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Broken Embraces
Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos) is Pedro Almodóvar's 2009 Spanish drama starring Penélope Cruz and Lluís Homar, about a blind former director recounting a fatal Lanzarote love affair; shot on Lanzarote, a Cannes 2009 selection.
Broken English (2025 film)
Broken English (2025) is a British documentary by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard about Marianne Faithfull, framed by a fictional Ministry of Not Forgetting led by Tilda Swinton; it premiered at Venice 2025 and was released in the UK in March 2026.
Broken Flowers
Broken Flowers is a 2005 comedy-drama directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Bill Murray as Don Johnston, who visits four ex-lovers after an anonymous letter claims he has a 19-year-old son; it won the 2005 Cannes Grand Prix.
Broken Glass
Broken Glass is the English title of Verre cassé (2005), the fifth novel by Congolese-French writer Alain Mabanckou, told by a former schoolteacher in a Brazzaville bar.
Broken Harbour
Broken Harbour (US title Broken Harbor) is Tana French's 2012 fourth Dublin Murder Squad novel, following Detective Scorcher Kennedy's investigation of the Spain family murders in a half-abandoned Irish ghost estate; it won the LA Times Book Prize and Irish Book Award.
Broken Horses
Broken Horses is a 2015 English-language crime thriller by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, reworking his 1989 Hindi film Parinda on the US-Mexico border, starring Anton Yelchin, Chris Marquette, and Vincent D'Onofrio; it flopped critically and commercially.
Broken Lance
Broken Lance (折れた槍) is a 1954 Twentieth Century-Fox Western directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Spencer Tracy as cattle baron Matt Devereaux; a western remake of House of Strangers about half-brothers feuding over an Arizona ranch.
Broken Lizard
Broken Lizard: American five-man comedy filmmaking group (Chandrasekhar, Heffernan, Lemme, Soter, Stolhanske) formed at Colgate University as Charred Goosebeak; known for Super Troopers, Beerfest, Club Dread, and Super Troopers 3.
Broken noses in ancient Egyptian statues
Broken noses on ancient Egyptian statues result mainly from deliberate iconoclasm: Egyptians believed a statue's life force breathed through the nose, so breaking it disabled the image, as in Thutmose III's erasure of Hatshepsut.
Broken Rage
Broken Rage (2024) is a 62-minute Amazon MGM film by Takeshi Kitano, premiering at Venice 2024 and streaming on Prime Video from February 13, 2025, retelling one hitman undercover plot twice, first as a serious yakuza thriller, then as slapstick self-parody.
Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene: Canadian indie rock collective formed in Toronto in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, with over 20 rotating members, the Arts & Crafts label, albums You Forgot It in People (2002) and Remember the Humans (2026).
Broken Voices
Broken Voices (Sbormistr) is a 2025 Czech-Slovak drama by Ondřej Provazník about a 13-year-old girl in an elite choir, inspired by the Bambini di Praga abuse case; premiered at Karlovy Vary 2025.
Broken Window Serenade
Broken Window Serenade is a song by Whiskey Myers that tells the story of a woman who dies of crystal meth addiction. It was certified 2x Platinum by 2025.
Broker (2022 film)
Broker (브로커) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2022 South Korean drama about baby-box brokers, starring Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, and IU; it competed at Cannes 2022, where Song won Best Actor.
Broly (ブロリー)
Broly (ブロリー) is a Legendary Super Saiyan in Dragon Ball: a non-canon 1993 DBZ movie villain, and the canon 2018 Dragon Ball Super: Broly reinvention by Akira Toriyama, exiled to Planet Vampa, later trained by Whis.
Bromance (2025 film)
Bromance (ബ്രോമിൻസ്) is a 2025 Malayalam comedy directed by Arun D Jose, produced by Ashiq Usman, starring Mathew Thomas, Arjun Ashokan, and Mahima Nambiar; released 14 February 2025, streaming on SonyLIV from 1 May 2025.
Brominated vegetable oil
Brominated vegetable oil (BVO, INS 443) is bromine-modified vegetable oil once used at up to 15 ppm to stabilize citrus flavoring in beverages; the FDA revoked its food additive authorization in 2024 over thyroid safety findings.
Bron Studios
Bron Studios (Bron Media Corp.) was a Burnaby, British Columbia film and TV production and financing company founded in 2010 by Aaron and Brenda Gilbert, known for Joker and Fences, that entered CCAA insolvency in July 2023 and closed.
Bronagh Gallagher
Bronagh Gallagher (born 1972) is a Northern Irish actress and soul singer from Derry, known as Bernie McGloughlin in The Commitments (1991), Pulp Fiction, The Phantom Menace, Brassic, and her Salty Dog Records albums.
Broncho Billy Anderson
Broncho Billy Anderson (Gilbert M. Anderson, born Maxwell Henry Aronson, 1880-1971), American silent-film pioneer, first cowboy movie star, and co-founder of Essanay Studios, star of the Broncho Billy western series.
Bronco (group)
Bronco, also known as El Gigante de América, is a Mexican grupero group founded in 1979 in Apodaca, Nuevo León, and led since its beginning by singer Lupe Esparza.
Bronco (TV series)
Bronco (TV series): American ABC Western, 1958-1962, 68 hour-long episodes, Ty Hardin as ex-Confederate drifter Bronco Layne; born from the Clint Walker Cheyenne contract dispute; distinct from the 2019 Spanish series Bronco La Serie about the band.
Bronco Bullfrog
Bronco Bullfrog is a 1969 British black-and-white drama, Barney Platts-Mills's debut feature, made for about £17,000 with non-professional East London teenagers from Joan Littlewood's Playbarn, portraying suedehead youth culture in Stratford and rediscovered through BFI restorations.
Brondo
Brondo is the stage name of Thomas O'Connell, an American dubstep producer and DJ based in Castle Rock, Colorado, known for jungle-themed Bass Jungle shows and Decadence festival sets.
Bronfman family
The Bronfman family: Bessarabian Jewish immigrants who arrived in Canada in 1889 and built Seagram, once the world's largest distilling firm; sold to Vivendi in 2000, with brands absorbed by Pernod Ricard and Diageo.
Bronski Beat
Bronski Beat: British synth-pop trio formed in London in 1983 by Jimmy Somerville, Steve Bronski, and Larry Steinbachek; gay-activist pop band behind "Smalltown Boy" (UK No. 3, 1984) and the album The Age of Consent.
Bronson (film)
Bronson (2008) is Nicolas Winding Refn's British biographical drama starring Tom Hardy as prisoner Michael Peterson, aka Charles Bronson; a $230,000 cult film that earned Hardy a British Independent Film Award and 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Bronson Pinchot
Bronson Pinchot (born 1959) is an American actor, Balki Bartokomous on Perfect Strangers (1986–93) and Serge in Beverly Hills Cop; Emmy-nominated in 1987, also a 400-plus audiobook narrator and star of Netflix's The Residence (2025).
Bronte Carmichael
Bronte Carmichael is a British child actress, daughter of Tristan Sturrock and Katy Carmichael, known as Madeline Robin in Disney's Christopher Robin (2018) and Leida Mothma in Andor (2022–2025).
Brontë family
The Brontë family of Haworth, West Yorkshire: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, authors of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, with brother Branwell and father Patrick, preserved at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.