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Bless the Child
Bless the Child is a 2000 supernatural horror film directed by Chuck Russell, starring Kim Basinger as a nurse fighting a Satanic cult for custody of her niece.
Blessy
Blessy Ipe Thomas (Blessy) is an Indian director who made his debut with Kazh-cha (2004). He is best known for Aadujeevitham (The Goat Life, 2024).
Blind (블라인드) (2011 film)
Blind (블라인드) is a 2011 South Korean thriller directed by Ahn Sang-hoon, starring Kim Ha-neul as a blind witness to a hit-and-run who helps catch the killer.
Blind Beast (盲獣)
Blind Beast (盲獣, Moju) is a 1969 Daiei film directed by Masumura Yasuzo, adapted from Edogawa Ranpo, starring Eiji Funakoshi and Mako Midori; a blind sculptor imprisons a model in a warehouse of giant female body-part sculptures.
Blind Date (1959 film)
Blind Date (1959 film), released as Chance Meeting, is a British black-and-white crime thriller directed by Joseph Losey. Hardy Krüger plays a painter accused of killing a diplomat's mistress.
Blind Date (1987 film)
Blind Date, also known as Blake Edwards' Blind Date, is a 1987 American romantic comedy directed by Blake Edwards, starring Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger, and released by Tri-Star Pictures in March 1987.
Blind Detective (盲探)
Blind Detective (盲探) is a 2013 Hong Kong crime comedy film directed by Johnnie To, starring Andy Lau as a blind former detective and Sammi Cheng.
Blind Fury
Blind Fury (1989) is a Phillip Noyce action comedy starring Rutger Hauer as blind Vietnam veteran swordsman Nick Parker, an American remake of Zatoichi Challenged (1967), released in US theaters March 16, 1990, grossing $2,692,037.
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.
Blind Shaft (盲井)
Blind Shaft (盲井) is Li Yang's 2003 Chinese-German crime drama adapted from Liu Qingbang's novella Shen Mu, about miners who murder coworkers for compensation. It won the 2003 Berlin Silver Bear and is banned in China.
Blinded by the Light (2019 film)
Blinded by the Light is a 2019 British-American comedy-drama directed by Gurinder Chadha, based on Sarfraz Manzoor's memoir about a Pakistani teen's love of Bruce Springsteen.
Blindfire
Blindfire (2020 film), Michael Nell's debut crime drama produced by Howard Barish's Kandoo Films, stars Brian Geraghty as a cop who kills an innocent Black man during a swatting prank call; released November 13, 2020.
Blindspotting
Blindspotting is a 2018 comedy-drama film, Carlos Lopez Estrada's directorial debut, co-written by and starring Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal. Set in gentrifying Oakland, it follows a parolee who witnesses a police shooting; it premiered at Sundance 2018 and spawned a 2021 Starz series.
Blink (1993 film)
Blink is a 1993 American crime thriller directed by Michael Apted, starring Madeleine Stowe as a blind Chicago musician whose sight returns as she witnesses a murder.
Blink (2024 American film)
Blink is a 2024 documentary film by Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher following the Lemay-Pelletier family's year-long world trip after three of their four children are diagnosed with an incurable disease causing blindness.
Blink (2024 Indian film)
Blink (ಬ್ಲಿಂಕ್) is a 2024 Kannada sci-fi thriller, the directorial debut of Srinidhi Bengaluru, produced by Ravichandra AJ under Janani Pictures. Starring Dheekshith Shetty as Apoorva, it adapts Oedipus Rex through time travel, released 8 March 2024 and streaming on Prime Video.
Blink Twice
Blink Twice, originally titled Pussy Island, is a 2024 American psychological thriller, the directorial debut of Zoë Kravitz, starring Naomi Ackie as a waitress invited to a billionaire's island.
Bliss (2021 film)
Bliss (2021 film), Mike Cahill's sci-fi romance drama starring Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek, released February 5, 2021 on Amazon Prime Video; Greg and Isabel move between simulated realities using crystals; 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. Distinct from Henrika Kull's German film Glück (Bliss).
Blissfully Yours (สุดเสน่หา)
Blissfully Yours (สุดเสน่หา) is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2002 Thai-French romantic drama, his second feature, about a Thai woman and her illegal Burmese immigrant lover; it won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes 2002.
Blithe Spirit (1945 film)
Blithe Spirit (1945) is David Lean's Technicolor film of Noël Coward's 1941 stage hit, starring Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, and Margaret Rutherford; a séance summons a dead first wife, and the film won an Oscar for visual effects.
Blithe Spirit (2020 film)
Blithe Spirit (2020 film), Edward Hall's feature debut, adapts Noël Coward's 1941 play with Dan Stevens, Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, and Judi Dench; released on Sky Cinema in 2021, it earned 28% on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metascore of 26.
Blitz (2024 film)
Blitz (2024) is a British WWII drama written and directed by Steve McQueen for Apple TV+, starring Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan as a mother and son separated during the London Blitz; 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Bloat (film)
Bloat is a 2025 screenlife horror film, also known by the German title Fluch aus der Tiefe, directed by Pablo Absento and produced by Timur Bekmambetov (Searching, Unfriended). Ben McKenzie plays a Marine whose son is possessed by a Kappa after nearly drowning in Japan; released March 7, 2025 by Lionsgate, it earned 29% on Rotten Tomatoes and $13,026 worldwide.
Blockbuster (entertainment)
Blockbuster (entertainment): the Hollywood term for an exceptionally successful, big-budget, heavily marketed film, from WWII bomb slang; defined by Jaws (1975), saturation releases, and the franchise era.
Blockers (film)
Blockers is a 2018 American teen sex comedy, Kay Cannon's directorial debut, written by Brian and Jim Kehoe. Three parents (Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz) try to stop their daughters' prom-night virginity pact; Universal released it April 6, 2018, grossing $59.8M in the US.
Blonde (2022 film)
Blonde (2022) is Andrew Dominik's NC-17 Netflix drama starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, adapted from Joyce Carol Oates's 2000 novel; it premiered at Venice, drew abortion-depiction controversy, and earned de Armas a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Blonde stereotype
The blonde stereotype, especially the "dumb blonde" trope, links blonde women to low intelligence and sexuality; it traces to Rosalie Duthé and the 1775 play Les Curiosités de la Foire, was consolidated by postwar Hollywood and Marilyn Monroe, and persists in jokes and media.
Blood and Black Lace
Blood and Black Lace (Sei donne per l'assassino) is Mario Bava's 1964 Italian giallo about a masked killer murdering models at a Rome fashion house; commonly considered the archetypal giallo and a forerunner of the slasher film.
Blood and Bone
Blood and Bone (2009), Japanese title ブラッド＆ボーン 真拳闘魂, is Ben Ramsey's direct-to-DVD martial arts film starring Michael Jai White as ex-con fighter Isaiah Bone in Los Angeles underground fighting, with Julian Sands, Eamonn Walker, and real MMA fighters Kimbo Slice and Bob Sapp.
Blood and Sand
Blood and Sand: 1922 Fred Niblo silent drama starring Rudolph Valentino as matador Juan Gallardo, adapted from Blasco Ibáñez's Sangre y arena; remade in Technicolor by Mamoulian in 1941 with Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth.