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Children of Heaven

Children of Heaven (Bacheha-ye Aseman) is Majid Majidi's 1997 Iranian drama about siblings sharing one pair of shoes after Ali loses his sister Zahra's. It was the first Iranian Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and won Montreal's Grand Prix.

Children of Heaven (بچه‌های آسمان) (1997 film)

Children of Heaven (بچه‌های آسمان) is Majid Majidi's 1997 Persian-language Iranian drama in which Ali loses sister Zahra's shoes and the siblings secretly share one pair; first Iranian film nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

Children of Men

Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian sci-fi thriller directed by Alfonso Cuarón, loosely adapted from P.D. James's 1992 novel, set in 2027 Britain amid 18 years of global infertility, starring Clive Owen and known for Emmanuel Lubezki's long takes.

Children of Paradise

Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis) is Marcel Carné's 1945 French romantic drama, written by Jacques Prévert, starring Arletty and Jean-Louis Barrault, made under Nazi occupation and often ranked the greatest French film.

Children of the Corn (1984 film)

Children of the Corn (1984), Fritz Kiersch's adaptation of Stephen King's Night Shift short story, follows a couple trapped in Gatlin, Nebraska, by a child cult worshipping He Who Walks Behind the Rows; a New World Pictures release that spawned a long franchise.

Children of the Corn (2009 film)

Children of the Corn (2009) is Donald P. Borchers' Syfy TV remake of the 1984 film, adapting Stephen King's short story with David Anders and Kandyse McClure, set in 1975 with a Vietnam-veteran Burt and King's original ending.

Children of the Corn (2020 film)

Children of the Corn (2020 film), also dated 2023, is Kurt Wimmer's horror reimagining of Stephen King's short story, starring Elena Kampouris and Kate Moyer; shot in Australia during COVID-19, released by RLJE Films and Shudder in March 2023.

Children of the Corn (film series)

Children of the Corn is an American horror film series adapted from Stephen King's 1977 short story, running to 11 films between 1984 and 2020.

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995) is a direct-to-video horror film directed by James D.R. Hickox, the third Children of the Corn film, moving the Gatlin cult story to Chicago with Daniel Cerny as Eli and an uncredited Charlize Theron.

Children of the Corn: Runaway

Children of the Corn: Runaway (2018), also called Children of the Corn 9, is a direct-to-video horror sequel directed by John Gulager, starring Marci Miller as Ruth, who flees the Gatlin child cult; shot in Oklahoma to retain Dimension Films' rights.

Children of the Sea (海獣の子供)

Children of the Sea (海獣の子供, Kaijū no Kodomo) is a 2019 Studio 4°C anime film directed by Ayumu Watanabe, adapting Daisuke Igarashi's manga, with music by Joe Hisaishi and Kenshi Yonezu's theme song, released June 7, 2019.

Children of the Whales

Children of the Whales (Kujira no Kora wa Sajou ni Utau; クジラの子らは砂上に歌う) is Abi Umeda's 2013-2023 fantasy manga, 23 volumes, about the Mud Whale drifting a sea of sand, where Marked thymia-wielders die young and Unmarked govern. A 12-episode J.C. Staff anime aired 2017 on Netflix.

Children Untold

Children Untold (Watashi no Shiranai Kodomotachi, わたしの知らない子どもたち) is a 2026 Japanese drama film written and directed by Miwa Nishikawa about a 12-year-old war orphan girl in postwar Tokyo who disguises herself as a boy, released October 16, 2026 and opening the 51st Toronto Film Festival's Platform section.

Children Who Chase Lost Voices

Children Who Chase Lost Voices (星を追う子ども, Hoshi o Ou Kodomo), also known as Journey to Agartha, is Makoto Shinkai's 2011 juvenile anime fantasy about girl Asuna's journey to the underworld Agartha; 116 minutes, CoMix Wave Films, released May 7, 2011.

Children's television series

Children's television series, also known as children's television programs, are TV programs designed for audiences aged 2 to 11, spanning drama, comedy, animation, and live action.

Children's Theatre Company

The Children's Theatre Company is a Minneapolis professional theater producing plays and musicals for young audiences, incorporated in 1975 and honored with a 2003 Special Tony Award.

Children's Ward

Children's Ward: British children's medical drama by Granada Television for CITV, 1989-2000, set in fictitious South Park Hospital; BAFTA-winning, written by Paul Abbott, Kay Mellor, Russell T. Davies.

Childrens Hospital

Childrens Hospital (no apostrophe) is an American Adult Swim comedy parodying medical dramas, created by Rob Corddry. It began as 2008 webisodes on TheWB.com, ran seven seasons to 2016, and won 2012 and 2013 short-format Emmys.

Chili Finger

Chili Finger is a 2026 American dark comedy directed by Edd Benda and Stephen Helstad, starring Judy Greer, Sean Astin, Bryan Cranston, and John Goodman. Loosely based on the 2005 Wendy's chili-finger hoax, it premiered at SXSW on March 14, 2026.

Chill Wills

Chill Wills (Theodore Childress Wills, 1902-1978), American Western character actor and Avalon Boys singer; voice of Francis the Talking Mule 1950-1955; Oscar-nominated for The Alamo (1960).

Chillar Party

Chillar Party (2011) is a Hindi children's film directed by Nitesh Tiwari and Vikas Bahl, produced by UTV and Salman Khan, in which colony kids fight a minister's stray-dog drive; it won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film.

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV series)

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix, 2018–2020) is a supernatural horror series by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, based on his 2014 Archie comic with Robert Hack, starring Kiernan Shipka as half-witch Sabrina Spellman in Greendale across 36 episodes in four parts.

Chilly Beach

Chilly Beach: Canadian Flash-animated CBC comedy (2003-2008, 3 seasons, 67 episodes) by March Entertainment about Dale and Frank on a drifting ice floe; began as webisodes, spawned The World is Hot Enough film.

Chilly Scenes of Winter

Chilly Scenes of Winter, released as Head Over Heels in 1979, is Joan Micklin Silver's adaptation of Ann Beattie's debut novel about an obsessed civil servant in Salt Lake City; re-released in 1982 with a darker ending and now a Criterion cult film.

Chilsu and Mansu (칠수와 만수)

Chilsu and Mansu (칠수와 만수) is Park Kwang-su's 1988 debut feature, a Korean New Wave landmark about two billboard painters in Seoul whose rooftop outburst is mistaken for a suicide attempt or protest, starring Ahn Sung-ki, Park Joong-hoon, and Bae Jong-ok.

Chimani Pakhar

Chimani Pakhar (चिमणी पाखरं), also Chimni Pakhare, is a Marathi family drama directed by Mahesh Kothare, produced by Matchindra Chate, starring Padmini Kolhapure and Sachin Khedekar; a terminally ill mother arranges her four children's adoption. Distinct from the 1952 film of similar title.

Chime (film)

Chime (チャイム) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2024 Japanese 45-minute horror short about a cooking instructor unraveling after a student hears a chime-like sound; Roadstead's first original film, premiered at Berlinale Special 2024, released theatrically in Japan, France, and the US.

Chimera (키마이라)

Chimera (키마이라, Kimaira) is a 2021 OCN South Korean mystery thriller, 16 episodes, directed by Kim Do-hoon, starring Park Hae-soo, Claudia Kim, and Lee Hee-joon, about the 1984 Chimera serial murder-bombing case recurring in 2019.

Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight (Campanadas a medianoche), aka Falstaff, is Orson Welles's 1966 black-and-white Shakespeare film starring Welles as Falstaff, drawn mainly from Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, restored in 2016.

Chimp Crazy

Chimp Crazy is a 2024 four-part HBO docuseries from Tiger King director Eric Goode about exotic-animal broker Tonia Haddix, her chimpanzee Tonka, and her court battle with PETA over his fate.