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The Bow (활)

The Bow (활, Hwal) is Kim Ki-duk's 2005 South Korean drama about a 60-year-old man raising a 16-year-old girl on a fishing boat, planning to marry her at 17. It opened Cannes Un Certain Regard 2005, starred Jeon Sung-hwan and Han Yeo-reum, and earned 1,382 domestic admissions.

The Box (2009 film)

The Box (2009) is Richard Kelly's science fiction thriller starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella, adapted from Richard Matheson's 1970 short story Button, Button: a couple is offered $1 million to press a fatal button.

The Boxer (1997 film)

The Boxer is a 1997 drama directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a former IRA boxer who reopens his Belfast boxing club after 14 years in prison.

The Boxer from Shantung (马永贞)

The Boxer from Shantung (馬永貞, Ma Yongzhen), also released as The Killer from Shantung, is a 1972 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Chang Cheh and Pao Hsueh-li, starring Chen Kuan-tai as a Shandong fighter who rises and dies in the Shanghai underworld.

The Boxer Rebellion (八国联军)

Boxer Rebellion (八國聯軍, 1976) is a Chang Cheh Shaw Brothers martial arts war film about three sworn brothers joining the Boxers in 1900; censored in Hong Kong as Spiritual Fists, restored in 2005.

The Boxer's Omen

The Boxer's Omen (魔, aka Mo, Black Magic 4) is a 1983 Shaw Brothers Hong Kong horror film by Kuei Chih-hung, sequel to Bewitched, in which kickboxing revenge in Thailand becomes a psychedelic Buddhist-versus-black-magic battle.

The Boxtrolls

The Boxtrolls is a 2014 American stop-motion animated film directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi, produced by Laika and loosely adapted from Alan Snow's novel Here Be Monsters!.

The Boy (2015 film)

The Boy (2015), not to be confused with the 2016 doll film, is a psychological horror film by Craig William Macneill and Clay McLeod Chapman about 9-year-old Ted Henley, based on the short Henley and Chapman's novel Miss Corpus, produced by SpectreVision and Chiller Films.

The Boy (2016 film)

The Boy (2016) is a horror thriller directed by William Brent Bell, written by Stacey Menear, starring Lauren Cohan as a nanny to a doll named Brahms; STX release grossing $73.9 million, distinct from the 2015 Macneill film.

The Boy and the Beast (バケモノの子)

The Boy and the Beast (バケモノの子, Bakemono no Ko) is Mamoru Hosoda's 2015 Studio Chizu anime film about orphan Ren/Kyuta apprenticed to the beast warrior Kumatetsu; it earned 5.85 billion yen and the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year.

The Boy and the Heron (君たちはどう生きるか)

The Boy and the Heron (君たちはどう生きるか, How Do You Live?) is Studio Ghibli's 2023 hand-drawn fantasy by Hayao Miyazaki, his twelfth feature, about boy Mahito Maki entering a world of the living and dead; it won the 96th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

The Boy in the Iron Box

The Boy in the Iron Box: 2024 six-part Amazon Original Stories horror novella by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan (not Chuck Palahniuk) about mercenaries who find a chained iron box; Netflix film adaptation by David Prior, expected 2026.

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is a 1976 ABC made-for-TV drama directed by Randal Kleiser, starring John Travolta as immune-deficient Tod Lubitch, loosely based on David Vetter and Ted DeVita, and winner of a posthumous Emmy for Diana Hyland.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Mark Herman's adaptation of John Boyne's novel, stars Asa Butterfield and Jack Scanlon as boys on opposite sides of a concentration camp fence; a mixed-reception Holocaust drama widely criticized in education research.

The Boy Next Door (film)

The Boy Next Door (Obsesión) is a 2015 erotic thriller directed by Rob Cohen, starring Jennifer Lopez and Ryan Guzman; made for $4 million by Blumhouse, it earned $52.4 million but scored 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Boy Who Could Fly

The Boy Who Could Fly is a 1986 American fantasy drama written and directed by Nick Castle for Lorimar, starring Lucy Deakins, Jay Underwood, and Fred Savage; it won the 1987 Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film and grossed $6.3 million.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: 2019 British drama, Chiwetel Ejiofor's directorial debut, adapting William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer's memoir of a Malawian teen who built a windmill during the 2001–2002 famine; Netflix release, Sundance Sloan Prize winner.

The Boys (2024 film)

The Boys (தி பாய்ஸ்) is a 2024 Tamil adult horror comedy directed by and starring Santhosh P. Jayakumar, about five evicted bachelors in a haunted house; released 29 March 2024, CBFC A certificate, distinct from the US series The Boys.

The Boys from Brazil (film)

The Boys from Brazil (1978) is Franklin J. Schaffner's thriller adapted from Ira Levin's novel, starring Gregory Peck as Mengele cloning Hitler 94 times and Laurence Olivier as the Wiesenthal-based Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman; three Oscar nominations, Netflix remake planned.

The Boys from Syracuse

The Boys from Syracuse: 1940 Universal Pictures musical comedy film, also a 1938 Rodgers & Hart Broadway show. Twin Antipholus and Dromio farce from Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors; two Oscar nominations.

The Boys in the Band (1970 film)

The Boys in the Band (1970) is William Friedkin's film of Mart Crowley's Off-Broadway play, with the original nine-man stage cast; the first Hollywood film with an all-gay cast, rated R over X-rated dialogue, picketed by the Gay Liberation Front.

The Boys in the Band (2020 film)

The Boys in the Band (2020) is a Netflix drama directed by Joe Mantello and produced by Ryan Murphy, remaking Mart Crowley's 1968 play and Friedkin's 1970 film with the openly gay cast of the Tony-winning 2018 Broadway revival, released September 30, 2020.

The Boys in the Boat (film)

The Boys in the Boat is George Clooney's 2023 MGM sports drama, adapted from Daniel James Brown's 2013 book, about the University of Washington eight-oar crew that won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, starring Callum Turner and Joel Edgerton.

The Brady Bunch Movie

The Brady Bunch Movie is a 1995 American comedy directed by Betty Thomas, placing the sitcom family in 1990s Southern California with Shelley Long and Gary Cole.

The Bravados

The Bravados is a 1958 American Western directed by Henry King and starring Gregory Peck as a rancher who hunts four outlaws he believes raped and murdered his wife.

The Brave Archer (射雕英雄传)

The Brave Archer (射鵰英雄傳, aka Kung Fu Warlord) is a 1977 Shaw Brothers wuxia film directed by Chang Cheh, written by Ni Kuang, starring Fu Sheng and Tien Niu, first of a 1977–1981 trilogy adapting Jin Yong's novel.

The Brave Little Toaster

The Brave Little Toaster: 1987 animated musical fantasy directed by Jerry Rees, based on Thomas M. Disch's 1980 novella; five abandoned appliances journey to find their owner Rob; Hyperion Pictures, $2.3 million budget, precursor to Toy Story.

The Brave One (2007 film)

The Brave One is a 2007 American vigilante thriller directed by Neil Jordan, starring Jodie Foster as a New York radio host who takes revenge on criminals.

The Bravest (烈火英雄)

The Bravest (烈火英雄) is a 2019 Chinese disaster film directed by Chen Guohui, adapted from Bao'erji Yuanye's reportage and based on the 2010 Dalian 7·16 oil fire; it earned 1.689 billion yuan and faced a 2019 plagiarism suit.

The Breadwinner (2026 film)

The Breadwinner is a 2026 American family comedy directed by Eric Appel, starring Nate Bargatze as a dad who runs the household after his wife's Shark Tank deal.