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The White Tiger (2021 film)
The White Tiger is a 2021 American-Indian satirical crime drama directed by Ramin Bahrani, adapted from Aravind Adiga's Booker Prize-winning novel and starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas.
The White Tiger (Adiga novel)
The White Tiger (2008) is Aravind Adiga's debut novel, winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Narrator Balram Halwai, a rickshaw puller's son turned chauffeur, writes letters to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao recounting his murderous rise to Bangalore entrepreneurship.
The White-Haired Girl (白毛女)
The White-Haired Girl (白毛女, Bai mao nü): Chinese story of Xi'er, based on the White-Haired Fairy legend; 1945 Yan'an opera by He Jingzhi and Ding Yi, 1950 Northeast Film Studio film, 1958 Peking opera, and 1964 Shanghai ballet, a model work.
The White-haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom (白发魔女传之明月天国)
The White-haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom (白发魔女传之明月天国, White Haired Witch) is a 2014 Chinese 3D wuxia film by Jacob Cheung, adapted from Liang Yusheng's novel, starring Fan Bingbing and Huang Xiaoming; it topped its opening week with 226 million yuan but scored poorly with critics.
The Whitest Kids U' Know
The Whitest Kids U' Know (WKUK) is a New York sketch comedy troupe, formed in the early 2000s by Trevor Moore, Zach Cregger, Sam Brown, Timmy Williams, and Darren Trumeter, whose TV-MA series ran on Fuse then IFC from 2007 to 2011.
The Whitlams
The Whitlams, Australian piano-pop band from Newtown, Sydney, formed 1992 by Tim Freedman, Stevie Plunder, and Andy Lewis; named for Gough Whitlam; known for Eternal Nightcap, No Aphrodisiac, and three 1998 ARIA Awards.
The Whitsun Weddings
The Whitsun Weddings is a 1964 poetry collection by the British poet Philip Larkin, his third, containing thirty-two poems including the title poem, "Here," and "An Arundel Tomb."
The Who
The Who (also the High Numbers), British rock band formed in London in 1964 by Daltrey, Townshend, Entwistle, and Moon; creators of Tommy and Quadrophenia, famous for stage destruction and loud live shows.
The Who by Numbers
The Who by Numbers is The Who's seventh studio album (1975), produced by Glyn Johns, featuring Townshend's confessional songwriting, the hit "Squeeze Box," Entwistle's join-the-dots cover, and a 2026 50th-anniversary Super Deluxe reissue.
The Who discography
The Who discography: catalog of the English rock band The Who, 12 studio albums 1965–2019 plus live albums and compilations. Key albums: My Generation, Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia, Who Are You, Endless Wire, WHO.
The Who Sell Out
The Who Sell Out is The Who's third album, released 15 December 1967 on Track Records, a mock pirate-radio concept album with jingles and parody ads, cover by David King and Roger Law, featuring "I Can See for Miles".
The Who Was? Show
The Who Was? Show is a 2018 Netflix live-action sketch comedy series, 13 episodes, based on Penguin Workshop's Who Was? books, pairing historical figures like Gandhi and Benjamin Franklin in a show-within-a-show format.
The Who's Tommy
The Who's Tommy is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Pete Townshend, based on The Who's 1969 rock opera, which ran on Broadway from 1993 to 1995.
The Whole Nine Yards (film)
The Whole Nine Yards is a 2000 American crime comedy directed by Jonathan Lynn, starring Bruce Willis as hit man Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski alongside Matthew Perry.
The Whole of the Moon
The Whole of the Moon: 1985 Waterboys single from This Is the Sea, written by Mike Scott on a dare in Manhattan, UK No. 26 in 1985 and No. 3 on 1991 re-release.
The Whole Ten Yards
The Whole Ten Yards is a 2004 American crime comedy film directed by Howard Deutch and starring Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry, a sequel to The Whole Nine Yards.
The Whole Truth (2016 film)
The Whole Truth (2016) is an American courtroom thriller directed by Courtney Hunt, starring Keanu Reeves, Renée Zellweger, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Gabriel Basso, and Jim Belushi; a defense attorney defends a silent teen accused of murdering his father. Critically panned (35% Tomatometer), limited release.
The Wicked + The Divine
The Wicked + The Divine (WicDiv) is a creator-owned Image Comics series by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, running 45 issues from June 2014 to September 2019, about twelve gods who reincarnate as pop stars every ninety years and die within two years.
The Wicked Game (เกม รัก ลวง)
The Wicked Game (เกม รัก ลวง, Game Rak Luang) is a 2025 Thai BL series by One31, 10 episodes, starring Daou Pittaya as bodyguard Than and Offroad Kantapon as vengeful heir Pheem; distinct from the 2024 Netflix drama เล่ห์ร้ายเกมลวง.
The Wicked Lady
The Wicked Lady is a 1945 Gainsborough Pictures costume melodrama directed by Leslie Arliss, starring Margaret Lockwood as a bored noblewoman turned highwaywoman alongside James Mason; Britain's top-grossing film of its year, remade by Michael Winner in 1983 with Faye Dunaway.
The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man (1973) is Robin Hardy's British folk horror film, scripted by Anthony Shaffer, starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee, about a Christian policeman sacrificed on the pagan island Summerisle; famously cut from 99 to 87 minutes and later restored.
The Wicker Man (2006 film)
The Wicker Man is a 2006 American horror film directed by Neil LaBute, starring Nicolas Cage as a policeman investigating a girl's disappearance on a neo-pagan island.
The Wide Window
The Wide Window (2000) is the third book in Lemony Snicket's (Daniel Handler's) A Series of Unfortunate Events, placing the Baudelaire orphans with Aunt Josephine on Lake Lachrymose while Count Olaf, disguised as Captain Sham, schemes to steal their fortune.
The Widow (TV series)
The Widow is a 2019 eight-part British thriller drama written by Harry and Jack Williams for ITV and Amazon Prime Video, starring Kate Beckinsale as Georgia Wells, a widow who spots her supposedly dead husband in Congolese news footage and travels to Kinshasa to find him.
The Wife (2017 film)
The Wife (2017) is a drama directed by Björn Runge, adapted by Jane Anderson from Meg Wolitzer's 2003 novel, starring Glenn Close as Joan Castleman, wife of a Nobel-winning novelist (Jonathan Pryce). Premiered at TIFF 2017; released 2018 by Sony Pictures Classics; Close earned an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win.
The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale is Chaucer's Arthurian romance in the Canterbury Tales (from 1387), combining the loathly lady motif with the question of what women most desire: sovereignty over husbands. Closely tied to Gower's Tale of Florent, the 1382 Statute of Rapes debate, and a long adaptation history.
The Wife's Lament
The Wife's Lament is a 53-line Old English poem in which a woman mourns exile from her husband, surviving only in the tenth-century Exeter Book.
The Wiggles
The Wiggles are an Australian children's music group formed in Sydney in 1991 by Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt, and Phillip Wilcher, built on early childhood education principles, with over 30 million albums sold, 15 ARIA Awards for Best Children's Album, and an eight-member current lineup.
The Wild
The Wild is a 2006 American-Canadian computer-animated comedy directed by Steve Williams, in which New York zoo animals rescue a lion cub shipped to Africa.
The Wild and the Willing
The Wild and the Willing, also released as Young and Willing, is Ralph Thomas's 1962 British university drama starring Virginia Maskell, Paul Rogers, Ian McShane, Samantha Eggar, and John Hurt, the last three in film debuts.