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The Balconettes
The Balconettes (Les femmes au balcon) is a 2024 French feminist horror comedy directed by and starring Noémie Merlant, co-written with Céline Sciamma, about three Marseille roommates caught in a bloody affair; premiered at Cannes 2024 Midnight Screenings.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a 2018 six-part Western anthology film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen for Netflix, starring Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, and Brendan Gleeson; their last film together to date.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Ballad of Cable Hogue is Sam Peckinpah's 1970 Western comedy starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, and David Warner, about a prospector who builds a desert way station on a discovered spring, a box-office flop later ranked among the greatest Westerns.
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
The Ballad of Jack and Rose is Rebecca Miller's 2005 drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Camilla Belle as a father and daughter on a decaying commune island; IFC Films release grossed $712,275 domestically.
The Ballad of Lefty Brown
The Ballad of Lefty Brown is a 2017 American Western written and directed by Jared Moshe, starring Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Jim Caviezel, and Kathy Baker. An aging sidekick avenges his senator partner's murder, is accused of it, and must expose the powerful men responsible; 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Ballad of Little Jo
The Ballad of Little Jo is Maggie Greenwald's 1993 revisionist Western starring Suzy Amis as Josephine Monaghan, a woman passing as a man in the frontier West, based on the real Jo Monaghan; released by Fine Line Features, it grossed about $543,091 domestically.
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考) (1958 film)
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama bushikō) is Keisuke Kinoshita's 1958 Shochiku film, first adaptation of Fukazawa's novel about ubasute, staged with kabuki artifice; Kinema Junpo's 1958 No. 1.
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考) (1983 film)
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama bushikō) is Shohei Imamura's 1983 Toei drama, the second adaptation of Fukazawa Shichiro's 1956 novel about ubasute, the abandonment of 70-year-olds on a mountain; it won the 1983 Cannes Palme d'Or.
The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго)
The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго), also Ballada o doblestnom rytsare Ayvengo, is a 1982 Mosfilm adventure film by Sergei Tarasov based on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, with Vladimir Vysotsky's ballads, 28.4 million Soviet viewers, ninth at the 1983 box office.
The Ballad of Wallis Island
The Ballad of Wallis Island is a 2025 British comedy-drama directed by James Griffiths, written by and starring Tom Basden and Tim Key with Carey Mulligan, expanded from their 2007 short about a lottery winner's private folk gig.
The Ballroom of Romance
The Ballroom of Romance: 1982 RTÉ/BBC television drama directed by Pat O'Connor, adapted by William Trevor from his 1972 short story, starring Brenda Fricker as Bridie; filmed in Ballycroy, Mayo; won the 1983 BAFTA for Best Single Drama.
The Baltimorons
The Baltimorons is a 2025 American romantic comedy directed by Jay Duplass, co-written with and starring Michael Strassner as newly sober comedian Cliff, who spends Christmas Eve with dentist Didi (Liz Larsen) in Baltimore; it won the SXSW 2025 Audience Award and earned two 2026 Independent Spirit Award nominations.
The Banana Splits Movie
The Banana Splits Movie is a 2019 R-rated comedy horror film directed by Danishka Esterhazy, written by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, in which the Hanna-Barbera children's TV characters, reimagined as animatronic robots, murder a studio audience after their show is canceled.
The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon is a 1953 MGM musical directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire as fading star Tony Hunter opposite Cyd Charisse, with songs by Dietz and Schwartz including "That's Entertainment." Not to be confused with the 1931 Broadway revue it adapts.
The Band's Visit (زيارة الفرقة الموسيقية) (2007 film)
The Band's Visit (ביקור התזמורת; زيارة الفرقة الموسيقية) is Eran Kolirin's 2007 Israeli-French comedy-drama about an Egyptian police orchestra stranded overnight in Bet Hatikva; Cannes Coup de Coeur winner, seven Ophir Prizes, disqualified from the Oscars for English dialogue, later a Tony-winning musical.
The Banishment (Изгнание)
The Banishment (Изгнание) is Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2007 Russian drama, adapted from William Saroyan, about a marriage shattered by a pregnancy confession. It competed at Cannes 2007, winning Lavronenko the best-actor prize.
The Bank Job
The Bank Job (2008) is a British heist thriller directed by Roger Donaldson, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, starring Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows, loosely based on the unsolved 1971 Baker Street 'walkie-talkie' bank robbery with a fictional MI5 royal-photographs premise.
The Banker (2020 film)
The Banker (2020) is a George Nolfi Apple TV+ drama starring Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, and Nia Long, based on Black bankers Bernard Garrett and Joe Morris, delayed by abuse allegations against co-producer Bernard Garrett Jr.
The Banquet (夜宴) (2006 film)
The Banquet (夜宴, Yeyan) is a 2006 Chinese martial-arts drama directed by Feng Xiaogang, freely adapted from Shakespeare's Hamlet and set in the Five Dynasties period.
The Banquet (豪门夜宴) (1991 film)
The Banquet (豪门夜宴) is a 1991 Hong Kong all-star charity comedy directed by Tsui Hark, Clifton Ko, and others, made in eight days to raise flood relief funds.
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) is Martin McDonagh's dark comedy-drama starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, and Barry Keoghan; set in 1923 on an Irish island during the Civil War, it earned nine Oscar nominations and won Golden Globe and BAFTA awards.
The Bar (film)
The Bar (El bar, 2017) is a Spanish-Argentine black comedy thriller by Álex de la Iglesia: strangers trapped in a Madrid bar by a sniper, premiered at Berlinale 2017, Goya-nominated, Méliès d'argent winner.
The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник)
The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник) is Nikita Mikhalkov's 1998 Russian-French-Italian-Czech historical melodrama about cadet Andrei Tolstoy, American Jane, and a steam sawmill, the costliest post-Soviet film of its era.
The Barefoot Contessa
The Barefoot Contessa is Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1954 Technicolor drama starring Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, and Oscar winner Edmond O'Brien, telling a Spanish dancer's rise to stardom in flashback from her funeral.
The Basics of Philosophy
The Basics of Philosophy (original title: Basics of Philosophy) is a 2026 drama written and directed by Paul Schrader, starring Jack Huston as a philosophy professor confronting a past sexual transgression. Premiered September 4, 2026 at the 83rd Venice Film Festival; 94 minutes; executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
The Basketball Diaries (film)
The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American drama film directed by Scott Kalvert, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as writer Jim Carroll and adapted from his 1978 autobiographical book.
The Bastard
The Bastard (小雜種, Xiao za zhong) is a 1973 Shaw Brothers Hong Kong martial arts drama directed by Chor Yuen, starring Tsung Hua and Lily Li, about an orphan kung fu fighter seeking his parents; distinct from the 1978 John Jakes miniseries and Suzuki's 1963 Akutarō.
The Bastard Swordsman (天蚕变)
The Bastard Swordsman (天蠶變, Reincarnate Swordsman) is a 1983 Shaw Brothers wuxia film directed by Lu Chun-ku, starring Norman Chui as Yun Fei-yang, adapted from the 1979 TV series Reincarnated, with a 1984 sequel.
The Bat Whispers
The Bat Whispers is Roland West's 1930 American comedy-mystery, a sound remake of his 1926 silent The Bat, based on Rinehart and Hopwood's play. Shot simultaneously in 35mm and 65mm Magnifilm widescreen, it influenced Bob Kane's Batman and was restored by UCLA.
The Batman (film)
The Batman (2022) is a Matt Reeves-directed, Elseworlds DC film starring Robert Pattinson as a young detective-era Bruce Wayne; it earned a 72 Metascore, $369.3M US gross, and a sequel delayed to February 2028.