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Where the Wild Things Are (film)
Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 live-action fantasy drama directed by Spike Jonze, adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 picture book, with a screenplay by Jonze and Dave Eggers.
Where to Invade Next
Where to Invade Next is Michael Moore's 2015 documentary comedy in which he "invades" Italy, France, Finland, Norway, Iceland and other countries to take their social policies back to America; premiered at TIFF 2015, grossed $3.8 million.
Where to Land
Where to Land is Hal Hartley's 2025 comedy-drama, his first feature since Ned Rifle, starring Bill Sage as a director who applies for cemetery work and drafts his will, prompting friends to assume he is dying.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (film)
Where'd You Go, Bernadette is a 2019 American comedy-drama film directed by Richard Linklater, adapted from Maria Semple's 2012 novel, starring Cate Blanchett as a withdrawn Seattle architect who disappears before a family trip to Antarctica.
Where's Officer Tuba? (霹雳大喇叭)
Where's Officer Tuba? (霹靂大喇叭) is a 1986 Hong Kong supernatural action comedy directed by Philip Chan and Ricky Lau, produced by and starring Sammo Hung as a timid tuba-playing cop haunted by his murdered partner's ghost; it was Jacky Cheung's film debut.
Where's Poppa?
Where's Poppa? (1970), also re-released as Going Ape, is a Carl Reiner dark comedy starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon, adapted by Robert Klane from his novel, about a lawyer trying to escape his senile mother.
Which Brings Me to You
Which Brings Me to You: 2024 American romantic comedy-drama, also a 2006 Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott novel. Film directed by Peter Hutchings, written by Keith Bunin, stars Lucy Hale and Nat Wolff as wedding guests trading confessions over 24 hours.
While We're Young (film)
While We're Young is Noah Baumbach's 2015 A24 comedy-drama starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, and Amanda Seyfried, about a middle-aged documentary filmmaker befriending a younger couple; 84% on Rotten Tomatoes, Ibsen epigraph, James Murphy score.
While You Were Sleeping (film)
While You Were Sleeping, 1995 American romantic comedy directed by Jon Turteltaub, starring Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher; Chicago-set coma mistaken-identity story, $182 million worldwide.
Whip It (film)
Whip It (2009) is Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, a Fox Searchlight comedy-drama starring Elliot Page as Bliss Cavendar, a Texas teen who leaves beauty pageants for roller derby, based on Shauna Cross's novel Derby Girl.
Whiplash (2014 film)
Whiplash (2014) is Damien Chazelle's drama starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons about an abusive jazz conservatory instructor; made from a Sundance-winning 18-minute short, it won 3 of 5 Oscars.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (film)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a 2016 Paramount comedy-drama directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, starring Tina Fey as Kim Baker, adapted from Kim Barker's memoir The Taliban Shuffle about reporting in Afghanistan.
Whisky (2004 film)
Whisky is a 2004 Uruguayan comedy-drama by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, starring Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, and Jorge Bolani. A sock-factory owner has his employee pose as his wife; it won Cannes' Prix du Regard Original and FIPRESCI.
Whisky Galore!
Whisky Galore! (1949), also released as Tight Little Island, is Alexander Mackendrick's Ealing Studios comedy debut based on Compton Mackenzie's 1947 novel about Hebridean islanders salvaging whisky from a shipwreck, inspired by the 1941 SS Politician wreck off Eriskay.
Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば)
Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば, Mimi o Sumaseba) is Studio Ghibli's 1995 animated film directed by Yoshifumi Kondo, scripted by Hayao Miyazaki from Aoi Hiiragi's manga, about reader Shizuku and Seiji Amasawa in Tama, Tokyo.
Whispering Smith
Whispering Smith is Frank H. Spearman's 1906 railroad-detective character, adapted into films from 1916 (J. P. McGowan, Helen Holmes) through the 1948 Alan Ladd Technicolor Paramount Western, plus a 1952 RKO film and 1961 Audie Murphy NBC series.
Whistle (2025 film)
Whistle (2025) is a Corin Hardy supernatural horror film, written by Owen Egerton, starring Dafne Keen and Sophie Nélisse; teens find an Aztec death whistle that accelerates their fated deaths. TIFF premiere, 2026 release, mixed reviews.
Whistle Down the Wind
Whistle Down the Wind: 1961 British film directed by Bryan Forbes, produced by Richard Attenborough, from Mary Hayley Bell's story, in which Lancashire children mistake fugitive Alan Bates for Jesus; also a 1996 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Whit Bissell
Whit Bissell (Whitner Nutting Bissell), American character actor (1909-1996) of film and television, known for 1950s sci-fi mad-scientist roles in I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Creature from the Black Lagoon, and as Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk in The Time Tunnel.
White Bird (film)
White Bird (White Bird: A Wonder Story) is a 2024 Marc Forster drama adapted from R.J. Palacio's graphic novel, a Wonder companion film starring Helen Mirren, Ariella Glaser, and Gillian Anderson about a Jewish girl hidden in Nazi-occupied France; released October 4, 2024, Metascore 54, RT 75%.
White Bird in a Blizzard
White Bird in a Blizzard is Gregg Araki's 2014 drama adapted from Laura Kasischke's 1999 novel, premiering at Sundance; Shailene Woodley's Kat copes with mother Eva Green's 1988 disappearance. Not the 2024 Holocaust film White Bird.
White Boy Rick
White Boy Rick is a 2018 American crime drama directed by Yann Demange, starring Matthew McConaughey and Richie Merritt, about Detroit teen informant Richard Wershe Jr., his life sentence, and 2017 parole.
White Chicks
White Chicks is a 2004 American comedy directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, starring Shawn and Marlon Wayans as Black FBI brothers who disguise themselves as white socialite sisters.
White Christmas (film)
White Christmas (1954) is a Paramount Technicolor musical directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen; the first VistaVision film and 1954's top-grossing release.
White Deer Plain (白鹿原)
White Deer Plain (白鹿原) is Wang Quan'an's 2012 film adapting Chen Zhongshi's Mao Dun Prize novel about the Bai and Lu families in Shaanxi; Berlin Silver Bear, multiple censored cuts, 2017 TV remake.
White Fang (1991 film)
White Fang (1991) is a Walt Disney adventure drama directed by Randal Kleiser, loosely adapting Jack London's novel, starring Ethan Hawke as Yukon prospector Jack Conroy and the dog Jed as the wolf-dog; it grossed $34.7 million domestically and spawned a 1994 sequel.
White Girl (2016 film)
White Girl (2016) is Elizabeth Wood's debut drama, starring Morgan Saylor and Brian Marc, premiered at Sundance 2016, acquired by Netflix, distributed by FilmRise, grossing $200,242 worldwide.
White God
White God (Fehér Isten, 2014) is Kornél Mundruczó's Hungarian-German-Swedish drama in which a tax on mixed-breed dogs triggers a canine revolt in Budapest; it won Cannes' Un Certain Regard Prize and the Palm Dog.
White House Down
White House Down is a 2013 American action thriller directed by Roland Emmerich, in which Channing Tatum's Capitol policeman must rescue President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx) from an armed takeover.
White Lightning (1973 film)
White Lightning (1973), also known by working titles McKluskey and McKlusky, is a Joseph Sargent action film starring Burt Reynolds as moonshine runner Gator McKlusky, shot in Arkansas, with Ned Beatty and Laura Dern's film debut.