Celebration (Festen) is Thomas Vinterberg's 1998 Danish drama, the first certified Dogme 95 film, in which son Christian accuses patriarch Helge of abuse during a 60th-birthday toast; it won the 1998 Cannes Jury Prize.
The Cell (film)
The Cell (film) is a 2000 psychological thriller directed by Tarsem Singh. It stars Jennifer Lopez and Vincent D'Onofrio, and features a therapist entering a serial killer's mind.
The Celluloid Closet
The Celluloid Closet: 1995 documentary by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, based on Vito Russo's 1981 book, surveying gay and lesbian depiction in over 100 Hollywood films, narrated by Lily Tomlin.
The Central Park Five (2012 film)
The Central Park Five (2012) is a 119-minute documentary by Ken Burns, David McMahon, and Sarah Burns about the wrongful 1989 convictions of five Harlem teenagers, vacated in 2002 after Matias Reyes confessed.
The Ceremony (儀式)
The Ceremony (儀式, Gishiki) is Nagisa Oshima's 1971 Japanese drama, an ATG tenth-anniversary film telling postwar Japan's history through the Sakurada clan's weddings and funerals; it won Kinema Junpo Best Film.
The Chalk Line
The Chalk Line (Jaula) is a 2022 Spanish psychological thriller, Ignacio Tatay's feature debut, starring Elena Anaya as Paula, who deciphers a mute girl's chalk-square behavior; Netflix release October 2022, distinct from the unrelated 2026 film Chalk Line.
The Champ (1931 film)
The Champ (1931) is King Vidor's MGM melodrama starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper as a washed-up boxer and his son; it won Oscars for Beery (tied with Fredric March) and Frances Marion and was remade in 1953 and 1979.
The Champ (1979 film)
The Champ (1979) is a Franco Zeffirelli MGM drama, the first official remake of the 1931 King Vidor film, starring Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, and debutant Ricky Schroder as a boxer, his ex-wife, and his son; a critical failure but international box-office hit with an Oscar-nominated Dave Grusin score.
The Change-Up
The Change-Up is a 2011 American body-swap comedy directed by David Dobkin, starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman as a bachelor and married lawyer who switch bodies.
The Changeling (film)
The Changeling (1980) is a Canadian haunted-house horror film directed by Peter Medak, starring George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, and Melvyn Douglas; it won nine Genie Awards and is ranked among the scariest films by Scorsese.
The Changeover (film)
The Changeover (2017) is a New Zealand supernatural thriller directed by Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie, adapting Margaret Mahy's 1984 Carnegie Medal novel. Erana James, Timothy Spall, Melanie Lynskey, and Lucy Lawless star; set in post-earthquake Christchurch, released 28 September 2017.
The Channel (film)
The Channel is a 2023 American heist action thriller directed by William Kaufman, starring Clayne Crawford and Max Martini as ex-Marine brothers fleeing New Orleans after a failed bank robbery; distinct from Thierry Binisti's 2021 French film of the same English title.
The Chaperones (film)
The Chaperones (also The Chaperones, A24) is an upcoming American road-trip drama directed by India Donaldson and written by Sebastian Black, starring David Jonsson, Cooper Hoffman, and Paul Dano, produced by A24, Plan B, and Icki Eneo Arlo; distinct from The Chaperone (2019).
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) is a Warner Bros. action film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, a largely fictional revenge plot climaxing in the Battle of Balaclava charge, distinct from Tony Richardson's 1968 revisionist remake.
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968 film)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) is Tony Richardson's British revisionist war film about the Balaclava cavalry disaster, starring Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, and David Hemmings, with Richard Williams animations.
The Chase (1966 film)
The Chase (1966) is an Arthur Penn drama, scripted by Lillian Hellman from Horton Foote's play and novel, produced by Sam Spiegel, starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Robert Redford in a Texas mob-justice story.
The Chase (반드시 잡는다) (2017 film)
The Chase (반드시 잡는다) is a 2017 South Korean thriller directed by Kim Hong-sun, in which a retired detective and a landlord pursue a serial killer.
The Chaser (추격자) (2008 film)
The Chaser (추격자) is Na Hong-jin's 2008 South Korean crime thriller debut about an ex-detective pimp hunting a serial killer, screened at Cannes 2008, with 5 million admissions and Grand Bell Best Film, Director, and Actor awards.
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American comedy-mystery written by Neil Simon, starring Peter Falk as a San Francisco private eye parodying Humphrey Bogart films.
The Cheat
The Cheat is Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 silent melodrama starring Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa, in which a socialite who embezzles Red Cross funds borrows from a Japanese art dealer who brands her; a National Film Registry selection remade several times.
The Cheetah Girls (film)
The Cheetah Girls (2003) is Disney Channel's first musical Disney Channel Original Movie, directed by Oz Scott, based on Deborah Gregory's books, starring Raven-Symoné, Adrienne Bailon, Kiely Williams, and Sabrina Bryan; co-produced by Whitney Houston, it premiered to 6.5 million viewers and spawned two sequels.
The Cheetah Girls 2
The Cheetah Girls 2 is a 2006 Disney Channel Original Movie directed by Kenny Ortega, the Barcelona-set sequel to The Cheetah Girls, starring Raven-Symoné, Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan, and Kiely Williams; it premiered to 8.1 million viewers.
The Cheetah Girls: Next Gen
The Cheetah Girls: Next Gen is the fourth Cheetah Girls film, greenlit for Disney Channel and Disney+ in July 2026. Raven-Symoné and Adrienne Bailon return as Galleria and Chanel with a new generation of Cheetahs, filmed in South Africa, releasing 2027.
The Cheetah Girls: One World
The Cheetah Girls: One World (2008) is the third Disney Channel Cheetah Girls movie, directed by Paul Hoen, set in India, starring Bailon, Bryan, and Williams without Raven-Symoné.
The Chef, the Actor, the Scoundrel (厨子·戏子·痞子)
The Chef, the Actor, the Scoundrel (厨子戏子痞子), original title Hulie La (虎烈拉), is a 2013 Guan Hu action comedy starring Liu Ye, Zhang Hanyu, and Huang Bo as disguised wartime agents extracting a cholera vaccine formula; it earned 270 million yuan.
The Childe (귀공자)
The Childe (귀공자, Gwigongja) is a 2023 South Korean action thriller directed by Park Hoon-jung, starring Kim Seon-ho in his film debut as a pursuing assassin, with Kang Tae-ju, Kim Kang-woo, and Go Ara; released June 21, 2023, 682,856 admissions.
The Childhood of a Leader (film)
The Childhood of a Leader is Brady Corbet's 2015 directorial debut, co-written with Mona Fastvold, a fictional fable of a future fascist's childhood at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, starring Tom Sweet, Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham, and Robert Pattinson, with a Scott Walker score; it won two awards at Venice.
The Children Act (film)
The Children Act is a 2017 British drama directed by Richard Eyre, adapted by Ian McEwan from his 2014 novel, starring Emma Thompson as High Court judge Fiona Maye, Stanley Tucci, and Fionn Whitehead; premiered at TIFF 2017, released 2018.
The Children's Hour (film)
The Children's Hour (1961), William Wyler's drama starring Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, adapts Lillian Hellman's 1934 play about two schoolteachers ruined by a lesbian accusation; his second adaptation after These Three (1936).
The Children's Train
The Children's Train (Il treno dei bambini) is Cristina Comencini's 2024 Netflix drama adapted from Viola Ardone's 2019 novel, about a boy sent north on Italy's postwar Happiness Trains, which relocated about 70,000 children.