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The Bangles
The Bangles: Los Angeles all-female pop-rock band formed 1981 as the Bangs (Hoffs, the Peterson sisters, Zilinskas, later Steele), Paisley Underground act behind "Manic Monday," "Walk Like an Egyptian," and "Eternal Flame."
The Banishment (Изгнание)
The Banishment (Изгнание) is Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2007 Russian drama, adapted from William Saroyan, about a marriage shattered by a pregnancy confession. It competed at Cannes 2007, winning Lavronenko the best-actor prize.
The Banjo Lesson
The Banjo Lesson is an 1893 oil painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner showing an elderly Black man teaching a boy the banjo, held at the Hampton University Museum.
The Bank Job
The Bank Job (2008) is a British heist thriller directed by Roger Donaldson, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, starring Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows, loosely based on the unsolved 1971 Baker Street 'walkie-talkie' bank robbery with a fictional MI5 royal-photographs premise.
The Banker (2020 film)
The Banker (2020) is a George Nolfi Apple TV+ drama starring Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, and Nia Long, based on Black bankers Bernard Garrett and Joe Morris, delayed by abuse allegations against co-producer Bernard Garrett Jr.
The Banquet (夜宴) (2006 film)
The Banquet (夜宴, Yeyan) is a 2006 Chinese martial-arts drama directed by Feng Xiaogang, freely adapted from Shakespeare's Hamlet and set in the Five Dynasties period.
The Banquet (豪门夜宴) (1991 film)
The Banquet (豪门夜宴) is a 1991 Hong Kong all-star charity comedy directed by Tsui Hark, Clifton Ko, and others, made in eight days to raise flood relief funds.
The Banquet Bug
The Banquet Bug (赴宴者) is a 2006 satirical novel by Chinese-American writer Geling Yan about a laid-off Beijing worker who poses as a journalist for banquets.
The Banquet in Blitva
The Banquet in Blitva (Banket u Blitvi) is a three-book political novel by Miroslav Krleža set in the fictional states of Blitva and Blatvija after World War I.
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) is Martin McDonagh's dark comedy-drama starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, and Barry Keoghan; set in 1923 on an Irish island during the Civil War, it earned nine Oscar nominations and won Golden Globe and BAFTA awards.
The Bar (film)
The Bar (El bar, 2017) is a Spanish-Argentine black comedy thriller by Álex de la Iglesia: strangers trapped in a Madrid bar by a sniper, premiered at Berlinale 2017, Goya-nominated, Méliès d'argent winner.
The Barbarian's Bride
The Barbarian's Bride (Himekishi wa Barbaroi no Yome, 姫騎士は蛮族の嫁), also known as The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King, is a Kodansha shōnen manga by Noriaki Kotoba about captured knight Serafina de Lavillant and barbarian heir Veor; Seven Seas publishes it in English and a Jumondou TV anime aired from April 2026. Distinct from the Korean novel I Became a Barbarian's Bride.
The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) is Rossini's 1816 two-act opera buffa, libretto by Sterbini after Beaumarchais's 1775 play, premiered at Rome's Teatro Argentina and famous for "Largo al factotum".
The Barber of Seville (play)
Beaumarchais's four-act prose comedy Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile (1775, Comédie-Française), source of the Paisiello and Rossini operas, about Count Almaviva's rescue of Rosine from Bartholo via Figaro.
The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник)
The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник) is Nikita Mikhalkov's 1998 Russian-French-Italian-Czech historical melodrama about cadet Andrei Tolstoy, American Jane, and a steam sawmill, the costliest post-Soviet film of its era.
The Bards of Wales
The Bards of Wales (A walesi bárdok) is an 1857 ballad by Hungarian poet János Arany retelling the legend that Edward I burned 500 Welsh bards for refusing to praise him.
The Barefoot Contessa
The Barefoot Contessa is Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1954 Technicolor drama starring Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, and Oscar winner Edmond O'Brien, telling a Spanish dancer's rise to stardom in flashback from her funeral.
The Baron in the Trees
The Baron in the Trees (Il barone rampante) is a 1957 novel by Italo Calvino about Cosimo, a nobleman who lives his whole life in the trees.
The Baroque Cycle
The Baroque Cycle is Neal Stephenson's historical trilogy, Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World (2003-2004), set in the late 17th and early 18th century. It grew out of Cryptonomicon, follows Daniel Waterhouse, Jack Shaftoe, and Eliza, and won the Clarke and Locus Awards.
The Barrier
The Barrier (La valla) is a 2020 Spanish dystopian drama series created by Daniel Écija: 13 episodes set in 2045 Madrid, split by a fence into elite Sector 1 and Sector 2, starring Unax Ugalde and Olivia Molina, streamed on Netflix.
The Bartered Bride
The Bartered Bride (Prodaná nevěsta) is Bedřich Smetana's three-act comic opera to a libretto by Karel Sabina, premiered in Prague in 1866; the Czech national opera, famous for its overture, polka, furiant, and skočná.
The Basement Tapes
The Basement Tapes: Bob Dylan and the Band's 1967 informal home recordings at Big Pink, West Saugerties, New York; bootlegged as Great White Wonder (1969), officially released 1975, fully issued in 2014 as Bootleg Series Vol. 11.
The Basics of Philosophy
The Basics of Philosophy (original title: Basics of Philosophy) is a 2026 drama written and directed by Paul Schrader, starring Jack Huston as a philosophy professor confronting a past sexual transgression. Premiered September 4, 2026 at the 83rd Venice Film Festival; 94 minutes; executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
The Basil Brush Show
The Basil Brush Show (2002–2007), also known as the CBBC Basil Brush sitcom, is a British children's comedy series produced by The Foundation, starring Michael Winsor as Basil Brush; six series aired on CBBC from 2002 to 2007 as a revival of the 1960s–1970s BBC show.
The Basketball Diaries (film)
The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American drama film directed by Scott Kalvert, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as writer Jim Carroll and adapted from his 1978 autobiographical book.
The Bastard
The Bastard (小雜種, Xiao za zhong) is a 1973 Shaw Brothers Hong Kong martial arts drama directed by Chor Yuen, starring Tsung Hua and Lily Li, about an orphan kung fu fighter seeking his parents; distinct from the 1978 John Jakes miniseries and Suzuki's 1963 Akutarō.
The Bastard Executioner
The Bastard Executioner is a 2015 FX historical drama created by Kurt Sutter, set in 14th-century Wales, about knight Wilkin Brattle who becomes an executioner. Canceled after 10 episodes.
The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself
The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself (also Half Bad) is a 2022 British Netflix fantasy series by Joe Barton, adapted from Sally Green's Half Bad trilogy, starring Jay Lycurgo; released 28 October 2022, cancelled 9 December 2022 after one season.
The Bastard Swordsman (天蚕变)
The Bastard Swordsman (天蠶變, Reincarnate Swordsman) is a 1983 Shaw Brothers wuxia film directed by Lu Chun-ku, starring Norman Chui as Yun Fei-yang, adapted from the 1979 TV series Reincarnated, with a 1984 sequel.
The Bat Whispers
The Bat Whispers is Roland West's 1930 American comedy-mystery, a sound remake of his 1926 silent The Bat, based on Rinehart and Hopwood's play. Shot simultaneously in 35mm and 65mm Magnifilm widescreen, it influenced Bob Kane's Batman and was restored by UCLA.