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The Beekeeper

The Beekeeper (2024) is a David Ayer action thriller written by Kurt Wimmer, starring Jason Statham as Adam Clay, a retired operative of the secret "Beekeepers" organization seeking revenge after a phishing scam; it grossed about $160 million worldwide and has a 2027 sequel.

The Beekeeper 2

The Beekeeper 2 is a 2027 American action thriller sequel directed by Timo Tjahjanto, starring Jason Statham as wanted assassin Adam Clay, releasing January 15, 2027 via Amazon MGM Studios, with Jeremy Irons and Pom Klementieff.

The Beetle in the Anthill

The Beetle in the Anthill (Zhuk v muraveinike) is a 1979 science fiction novella by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, set in the Noon Universe, following investigator Maxim Kammerer.

The Beggar

The Beggar (al-Shahhādh, الشحاذ) is a 1965 novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz following Omar al-Hamzawi, a former revolutionary who sacrifices work and family in his search for meaning in 1950s Cairo.

The Beggar King's Bride (归来凤栖处)

The Beggar King's Bride (归来凤栖处) is a 2025 Maiya Media Chinese vertical short drama, 60 episodes, in which reborn sisters swap fates and the heroine unknowingly marries the disguised emperor Qi Yu, later becoming empress; not the 2026 Mango TV series 凤栖.

The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar's Opera: 1728 ballad opera by John Gay, premiered at Lincoln's Inn Fields; 69 Pepusch-arranged tunes, characters from Sheppard and Wild, satire of Walpole, ancestor of the musical.

The Beggars' Strike

The Beggars' Strike (La Grève des bàttu) is a 1979 French-language novel by Senegalese writer Aminata Sow Fall, in which expelled beggars go on strike.

The Beginning (Fallout)

"The Beginning" is the season 1 finale of the Prime Video Fallout TV series, episode 8, aired April 10, 2024. Directed by Wayne Yip and written by Gursimran Sandhu, it reveals Vault-Tec started the 2077 war and Hank nuked Shady Sands, ending with a New Vegas tease.

The Beginning After the End

The Beginning After the End (TBATE) is an American action-fantasy web novel and webcomic by Brandon Lee (TurtleMe, Tae Ha Lee) on Tapas since 2017, about King Grey reincarnated as Arthur Leywin; its Studio A-Cat anime premiered April 2, 2025 on Crunchyroll, the first American web novel/comic anime adaptation.

The Beginning and the End

The Beginning and the End (بداية ونهاية) is a 1949 novel by Naguib Mahfouz tracing the collapse of a poor Cairo family after the death of its breadwinner.

The Beginning and the End, or "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"

Episode 24 of Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン), also titled "The Final Messenger"; the penultimate TV episode in which Kaworu dies, preceding the two endings of episodes 25-26 and The End of Evangelion.

The Beguiled (1971 film)

The Beguiled is a 1971 American Southern gothic drama directed by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood as a wounded Union soldier sheltered at a Mississippi girls' school.

The Beguiled (2017 film)

The Beguiled is a 2017 American drama-thriller directed by Sofia Coppola, set in 1864 Virginia at a Southern girls' boarding school that takes in a wounded Union soldier.

The Beguiled (novel)

The Beguiled (A Painted Devil) is Thomas Cullinan's 1966 Southern Gothic novel, published by Horizon Press, in which wounded Union soldier John McBurney disrupts the Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies during the Civil War; adapted to film by Siegel in 1971 and Coppola in 2017.

The Beiderbecke Affair

The Beiderbecke Affair is a 1985 six-part ITV comedy drama by Alan Plater for Yorkshire Television, starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as Leeds schoolteachers, with a Frank Ricotti jazz score and two sequels.

The Belair Lip Bombs

The Belair Lip Bombs are an Australian indie rock band formed 2017 in Frankston, Melbourne, led by Maisie Everett. Known for "yearn-core" power pop, albums Lush Life (2023) and Again (2025), and as Third Man Records' first Australian signing.

The Belasco

The Belasco, also known as the Belasco Theater, is a 1920s theater in downtown Los Angeles that reopened in 2011 as a multi-room nightclub and concert venue operated by Live Nation.

The Beldham (film)

The Beldham is a 2024 American psychological horror film, Angela Gulner's directorial debut, starring Katie Parker, Patricia Heaton, Emma Fitzpatrick, and Corbin Bernsen; premiered at Sitges 2024, released digitally November 2025.

The Belgariad

The Belgariad, David Eddings' five-volume epic fantasy series (Del Rey, 1982-1984, with uncredited co-author Leigh Eddings), follows farm boy Garion's quest for the stolen Orb of Aldur against the god Torak; followed by The Malloreon.

The Believer (2001 film)

The Believer (2001) is Henry Bean's drama starring Ryan Gosling as Danny Balint, a Jewish yeshiva dropout who leads a neo-Nazi gang. Loosely based on Daniel Burros, it won Sundance's 2001 Grand Jury Prize but reached theaters only in 2002 via Showtime and IDP.

The Believers

The Believers (1987) is a John Schlesinger horror thriller starring Martin Sheen, from Mark Frost's adaptation of Nicholas Conde's novel The Religion, about a psychologist drawn into Santería-linked ritual child murders in New York.

The Believers (สาธุ)

The Believers (สาธุ, Sathu) is a Thai Netflix crime drama series premiering March 27, 2024, in which three indebted entrepreneurs monetize a rundown Buddhist temple, exploring phuttha phanit, the commercialization of faith in Thailand; season 2 followed on December 4, 2025.

The Belko Experiment

The Belko Experiment is a 2016 American psychological horror thriller directed by Greg McLean, written by James Gunn, and starring John Gallagher Jr. and Tony Goldwyn.

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel, published January 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, following Esther Greenwood's mental health crisis in 1953; republished under Plath's name in 1966 and in the US in 1971.

The Bell Jar (upcoming film)

The Bell Jar (upcoming film): Sarah Polley's Focus Features adaptation of Sylvia Plath's 1963 novel, starring Billie Eilish as Esther Greenwood in her film debut, with Carey Mulligan; production wrapped September 2026.

The Bellamy Brothers

The Bellamy Brothers are an American pop and country duo, brothers Howard and David Bellamy of Florida, best known for the 1976 hit "Let Your Love Flow."

The Bellboy

The Bellboy (1960) is Jerry Lewis's directorial debut, a 72-minute black-and-white Paramount comedy in which he plays mute bellboy Stanley at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel, shot in 26 days with early video assist.

The Belles of St Trinian's

The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) is a British comedy directed by Frank Launder, based on Ronald Searle's cartoons, starring Alastair Sim in a dual drag role as headmistress Millicent Fritton and her bookmaker brother Clarence in a horse-racing kidnapping farce.

The Bells (Game of Thrones)

The Bells is episode 5 of Game of Thrones season 8, the series' penultimate episode, aired May 12, 2019. Directed by Miguel Sapochnik, written by Benioff and Weiss; Daenerys burns King's Landing after the surrender bells ring, earning a series-low 49% Tomatometer score.

The Bells of St. Mary's

The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) is Leo McCarey's sequel to Going My Way, starring Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley and Ingrid Bergman as Sister Benedict at a failing parochial school; RKO released it December 7, 1945, and it became 1945's top-grossing film.