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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 (band)
The Birthday Party were an Australian post-punk band formed in Melbourne as The Boys Next Door, fronted by Nick Cave and known for ferocious live shows until disbanding in 1983.
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 (Asking Alexandria album)
The Black (2016) is the fourth studio album by British metalcore band Asking Alexandria, released on Sumerian Records. It is their only album with Ukrainian vocalist Denis Stoff, who replaced Danny Worsnop, and peaked at number 15 on the UK Albums Chart.
The Black (Imminence album)
The Black (2024) is the fifth studio album by Swedish metalcore band Imminence, released April 12, 2024; 12 tracks, 52 minutes, violin-led symphonic metalcore produced by Eddie Berg, Harald Barrett, and Henrik Udd.
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 Album (Jay-Z album)
The Black Album is Jay-Z's eighth studio record, released in 2003. It features 12 producers, including Kanye West and Timbaland, and sold 3.5 million copies.
The Black Album (Prince album)
The Black Album is Prince's sixteenth studio album, an eight-song funk record withdrawn days before its 1987 release and officially issued by Warner Bros. in 1994.
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 Angels (band)
The Black Angels: Austin, Texas psychedelic rock band formed May 2004, named for the Velvet Underground's 'Black Angel's Death Song'; albums Passover through Wilderness of Mirrors; founders of Levitation festival.
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 Castle of Olshany
The Black Castle of Olshany (Чорны замак Альшанскі) is a historical detective novel by Uladzimir Karatkievich, finished in 1979 and awarded the Yakub Kolas State Prize in 1984.
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 Cat (short story)
Poe's 1843 short story "The Black Cat," first printed in the United States Saturday Post: a condemned narrator's confession of animal cruelty, his wife's murder, and the entombed body betrayed by a cat's wail; known for its unreliable narrator and Pluto.
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 Company
The Black Company is Glen Cook's military fantasy series begun in 1984, narrated by the Annalist Croaker of the last Free Company of Khatovar. Ten original novels through Soldiers Live (2000), the 2018 interquel Port of Shadows, and the 2025 A Pitiless Rain arc; foundational to grimdark.
The Black Council
The Black Council (Chorna rada) is a historical novel by Panteleimon Kulish, published in 1857 and recognized as the first historical novel in the Ukrainian language.
The Black Crowes
The Black Crowes are an Atlanta rock band formed in 1984 as Mr. Crowe's Garden by brothers Chris and Rich Robinson, whose debut Shake Your Money Maker (1990) went 5x-Platinum and whose 2026 album is A Pound of Feathers.
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 Dahlia Murder (band)
The Black Dahlia Murder is an American melodic death metal band formed in Waterford, Michigan, in 2001, named after the unsolved 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short.
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 Docker
The Black Docker (Le Docker noir) is the 1956 first novel of Senegalese writer Ousmane Sembène, drawing on his own dock work in Marseille to portray race, labor, and colonial injustice in France.
The Black Dog (band)
The Black Dog: Sheffield electronic group formed in the late 1980s by Ken Downie, Ed Handley, and Andy Turner; Warp Records act behind Bytes and Spanners, later Downie with Martin and Richard Dust; Downie died December 2025.
The Black Heralds
The Black Heralds (Los heraldos negros) is the first poetry collection of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, printed in Lima in 1918 and often dated 1919.
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 Insider
The Black Insider is a posthumously published 1990 novella by Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, following a narrator through exile in England during a chaotic, purposeless war.