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Beast Cops (野兽刑警)
Beast Cops (野獸刑警, Yeshou Xingjing) is a 1998 Hong Kong crime film co-directed by Gordon Chan and Dante Lam, starring Anthony Wong as corrupt cop Tung; it won five 1999 Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.
Beast of War
Beast of War is a 2025 Australian WWII shark survival thriller written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, inspired by the 1942 sinking of HMAS Armidale, starring Mark Coles Smith, released October 10, 2025, distinct from the 1988 Kevin Reynolds tank film.
Beast Stalker (证人)
The Beast Stalker (証人, Ching yan) is a 2008 Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Dante Lam, starring Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, and Zhang Jingchu. A cop's stray bullet kills a prosecutor's daughter; Nick Cheung's kidnapper role won Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.
Beasts Clawing at Straws (지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들)
Beasts Clawing at Straws (지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들) is a 2020 South Korean crime thriller, Kim Yonghoon's debut feature adapted from Keisuke Sone's novel, which won the Rotterdam Tiger Competition Special Jury Award and drew 626,815 admissions in Korea.
Beasts of No Nation (film)
Beasts of No Nation (2015) is Cary Joji Fukunaga's war drama, Netflix's first original feature film ($12 million), adapted from Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel, starring Abraham Attah as child soldier Agu and Idris Elba as the Commandant.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Beasts of the Southern Wild is Benh Zeitlin's 2012 debut drama-fantasy, adapted from Lucy Alibar's play Juicy and Delicious, starring Quvenzhané Wallis as Hushpuppy in the levee-cut Bathtub bayou community; it won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and earned four Oscar nominations.
Beat (1997 film)
Beat (비트, Biteu) is a 1997 South Korean action drama by director Kim Sung-soo, starring Jung Woo-sung, Ko So-young, Im Chang-jung, and Yu Oh-seong, based on a Huh Young-man comic about youth drifting into the underworld; distinct from the 2000 Walkow and 1998 Japanese films of the same title.
Beat Street
Beat Street is a 1984 Orion Pictures musical drama directed by Stan Lathan, produced by Harry Belafonte, about South Bronx DJ, breakdancing, and graffiti artists in early hip-hop culture; its gold-certified soundtrack and international influence distinguish it.
Beatrice Cenci (1969 film)
Beatrice Cenci (1969), aka The Conspiracy of Torture, is Lucio Fulci's Italian historical drama on the 1599 Cenci murder, starring Adrienne La Russa, Georges Wilson, and Tomas Milian; censored with an 18-year ban, distinct from Freda's 1956 film.
Beatriz at Dinner
Beatriz at Dinner: 2017 comedy-drama by Miguel Arteta, written by Mike White, starring Salma Hayek and John Lithgow; a stranded healer clashes with a billionaire developer at a dinner party; 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, $7.1M US gross.
Beau Geste (1926 film)
Beau Geste (1926) is Herbert Brenon's Paramount silent adaptation of P. C. Wren's Foreign Legion novel, starring Ronald Colman; Photoplay's Best Picture of 1926, remade in 1939 with Gary Cooper and restored in 2025.
Beau Geste (1939 film)
Beau Geste (1939) is William A. Wellman's Paramount adventure film starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as brothers in the French Foreign Legion, a remake of the 1926 Ronald Colman silent based on P.C. Wren's 1924 novel, with Brian Donlevy as Sergeant Markoff.
Beau Is Afraid
Beau Is Afraid, formerly titled Disappointment Blvd., is a 2023 surrealist comedy-horror film directed by Ari Aster, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a paranoid man journeying home to his dead mother.
Beau Travail
Beau Travail (1999) is Claire Denis's French drama, loosely adapted from Melville's Billy Budd, set in the Foreign Legion in Djibouti; Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, and Grégoire Colin star, with cinematography by Agnès Godard.
Beautiful Girls (film)
Beautiful Girls is a 1996 American comedy-drama-romance directed by Ted Demme, written by Scott Rosenberg, starring Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, and Natalie Portman. Set in Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, it follows friends at a high school reunion; it earned $10,597,759 in the US.
Beautiful Mother
Beautiful Mother (Belle maman) is a 1999 French romantic comedy directed by Gabriel Aghion, starring Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Lindon, and Mathilde Seigner, about a groom who falls for his mother-in-law on his wedding day.
Beautiful Thing
Beautiful Thing is a 1996 British comedy-drama film directed by Hettie Macdonald, adapted by Jonathan Harvey from his 1993 Bush Theatre play, about teenagers Jamie and Ste falling in love on the Thamesmead estate in southeast London; it won the 1996 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival best film award and a 1997 GLAAD Media Award.
Beautiful Wedding
Beautiful Wedding (2024) is an American romantic comedy sequel to Beautiful Disaster, directed by Roger Kumble, starring Dylan Sprouse and Virginia Gardner as accidentally married Vegas newlyweds on a Mexico honeymoon; released by Fathom Events January 24, 2024.
Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)
Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 Disney live-action musical fantasy directed by Bill Condon, starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, and grossing over $1.26 billion worldwide.
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) is a Disney direct-to-video animated midquel directed by Andy Knight, with Forte the pipe organ (Tim Curry) scheming against Belle's Christmas; first film of Walt Disney Animation Canada.
Beauty Shop
Beauty Shop is a 2005 American comedy film starring Queen Latifah as a hairstylist who leaves her overbearing boss and opens her own salon in Atlanta.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America is a 1996 American animated comedy film, directed by series creator Mike Judge, in which the two teenagers search for their stolen TV.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe is a 2022 Paramount+ animated sci-fi comedy by Mike Judge, the duo's second film, in which they travel from 1998 to 2022 via a black hole.
Because I Said So (film)
Because I Said So is a 2007 American romantic comedy directed by Michael Lehmann, starring Diane Keaton as an overbearing mother and Mandy Moore as her daughter Milly.
Beckett (film)
Beckett (2021) is a Netflix political thriller directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, starring John David Washington as an American tourist hunted across Greece after a car accident kills his girlfriend (Alicia Vikander). First Netflix film shot entirely in Greece; opened the 74th Locarno Film Festival.
Becky (2020 film)
Becky (2020) is an American action-thriller, also known simply as Becky, directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion. Lulu Wilson's grieving teen fights neo-Nazi escapees led by Kevin James at a lake house; Tribeca premiere, June 2020 Quiver release.
Becoming Human (film)
Becoming Human (Chiet Chea Manusa, ជាតិជាមនុស្សា) is Polen Ly's 2025 Cambodian drama debut: a cinema's guardian ghost, Thida, weighs rebirth against remaining a ghost after meeting journalist Hai. Premiered at Venice 2025; Cambodia's 99th Academy Awards submission.
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.
Bed and Board
Bed and Board (Domicile conjugal), 1970 French comedy-drama by François Truffaut, fourth Antoine Doinel film: married Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) has a child with Christine (Claude Jade) then an affair with Kyoko.
Bed and Sofa (Третья Мещанская)
Bed and Sofa (Третья Мещанская, also Liubov vtroem) is Abram Room's 1927 Sovkino silent melodrama, written with Viktor Shklovsky, about a Moscow wife, husband, and lodger sharing one room; banned at home, a hit abroad, rediscovered in the 1970s.