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CTRL (film)

CTRL (कन्ट्रोल) is a 2024 Hindi screenlife thriller directed by Vikramaditya Motwane, starring Ananya Panday as influencer Nella Awasthi, whose AI app erases her ex until it takes control; Netflix, October 4, 2024.

Ctrl (SZA album)

Ctrl (pronounced "control") is SZA's debut studio album, released June 9, 2017 on Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA. Originally titled A and long delayed, it earned five Grammy nominations, a Metacritic score of 87, and record Billboard 200 longevity for a Black female artist's debut.

Cuando fui bonita

Cuando fui bonita is a Mexican romantic comedy series produced by TelevisaUnivision, adapted from the 2015 South Korean drama She Was Pretty and starring Geraldine Galván.

Cuatro

The cuatro is a small Latin American guitar-family instrument in two nationally celebrated forms: the four-string Venezuelan cuatro, the country's national instrument, and the ten-string, violin-shaped Puerto Rican cuatro.

Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery

Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma, or Heineken México, is a major Mexican brewery founded in Monterrey in 1890, merged with Cervecería Moctezuma in 1985, and owned by Heineken since 2010; it holds about 40% of the Mexican beer market with brands such as Tecate, Dos Equis, and Sol.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Gooding Jr. (born 1968, The Bronx) is an American actor who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Jerry Maguire (1996), broke out in Boyz n the Hood, and earned an Emmy nomination as O.J. Simpson.

Cuba Gooding Sr.

Cuba Gooding Sr. (1944-2017), American soul singer, lead vocalist of the Main Ingredient; hits "Everybody Plays the Fool" and "I Just Don't Want to Be Lonely"; father of actor Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cubadisco

Cubadisco, formally the Feria Internacional Cubadisco, is Cuba's international music fair and awards event, held each May in Havana since 1997 under the Instituto Cubano de la Música.

Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar

Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar) is a 1940 essay by Fernando Ortiz comparing Cuba's two signature crops, tobacco and sugar.

Cuban cuisine

Cuban cuisine: a Creole cooking tradition of Taíno, Spanish, African, and Chinese layers, unified by sofrito and mojo criollo; staples include congrí, ropa vieja, lechón asado, and tostones, now shaped by rationing and paladares.

Cuban Doll

Cuban Doll (Taylor Star Williams, born 1998) is a Dallas, Texas rapper and singer, formerly Cuban da Savage, known for her 2017 Aaliyah Keef persona and albums Cuban Link, Karma, Savage Life, and All or Nothing.

Cuban espresso

Cuban espresso (café cubano, cafecito): small sweet espresso from Cuba in which raw sugar is whipped with the first drops into an espumita foam; base of colada, cortadito, and café con leche, central to Miami ventanita culture.

Cuban Link

Cuban Link, born Felix Delgado in 1974 in Havana, is a Bronx rapper and former Terror Squad member associated with Big Pun; the name also denotes a flattened curb-chain jewelry style.

Cuban National Ballet

Ballet Nacional de Cuba, the Cuban National Ballet: Havana classical ballet company founded 28 October 1948 by Alicia, Fernando, and Alberto Alonso; nationalized after the 1959 revolution; home of the Cuban school of ballet, famed for its Giselle and dancers such as Carlos Acosta.

Cuban Pete (song)

Cuban Pete (song): 1936 rumba number by José Norman (Norman Henderson), first recorded by Mantovani; famous through Desi Arnaz's 1946 film and recording, I Love Lucy, and Jim Carrey's The Mask.

Cuban poster art

Cuban poster art is the graphic poster tradition that flourished in Cuba after the 1959 Revolution, best known for hand-designed silkscreen film posters made at ICAIC.

Cuban sandwich

Cuban sandwich (Cubano, mixto): a pressed sandwich of ham, mojo roast pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard on Cuban bread. Tampa adds Genoa salami, Miami does not; records place it on Havana menus in the 1800s before Tampa restaurants.

Cube (1997 film)

Cube (1997) is a Canadian sci-fi horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali, also known as キューブ. Six strangers with complementary skills awaken in a deadly maze of cube-shaped rooms; made for $600,000 on one set, it won TIFF and Sitges awards and inspired sequels and a 2021 Japanese remake.

Cube (film series)

Cube film series: Canadian sci-fi horror franchise begun by Vincenzo Natali's 1997 film Cube, starring Nicole de Boer and David Hewlett; strangers trapped in a deadly cube maze; sequels Hypercube (2002), Cube Zero (2004), and a 2021 Japanese remake.

Cube 2: Hypercube

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) is a Canadian sci-fi horror sequel to Cube, directed by Andrzej Sekula, written by Sean Hood and Ernie Barbarash, about ten strangers trapped in shifting quantum-reality cube rooms built by IZON.

Cube Entertainment (큐브엔터테인먼트)

Cube Entertainment (큐브엔터테인먼트) is a South Korean entertainment company founded in 2006 and listed on the KOSDAQ market, best known for the K-pop acts (G)I-DLE, BTOB, and PENTAGON.

Cube Zero

Cube Zero (2004) is a Canadian sci-fi horror thriller, the third Cube film and a prequel to Cube (1997), written and directed by Ernie Barbarash, starring Zachary Bennett as a technician who enters the deadly Cube to rescue a prisoner.

Cubicles (web series)

Cubicles (क्यूबिकल) is a TVF Hindi comedy-drama web series following first jobber Piyush Prajapati in India's IT sector; four five-episode seasons on SonyLIV, 2019 to December 2024, IMDb 8.2/10, renewal unconfirmed.

Cubism

Cubism: avant-garde art movement invented in Paris by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque from 1907, breaking subjects into geometric planes shown from multiple viewpoints; Analytic and Synthetic phases, collage, major influence on 20th-century art.

Cubist sculpture

Cubist sculpture is sculpture made in the visual language of Cubism, developed in Paris from about 1909 through the early 1920s; its major sculptors included Picasso, Archipenko, Duchamp-Villon, and Lipchitz.

Cubo-Futurism

Cubo-Futurism (kubofuturizm) was a short-lived Russian avant-garde movement of about 1912 to 1915 that fused French Cubism with Italian Futurism, producing painters like Malevich and poets like Mayakovsky.

Cuck (album)

Cuck (CUCK/CUKKK, formerly WW3) is an unreleased Kanye West (Ye) album with lyrics written by Dave Blunts, antisemitic content, the singles WW3 and Heil Hitler, a May 2025 leak, and a June 2025 rename to In a Perfect World; never officially released.

Cuckoo (TV series)

Cuckoo is a BBC Three sitcom (2012–2019, 5 series) created by Robin French and Kieron Quirke, starring Greg Davies as Ken Thompson, with Andy Samberg, then Taylor Lautner, and Andie MacDowell as successive lead guests, set in Lichfield.

Cuco Sánchez

Cuco Sánchez, born José del Refugio Sánchez Saldaña (1921–2000), was a Mexican ranchera singer, composer, and actor whose classics include "Fallaste corazón" and "La cama de piedra".

Cuenta Conmigo

Cuenta Conmigo is a 1992 salsa album by Puerto Rican singer Jerry Rivera, released on Sony Discos when he was 18 and his most commercially successful record.