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Women of the Night (夜の女たち)

Women of the Night (夜の女たち, Yoru no onna-tachi) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1948 Shochiku drama, his postwar comeback, about two sisters descending into prostitution in ruined Osaka, shot neorealist-style on location with Kinuyo Tanaka.

Women of Trachis

Women of Trachis is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes the last day of Heracles' life on earth. He is poisoned by his wife Deianeira.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1988 Spanish comedy about abandoned actress Pepa, starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas, an Oscar-nominated, five-Goya international breakthrough.

Women playwrights in the anglophone theatre

Women playwrights in the anglophone theater are the women who have written plays for English-language stages from the Restoration to the present, from Aphra Behn onward.

Women Talking (film)

Women Talking (2022) is Sarah Polley's drama adapted from Miriam Toews's 2018 novel about Mennonite women in an isolated colony deciding to stay, fight, or leave after systematic drugging and rape; it won the 2023 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Women Talking (novel)

Women Talking is Miriam Toews' 2018 novel about eight Mennonite women in a Bolivian-style colony deciding whether to stay or leave after rapes by community men, told as minutes taken by August Epp; adapted by Sarah Polley in 2022.

Women theatre directors

Women theater directors are women who stage theatrical productions; Broadway's share of women directors peaked at thirteen percent in 1950, then fell to zero by 1955.

Women Wearing Shoulder Pads

Women Wearing Shoulder Pads (Mujeres con hombreras) is Adult Swim's first Spanish-language series, a stop-motion adult comedy melodrama created by Gonzalo Cordova with Cinema Fantasma, set in 1980s Quito, Ecuador, following Marioneta Negocios's campaign to promote guinea pigs as pets; premiered August 17, 2025, eight 11-minute episodes, Metacritic 88.

Women's Love and Life

Women's Love and Life (German: Frauenliebe und -leben) is a song cycle for voice and piano that Robert Schumann composed in 1840 on poems by Adelbert von Chamisso.

Women's March on Versailles

The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October Days, was a 1789 uprising in which Parisian women demanding bread forced King Louis XVI to Paris.

Women's Prize for Fiction

The Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize, then Baileys Prize) is a British annual award for the best full-length English-language novel by a woman, published in the UK, worth £30,000 and the Bessie statuette; 2026 winner: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans.

Women's prose

Women's prose is prose writing, chiefly fiction and essays, produced by women and studied as a distinct category tied to feminist criticism and the recovery of overlooked writers.

Women's Trade Union League

The Women's Trade Union League (NWTUL, 1903-1950), founded in Boston at the AFL convention, organized women wage workers, supported garment strikes, ran a leadership training school, published Life and Labor, and lobbied protective labor legislation.

WOMEX

WOMEX, short for Worldwide Music Expo, is an annual trade fair, conference, and showcase festival for the world music industry, held each October in a different European city since 1994.

Won Bin (원빈)

Won Bin (원빈), real name Kim Do-jin (김도진), born 1977, is a South Korean actor famous for Autumn in My Heart, Taegukgi, Mother, and The Man from Nowhere (2010), his last acting role; he has since appeared only in commercials.

Won't Get Fooled Again

Won't Get Fooled Again is a 1971 song by The Who, written by Pete Townshend for the Lifehouse project and released on Who's Next; known for its ARP 2500 synthesizer, Daltrey's scream, "meet the new boss" lyric, and UK #9 single status.

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (film)

Won't You Be My Neighbor? is a 2018 American documentary directed by Morgan Neville about Fred Rogers, creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, premiering at Sundance in January 2018.

WondaGurl

WondaGurl (Ebony Naomi Oshunrinde), Canadian Grammy-nominated producer from Brampton; Jay-Z "Crown," Rihanna "BBHMM," Travis Scott "Antidote"; first Black woman Juno Producer of the Year; Wonderchild label; METAL TAIL album.

Wonder (film)

Wonder is a 2017 American drama film directed by Stephen Chbosky, adapted from R.J. Palacio's novel, starring Jacob Tremblay as Auggie Pullman, a boy with facial differences starting school.

Wonder (Palacio novel)

Wonder (Palacio novel), R. J. Palacio's 2012 Knopf middle-grade debut about Auggie Pullman, a boy with a facial difference entering fifth grade; eight-part multi-narrator structure, 16 million copies sold, Choose Kind movement, 2017 film adaptation.

Wonder Boys (film)

Wonder Boys is a 2000 American comedy-drama directed by Curtis Hanson, adapted by Steve Kloves from Michael Chabon's 1995 novel, starring Michael Douglas as stalled novelist Grady Tripp; it won Bob Dylan an Oscar for "Things Have Changed" and grossed $19.4 million in the US.

Wonder Bread

Wonder Bread: American packaged white bread brand founded 1921 in Indianapolis by Taggart Baking, named by Elmer Cline after balloon races; early presliced bread, FTC 1971 case, owned by Flowers Foods since 2012.

Wonder Egg Priority (ワンダーエッグ・プライオリティ)

Wonder Egg Priority (ワンダーエッグ・プライオリティ) is a 2021 original TV anime by CloverWorks, directed by Shin Wakabayashi and written by Shinji Nojima, about Ai Ohto fighting to revive her dead friend; 12 episodes plus a criticized June 2021 special finale.

Wonder Girl

Wonder Girl is a DC Comics superheroine alias held by several characters, chiefly Donna Troy (1965), Cassie Sandsmark (1996), and Yara Flor, each a younger partner or successor to Wonder Woman in comics and television.

Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark)

Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark), DC Comics superheroine created by John Byrne, debuting Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #105 (1996); daughter of Helena Sandsmark and Zeus, founding Young Justice member, later Teen Titans leader and Silent Armor bearer on Prime Earth.

Wonder Girls (원더걸스)

Wonder Girls (원더걸스), JYP Entertainment's first girl group, debuted in 2007 with "Irony" and defined second-generation K-pop through "Tell Me," "So Hot," and "Nobody," becoming the first Korean act on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 76 in 2009 before disbanding in 2017.

Wonder Man

Wonder Man (Simon Williams) is a Marvel Comics superhero introduced in The Avengers #9 (October 1964) with ionic-energy powers, creator of the Vision's brain patterns; also a 2026 Disney+ series starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

Wonder Man (miniseries)

Wonder Man is a 2026 Disney+ Marvel Television miniseries created by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as actor Simon Williams and Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slattery; the second Marvel Spotlight series, renewed then canceled in 2026.

Wonder Park

Wonder Park is a 2019 computer-animated adventure comedy film. It follows a math whiz girl who finds her imaginary amusement park physically alive in the woods.

Wonder Pets: In the City

Wonder Pets: In the City is a 2024 Apple TV+ animated preschool series, a reboot of Nickelodeon's Wonder Pets!, following Izzy the Guinea Pig, Tate the Snake, and Zuri the Bunny on mini-opera rescue adventures from their New York City kindergarten.