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Complicité

Complicité (originally Théâtre de Complicité) is a British international touring theatre company founded in 1983 by Simon McBurney, Annabel Arden, Fiona Gordon and Marcello Magni, known for Lecoq-influenced devised physical theatre such as Mnemonic and The Encounter.

Composer

Composer: a person who writes music, especially classical music; the music sense of the word dates from the 1590s. Covers what composers do, composer versus songwriter, arranger, and orchestrator, screen and game composition, and AI exposure.

Composition (visual arts)

Composition (visual arts): the arrangement of elements of art within a work, using rule of thirds, focal point, balance, rhythm, scale, and negative space to direct the eye and shape meaning; distinct from musical composition and Kandinsky's Composition series.

Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue

Composition with large red plane, yellow, black, gray and blue (Compositie met groot rood vlak) is a 59.5 x 59.5 cm 1921 oil painting by Piet Mondrian at Kunstmuseum Den Haag, with edge-stopping lines, non-primary colors and Joosten number B130.

Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program

Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), the Philippines' land redistribution program under Republic Act 6657 of 1988, extended by CARPER in 2009; over 4.8 million hectares distributed to about 2.8 million beneficiaries, with parcelization and debt condonation ongoing toward a 2028 completion target.

Compton (album)

Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre is Dr. Dre's third studio album, released August 7, 2015 on Aftermath/Interscope exclusively via Apple Music; inspired by the Straight Outta Compton biopic, it scrapped Detox and earned a Metacritic score of 82.

Compton's Most Wanted

Compton's Most Wanted (CMW) is an American gangsta rap group formed in 1987 in Compton, California, led by MC Eiht with Tha Chill, DJ Mike T, DJ Slip, and the Unknown DJ. Known for the 1990 debut It's a Compton Thang, the 1991 hit "Growin' Up in the Hood," and a laid-back, soul-sampling West Coast sound distinct from N.W.A.

Compulsion (1959 film)

Compulsion (1959) is Richard Fleischer's black-and-white courtroom drama, adapted from Meyer Levin's 1956 novel about the 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder, starring Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, and Bradford Dillman, who shared Cannes Best Actor.

Compulsion (2024 film)

Compulsion (2024) is a British erotic thriller directed and co-written by Neil Marshall, starring Anna-Maria Sieklucka, Charlotte Kirk, and Zach McGowan. Set in Malta, it follows con artists and the "Maltese Phantom" murders; Saban Films released it September 19, 2025.

Computer animation

Computer animation creates the illusion of motion with computer-generated frames; also called CGI animation. Spans 1960s research, keyframe interpolation (Hunger, 1974), Pixar's Toy Story (1995), the first fully computer-animated feature film.

Computer music

Computer music: music made or composed with digital computers, from CSIRAC and the 1951 Ferranti Mark 1 recording through Max Mathews' MUSIC, FM synthesis, DAWs, and AI text-to-music systems.

Comrade Detective

Comrade Detective (Tovarășul milițian) is a 2017 Amazon Prime Video satire: a faux 1980s Romanian communist cop show filmed in Romania, dubbed by Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, six episodes, ended after one season.

Comrade in America

Comrade in America (CIA, സി.ഐ.) is a 2017 Malayalam political romantic comedy directed by Amal Neerad, starring Dulquer Salmaan as communist Aji Mathew, who crosses Nicaragua, Honduras, and Mexico without papers to reach his love in the US.

Comrades (The Americans)

"Comrades" is the season 2 premiere of FX's The Americans, aired February 26, 2014. Written by Weisberg and Fields, it shows Elizabeth's return from injury, Philip killing Afghan contacts, and fellow Soviet agents murdered, ending with their son finding the bodies.

Comrades: Almost a Love Story (甜蜜蜜)

Comrades: Almost a Love Story (甜蜜蜜) is a 1996 Hong Kong romantic drama by Peter Chan, written by Ivy Ho, starring Leon Lai and Maggie Cheung as mainland migrants in Hong Kong and New York; it won nine Hong Kong Film Awards.

Comté cheese

Comté: French AOP raw cow's milk cooked pressed cheese from the Jura massif, made in 40 kg wheels from Montbéliarde milk in cooperative fruitières, aged at least 120 days, France's largest AOP by tonnage.

Comte de Lautréamont

Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym of Isidore Ducasse (1846–1870), a French-language poet whose prose epic Les Chants de Maldoror became a foundational text for the Surrealists.

Con Altura

"Con Altura" is a 2019 reggaeton song by the Spanish singer Rosalía featuring J Balvin and El Guincho, released through Columbia Records and winner of the Latin Grammy for Best Urban Song.

Con Calma

Con Calma is a 2019 reggaeton single by Daddy Yankee featuring Canadian artist Snow, reworking Snow's 1992 hit Informer; released January 24, 2019 on El Cartel Records, it topped Hot Latin Songs for 14 weeks and won a Billboard Latin award.

Con City

Con City (கான் சிட்டி) is a 2026 Tamil comedy-crime-family film, Harish Durairaj's directorial debut, starring Arjun Das and Anna Ben; released 26 June 2026, 152 minutes, UA13+, music by Sean Roldan, streaming on Netflix.

Con esa misma mirada

Con esa misma mirada (With That Same Look) is a Mexican ViX drama series (2025), Argos/TelevisaUnivision adaptation of Señora Isabel, starring Angélica Rivera, Diego Klein, and Iván Sánchez in three eight-episode seasons.

Con Man (web series)

Con Man is a comedy web series about a struggling actor who attends fan conventions. It raised over $3 million on Indiegogo, becoming the highest-funded web series at the time.

Cơn Mưa Ngang Qua

"Cơn Mưa Ngang Qua" ("the passing rain") is a Vietnamese pop and hip-hop song by Sơn Tùng M-TP, his 2011 breakout hit about lost love returning with rain.

Con Mum

Con Mum is a 2025 British Netflix true-crime documentary directed by Nick Green about pastry chef Graham Hornigold, whose long-lost mother Dionne Marie Hanna, a con artist, defrauded him of about £300,000.

Con O'Neill (actor)

Con O'Neill (Robert O'Neill, born 1966, Weston-super-Mare) is an English actor, Olivier Award winner for Blood Brothers, known for Chernobyl, Our Flag Means Death's Izzy Hands, The Batman, and Happy Valley.

Con te partirò

Con te partirò ("Time to Say Goodbye") is an Italian song by Francesco Sartori and Lucio Quarantotto, premiered by Andrea Bocelli at Sanremo 1995 (fourth place) and, as a Sarah Brightman duet of 1996, a 12-million-selling international hit.

Conan (talk show)

Conan was Conan O'Brien's TBS late-night talk show, running November 8, 2010 to June 24, 2021 after his Tonight Show exit; it shifted to a 30-minute one-guest format in 2019 and ended after 11 years.

Conan Gray

Conan Gray, American singer-songwriter born 1998 in San Diego to an Irish father and Japanese mother, rose from YouTube with "Idle Town" (2017). Albums: Kid Krow, Superache, Found Heaven, Wishbone.

Conan O'Brien

Conan O'Brien (Conan Christopher O'Brien, born 1963) is an American comedian and talk-show host of Late Night, The Tonight Show, and Conan on TBS, now hosting Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend and the 2025 Oscars.

Conan O'Brien Must Go

Conan O'Brien Must Go is an HBO/Max comedy travel series (2024–present) in which Conan O'Brien visits podcast fans worldwide; three seasons, Werner Herzog intros, Emmy-winning, Conaco-produced.