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The Bowery Boys

The Bowery Boys: 48-film American comedy series (1946-1958) from Monogram/Allied Artists, successors of the Dead End Kids and East Side Kids, led by Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall.

The Box (2009 film)

The Box (2009) is Richard Kelly's science fiction thriller starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella, adapted from Richard Matheson's 1970 short story Button, Button: a couple is offered $1 million to press a fatal button.

The Box (2026 game show)

The Box (2026 game show): ITV1 celebrity competition adapted from the Norwegian format created by Aleksander Herresthal of Seefood TV; ten celebrities in yellow boxes face unexplained challenges and The Duel eliminations, hosted by Gary Lineker.

The Box (Roddy Ricch song)

"The Box" is a 2019 song by Roddy Ricch from Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 11 weeks in 2020, peaked at No. 2 in the UK, and was RIAA-certified Diamond.

The Box Man (箱男) (novel)

The Box Man (箱男) is a 1973 novel by Kobo Abe about a man who lives inside a cardboard box, wandering the city and watching through a peephole.

The Box Tops

The Box Tops: Memphis blue-eyed soul group whose 1967 hit "The Letter" topped Billboard for four weeks; fronted by teenage Alex Chilton, produced by Dan Penn, later Big Star connection.

The Boxcar Children

The Boxcar Children is a children's mystery series created by Gertrude Chandler Warner, first published in 1924 and rewritten in 1942, about the orphaned Alden siblings Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, who live in an abandoned boxcar; over 80 million copies sold.

The Boxer

The Boxer is a 1969 folk rock ballad written by Paul Simon and recorded by Simon & Garfunkel for Bridge Over Troubled Water; a US #7 single known for its lie-la-lie chorus, 100-hour recording, and elevator-shaft snare drum. Distinct from Kele's 2010 album and Sheridan's 1998 film.

The Boxer (1997 film)

The Boxer is a 1997 drama directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a former IRA boxer who reopens his Belfast boxing club after 14 years in prison.

The Boxer from Shantung (马永贞)

The Boxer from Shantung (馬永貞, Ma Yongzhen), also released as The Killer from Shantung, is a 1972 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Chang Cheh and Pao Hsueh-li, starring Chen Kuan-tai as a Shandong fighter who rises and dies in the Shanghai underworld.

The Boxer Rebellion (八国联军)

Boxer Rebellion (八國聯軍, 1976) is a Chang Cheh Shaw Brothers martial arts war film about three sworn brothers joining the Boxers in 1900; censored in Hong Kong as Spiritual Fists, restored in 2005.

The Boxer's Omen

The Boxer's Omen (魔, aka Mo, Black Magic 4) is a 1983 Shaw Brothers Hong Kong horror film by Kuei Chih-hung, sequel to Bewitched, in which kickboxing revenge in Thailand becomes a psychedelic Buddhist-versus-black-magic battle.

The Boxtrolls

The Boxtrolls is a 2014 American stop-motion animated film directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi, produced by Laika and loosely adapted from Alan Snow's novel Here Be Monsters!.

The Boy (2015 film)

The Boy (2015), not to be confused with the 2016 doll film, is a psychological horror film by Craig William Macneill and Clay McLeod Chapman about 9-year-old Ted Henley, based on the short Henley and Chapman's novel Miss Corpus, produced by SpectreVision and Chiller Films.

The Boy (2016 film)

The Boy (2016) is a horror thriller directed by William Brent Bell, written by Stacey Menear, starring Lauren Cohan as a nanny to a doll named Brahms; STX release grossing $73.9 million, distinct from the 2015 Macneill film.

The Boy and the Beast (バケモノの子)

The Boy and the Beast (バケモノの子, Bakemono no Ko) is Mamoru Hosoda's 2015 Studio Chizu anime film about orphan Ren/Kyuta apprenticed to the beast warrior Kumatetsu; it earned 5.85 billion yen and the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year.

The Boy and the Heron (君たちはどう生きるか)

The Boy and the Heron (君たちはどう生きるか, How Do You Live?) is Studio Ghibli's 2023 hand-drawn fantasy by Hayao Miyazaki, his twelfth feature, about boy Mahito Maki entering a world of the living and dead; it won the 96th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

The Boy at the Back of the Class

The Boy at the Back of the Class is Onjali Q. Raúf's 2018 debut children's novel about Ahmet, a nine-year-old Syrian refugee, and classmates who plan to reunite him with his family; winner of the 2019 Blue Peter and Waterstones Children's Book prizes.

The Boy from Oz

The Boy from Oz is a jukebox musical about singer Peter Allen, book by Nick Enright (Broadway adaptation by Martin Sherman), premiered Sydney 1998 with Todd McKenney, Broadway 2003–2004 with Tony-winning Hugh Jackman.

The Boy in the Iceberg

"The Boy in the Iceberg" is the first episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender (Book One: Water), aired February 21, 2005; Katara and Sokka free Aang, the Avatar, from an iceberg; distinct from Paul Driessen's 2000 short "The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg".

The Boy in the Iron Box

The Boy in the Iron Box: 2024 six-part Amazon Original Stories horror novella by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan (not Chuck Palahniuk) about mercenaries who find a chained iron box; Netflix film adaptation by David Prior, expected 2026.

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is a 1976 ABC made-for-TV drama directed by Randal Kleiser, starring John Travolta as immune-deficient Tod Lubitch, loosely based on David Vetter and Ted DeVita, and winner of a posthumous Emmy for Diana Hyland.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is John Boyne's 2006 novel subtitled 'A Fable', in which nine-year-old Bruno befriends Shmuel through the Auschwitz fence. Known for its 7 million sales, 2008 Mark Herman film, and criticism over historical inaccuracy in Holocaust education.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Mark Herman's adaptation of John Boyne's novel, stars Asa Butterfield and Jack Scanlon as boys on opposite sides of a concentration camp fence; a mixed-reception Holocaust drama widely criticized in education research.

The Boy Is Mine (Ariana Grande song)

the boy is mine is a 2024 Ariana Grande song from eternal sunshine, reimagining Brandy and Monica's 1998 duet and her leaked track fantasize; third single, Christian Breslauer video with Penn Badgley, Brandy-Monica remix, Grammy-nominated.

The Boy Is Mine Tour

The Boy Is Mine Tour was the first-ever co-headlining arena tour by R&B singers Brandy and Monica, announced June 24, 2025, produced by Black Promoters Collective, running October 16 to December 14, 2025 across 32 US dates.

The Boy Next Door (film)

The Boy Next Door (Obsesión) is a 2015 erotic thriller directed by Rob Cohen, starring Jennifer Lopez and Ryan Guzman; made for $4 million by Blumhouse, it earned $52.4 million but scored 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Boy Who Could Fly

The Boy Who Could Fly is a 1986 American fantasy drama written and directed by Nick Castle for Lorimar, starring Lucy Deakins, Jay Underwood, and Fred Savage; it won the 1987 Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film and grossed $6.3 million.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

The Boy Who Cried Wolf, also called The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf (Perry Index 210), is an Aesop fable in which a shepherd boy's false alarms make villagers ignore a real wolf attack; moral: liars are not believed even when truthful.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: 2019 British drama, Chiwetel Ejiofor's directorial debut, adapting William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer's memoir of a Malawian teen who built a windmill during the 2001–2002 famine; Netflix release, Sundance Sloan Prize winner.