edgepedia

Films and standalone screen works

25,183 articles

The Crimson Permanent Assurance

The Crimson Permanent Assurance is Terry Gilliam's 1983 British short film, a prologue to Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, in which accountants turn their office building into a pirate ship and raid corporate finance.

The Critic (2024 film)

The Critic is a 2024 British period crime drama directed by Anand Tucker, in which Ian McKellen plays a feared 1930s London theater critic protecting his career.

The Croods

The Croods is a 2013 American computer-animated comedy-adventure film from DreamWorks, about a prehistoric family led by Grug (Nicolas Cage) that ventures into a new world.

The Croods: A New Age

The Croods: A New Age (2020) is DreamWorks Animation's sequel to The Croods, directed by Joel Crawford. The Crood family meets the Bettermans; released November 25, 2020, grossing $215.9 million worldwide and spawning The Croods: Family Tree series.

The Crossing (太平轮) (2014 film)

The Crossing (太平轮, originally titled 1949) is John Woo's two-part 2014-2015 Chinese epic romance about three couples converging on the 1949 Taiping ferry disaster; it cost about 400 million RMB and underperformed at the box office.

The Crow (1994 film)

The Crow is a 1994 American film directed by Alex Proyas, based on James O'Barr's comic series and starring Brandon Lee as a murdered musician resurrected to take revenge.

The Crow (2024 film)

The Crow is a 2024 American gothic action fantasy film directed by Rupert Sanders, starring Bill Skarsgård as Eric Draven, who returns from the dead for revenge.

The Crow: City of Angels

The Crow: City of Angels is a 1996 American dark fantasy film directed by Tim Pope, starring Vincent Perez as a resurrected man avenging his son's murder.

The Crow: Salvation

The Crow: Salvation (2000) is the third Crow film, directed by Bharat Nalluri, starring Eric Mabius and Kirsten Dunst. Wrongly executed Alex Corvis is resurrected to find his girlfriend's real killer; it earned 18% on Rotten Tomatoes and went direct-to-video in the US.

The Crow: Wicked Prayer

The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005), also released as Wicked Prayer, is the fourth Crow film, directed by Lance Mungia, starring Edward Furlong, David Boreanaz, Tara Reid, and Dennis Hopper; a satanic-biker revenge story shot in 23 days on an $8 million budget and critically panned at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Crowd (1928 film)

The Crowd (1928) is King Vidor's MGM silent drama about everyman clerk John Sims, starring James Murray and Eleanor Boardman, premiered 3 March 1928, delayed a year by MGM, later ranked among the greatest silent films.

The Crucible (1996 film)

The Crucible is a 1996 American historical drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner, adapted by Arthur Miller from his play about the Salem witch trials.

The Crucified Lovers (近松物語)

The Crucified Lovers (近松物語, Chikamatsu Monogatari; also A Story from Chikamatsu) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1954 Daiei film adapting Chikamatsu Monzaemon's 1715 play, starring Kazuo Hasegawa and Kyoko Kagawa as lovers falsely accused of adultery in 17th-century Kyoto.

The Cruel Sea

The Cruel Sea (1953) is an Ealing Studios British war film directed by Charles Frend, adapted by Eric Ambler from Nicholas Monsarrat's 1951 novel, starring Jack Hawkins as corvette commander George Ericson escorting Atlantic convoys against U-boats.

The Crush (1993 film)

The Crush is a 1993 American psychological thriller written and directed by Alan Shapiro, starring Cary Elwes and Alicia Silverstone in her film debut, which earned about $13.6 million.

The Crying Game

The Crying Game is Neil Jordan's 1992 British thriller about IRA volunteer Fergus (Stephen Rea) and Dil (Jaye Davidson), a transgender woman; it won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar from six nominations and grossed about $65 million in the US.

The Cure (1995 film)

The Cure is a 1995 American drama film directed by Peter Horton, in which two eleven-year-old boys travel down the Mississippi River to find a doctor with an AIDS cure.

The Cure (2026 film)

The Cure (2026) is an American sci-fi horror thriller directed by Nancy Leopardi, starring Samantha Cochran, David Dastmalchian, and Ashley Greene, about a teen whose billionaire parents harvest her blood; released March 20, 2026 by Vertical.

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 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 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 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.