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Buddy cop
Buddy cop film: action-comedy subgenre pairing mismatched police partners who clash then bond, from Kurosawa's Stray Dog (1949) and 48 Hrs. (1982) through Lethal Weapon, Bad Boys, and Rush Hour, with biracial-pairing tropes and police-violence criticism.
Buddy Daddies (バディ・ダディズ)
Buddy Daddies (バディ・ダディズ) is a 2023 original P.A.WORKS/Nitroplus anime in which hitmen Kazuki Kurusu and Rei Suwa raise Miri, their victim's daughter; 12 episodes, aired January–March 2023, distinct from Spy × Family.
Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen (Christian Ludolf Ebsen Jr., 1908-2003), American dancer-actor, Jed Clampett in The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones; originally the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz before aluminum-makeup illness.
Buddy Elias
Buddy Elias (Bernhard Paul Erich Elias, 1925–2015), Swiss actor, first cousin of Anne and Margot Frank, Holiday on Ice comedian, later film and stage actor, and chairman of the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel from 1996, guardian of Anne Frank's diary legacy.
Buddy film
Buddy film (buddy movie): film genre centered on the relationship and adventures of two friends, often mismatched. Spans comedy duos, buddy cop films like Lethal Weapon, interracial and female-led variants such as Thelma and Louise.
Buddy Foster
Buddy Foster (Lucius Fisher Foster IV, born 1957) is an American former child actor and older brother of Jodie Foster, known for Hondo and Mayberry R.F.D., and author of the 1997 book Foster Child.
Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
Buddy Games: Spring Awakening (2023) is a Josh Duhamel-directed R-rated comedy sequel to Buddy Games, in which friends steal a dead buddy's ashes and clash with spring breakers; released May 19, 2023 in theaters, June 2 digitally.
Buddy Hackett
Buddy Hackett, born Leonard Hacker (1924-2003), was an American stand-up comedian and actor of the Borscht Belt tradition, famous for raunchy Las Vegas nightclubs, Stanley, The Music Man, The Love Bug, and voicing Scuttle in The Little Mermaid.
Budgie (TV series)
Budgie (ITV, 1971-72) is a London Weekend Television comedy drama starring Adam Faith as Soho petty crook Ronald "Budgie" Bird, written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, produced by Verity Lambert, with Iain Cuthbertson as Charlie Endell and a 1979 spin-off.
Buen Camino
Buen Camino is a 2025 Italian comedy directed by Gennaro Nunziante, starring and written by Checco Zalone as a wealthy father walking the Camino de Santiago to find his missing daughter.
Buena Vista (brand)
Buena Vista is The Walt Disney Company's film distribution brand, founded in 1953 as Buena Vista Distribution after a dispute with RKO; its international arm Buena Vista International was incorporated in 1961 and largely renamed in 2007, though it persists as a legal entity and returned in Latin America in 2026.
Buena Vista Social Club (1999 film)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999) is Wim Wenders' Oscar-nominated documentary following Ry Cooder and veteran Cuban musicians from Havana recording sessions to Carnegie Hall, a $23 million-grossing music documentary.
Buffalo '66
Buffalo '66 is a 1998 American independent comedy-drama and the directorial debut of Vincent Gallo, who stars as an ex-convict who abducts a young tap dancer, played by Christina Ricci, to pose as his wife.
Buffalo Bill (1944 film)
Buffalo Bill (1944) is a Twentieth Century-Fox Technicolor Western biography directed by William A. Wellman, starring Joel McCrea as Buffalo Bill Cody with Maureen O'Hara and Linda Darnell; a 1944 box-office hit remembered for its War Bonnet Gorge battle scene.
Buffalo Kids
Buffalo Kids is a 2024 Spanish 3D-animated family western directed by Pedro Solís García and Juan Jesús García Galocha, about Irish orphans Mary and Tom riding an 1886 orphan train west with Nick, a boy with cerebral palsy inspired by Solís's late son.
Buffaloed
Buffaloed: 2019 American comedy-drama directed by Tanya Wexler, written by Brian Sacca, starring Zoey Deutch as Peg Dahl, a Buffalo hustler who becomes a debt collector; Tribeca premiere, Magnolia release February 2020.
Buffet Froid
Buffet froid is a 1979 French black comedy by Bertrand Blier, his fifth feature, starring Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, and Jean Carmet as killers in a deserted Paris; it won the 1980 César for Best Screenplay.
Buffy Summers
Buffy Summers, protagonist of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its 1992 film, is the Slayer, a Chosen One fighting vampires in Sunnydale; played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, analyzed as an Adventurer-Hero archetype, she is a landmark feminist television heroine.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, also called BtVS, is Joss Whedon's 1997-2003 supernatural drama starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as Slayer Buffy Summers in Sunnydale; seven seasons, 144 episodes, and a Hulu revival cancelled in 2026.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 film), Joss Whedon's feature screenwriting debut directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui, a horror-comedy starring Kristy Swanson as a cheerleader chosen to slay vampires; a box-office disappointment that spawned the acclaimed 1997 TV series.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale was an unproduced Hulu sequel pilot to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, directed by Chloé Zhao, starring Ryan Kiera Armstrong with Sarah Michelle Gellar recurring; Hulu passed in March 2026.
Bug (2006 film)
Bug (2006 film) is a psychological horror film directed by William Friedkin. It stars Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon in a paranoid story set in an Oklahoma motel.
Bug Hall
Bug Hall (Brandon Hall, born 1985, Fort Worth, Texas) is the American actor who played Alfalfa in The Little Rascals (1994). Later roles in The Big Green, Criminal Minds, Harley and the Davidsons; now a self-described radical Catholic extremist living off-grid in Arkansas.
Bug Juice
Bug Juice is a Disney Channel documentary-style reality series (1998–2001) following kids aged 12–15 at summer camp, with seasons at Camp Waziyatah in Maine, Camp Highlander in North Carolina, and Brush Ranch Camps in New Mexico.
Bugonia (film)
Bugonia is a 2025 dark science-fiction comedy directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, and was nominated for four 2026 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny is the wisecracking cartoon rabbit of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes, formally debuting in Tex Avery's A Wild Hare (July 27, 1940) with the catchphrase "What's up, Doc?", voiced by Mel Blanc, and developed collectively by Hardaway, Avery, Clampett, Jones, Freleng, and McKimson.
Bugsy
Bugsy (1991) is Barry Levinson's biographical crime drama starring Warren Beatty as mobster Bugsy Siegel and Annette Bening as Virginia Hill; it earned ten Oscar nominations, won two, and took the Golden Globe for Best Drama.
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is Alan Parker's 1976 all-child-cast gangster musical, set in 1929 New York with splurge guns firing cream, songs by Paul Williams, starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster, five BAFTA wins and an Oscar nomination.
Building the Band
Building the Band is a 2025 Netflix reality singing competition in which 50 singers audition blind in booths, form six bands, and compete for $500,000; hosted by AJ McLean, judged by Nicole Scherzinger, Liam Payne, and Kelly Rowland, canceled after one season in June 2026.
Bujji & Bhairava
Bujji & Bhairava (B&B: Bujji and Bhairava, బుజ్జి అండ్ భైరవా) is a 2024 Telugu animated Prime Video prelude to Kalki 2898 AD, directed by Nag Ashwin, following bounty hunter Bhairava and AI vehicle Bujji in 2896 AD Kasi.