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Bride and Prejudice
Bride and Prejudice (Bride & Prejudice) is Gurinder Chadha's 2004 Bollywood-style musical adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, starring Aishwarya Rai as Lalita Bakshi and Martin Henderson as American Will Darcy, set across India, London, and America.
Bride Hard
Bride Hard (2025) is a Simon West action comedy starring Rebel Wilson as secret agent Sam, who fights mercenaries at her best friend's wedding; released June 20, 2025 by Magenta Light Studios, it scored 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Bride kidnapping
Bride kidnapping, or ala kachuu (кыз ала качуу), is forced marriage by abduction, most associated with Kyrgyzstan. Rare before Soviet rule, it grew from the 1970s, driven by rigid bride prices, shame norms, and weak enforcement.
Bride of Christ
The Bride of Christ, also called the mystic marriage, is a Christian image of the Church or the individual soul as the spouse of Christ.
Bride of Chucky
Bride of Chucky is a 1998 American horror comedy film, the fourth in the Child's Play series, in which Chucky is resurrected by Tiffany, who becomes a doll.
Bride of Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein (1935), also known by working title The Return of Frankenstein, is James Whale's Universal horror sequel in which Boris Karloff's Monster demands a mate; Elsa Lanchester plays the Bride and Mary Shelley.
Bride of Frankenstein (character)
The Bride of Frankenstein, also called the Monster's Mate, is the female creature from James Whale's 1935 Universal film, played by Elsa Lanchester; she is never animated in Shelley's 1818 novel and later appears in The Bride!, Penny Dreadful, and other retellings.
Bride of the Barrier Master
Bride of the Barrier Master (結界師の一輪華, Kekkaishi no Ichirinka) is a Japanese fantasy romance light novel series by Kureha, illustrated by Bodax, published by Kadokawa Bunko since December 2021, with an Odayaka manga and a TROYCA anime adaptation.
Bride of the Century (백년의 신부)
Bride of the Century (백년의 신부) is a 2014 TV Chosun weekend drama starring FTISLAND's Lee Hong-gi and Yang Jin-sung, about a chaebol family curse killing each first bride; it was exported across Asia with a Chinese remake.
Bride price
Bride price, or bridewealth, is a marriage payment from the groom's family to the bride's family, the most common form of marriage compensation worldwide, contrasted with dowry, which moves in the opposite direction.
Bride Sweeney
Bride Rose Sweeney is an American Democratic politician in the Ohio House of Representatives, first elected in 2018 as the first woman to represent her district.
Bride Wars
Bride Wars is a 2009 American comedy starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway as best friends whose weddings are mistakenly booked on the same day.
Brides (2025 film)
Brides (2025) is a UK-Italy drama, the debut feature of director Nadia Fall, written by Suhayla El-Bushra, starring Ebada Hassan and Safiyya Ingar as British Muslim teens who run away to Syria, inspired by the 2015 Bethnal Green trio case.
Brides (2026 film)
Brides is an upcoming American gothic horror film written and directed by Chloe Okuno, starring Olivia Cooke as Sally Bishop, a woman stranded at a mysterious Italian villa in 1961.
Brides of Dracula
Brides of Dracula (1960) is a Hammer Films gothic horror sequel to Horror of Dracula, directed by Terence Fisher with Peter Cushing as Van Helsing; Dracula himself never appears, the villain being Baron Meinster (David Peel) after Christopher Lee declined the role.
Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel subtitled The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, chronicles Charles Ryder's bond with the Catholic Flyte family; published by Chapman & Hall and the Book Society, adapted in the 1981 Granada serial and 2008 film.
Brideshead Revisited (film)
Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold, the first feature-film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel, starring Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, and Emma Thompson.
Bridesmaid
A bridesmaid is a woman who attends and supports the bride at a wedding. The role spans ceremony duties, months of planning labor, and costs of roughly $1,700 per bridesmaid, with parties shrinking to about four per side by 2026.
Bridesmaids (2011 film)
Bridesmaids (2011) is an American comedy directed by Paul Feig, written by and starring Kristen Wiig with Annie Mumolo, about a maid of honor whose life unravels; it earned two Oscar nominations and grossed $288.4 million worldwide.
Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span an obstacle such as a river, valley, or road, allowing people and vehicles to cross; basic types include beam, arch, and suspension.
Bridge (music)
Bridge (music), also called middle 8: a contrasting song section, usually after the second chorus, with new melody, chords, and lyrics, leading back to the final chorus in verse-chorus and AABA forms.
Bridge Alliance
The Bridge Alliance is a Singapore-headquartered strategic alliance of mobile network operators, founded in 2004 by seven Asia Pacific operators, supporting roaming, IoT, and enterprise mobility.
Bridge at Abodiacum
Bridge at Abodiacum: ancient Roman bridge over the Licca (Lech) river at Abodiacum, the road station identified with Epfach, Bavaria, on the Via Claudia Augusta between Augsburg and the Alps.
Bridge at Aspendos
Bridge at Aspendos (Eurymedon Bridge): Seljuk seven-arch bridge of 1239/40 over the Eurymedon (Köprüçay) near Aspendos, Turkey, built on a larger Roman bridge and reused about 250 perforated aqueduct siphon pipes as spolia.
Bridge at Augusta Vindelicum
Bridge at Augusta Vindelicum: a Pleiades-recorded ancient bridge over the Licca (Lech) river at Augusta Vindelicum, Roman Augsburg, capital of Raetia. Mapped in Barrington Atlas 12 D4; no physical remains found in Augsburg.
Bridge at Brugnato
Bridge at Brugnato (Ponte romano sul fiume Vara): medieval stone bridge, probably Roman in origin, over the Vara river at Brugnato, Liguria. Carried the Pontremoli–Sestri Levante road; central arch rebuilt in 1660 after a flood.
Bridge at the Asian Games
Bridge at the Asian Games: contract bridge, a mind sport, debuted at Jakarta-Palembang 2018 after OCA approval in 2016, was played at Hangzhou 2023 with 3 golds, and per India's federation is excluded from Aichi-Nagoya 2026.
Bridge at the World Mind Sports Games
Bridge at the World Mind Sports Games: contract bridge within the IMSA-run WMSG, held in Beijing 2008 and Lille 2012 with chess, draughts, go, and xiangqi; the World Bridge Games were incorporated in 2008 and 2012.
Bridge Base Basic
Bridge Base Basic, also known as BBO basic, is a simplified contract bridge bidding system based on Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC), the mid-1980s system for duplicate bridge.
Bridge Base Online
Bridge Base Online (BBO), bridgebase.com, is the world's largest online contract bridge platform, launched April 23, 2001 by Fred Gitelman. Live human play, GIB/GIBBO robots, ACBL masterpoint tournaments, Vugraph broadcasts, free tier plus $5.99-$9.99 Premium.