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Werckmeister Harmonies

Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) is Béla Tarr's 2000 black-and-white Hungarian film, adapted from Krasznahorkai's The Melancholy of Resistance, about a circus whale and the unseen Prince inciting a small town; 145 minutes, 39 shots. Not the Wrekmeister Harmonies music project.

Werewolves (film)

Werewolves is a 2024 American action horror film directed by Steven C. Miller. It stars Frank Grillo as a marine fighting werewolves triggered by a supermoon.

Werewolves Within (film)

Werewolves Within (2021) is a horror-comedy whodunit directed by Josh Ruben, written by Mishna Wolff, and loosely based on Ubisoft's 2016 VR social-deduction game. Sam Richardson and Milana Vayntrub star in the snowbound town of Beaverfield; IFC Films released it June 25, 2021.

Werner Herzog filmography

Werner Herzog filmography: over 70 films directed by the German New German Cinema director, from Herakles (1962) and Signs of Life through Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and Bucking Fastard, plus acting roles and operas.

Werwulf

Werwulf is Robert Eggers' 2026 period horror film, co-written with Sjón, set in 13th-century England and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, and Willem Dafoe; dialogue is in Middle English, released December 25, 2026 by Focus Features.

Wes Ball

Wes Ball (born 1980) is an American director of the Maze Runner trilogy, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), and Nintendo and Sony's live-action The Legend of Zelda film due April 30, 2027.

Wes Craven

Wes Craven (1939–2015) was an American horror film director of The Last House on the Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, and Music of the Heart, who reinvented the horror genre three times.

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) is the seventh Elm Street film, a meta-horror entry in which Craven, Langenkamp, and Englund play themselves as Freddy Krueger enters the real world.

West Beirut (بيروت الغربية)

West Beirut (بيروت الغربية; West Beyrouth, À l'abri les enfants) is Ziad Doueiri's 1998 semi-autobiographical debut film about three teenagers in divided Beirut at the start of the 1975 Lebanese Civil War; it won at Cannes and Toronto and was Lebanon's 1999 Oscar entry.

West of the Tracks

West of the Tracks (铁西区, Tiexi qu) is Wang Bing's nine-hour, three-part DV documentary (1999–2001 filming, released 2002–2003) on the collapse of Shenyang's Tiexi state-owned industrial district and its laid-off workers.

West Side Story (1961 film)

West Side Story (1961 film), directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins from the 1957 Broadway musical, adapts Romeo and Juliet to warring New York gangs; it won 10 Oscars including Best Picture and made Rita Moreno the first Latina Oscar winner.

West Side Story (2021 film)

West Side Story is a 2021 American musical film directed by Steven Spielberg, adapted from the 1957 Broadway musical, starring Rachel Zegler and Ansel Elgort.

Westhampton (film)

Westhampton is a 2025 American drama, Christian Nilsson's debut feature, starring Finn Wittrock as filmmaker Tom Bell, who returns to his Long Island hometown after a high-school car accident; premiered at Tribeca 2025, released July 10, 2026.

Westworld (film)

Westworld (1973) is Michael Crichton's MGM science fiction Western about a robot theme park, starring Yul Brynner as the Gunslinger; the first feature film to use computer-processed imagery.

Wet Dreams (몽정기)

Wet Dreams (몽정기, Mongjunggi) is a 2002 South Korean teen sex comedy directed by Jung Cho-shin, starring Lee Beom-su and Kim Seon-ah, set in 1988, with 2.5 million admissions and a 2005 sequel.

Wet Hot American Summer

Wet Hot American Summer (2001) is a David Wain and Michael Showalter cult comedy set on the last day of Camp Firewood in 1981, starring Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, and Bradley Cooper, a box office failure that later spawned two Netflix prequel series.

Wetlands (2013 film)

Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete), 2013 German comedy-drama by David Wnendt, adapted from Charlotte Roche's 2008 scandal-novel; Carla Juri plays unhygienic teen Helen Memel hospitalized after a shaving accident, trying to reunite her divorced parents.

Whale Rider

Whale Rider (2002), Niki Caro's drama based on Witi Ihimaera's novel, stars Keisha Castle-Hughes as Pai, a Māori girl proving her leadership to her grandfather Koro in Whangara; Oscar-nominated, Toronto People's Choice winner.

Whale Shark Jack

Whale Shark Jack (2026) is an Australian live-action family adventure film, a Stan Original directed by Miranda and Khrob Edmonds, starring Abbie Cornish and Alyla Browne, about a girl rescuing her whale shark friend Jack near Ningaloo Reef.

Whalefall (film)

Whalefall is a 2026 survival thriller film directed by Brian Duffield for 20th Century Studios, adapting Daniel Kraus's 2023 novel. Austin Abrams plays a diver swallowed by a sperm whale with one hour of oxygen; Josh Brolin co-stars.

Wham! 10 Days in China

Wham! 10 Days in China is a 2026 Mike Christie documentary about Wham!'s landmark April 1985 tour, the first Western pop act to perform in communist China, built from Lindsay Anderson's restored unseen rushes.

What a Girl Wants (film)

What a Girl Wants is a 2003 Warner Bros. coming-of-age comedy directed by Dennie Gordon, starring Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth, loosely based on the play The Reluctant Debutante; it grossed $36.0M in the US.

What About Bob?

What About Bob? is a 1991 Touchstone comedy directed by Frank Oz, starring Bill Murray as phobic patient Bob Wiley and Richard Dreyfuss as psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin; released May 17, 1991, grossing $63.5 million domestically.

What Did the Lady Forget? (淑女は何を忘れたか)

What Did the Lady Forget? (淑女は何を忘れたか, Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1937 Shochiku comedy, his second talkie, about a henpecked Tokyo professor, his wife, and a modern niece from Osaka.

What Dreams May Come (film)

What Dreams May Come is a 1998 Vincent Ward fantasy drama starring Robin Williams, adapted from Richard Matheson's 1978 novel, about a man rescuing his wife from hell; it won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects but scored 44 on Metacritic.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 psychological horror film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as feuding sisters, adapted from Henry Farrell's 1960 novel and origin of the psycho-biddy subgenre.

What Happened to Monday

What Happened to Monday (2017), also released as Seven Sisters, is a Netflix dystopian sci-fi thriller directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring Noomi Rapace as septuplet sisters sharing one identity under a one-child policy, with Willem Dafoe and Glenn Close.

What Happened to Mr. Cha? (차인표)

What Happened to Mr. Cha? (차인표) is a 2021 South Korean Netflix comedy directed by Kim Dong-kyu, in which actor Cha In-pyo plays a fictionalized version of himself, a faded 1990s superstar trapped in a collapsed building.

What Happens in Vegas

What Happens in Vegas is a 2008 American romantic comedy directed by Tom Vaughan, starring Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher as strangers who wake up married in Las Vegas.

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1984 Spanish comedy-drama, his fourth film, starring Carmen Maura as Gloria, an amphetamine-addicted housewife in a Madrid outskirts flat, an Italian-neorealist homage from the Movida era.