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The Constant Prince

The Constant Prince is a 1629 drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca about Prince Don Fernando, who dies in Moorish captivity rather than surrender Ceuta.

The Consultant (TV series)

The Consultant is a 2023 Prime Video darkly comedic workplace thriller created by Tony Basgallop from Bentley Little's 2015 novel, starring Christoph Waltz as sinister consultant Regus Patoff at the gaming company CompWare, with Nat Wolff and Brittany O'Grady; eight 33-minute episodes, 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Contender (2000 film)

The Contender is a 2000 American political thriller directed by Rod Lurie, starring Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, and Gary Oldman, about confirming the first woman Vice President.

The Contest

The Contest is a 1992 Seinfeld episode (season 4, episode 11) written by Larry David, in which Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer bet on who can abstain longest from masturbation, never named on screen; it won a 1993 writing Emmy and drew 18.5 million viewers.

The Continent (后会无期)

The Continent (后会无期) is Han Han's 2014 Chinese road film debut, following three friends from Dongji Island on a 3,000 km drive west; it earned 629 million yuan and competed with Tiny Times 3.

The Continental Op

The Continental Op is the nameless private detective Dashiell Hammett created in 1923, who appears in thirty-six stories and the novels Red Harvest and The Dain Curse.

The Continental: From the World of John Wick

The Continental: From the World of John Wick is a 2023 three-episode Peacock prequel miniseries, created by Greg Coolidge, Shawn Simmons, and Kirk Ward, showing how young Winston Scott (Colin Woodell) took over the assassins' hotel in 1970s New York; no second season was made.

The Contract (2024 film)

The Contract (2024) is an Italian psychological thriller directed by Massimo Paolucci, starring Kevin Spacey as The Devil, Eric Roberts, and Vincent Spano; 105 minutes, English, shot in Rome, premiered at Cairo 2024.

The Contractor (2022 film)

The Contractor (2022) is an American action thriller directed by Tarik Saleh, starring Chris Pine as discharged Special Forces sergeant James Harper who joins a private military firm. Released April 1, 2022 by Paramount; 103 minutes; 45% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 52.

The Convenience Store

The Convenience Store (夜勤事件, Yakin Jiken) is a 2026 Japanese horror film by Jiro Nagae adapting Chilla's Art's 2020 indie game, starring Kotona Minami as a night-shift clerk; released February 20, 2026, 83 minutes, over 300 million yen gross.

The Conversation

The Conversation is Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 surveillance thriller starring Gene Hackman as wiretapper Harry Caul. It won the 1974 Palme d'Or, earned three Oscar nominations, and was restored in 4K for its 2024 50th anniversary.

The Convict

The Convict (Skazana) is a 2021 Polish prison drama directed by Bartosz Konopka, starring Agata Kulesza as a judge imprisoned for a murder she denies.

The Cook of Castamar

The Cook of Castamar (La cocinera de Castamar) is a 2021 Spanish period drama series on Antena 3, adapted from Fernando J. Múñez's 2019 novel, starring Michelle Jenner and Roberto Enríquez in 1720 Madrid.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is Peter Greenaway's 1989 drama starring Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Alan Howard, Richard Bohringer, and Tim Roth, about a gangster's wife having a restaurant affair, with color-coded sets and Nyman's Memorial score.

The Cool Kids (TV series)

The Cool Kids is a Fox multi-camera sitcom (2018–2019, 22 episodes) created by Charlie Day and Paul Fruchbom, starring David Alan Grier, Martin Mull, Leslie Jordan, and Vicki Lawrence as rule-breaking retirees at Shady Meadows; canceled May 10, 2019 after one season.

The Cooler

The Cooler (2003) is a romantic drama directed by Wayne Kramer, written with Frank Hannah, starring William H. Macy as Bernie Lootz, a casino 'cooler' whose contagious bad luck jinxes gamblers at the Shangri-La in Las Vegas until love with Maria Bello's waitress reverses his fortune; Alec Baldwin earned an Oscar nomination.

The Copenhagen Test

The Copenhagen Test is a Peacock sci-fi espionage thriller created by Thomas Brandon, starring Simu Liu and Melissa Barrera. Eight episodes premiered December 27, 2025; Peacock cancelled it April 16, 2026 after one season.

The Copycats

"The Copycats" is a 2017 episode of The Amazing World of Gumball in which Gumball and Darwin meet a copycat family based on characters from the Chinese bootleg Miracle Star.

The Coral

The Coral is an English rock band formed in 1996 in Hoylake, Merseyside. They are known for their psychedelic, genre-crossing sound and their 2002 Mercury Prize nomination.

The Coral Island

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean is R. M. Ballantyne's 1857/1858 Victorian boys' adventure novel about Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin, shipwrecked in the South Pacific; it inspired Treasure Island and was inverted by Golding's Lord of the Flies.

The Core

The Core (2003) is an American science fiction disaster film directed by Jon Amiel, starring Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank, in which scientists drill to Earth's center to restart the stopped core; Metascore 48, Tomatometer 39%.

The Core (XG album)

THE CORE - 核 is the first full-length album by Japanese global girl group XG, released January 23, 2026 on XGALX. Ten English-language X-pop tracks led by "Hypnotize" and "GALA"; it became XG's first Billboard 200 Top 100 entry and coincided with the Xtraordinary Genes rebrand.

The Corner

The Corner: 1997 nonfiction book by David Simon and Ed Burns on a West Baltimore drug corner (Fayette and Monroe), following the McCullough family; adapted into a 2000 Emmy-winning HBO miniseries that preceded The Wire.

The Coronation of Napoleon

The Coronation of Napoleon (Le Sacre de Napoléon) is Jacques-Louis David's monumental 1807 oil, 6.21 by 9.79 m, depicting Napoleon crowning Joséphine at Notre-Dame on 2 December 1804; it hangs in the Louvre's Salle Daru, with a second version at Versailles.

The Coroner

The Coroner is a British crime drama created by Sally Abbott for BBC One. It aired from 2015 to 2017, following Jane Kennedy in the fictional South Devon town of Lighthaven.

The Corpse Exhibition

The Corpse Exhibition is a short story collection by Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim portraying dictatorship, war, and occupation in Iraq through a blend of brutal realism and surreal fantasy.

The Corpse of Anna Fritz

The Corpse of Anna Fritz (El cadáver de Anna Fritz) is a 2015 Spanish thriller, the feature debut of Hèctor Hernández Vicens, in which three young men assault the corpse of a famous actress in a morgue before she wakes; released 30 October 2015, it screened at Sitges and SXSW.

The Corrections

The Corrections is Jonathan Franzen's third novel, published September 4, 2001, about the Lambert family of St. Jude; it won the 2001 National Book Award, sparked the Oprah's Book Club controversy, and is being adapted by Netflix with Meryl Streep.

The Correspondent (film)

The Correspondent (film): 2024 Australian biographical thriller by Kriv Stenders, also known as a Peter Greste prison drama adapted from The First Casualty; stars Richard Roxburgh, premiered Adelaide 2024, 100% Rotten Tomatoes.

The Correspondent (novel)

The Correspondent, Virginia Evans's 2025 debut epistolary novel about 73-year-old letter-writer Sybil Van Antwerp of Maryland; Crown, 304 pages; won the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award.