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Blown Away (1994 film)

Blown Away is a 1994 American action thriller directed by Stephen Hopkins, in which Boston bomb-squad specialist Jeff Bridges is hunted by bomber Tommy Lee Jones, released by MGM.

Blowup

Blowup (Blow-Up), Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 first English-language film, follows fashion photographer Thomas (David Hemmings), who enlarges park snapshots and believes he captured a murder; it won the 1967 Palme d'Or and influenced The Conversation and Blow Out.

Blue (1993 film)

Blue (1993) is Derek Jarman's final feature: 76-79 minutes of a single International Klein Blue screen with a soundtrack of voices (Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, John Quentin, Jarman) and Simon Fisher Turner's score, meditating on AIDS, blindness, and death, simulcast on Channel 4 and BBC Radio 3.

Blue (2009 film)

Blue (2009) is a Hindi underwater action thriller directed by Anthony D'Souza, starring Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, and Zayed Khan hunting treasure from the shipwreck Lady in Blue in the Bahamas; a costly Diwali release that flopped.

Blue Bayou (film)

Blue Bayou is a 2021 American drama written, directed, produced by, and starring Justin Chon, with Alicia Vikander. It premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard and depicts a Korean adoptee in Louisiana facing deportation under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000's citizenship gap.

Blue Beetle (film)

Blue Beetle is a 2023 American superhero film from Warner Bros. directed by Ángel Manuel Soto, starring Xolo Maridueña as Jaime Reyes, DC's first Latino live-action lead.

Blue Cat Blues

Blue Cat Blues (1956) is the 103rd Tom and Jerry short by Hanna and Barbera, in which Jerry narrates Tom's decline after losing a female cat to the rich Butch, ending with both on railroad tracks; rarely aired on Cartoon Network due to suicide themes.

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.

Blue Film (2025 film)

Blue Film (2025) is Elliot Tuttle's debut queer drama thriller, also called a chamber two-hander. Camboy Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore) takes $50,000 from masked client Hank Grant (Reed Birney), his former teacher and a convicted pedophile; premiered at Edinburgh 2025, US release May 2026.

Blue Film Woman

Blue Film Woman (Buru firumu no onna) is a 1969 Japanese pink film directed by Kan Mukai, one of the first pink films shot in color.

Blue Gate Crossing

Blue Gate Crossing (藍色大門) is a 2002 Taiwanese coming-of-age drama by Yee Chih-yen, starring Gwei Lun-mei and Chen Bo-lin, screened at Cannes Directors' Fortnight and credited with launching Taiwan's xiaoqingxin youth-film wave.

Blue Giant (BLUE GIANT) (2023 film)

Blue Giant (BLUE GIANT) is a 2023 Japanese anime film directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa, adapted from Shinichi Ishizuka's jazz manga, following saxophonist Dai Miyamoto and the trio JASS in Tokyo, with music by Hiromi Uehara, released February 17, 2023.

Blue Hawaii

Blue Hawaii (1961) is an Elvis Presley Paramount musical directed by Norman Taurog, his eighth film, shot in Hawaii; its soundtrack, with "Can't Help Falling in Love", spent 20 weeks at number one.

Blue Heron (film)

Blue Heron is a 2025 Canada-Hungary drama, the feature debut of Sophy Romvari, about a Hungarian immigrant family on Vancouver Island destabilized by son Jeremy; Locarno Swatch First Feature Award winner, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2), 2013 French drama by Abdellatif Kechiche adapted from Julie Maroh's graphic novel; won the 2013 Palme d'Or shared with actresses Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, amid controversy over its sex scenes and set conditions.

Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine (2013) is Woody Allen's drama starring Cate Blanchett as a fallen New York socialite living with her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) in San Francisco; it parallels A Streetcar Named Desire and the Madoff scandal, and won Blanchett the 2014 Best Actress Oscar.

Blue Jay (film)

Blue Jay (2016) is a black-and-white romantic drama directed by Alex Lehmann, written by and starring Mark Duplass with Sarah Paulson, about reunited high school sweethearts; first Duplass brothers Netflix film, premiered at TIFF 2016. Not the 2016 Michael Ciulla thriller of the same name.

Blue Jean

Blue Jean (2022) is Georgia Oakley's debut British drama, starring Rosy McEwen as a closeted lesbian PE teacher in 1988 Newcastle under Section 28. It won the Venice People's Choice Award, four BIFAs, and a BAFTA nomination, grossing $741,644 worldwide.

Blue Juice

Blue Juice (1995) is a British Cornish surf comedy-drama directed by Carl Prechezer, starring Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Ewan McGregor; Film4 production, UK release September 15, 1995, US gross $4,535.

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening is a 2012 Lifetime TV movie, a modern teen retelling of Stacpoole's 1908 novel, starring Indiana Evans and Brenton Thwaites as students stranded on a Caribbean island; Metascore 51, IMDb 5.3/10.

Blue Moon (2025 film)

Blue Moon (2025) is Richard Linklater's biographical comedy-drama, also called a Lorenz Hart biopic, starring Ethan Hawke as the lyricist at Sardi's on Oklahoma!'s 1943 opening night; Oscar-nominated, Sony Pictures Classics release.

Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland

Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland is a 2016 American sports comedy film, the Kickstarter-funded sequel to the Spike series Blue Mountain State, directed by Lev L. Spiro, starring Alan Ritchson as NFL player Thad Castle, released February 2, 2016 by Lionsgate.

Blue Movie

Blue Movie is Andy Warhol's 1969 drama with Viva and Louis Waldon, the first theatrically released picture to depict actual sexual intercourse; originally titled Fuck, it was ruled obscene in New York. Distinct from the 1971 Dutch film and 2026 Blue Film.

Blue Ruin

Blue Ruin (2013) is Jeremy Saulnier's American revenge thriller starring Macon Blair as Dwight, an inept drifter avenging his parents' murder. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, won the FIPRESCI Prize, funded partly via Kickstarter, released 2014 by Radius TWC.

Blue Sky (1994 film)

Blue Sky (1994) is Tony Richardson's final film, a Cold War drama starring Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones as an Army couple at an Alabama nuclear testing base; shelved three years by Orion's bankruptcy, it won Lange her second Best Actress Oscar.

Blue Spring (青い春)

Blue Spring (青い春, Aoi Haru) is a 2001 Japanese film by Toshiaki Toyoda, adapted from Taiyo Matsumoto's manga, starring Ryuhei Matsuda as delinquent Kujo in an 83-minute rooftop-game drama released June 29, 2002.

Blue Star (film)

Blue Star is a 2024 Tamil sports drama, also called Blue Star (2024), directed by debutant S. Jayakumar with Ashok Selvan and Shanthnu Bhagyaraj as rival Arakkonam cricket captains; a Pa Ranjith-produced anti-caste film released 25 January 2024.

Blue Steel (1990 film)

Blue Steel is a 1990 American police thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Jamie Lee Curtis as a rookie officer hunting a murderous commodities broker played by Ron Silver.

Blue Story

Blue Story is a 2019 British crime drama, Rapman's feature debut adapted from his YouTube series, about two south London friends in a postcode gang war. It was briefly banned by Vue and Showcase cinemas after a 2019 Birmingham brawl, yet earned £2.9m and a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Blue Streak (film)

Blue Streak is a 1999 American action comedy film starring Martin Lawrence as a jewel thief who poses as a police detective to recover a hidden diamond.