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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is Peter Greenaway's 1989 drama starring Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Alan Howard, Richard Bohringer, and Tim Roth, about a gangster's wife having a restaurant affair, with color-coded sets and Nyman's Memorial score.
The Cooler
The Cooler (2003) is a romantic drama directed by Wayne Kramer, written with Frank Hannah, starring William H. Macy as Bernie Lootz, a casino 'cooler' whose contagious bad luck jinxes gamblers at the Shangri-La in Las Vegas until love with Maria Bello's waitress reverses his fortune; Alec Baldwin earned an Oscar nomination.
The Core
The Core (2003) is an American science fiction disaster film directed by Jon Amiel, starring Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank, in which scientists drill to Earth's center to restart the stopped core; Metascore 48, Tomatometer 39%.
The Corpse of Anna Fritz
The Corpse of Anna Fritz (El cadáver de Anna Fritz) is a 2015 Spanish thriller, the feature debut of Hèctor Hernández Vicens, in which three young men assault the corpse of a famous actress in a morgue before she wakes; released 30 October 2015, it screened at Sitges and SXSW.
The Correspondent (film)
The Correspondent (film): 2024 Australian biographical thriller by Kriv Stenders, also known as a Peter Greste prison drama adapted from The First Casualty; stars Richard Roxburgh, premiered Adelaide 2024, 100% Rotten Tomatoes.
The Corruptor
The Corruptor is a 1999 American crime thriller directed by James Foley, starring Chow Yun-Fat as a corrupt NYPD lieutenant and Mark Wahlberg as his partner.
The Cotton Club (film)
The Cotton Club (1984) is a Francis Ford Coppola crime-musical drama set in 1920s Harlem, produced by Robert Evans, starring Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, and Diane Lane, notorious for its $47 million budget, financing murder trial, and 2019 Encore restoration.
The Counselor
The Counselor (2013) is Ridley Scott's crime thriller from Cormac McCarthy's first sold spec script, starring Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, and Brad Pitt; released October 25, 2013, it grossed $16.9 million in the US and scored 34% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002 film)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) is a Kevin Reynolds-directed Touchstone/Spyglass adventure film starring Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, and Richard Harris, adapted loosely from Dumas's novel; $35M budget, $54.2M US gross, filmed in Ireland and Malta.
The Counterfeit Traitor
The Counterfeit Traitor is a 1962 George Seaton spy thriller starring William Holden as real-life Allied spy Eric Erickson, based on Alexander Klein's 1958 book, filmed in Berlin, Hamburg, Stockholm, and Copenhagen.
The Counterfeiters (הזייפנים)
The Counterfeiters (Hebrew: הזייפנים; original title Die Fälscher) is Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 Austrian-German drama, winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, about Salomon Sorowitsch and Operation Bernhard, the Nazi counterfeiting scheme at Sachsenhausen.
The Country Bears
The Country Bears (2002) is a Disney live-action comedy-musical directed by Peter Hastings, based on the Country Bear Jamboree attraction, with Haley Joel Osment and Christopher Walken; it grossed $16.99 million domestically.
The Country Girl
The Country Girl (1954) is George Seaton's Paramount drama adapted from Clifford Odets' Broadway play, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and William Holden; seven Oscar nominations, Kelly won Best Actress.
The Courier (2020 film)
The Courier (2020 film), Dominic Cooke's Cold War spy drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne and Merab Ninidze as Oleg Penkovsky; premiered at Sundance 2020, released 2021, distinct from the 2019 Zackery Adler action film of the same name.
The Court Jester
The Court Jester (1955) is a Danny Kaye musical comedy directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank for Dena Enterprises and Paramount, shot in VistaVision, famous for the 'vessel with the pestle' tongue-twister.
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963 film)
The Courtship of Eddie's Father is a 1963 MGM romantic comedy-drama directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Glenn Ford, Ronny Howard, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, and Dina Merrill, adapted from Mark Toby's 1961 novel and later inspiring a 1969-1972 TV series.
The Covenant (2006 film)
The Covenant is a 2006 American supernatural horror film directed by Renny Harlin, about teenage warlocks at a New England boarding school facing a banished fifth coven member.
The Cow (گاو)
The Cow (گاو, Gāv) is Dariush Mehrjui's 1969 Iranian New Wave drama, adapted from Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi, in which farmer Mash Hassan (Ezzatollah Entezami) goes mad when his cow dies; banned at home, it won the FIPRESCI Prize at Venice 1971.
The Cowboys
The Cowboys is a 1972 American Western directed by Mark Rydell, starring John Wayne, Bruce Dern, and Roscoe Lee Browne, about a rancher who hires schoolboys to drive his herd.
The Craft (film)
The Craft (1996) is an American supernatural teen horror film directed by Andrew Fleming for Columbia Pictures, starring Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True as a four-girl coven; it opened number one, grossed $22.7M, and inspired the 2020 sequel The Craft: Legacy.
The Craft: Legacy
The Craft: Legacy (2020) is a Blumhouse supernatural horror sequel to The Craft (1996), written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones, starring Cailee Spaeny, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone, and Zoey Luna as a new teen coven, released on PVOD October 28, 2020.
The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли)
The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли) is a 1957 Mosfilm war drama by Mikhail Kalatozov, starring Tatiana Samoilova and Aleksey Batalov; it won the 1958 Cannes Palme d'Or, the only Soviet feature to do so.
The Crazies (1973 film)
The Crazies (1973), aka Code Name: Trixie, is George A. Romero's horror film about a military bio-weapon contaminating Evans City, Pennsylvania; a commercial failure that became a Vietnam-era cult classic, remade in 2010 by Breck Eisner.
The Crazies (2010 film)
The Crazies is a 2010 American horror film directed by Breck Eisner, starring Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell, and a remake of George A. Romero's 1973 film.
The Creator (2023 film)
The Creator is a 2023 American science fiction action film directed by Gareth Edwards, starring John David Washington as an ex-special forces agent sent to hunt down the architect of advanced AI.
The Creature Walks Among Us
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) is Universal-International's third and final Gill Man film, directed by John Sherwood, in which scientists capture the creature and surgically turn him into an air-breathing land dweller; the only series entry not shot in 3-D.
The Cremator
The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol, 1969), Juraj Herz's Czechoslovak New Wave black-comedy horror adapted from Ladislav Fuks's novel; Rudolf Hrušínský as Prague crematorium manager Karel Kopfrkingl, withdrawn 1973, re-released 1990.
The Crime Is Mine
The Crime Is Mine (French: Mon crime) is a 2023 French comedy directed by François Ozon, about a penniless actress in 1935 Paris who pleads guilty to murder.
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (The Crime of Monsieur Lange) is a 1936 French drama by Jean Renoir, scripted with Jacques Prévert, in which printing-house employees form a cooperative after their publisher Batala's presumed death, then Lange kills him on his return.
The Criminal
The Criminal (1960, aka The Concrete Jungle) is a British black-and-white prison crime drama by blacklisted director Joseph Losey, starring Stanley Baker as Johnny Bannion, a racetrack robber pressured inside and outside prison to reveal hidden loot.