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Black Book (film)

Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek) is a 2006 World War II thriller directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Carice van Houten as a Jewish singer who joins the Dutch Resistance.

Black Books

Black Books is a Channel 4 British sitcom (2000–2004, 18 episodes, 3 series) created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan, starring Moran as misanthropic bookseller Bernard Black with Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig; it won BAFTA Situation Comedy awards in 2001 and 2005.

Black Box (2020 film)

Black Box (2020) is a psychological horror-thriller, the feature debut of director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr., starring Mamoudou Athie and Phylicia Rashad. Released October 6, 2020 on Prime Video in the Welcome to the Blumhouse anthology, it follows an amnesiac father whose experimental memory treatment unravels his identity; 72% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 62.

Black Box (2026 film)

Black Box (Black Box: Flight 298; Russian: Рейс 298) is a 2026 horror sci-fi thriller directed by Steven Quale, written by Stephen Susco, starring Tom Brittney; Vero Airlines Flight 298 faces supernatural terror; 70% Tomatometer, $521,167 gross.

Black Box Diaries

Black Box Diaries (ブラック・ボックス・ダイアリーズ) is Shiori Itō's 2024 documentary on her own rape case against Noriyuki Yamaguchi, based on her book Black Box; Sundance 2024 premiere, 2025 Oscar nomination, and a Japan release delayed until December 2025 over unauthorized footage.

Black Butler (黒執事)

Black Butler (黒執事, Kuroshitsuji) is Yana Toboso's Victorian dark fantasy manga serialized in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy since 2006, following demon butler Sebastian Michaelis and twelve-year-old earl Ciel Phantomhive; over 36 million copies, six anime series, musicals, and a live-action film.

Black Cake (TV series)

Black Cake is a 2023 Hulu drama series, eight episodes, adapted by Marissa Jo Cerar from Charmaine Wilkerson's 2022 novel, produced by Harpo Films and Kapital Entertainment, starring Mia Isaac, Chipo Chung, Adrienne Warren, and Ashley Thomas; cancelled in 2024.

Black Canary

Black Canary is a DC Comics superheroine held by Dinah Drake (debut Flash Comics #86, 1947) and her daughter Dinah Laurel Lance, a martial artist with the ultrasonic Canary Cry, member of the Justice Society, Justice League, and Birds of Prey.

Black Cannon Incident (黑炮事件)

The Black Cannon Incident (黑炮事件) is a 1986 Chinese satirical film, Huang Jianxin's debut, adapted from Zhang Xianliang's novella; a lost chess piece triggers suspicion of engineer Zhao Shuxin, starring Liu Zifeng, Golden Rooster Best Actor winner.

Black Cat (Marvel Comics)

Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) is a Marvel Comics cat burglar and antihero, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #194 (July 1979) by Marv Wolfman and Keith Pollard. Known for feline agility, a bad luck aura, and an on-off romance with Spider-Man; stars in solo series from 2019 and 2025.

Black Cat (ブラックキャット) (manga)

Black Cat (ブラックキャット) is Kentaro Yabuki's 2000-2004 Weekly Shonen Jump manga in 20 volumes about assassin Train Heartnet, who leaves Chronos to become a bounty hunter; adapted into a 24-episode 2005 TBS anime.

Black Cat, White Cat

Black Cat, White Cat (Crna mačka, beli mačor) is Emir Kusturica's 1998 Romani comedy set on the Danube, winner of the Venice Silver Lion for Best Director and his follow-up to Underground.

Black Christmas (1974 film)

Black Christmas (1974) is a Canadian horror film directed by Bob Clark, written by Roy Moore, starring Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder; a sorority-house slasher that prefigured Halloween and founded the slasher genre.

Black Christmas (2006 film)

Black Christmas (Black X-Mas) is Glen Morgan's 2006 slasher remake of Bob Clark's 1974 film, starring Katie Cassidy and Michelle Trachtenberg; it added a Billy Lenz backstory, grossed $21.5 million worldwide, and scored 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Black Christmas (2019 film)

Black Christmas (2019) is a Blumhouse horror film directed by Sophia Takal, co-written with April Wolfe, starring Imogen Poots and Cary Elwes; the second remake of the 1974 slasher, released December 13, 2019, grossing $10.4M US.

Black Clover (ブラッククローバー)

Black Clover (ブラッククローバー) is Yūki Tabata's fantasy manga about Asta, a magicless boy with anti-magic aiming to become Wizard King. Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from February 2015, moved to quarterly Jump GIGA in 2023, ended with chapter 392 on May 1, 2026; 392 chapters, 38 volumes, 24 million copies.

Black Clover (ブラッククローバー) (TV series)

Black Clover (ブラッククローバー) is the TV anime of Yūki Tabata's Weekly Shōnen Jump manga about Asta and Yuno; 170 episodes aired 2017-2021 on TV Tokyo, with a film in 2023 and a second season set for October 2026.

Black Coal, Thin Ice (白日焰火)

Black Coal, Thin Ice (白日焰火, "Daylight Fireworks") is Diao Yinan's 2014 Chinese neo-noir crime film starring Liao Fan and Gwei Lun-mei; it won the 64th Berlinale Golden Bear and Silver Bear for Best Actor and grossed over 100 million RMB in China.

Black Crab (film)

Black Crab (Svart krabba) is a 2022 Swedish dystopian action thriller directed by Adam Berg, adapted from Jerker Virdborg's 2002 novel, starring Noomi Rapace as soldier Caroline Edh skating across a frozen archipelago on a Netflix mission film released March 18, 2022.

Black Death (film)

Black Death (2010) is a UK-German medieval horror film directed by Christopher Smith, written by Dario Poloni, starring Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, and Carice van Houten; a monk guides knights to a plague-spared village in 1348.

Black Dog (狗阵) (2024 film)

Black Dog (狗阵) is a 2024 Chinese drama directed by Guan Hu, starring Eddie Peng, about an ex-convict who bonds with a stray dog before the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Black Doves

Black Doves is a British Netflix spy thriller created by Joe Barton, starring Keira Knightley as Helen Webb and Ben Whishaw as Sam Young; Season 1 premiered December 5, 2024, and Season 2 arrives November 5, 2026.

Black Dynamite

Black Dynamite is a 2009 American comedy film that parodies 1970s blaxploitation movies, directed by Scott Sanders and starring Michael Jai White as an ex-CIA kung fu fighter.

Black Dynamite (TV series)

Black Dynamite is a two-season Adult Swim adult animated series (premiered July 15, 2012) adapting the 2009 blaxploitation parody film, with Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Tommy Davidson, and Kym Whitley reprising voice roles, developed by Carl Jones.

Black Earth Rising

Black Earth Rising is a 2018 eight-part BBC Two/Netflix thriller written and directed by Hugo Blick, starring Michaela Coel as Rwandan genocide survivor Kate Ashby, exploring post-genocide justice, the ICC, and RPF reprisals.

Black Flash

Black Flash is a DC Comics entity, the personification of death for speedsters, created by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, and Ron Wagner. First appearing in The Flash vol 2 #138 (June 1998), it returns dying speedsters to the Speed Force.

Black Forceps (ブラックペアン)

Black Forceps (ブラックペアン) is a TBS Sunday Theater medical drama starring Kazunari Ninomiya, based on Takeru Kaidō's novels; season 1 aired April 2018, season 2 July-September 2024.

Black Friday (2004 film)

Black Friday is a 2004 Hindi docudrama directed by Anurag Kashyap, based on S. Hussain Zaidi's book on the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts investigation, starring Kay Kay Menon; banned until 2007, it premiered at Locarno.

Black Girl (1966 film)

Black Girl (La Noire de…) is Ousmane Sembène's 1966 Senegal-France black-and-white drama, considered the first feature by a sub-Saharan African director, starring Mbissine Thérèse Diop as Diouana, a Senegalese maid driven to suicide in France; Prix Jean Vigo winner.

Black God, White Devil

Black God, White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) is Glauber Rocha's 1964 Cinema Novo landmark: a sertão allegory of a fugitive couple torn between a fanatic preacher and a cangaceiro bandit, premiered at Cannes 1964.