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Crest (heraldry)
In heraldry, a crest is the three-dimensional figure placed on top of the helm in a full display of arms, not the coat of arms itself.
Cretan School
The Cretan School, also called the Italo-Cretan school, was an icon-painting school on Venetian-ruled Crete from the late 14th to late 17th century, blending Byzantine and Renaissance traditions.
Crew (film)
Crew is a 2024 Hindi heist comedy-drama directed by Rajesh Krishnan, starring Tabu, Kareena Kapoor, and Kriti Sanon as airline attendants turned gold smugglers; released 29 March 2024, it earned ₹89.92 crore in India and streams on Netflix.
Crew cut
Crew cut: short men's haircut with tapered sides and a graduated top of about 1.5 to 3 cm; named for 1930s Harvard and Yale rowing crews, spread by WWII U.S. military grooming, standard in the 1940s and 1950s, with the Ivy League as its longer side-parted variant.
Crew Girl
Crew Girl (掌舵少女) is a 2026 Canadian Netflix teen drama from showrunner Vivian Lin: rower Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau) coxes a boys' crew at Easton Prep after a family scandal; eight episodes, Season 2 announced.
Crewelwork
Crewelwork, also called crewel embroidery, is a form of free surface embroidery worked with two-ply crewel wool on linen or cotton twill, flourishing in Europe and the American colonies from the 16th to 18th centuries.
Cria Cuervos
Cría cuervos (Cria!, Raise Ravens) is Carlos Saura's 1976 Spanish drama about a girl who believes she poisoned her father; it won the 1976 Cannes Grand Prix Spécial du Jury.
Cricket (Bluey)
Cricket is Season 3, Episode 47 of Bluey (aired June 11, 2023), in which Bandit narrates how the dads failed to bowl out cricket-loving Rusty, who finally gives his sister Dusty a catch; it ends with adult Rusty playing professional cricket and was voted Australia's favorite Bluey episode.
Cricket Green
Cricket Green (Cricket Ernest Green) is the 10-year-old protagonist of Disney's Big City Greens, voiced by co-creator Chris Houghton; a mischievous country boy in Big City with Tilly, Bill, and Gramma Alice.
Cries and Whispers
Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop), Ingmar Bergman's 1972 Swedish drama about sisters keeping vigil for the dying Agnes, famous for its red interiors, Sven Nykvist's Oscar-winning cinematography, and Cannes Technical Grand Prize.
Cries in the Drizzle
Cries in the Drizzle (《在细雨中呼喊》) is Yu Hua's first full-length novel, published in 1991, recounting the childhood of a boy given away in rural Zhejiang.
Crime (2021 TV series)
Crime (Irvine Welsh's Crime) is a 2021 BritBox UK psychological crime thriller adapted by Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh from Welsh's 2008 novel, starring Dougray Scott as Edinburgh DI Ray Lennox; two six-episode series aired 2021 and 2023 on BritBox and ITVX.
Crime 101 (2026 film)
Crime 101 is a 2026 American heist thriller directed by Bart Layton, adapted from Don Winslow's novella, starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and Halle Berry. Released 13 February 2026 by Amazon MGM (Sony internationally), it runs 140 minutes and is rated R.
Crime and Punishment (Преступление и наказание)
Crime and Punishment (Преступление и наказание), Dostoevsky's 1866 novel serialized in The Russian Messenger, follows Raskolnikov, a poor ex-student who murders on a Napoleonic theory and seeks redemption through Sonya and confession.
Crime Beat
Crime Beat (2025) is a Hindi ZEE5 crime thriller series directed by Sudhir Mishra and Sanjeev Kaul, adapted from Somnath Batabyal's novel The Price You Pay, starring Saqib Saleem as a rookie Delhi crime journalist; distinct from the 2020 Canadian true crime series of the same name.
Crime in the Streets
Crime in the Streets is a 1956 American juvenile-delinquency drama directed by Don Siegel from Reginald Rose's teleplay, starring John Cassavetes as gang leader Frankie Dane, with James Whitmore, Sal Mineo, and Mark Rydell.
Crime jazz
Crime jazz, also called noir jazz, is a hard-edged, cinematic strain of mid-century American jazz made for film noir and crime and detective television of the 1950s and 1960s.
Crime of the Century (album)
Crime of the Century, Supertramp's third studio album (1974, A&M), produced by Ken Scott; breakthrough prog-rock record with School, Bloody Well Right, Dreamer; UK Top 5, million-selling in Canada.
Crime Patrol (TV series)
Crime Patrol is a long-running Indian true-crime anthology series on Sony Entertainment Television and SonyLIV, premiered May 9, 2003, created by Subramanian S. Iyer, dramatizing real cases; Anup Soni was its signature host, and Ajay Devgn hosts the 2026 Crime Ka Current Season as special host.
Crime Scene Cleaner
Crime Scene Cleaner (Der Tatortreiniger) is a German NDR comedy series (2011-2018, 31 episodes, 7 seasons) starring Bjarne Mädel as cleaner "Schotty", written by Mizzi Meyer (Ingrid Lausund), directed by Arne Feldhusen, a multiple Grimme-Preis winner.
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is a four-part 2021 Netflix docuseries by Joe Berlinger about Elisa Lam's 2013 death at the Cecil Hotel, its dark history, and internet sleuths; 45 million households watched in 28 days.
Crime Story (重案组)
Crime Story (重案組) is a 1993 Hong Kong action-crime film directed by Kirk Wong, starring Jackie Chan as Inspector Eddie Chan investigating a tycoon kidnapping based on the Wang Dehui case; it won Chan the 30th Golden Horse Best Actor and the 13th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Editing.
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).
Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence
The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, called the Arthur Ellis Awards until 2021, are annual literary prizes for Canadian crime writing, established in 1984.
Crime Writers' Association Daggers
The Crime Writers' Association Daggers are annual UK awards for crime, thriller, and mystery writing, with 13 categories including the Gold Dagger for best crime novel.
Crimean Tatar literature
Crimean Tatar literature is the centuries-old literary tradition of the Crimean Tatars, spanning court poetry by khans, folk epics, Sufi writing, and 20th-century works shaped by deportation.
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.