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Baishe Srabon
Baishe Srabon (২২শে শ্রাবণ) is a 2011 Bengali psychological thriller directed by Srijit Mukherji, starring Prosenjit Chatterjee and Parambrata Chatterjee as police officers hunting a serial killer who leaves Bengali poetry verses at each murder in Kolkata.
Bait 3D
Bait 3D, also released as Bait, is a 2012 Australian-Singaporean 3D shark thriller directed by Kimble Rendall, about tsunami survivors trapped in a flooded supermarket with great white sharks.
Bajirao Mastani (बाजीराव मस्तानी)
Bajirao Mastani (बाजीराव मस्तानी), 2015 Hindi epic historical romance by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, adapted from Nagnath S. Inamdar's novel Rau, starring Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, and Priyanka Chopra; released 18 December 2015, controversial over historical accuracy, major award winner.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (बजरंगी भाईजान)
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (बजरंगी भाईजान) is a 2015 Hindi film directed by Kabir Khan, starring Salman Khan as a man returning a mute Pakistani girl to her family.
Bakasura Restaurant
Bakasura Restaurant (బకాసుర రెస్టారెంట్) is a 2025 Telugu comedy-horror film directed by debutant SJ Shiva, starring Praveen and Viva Harsha as a gluttonous demon; released 8 August 2025, it earned ₹0.76 crore and streams on Prime Video and Sun NXT.
Bala (बाला) (2019 film)
Bala (बाला) is a 2019 Hindi satirical black comedy directed by Amar Kaushik, starring Ayushmann Khurrana as a Kanpur salesman coping with premature balding; it earned ₹116.38 crore net in India and drew Ujda Chaman plagiarism claims and brownface criticism.
Balagam (బాలగం) (film)
Balagam (బాలగం) is a 2023 Telugu comedy-drama directed by debutant Venu Yeldandi, produced by Dil Raju Productions, starring Priyadarshi, Kavya Kalyanram, and Sudhakar Reddy. Set in rural Telangana around a patriarch's death and 12-day mourning rituals, it earned about ₹26.55 crore worldwide on a ₹3 crore budget and won international festival awards.
Balan: The Boy
Balan: The Boy (ബാലൻ: ദി ബോയ്), 2026 Malayalam psychological survival drama directed by Chidambaram, written by Jithu Madhavan, starring Adhisheshan K R and Farzana Palathingal; released 19 June 2026, streaming on Zee 5 from 31 July 2026; distinct from the 1938 Malayalam sound film Balan.
Ball of Fire
Ball of Fire is a 1941 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, written by Brackett and Wilder from the story "From A to Z", a Snow White-style tale of professors and slang, with four Oscar nominations.
Ballad of a Small Player
Ballad of a Small Player is a 2025 Edward Berger psychological thriller for Netflix, adapted from Lawrence Osborne's 2014 novel, starring Colin Farrell as fugitive gambler Lord Doyle in Macau, with Fala Chen and Tilda Swinton; released theatrically October 15 and streaming October 29, 2025.
Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате)
Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате) is Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 Mosfilm drama about soldier Alyosha Skvortsov's six-day leave home across wartime Russia; Cannes special prize 1960, Lenin Prize 1961, Oscar-nominated screenplay.
Ballerina (2024 film)
Ballerina (2024 film), released June 6, 2025 as From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, is a Len Wiseman action spinoff starring Ana de Armas as assassin Eve Macarro, set between John Wick Chapters 3 and 4; distinct from the 2023 Korean Netflix film of the same name.
Ballerina (발레리나) (2023 film)
Ballerina (발레리나) is a 2023 South Korean Netflix action revenge thriller directed by Lee Chung-hyun, starring Jeon Jong-seo as ex-bodyguard Ok-ju avenging her ballerina friend Min-hee (Park Yu-rim); distinct from the 2025 John Wick film.
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002), also released as Ecks vs. Sever, is a Warner Bros. action film directed by Wych Kaosayananda, starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu; it holds a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score and grossed $14.3 million against a $70 million budget.
Balloon (2017 film)
Balloon (பலூன்), 2017 Tamil horror comedy directed by Sinish Sreedharan, starring Jai, Anjali, Janani Iyer, and Yogi Babu, music by Yuvan Shankar Raja; released 29 December 2017, 146 minutes, U/A.
Balls of Fury
Balls of Fury is a 2007 American sports comedy directed by Robert Ben Garant. It stars Dan Fogler as an FBI agent entering an underground table tennis tournament.
Balls Up
Balls Up is a 2026 American action comedy directed by Peter Farrelly, starring Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser as condom marketers who spark a World Cup scandal in Brazil; released on Prime Video April 15, 2026, to poor reviews (23% Tomatometer, Metascore 34).
Balota (film)
Balota (international title Ballot) is a 2024 Philippine political satire-thriller written and directed by Kip Oebanda, starring Marian Rivera as a teacher protecting the last ballot box of a contested 2007 mayoral election; a Cinemalaya 2024 entry that became a Netflix release and earned Rivera multiple Best Actress awards.
Balti (film)
Balti (ബൾട്ടി) is a 2025 Malayalam sports action drama, Unni Sivalingam's directorial debut starring Shane Nigam as kabaddi player Udhayan drawn into crime in border-town Velampalayam; released 26 September 2025, music by Sai Abhyankkar, streaming on SonyLIV.
Balto (film)
Balto (1995) is an animated adventure film directed by Simon Wells for Amblimation and Universal, loosely based on the 1925 serum run to Nome, Alaska. It stars Kevin Bacon, Bob Hoskins, and Bridget Fonda, grossed $11.2 million, and was Amblimation's final hand-drawn feature.
Balupu
Balupu (బలుపు) is a 2013 Telugu action comedy directed by Gopichand Malineni, starring Ravi Teja, Shruti Haasan, and Anjali; produced by PVP Cinema, music by S. Thaman, released 28 June 2013, Ravi Teja's comeback hit.
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.
Bambi
Bambi is Walt Disney's 1942 animated feature, based on Felix Salten's 1923 novel, about a fawn who becomes Great Prince of the Forest. Premiered in London August 1942, U.S. release August 13; oil-paint backgrounds, multiplane camera, over $2,000,000 cost, National Film Registry 2011. Not the 2013 Lifshitz documentary or the Python Bambi package.
Bambi II
Bambi II (2006) is a DisneyToon Studios direct-to-DVD animated midquel to Bambi (1942), directed by Brian Pimental, with Patrick Stewart as the Great Prince raising the motherless fawn; it sold 2.5 million DVDs in its first week and won a 2007 Annie Award.
Bambi: The Reckoning
Bambi: The Reckoning is a 2025 British horror film directed by Dan Allen, the fourth entry in the Twisted Childhood Universe, in which a mutated deer stalks a mother and son after a car wreck; released July 25, 2025.
Bamboozled
Bamboozled is Spike Lee's 2000 satirical comedy-drama in which TV writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) pitches a blackface minstrel show that becomes a hit. Released by New Line, it grossed $2.2 million against a $10 million budget and was later restored by Criterion.
Banana Paradise (香蕉天堂)
Banana Paradise (香蕉天堂) is a 1989 Taiwanese drama directed by Wang Toon, second of his Modern Taiwan Trilogy, about two soldiers retreating to Taiwan in 1949 under fake identities, White Terror persecution, and a family of no blood relation; Chang Shih won the Golden Horse Best Supporting Actor.
Bananas
Bananas (1971) is Woody Allen's second film as director, a political farce in which product tester Fielding Mellish joins and leads a revolution in the fictional republic of San Marcos, co-starring Louise Lasser and Carlos Montalbán.
Band Baaja Baaraat (बैंड बाजा बारात)
Band Baaja Baaraat (बैंड बाजा बारात), also called Wedding Planners, is a 2010 Yash Raj Films Hindi rom-com, Maneesh Sharma's directorial debut and Ranveer Singh's acting debut with Anushka Sharma, about Delhi wedding planners; it won six IIFA 2011 awards.