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The Whispering Chorus
The Whispering Chorus is Cecil B. DeMille's 1918 silent drama, also known by no other title, in which embezzler John Tremble fakes his death and is executed for his own murder; conscience appears as superimposed whispering faces.
The Whistle Blower
The Whistle Blower is a 1987 British political thriller directed by Simon Langton, starring Michael Caine as a father who investigates his son's death at the intelligence agency GCHQ.
The Whistleblower
The Whistleblower (2010) is Larysa Kondracki's debut thriller starring Rachel Weisz as Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop and UN peacekeeper in Bosnia who exposed DynCorp-linked sex trafficking and won a British tribunal case.
The White Balloon (بادکنک سفید)
The White Balloon (بادکنک سفید, Badkonake Sefid) is Jafar Panahi's 1995 debut feature, scripted by Abbas Kiarostami, about a Tehran girl who loses a 500-toman note buying a Nowruz goldfish; it won the 1995 Cannes Caméra d'Or.
The White Crow
The White Crow is a 2018 biographical drama film directed by Ralph Fiennes, following Rudolf Nureyev's early life and ending with his defection to the West in 1961.
The White Hell of Pitz Palü
The White Hell of Pitz Palü (Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü) is a 1929 German silent Bergfilm directed by Arnold Fanck and G.W. Pabst, starring Gustav Diessl and Leni Riefenstahl, shot in the Bernina Alps, a major Weimar box-office success restored in 1996/97.
The White Ribbon
The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band) is Michael Haneke's 2009 black-and-white drama set in a northern German village in 1913-14; it won the Cannes Palme d'Or and the 2010 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
The White Storm (扫毒)
The White Storm (扫毒) is a 2013 Hong Kong action crime film directed by Benny Chan, starring Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo, and Nick Cheung as Narcotics Bureau partners.
The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (扫毒2之天地对决)
The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (扫毒2之天地对决) is a 2019 Herman Yau Hong Kong action thriller starring Andy Lau and Louis Koo; a sequel in name only to the 2013 film, it earned about $188.6 million and won a Hong Kong Film Award for visual effects.
The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell
The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell (扫毒3) is a 2023 Hong Kong action crime film directed by Herman Yau, starring Louis Koo, Lau Ching-wan, and Aaron Kwok.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
2009 documentary by Julien Nitzberg, produced by Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine (Dickhouse/MTV), following Jesco White's notorious Boone County, West Virginia family over a year; distributed by Tribeca Film.
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch (1969) is Sam Peckinpah's revisionist Western, also called Grupo Salvaje, about aging outlaws led by William Holden's Pike Bishop fleeing into Mexico in 1913, famous for slow-motion multi-camera violence and repeated censorship cuts.
The Wild Geese
The Wild Geese is a 1978 British action film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, and Richard Harris as mercenaries hired to rescue a deposed African president, based on Daniel Carney's novel and advisor Mad Mike Hoare, re-released in 4K in 2025.
The Wild Goose Lake
The Wild Goose Lake (南方车站的聚会) is Diao Yinan's 2019 Chinese-French neo-noir crime film set in Wuhan, starring Hu Ge as a fugitive gang boss. Premiered in Cannes 2019 main competition; released in China December 6, 2019.
The Wild One
The Wild One (1953) is László Benedek's outlaw biker drama starring Marlon Brando as Johnny Strabler, based on Frank Rooney's Harper's story about the 1947 Hollister, California motorcycle incident, banned for years in the UK.
The Wild Robot
The Wild Robot is a 2024 DreamWorks Animation film directed by Chris Sanders, adapted from Peter Brown's novel about a shipwrecked robot who adopts an orphaned gosling.
The Wild Stallion (2020) is a drama that centers on the bond between a young man and an untamed horse, exploring themes of freedom and identity through rural imagery. The film offers a contemplative look at human-animal connection, grounded in specific cultural landscapes rather than universalized Hollywood tropes.
The Wild Stallion is a 2009 American family adventure film directed by Craig Clyde, in which two girls try to protect a wild black stallion in Utah.
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
The Wild Thornberrys Movie is a 2002 American animated adventure film from Paramount, following 12-year-old Eliza Thornberry, who can talk with animals, as she rescues a cheetah cub from poachers in Africa.
The Wilderness (2025 film)
The Wilderness (2025) is a Spencer King drama-thriller, produced by Aaron Paul and Amy Berg, about teens forced into a brutal Utah wilderness therapy program; released October 17, 2025 by Dark Star Pictures.