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Wolf Creek (film)

Wolf Creek (2005) is Greg McLean's Australian outback horror debut starring John Jarratt as killer Mick Taylor, inspired by the Ivan Milat and Bradley Murdoch cases, banned briefly in the Northern Territory, and now a franchise with a sequel, TV series, and third film Wolf Creek: Legacy.

Wolf Creek 2

Wolf Creek 2 is a 2013 Australian horror film directed by Greg McLean, starring John Jarratt as serial killer Mick Taylor and Ryan Corr, classified MA15+ after an R18+ rating, released in US theaters May 16, 2014.

Wolf Man (2025 film)

Wolf Man is a 2025 American horror film directed by Leigh Whannell, in which a family man slowly transforms into a werewolf at his rural Oregon childhood home.

Wolf Totem (狼图腾)

Wolf Totem (狼图腾, Lang tuteng) is Jiang Rong's 2004 semi-autobiographical novel about a Beijing student among Inner Mongolian herders during the Cultural Revolution; China's no. 2 bestseller, adapted into Jean-Jacques Annaud's 2015 film.

Wolf Warrior

Wolf Warrior (战狼) is a 2015 Chinese military action film directed by and starring Wu Jing, with Yu Nan and Scott Adkins. Made for about 10 million RMB, it earned 545 million RMB and launched the record-setting Wolf Warrior series.

Wolf Warrior 2 (战狼2)

Wolf Warrior 2 (战狼2) is Wu Jing's 2017 Chinese military action sequel set in Africa, starring Leng Feng; it grossed 5.689 billion yuan in mainland China, becoming China's then highest-grossing film and a nationalist blockbuster landmark.

Wolfen

Wolfen is a 1981 American horror film directed by Michael Wadleigh, based on Whitley Strieber's novel The Wolfen, in which a New York detective uncovers intelligent wolf-like predators.

Wolfram (film)

Wolfram is a 2025 Australian western by Warwick Thornton, a sequel to Sweet Country, set in 1932 at a tungsten mine where Aboriginal child labourers escape their masters; it premiered at Adelaide and competed at Berlinale 2026.

Wolfwalkers

Wolfwalkers is a 2020 hand-drawn animated fantasy by Cartoon Saloon, directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, set in 1650 Kilkenny; the third Irish Folklore Trilogy film, Oscar-nominated and streaming on Apple TV+.

Wolves (2014 film)

Wolves (2014) is an action-horror werewolf film, David Hayter's directorial debut, starring Lucas Till as Cayden Richards alongside Jason Momoa and Stephen McHattie; released November 14, 2014 by Ketchup Entertainment, it earned $491,154 worldwide and 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Woman and Child (زن و بچه)

Woman and Child (زن و بچه, Zan o bacheh) is a 2025 Iranian-French drama by Saeed Roustaee, starring Parinaz Izadyar and Payman Maadi, that premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2025; it completes his trilogy on Iranian women after Life and a Day and Leila's Brothers.

Woman in Gold (film)

Woman in Gold (2015), Simon Curtis drama starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds, dramatizes Maria Altmann and Randol Schoenberg's real legal battle to recover Klimt's Nazi-looted Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I from Austria.

Woman in the Dunes (砂の女)

Woman in the Dunes (砂の女, Suna no onna) is a 1964 Japanese black-and-white film by Hiroshi Teshigahara, scripted by Kobo Abe from his 1962 novel, starring Eiji Okada and Kyoko Kishida; it won the Cannes Special Jury Prize and earned Academy Award nominations.

Woman in the Lake

Woman in the Lake (女のみづうみ, Onna no mizumi, also Woman of the Lake) is Yoshishige Yoshida's 1966 Japanese psychological drama starring Mariko Okada, freely adapted from Kawabata's novel The Lake and the first Gendai Eigasha production.

Woman in the Moon

Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) is Fritz Lang's 1929 German silent science fiction film about the first lunar expedition, written by Thea von Harbou, advised by Hermann Oberth and Willy Ley, and the origin of the rocket-launch countdown.

Woman Is the Future of Man (여자는 남자의 미래다)

Woman Is the Future of Man (여자는 남자의 미래다) is Hong Sang-soo's 2004 South Korean drama, his fifth feature, in competition at Cannes 2004; two men revisit a former lover, Seon-hwa, in Bucheon after seven years.

Woman of the Hour

Woman of the Hour is a 2024 Netflix crime thriller and Anna Kendrick's directorial debut, based on serial killer Rodney Alcala's real 1978 Dating Game appearance alongside Cheryl Bradshaw, whom Kendrick plays; Daniel Zovatto co-stars.

Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year (1942) is an MGM romantic comedy directed by George Stevens, the first of nine Spencer Tracy–Katharine Hepburn films, written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin, Oscar-winning screenplay, based loosely on columnist Dorothy Thompson.

Woman of Tokyo (東京の女)

Woman of Tokyo (東京の女, Tokyo no Onna) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1933 silent Shochiku melodrama in which typist Chikako secretly works as a dance-hall hostess to pay her brother Ryoichi's tuition, with tragic results.

Woman Sesame Oil Maker (香魂女)

Woman Sesame Oil Maker (香魂女, Xiang hun nü) is Xie Fei's 1993 Chinese drama, adapted from Zhou Daxin's novella, starring Siqin Gaowa; it shared the 1993 Berlin Golden Bear with The Wedding Banquet.

Woman Unknown (film)

Woman Unknown (Kvinde ukendt) is a 2026 Danish-Swedish-Latvian drama by May el-Toukhy about a post-WWII Danish housemaid hiding an affair with a German soldier; it won the 2026 Venice Golden Lion and the Volpi Cup for Mathilde Arcel.

Woman Walks Ahead

Woman Walks Ahead is a 2017 Western drama directed by Susanna White, starring Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes, and Sam Rockwell, about Caroline Weldon painting Sitting Bull; released by A24 in 2018.

Womb (2025 film)

Womb (2025 film) most commonly denotes the American horror thriller directed by Bridget Smith, written by Mike Walsh, starring Taylor Hanks and Myles Clohessy, released digitally February 11, 2025; the title was also used by 2025 shorts from New Zealand, South Korea, and Czechia.

Womb (film)

Womb (2010), also released as Clone, is a German-Hungarian-French sci-fi drama by Benedek Fliegauf starring Eva Green and Matt Smith, about a woman who bears and raises a clone of her dead lover.

Women (女人心)

Women (女人心, Nüren xin) is Stanley Kwan's 1985 Hong Kong directorial debut, a Shaw Brothers drama starring Chow Yun-fat, Cora Miao, and Cherie Chung about a divorcée and her single friends; it earned nine Hong Kong Film Award nominations.

Women in Love (film)

Women in Love (1969) is Ken Russell's British film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel, written and produced by Larry Kramer, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Jennie Linden, and Oscar-winning Glenda Jackson, famous for its nude wrestling scene.

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 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 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.

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.