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At Five in the Afternoon
At Five in the Afternoon (Panj-e asr) is a 2003 Iran-France drama by Samira Makhmalbaf about Noqreh, an Afghan girl secretly attending school and dreaming of becoming president; it won the Jury Prize at Cannes 2003.
Azuloscurocasinegro
Azuloscurocasinegro (DarkBlueAlmostBlack) is Daniel Sánchez Arévalo's 2006 Spanish debut feature, a tragicomedy about Jorge, a doorman caring for his stroke-stricken father; it won three Goya Awards in 2007.
Babel (film)
Babel (2006) is a drama by Alejandro González Iñárritu, written by Guillermo Arriaga, linking four families in Morocco, the US–Mexico border, and Japan after a rifle shot; Cannes Best Director, Golden Globe Best Drama, Oscar for Best Original Score.
Bad Guy (나쁜 남자) (2001 film)
Bad Guy (나쁜 남자, Nabbeun Namja) is Kim Ki-duk's 2001 South Korean crime drama in which mute pimp Han-gi (Cho Jae-hyun) forces student Sun-hwa (Seo Won) into prostitution; premiered at Pusan 2001, competed at Berlin 2002.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (巴尔扎克与小裁缝)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (巴尔扎克与小裁缝) is Dai Sijie's 2000 French novel and his 2002 film about two teens re-educated during China's Cultural Revolution whose forbidden Balzac books transform a village seamstress; the film opened Cannes Un Certain Regard and was banned in China.
Bamako (2006 film)
Bamako (2006) is a drama by Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, premiered out of competition at Cannes, in which a courtyard tribunal in Mali's capital puts the World Bank and IMF on trial for Africa's poverty.
Banshee (film)
Banshee (2006) is an American Oxygen TV action-thriller directed by Kari Skogland, written by Kirsten Elms, starring Taryn Manning as car thief Sage hunted by a DJ serial killer (Christian Campbell); 96 min, R, distinct from the 2003 UK Banshee.
Baran (باران)
Baran (باران, "Rain") is Majid Majidi's 2001 Iranian drama about Lateef, an Iranian worker who falls for Rahmat, an Afghan girl disguised as a boy; it won six Fajr Crystal Simorghs and the Montreal Grand Prize and was Iran's Oscar entry.
Becoming Jane
Becoming Jane is a 2007 biographical romantic drama directed by Julian Jarrold, starring Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen and James McAvoy as Tom Lefroy, loosely based on Jon Spence's biography Becoming Jane Austen.
Before Sunset
Before Sunset (2004) is Richard Linklater's real-time romantic drama sequel to Before Sunrise, reuniting Ethan Hawke's Jesse and Julie Delpy's Celine in Paris; it earned a 91 Metascore and an Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination.
Behind the Sun
Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado) is Walter Salles' 2001 Brazil-France-Switzerland drama, adapted from Ismail Kadare's novel, about a 1910 Brazilian blood feud, starring Rodrigo Santoro, a Venice Little Golden Lion winner.
Beijing Bicycle (十七岁的单车)
Beijing Bicycle (十七岁的单车), also released in China as Bicycle (自行车), is Wang Xiaoshuai's 2001 Sixth Generation drama about a migrant courier and a Beijing schoolboy fighting over a stolen bike; it won the 2001 Berlinale Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear and was banned domestically until 2004.
Betelnut Beauty (爱你爱我)
Betelnut Beauty (愛你愛我, Ai ni ai wo) is Lin Cheng-sheng's 2001 Taiwan-France drama about a runaway betelnut seller and an ex-baker in Taipei; it won the 2001 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director and the New Talent Award for Angelica Lee, distinct from the unrelated 2026 thriller Betel Nut Beauty.
Beyond Borders (film)
Beyond Borders is a 2003 Paramount romantic drama directed by Martin Campbell, starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen as aid workers in Ethiopia, Cambodia, and Chechnya; it earned 14% on Rotten Tomatoes and $4.4 million.
Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot is a 2000 British comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, starring Jamie Bell as a coal miner's son who discovers ballet during the 1984–85 miners' strike.
Birth (2004 film)
Birth is a 2004 drama film directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Nicole Kidman as a widow convinced a 10-year-old boy is her dead husband reborn.
Black Snake Moan (film)
Black Snake Moan is Craig Brewer's 2007 drama, also called a Southern Gothic exploitation-style film, in which bluesman Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson) chains Christina Ricci's Rae to a radiator; Justin Timberlake co-stars. Released by Paramount Vantage, it grossed about $10.9 million on a $15 million budget.
Blind Mountain
Blind Mountain (盲山, aka 回家路) is Li Yang's 2007 Chinese drama about college graduate Bai Xuemei, sold as a wife to a remote village; it played Cannes Un Certain Regard and has domestic and original endings.
Blue Crush
Blue Crush is a 2002 American sports drama film directed by John Stockwell and starring Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sanoe Lake as surfers on Oahu's North Shore.
Bobby (2006 film)
Bobby is a 2006 American ensemble drama written and directed by Emilio Estevez, following 22 fictional characters at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on the day of Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination; Kennedy appears only in archival footage.
Bottle Shock
Bottle Shock (2008), also known as 와인 미라클, is Randall Miller's comedy-drama starring Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, and Bill Pullman, loosely dramatizing the 1976 Judgment of Paris wine tasting won by Chateau Montelena.
Breath (숨) (2007 film)
Breath (숨, Soom) is Kim Ki-duk's 2007 South Korean drama about a woman visiting a mute death-row inmate; starring Park Zi-a, Ha Jung-woo, and Chang Chen, it competed at Cannes 2007 and is distinct from Jang Min-yong's 2007 experimental short The Breath.
Brian Banks (film)
Brian Banks is a 2018 American biographical drama directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Aldis Hodge as a high school football star wrongly convicted of rape who won exoneration with help from the California Innocence Project.
Brick Lane (2007 film)
Brick Lane (2007) is Sarah Gavron's feature debut drama, adapted from Monica Ali's Booker-shortlisted 2003 novel, starring Tannishtha Chatterjee as Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman in an arranged marriage in East London; filming was moved off Brick Lane after community protests.
Bright Future (アカルイミライ) (2003 film)
Bright Future (アカルイミライ, Akarui Mirai) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2003 Japanese drama, in Cannes competition, about alienated workers Yuji and Mamoru, a murdered boss, and a poisonous red jellyfish multiplying in Tokyo's canals.
Bright Star (film)
Bright Star (2009) is Jane Campion's romantic drama about poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), based on Andrew Motion's Keats biography; Cannes 2009 selection, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not the Steve Martin musical.
Bright Young Things (film)
Bright Young Things is Stephen Fry's 2003 directorial debut, a British comedy-drama adapting Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies about 1930s London socialites, gossip culture and celebrity, starring Emily Mortimer and Stephen Campbell Moore; the real Bright Young Things were the tabloid-named 1920s party set.
Bronson (film)
Bronson (2008) is Nicolas Winding Refn's British biographical drama starring Tom Hardy as prisoner Michael Peterson, aka Charles Bronson; a $230,000 cult film that earned Hardy a British Independent Film Award and 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Café Lumière (珈琲時光)
Café Lumière (珈琲時光, Kōhī jikō) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2003 Japanese-language tribute to Ozu Yasujiro, commissioned by Shochiku for Ozu's centenary, starring Yo Hitoto and Tadanobu Asano, following a pregnant writer researching composer Jiang Wen-ye in Tokyo.
Camino
Camino (2008) is a Spanish drama by Javier Fesser, inspired by Alexia González-Barros, an Opus Dei family's dying 14-year-old; it won six Goya Awards including Best Film and sparked controversy with Opus Dei.