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Beach Rats

Beach Rats is a 2017 American drama by Eliza Hittman about Frankie, a Brooklyn teenager secretly meeting older men online while dating Simone; Sundance Directing Award winner starring Harris Dickinson, released August 25, 2017 by Neon.

Beach Read (film)

Beach Read (film): upcoming 2027 American romantic comedy adapted from Emily Henry's 2020 novel, directed and written by Yulin Kuang, starring Phoebe Dynevor and Patrick Schwarzenegger as rival writers January Andrews and Gus Everett, releasing theatrically May 7, 2027.

Beaches (1988 film)

Beaches is a 1988 Garry Marshall comedy-drama starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends C.C. Bloom and Hillary Whitney, adapted from Iris Rainer Dart's 1985 novel, a Touchstone release whose "Wind Beneath My Wings" won a Grammy.

Bean (film)

Bean, also released as Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie, is a 1997 comedy film in which Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean is sent to Los Angeles as a fake art expert.

Bear McCreary

Bear McCreary (born 1979) is an American composer for TV, film, and games, known for Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Outlander, God of War, and The Rings of Power, with an Emmy, BAFTA Games Awards, and the rock project The Singularity.

Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre

Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre, also a 2025 feature film October 7: Bearing Witness to the Massacre, covers an Israeli 47-minute restricted documentary compiling Hamas bodycam, security-camera, and first-responder footage of the October 7, 2023 attacks, shown in private screenings in over 30 countries, distinct from the 2025 Jesse Schluntz feature.

Beast (2017 film)

Beast (2017) is Michael Pearce's British psychological thriller debut, set on Jersey and starring Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn, inspired by the Beast of Jersey and winner of the 2019 BAFTA for Outstanding Debut.

Beast (2022 American film)

Beast is a 2022 American survival horror film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Idris Elba as a widowed doctor hunted by a rogue lion in South Africa.

Beast (2022 Indian film)

Beast (பீஸ்ட்), 2022 Tamil action comedy by Nelson Dilipkumar for Sun Pictures, starring Vijay as ex-RAW agent Veeraraghavan in a mall hijack with Pooja Hegde and Selvaraghavan; released 13 April 2022, ₹216.58 crore worldwide, mixed-negative reviews, distinct from the 2022 Idris Elba film of the same name.

Beast (2026 film)

Beast (2026) is an Australian MMA sports drama directed by Tyler Atkins, written by David Frigerio and Russell Crowe, starring Daniel MacPherson and Crowe; released April 2026, 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, $1.8M worldwide.

Beast Cops (野兽刑警)

Beast Cops (野獸刑警, Yeshou Xingjing) is a 1998 Hong Kong crime film co-directed by Gordon Chan and Dante Lam, starring Anthony Wong as corrupt cop Tung; it won five 1999 Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

Beast of War

Beast of War is a 2025 Australian WWII shark survival thriller written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, inspired by the 1942 sinking of HMAS Armidale, starring Mark Coles Smith, released October 10, 2025, distinct from the 1988 Kevin Reynolds tank film.

Beast Stalker (证人)

The Beast Stalker (証人, Ching yan) is a 2008 Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Dante Lam, starring Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, and Zhang Jingchu. A cop's stray bullet kills a prosecutor's daughter; Nick Cheung's kidnapper role won Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.

Beastly (film)

Beastly (2011) is a teen romantic fantasy film directed by Daniel Barnz, adapted from Alex Flinn's novel, starring Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, and Mary-Kate Olsen; a cursed student has one year to find love, grossing $27.9M domestically.

Beasts Clawing at Straws (지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들)

Beasts Clawing at Straws (지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들) is a 2020 South Korean crime thriller, Kim Yonghoon's debut feature adapted from Keisuke Sone's novel, which won the Rotterdam Tiger Competition Special Jury Award and drew 626,815 admissions in Korea.

Beasts of No Nation (film)

Beasts of No Nation (2015) is Cary Joji Fukunaga's war drama, Netflix's first original feature film ($12 million), adapted from Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel, starring Abraham Attah as child soldier Agu and Idris Elba as the Commandant.

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Beasts of the Southern Wild is Benh Zeitlin's 2012 debut drama-fantasy, adapted from Lucy Alibar's play Juicy and Delicious, starring Quvenzhané Wallis as Hushpuppy in the levee-cut Bathtub bayou community; it won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and earned four Oscar nominations.

Beat (1997 film)

Beat (비트, Biteu) is a 1997 South Korean action drama by director Kim Sung-soo, starring Jung Woo-sung, Ko So-young, Im Chang-jung, and Yu Oh-seong, based on a Huh Young-man comic about youth drifting into the underworld; distinct from the 2000 Walkow and 1998 Japanese films of the same title.

Beat Street

Beat Street is a 1984 Orion Pictures musical drama directed by Stan Lathan, produced by Harry Belafonte, about South Bronx DJ, breakdancing, and graffiti artists in early hip-hop culture; its gold-certified soundtrack and international influence distinguish it.

Beatrice Cenci (1969 film)

Beatrice Cenci (1969), aka The Conspiracy of Torture, is Lucio Fulci's Italian historical drama on the 1599 Cenci murder, starring Adrienne La Russa, Georges Wilson, and Tomas Milian; censored with an 18-year ban, distinct from Freda's 1956 film.

Beatrice Welles

Beatrice Welles (Beatrice Giuditta Welles, Beatrice Mori di Gerfalco Welles), born 1955, daughter of Orson Welles and Countess Paola Mori; child actress in Chimes at Midnight and manager of her father's estate and restorations.

Beatriz at Dinner

Beatriz at Dinner: 2017 comedy-drama by Miguel Arteta, written by Mike White, starring Salma Hayek and John Lithgow; a stranded healer clashes with a billionaire developer at a dinner party; 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, $7.1M US gross.

Beau Flynn

Beau Flynn (born 1970, Miami) is an American film producer, founder of Flynn Picture Company, known for San Andreas, Rampage, Jungle Cruise, Red Notice, and Black Adam, and for repeated collaborations with Dwayne Johnson.

Beau Geste (1926 film)

Beau Geste (1926) is Herbert Brenon's Paramount silent adaptation of P. C. Wren's Foreign Legion novel, starring Ronald Colman; Photoplay's Best Picture of 1926, remade in 1939 with Gary Cooper and restored in 2025.

Beau Geste (1939 film)

Beau Geste (1939) is William A. Wellman's Paramount adventure film starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as brothers in the French Foreign Legion, a remake of the 1926 Ronald Colman silent based on P.C. Wren's 1924 novel, with Brian Donlevy as Sergeant Markoff.

Beau Is Afraid

Beau Is Afraid, formerly titled Disappointment Blvd., is a 2023 surrealist comedy-horror film directed by Ari Aster, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a paranoid man journeying home to his dead mother.

Beau Travail

Beau Travail (1999) is Claire Denis's French drama, loosely adapted from Melville's Billy Budd, set in the Foreign Legion in Djibouti; Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, and Grégoire Colin star, with cinematography by Agnès Godard.

Beautiful Boy (2018 film)

Beautiful Boy (2018) is Felix van Groeningen's English-language debut drama, adapted from David Sheff's memoir Beautiful Boy and Nic Sheff's Tweak, starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet as a father and son facing meth addiction, released by Amazon Studios.

Beautiful Creatures (2013 film)

Beautiful Creatures is a 2013 American supernatural romantic fantasy film directed by Richard LaGravenese, adapted from Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's novel, starring Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert.

Beautiful Girls (film)

Beautiful Girls is a 1996 American comedy-drama-romance directed by Ted Demme, written by Scott Rosenberg, starring Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, and Natalie Portman. Set in Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, it follows friends at a high school reunion; it earned $10,597,759 in the US.