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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 Cyanide & Happiness Show

The Cyanide & Happiness Show is an American adult animated sketch-comedy web series by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, Matt Melvin, and Dave McElfatrick, based on their webcomic; crowdfunded with $770,309 on Kickstarter in 2013, it ran four seasons and 41 episodes from 2014 to 2019 across YouTube, Seeso, and VRV.

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 D.E.N.N.I.S. System

The D.E.N.N.I.S. System is a fictional six-step seduction and manipulation method by Dennis Reynolds in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, introduced in the season 5 episode 10 of the same name, aired November 19, 2009, and later a widely used pop-culture shorthand.

The D'Amelio Show

The D'Amelio Show is a Hulu reality docuseries (2021-2024, three seasons, 28 episodes) following TikTok stars Charli and Dixie D'Amelio and parents Heidi and Marc, produced by IPC, cancelled after season 3.

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 Dæmons

The Dæmons is a 1971 five-part Doctor Who serial (Season 8, story 59) by Robert Sloman and Barry Letts as Guy Leopold, in which the Master summons the alien Azal at Devil's End; restored in 1992 after tape wiping.

The Daily Bugle

The Daily Bugle is Marvel's fictional New York news organization, employer of Peter Parker and nemesis outlet of J. Jonah Jameson; known from Marvel Mystery Comics #18, the MCU's TheDailyBugle.net, and the 2019–2022 TikTok/YouTube web series with J.K. Simmons.

The Daily Show

The Daily Show is Comedy Central's late-night satirical news program, premiered July 22, 1996, created by Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, hosted by Craig Kilborn, Jon Stewart (1999-2015), Trevor Noah, and Stewart again since 2024, now Mondays only through December 2028.

The Dalek Invasion of Earth

The Dalek Invasion of Earth is a six-part 1964 Doctor Who serial by Terry Nation, the first Dalek sequel, set in occupied 22nd-century London, notable for location filming, the Thames Dalek scene, and Susan's departure.

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 Dan Patrick Show

The Dan Patrick Show is Dan Patrick's national sports and pop culture talk show, airing weekdays 9 a.m.–12 p.m. ET, syndicated by iHeartMedia's Premiere Networks on 360-plus stations and simulcast on Peacock since 2020, with his staff the Danettes.

The Dana Carvey Show

The Dana Carvey Show was a 1996 ABC prime-time sketch comedy created by Dana Carvey and Robert Smigel, canceled after seven episodes following the infamous Bill Clinton breastfeeding sketch, but staffed by Louis C.K., Colbert, Carell, and Charlie Kaufman.

The Dance of Dragons

"The Dance of Dragons" is the ninth episode of Game of Thrones season 5 (2015), written by Benioff and Weiss and directed by David Nutter. It features Shireen Baratheon's sacrifice and Daenerys's first dragon flight.

The Dance of the Storm (风暴舞)

The Dance of the Storm (风暴舞) is a 2021 Chinese urban spy drama directed by Liu Xin, starring William Chan and Gulnazar as Moshi agents defending the VX3 security device; filmed 2018, aired on iQiyi, Tencent, Youku.

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 Dangers in My Heart (僕の心のヤバイやつ)

The Dangers in My Heart (Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu) is a Japanese coming-of-age romantic comedy manga by Norio Sakurai about middle schoolers Kyotaro Ichikawa and Anna Yamada.

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 Danish Woman

The Danish Woman (Danska konan) is a six-part Icelandic black comedy drama by Benedikt Erlingsson, starring Trine Dyrholm as a retired Danish secret-service agent causing chaos in a Reykjavík apartment block. Premiered at Series Mania 2025.

The Danny Thomas Show

The Danny Thomas Show, originally Make Room for Daddy, is an American family sitcom starring Danny Thomas as entertainer Danny Williams, running on ABC 1953–1957 and CBS 1957–1964, 344 episodes.

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 Crystal: Age of Resistance

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is a 10-episode 2019 Netflix prequel series to Jim Henson's 1982 film, made by The Jim Henson Company with puppetry, following Gelflings Rian, Brea, and Deet against the Skeksis; cancelled in 2020 after one season.