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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 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 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 Wheel (film)

Wonder Wheel is a 2017 American period drama written and directed by Woody Allen, set in 1950s Coney Island and starring Kate Winslet, Jim Belushi, and Justin Timberlake.

Wonder Woman (2009 film)

Wonder Woman (2009) is a direct-to-video DC Universe animated film, also called Wonder Woman: the animated movie, released March 3, 2009. Directed by Lauren Montgomery, produced by Bruce Timm, written by Michael Jelenic, starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, and Alfred Molina as Ares.

Wonder Woman (2017 film)

Wonder Woman is a 2017 American superhero film directed by Patty Jenkins, starring Gal Gadot as Diana, an Amazon who discovers her powers during World War I.

Wonder Woman 1984

Wonder Woman 1984 (WW84) is Patty Jenkins' 2020 DC sequel starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, and Pedro Pascal, set in 1984 around the wish-granting Dreamstone, released day-and-date on HBO Max.

Wonder Woman: Bloodlines

Wonder Woman: Bloodlines is a 2019 Warner Bros. Animation direct-to-video film, the first solo Wonder Woman animated feature since 2009, part of the DC Animated Movie Universe, directed by Justin Copeland and Sam Liu with Rosario Dawson voicing Diana.

Wonderful Life (1964 film)

Wonderful Life (US title Swingers' Paradise) is a 1964 British musical directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Cliff Richard and The Shadows adrift in the Canary Islands making a film-within-a-film; budget rose from £350,000 to £750,000 and it was the fifth highest-grossing British film of 1964.

Wonderful Town

Wonderful Town is a 1953 Broadway musical comedy with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Comden and Green, and book by Fields and Chodorov, based on My Sister Eileen and Ruth McKenney stories, about two Ohio sisters in Greenwich Village; it won five Tonys including Best Musical.

Wonderland (1999 film)

Wonderland (1999) is a British drama by Michael Winterbottom, written by Laurence Coriat, starring Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, and Molly Parker as three sisters in London over Bonfire Night; it competed at Cannes 1999 and won Best British Film at the British Independent Film Awards.

Wonderland (2003 film)

Wonderland is a 2003 American crime drama directed by James Cox, starring Val Kilmer as pornographic film actor John Holmes and dramatizing the 1981 Wonderland Avenue murders in Los Angeles.

Wonderstruck (film)

Wonderstruck (2017) is Todd Haynes's drama adapted by Brian Selznick from his 2011 novel, intercutting a deaf boy's 1977 and a deaf girl's 1927 quests in New York; Cannes competitor, 68% Tomatometer, $1.0M US gross.

Wonderwell

Wonderwell (2023) is a fantasy drama directed by Vlad Marsavin, starring Carrie Fisher in her final role as the witch Hazel, with Rita Ora and Kiera Milward; filmed in Italy in 2016, released June 23, 2023 by Vertical Entertainment.

Wonka (film)

Wonka (2023) is a Paul King musical fantasy origin story of Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka, starring Timothée Chalamet with Hugh Grant and Olivia Colman; it grossed $218.4 million domestically for Warner Bros.

Woochi

Woochi (전우치, Jeon Woochi: The Taoist Wizard) is Choi Dong-hoon's 2009 Korean fantasy action film starring Gang Dong-won, in which a framed Joseon wizard sealed in a scroll fights goblins in 2009 Seoul; it drew 6.13 million admissions.

Woodlawn (film)

Woodlawn (2015) is a faith-based sports drama by the Erwin brothers, starring Sean Astin, Caleb Castille, and Jon Voight, about the 1973 spiritual revival of Birmingham's desegregated Woodlawn High School football team and star Tony Nathan.

Woodstock (film)

Woodstock (1970) is Michael Wadleigh's Oscar-winning Warner Bros. documentary of the 1969 Bethel, New York festival, edited by Thelma Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese, shot with 16 cameras, later expanded in a 1994 director's cut.

Woody Harrelson filmography

Woody Harrelson filmography: screen roles of the American actor (born 1961), from Woody Boyd on Cheers (1985-1993) to White Men Can't Jump, The People vs. Larry Flynt, True Detective, The Hunger Games, and Brothers (2026).

Woody Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker, also El Pajaro Loco, is Walter Lantz's anthropomorphic woodpecker cartoon character, debuting 1940 in the Andy Panda short Knock Knock, voiced by Mel Blanc then Gracie Lantz, over 250 Universal cartoons.

Woody Woodpecker (2017 film)

Woody Woodpecker is a 2017 live-action/computer-animated family comedy directed by Alex Zamm, released in Brazil as Pica-Pau: O Filme, in which Woody defends his forest from a lawyer's mansion.

Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp

Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp (2024) is a Netflix live-action/animated family comedy sequel to the 2017 Woody Woodpecker film, directed by Jon Rosenbaum, with Eric Bauza voicing Woody at Camp Woo Hoo.

Word Is Out

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives, a 1977 documentary by the Mariposa Film Group (Peter and Nancy Adair, Rob Epstein and others), the first feature documentary about gay people by gay people, with 26 interviewees aged 18 to 77, restored by UCLA in 2008.

Words on Bathroom Walls

Words on Bathroom Walls: 2020 American romantic drama directed by Thor Freudenthal, from Julia Walton's 2017 YA novel; Charlie Plummer plays Adam, a teen with schizophrenia, opposite Taylor Russell's Maya.

Work It (film)

Work It (2020) is an American teen dance comedy directed by Laura Terruso, written by Alison Peck, starring Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy, Keiynan Lonsdale, and Jordan Fisher; produced by Alicia Keys, it debuted number one on Netflix August 7, 2020.

Working Girl

Working Girl is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama directed by Mike Nichols, starring Melanie Griffith as a Staten Island secretary who impersonates her boss, with Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver.

Working Girls

Working Girls is Lizzie Borden's 1986 American independent drama about a day in the life of sex workers, led by Louise Smith as photographer Molly, in a Manhattan brothel. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, won a Sundance Special Jury Recognition, restored by Criterion in 2021.

Works based on the Amityville haunting

Works based on the Amityville haunting: books, films, and TV derived from the 1974 DeFeo murders and the Lutz family's claimed haunting at 112 Ocean Avenue, starting with Jay Anson's 1977 book and the 1979 film, plus dozens of sequels, remakes, and name-only titles.

World Breaker

World Breaker (Worldbreaker; Разрушитель миров) is a 2026 sci-fi action horror film by Brad Anderson starring Luke Evans, Billie Boullet, and Milla Jovovich; a father trains his daughter on an island against Breaker monsters after a dimensional tear.

World cinema

World cinema: film regarded globally rather than through the Hollywood lens, an academic field alongside national cinema, encompassing Third Cinema, transnational production, and 9,628 feature films made worldwide in 2024.