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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 Chargesheet: Innocent or Guilty

The Chargesheet: Innocent or Guilty? is a 2019 ZEE5 Original Hindi thriller web series, also in Tamil and Telugu, directed by Shashant Shah, about a CBI probe into the murder of table tennis champion Shiraz Malik across 8 episodes.

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 (American game show)

The Chase (American game show): US adaptation of the British ITV quiz format, run twice: GSN 2013-2015 (Brooke Burns, Mark Labbett) and ABC from 2021 (Sara Haines; Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer, Brad Rutter as Chasers).

The Chase (British game show)

The Chase is a British ITV quiz show premiering 29 June 2009, hosted by Bradley Walsh, pitting contestants against professional quizzers called Chasers such as Mark Labbett and Anne Hegerty; produced by Potato, it has aired 2,000-plus episodes, spawned Beat the Chasers and The Chase Around the World, and been adapted in 15 territories.

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 Chase Australia

The Chase Australia is a Seven Network quiz show based on the British The Chase, premiering 14 September 2015. Hosted by Andrew O'Keefe then Larry Emdur; Chasers include The Shark, The Governess, Goliath, and The Supernerd.

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 Show

The Chef Show is a Netflix documentary cooking series (2019–2020, 25 episodes) hosted by Jon Favreau and chef Roy Choi, spun off from the 2014 film Chef, featuring guest chefs and celebrities.

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 Chelsea Detective

The Chelsea Detective is a British crime drama created by Peter Fincham for Acorn TV and ZDF, produced by Expectation. Adrian Scarborough stars as DI Max Arnold, a houseboat-dwelling detective solving murders in affluent Chelsea, London; four 90-minute episodes per season since 2022.

The Chemistry of Death

The Chemistry of Death is a 2023 six-part Paramount+ British-German crime thriller adapting Simon Beckett's first two David Hunter novels, starring Harry Treadaway as forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter, filmed in Glasgow and Norfolk, ended after one season.

The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard (Вишнёвый сад) is Anton Chekhov's last play, a four-act comedy written 1903 for the Moscow Art Theatre, premiered 17 January 1904 under Stanislavsky, who staged it as a tragedy despite Chekhov's insistence on comedy.

The Cherry Pickers

The Cherry Pickers is a 1968 play by the Wiradjuri writer Kevin Gilbert, written in prison and recognized as the first play written by an Aboriginal person.

The Chestnut Man

The Chestnut Man (Kastanjemanden) is a Danish Netflix Nordic-noir crime thriller from SAM Productions, adapted from Søren Sveistrup's debut novel, premiering 29 September 2021; Season 2, Hide and Seek, followed 7 May 2026.

The Chi

The Chi is a Showtime (later Paramount+) drama created by Lena Waithe, set on Chicago's South Side, premiering January 7, 2018. It ran eight seasons, ending with "The Last Dance" on July 24, 2026, and follows interconnected residents linked by trauma, family, and community.

The Chicken Sisters

The Chicken Sisters is a Hallmark family drama series adapted from KJ Dell'Antonia's 2020 novel, set in Merinac, Kansas, where rival fried chicken restaurants Mimi's and Frannie's feud; it premiered on Hallmark+ September 10, 2024, with a second season on Hallmark Channel in 2025.

The Child (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

The Child (Hikari kara Umareta Seimei) is the Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2 premiere, aired November 21, 1988: Troi's alien pregnancy, a Phase II-era script, Pulaski's and Guinan's debuts, directed by Rob Bowman.

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 (Game of Thrones)

The Children is the season 4 finale of Game of Thrones, its 40th episode, aired June 15, 2014; written by Benioff and Weiss, directed by Alex Graves; Tyrion kills Tywin, Bran meets the Three-Eyed Raven, 7.1 million US viewers.