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Ben Mankiewicz
Ben Mankiewicz (Benjamin Frederick Mankiewicz, b. March 25, 1967 per TMDB), American TV and radio host, TCM primetime host since 2003, The Young Turks co-founder, grandson of Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Ben Murphy
Ben Murphy (Benjamin Edward Castleberry Jr., b. March 6, 1942, Jonesboro, Arkansas) is an American actor, Kid Curry in Alias Smith and Jones, lead in eight TV series including Gemini Man, active 1967–2010.
Ben Richardson
Ben Richardson, ASC BSC, is a British cinematographer and director known for Beasts of the Southern Wild, Wind River, Mare of Easttown, and Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone, 1883, and 1923.
Ben Schwartz
Ben Schwartz (born 1981, Bronx, New York) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and improviser known as Jean-Ralphio on Parks and Recreation, Clyde Oberholt on House of Lies, and the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in the film series.
Ben Wheatley
Ben Wheatley (Benjamin Wheatley) is an English film director born in 1972 whose work spans micro-budget horror like Kill List and the 2023 blockbuster Meg 2: The Trench.
Ben-Hur (1925 film)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), Fred Niblo's MGM silent epic starring Ramon Novarro and Francis X. Bushman, adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel; cost about $4 million, famous for its troubled Italian shoot and 42-camera chariot race.
Ben-Hur (1959 film)
Ben-Hur (1959) is MGM's William Wyler epic starring Charlton Heston, adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel; it won a then-record 11 Oscars and is famed for its chariot race.
Ben-Hur (2016 film)
Ben-Hur (2016) is Timur Bekmambetov's adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel, starring Jack Huston and Toby Kebbell. Made for $100 million, it grossed $94 million worldwide, opened fifth with $11.2 million, and scored 24% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is MGM's 1925 silent epic directed by Fred Niblo, starring Ramon Novarro, based on Lew Wallace's 1880 novel. Costing $3.9 million, the most expensive silent film, famous for its chariot race and Technicolor sequences.
Ben'Imana
Ben'Imana is a 2026 Kinyarwanda-language drama, the debut feature of Rwandan director Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo. Set in Kibeho in 2012 during Gacaca reconciliation trials, it won the Caméra d'Or and FIPRESCI at Cannes and became Rwanda's first Oscar submission.
Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham: 2002 British comedy directed by Gurinder Chadha, starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley; Jess Bhamra, a British Indian Sikh teen, defies her parents to play football; grossed almost £60m on £3.5m and inspired UK women's football.
Bend of the River
Bend of the River (1952), also known by its working title Bend of the Snake, is an Anthony Mann Technicolor Western starring James Stewart as reformed outlaw Glyn McLyntock guiding settlers to Oregon, with Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, and Rock Hudson; second of five Mann-Stewart Westerns.
Bend Over Boyfriend 2
Bend Over Boyfriend 2: More Rockin', Less Talkin' is a 1999 American instructional pornographic video by Shar Rednour and Jackie Strano (S.I.R. Video), sequel to Bend Over Boyfriend, depicting women using strap-on dildos on men (pegging).
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), first sequel to Planet of the Apes, directed by Ted Post, starring James Franciscus and Charlton Heston; astronaut Brent finds telepathic mutants worshipping a doomsday bomb, and the film ends with Earth destroyed.
Benedetta (film)
Benedetta (2021) is Paul Verhoeven's French-language historical drama about nun Benedetta Carlini, based on Judith C. Brown's Immodest Acts; it competed at Cannes 2021, stars Virginie Efira, and holds 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Benediction (film)
Benediction (2021) is Terence Davies's final feature, a biographical drama about war poet Siegfried Sassoon, played by Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi; premiered at TIFF 2021, Metascore 81, 137 minutes.
Bengal Tiger (2015 film)
Bengal Tiger (బెంగాల్ టైగర్) is a 2015 Telugu action comedy directed and written by Sampath Nandi, starring Ravi Teja, Tamannaah Bhatia, Raashi Khanna, and Boman Irani; released 10 December 2015, music by Bheems Ceciroleo.
Bennett Miller
Bennett Altman Miller (born 1966, New York City), American film director of The Cruise (1998), Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014); two Best Director Oscar nominations, Cannes 2014 Best Director; later AI-themed art at Gagosian.
Benny & Joon
Benny & Joon is a 1993 MGM romantic comedy-drama directed by Jeremiah Chechik, starring Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Aidan Quinn; a Keaton-inspired oddball enters a mechanic's household, grossing $23.1 million.
Benny Safdie
Benny Safdie (born 1986, New York City), American filmmaker and actor of the Safdie brothers duo (Daddy Longlegs, Good Time, Uncut Gems); co-creator of The Curse; solo director of The Smashing Machine (2025), Silver Lion Best Director at Venice 2025; actor in Oppenheimer and Licorice Pizza.
Benny's Video
Benny's Video (1992) is Michael Haneke's Austria-Switzerland drama, second in his Glaciation trilogy, about a 14-year-old obsessed with violent videos who kills a girl with a stolen slaughter pistol; premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight 1992.
Beowulf (2007 film)
Beowulf, also released as Beowulf 3D, is a 2007 American animated fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Ray Winstone as the hero of the Old English epic poem.
Berlin (2023 film)
Berlin (बर्लिन) is a 2023 Hindi spy thriller by Atul Sabharwal, set in 1993 New Delhi, where sign-language interpreter Pushkin Verma (Aparshakti Khurana) interrogates deaf-mute suspect Ashok (Ishwak Singh); premiered at IFFLA 2023, released on ZEE5 on 13 September 2024.
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980 film)
Berlin Alexanderplatz is a 1980 West German television miniseries directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, adapting Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel in fourteen parts totaling more than 15 hours, following ex-convict Franz Biberkopf in late-1920s Berlin.
Berlin Syndrome (film)
Berlin Syndrome (2017) is an Australian psychological thriller directed by Cate Shortland, adapted by Shaun Grant from Melanie Joosten's novel, starring Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt; premiered at Sundance 2017.
Berlin, I Love You
Berlin, I Love You (Berlin ick liebe dir) is a 2019 German-British anthology film, the fourth Cities of Love entry after Paris, New York, and Rio, with ten Berlin love stories by directors including Peter Chelsom, Til Schweiger, and Fernando Eimbcke.
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin. Die Sinfonie der Großstadt) is Walther Ruttmann's 1927 German silent city-symphony documentary, premiered 23 September 1927, scored by Edmund Meisel, portraying one day in Berlin.
Bernard Herrmann
Bernard Herrmann (Max Herman, 1911–1975), American composer and conductor; scored Citizen Kane, nine Hitchcock films including Psycho and Vertigo, and Taxi Driver; won one Oscar for The Devil and Daniel Webster.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (1941–2018), Italian film director and poet, father Attilio; directed The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, and The Last Emperor, which won nine Oscars including Best Director in 1988.
Bernie (2011 film)
Bernie (2011) is Richard Linklater's mockumentary dark comedy, starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey, about mortician Bernie Tiede's 1996 murder of widow Marjorie Nugent in Carthage, Texas, adapted from Skip Hollandsworth's Texas Monthly article and later tied to Tiede's 2014 release and 2016 resentencing.