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The Butts

The Butts, the English title of Les Boucs (1955), is a novel by the Moroccan writer Driss Chraïbi about North African immigrant workers living in the Paris suburbs.

The Bye Bye Man

The Bye Bye Man is a 2017 American supernatural horror film directed by Stacy Title, adapted by Jonathan Penner from Robert Damon Schneck's story "The Bridge to Body Island," about college students hunted by an entity spread through thinking or saying his name.

The Byrds

The Byrds: Los Angeles rock band formed 1964 by McGuinn, Gene Clark, Crosby, Clarke, and Hillman; folk-rock pioneers via "Mr. Tambourine Man," later psychedelic and country rock (Sweetheart of the Rodeo).

The Byrds discography

The Byrds discography: twelve studio albums (1965–1973) by the Los Angeles folk-rock band of McGuinn, Clark, Crosby, Hillman, and Clarke, from Mr. Tambourine Man to the 1973 Asylum reunion, plus singles, compilations, and reissues.

The Cabal of Hypocrites

The Cabal of Hypocrites (Кабала святош) is a four-act drama by Mikhail Bulgakov about Molière's final years, banned and pulled from the Moscow Art Theatre in 1936.

The Cabin at the End of the World

The Cabin at the End of the World is Paul Tremblay's 2018 Bram Stoker Award-winning apocalyptic horror novel about a family forced by four strangers to choose a sacrifice, adapted as Knock at the Cabin.

The Cabin in the Woods

The Cabin in the Woods is a 2012 American horror comedy directed by Drew Goddard and written with Joss Whedon, following five college friends at a remote cabin.

The Cabinet Minister's Wife

The Cabinet Minister's Wife (Gospođa ministarka) is a 1929 four-act comedy by Serbian playwright Branislav Nušić, following Živka Popović, whose husband suddenly becomes a minister.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is Robert Wiene's 1920 German Expressionist silent horror film about a hypnotist and his sleepwalker Cesare, premiering 26 February 1920 in Berlin, with painted distorted sets and a landmark 2014 4K restoration.

The Cable Guy

The Cable Guy is a 1996 American black comedy directed by Ben Stiller and starring Jim Carrey as a cable installer whose overtures of friendship turn into stalking and violence.

The Cackling of the Dodos

The Cackling of the Dodos is an upcoming Netflix crime-comedy film directed by Jason Bateman, written by Rye Curtis, starring Sam Rockwell as farmer George and Woody Harrelson as boss Denny; filmed in New Jersey June-July 2026, expected 2027.

The Caddy

The Caddy (1953) is a Norman Taurog comedy starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as golfers driven into show business, the first York Pictures release, and the film that introduced Martin's Oscar-nominated signature song That's Amore.

The Cadillac Three

The Cadillac Three are a three-piece southern rock and country band from Nashville, Tennessee, formed in 2011 from the band American Bang and signed to Big Machine Records.

The Cage (Star Trek: The Original Series)

"The Cage" is the unaired 1964 first pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series, written by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Robert Butler, starring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike. Rejected by NBC as too cerebral, its footage was reused in "The Menagerie" and it first aired complete in 1988.

The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's 1951 Doubleday novel of mutiny aboard the USS Caine in the Pacific in World War II; it won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and inspired the Bogart film and Broadway play.

The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)

The Caine Mutiny (1954) is a Columbia Pictures naval drama directed by Edward Dmytryk, produced by Stanley Kramer, adapted from Herman Wouk's Pulitzer-winning novel, starring Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg, with seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture.

The Cairo Trilogy

The Cairo Trilogy (الثلاثية) is a sequence of three novels by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz following a middle-class Cairene family across three generations, published in 1956–1957.

The Calamity Club

The Calamity Club is Kathryn Stockett's second novel, published May 5, 2026 by Spiegel & Grau, seventeen years after The Help. Set in 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, it follows orphan Meg Lefleur, Birdie Calhoun, and Charlie amid the Depression and eugenics-era injustice; a #1 New York Times bestseller.

The Calcutta Chromosome

The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1995 novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, winner of the 1997 Arthur C. Clarke Award, reimagining Ronald Ross's malaria research.

The Calcutta Review

The Calcutta Review is an English-language periodical founded in Calcutta in May 1844 by Sir John Kaye and owned since 1921 by the University of Calcutta.

The California Raisins

The California Raisins are a fictional claymation rhythm-and-blues band created in 1986 to advertise California raisins, best known for singing "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."

The Call (2013 film)

The Call (2013) is a Brad Anderson thriller starring Halle Berry as 911 operator Jordan Turner and Abigail Breslin as kidnapped Casey Welson; released March 15, 2013 by TriStar, Metascore 51.

The Call (콜) (2020 South Korean film)

The Call (콜, Kol) is a 2020 South Korean time-crossing thriller directed by Lee Chung-hyun, starring Park Shin-hye and Jeon Jong-seo, released on Netflix November 27, 2020, remade from The Caller (2011).

The Call of Cthulhu

The Call of Cthulhu is H. P. Lovecraft's 1926 cosmic-horror short story, published in Weird Tales in February 1928; it introduced Cthulhu and R'lyeh, founded the Cthulhu Mythos, and inspired Chaosium's RPG and many adaptations.

The Call of the Void

The Call of the Void (Call of the Void) is an English title shared by two US indie films: Dustin Kahia's 2016 black-and-white psychological thriller set in 1949 Los Angeles, and J.M. Stelly's German-Expressionist-styled horror film about The Painter, digitally released April 15, 2025.

The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild is Jack London's 1903 adventure novel about Buck, a St. Bernard-Scotch Collie stolen from California and made a sled dog in the Klondike Gold Rush, who gradually reverts to the wild; serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, published in book form by Macmillan in 1903.

The Call of the Wild (2020 film)

The Call of the Wild is a 2020 American adventure drama directed by Chris Sanders, based on Jack London's 1903 novel, with Harrison Ford as adventurer John Thornton.

The Calling

The Calling (2022 Peacock crime drama), David E. Kelley adaptation of Dror Mishani's Avraham Avraham novels, starring Jeff Wilbusch as Orthodox Jewish NYPD detective Avraham Avraham; one 8-episode season, 18% Tomatometer, 85% audience score.

The Calling of Saint Matthew

The Calling of Saint Matthew (Italian: La Vocazione di San Matteo) is a large Caravaggio oil painting of 1599–1600 showing Christ calling the tax collector Matthew.

The Cameraman

The Cameraman (1928) is Buster Keaton's first MGM silent comedy, directed by Edward Sedgwick, about a tintype photographer who buys a movie camera to woo newsreel secretary Sally (Marceline Day); it grossed $797,000 and is considered his last great silent feature.