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The Aura
The Aura (El aura) is Fabián Bielinsky's 2005 Argentine neo-noir heist thriller starring Ricardo Darín as an epileptic taxidermist who takes over a dead man's armored-car robbery plan in Patagonia; his final film, an Oscar submission and multi-award winner.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
The Autopsy of Jane Doe is a 2016 supernatural horror film directed by André Øvredal, starring Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch, and Olwen Catherine Kelly as coroners examining a mysterious corpse; premiered at TIFF 2016, released by IFC Films.
The Avengers (1998 film)
The Avengers (1998) is Jeremiah Chechik's Warner Bros film adaptation of the 1960s British spy series, starring Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, and Sean Connery; it cost $60 million, grossed $48.6 million worldwide, and scored 5% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Avengers (2012 film)
Marvel's The Avengers (2012), Joss Whedon's Marvel Studios superhero crossover, united Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, and Hawkeye against Loki; it earned about $1.5 billion worldwide, the highest-grossing film of 2012.
The Avenging Eagle (冷血十三鹰)
The Avenging Eagle (冷血十三鹰) is a 1978 Shaw Brothers wuxia film directed by Sun Chung, written by Ni Kuang from a Qin Hong novel, starring Ti Lung, Alexander Fu Sheng, and Ku Feng as assassins of the Iron Boat Gang.
The Aviator (2004 film)
The Aviator is a 2004 American biographical drama directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, and winning 5 Oscars.
The Awakening (2011 film)
The Awakening (2011) is a British supernatural drama directed by Nick Murphy, starring Rebecca Hall as hoax-debunker Florence Cathcart investigating a boarding-school haunting in 1921 England; released 11 November 2011, produced by Origin Pictures with StudioCanal and BBC Films.
The Awakening (upcoming film)
The Awakening (El Despertar) is an upcoming 2026 Colombian supernatural action-horror film by the late Jaime Osorio Márquez, completed by Federico Durán and José Luis Rugeles, about soldiers facing the guardian spirit Mobuya; released in Colombia October 29 and digitally in the US November 10, 2026.
The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (Wolkenbruchs wunderliche Reise in die Arme einer Schickse) is a 2018 Swiss-German comedy by Michael Steiner, adapted by Thomas Meyer from his 2012 novel, starring Joel Basman as an Orthodox Jew in Zurich who falls for a non-Jewish student; it won the 2019 Swiss Film Award for Best Actor and streamed worldwide on Netflix.
The Awful Truth
The Awful Truth (1937) is a Columbia Pictures screwball comedy directed by Leo McCarey, starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as divorcing spouses Jerry and Lucy Warriner; it won McCarey the Best Director Oscar.
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) is Uli Edel's 2008 German drama, adapted by Bernd Eichinger from Stefan Aust's 1985 book, dramatizing the Red Army Faction from 1967 to the German Autumn of 1977.
The Babadook
The Babadook is a 2014 Australian psychological horror film, Jennifer Kent's feature directorial debut, starring Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman as a mother and son haunted by a pop-up-book monster. Premiered at Sundance 2014; 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Baby of Mâcon
The Baby of Mâcon (Das Wunder von Mâcon) is Peter Greenaway's 1993 avant-garde drama about a staged miracle virgin birth exploited by a sister and the Church; premiered at Cannes 1993, critically reviled, never US-distributed.
The Baby-Sitters Club (film)
The Baby-Sitters Club is a 1995 American comedy-drama directed by Melanie Mayron. It follows seven girls in Stoneybrook, Connecticut, as they run a summer camp and face personal crises.
The Babysitter (1995 film)
The Babysitter (1995) is Guy Ferland's direct-to-video drama-thriller starring Alicia Silverstone, adapted from Robert Coover's short story in Pricksongs & Descants, about a babysitter who becomes the obsession of two boys and the children's father.
The Babysitter (2017 film)
The Babysitter (2017) is a Netflix horror comedy directed by McG from Brian Duffield's Black List screenplay, starring Samara Weaving and Judah Lewis; a boy discovers his babysitter leads a satanic cult. Released October 13, 2017; sequel Killer Queen followed in 2020.
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (ザ・ベビーシッター キラークイーン) is McG's 2020 Netflix horror-comedy sequel to The Babysitter, in which Cole again faces the resurrected satanic cult; released September 10, 2020, 101 minutes, 46% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Babysitter's Seduction
The Babysitter's Seduction is a 1996 NBC television thriller directed by David Burton Morris, starring Stephen Collins, Keri Russell, Phylicia Rashad, and Tobin Bell, about a widower who seduces and frames his 18-year-old babysitter for his wife's murder.
The Babysitters
The Babysitters (2007) is an American independent drama, the first feature of writer-director David Ross, starring Katherine Waterston as teen Shirley Lyner, who turns babysitting into a call-girl ring for married suburban men; premiered at Toronto, released 2008, Metascore 35.
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), RKO romantic comedy directed by Irving Reis, written by Sidney Sheldon, starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple; won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.
The Back-up Plan
The Back-up Plan is a 2010 American romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez as a single New Yorker who conceives twins, then meets her dream man the same day.
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) is a Vincente Minnelli MGM melodrama starring Kirk Douglas as ruthless producer Jonathan Shields, with Lana Turner and Gloria Grahame; it won five Oscars and entered the National Film Registry in 2002.
The Bad Batch (film)
The Bad Batch (2016) is Ana Lily Amirpour's 118-minute dystopian cannibal western starring Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves, and Jim Carrey; it won the Venice Special Jury Award and earned a Metascore of 62.
The Bad Education Movie
The Bad Education Movie (2015) is a British comedy spin-off of the BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, directed by Elliot Hegarty, written by Jack Whitehall and Freddy Syborn, released 21 August 2015, about Alfie Wickers' disastrous Cornwall school trip.
The Bad Guys (film)
The Bad Guys is a 2022 DreamWorks Animation heist comedy directed by Pierre Perifel, based on Aaron Blabey's Scholastic books, voiced by Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, and Awkwafina; it earned $250.4 million worldwide and spawned The Bad Guys 2 (2025).
The Bad Guys 2
The Bad Guys 2 (坏蛋联盟2) is DreamWorks Animation's 2025 animated heist comedy sequel directed by Pierre Perifel, starring Sam Rockwell's reformed animal gang against the Bad Girls; it opened to $22.2 million domestically and scored 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) is Paramount's first sequel to The Bad News Bears, directed by Michael Pressman, following the coachless Bears on an unsupervised road trip to an Astrodome exhibition game in Houston.
The Bad Seed (1956 film)
The Bad Seed (1956) is a Warner Bros. melodrama directed by Mervyn LeRoy, adapted from William March's novel and Maxwell Anderson's play, starring Nancy Kelly and Patty McCormack as mother and murderous daughter Rhoda, with a censored lightning-bolt ending and curtain-call epilogue.
The Bad Seed (2018 film)
The Bad Seed (2018) is a Lifetime television horror drama directed by and starring Rob Lowe, with Mckenna Grace as murderous nine-year-old Emma and Patty McCormack of the 1956 film as Dr. March; premiered September 9, 2018, sequel The Bad Seed Returns (2022).
The Bad Sleep Well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る)
The Bad Sleep Well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る, Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) is Akira Kurosawa's 1960 black-and-white corporate revenge thriller, the debut film of Kurosawa Productions, loosely adapting Hamlet with Toshiro Mifune as Koichi Nishi.