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Curtius Rufus
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, probably active in the 1st century CE, who wrote the only surviving Latin history of Alexander the Great, the Historiae Alexandri Magni.
Curve (film)
Curve is a 2015 American Blumhouse psychological horror-thriller directed by Iain Softley, starring Julianne Hough and Teddy Sears; a bride crashes her car to escape a drifter and is trapped in the wreck. Distinct from the unrelated 2016 Tim Egan short film of the same name.
Curved Air
Curved Air: English progressive rock band formed in London in 1970, named after Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air. Fronted by Sonja Kristina; debut Air Conditioning was rock's first picture disc; Back Street Luv hit UK No. 4; Stewart Copeland drummed 1974-76.
Curzio Malaparte
Curzio Malaparte, pen name of Kurt Erich Suckert (1898–1957), Italian writer and journalist; author of Kaputt (1944) and La pelle (1949), the coup d'état treatise of 1931, and the Capri villa Casa Malaparte.
Cusco School
The Cusco School (Escuela cuzqueña) was a Roman Catholic painting tradition that developed in Cusco, Peru, during the colonial period, chiefly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Cush Jumbo
Cush Jumbo, British actress and writer (born 1985), known as Lucca Quinn in The Good Wife and The Good Fight, Ian Charleson Award winner, Josephine and I author, Hamlet at the Young Vic, and lead of Apple TV+'s Criminal Record.
Custard
Custard: milk or cream cooked with eggs and sugar, thickened by egg-protein coagulation near 80°C; also called crème anglaise. Covers stirred, baked, and savory types, etymology from crustade, Bird's custard powder, and food safety.
Custer of the West
Custer of the West (1967), also released as A Good Day for Fighting, is a Robert Siodmak biographical Western starring Robert Shaw as General Custer, shot in Super Technirama 70 in Spain for Cinerama Releasing.
Custody (2023 film)
Custody (కస్టడీ) is a 2023 Telugu-Tamil bilingual action thriller directed by Venkat Prabhu, starring Naga Chaitanya as a constable protecting a witness, with Krithi Shetty and Arvind Swami; released 12 May 2023, a box office flop.
Custom crush winemaking
Custom crush winemaking: a licensed bonded winery produces wine for clients who own the grapes or wine and market it under their own label, avoiding winery capital costs; distinct from alternating proprietorship.
Cut Bank (film)
Cut Bank is a 2015 American crime thriller directed by Matt Shakman, written by Roberto Patino, starring Liam Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Bruce Dern, and Billy Bob Thornton; released by A24 on April 3, 2015, filmed in Alberta, Canada, not Montana.
Cut Copy (group)
Cut Copy is an Australian electronic band formed in Melbourne in 2001 by Dan Whitford, known for the chart-topping In Ghost Colours (2008) and the Grammy-nominated Zonoscope (2011).
Cut of beef
Cut of beef: portions of a cattle carcass separated into primal, subprimal, and retail cuts such as chuck, rib, loin, and round. Distinguished by USDA carcass grading (Prime, Choice, Select by marbling and maturity), muscle-driven tenderness, and matching cooking methods.
Cut of pork
Cut of pork: portions of a pig carcass separated into primals (US: shoulder, loin, side, leg; Canadian: leg, loin, shoulder, lacone, belly) and retail cuts such as chops, ribs, belly, and ham, with standardized names and safe cooking temperatures.
Cut Off (upcoming film)
Cut Off is an undated upcoming Warner Bros. comedy directed by Jonah Hill, co-written with Ezra Woods, starring Hill and Kristen Wiig as rich siblings cut off by their parents; it lost its July 17, 2026 release date.
Cut the Crap
Cut the Crap is the sixth and final studio album by the English punk band the Clash, released in 1985 and disowned by Joe Strummer.
Cut Throat City
Cut Throat City (2020) is a crime drama directed by RZA, written by P.G. Cuschieri, about four friends in post-Katrina New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward who turn to heist after FEMA fails them; Well Go USA release, $864,928 worldwide gross.
Cut-up technique
Cut-up technique: a writing method of cutting a text into pieces and rearranging them at random; discovered by Brion Gysin in Paris in 1959 and popularized by William S. Burroughs in Minutes to Go and the Nova Trilogy.
Cute Girl (就是溜溜的她)
Cute Girl (就是溜溜的她, Lovable You) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1980 Taiwanese directorial debut, a 90-minute romantic comedy starring Fong Fei-fei and Kenny Bee, a Taipei box-office hit with early long-take style.
Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (CGDCT) is English-speaking anime fandom slang for a slice-of-life anime and manga genre of all-female casts doing everyday activities, tied to yonkoma manga, Azumanga Daioh, Lucky Star, and K-On!, with no exact Japanese equivalent term.
Cute Programmer (程序员那么可爱)
Cute Programmer (程序员那么可爱, Cheng Xuyuan Na Me Ke Ai), also called The Programmer Is So Cute, is a 2021 Tencent Video Chinese rom-com drama, 30 episodes, starring Xing Zhaolin and Zhu Xudan, adapted from the manhua 程序媛哪有这么可爱.
Cutie Honey (キューティーハニー)
Cutie Honey (キューティーハニー) is Go Nagai's 1973 transforming-heroine manga and anime about android Honey Kisaragi, who fights Panther Claw using the aerial element fixing device and "Honey Flash!" transformations.
Cutie mark
Cutie mark: the unique flank symbol of My Little Pony characters, named in 2003 as a pun on beauty marks, signaling talent or destiny; central to Friendship Is Magic and the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
Cutie Street
CUTIE STREET (キューティー ストリート, Kyūsuto) is an eight-member Japanese idol girl group that debuted August 4, 2024 from ASOBISYSTEM's KAWAII LAB. project; its TikTok-viral debut single "Kawaii Dake ja Dame Desu ka?" won the 67th Japan Record Awards New Artist Award.
Cuties
Cuties (Mignonnes) is Maïmouna Doucouré's 2020 French debut drama about an 11-year-old Senegalese-French girl in a dance troupe; Sundance Directing Award winner, Netflix release, 2020 controversy.
Cutlery
Cutlery (US: silverware, flatware) is the set of knives, forks, and spoons for eating; from Latin cultellus via Old French coutellerie, historically tied to Sheffield, standardized under ISO/TC 186.
Cutlet
Cutlet: a small piece of meat or a breaded patty of minced meat, fish, or vegetables, from French côtelette (1706). Covers schnitzel, cotoletta alla milanese, tonkatsu, and Indian cutlets.
Cutout animation
Cutout animation is a stop-motion technique in which flat jointed figures cut from paper or card are moved frame by frame beneath an overhead camera.
Cutouts
Cutouts is the third studio album by The Smile, the English art rock band featuring Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, released through XL Recordings in 2024.
Cutter's Way
Cutter's Way (1981), originally released as Cutter and Bone, is Ivan Passer's neo-noir adapted from Newton Thornburg's novel, starring Jeff Bridges and John Heard; pulled after one week, re-released by UA Classics, later acclaimed.