Arts and culture

Coming of Age Day (成人の日)

Coming of Age Day (成人の日, Seijin no Hi) is a Japanese national holiday on the second Monday of January, created by the 1948 holidays law, originally on January 15, honoring new adults; most municipalities hold seijin-shiki ceremonies for 20-year-olds.

Coming Out (1989 film)

Coming Out (1989), Heiner Carow's DEFA drama, the first and only East German feature film on homosexuality, premiered the night the Berlin Wall fell and won the 1990 Silver Bear and Teddy Award.

Coming Out Colton

Coming Out Colton is a six-episode Netflix reality docuseries (premiered December 3, 2021) following former NFL player and Bachelor star Colton Underwood, the first Bachelor lead to come out as gay, through his coming-out journey; mixed reviews.

Coming to America

Coming to America: 1988 Paramount romantic comedy directed by John Landis, starring Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem of Zamunda and Arsenio Hall; released 29 June 1988, grossed $288.8 million, followed by the 2021 sequel Coming 2 America.

Coming Up for Air

Coming Up for Air is a 1939 novel by George Orwell about George Bowling, an insurance salesman who revisits his childhood village on the eve of war.

Coming Up Roses (Harry Styles song)

"Coming Up Roses" is a piano-and-orchestra ballad by Harry Styles from his 2026 album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally., the only song he wrote entirely himself.

Coming-of-age story

Coming-of-age story: narrative genre following a young protagonist's growth from innocence to maturity, closely tied to the German Bildungsroman (novel of formation, Goethe's Wilhelm Meister); found in novels, YA fiction, and film.

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, formed 1967 in Ann Arbor by George Frayne IV, was an American country rock/bar band blending rockabilly, Western swing, and R&B; known for the 1972 Top Ten hit "Hot Rod Lincoln" and broke up after its 1976 European tour.

Commander Karan Saxena

Commander Karan Saxena (कमांडर करण सक्सेना) is a 2024 Hindi action espionage web series on Disney+ Hotstar, based on Amit Khan's pulp novels, starring Gurmeet Choudhary as a RAW agent; 20 weekday episodes ran from 8 July to 2 August 2024.

Commander Steel

Commander Steel (Henry "Hank" Heywood) is DC Comics' cyborg WWII superhero, created by Gerry Conway and Don Heck in Steel, the Indestructible Man #1 (1978), an All-Star Squadron member distinct from John Henry Irons's Steel, with a legacy through Steel II and Citizen Steel.

Commando (1985 film)

Commando (1985), Mark L. Lester action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Matrix, also known as the Joel Silver-produced Val Verde rescue movie; $34.9M US gross, 70% Tomatometer, no sequel.

Commando (2023 TV series)

Commando (2023) is a four-episode Hindi action thriller web series on Disney+ Hotstar, created and directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, adapting the Vidyut Jammwal Commando film franchise with Prem Parija as the new commando Virat.

Commando 2: The Black Money Trail

Commando 2: The Black Money Trail is a 2017 Hindi action thriller, the second Commando film, directed by Deven Bhojani, starring Vidyut Jammwal, Adah Sharma, and Esha Gupta, about a team sent to Malaysia to catch black money launderer Vicky Chaddha.

Commando 3 (film)

Commando 3 (कमांडो 3) is a 2019 Hindi action thriller, the third Commando film, directed by Aditya Datt, starring Vidyut Jammwal as Karan Singh Dogra stopping a London-based terror plot by Gulshan Devaiah's Buraq Ansari; released 29 November 2019.

Commando: A One Man Army

Commando: A One Man Army is a 2013 Hindi action thriller directed by Dilip Ghosh, starring Vidyut Jammwal, Pooja Chopra, and Jaideep Ahlawat; first of the Commando series, released 10 April 2013, known for Jammwal's real stunts.

Comme des Garçons

Comme des Garçons, Japanese avant-garde fashion house founded by Rei Kawakubo (川久保玲; womenswear 1969, company 1973), Paris debut 1981, known for deconstruction, black, fragrance, and Dover Street Market.

Commedia dell'arte

Commedia dell'arte: Italian professional improvised theatre with stock masked characters (Arlecchino, Pantalone, Pulcinella), arising mid-sixteenth century, earliest company Padua 1545, ending with the Goldoni-Gozzi reforms of the 1750s.

Commendatori

Commendatori (plural of commendatore) is The Sopranos season 2 episode 4, written by David Chase, directed by Tim Van Patten, aired February 6, 2000: Tony, Paulie, and Christopher visit Naples, meet boss Annalisa, and recruit Furio Giunta.

Commissioner Gordon

Commissioner Gordon, James "Jim" W. Gordon, is DC Comics' Gotham City police commissioner and Batman's chief law-enforcement ally, created by Kane and Finger, debuting in Detective Comics #27 (1939), known for the Bat-Signal and incorruptibility.

Committed literature

Committed literature (Arabic: al-adab al-multazim) is literature that deliberately takes a stand on social, political, or moral questions, formulated by Jean-Paul Sartre in the late 1940s.

Committee Kurrollu

Committee Kurrollu (కమిటీ కుర్రోళ్ళు) is a 2024 Telugu coming-of-age drama, Yadhu Vamsi's debut, produced by Niharika Konidela. Eleven village friends split over caste and reservation; it won Best Telugu Film at the 72nd National Film Awards.

Commodores

The Commodores are an American funk, soul, and R&B band formed in 1968 at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, best known for Motown hits like "Easy" and "Brick House."

Commodus as Hercules

Commodus as Hercules is the depiction of Roman emperor Commodus (ruled 180–192) with Hercules' lion skin, club, and golden apples, most famously in the Capitoline marble bust.

Common (rapper)

Common (Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr., born 1972, formerly Common Sense) is a Chicago rapper, actor, and activist known for Resurrection, Be, the Oscar-winning song Glory, and 2024's The Auditorium, Vol. 1 with Pete Rock.

Common Agricultural Policy

Common Agricultural Policy (CAP): the EU's longest standing policy, created 1962, supporting farmers, markets, and rural areas with €386.6 billion for 2021-2027 via direct payments, market measures, and rural development.

Common Ground

Common Ground is a 1985 work of narrative nonfiction by J. Anthony Lukas recounting Boston's school desegregation conflict through three families; it won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize.

Common metre

Common meter, abbreviated C.M., is a four-line verse stanza of alternating eight- and six-syllable iambic lines, the standard stanza of English hymns and the old ballad, sung to "Amazing Grace".

Common People (Black Mirror)

Common People is the Black Mirror season 7 premiere, directed by Ally Pankiw and written by Charlie Brooker, starring Chris O'Dowd and Rashida Jones as Mike and Amanda, a couple tied to a subscription brain service called Rivermind after Amanda's brain tumour surgery.

Common Side Effects

Common Side Effects is an Adult Swim animated comedy-thriller premiering February 2, 2025, created by Joe Bennett and Steve Hely with Mike Judge and Greg Daniels executive producing, about Marshall Cuso's healing Blue Angel mushroom pursued by the DEA and pharma; renewed for a second season due January 24, 2027.