Arts and culture

Cross River skin-covered masks

Cross River skin-covered masks are masks and crest headdresses made by the Ejagham (Ekoi) and related peoples of Nigeria and Cameroon, mostly in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Cross Road Blues

Cross Road Blues ("Crossroads") is a 1936 Delta blues song by Robert Johnson, recorded November 27, 1936 at San Antonio's Gunter Hotel for Vocalion, famous for the crossroads-devil legend and Cream's 1968 cover.

Cross-dressing in film and television

Cross-dressing in film and television is the depiction of characters wearing another gender's clothing on screen, a device present since early cinema and most common in comedy.

Cross-in-square

The cross-in-square, also called the inscribed-cross church or quincunx, is a Byzantine church plan with a domed Greek cross inscribed in a square, dominant from the 9th to 12th centuries.

Cross-stitch

Cross-stitch is counted-thread embroidery made of X-shaped stitches on gridded even-weave fabric such as Aida, worked from a chart; distinct from freehand surface embroidery and needlepoint, with examples dating to AD 850.

Crossed (comics)

Crossed is an extreme-horror comic by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, published by Avatar Press from 2008, about a plague that turns the infected into intelligent sadists marked by a cross-shaped facial rash; it spawned Badlands, Alan Moore's Crossed +100, and a planned film, distinct from Ally Condie's novel Crossed.

Crossed fingers

Crossed fingers, or crossing fingers, is a hand gesture wishing good luck in the West, or, hidden behind the back, canceling a promise to permit a lie.

Crossed Swords Jolly Roger

The Crossed Swords Jolly Roger, a skull over two crossed cutlasses attributed to Calico Jack Rackham, is a 20th-century invention first appearing in Hans Leip's 1959 Bordbuch des Satans, with no 1720 source.

Crosses (band)

Crosses (†††/‡‡‡) is the American dark wave electronic side project of Deftones singer Chino Moreno and Far's Shaun Lopez, formed 2011; EPs, a 2014 self-titled album, then the 2023 Robert Smith- and El-P-featuring second album.

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Crossfaith

Crossfaith (クロスフェイス) is a Japanese electronic metalcore band formed in Osaka in 2006, blending metalcore with hard electronics and playing Western festivals like Download and Warped Tour.

CrossFire (穿越火线)

CrossFire (穿越火线) is a 2020 Chinese esports web drama adapted from Smilegate's shooter game, starring Lu Han and Wu Lei in dual 2008/2019 timelines, streaming 36 episodes on Tencent Video with a Douban score of 8.1.

CrossGen

CrossGen (Cross Generation Comics) was an independent US comic publisher founded by Mark Alessi in 1998 in Oldsmar, Florida, known for the Sigilverse shared universe, salaried in-house creators, and titles like Sigil, Sojourn, and Ruse; it went bankrupt in 2004 and Disney bought its assets.

Crossing (2024 film)

Crossing (2024) is a drama by Swedish-Georgian director Levan Akin, also known from And Then We Danced. Retired teacher Lia searches Istanbul for her trans niece Tekla with neighbor Achi, meeting lawyer Evrim. It won the Teddy Jury Award at the 2024 Berlinale and holds 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Crossing (2026 film)

Crossing (四渡) is a 2026 Chinese war epic directed by Xu Zhanxiong, executive produced by Andrew Lau, starring Liu Ye as Mao Zedong, dramatizing the Four Crossings of the Chishui River; released June 26, 2026, it earned 289 million yuan. Distinct from the American faith drama The Crossing: Shoulders of Mercy.

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" is an 1856 Walt Whitman poem, titled "Sun-Down Poem" until 1860, turning an East River ferry commute into a meditation on time and shared experience.

Crossing Delancey

Crossing Delancey (1988) is Joan Micklin Silver's romantic comedy, from Susan Sandler's play, starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, and Reizl Bozyk, about a matchmaker, a pickle seller, and the Jewish Lower East Side.

Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You

"Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You” (穿过大半个中国去睡你) is a free-verse love poem by the Chinese poet Yu Xiuhua that spread virally online in January 2015.

Crossing Hennessy (月满轩尼诗)

Crossing Hennessy (月满轩尼诗) is a 2010 Hong Kong romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Ivy Ho, starring Jacky Cheung and Tang Wei as Wan Chai singles pushed into matchmaking; it opened the 2010 HKIFF and won HKFCS Best Screenplay.

Crossing Jordan

Crossing Jordan is an NBC crime drama (2001-2007) created by Tim Kring, starring Jill Hennessy as Boston medical examiner Jordan Cavanaugh; six seasons, 117 episodes, canceled in 2007.

Crossing Lines

Crossing Lines is a 2013–2015 police procedural series about an International Criminal Court unit hunting serial killers across open EU borders, created by Edward Allen Bernero, starring William Fichtner, Marc Lavoine, and Donald Sutherland; distinct from unrelated 2026 films of the same title.

Crossing Lingding Ocean

"Crossing Lingding Ocean" (过零丁洋) is a seven-character regulated verse by Southern Song statesman Wen Tianxiang, written in 1279 while a captive of the Yuan army.

Crossing Over (film)

Crossing Over is a 2009 American ensemble drama written and directed by Wayne Kramer, a remake of his 1995 short film, starring Harrison Ford as an ICE agent in Los Angeles; it earned $455,654 domestically and a Metascore of 38.

Crossing Swords

Crossing Swords is a Hulu adult stop-motion comedy created by John Harvatine IV and Tom Root, starring Nicholas Hoult as squire Patrick among wooden peg people; two seasons, 2020-2021, then canceled.

Crossover (fiction)

Crossover (fiction): a story combining characters or settings from two or more distinct narrative worlds, from the 1906 Holmes/Arsène Lupin story to official TV shared universes and fanfiction; distinct from crossover literature, which crosses age audiences.

Crossover thrash

Crossover thrash, also called punk metal, is a fusion of thrash metal and hardcore punk that emerged in the mid-1980s; the name comes from D.R.I.'s 1987 album Crossover, with key bands including Suicidal Tendencies, S.O.D., Municipal Waste, and Power Trip.

Crossroad Bistro (北辙南辕)

Crossroad Bistro (北辙南辕) is a 2021 Chinese urban drama series directed by Feng Xiaogang for iQiyi, about five women in Beijing who open a restaurant together.

Crossroads (1986 film)

Crossroads (1986) is a Walter Hill drama starring Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, and Jami Gertz, written by John Fusco with a Ry Cooder soundtrack, about a Juilliard guitarist seeking a lost Robert Johnson song and dueling the devil's guitarist Steve Vai at a Mississippi crossroads.

Crossroads (2002 film)

Crossroads is a 2002 American coming-of-age road-trip film directed by Tamra Davis, written by Shonda Rhimes, and starring Britney Spears in her first starring film role.

Crossroads (British TV series)

Crossroads (British TV series): ITV soap opera set at a fictional Midlands motel near Birmingham, created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, ran 2 November 1964 to 4 April 1988 (4,510 episodes) with Noele Gordon as Meg Richardson, revived 2001-2003 by Carlton Television.