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Vertical Limit
Vertical Limit (2000) is a Martin Campbell mountain-rescue action film starring Chris O'Donnell, Robin Tunney, Bill Paxton, and Scott Glenn, about a rescue on K2; made for $75 million, it earned $216 million worldwide.
Vertigo (film)
Vertigo (1958), Alfred Hitchcock's Paramount psychological thriller with James Stewart and Kim Novak, adapted from D'entre les morts; introduced the dolly zoom, was withdrawn in 1973, restored in 1996, and ranked #1 in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll.
Vertigo Comics
Vertigo Comics (DC Vertigo) is DC Comics' mature-readers imprint, founded in 1993 by Karen Berger for creator-driven titles like Sandman, Preacher, and 100 Bullets; sunset in 2019 for Black Label, revived with ten new series from February 2026.
Vertumnus (Arcimboldo)
Vertumnus (1590/91) is Giuseppe Arcimboldo's oil-on-panel portrait of Emperor Rudolf II as the Roman god of the seasons, composed of fruits, vegetables, and flowers; taken as Swedish war booty in 1648, it hangs at Skokloster Castle, Sweden.
Veruca Salt
Veruca Salt is a Chicago alternative rock band formed in 1992 by Louise Post and Nina Gordon, known for "Seether" and the gold albums American Thighs (1994) and Eight Arms to Hold You (1997); not the Willy Wonka character.
Very (Pet Shop Boys album)
Very (1993) is the fifth Pet Shop Boys studio album, on Parlophone, their first primarily self-produced record, with Stephen Hague. It hit UK No. 1, sold over five million copies, and shipped with the limited Relentless disc.
Very Bad Things
Very Bad Things is a 1998 American black comedy directed by Peter Berg, starring Christian Slater and Cameron Diaz, about a Las Vegas bachelor party that goes wrong.
Very Good Girls
Very Good Girls is a 2013 American coming-of-age drama, Naomi Foner's directorial debut, starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen as friends who fall for the same Brooklyn artist; released by Tribeca Film in 2014 to poor reviews.
Very Important People (2023 TV series)
Very Important People is a 2023 Dropout improv talk show where host Vic Michaelis interviews comedians transformed by surprise makeovers, based on CollegeHumor's Hello, My Name Is, three seasons, 2023 to 2026.
Very Mary-Kate
Very Mary-Kate: American comedy web series (2010–2013, 4 seasons, 82 episodes) created by and starring Elaine Carroll as a fictional Mary-Kate Olsen, directed by Sam Reich, distributed via CollegeHumor; grew from her 2008 SNL audition impression.
Very Nice
"Very Nice" (아주 NICE) is a 2016 funk-driven dance song by the thirteen-member South Korean boy group Seventeen, from the repackage of their first studio album Love & Letter.
Very special episode
Very special episode (VSE): a 1980s-90s US TV advertising label, also "very special episodes", for sitcom episodes departing from usual tone to tackle controversial social issues, exemplified by Diff'rent Strokes' "The Bicycle Man" and Saved by the Bell's "Jessie's Song", later parodied and adapted into streaming "Very Special Seasons".
Very Very Very
"Very Very Very" (너무너무너무) is a 2016 dance-pop song by South Korean girl group I.O.I, released October 17, 2016 as the title track of their final EP, written and produced by Park Jin-young.
Very Young Frankenstein
Very Young Frankenstein is an FX and Hulu comedy series based on Mel Brooks' 1974 film Young Frankenstein, created by Stefani Robinson, Taika Waititi, and Garrett Basch, starring Zach Galifianakis, ordered to series in May 2026.
Verzen
Verzen is a poetry collection by the Dutch poet and classicist J. H. Leopold, published in 1914 with the nine-poem cycle "Verzen 1897" as its core.
Verzuz
Verzuz: livestreamed song-for-song music battle series created by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland on Instagram Live in March 2020; 20 hits per artist, no official winner, later owned by Triller, then the founders, distributed via X and Complex.
Veselovsky school of historical poetics
The Veselovsky school of historical poetics, founded by Alexander Veselovsky at St. Petersburg University in 1870, studies the genesis and evolution of poetic forms, genres, and plots across world literature.
Vesiletü'n-Necat
Vesiletü'n-Necat, known popularly as the Mevlid, is a Turkish mawlid poem on the birth and life of Muhammad, written by Süleyman Çelebi and completed in Bursa in 1409.
Vesper (cocktail)
Vesper (Vesper Martini): gin, vodka, and aperitif cocktail invented by Ian Fleming in Casino Royale (1953), named for Vesper Lynd; original recipe used Kina Lillet, now replaced by Lillet Blanc or Cocchi Americano.
Vesper (film)
Vesper (Vesper Chronicles) is a 2022 dystopian sci-fi film by Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper, a Lithuania-France-Belgium co-production starring Raffiella Chapman as a 13-year-old bio-hacker; premiered at Karlovy Vary, released by IFC Films.
Vesper Lynd
Vesper Lynd is the fictional MI6 Station S operative in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale (1953), Bond's lover and a coerced SMERSH double agent who dies after betraying him; Eva Green played her in the 2006 film, and Bond named the Vesper cocktail after her.
Vespertine
Vespertine is the fourth studio album by Icelandic artist Björk, released on 27 August 2001. Built from whispered vocals, microbeats, harp, and music boxes, it is her quietest, most introspective record.
Vessel (Twenty One Pilots album)
Vessel (2013) is Twenty One Pilots' Fueled by Ramen major label debut, reworking half its 12 tracks from Regional at Best; RIAA Platinum, all tracks Gold or higher, UK peak No. 39.
Vestido de Noiva
Vestido de Noiva (Wedding Dress) is a 1943 three-act play by Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues, following Alaíde, who relives her memories after being struck by a car.
Vestment
Vestments are ceremonial garments worn by clergy in public worship, derived from ordinary Roman dress; the tunic became the alb and the paenula the chasuble, with distinct Latin Rite and Eastern forms.
Vestnik Evropy
Vestnik Evropy (Вестник Европы, "Herald of Europe") was a Russian monthly "thick journal" of literature, politics, and science, published in Saint Petersburg from 1866 to 1918.
Vesy
Vesy (Весы, The Scales) was a monthly literary journal published in Moscow from 1904 to 1909 by the Skorpion publishing house, serving as the principal organ of Russian symbolism.
Vesyolye Rebyata
Vesyolye Rebyata (Весёлые ребята), known abroad as Jolly Fellows, is a Soviet and Russian vocal-instrumental ensemble founded in Moscow in 1966 by Pavel Slobodkin, a launch pad for Alla Pugacheva and Alexander Gradsky.
Vetagadu (వేటగాడు)
Vetagadu (వేటగాడు, The Hunter) is a 1979 Telugu action drama directed by K. Raghavendra Rao, starring N.T. Rama Rao and Sridevi, their first screen pairing; it was the highest grossing Telugu film of 1979 and was remade in Hindi as Nishan.
Vetala Panchavimshati
Vetala Panchavimshati (वेतालपञ्चविंशति), also known as Baital Pachisi or Vikram-Betal, is a Sanskrit frame-story collection of 25 riddling tales told by a corpse-inhabiting spirit to King Vikramaditya.