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Crows Are White

Crows Are White is a 2022 documentary by Ahsen Nadeem about a Muslim-born filmmaker who befriends a rebellious monk, Ryushin, at Japan's Mount Hiei Tendai monastery while hiding his relationship with a non-Muslim woman from his devout parents.

Crows Zero

Crows Zero (クローズZERO, Crows: Episode 0) is Takashi Miike's 2007 live-action prequel to Hiroshi Takahashi's Crows manga, starring Shun Oguri as Genji Takiya; it earned 2.5 billion yen and spawned Crows Zero II and Crows Explode.

Crows Zero II (クローズZERO II)

Crows Zero II (クローズZERO II) is a 2009 Japanese action film by Takashi Miike, sequel to Crows Zero, based on Hiroshi Takahashi's Crows manga; Suzuran High fights Hosen Academy, grossing about 3.02 billion yen.

Crrush

Crrush (Telugu: క్రష్) is a 2021 Telugu adult comedy film written, directed, and produced by Ravi Babu under Flying Frogs, starring Abhay Simha, Krishna Burugula, and Charan Sai; it premiered on ZEE5 on 9 July 2021.

CRSSD Festival

CRSSD Festival is a biannual electronic music festival focused on house and techno, held each March and September at Waterfront Park in San Diego since its 2015 debut.

CRSSD Festival 2017

CRSSD Festival 2017 was the fifth and sixth editions of the twice-yearly house-and-techno festival held at Waterfront Park in downtown San Diego, headlined by Flume and Chromeo.

Cru (wine)

Cru (French, "growth") is a wine term for a terroir, vineyard, or commune and its wine. Meanings differ by region: Burgundy ranks Climats, Champagne communes, Bordeaux châteaux (1855 classification).

Crucible Theatre

The Crucible Theatre (Sheffield's Crucible) is a 1971 thrust-stage producing theatre, Grade II listed, and home of the World Snooker Championship since 1977; a £45m 2028 redevelopment will raise capacity to 1,500 in the round.

Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)

Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) is Salvador Dalí's 1954 oil on canvas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art showing Christ levitating before an unfolded tesseract, painted under his nuclear mysticism fusion of Catholicism, mathematics, and science.

Crude Oil (采油日记)

Crude Oil (采油日记, Caiyou riji) is Wang Bing's 2008, 14-hour documentary video installation about oil workers in the Gobi Desert of Qinghai, China; premiered at Rotterdam 2008, originally planned at 70 hours.

Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American teen drama and romance directed by Roger Kumble, adapted from the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon.

Cruel Intentions (franchise)

The Cruel Intentions franchise is a series of American films, a 2015 stage musical, and a 2024 Prime Video series, all adapting the 1782 novel Les Liaisons dangereuses.

Cruel Intentions (TV series)

Cruel Intentions is an eight-episode Prime Video drama series (2024), an adaptation of the 1999 film and Les Liaisons Dangereuses, set at Manchester College in Washington, D.C., starring Sarah Catherine Hook and Zac Burgess; canceled after one season in March 2025.

Cruel Intentions 2

Cruel Intentions 2 (Cruel Intentions II) is a 2000 direct-to-video prequel to Cruel Intentions, directed by Roger Kumble, starring Robin Dunne and Amy Adams, assembled from the cancelled Fox series Manchester Prep.

Cruel Intentions 3

Cruel Intentions 3 is a 2004 direct-to-video drama, the third film in the Cruel Intentions series, directed by Scott Ziehl, written by Rhett Reese, starring Kerr Smith, Kristina Anapau, and Nathan Wetherington as wagering college students.

Cruel Story of Youth (青春残酷物語)

Cruel Story of Youth (青春残酷物語, Seishun zankoku monogatari) is Nagisa Oshima's 1960 Shochiku film about a delinquent schoolgirl and student whose affair ends in ruin; its hit status coined the term Shochiku Nouvelle Vague.

Cruel Summer (Bananarama song)

"Cruel Summer" is a 1983 synth-pop song by the British group Bananarama that reached No. 8 in the UK and became their first US top ten hit in 1984.

Cruel Summer (GOOD Music album)

Cruel Summer is a 2012 hip hop compilation album by Kanye West's label GOOD Music, its debut release as a collective, featuring Pusha T, Big Sean, and Jay-Z.

Cruel Summer (Taylor Swift song)

Cruel Summer: Taylor Swift synth-pop song from Lover (2019), written with Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent; a 2019 album track that reached Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 in 2023 via the Eras Tour and TikTok.

Cruel Summer (TV series)

Cruel Summer is an American teen drama psychological thriller anthology on Freeform, created by Bert V. Royal with Jessica Biel executive producing. Season 1 (2021) covers Kate Wallis's abduction in Texas across 1993–1995; season 2 (2023) resets with a new cast around Y2K.

Cruella (film)

Cruella (film), also known as Disney's Cruella, is a 2021 American crime comedy. It stars Emma Stone and Emma Thompson, and is set in 1970s London.

Cruella de Vil

Cruella de Vil is the fashion-obsessed villainess of Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians and Disney's 1961 animated film, who schemes to make coats from Dalmatian puppy fur; later played by Glenn Close (1996) and Emma Stone (2021).

Cruising (film)

Cruising (1980) is William Friedkin's thriller starring Al Pacino as an undercover cop in New York's gay S&M leather bars hunting a serial killer; protested by gay activists, cut by about 40 minutes, later reappraised as a cult classic.

Cruller

Cruller: a deep-fried doughnut-family pastry, from Dutch krullen "to curl" (American English, 1805). Two forms exist: twisted yeasted Dutch/German crullers and the ridged French cruller of piped choux pastry; youtiao is the Chinese salted namesake.

Crumb (film)

Crumb (1994) is Terry Zwigoff's documentary portrait of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, his brothers Charles and Maxon, and wife Aline Kominsky-Crumb. Shot over six years, presented by David Lynch, it won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and holds 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll is Sony's anime-focused streaming service, founded in 2006, acquired via Funimation from AT&T in 2021 for $1.175 billion, and renamed Crunchyroll LLC in 2022. It serves 200+ countries with simulcasts, tiers from $7.99, and a subscriber-only store.

Crunchyroll Anime Award for Anime of the Year

Anime of the Year is the top prize of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards, held since 2017. Judges and fans pick the winner; past champions include Yuri on Ice, Solo Leveling, and My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON (2026).

Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Character

Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Character: character honors at the annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards (since 2017), now Best Main Character, Best Supporting Character, and "Must Protect At All Costs"; recent winners include Sung Jinwoo (2025) and Maomao (2026).

Crunchyroll Anime Awards

The Crunchyroll Anime Awards, held by Crunchyroll since 2017 in Tokyo, honor the year's best anime via two rounds of judge and fan voting across 32 categories; over 70 million votes in 2026 crowned My Hero Academia Final Season.

Crunk

Crunk is a Southern hip hop subgenre from Memphis and Atlanta nightclubs, built on heavy bass, shouted call-and-response chants, and club energy, popularized nationally by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz and peaking in the early-to-mid 2000s before influencing trap and snap music.