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The Biggest Loser (Australian TV series)
The Biggest Loser Australia, the Network Ten reality weight-loss competition (2006–2017, 11 seasons) with trainers Michelle Bridges, Shannan Ponton, Steve Willis, and Tiffiny Hall; distinct from the American original.
The Bikeriders
The Bikeriders is Jeff Nichols' 2024 drama starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Tom Hardy, adapted from Danny Lyon's 1968 photobook about the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club; released by Focus Features June 21, 2024 after a Telluride 2023 premiere and strike-related delay.
The Bilingual Lover
The Bilingual Lover (El amante bilingüe) is Vicente Aranda's 1993 Spanish-Italian comedy-drama adapted from Juan Marsé's 1988 novel, starring Imanol Arias and Ornella Muti, about a disfigured husband who reinvents himself as Faneca to win back his wife.
The Bill
The Bill: British ITV police procedural (1984–2010) set at fictional Sun Hill station, created by Geoff McQueen from the 1983 play Woodentop; over 2,400 episodes, peak audience above 16 million.
The Bill Engvall Show
The Bill Engvall Show is a TBS family sitcom (2007–2009, 3 seasons, 30 episodes) created by Bill Engvall and Michael Leeson, starring Engvall as family counselor Bill Pearson, with Nancy Travis and a young Jennifer Lawrence.
The Billion Dollar Code
The Billion Dollar Code is a 2021 German Netflix four-episode limited series by Oliver Ziegenbalg and Robert Thalheim dramatizing ART+COM's real patent suit against Google over the Terravision/Google Earth algorithm, which the developers ultimately lost.
The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman is the American science-fiction TV series (1976-1978), a spin-off of The Six Million Dollar Man starring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, rebuilt with bionic legs, right arm, and right ear after a skydiving accident; distinct from the 2007 remake.
The Bird People in China (中国の鳥人)
The Bird People in China (中国の鳥人) is a 1998 Takashi Miike comedy-drama, adapted from Makoto Shiina's novel, in which a salaryman and a yakuza travel to a remote Yunnan village with a school that teaches children to fly.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo) is Dario Argento's 1970 Italian-West German giallo debut, starring Tony Musante and Suzy Kendall, with Storaro cinematography and a Morricone score.
The Birdcage
The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy directed by Mike Nichols and starring Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, and Nathan Lane, remaking the 1978 film La Cage aux Folles.
The Birds (film)
The Birds is Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror thriller, scripted by Evan Hunter from Daphne du Maurier's 1952 story, in which birds attack Bodega Bay without motive. Starring Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor, it earned a 95% Tomatometer and National Film Registry status.
The birds and the bees
The birds and the bees: English idiom for the informal sex-and-reproduction talk given to children, using bee pollination and bird egg imagery. Origin uncertain; Coleridge 1825, Burroughs 1875, Cole Porter 1928; first explicit print use 1939.
The Birth of a Nation (2016 film)
The Birth of a Nation is a 2016 American historical drama about Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia, written, directed by, and starring Nate Parker, his directorial debut.
The Birthday Party (2025 film)
The Birthday Party (2025) is Miguel Ángel Jiménez's drama-thriller starring Willem Dafoe as Greek tycoon Marcos Timoleon, adapted from Panos Karnezis's 2007 novel, premiering at Locarno 2025; distinct from Léa Mysius's 2026 Cannes film of the same title.
The Birthday Party (2026 film)
The Birthday Party (Histoires de la nuit) is Léa Mysius's 2026 French thriller adapting Laurent Mauvignier's novel; it premiered in Cannes Competition on 22 May 2026, stars Hafsia Herzi and Monica Bellucci, and is distinct from Miguel Ángel Jiménez's 2025 Willem Dafoe film of the same title.
The Birthday Party (play)
The Birthday Party is Harold Pinter's 1957 three-act play, his first full-length work, about strangers Goldberg and McCann destroying boarder Stanley Webber at a seaside boarding house; a 1958 London flop later classed as comedy of menace and Theatre of the Absurd.
The Bishop's Wife
The Bishop's Wife (1947) is a Samuel Goldwyn Christmas fantasy comedy directed by Henry Koster, starring Cary Grant as angel Dudley, with Loretta Young and David Niven; based on Robert Nathan's 1928 novella, it won the Best Sound Oscar.
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 West German drama, adapted from his 1971 play: an all-female chamber piece in which fashion designer Petra (Margit Carstensen) loves and loses Karin (Hanna Schygulla), shot by Michael Ballhaus in one apartment.
The Black Adder
The Black Adder is the 1983 first series of BBC1's Blackadder sitcom: six episodes written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, Atkinson as Edmund, £1 million budget, Alnwick Castle filming, International Emmy, near cancellation.
The Black and White Minstrel Show
The Black and White Minstrel Show (1958–1978) was a BBC television variety series in which white performers sang and danced in blackface, adapted from radio's The Kentucky Minstrels. It drew 16.5 million viewers by 1963, faced a 1967 CARD petition, and stage revivals followed its axing.
The Black Box (黑盒子)
The Black Box (黑盒子) is a 2025 Taiwanese anthology series directed by Charles Lee, adapted from Pony's LINE WEBTOON manhua. Twelve episodes in four dark-fable units about trading future time for desires, aired on LINE TV and Netflix, topping Netflix Taiwan's weekly chart.
The Black Cat (1934 film)
The Black Cat (1934) is Edgar G. Ulmer's Universal pre-Code horror film, the first pairing of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, loosely credited to Poe's story, Universal's top-grossing 1934 release, costing $95,745.31.
The Black Cauldron (film)
The Black Cauldron (1985) is Disney's animated dark fantasy based on Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain, directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich. First Disney animated PG film and first with computer animation; a $25 million box-office failure released July 24, 1985.
The Black Dahlia (film)
The Black Dahlia (2006) is Brian De Palma's neo-noir thriller adapted from James Ellroy's 1987 novel about the unsolved 1947 Elizabeth Short murder, starring Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, and Hilary Swank; it opened Venice 2006 and was a critical and commercial disappointment.
The Black Demon
The Black Demon is a 2023 American action-horror film directed by Adrian Grunberg. It features a family trapped on an offshore rig by a giant megalodon.
The Black Hermit
The Black Hermit is a play by the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, his first major drama, premiered at the Uganda National Theatre in Kampala in November 1962.
The Black Hole (1979 film)
The Black Hole (1979) is Disney's first PG-rated science fiction film, directed by Gary Nelson, about the U.S.S. Palomino crew finding the lost Cygnus at a black hole. It cost $20 million, was Oscar-nominated for cinematography and visual effects, and underperformed at the box office.
The Black List (survey)
The Black List survey: an annual December poll of Hollywood executives' favorite unproduced screenplays, founded by Franklin Leonard in 2005 at Appian Way; distinct from the paid blcklst.com platform built on it in 2012.
The Black Phone
The Black Phone (2022) is a Blumhouse supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson, adapting Joe Hill's short story; Ethan Hawke plays the Grabber, a child abductor whose victims' ghosts call Finney (Mason Thames) through a disconnected phone.
The Black Pirate
The Black Pirate (1926) is a Douglas Fairbanks silent swashbuckler directed by Albert Parker, the first major feature shot in two-strip Technicolor, famous for its sail-slide stunt and 2023 4K restoration.