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Crime Syndicate of America

Crime Syndicate of America: DC Comics supervillain team, evil Justice League counterparts from Earth-3 (Ultraman, Superwoman, Owlman, Johnny Quick, Power Ring); created by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky, debuting in Justice League of America #29 (1964).

Crímenes Ejemplares

Crímenes ejemplares, Max Aub's 1957 book of hyperbrief murder confessions (earlier 1956 version), a classic of Spanish microfiction with black humor, translated into six languages and adapted to film, theater, and stop-motion animation.

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Crimes and Misdemeanors is Woody Allen's 1989 Orion Pictures comedy-drama, 104 minutes, PG-13, starring Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, and Alan Alda, intertwining an unpunished murder with a failed romance; three Oscar nominations.

Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion is a 1984 American erotic thriller directed by Ken Russell and starring Kathleen Turner as a designer with a double life as a prostitute.

Crimes of the Future (2022 film)

Crimes of the Future (2022) is David Cronenberg's body-horror sci-fi film starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart, about humans mutating new organs in a plastic-polluted future; premiered at Cannes 2022, released by Neon.

Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart is Beth Henley's 1979 dramatic comedy about the Magrath sisters in Hazlehurst, Mississippi; it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, ran 535 Broadway performances, and became a 1986 Bruce Beresford film with Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, and Sissy Spacek.

Crimewave

Crimewave (1985) is Sam Raimi's studio comedy written by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Reed Birney and Bruce Campbell; a critical and commercial failure for Embassy Pictures, distinct from John Paizs's Canadian Crime Wave.

Criminal (1994 film)

Criminal (1994) is an Indian Telugu-Hindi bilingual action thriller directed by Mahesh Bhatt, starring Nagarjuna, Manisha Koirala, and Ramya Krishnan; an adaptation of The Fugitive, with music by M. M. Keeravani, released 14 October 1994 (Telugu) and 4 August 1995 (Hindi).

Criminal (2016 film)

Criminal is a 2016 American action thriller directed by Ariel Vromen and starring Kevin Costner as a death-row inmate who receives a dead CIA agent's memories through an experimental procedure.

Criminal (TV series)

Criminal is a 2019 Netflix anthology series in which each episode is a one-hour interrogation, created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith in UK, French, German, and Spanish versions.

Criminal Justice (Indian TV series)

Criminal Justice (क्रिमिनल जस्टिस) is a Hindi-language Indian legal crime drama on Hotstar/JioHotstar, adapting the 2008 BBC series; four seasons (2019–2025, 34 episodes) starring Pankaj Tripathi as lawyer Madhav Mishra.

Criminal Justice: A Family Matter

Criminal Justice: A Family Matter is the fourth season (2025) of the Hindi legal drama Criminal Justice on JioHotstar, directed by Rohan Sippy, starring Pankaj Tripathi as Madhav Mishra defending Raj Nagpal in the Roshni Saluja murder case.

Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach

Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach is the third season of Disney+ Hotstar's Hindi legal drama Criminal Justice, released 26 August 2022. Rohan Sippy directs Pankaj Tripathi's Madhav Mishra in a juvenile-justice murder case, opposite prosecutor Shweta Basu Prasad.

Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors

Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors is the 2020 second season of India's Criminal Justice series on Disney+ Hotstar: Anuradha Chandra confesses to stabbing her lawyer husband, and Madhav Mishra uncovers the domestic abuse behind the crime.

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds is an American CBS crime procedural (2005–2020, 16 seasons, 300+ episodes) about FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit profilers, revived on Paramount+ as Criminal Minds: Evolution in 2022 with Joe Mantegna, reaching a greenlit 20th season.

Criminal Minds (franchise)

Criminal Minds franchise: American crime-drama series about the FBI's BAU profilers. Includes the original CBS series (2005–2020, 15 seasons), spin-offs Suspect Behavior and Beyond Borders, and the Paramount+ revival Criminal Minds: Evolution.

Criminal Minds (크리미널 마인드) (South Korean TV series)

Criminal Minds (크리미널 마인드, Criminal Minds: Korea) is a 2017 tvN South Korean crime drama, the first worldwide remake of the American CBS series, starring Lee Joon-gi, Son Hyun-joo, and Moon Chae-won as NCI profilers in 20 episodes.

Criminal Minds season 17

Criminal Minds season 17 (Criminal Minds: Evolution season 2), the Paramount+ revival's second installment, premiered June 6, 2024 with 10 episodes; delayed by WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, it follows the BAU's Gold Star investigation with Elias Voit in federal custody.

Criminal Minds season 18

Criminal Minds season 18, the third season of the Paramount+ revival Criminal Minds: Evolution, aired May 8 to July 10, 2025 in ten episodes, following the BAU working alongside Elias Voit against his Sicarius network, with Matthew Gray Gubler's guest return as Spencer Reid.

Criminal Minds season 19

Criminal Minds season 19 is the fourth season of the Paramount+ revival Criminal Minds: Evolution, nineteenth overall. Premiered May 28, 2026; ten episodes; Voit copycat The Fan; season 20 greenlit for 2027.

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is a CBS police procedural spin-off of Criminal Minds (2016-2017, 2 seasons, 26 episodes) starring Gary Sinise as FBI International Response Team chief Jack Garrett; cancelled after low ratings and criticism for xenophobic portrayals of foreign countries.

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, a 2011 CBS police procedural and the first Criminal Minds spin-off, followed Forest Whitaker's FBI Red Cell BAU team; canceled after 13 episodes due to declining ratings.

Criminal Record (2024 TV series)

Criminal Record is a British Apple TV+ crime thriller created by Paul Rutman, starring Peter Capaldi as DCI Daniel Hegarty and Cush Jumbo as DS June Lenker; season 1 premiered January 10, 2024, and season 2 on April 22, 2026.

Criminal: France

Criminal: France is the 2019 French-language installment of Netflix's Criminal interrogation-room anthology, three episodes (Émilie, Caroline, Jérôme) directed by Frédéric Mermoud, created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, starring Margot Bancilhon with guests Nathalie Baye, Jérémie Renier, and Sara Giraudeau.

Criminal: Germany

Criminal: Germany (Criminal: Deutschland) is the 2019 German chapter of Netflix's Criminal interrogation-room anthology: three roughly 45-minute episodes (Jochen, Yilmaz, Claudia) directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, starring Eva Meckbach, Sylvester Groth, and Florence Kasumba, released 20 September 2019.

Criminal: UK

Criminal: UK is the British branch of Netflix's 2019 Criminal interrogation anthology: three-plus-four episodes set entirely in a police interview suite, created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, starring Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, and guest suspects like David Tennant, canceled after two seasons.

Crimson Avenger

Crimson Avenger (Lee Walter Travis) is a DC Comics masked vigilante created by Jim Chambers in Detective Comics #20 (1938), a Green Hornet-inspired newspaper publisher with the partner Wing, later succeeded by Jill Carlyle.

Crimson Dynamo

Crimson Dynamo (Багровое Динамо) is a Marvel Comics mantle for Russian armored agents of Iron Man, debuting in Tales of Suspense #46 (1963); over a dozen wearers include Anton Vanko, Dimitri Bukharin, and Gennady Gavrilov.

Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak is a 2015 American gothic romance film directed by Guillermo del Toro. It follows an aspiring writer who moves to a decaying mansion in 1901.

Crimson Tide (film)

Crimson Tide is a 1995 American submarine thriller directed by Tony Scott. It stars Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman during a nuclear launch crisis on the USS Alabama.