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The Backrooms (Found Footage)
The Backrooms (Found Footage) is Kane Parsons's (Kane Pixels) nine-minute 2022 YouTube short presented as recovered 1996 VHS footage of a cameraman trapped in the Backrooms; made in Blender, it seeded the A24 feature film Backrooms (2026).
The Backyardigans
The Backyardigans is a CGI-animated Nick Jr. musical series created by Janice Burgess, airing 2004–2013 over four seasons and 80 episodes; five animal friends, genre-hopping songs, 2024 YouTube reboot.
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) is a Vincente Minnelli MGM melodrama starring Kirk Douglas as ruthless producer Jonathan Shields, with Lana Turner and Gloria Grahame; it won five Oscars and entered the National Film Registry in 2002.
The Bad Batch (film)
The Bad Batch (2016) is Ana Lily Amirpour's 118-minute dystopian cannibal western starring Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves, and Jim Carrey; it won the Venice Special Jury Award and earned a Metascore of 62.
The Bad Education Movie
The Bad Education Movie (2015) is a British comedy spin-off of the BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, directed by Elliot Hegarty, written by Jack Whitehall and Freddy Syborn, released 21 August 2015, about Alfie Wickers' disastrous Cornwall school trip.
The Bad Guys (film)
The Bad Guys is a 2022 DreamWorks Animation heist comedy directed by Pierre Perifel, based on Aaron Blabey's Scholastic books, voiced by Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, and Awkwafina; it earned $250.4 million worldwide and spawned The Bad Guys 2 (2025).
The Bad Guys (franchise)
The Bad Guys is a media franchise based on Aaron Blabey's Scholastic graphic novels about criminal animals trying to be good, adapted by DreamWorks into films released in 2022 and 2025.
The Bad Guys 2
The Bad Guys 2 (坏蛋联盟2) is DreamWorks Animation's 2025 animated heist comedy sequel directed by Pierre Perifel, starring Sam Rockwell's reformed animal gang against the Bad Girls; it opened to $22.2 million domestically and scored 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Bad Guys: The Series
The Bad Guys: The Series (season 1 titled The Bad Guys: Breaking In) is a Netflix animated prequel to DreamWorks' The Bad Guys films, following Wolf, Snake, Shark, Piranha, and Tarantula's early heists; two seasons, 19 episodes, premiered November 6, 2025.
The Bad Kids (隐秘的角落)
The Bad Kids (隐秘的角落) is a 2020 12-episode iQiyi Mist Theater crime suspense web series directed by Xin Shuang, adapted from Zi Jin Chen's novel 坏小孩, starring Qin Hao and Wang Jingchun; it scored 9.2 on Douban and won Busan's Best Creative Award.
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) is Paramount's first sequel to The Bad News Bears, directed by Michael Pressman, following the coachless Bears on an unsupervised road trip to an Astrodome exhibition game in Houston.
The Bad Seed (1956 film)
The Bad Seed (1956) is a Warner Bros. melodrama directed by Mervyn LeRoy, adapted from William March's novel and Maxwell Anderson's play, starring Nancy Kelly and Patty McCormack as mother and murderous daughter Rhoda, with a censored lightning-bolt ending and curtain-call epilogue.
The Bad Seed (2018 film)
The Bad Seed (2018) is a Lifetime television horror drama directed by and starring Rob Lowe, with Mckenna Grace as murderous nine-year-old Emma and Patty McCormack of the 1956 film as Dr. March; premiered September 9, 2018, sequel The Bad Seed Returns (2022).
The Bad Sleep Well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る)
The Bad Sleep Well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る, Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) is Akira Kurosawa's 1960 black-and-white corporate revenge thriller, the debut film of Kurosawa Productions, loosely adapting Hamlet with Toshiro Mifune as Koichi Nishi.
The Baker and The Beauty
The Baker and the Beauty (Lehiyot Ita) is a 2013 Israeli Keshet 12 romantic comedy-drama by Assi Azar about baker Amos and supermodel Noa, adapted in the US (ABC, 2020), India (Telugu, aha), and France.
The Balconettes
The Balconettes (Les femmes au balcon) is a 2024 French feminist horror comedy directed by and starring Noémie Merlant, co-written with Céline Sciamma, about three Marseille roommates caught in a bloody affair; premiered at Cannes 2024 Midnight Screenings.
The Bald Soprano
The Bald Soprano (La Cantatrice chauve), Eugène Ionesco's 1950 "anti-play" about empty conversation, premiered at the Théâtre des Noctambules and has run at the Théâtre de la Huchette, Paris, since 1957, a Theatre of the Absurd record holder.
The Balkan Spy
The Balkan Spy (Balkanski špijun) is a tragicomedy in three acts by Serbian playwright Dušan Kovačević, first staged in Belgrade in 1983, about a former political prisoner who becomes convinced his tenant is a foreign spy.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a 2018 six-part Western anthology film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen for Netflix, starring Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, and Brendan Gleeson; their last film together to date.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Ballad of Cable Hogue is Sam Peckinpah's 1970 Western comedy starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, and David Warner, about a prospector who builds a desert way station on a discovered spring, a box-office flop later ranked among the greatest Westerns.
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
The Ballad of Jack and Rose is Rebecca Miller's 2005 drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Camilla Belle as a father and daughter on a decaying commune island; IFC Films release grossed $712,275 domestically.
The Ballad of Lefty Brown
The Ballad of Lefty Brown is a 2017 American Western written and directed by Jared Moshe, starring Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Jim Caviezel, and Kathy Baker. An aging sidekick avenges his senator partner's murder, is accused of it, and must expose the powerful men responsible; 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Ballad of Little Jo
The Ballad of Little Jo is Maggie Greenwald's 1993 revisionist Western starring Suzy Amis as Josephine Monaghan, a woman passing as a man in the frontier West, based on the real Jo Monaghan; released by Fine Line Features, it grossed about $543,091 domestically.
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考) (1958 film)
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama bushikō) is Keisuke Kinoshita's 1958 Shochiku film, first adaptation of Fukazawa's novel about ubasute, staged with kabuki artifice; Kinema Junpo's 1958 No. 1.
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考) (1983 film)
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama bushikō) is Shohei Imamura's 1983 Toei drama, the second adaptation of Fukazawa Shichiro's 1956 novel about ubasute, the abandonment of 70-year-olds on a mountain; it won the 1983 Cannes Palme d'Or.
The Ballad of Paladin (Euphoria)
The Ballad of Paladin is the third episode of Euphoria season 3, the series' twenty-first, written and directed by Sam Levinson, aired April 26, 2026 on HBO, centering on Nate and Cassie's wedding and Laurie's parrot Paladin.
The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго)
The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго), also Ballada o doblestnom rytsare Ayvengo, is a 1982 Mosfilm adventure film by Sergei Tarasov based on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, with Vladimir Vysotsky's ballads, 28.4 million Soviet viewers, ninth at the 1983 box office.
The Ballad of Wallis Island
The Ballad of Wallis Island is a 2025 British comedy-drama directed by James Griffiths, written by and starring Tom Basden and Tim Key with Carey Mulligan, expanded from their 2007 short about a lottery winner's private folk gig.
The Ballroom of Romance
The Ballroom of Romance: 1982 RTÉ/BBC television drama directed by Pat O'Connor, adapted by William Trevor from his 1972 short story, starring Brenda Fricker as Bridie; filmed in Ballycroy, Mayo; won the 1983 BAFTA for Best Single Drama.
The Baltimorons
The Baltimorons is a 2025 American romantic comedy directed by Jay Duplass, co-written with and starring Michael Strassner as newly sober comedian Cliff, who spends Christmas Eve with dentist Didi (Liz Larsen) in Baltimore; it won the SXSW 2025 Audience Award and earned two 2026 Independent Spirit Award nominations.