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The Bronx

The Bronx, coextensive with Bronx County, is New York City's northernmost borough and the only one on the U.S. mainland, formed January 1, 1898; population about 1.4 million, 57% Hispanic, median household income $48,676.

The Bronze (film)

The Bronze is a 2016 American dark comedy, also called The Bronze (2016 film), directed by Bryan Buckley and written by Melissa and Winston Rauch. Melissa Rauch plays bitter ex-gymnast Hope Ann Greggory; it premiered at Sundance 2015, sold for $3 million, and grossed $615,816.

The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman (Медный всадник) is an 1833 narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin about a poor clerk pursued by the statue of Peter the Great after a flood.

The Brood

The Brood is a 1979 Canadian body-horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, and Art Hindle, in which psychoplasmic therapy turns a divorcing woman's rage into killer offspring; inspired by Cronenberg's own divorce.

The Brother from Another Planet

The Brother from Another Planet is John Sayles's 1984 low-budget sci-fi comedy starring Joe Morton as a mute alien escaped slave adapting to Harlem while pursued by two bounty hunters; an allegory of race and immigration.

The Brothers

The Brothers is a 2001 American comedy-drama directed and written by Gary Hardwick, starring Morris Chestnut, Shemar Moore, Bill Bellamy, and D.L. Hughley as friends facing commitment; Screen Gems release grossing $27.5 million.

The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (戸田家の兄妹)

The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (戸田家の兄妹, Toda-ke no Kyōdai) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1941 Shochiku drama about a family's adult children neglecting their widowed mother after the indebted father dies; it ranked first in the 1941 Kinema Junpo Best Ten and anticipated Tokyo Story.

The Brothers Ashkenazi

The Brothers Ashkenazi (Di brider Ashkenazi, די ברידער אַשכּנזי) is a 1936 Yiddish novel by Israel Joshua Singer following twin brothers as business rivals in industrial Łódź, Poland.

The Brothers Bloom

The Brothers Bloom (Bratři Bloomovi) is Rian Johnson's 2008 con-artist comedy-drama starring Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, and Rinko Kikuchi; released 2009 by Summit, it grossed $3.5 million in the US.

The Brothers Four

The Brothers Four, American folk group founded 1957 in Seattle by University of Washington Phi Gamma Delta brothers Bob Flick, John Paine, Mike Kirkland, and Dick Foley; known for "Greenfields" and Oscar-nominated "The Green Leaves of Summer," still touring with Flick, Pearson, McCoy, and Olsen.

The Brothers Grimm (film)

The Brothers Grimm is a 2005 fantasy adventure film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as the Grimm brothers, con artists facing a real curse.

The Brothers Johnson

The Brothers Johnson: George (Lightnin' Licks) and Louis (Thunder Thumbs) Johnson, an American funk-R&B duo from Los Angeles discovered by Quincy Jones on Mellow Madness (1975), known for I'll Be Good to You, Strawberry Letter 23, and Stomp!

The Brothers Karamazov (Братья Карамазовы)

The Brothers Karamazov (Братья Карамазовы) is Fyodor Dostoevsky's eighth and final novel, serialized in Russky Vestnik 1879–1880. A family saga and detective plot about the murder of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov frames debates on God, free will, and the Grand Inquisitor.

The Brothers Sun

The Brothers Sun is a 2024 Netflix action-comedy-drama created by Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu, starring Michelle Yeoh, Justin Chien, and Sam Song Li. A Taipei triad assassin protects his mother and brother in Los Angeles; canceled after one 8-episode season.

The Brown Bunny

The Brown Bunny (2003) is Vincent Gallo's experimental road drama, also called Gallo's Cannes scandal film, starring Gallo and Chloë Sevigny; booed at Cannes 2003, re-edited from 100 to 93 minutes, released 2004 with an unsimulated sex scene.

The Browning Version

The Browning Version is Terence Rattigan's 1948 play about a retiring classics master, adapted most notably in Anthony Asquith's 1951 film with Michael Redgrave (Cannes Best Actor) and Mike Figgis's 1994 remake with Albert Finney.

The Brutalist

The Brutalist is a 2024 Brady Corbet epic drama, co-written with Mona Fastvold, starring Adrien Brody as fictional Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth. Shot on VistaVision for under $10 million, it won the Venice Silver Lion, three Golden Globes, and an Oscar for cinematography.

The Bryologist

The Bryologist, quarterly journal of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS) since 1898, publishing peer-reviewed research on mosses, hornworts, liverworts, and lichens; ISSN 0007-2745.

The Bubble (2022 film)

The Bubble (2022) is a Netflix comedy directed by Judd Apatow, co-written with Pam Brady, about actors quarantined in an English hotel filming Cliff Beasts 6, a flying-dinosaur franchise sequel; released April 1, 2022, starring Karen Gillan, Pedro Pascal, and David Duchovny, and critically panned at 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Buccaneers

The Buccaneers is Edith Wharton's unfinished final novel about 1870s American heiresses seeking English husbands; published posthumously in 1938, completed by Marion Mainwaring in 1993, and adapted for BBC (1995) and Apple TV+ (2023).

The Buccaneers (2023 TV series)

The Buccaneers is an Apple TV+ period drama (2023) created by Katherine Jakeways, adapted from Edith Wharton's unfinished final novel; American heiresses seek husbands in 1870s London; three seasons, renewed 2025.

The Bucket List

The Bucket List is a 2007 American comedy-drama directed by Rob Reiner, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two terminally ill men completing a list before they die.

The Buckingham Murders

The Buckingham Murders is a 2024 Hansal Mehta crime thriller starring Kareena Kapoor Khan as detective Jasmeet Bhamra, who investigates a Sikh boy's murder in High Wycombe while grieving her own child. Released September 13, 2024; 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, 5.9 on IMDb, streaming on Netflix.

The Buckinghams

The Buckinghams: Chicago pop-rock band (formed 1965) behind "Kind of a Drag", #1 in February 1967; also "Don't You Care" and "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"; disbanded 1970, touring again since 1980 under Giammarese and Fortuna.

The Buddha

The Buddha, also known as Gautama Siddhartha or Buddha Shakyamuni, was the teacher whose Dhamma and Saṅgha form the Three Jewels of Buddhism; he taught for 45 years after his awakening.

The Buddha of Suburbia

The Buddha of Suburbia is Hanif Kureishi's 1990 debut novel about Karim Amir, a mixed-race teenager leaving South London suburbs for the theater in the 1970s.

The Buddy Holly Story

The Buddy Holly Story is a 1978 Columbia biographical drama directed by Steve Rash, starring Gary Busey as Buddy Holly. Busey sang live and earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination; Joe Renzetti won for adapted score.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a 2025 historical horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones; it follows a vampire named Good Stab confessing his life story while hunting buffalo in Montana.

The Buffet

The Buffet is R. Kelly's thirteenth studio album, released December 11, 2015 on RCA Records; 13 standard tracks (18 deluxe), guests include Lil Wayne, Jhené Aiko, and Tinashe; peaked at number 16, Metascore 60.

The Bug (musician)

The Bug is the performing name of Kevin Richard Martin, an English electronic producer whose work fuses dancehall and ragga vocals with industrial noise and dub.