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The Brokenwood Mysteries
The Brokenwood Mysteries is a New Zealand murder-mystery series by South Pacific Pictures, first aired 2014 on Prime TV, now on TVNZ 1 and Acorn TV, sold to over 150 countries, starring Neill Rea and Fern Sutherland in standalone 90-minute cases.
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 Brothers Sun
The Brothers Sun is a 2024 Netflix action-comedy-drama created by Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu, starring Michelle Yeoh, Justin Chien, and Sam Song Li. A Taipei triad assassin protects his mother and brother in Los Angeles; canceled after one 8-episode season.
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 Buccaneers (2023 TV series)
The Buccaneers is an Apple TV+ period drama (2023) created by Katherine Jakeways, adapted from Edith Wharton's unfinished final novel; American heiresses seek husbands in 1870s London; three seasons, renewed 2025.
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.
The Bunker (2024 film)
The Bunker (2024 film), also released in Germany as Bunker 06: Das Exitus-Protokoll, is an American sci-fi horror film directed by Brian Hanson, starring Chelsea Edmundson, Tony Todd, and Tobin Bell; premiered at Popcorn Frights 2024 and released digitally in 2025 by Electric Entertainment.
The Bunny Game
The Bunny Game is a 2010 black-and-white American extreme horror film by Adam Rehmeier, co-written with star Rodleen Getsic, about a prostitute abducted by a trucker; banned by the BBFC in 2011, released uncut in the US in 2012.
The Bureau (TV series)
The Bureau (Le Bureau des Légendes) is a French espionage drama created by Éric Rochant for Canal+, 2015–2020, five 10-episode seasons about DGSE deep-cover agents, praised for realism and remade in the US as The Agency.
The Bureau of Magical Things
The Bureau of Magical Things is an Australian children's fantasy drama by Jonathan M. Shiff, 2018–2021, two 20-episode seasons, about Kyra, a Tri-ling uniting fairies, elves, and humans.
The Burial (film)
The Burial is a 2023 Maggie Betts legal drama on Prime Video, starring Jamie Foxx as attorney Willie E. Gary and Tommy Lee Jones as funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe, based on Harr's 1999 New Yorker article about the real 1995 Loewen Group lawsuit.
The Burial of Kojo
The Burial of Kojo is Blitz Bazawule's 2018 Ghanaian magical-realist debut feature about Esi, her father Kojo, and uncle Kwabena; ARRAY-distributed, Netflix-released March 2019, Urbanworld and Luxor award winner.
The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴)
The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴, Biruma no Tategoto) is Kon Ichikawa's 1956 Nikkatsu antiwar film, adapted by Natto Wada from Takeyama Michio's novel, about soldier Mizushima becoming a monk in Burma; San Giorgio Prize winner, Oscar-nominated, remade in color in 1985.
The Burning Girls
The Burning Girls is a 2023 six-part Paramount+ British horror-thriller adapted by Hans Rosenfeldt from C.J. Tudor's 2021 novel, starring Samantha Morton as vicar Jack Brooks in the haunted village of Chapel Croft; released October 19, 2023, later on Netflix.
The Burning Mill
"The Burning Mill" is the third episode of House of the Dragon season 2 (HBO, June 30, 2024), written by David Hancock and directed by Geeta Vasant Patel; named for the book's Battle of the Burning Mill, which the episode shows only through its aftermath.
The Burning Plain
The Burning Plain is a 2008 drama, Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut, starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, and Jennifer Lawrence. It competed at Venice 65, won Lawrence the Marcello Mastroianni Award, and earned mixed reviews (RT 38%, Metascore 45).
The Burning Train
The Burning Train (दी बर्निंग ट्रेन) is a 1980 Hindi disaster action thriller directed by Ravi Chopra for BR Films, starring Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Hema Malini, and Jeetendra, about a sabotaged Super Express train; music by R.D. Burman.
The Business (2005 film)
The Business is a 2005 British crime film by Nick Love, starring Danny Dyer as Frankie, a South Londoner who joins Tamer Hassan's expat drug gang on the 1980s Costa del Sol, made by Vertigo Films for under £2 million.
The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy: 1997 Neil Jordan film, adapted with Patrick McCabe from McCabe's Booker-shortlisted 1992 novel, about Francie Brady, a boy in 1960s Ireland whose family collapses into madness and murder.