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Ben-Hur (2016 film)
Ben-Hur (2016) is Timur Bekmambetov's adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel, starring Jack Huston and Toby Kebbell. Made for $100 million, it grossed $94 million worldwide, opened fifth with $11.2 million, and scored 24% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Lew Wallace's 1880 Harper & Brothers novel set in first-century Judea and Antioch, follows Judah Ben-Hur's betrayal, enslavement, revenge, and conversion alongside the life of Jesus; it became the era's best-selling American novel and spawned major stage and film adaptations.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is MGM's 1925 silent epic directed by Fred Niblo, starring Ramon Novarro, based on Lew Wallace's 1880 novel. Costing $3.9 million, the most expensive silent film, famous for its chariot race and Technicolor sequences.
Ben'Imana
Ben'Imana is a 2026 Kinyarwanda-language drama, the debut feature of Rwandan director Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo. Set in Kibeho in 2012 during Gacaca reconciliation trials, it won the Caméra d'Or and FIPRESCI at Cannes and became Rwanda's first Oscar submission.
Ben&Ben
Ben&Ben is a nine-piece Filipino folk-pop band from Manila, formed in 2015 as The Benjamins by twin brothers Paolo and Miguel Guico, known for Limasawa Street, Pebble House, and over a billion Spotify streams.
Bench Life
Bench Life is a 2024 Telugu comedy-drama web series on SonyLIV, directed by Manasa Sharma and produced by Niharika Konidela. Five episodes follow three Hyderabad IT employees, Balu, Ravi, and Meenakshi, who scheme to get benched, unlike any other office drama of its name.
Bencharong
Bencharong (เบญจรงค์, "five colors") is polychrome overglaze-enamel porcelain made in China to Thai specifications, mainly for the Siamese royal court and nobility from the Ayutthaya period through the 19th century.
Bend (heraldry)
Bend (heraldry): a diagonal ordinary running from dexter chief to sinister base, one-fifth to one-third of the field, with diminutives bendlet, cotise, ribbon; the bend sinister is not a mark of bastardy.
Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham: 2002 British comedy directed by Gurinder Chadha, starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley; Jess Bhamra, a British Indian Sikh teen, defies her parents to play football; grossed almost £60m on £3.5m and inspired UK women's football.
Bend of the River
Bend of the River (1952), also known by its working title Bend of the Snake, is an Anthony Mann Technicolor Western starring James Stewart as reformed outlaw Glyn McLyntock guiding settlers to Oregon, with Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, and Rock Hudson; second of five Mann-Stewart Westerns.
Bend Over Boyfriend 2
Bend Over Boyfriend 2: More Rockin', Less Talkin' is a 1999 American instructional pornographic video by Shar Rednour and Jackie Strano (S.I.R. Video), sequel to Bend Over Boyfriend, depicting women using strap-on dildos on men (pegging).
BenDavid Grabinski
BenDavid Grabinski (born 1983, Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer, co-creator of Netflix's Scott Pilgrim Takes Off and director of Happily and Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice.
BenDeLaCreme
BenDeLaCreme is the stage name of American drag performer and producer Benjamin Putnam, a Drag Race season 6 Miss Congeniality and All Stars 3 record holder who tours The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show worldwide.
Bender (Futurama)
Bender Bending Rodríguez, known as Bender, is the robot bending unit of Futurama, voiced by John DiMaggio; built in Tijuana by Mom's Friendly Robot Company, alcohol-fueled, catchphrase "Bite my shiny metal ass."
Bene Gesserit
Bene Gesserit: the all-women sisterhood of Frank Herbert's Dune (1965), combining spies, nuns, scientists, and theologians; known for the Kwisatz Haderach breeding program, the Voice, Other Memory, and the Missionaria Protectiva, distinct from the DUNE neutrino experiment.
Beneath the Eyrie
Beneath the Eyrie is the Pixies' seventh studio album, released September 13, 2019 on Infectious/BMG. Third post-reunion album, produced by Tom Dalgety at a converted church in Hurley, New York, titled after an eagle's nest.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), first sequel to Planet of the Apes, directed by Ted Post, starring James Franciscus and Charlton Heston; astronaut Brent finds telepathic mutants worshipping a doomsday bomb, and the film ends with Earth destroyed.
Beneath the Remains
Beneath the Remains is the third studio album by Brazilian band Sepultura, released in 1989 and credited with carrying the band into the international extreme metal scene.
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, Patrick Horvath's IDW cozy-horror comic (2023), follows serial-killer bear Samantha Strong in the Busytown-like town of Woodbrook; its sequel is Rite of Spring (2025).
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring, a six-issue IDW Dark cozy-horror comic (July 2025–March 2026) by Patrick Horvath, sequel to Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, following Monica's search for Samantha Strong's victim.
Benedetta (film)
Benedetta (2021) is Paul Verhoeven's French-language historical drama about nun Benedetta Carlini, based on Judith C. Brown's Immodest Acts; it competed at Cannes 2021, stars Virginie Efira, and holds 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Benedetta Cimatti
Benedetta Cimatti, Italian actress born 1989 in Faenza, trained at Rome's Accademia Fondamenta; known for L'Ispettore Coliandro, Doc – Nelle tue mani, and as Rachele Mussolini in M. Il figlio del secolo.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch (born 1976, London) is a British actor known for Sherlock, Doctor Strange, The Imitation Game, and The Power of the Dog; Emmy winner, two-time Oscar nominee, LAMDA President, SunnyMarch founder.
Benedict Samuel
Benedict Samuel (born 1988) is an Australian actor, writer, and director, NIDA graduate, known as Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter in Gotham and Owen in The Walking Dead, brother of actor Xavier Samuel.
Benedict Taylor (musician)
Benedict Taylor is a British violist, violinist, composer, and producer who works in free improvisation, with music for over 35 films and series including Netflix and Amazon productions.
Benedict Wong
Benedict Wong, English actor born 1971 in Eccles, Greater Manchester; Kublai Khan in Marco Polo, sorcerer Wong in the MCU, Da Shi in 3 Body Problem; BIFA-nominated for Dirty Pretty Things.
Bénédictine
Bénédictine (D.O.M.) is a 40% ABV French herbal liqueur from Fécamp, Normandy, made from 27 secret herbs and spices, created by Alexandre Le Grand in 1863, now owned by Bacardi, and key to the Vieux Carré and Singapore Sling.
Benediction (film)
Benediction (2021) is Terence Davies's final feature, a biographical drama about war poet Siegfried Sassoon, played by Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi; premiered at TIFF 2021, Metascore 81, 137 minutes.
Benedictional of St Æthelwold
The Benedictional of St Æthelwold is a tenth-century Latin manuscript of episcopal blessings, written by Godeman for Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester and illustrated with 28 full-page miniatures.
Benedicto Cabrera
Benedicto Reyes Cabrera, known as BenCab, is a Filipino painter and printmaker declared National Artist for Visual Arts in 2006, known for his Sabel and Larawan series.