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The Best Man: The Final Chapters
The Best Man: The Final Chapters is an eight-episode Peacock limited series (December 22, 2022) by Malcolm D. Lee and Dayna Lynne North, concluding the Best Man film franchise with Harper, Lance, Jordan, Quentin, and friends in midlife.
The Best of Both Worlds (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
The Best of Both Worlds: TNG two-parter (June and September 1990) in which the Borg assimilate Picard as Locutus; Star Trek's first season cliffhanger, ending with Riker's "Fire" command.
The Best of Enemies (2019 film)
The Best of Enemies (2019) is Robin Bissell's feature-directing debut drama, starring Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell as activist Ann Atwater and Klan leader C.P. Ellis, co-chairs of Durham, North Carolina's 1971 school desegregation charrette.
The Best of Me (2014 film)
The Best of Me is a 2014 American romantic drama directed by Michael Hoffman, based on Nicholas Sparks's 2011 novel and starring Michelle Monaghan and James Marsden.
The Best of Times (美丽时光)
The Best of Times (美麗時光) is Chang Tso-chi's 2002 Taiwanese crime drama about two 19-year-old cousins turned gang debt collectors and fugitives; it competed at Venice and won the 39th Golden Horse Best Feature Film.
The Best Offer
The Best Offer (La migliore offerta) is Giuseppe Tornatore's 2013 English-language Italian romantic thriller starring Geoffrey Rush as auctioneer Virgil Oldman, with Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, and Donald Sutherland, scored by Ennio Morricone; it won six David di Donatello awards and premiered at the Berlinale 2013.
The Best Thing (爱你) (TV series)
The Best Thing (爱你) is a 2025 Chinese urban romance drama, 28 episodes, adapted from Sheng Li's novel, directed by Che Liangyi, starring Zhang Linghe and Xu Ruohan as a TCM doctor and insomniac hotel manager, airing on iQiyi and Jiangsu TV from 25 February 2025.
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), William Wyler drama produced by Samuel Goldwyn from MacKinlay Kantor's Glory for Me, follows three WWII veterans readjusting to civilian life; it won Best Picture and made Harold Russell the only actor to win two Oscars for one performance.
The Best You Can
The Best You Can is a 2025 American comedy-drama written and directed by Michael J. Weithorn, starring married couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick together on screen for the first time in 20 years; it premiered at Tribeca 2025 and streams on Netflix US.
The Betrayers (film)
The Betrayers is a 2026 Canadian-Ukrainian drama directed by David Bezmozgis, adapting his 2014 novel about Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician and Soviet dissident who meets his KGB betrayer in Yalta; it premiered at TIFF 2026.
The Better Sister
The Better Sister is an eight-episode Prime Video limited thriller series (2025) adapted from Alafair Burke's 2019 novel, starring Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks as estranged sisters reunited by a murder, with Corey Stoll and Kim Dickens.
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies: CBS sitcom (1962–71) created by Paul Henning about the oil-rich Clampett family moving to Beverly Hills; number-one rated show in its first two seasons, canceled in the 1971 rural purge.
The Beverly Hillbillies (film)
The Beverly Hillbillies (film) is a 1993 American comedy directed by Penelope Spheeris. It follows Jed Clampett, an Arkansas farmer who strikes oil and moves to Beverly Hills.
The Beyond
The Beyond (...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà) is Lucio Fulci's 1981 Italian horror film about a New Orleans hotel built over one of the seven gateways to Hell; middle film of the Gates of Hell trilogy, cut as 7 Doors of Death in the US, later a cult classic, with a remake announced in 2026.
The BFG (2016 film)
The BFG is a 2016 fantasy adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, adapted from Roald Dahl's 1982 children's novel about orphan Sophie and the Big Friendly Giant.
The Bhootnii
The Bhootnii (द भूतनी), earlier titled The Virgin Tree, is a 2025 Hindi horror comedy directed by Sidhaant Sachdev, starring Sanjay Dutt, Mouni Roy, and Sunny Singh. Released May 1, 2025, it earned poor reviews and a 3.6/10 IMDb rating, and streams on ZEE5.
The Bibi Files
The Bibi Files (תיקי ביבי) is a 2024 documentary by Alexis Bloom and Alex Gibney built on 1,000-plus hours of leaked police interrogation tapes of Benjamin Netanyahu, his family, and associates; banned in Israel, released on Jolt.film, Oscar-shortlisted.
The Bible (miniseries)
The Bible (History Channel, 2013) is a five-episode, 10-hour miniseries from Mark Burnett and Roma Downey dramatizing Genesis to Revelation, starring Diogo Morgado as Jesus, averaging over 11 million viewers per episode and spawning Son of God and A.D. The Bible Continues.
The Bicameral Mind
The bicameral mind is Julian Jaynes's 1976 theory that pre-conscious humans heard commands as hallucinated 'god' voices from the right hemisphere, with introspective consciousness emerging from metaphorical language roughly 3,000 years ago; it anchors Westworld's first-season finale and remains controversial.
The Big Band (乐队的夏天)
The Big Band (乐队的夏天) is a Chinese original music variety show by iQIYI and Miwei Media, hosted by Ma Dong, with three seasons (2019, 2020, 2023) in which bands compete for audience votes; season 1 scored 8.7 on Douban and made New Pants, Hedgehog, and Click#15 mainstream names.
The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory, CBS sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady (2007–2019), about Pasadena physicists Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper; twelve seasons, longest-running multi-camera sitcom, 55 Emmy nominations and 10 wins.
The Big Blue
The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu) is Luc Besson's 1988 French film about free divers Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari, inspired by Jacques Mayol and Enzo Maiorca. It opened Cannes 1988, sold 9.2 million tickets in France, and won two Césars.
The Big Boss (唐山大兄)
The Big Boss (唐山大兄) is a 1971 Hong Kong action film starring Bruce Lee. Directed by Lo Wei and Wu Chia-hsiang, it opened the kung fu boom.
The Big Brawl
The Big Brawl (殺手壕), aka Battle Creek Brawl, is a 1980 martial arts comedy directed by Robert Clouse, starring Jackie Chan in his first American lead as Jerry Kwan, a 1930s Chicago fighter forced into a Texas street-fight tournament; budget $6 million, US gross $8.4 million.
The Big Breakfast
The Big Breakfast was Channel 4's live weekday morning show (28 September 1992 to 29 March 2002, 2,482 episodes), made by Planet 24 from converted lock-keepers' cottages in Bow, east London, hosted famously by Chris Evans and Gaby Roslin, later Johnny Vaughan and Denise van Outen, and revived in 2021-2022 with Mo Gilligan and AJ Odudu.
The Big Bull
The Big Bull is a 2021 Hindi biographical crime drama directed by Kookie Gulati, starring Abhishek Bachchan as Hemant Shah, a fictionalized Harshad Mehta; released on Disney+ Hotstar on 8 April 2021.
The Big C (TV series)
The Big C is a Showtime comedy-drama (2010-2013, 4 seasons, 40 episodes) created by Darlene Hunt, starring Laura Linney as teacher Cathy Jamison, diagnosed with terminal Stage IV melanoma; originally titled The C-Word.
The Big Chill (film)
The Big Chill is a 1983 American comedy-drama directed by Lawrence Kasdan, in which former college friends gather after a friend's suicide and confront their lost 1960s idealism.
The Big Cigar
The Big Cigar is a six-episode Apple TV+ limited series (2024) dramatizing Huey P. Newton's 1974 escape to Cuba, aided by producer Bert Schneider's fake film production, based on Joshuah Bearman's Playboy article, starring André Holland and Alessandro Nivola.
The Big City
The Big City (Mahanagar, মহানগর) is Satyajit Ray's 1963 Bengali drama, his first Calcutta-set film, adapted from Narendranath Mitra's Abataranika, starring Madhabi Mukherjee as a housewife who becomes her family's breadwinner and winning the 1964 Berlin Silver Bear.