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The Verdict - State vs Nanavati

The Verdict - State vs Nanavati is a 2019 ALTBalaji-ZEE5 ten-episode courtroom drama by Ekta Kapoor, directed by Shashant Shah, dramatizing the 1959 K.M. Nanavati murder trial that ended jury trials in India.

The Verdict (2025 film)

The Verdict is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language courtroom drama film directed by Krishna Sankar in his debut, starring Suhasini Maniratnam, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, and Sruthi Hariharan, released on 30 May 2025.

The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee

The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee is a 2020 Australian comedy directed by Dean Murphy, starring Paul Hogan as himself seeking a knighthood while scandals wreck his reputation; co-stars Chevy Chase, John Cleese, Olivia Newton-John; released on Prime Video after skipping cinemas; poorly reviewed (18% RT, Metascore 24).

The Vicar of Dibley

The Vicar of Dibley is a BBC One sitcom by Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, starring Dawn French as Rev Geraldine Granger, a female vicar in the fictional Oxfordshire village of Dibley after the Church of England allowed women's ordination; it aired 1994 to 2007 with specials to 2020 and ranked third in the 2004 Britain's Best Sitcom poll.

The Victim (目露凶光)

The Victim (目露凶光, Muk lou hung gwong) is a 1999 Hong Kong supernatural crime thriller directed by Ringo Lam, starring Lau Ching-wan, Tony Leung Ka-fai, and Amy Kwok, released 16 October 1999 by Mei Ah with two alternate endings.

The Victims' Game (谁是被害者)

The Victims' Game (誰是被害者) is a Taiwanese Netflix Mandarin crime thriller adapted from Endless Universe's novel The Fourth Victim, starring Joseph Chang as a forensic investigator with Asperger's syndrome; two seasons, 2020 and 2024, first Chinese-language Netflix renewal.

The Victims' Game: Season 2 (谁是被害者2)

The Victims' Game: Season 2 (誰是被害者2), Taiwanese Netflix crime thriller, second season, released June 21, 2024, 8 episodes; Joseph Chang's forensic investigator Fang Yi-jen becomes a prime suspect in murders tied to a 15-year-old case.

The Vietnam War (TV series)

The Vietnam War (2017) is a ten-part, 18-hour PBS documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, made over ten years by Florentine Films and WETA, telling the war from American and Vietnamese perspectives with 79 on-screen witnesses.

The View

The View is ABC's daytime talk show created by Barbara Walters, premiering August 11, 1997, with a multigenerational women's panel discussing Hot Topics; current hosts Goldberg, Behar, Hostin, Haines, Griffin, and Navarro lead its 30th season.

The Vikings

The Vikings (1958) is a Richard Fleischer adventure film produced by and starring Kirk Douglas, with Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Ernest Borgnine, adapted from Edison Marshall's novel The Viking, shot in Norway and Brittany, and ranked by Variety as 1958's fifth top-grossing film.

The Village (2004 film)

The Village is a 2004 American thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Bryce Dallas Howard as villagers who fear creatures in the woods.

The Village (2013 TV series)

The Village (2013–2014) is a BBC One drama series written by Peter Moffat, also compared to Heimat, following the Derbyshire Middleton family in Hayfield through the twentieth century across two six-episode series.

The Village (2019 TV series)

The Village (2019) is a one-season NBC drama created by Mike Daniels about residents of a Brooklyn apartment building forming a chosen family; canceled May 30, 2019 after averaging 4.12 million viewers and mixed-to-negative reviews.

The Village (2023 TV series)

The Village (தி வில்லேஜ்) is a 2023 Tamil Prime Video horror series, India's first graphic-novel adaptation for OTT, directed by Milind Rau, starring Arya as Gautham in the cursed village of Kattiyal.

The Village Barber (시골 이발사)

The Village Barber (보검 매직컬, Bogum Magical) is a 2026 tvN Korean reality-variety show in which licensed-barber actor Park Bo-gum, with Lee Sang-yi and Kwak Dong-yeon, runs a real barbershop in Muju County; season 2 was announced for late 2026.

The Village of No Return (健忘村)

The Village of No Return (健忘村) is a 2017 Taiwan-China fantasy comedy directed by Chen Yu-hsun, starring Shu Qi, Wang Qianyuan, and Joseph Chang. A Taoist priest's memory-erasing helmet remakes a remote village; NT$300 million budget, Golden Horse nominations, Bucheon NETPAC Award.

The Villain (1979 film)

The Villain (1979), also known as Cactus Jack, is a Hal Needham Western comedy starring Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret, and Arnold Schwarzenegger; a live-action Road Runner-style spoof that critics panned (0% Tomatometer, Metascore 22).

The Villain (2018 film)

The Villain (ದಿ ವಿಲನ್), 2018 Kannada action drama directed by Prem, produced by C.R. Manohar for Rs 55 crore, starring Shivarajkumar, Sudeep, and Amy Jackson in a Ramayana-inspired Ram-versus-Ravan story, released 18 October 2018.

The Villainess (악녀)

The Villainess (악녀) is a 2017 South Korean action thriller directed by Jung Byung-gil, starring Kim Ok-vin as an assassin recruited by the National Intelligence Service.

The Vince Staples Show

The Vince Staples Show is a Netflix satirical comedy co-created by and starring rapper Vince Staples as a fictionalized himself in Long Beach. Two seasons (2024, 2025), 11 episodes, EP Kenya Barris; canceled January 2026 after weak viewership despite a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score.

The Viral Factor

The Viral Factor (逆戰) is a 2012 Hong Kong action film by Dante Lam starring Jay Chou and Nicholas Tse as brothers fighting a smallpox-virus plot; released Lunar New Year 2012, HKFA Best Film nominee.

The Viral Fever

The Viral Fever (TVF) is an Indian digital entertainment studio founded by Arunabh Kumar, known for Permanent Roommates, Pitchers, Kota Factory, Aspirants, and Panchayat, and for pioneering branded web series in India.

The Virgin Queen (TV serial)

The Virgin Queen (TV serial): 2005-2006 BBC1 four-part drama, also called Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen, written by Paula Milne, directed by Coky Giedroyc, starring Anne-Marie Duff as Elizabeth I with Tom Hardy as Robert Dudley, aired on PBS Masterpiece Theatre.

The Virgin Spring

The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan) is Ingmar Bergman's 1960 Swedish black-and-white drama, scripted by Ulla Isaksson from the ballad Töres dotter i Wänge, starring Max von Sydow; it won the 1961 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and inspired The Last House on the Left.

The Virgin Suicides (film)

The Virgin Suicides (1999) is Sofia Coppola's feature debut, adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides's 1993 novel about the Lisbon sisters in 1970s Michigan, starring Kirsten Dunst, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, and Josh Hartnett, with an Air score and Ed Lachman cinematography.

The Virginian (1946 film)

The Virginian (1946) is a Paramount Technicolor Western directed by Stuart Gilmore, starring Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Sonny Tufts, and Barbara Britton, adapted from Owen Wister's 1902 novel; released April 5, 1946, it finished 24th at the 1946 box office.

The Virginian (TV series)

The Virginian (TV series), also known as The Men from Shiloh, is an American Western series that aired from 1962 to 1971, known for being the first 90-minute Western.

The Virginity Hit

The Virginity Hit is a 2010 found-footage teen sex comedy by Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland, produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, about four New Orleans teens filming a bong-hit virginity pact; it grossed $636,706.

The Virtues (TV series)

The Virtues is a 2019 four-part Channel 4 miniseries written and directed by Shane Meadows with Jack Thorne, starring Stephen Graham as Joseph, a recovering alcoholic confronting repressed memories of care-home abuse in Ireland.

The Vision of Escaflowne (天空のエスカフローネ)

The Vision of Escaflowne (Tenkuu no Escaflowne) is a 26-episode 1996 Sunrise fantasy-mecha TV anime directed by Kazuki Akane from Shoji Kawamori's story, with Yoko Kanno's orchestral score, following schoolgirl Hitomi Kanzaki transported to Gaea; a 2000 film and several manga adapt it.