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Valkyrie Drive
Valkyrie Drive (ヴァルキリードライヴ) is a Marvelous media franchise announced at AnimeJapan in 2015: the Mermaid anime by Arms, the Bhikkhuni PS Vita game, and the Siren social game, about A-Virus-infected girls who become weapons when aroused.
Vallan (film)
Vallan is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film written and directed by VR Mani Seiyon, starring Sundar C as a suspended police officer investigating a businessman's murder.
Vallavan
Vallavan (வல்லவன்) is a 2006 Tamil romance thriller, Silambarasan's directorial debut, starring him with Nayanthara, Reema Sen, and Sandhya, with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja; released around Diwali 2006 and re-released remastered in 2023.
Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham (வல்லவனுக்கு புல்லும் ஆயுதம்)
Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham (வல்லவனுக்கு புல்லும் ஆயுதம்), 2014 Tamil action comedy directed by Srinath, starring Santhanam and Ashna Zaveri; remake of Rajamouli's Maryada Ramanna, released 10 May 2014 by Studio Green.
Valle salvaje
Valle salvaje (Spanish daily period soap, also spelled Valle Salvaje) premiered 18 September 2024 on La 1; set in 1763, created by Josep Cister, produced by Bambú with Netflix, its first daily telenovela.
Valley Girl (1983 film)
Valley Girl (1983), Martha Coolidge's Romeo-and-Juliet teen romance starring Deborah Foreman and a young Nicolas Cage, cost $350,000, grossed $17 million, and defined 1980s Valley youth culture and its new wave soundtrack.
Valley Girl (2020 film)
Valley Girl (2020) is a jukebox musical romance remake of the 1983 film, directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, starring Jessica Rothe and Josh Whitehouse, released streaming May 5, 2020 after its 2018 theatrical date was pulled over Logan Paul controversies.
Valley of the Dolls (film)
Valley of the Dolls (1967 film), Mark Robson's 20th Century-Fox adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's novel, starring Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon Tate; a critical flop that grossed $20 million and became a cult classic.
Valmont (film)
Valmont is Miloš Forman's 1989 film adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses, starring Colin Firth and Annette Bening; a $35 million Orion Pictures production that flopped against Frears's Dangerous Liaisons but won Césars and an Oscar nomination.
Valya Harkonnen
Valya Harkonnen is the protagonist of HBO's Dune: Prophecy, played by Emily Watson and Jessica Barden. Second Mother Superior of the Sisterhood, she masters the Voice and drives the Atreides-Harkonnen feud 10,000 years before Dune.
Vámonos con Pancho Villa!
¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (Let's Go with Pancho Villa!) is Fernando de Fuentes's 1935 Mexican film, third of his Revolution Trilogy, about peasants who join Villa's División del Norte and are destroyed, with a censored ending restored in 1973.
Vampire (2011 film)
Vampire (ヴァンパイア) is a 2011 drama-horror film by Japanese director Shunji Iwai, his first in English, starring Kevin Zegers as a biology teacher who drains the blood of suicidal women met online; premiered at Sundance 2011, released in Japan 2012 and the US 2013.
Vampire Academy (film)
Vampire Academy is a 2014 American fantasy comedy film directed by Mark Waters, based on Richelle Mead's novel, starring Zoey Deutch as guardian-in-training Rose Hathaway.
Vampire Academy (TV series)
Vampire Academy (2022 Peacock series), Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre's adaptation of Richelle Mead's YA novels; reboot of the 2014 film, 10 episodes, canceled January 2023 after one season.
Vampire film
Vampire film: the cinema genre centered on blood-drinking undead figures, from early works like Loie Fuller (1905) and Nosferatu (1922) through Universal's Dracula (1931), Hammer's color revival, and recent hits such as Sinners (2025).
Vampire Hunter D (吸血鬼ハンターD) (1985 film)
Vampire Hunter D (吸血鬼ハンターD) is a 1985 Japanese OVA horror anime film directed by Toyoo Ashida, adapted from Hideyuki Kikuchi's first novel, released theatrically by Toho on December 21, 1985, with character designs by Yoshitaka Amano and music by TM NETWORK.
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (吸血鬼ハンターD ブラッドラスト)
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (吸血鬼ハンターD ブラッドラスト) is a 2000 Madhouse anime film by Yoshiaki Kawajiri adapting Kikuchi's Demon Deathchase, recorded first in English, with a GKIDS 2027 HD re-release planned.
Vampire in Brooklyn
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) is a Wes Craven horror-comedy starring Eddie Murphy as Caribbean vampire Maximillian seeking half-vampire detective Rita Veder (Angela Bassett). A Paramount flop: Metascore 27, 14% Tomatometer, $20 million gross on a $16 million budget, later a cult item.
Vampire in the Garden (ヴァンパイア・イン・ザ・ガーデン)
Vampire in the Garden (ヴァンパイア・イン・ザ・ガーデン) is a 2022 WIT Studio Netflix original anime, five episodes, directed by Ryotaro Makihara, about human girl Momo and vampire queen Fine seeking a lost paradise.
Vampire Knight (ヴァンパイア騎士)
Vampire Knight (ヴァンパイア騎士) is Matsuri Hino's shojo vampire-romance manga about Cross Academy's Guardians, serialized in LaLa 2005-2013, adapted into a 2008 Studio DEEN anime, with sequel Memories concluding in 2025.
Vampire Zombies... from Space!
Vampire Zombies... from Space! (2024) is a Canadian black-and-white horror-comedy directed by Michael Stasko, written with Jakob Skrzypa and Alex Forman, spoofing 1950s B-movies as Dracula turns the town of Marlow into vampire zombies.
Vampire's Kiss
Vampire's Kiss (1988) is a Robert Bierman black comedy-horror starring Nicolas Cage as literary agent Peter Loew, who believes he is becoming a vampire. Written by Joseph Minion, it flopped ($725,131 gross) yet became a cult classic and meme source.
Vampires (1998 film)
Vampires (John Carpenter's Vampires), 1998 action horror film directed by John Carpenter, starring James Woods as vampire slayer Jack Crow hunting master vampire Jan Valek; based on John Steakley's novel Vampire$, released October 30, 1998 by Columbia Pictures, Metascore 42.
Vampires of the Velvet Lounge
Vampires of the Velvet Lounge is a 2026 American horror-comedy written and directed by Adam Sherman, starring Mena Suvari as Countess Elizabeth Báthory, whose coven hunts dating-app matches from a Savannah absinthe bar; released March 20, 2026 by Strand Releasing.
Vampires Suck
Vampires Suck is a 2010 American comedy film that spoofs the Twilight series, following teenager Becca, torn between a vampire and a werewolf, directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.
Vampirina
Vampirina, also Vee, is a Disney Junior animated series (2017, three seasons) based on Anne Marie Pace's Vampirina Ballerina books, about a vampire girl moving from Transylvania to Pennsylvania; a live-action sequel series, Vampirina: Teenage Vampire, debuted in 2025.
Vampirina: Teenage Vampire
Vampirina: Teenage Vampire is an American live-action, music-driven Disney Channel comedy about Vampirina "Vee" Hauntley, a teenage vampire who leaves Transylvania for a performing arts boarding school in 2025.
Vamps (film)
Vamps (吸血女郎) is a 2012 American vampire comedy-horror-romance written and directed by Amy Heckerling, starring Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter as New York vampires; released November 2, 2012, grossing $92,748 with mixed reviews.
Vampyr
Vampyr (Vampyr – Der Traum des Allan Grey) is Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 German-French horror film, loosely based on Le Fanu's "Carmilla", funded by and starring Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg as Julian West, a commercial failure on release now ranked among cinema's greatest horror films.
Vamsha Vriksha (ವಂಶವೃಕ್ಷ)
Vamsha Vriksha (ವಂಶವೃಕ್ಷ), also Vamshavruksha, is a 1971 Kannada black-and-white drama co-directed by Girish Karnad and B.V. Karanth, produced by G.V. Iyer, adapted from S.L. Bhyrappa's 1965 novel, and a National Award-winning Kannada New Wave film.