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Battle of Okinawa (激動の昭和史 沖縄決戦) (1971 film)
Battle of Okinawa (激動の昭和史 沖縄決戦) is a 1971 Toho war film directed by Kihachi Okamoto, scripted by Kaneto Shindo, starring Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, and Tatsuya Nakadai, depicting the 1945 Okinawa ground battle from the Japanese 32nd Army's perspective.
Battle of the Sexes (2017 film)
Battle of the Sexes (2017) is a Fox Searchlight biographical comedy-drama by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, starring Emma Stone as Billie Jean King and Steve Carell as Bobby Riggs, dramatizing their 1973 Houston Astrodome tennis match.
Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル) (film)
Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル, Batoru Rowaiaru), 2000 Japanese film by Kinji Fukasaku, adapted from Koushun Takami's 1999 novel; 42 ninth graders forced to fight to the death on an island under the BR Law; his final film, controversial in Japan, released in the UK in 2001.
Battle Royale II: Requiem (バトル・ロワイアルII 鎮魂歌)
Battle Royale II: Requiem (バトル・ロワイアルII 鎮魂歌), also released as Battle Royale II: Revenge, is a 2003 Japanese action sequel by Kinji and Kenta Fukasaku in which students are sent to kill survivor Nanahara Shuya under the BRII anti-terrorism law; Kinji Fukasaku died during filming.
Battle: Los Angeles
Battle: Los Angeles is a 2011 American sci-fi action film directed by Jonathan Liebesman, starring Aaron Eckhart as a Marine sergeant fighting aliens in Santa Monica; also known abroad as World Invasion: Battle: Los Angeles.
Battlefield Earth (film)
Battlefield Earth (2000), Roger Christian's adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's novel, starring John Travolta as Terl; a notorious box-office bomb with a 3% Tomatometer and seven Razzies.
Battleground (1949 film)
Battleground (1949) is an MGM war film directed by William A. Wellman, written by Robert Pirosh, produced by Dore Schary, about the 101st Airborne at besieged Bastogne; it won two Oscars from six nominations and revived the postwar combat film.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (仁義なき戦い)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (仁義なき戦い, Jingi naki tatakai), aka The Yakuza Papers: Kinji Fukasaku's 1973–74 Toei five-film yakuza series starring Bunta Sugawara, based on Kozo Mino's prison memoirs of the Hiroshima gang wars, which ended the ninkyo eiga genre.
Battleship Potemkin
Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, dramatizing the 1905 mutiny of the battleship Potemkin's crew and the unrest in Odessa.
Batwara 1947
Batwara 1947, formerly Lahore 1947, is a 2026 Hindi Partition drama directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, produced by Aamir Khan, starring Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, and Shabana Azmi, adapted from Asghar Wajahat's play, released 14 August 2026.
Bawaal (बवाल)
Bawaal (बवाल) is a 2023 Hindi romantic drama directed by Nitesh Tiwari, starring Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor, released directly on Prime Video on 21 July 2023; it was 2023's most-watched direct-to-OTT Hindi film but drew Holocaust-trivialization controversy.
Bawarchi (बावर्ची)
Bawarchi (बावर्ची), also known as The Cook, is a 1972 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, starring Rajesh Khanna as cook Raghu and Jaya Bhaduri, a remake of Tapan Sinha's Bengali Golpo Holeo Sotti with music by Madan Mohan.
Bay of Angels
Bay of Angels (La Baie des Anges) is Jacques Demy's 1963 French black-and-white romantic drama starring Jeanne Moreau as compulsive gambler Jackie and Claude Mann as bank clerk Jean, with Michel Legrand's score, set in the casinos of Nice.
Bayaan (film)
Bayaan (बयान, Testimony) is a 2025 Hindi police procedural thriller by Bikas Ranjan Mishra starring Huma Qureshi as detective Roohi investigating a revered Rajasthan cult leader's abuse; it premiered in TIFF 2025's Discovery section and won the Sundar Prize Best Feature.
Bayside Shakedown 2 (踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE 2 レインボーブリッジを封鎖せよ!)
Bayside Shakedown 2: Rainbow Bridge Shut Down! (踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE 2 レインボーブリッジを封鎖せよ!) is Fuji TV's 2003 police film sequel directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro, starring Yuji Oda, which earned 17.35 billion yen and long held Japan's live-action box office record.
Baywatch (film)
Baywatch (2017) is Seth Gordon's R-rated action comedy based on the TV series, starring Dwayne Johnson as Mitch Buchannon and Zac Efron; it grossed $177.9 million worldwide on a $69 million budget and was panned by critics.
Bazooka (film)
Bazooka (ബസൂക്ക), 2025 Malayalam action crime thriller, directorial debut of Deeno Dennis, starring Mammootty and Gautham Vasudev Menon hunting a videogame-obsessed serial killer; released 10 April 2025, mixed reviews, ₹27 crore worldwide gross.
Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap
Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap (बुड्ढा होगा तेरा बाप) is a 2011 Hindi action comedy directed by Puri Jagannadh, starring Amitabh Bachchan as an aging hitman returning to Mumbai; released 1 July 2011, U/A certificate, box office flop.
Be Cool
Be Cool is a 2005 American crime comedy directed by F. Gary Gray, based on Elmore Leonard's novel and starring John Travolta as Chili Palmer, the sequel to Get Shorty.
Be Happy (film)
Be Happy (बी हैप्पी) is a 2025 Hindi dance-drama, Remo D'Souza's Prime Video original starring Abhishek Bachchan and Inayat Verma as a single father and dance-dreaming daughter, released March 14, 2025; distinct from the unrelated 2025 Bahraini Arabic film of the same title.
Be Kind Rewind
Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 comedy film written and directed by Michel Gondry, starring Jack Black and Mos Def as friends who re-film erased videotapes.
Be With You (いま、会いにゆきます) (2004 film)
Be With You (いま、会いにゆきます, Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu) is a 2004 Japanese romantic fantasy film directed by Nobuhiro Doi, adapted from Takuji Ichikawa's novel, starring Yuko Takeuchi and Shido Nakamura; a dead wife returns during the rainy season.
Beach Rats
Beach Rats is a 2017 American drama by Eliza Hittman about Frankie, a Brooklyn teenager secretly meeting older men online while dating Simone; Sundance Directing Award winner starring Harris Dickinson, released August 25, 2017 by Neon.
Beach Read (film)
Beach Read (film): upcoming 2027 American romantic comedy adapted from Emily Henry's 2020 novel, directed and written by Yulin Kuang, starring Phoebe Dynevor and Patrick Schwarzenegger as rival writers January Andrews and Gus Everett, releasing theatrically May 7, 2027.
Beaches (1988 film)
Beaches is a 1988 Garry Marshall comedy-drama starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends C.C. Bloom and Hillary Whitney, adapted from Iris Rainer Dart's 1985 novel, a Touchstone release whose "Wind Beneath My Wings" won a Grammy.
Bean (film)
Bean, also released as Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie, is a 1997 comedy film in which Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean is sent to Los Angeles as a fake art expert.
Beast (2017 film)
Beast (2017) is Michael Pearce's British psychological thriller debut, set on Jersey and starring Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn, inspired by the Beast of Jersey and winner of the 2019 BAFTA for Outstanding Debut.
Beast (2022 American film)
Beast is a 2022 American survival horror film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Idris Elba as a widowed doctor hunted by a rogue lion in South Africa.
Beast (2022 Indian film)
Beast (பீஸ்ட்), 2022 Tamil action comedy by Nelson Dilipkumar for Sun Pictures, starring Vijay as ex-RAW agent Veeraraghavan in a mall hijack with Pooja Hegde and Selvaraghavan; released 13 April 2022, ₹216.58 crore worldwide, mixed-negative reviews, distinct from the 2022 Idris Elba film of the same name.
Beast (2026 film)
Beast (2026) is an Australian MMA sports drama directed by Tyler Atkins, written by David Frigerio and Russell Crowe, starring Daniel MacPherson and Crowe; released April 2026, 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, $1.8M worldwide.