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The Breadwinner (film)
The Breadwinner (2017) is a Cartoon Saloon animated drama directed by Nora Twomey, adapted from Deborah Ellis's novel, about Parvana, a girl disguised as a boy in Taliban-era Kabul; Oscar-nominated, executive produced by Angelina Jolie.
The Break-Up
The Break-Up is a 2006 American romantic comedy-drama directed by Peyton Reed, starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston as a Chicago couple who break up but share a condo.
The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club (1985) is John Hughes' teen comedy-drama about five students (the brain, athlete, basket case, princess, and criminal) in Saturday detention; a Brat Pack landmark that earned $51.5 million and entered the National Film Registry in 2016.
The Bride with White Hair (白发魔女传)
The Bride with White Hair (白髮魔女傳) is Ronny Yu's 1993 Hong Kong wuxia fantasy adapted from Liang Yusheng's novel, starring Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Lin as doomed lovers from rival clans; it won the Golden Horse Best Adapted Screenplay award.
The Bride with White Hair 2 (白发魔女2)
The Bride with White Hair 2 (白髮魔女2, Bai Fa Mo Nu Zhuan II) is a 1993 Hong Kong wuxia sequel directed by David Wu and Ronny Yu, starring Brigitte Lin and Leslie Cheung as Lien Ni-Chang and Cho Yi-Hang, released December 22, 1993.
The Bride!
The Bride! is a 2026 American horror-romance film written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, reimagining the Bride of Frankenstein, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale.
The Bridesmaid
The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d'honneur) is Claude Chabrol's 2004 French-German thriller adapted from Ruth Rendell's novel, starring Benoît Magimel and Laura Smet; a salesman falls for a bridesmaid who demands murder as proof of love.
The Bridge (1959 film)
Die Brücke (The Bridge), 1959 West German anti-war film by Bernhard Wicki, his debut, adapted from Manfred Gregor's autobiographical novel; seven teenage conscripts die defending a bridge slated for demolition; Golden Globe winner, Oscar-nominated.
The Bridge (2006 documentary film)
The Bridge (2006) is Eric Steel's documentary filming the Golden Gate Bridge every daylight day of 2004, capturing 23 of 24 suicides, with family interviews, ethical controversy, and the barrier campaign it spurred.
The Bridge at Remagen
The Bridge at Remagen (1969) is a John Guillermin war film, produced by David L. Wolper from Ken Hechler's novel, starring George Segal and Robert Vaughn; its Czechoslovak filming was interrupted by the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) is David Lean's Oscar-winning war drama, adapted from Pierre Boulle's novel, about British POWs building a railway bridge for Japanese captors while Allied commandos plot its destruction; it won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture.
The Bridges of Madison County (film)
The Bridges of Madison County is Clint Eastwood's 1995 romance drama, adapted by Richard LaGravenese from Robert James Waller's bestseller, starring Eastwood and Meryl Streep as lovers in a four-day 1965 Iowa affair; Streep earned her 10th Oscar nomination and the film grossed about $70.5 million.
The Brink of War
The Brink of War (2026) is Michael Russell Gunn's debut drama about the 1986 Reykjavík Summit, starring Jeff Daniels as Reagan, Jared Harris as Gorbachev, and J.K. Simmons as Shultz, released by Angel Studios.
The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody (1929) is MGM's first all-talking musical, directed by Harry Beaumont, starring Bessie Love, Anita Page, and Charles King; it won the second Best Picture Oscar and spawned the Broadway Melody series.
The Broken Hearts Club
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy is Greg Berlanti's 2000 directorial debut, a Sony Pictures Classics comedy-drama about six gay friends in West Hollywood, starring Timothy Olyphant, Dean Cain, Zach Braff, and John Mahoney; it won a 2001 GLAAD Media Award.
The Broken Hearts Gallery
The Broken Hearts Gallery is a 2020 American romantic comedy directed by Natalie Krinsky, starring Geraldine Viswanathan as a New Yorker who opens a pop-up gallery for relationship mementos.
The Bronze (film)
The Bronze is a 2016 American dark comedy, also called The Bronze (2016 film), directed by Bryan Buckley and written by Melissa and Winston Rauch. Melissa Rauch plays bitter ex-gymnast Hope Ann Greggory; it premiered at Sundance 2015, sold for $3 million, and grossed $615,816.
The Brood
The Brood is a 1979 Canadian body-horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, and Art Hindle, in which psychoplasmic therapy turns a divorcing woman's rage into killer offspring; inspired by Cronenberg's own divorce.
The Brother from Another Planet
The Brother from Another Planet is John Sayles's 1984 low-budget sci-fi comedy starring Joe Morton as a mute alien escaped slave adapting to Harlem while pursued by two bounty hunters; an allegory of race and immigration.
The Brothers
The Brothers is a 2001 American comedy-drama directed and written by Gary Hardwick, starring Morris Chestnut, Shemar Moore, Bill Bellamy, and D.L. Hughley as friends facing commitment; Screen Gems release grossing $27.5 million.
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (戸田家の兄妹)
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (戸田家の兄妹, Toda-ke no Kyōdai) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1941 Shochiku drama about a family's adult children neglecting their widowed mother after the indebted father dies; it ranked first in the 1941 Kinema Junpo Best Ten and anticipated Tokyo Story.
The Brothers Bloom
The Brothers Bloom (Bratři Bloomovi) is Rian Johnson's 2008 con-artist comedy-drama starring Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, and Rinko Kikuchi; released 2009 by Summit, it grossed $3.5 million in the US.
The Brothers Grimm (film)
The Brothers Grimm is a 2005 fantasy adventure film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as the Grimm brothers, con artists facing a real curse.
The Brown Bunny
The Brown Bunny (2003) is Vincent Gallo's experimental road drama, also called Gallo's Cannes scandal film, starring Gallo and Chloë Sevigny; booed at Cannes 2003, re-edited from 100 to 93 minutes, released 2004 with an unsimulated sex scene.
The Browning Version
The Browning Version is Terence Rattigan's 1948 play about a retiring classics master, adapted most notably in Anthony Asquith's 1951 film with Michael Redgrave (Cannes Best Actor) and Mike Figgis's 1994 remake with Albert Finney.
The Brutalist
The Brutalist is a 2024 Brady Corbet epic drama, co-written with Mona Fastvold, starring Adrien Brody as fictional Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth. Shot on VistaVision for under $10 million, it won the Venice Silver Lion, three Golden Globes, and an Oscar for cinematography.
The Bubble (2022 film)
The Bubble (2022) is a Netflix comedy directed by Judd Apatow, co-written with Pam Brady, about actors quarantined in an English hotel filming Cliff Beasts 6, a flying-dinosaur franchise sequel; released April 1, 2022, starring Karen Gillan, Pedro Pascal, and David Duchovny, and critically panned at 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Bucket List
The Bucket List is a 2007 American comedy-drama directed by Rob Reiner, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two terminally ill men completing a list before they die.
The Buckingham Murders
The Buckingham Murders is a 2024 Hansal Mehta crime thriller starring Kareena Kapoor Khan as detective Jasmeet Bhamra, who investigates a Sikh boy's murder in High Wycombe while grieving her own child. Released September 13, 2024; 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, 5.9 on IMDb, streaming on Netflix.
The Buddy Holly Story
The Buddy Holly Story is a 1978 Columbia biographical drama directed by Steve Rash, starring Gary Busey as Buddy Holly. Busey sang live and earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination; Joe Renzetti won for adapted score.