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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 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 D Train

The D Train is a 2015 comedy-drama, the directorial debut of Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul, starring Jack Black and James Marsden in a reunion bromance that premiered at Sundance and grossed $774,780 worldwide.

The Da Vinci Code (film)

The Da Vinci Code (2006) is Ron Howard's film adaptation of Dan Brown's novel, starring Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon and Audrey Tautou. It opened Cannes 2006, grossed $217.5M in the US, and scored 25% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Damned (1963 film)

The Damned (1963) is Joseph Losey's British science fiction film for Hammer, based on H.L. Lawrence's The Children of Light, about radioactive children in a secret bunker; released cut in 1963, retitled These Are the Damned in the US.

The Damned (1969 film)

The Damned (La caduta degli dei, Götterdämmerung), Luchino Visconti's 1969 Italy–West Germany melodrama about the von Essenbeck steel family amid the Nazi rise, noted for its X rating, Night of the Long Knives sequence, Jarre score, and Oscar-nominated screenplay.

The Damned (2024 Palsson film)

The Damned (2024) is Thordur Palsson's debut folk horror film, set in 1871 in Iceland's Westfjords, starring Odessa Young as widow Eva, whose crew lets shipwrecked sailors drown and is then haunted by a draugr; premiered at Tribeca, released January 2025, distinct from Minervini's Civil War film of the same name.

The Damned United

The Damned United is a 2009 British sports drama directed by Tom Hooper, scripted by Peter Morgan from David Peace's novel The Damned Utd, dramatizing Brian Clough's 44-day tenure at Leeds United in 1974, starring Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, and Colm Meaney.

The Dancer (2016 film)

The Dancer (La Danseuse) is Stéphanie Di Giusto's 2016 debut biographical drama, screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, with Soko as modern-dance pioneer Loïe Fuller and Lily-Rose Depp as rival Isadora Duncan.

The Danish Girl (film)

The Danish Girl is a 2015 biographical drama directed by Tom Hooper, in which Eddie Redmayne plays transgender painter Lili Elbe and Alicia Vikander plays her wife Gerda.

The Dare (film)

The Dare is a 2019 captivity horror film, Giles Alderson's directorial debut, co-written with Jonny Grant, starring Bart Edwards, Richard Brake, and Robert Maaser; four strangers are chained in a basement over a childhood dare gone wrong.

The Darjeeling Limited

The Darjeeling Limited (2007) is Wes Anderson's comedy-drama, co-written with Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola, about three estranged brothers (Wilson, Brody, Schwartzman) on a train journey across India after their father's death, released by Fox Searchlight.

The Dark and the Wicked

The Dark and the Wicked (2020) is Bryan Bertino's fourth horror feature, starring Marin Ireland and Michael Abbott Jr. as siblings facing an evil presence on their family's Texas farm; released by RLJE Films and Shudder.

The Dark Crystal

The Dark Crystal is Jim Henson and Frank Oz's 1982 puppet fantasy film (93 min, Universal), written by David Odell with design by Brian Froud, about Gelfling Jen restoring a broken crystal against the Skeksis; it had no human actors and grossed $41.6 million.

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight is Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman sequel starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger's Oscar-winning Joker. It grossed over $1 billion worldwide, earned a 94% Tomatometer and Metascore 85, and is the middle film of Nolan's trilogy.

The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) is Christopher Nolan's third Batman film, concluding the Dark Knight trilogy with Christian Bale, Tom Hardy as Bane, and Anne Hathaway; released July 20, 2012 by Warner Bros., it earned a Metascore of 78 and 87% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Dark Valley

The Dark Valley (Das finstere Tal) is a 2014 Austrian-German Alpine western drama by Andreas Prochaska, adapted from Thomas Willmann's novel, starring Sam Riley as a vengeful stranger; it won eight Lolas and was Austria's 87th Academy Awards submission.

The Darkest Hour (film)

The Darkest Hour (2011) is a Chris Gorak-directed alien-invasion sci-fi film starring Emile Hirsch, shot natively in 3D in Moscow, produced by Timur Bekmambetov, released by Summit Entertainment December 25, 2011, distinct from the 2017 Churchill film Darkest Hour.

The Darkest Minds

The Darkest Minds is a 2018 American science fiction film directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson, adapted from Alexandra Bracken's novel, starring Amandla Stenberg as Ruby Daly.

The Dashed Lines

The Dashed Lines (As liñas descontinuas) is a 2025 Galician-language Spanish drama by Anxos Fazáns, her second feature, starring Mara Sánchez and Adam Prieto; premiered at Tallinn Black Nights 2025, Gijón screenplay winner.

The Dawns Here Are Quiet (А зори здесь тихие)

The Dawns Here Are Quiet (А зори здесь тихие) is a 1972 two-part Soviet war drama by Stanislav Rostotsky, based on Boris Vasilyev's 1969 novella, about five young women anti-aircraft gunners fighting German saboteurs in 1941 Karelia; Oscar-nominated, Venice prize winner.

The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (돼지가 우물에 빠진 날)

The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (돼지가 우물에 빠진 날, Dwaejiga Umule Pajinnal) is Hong Sang-soo's 1996 feature debut, adapted from Gu Hyo-seo's Strange Summer; four intertwined Seoul and Jeonju lives, Rotterdam Tiger Award winner.

The Day After

The Day After is ABC's 1983 made-for-TV nuclear-war drama directed by Nicholas Meyer, set in Lawrence, Kansas, watched by over 100 million viewers on November 20, 1983; distinct from the 1909 Griffith short and Hong Sang-soo's 2018 film.

The Day He Arrives (북촌방향)

The Day He Arrives (북촌방향) is Hong Sang-soo's 2011 black-and-white drama, his 12th feature, in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, about a lapsed director repeating days in Seoul's Bukchon.

The Day of the Beast

The Day of the Beast (El día de la bestia) is a 1995 Spanish-Italian horror comedy by Álex de la Iglesia: a priest, a metalhead, and a TV psychic hunt the Antichrist in Madrid at Christmas; six Goyas including Best Director.

The Day of the Jackal (film)

The Day of the Jackal (1973) is Fred Zinnemann's British-French political thriller, adapted from Frederick Forsyth's novel, starring Edward Fox as the assassin hired by the OAS to kill de Gaulle.

The Day of the Locust (film)

The Day of the Locust (1975) is John Schlesinger's film adaptation of Nathanael West's 1939 Hollywood novel, written by Waldo Salt, starring Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, and Burgess Meredith, with Oscar nominations for Meredith and cinematographer Conrad Hall.