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Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате)
Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате) is Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 Mosfilm drama about soldier Alyosha Skvortsov's six-day leave home across wartime Russia; Cannes special prize 1960, Lenin Prize 1961, Oscar-nominated screenplay.
Ballard (TV series)
Ballard is a Prime Video police procedural (2025) starring Maggie Q as LAPD Detective Renée Ballard, head of a new cold case unit; a Michael Connelly adaptation and Bosch spinoff, renewed for season 2.
Ballerina (2016 film)
Ballerina, released in the United States as Leap!, is a 2016 France-Canada animated musical about an orphan girl who runs away to 1879 Paris to become a dancer.
Ballerina (2024 film)
Ballerina (2024 film), released June 6, 2025 as From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, is a Len Wiseman action spinoff starring Ana de Armas as assassin Eve Macarro, set between John Wick Chapters 3 and 4; distinct from the 2023 Korean Netflix film of the same name.
Ballerina (발레리나) (2023 film)
Ballerina (발레리나) is a 2023 South Korean Netflix action revenge thriller directed by Lee Chung-hyun, starring Jeon Jong-seo as ex-bodyguard Ok-ju avenging her ballerina friend Min-hee (Park Yu-rim); distinct from the 2025 John Wick film.
Ballers
Ballers: HBO comedy-drama (2015–2019, 5 seasons, 47 episodes) created by Stephen Levinson, starring Dwayne Johnson as retired NFL player turned Miami financial manager Spencer Strasmore; 72% Tomatometer, streamed on Netflix from 2023.
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002), also released as Ecks vs. Sever, is a Warner Bros. action film directed by Wych Kaosayananda, starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu; it holds a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score and grossed $14.3 million against a $70 million budget.
Balloon (2017 film)
Balloon (பலூன்), 2017 Tamil horror comedy directed by Sinish Sreedharan, starring Jai, Anjali, Janani Iyer, and Yogi Babu, music by Yuvan Shankar Raja; released 29 December 2017, 146 minutes, U/A.
Balls of Fury
Balls of Fury is a 2007 American sports comedy directed by Robert Ben Garant. It stars Dan Fogler as an FBI agent entering an underground table tennis tournament.
Balls Up
Balls Up is a 2026 American action comedy directed by Peter Farrelly, starring Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser as condom marketers who spark a World Cup scandal in Brazil; released on Prime Video April 15, 2026, to poor reviews (23% Tomatometer, Metascore 34).
Ballykissangel
Ballykissangel: BBC Northern Ireland comedy-drama (1996-2001, six series) created by Kieran Prendiville, about Father Peter Clifford, an English priest in a fictional Irish village, starring Stephen Tompkinson and Dervla Kirwan.
Balota (film)
Balota (international title Ballot) is a 2024 Philippine political satire-thriller written and directed by Kip Oebanda, starring Marian Rivera as a teacher protecting the last ballot box of a contested 2007 mayoral election; a Cinemalaya 2024 entry that became a Netflix release and earned Rivera multiple Best Actress awards.
Balraj Sahni (बलराज साहनी)
Balraj Sahni (बलराज साहनी), born Yudhishthir Sahni (1913–1973), was an Indian film and stage actor of Hindi cinema's golden era, an IPTA leftist activist, and writer. Known for Do Bigha Zamin, Kabuliwala, Waqt, and his final role Salim Mirza in Garam Hawa (1973).
Baltasar Kormákur
Baltasar Kormákur (Baltasar Kormákur Samper, born 1966, Reykjavík) is an Icelandic actor, director, screenwriter, and producer, debut 101 Reykjavík (2000), Hollywood films Contraband, 2 Guns, Everest, TV series Trapped and Katla, owner of RVK Studios and Blueeyes Productions.
Balthazar
Balthazar is a French TF1 crime thriller (2018–2023, 5 seasons, 38 episodes) created by Clélia Constantine and Clothilde Jamin, starring Tomer Sisley as eccentric forensic pathologist Raphaël Balthazar and Hélène de Fougerolles as Commander Hélène Bach.
Balthazar Getty
Balthazar Getty (Paul Balthazar Getty, born 1975) is an American actor, musician, and fashion designer, great-grandson of J. Paul Getty; known for Lord of the Flies, Lost Highway, and Brothers & Sisters.
Balti (film)
Balti (ബൾട്ടി) is a 2025 Malayalam sports action drama, Unni Sivalingam's directorial debut starring Shane Nigam as kabaddi player Udhayan drawn into crime in border-town Velampalayam; released 26 September 2025, music by Sai Abhyankkar, streaming on SonyLIV.
Balto (film)
Balto (1995) is an animated adventure film directed by Simon Wells for Amblimation and Universal, loosely based on the 1925 serum run to Nome, Alaska. It stars Kevin Bacon, Bob Hoskins, and Bridget Fonda, grossed $11.2 million, and was Amblimation's final hand-drawn feature.
Balu Mahendra
Balu Mahendra (Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran, 1939–2014), Sri Lankan Tamil cinematographer-director of Tamil cinema; directed Kokila, Moondram Pirai, Veedu, Sadma; six National Film Awards; natural-lighting auteur who mentored Bala and Vetrimaaran.
Balupu
Balupu (బలుపు) is a 2013 Telugu action comedy directed by Gopichand Malineni, starring Ravi Teja, Shruti Haasan, and Anjali; produced by PVP Cinema, music by S. Thaman, released 28 June 2013, Ravi Teja's comeback hit.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (巴尔扎克与小裁缝)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (巴尔扎克与小裁缝) is Dai Sijie's 2000 French novel and his 2002 film about two teens re-educated during China's Cultural Revolution whose forbidden Balzac books transform a village seamstress; the film opened Cannes Un Certain Regard and was banned in China.
Bamako (2006 film)
Bamako (2006) is a drama by Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, premiered out of competition at Cannes, in which a courtyard tribunal in Mali's capital puts the World Bank and IMF on trial for Africa's poverty.
Bambai Meri Jaan
Bambai Meri Jaan (बंबई मेरी जान) is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language period crime drama streaming series on Prime Video, directed by Shujaat Saudagar, about a gangster's rise in post-independence Bombay.
Bamber Gascoigne
Bamber Gascoigne (Arthur Bamber Gascoigne, 1935–2022), English writer and broadcaster, original quizmaster of University Challenge 1962–1987; author of How to Identify Prints; restorer of West Horsley Place.
Bambi
Bambi is Walt Disney's 1942 animated feature, based on Felix Salten's 1923 novel, about a fawn who becomes Great Prince of the Forest. Premiered in London August 1942, U.S. release August 13; oil-paint backgrounds, multiplane camera, over $2,000,000 cost, National Film Registry 2011. Not the 2013 Lifshitz documentary or the Python Bambi package.
Bambi II
Bambi II (2006) is a DisneyToon Studios direct-to-DVD animated midquel to Bambi (1942), directed by Brian Pimental, with Patrick Stewart as the Great Prince raising the motherless fawn; it sold 2.5 million DVDs in its first week and won a 2007 Annie Award.
Bambi Woods
Bambi Woods is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress and exotic dancer, best known for the title role in the 1978 film Debbie Does Dallas.
Bambi: The Reckoning
Bambi: The Reckoning is a 2025 British horror film directed by Dan Allen, the fourth entry in the Twisted Childhood Universe, in which a mutated deer stalks a mother and son after a car wreck; released July 25, 2025.
Bamboozled
Bamboozled is Spike Lee's 2000 satirical comedy-drama in which TV writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) pitches a blackface minstrel show that becomes a hit. Released by New Line, it grossed $2.2 million against a $10 million budget and was later restored by Criterion.
Bamm-Bamm Rubble
Bamm-Bamm Rubble, also spelled Bam-Bam, is the super-strong adopted son of Barney and Betty Rubble in Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones, debuting October 3, 1963, voiced by Don Messick, husband of Pebbles Flintstone.