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Voices of a Distant Star

Voices of a Distant Star (Hoshi no Koe, ほしのこえ) is Makoto Shinkai's 2002, roughly 25-minute solo-made sci-fi romance short about Mikako and Noboru, separated by interstellar war and growing mail lag; CoMix Wave, music by Tenmon.

Voices of Fire

Voices of Fire: 2020 Netflix docuseries and gospel choir from Hampton Roads, Virginia, led by Bishop Ezekiel Williams with Pharrell Williams; 75-voice multicultural choir, RCA Inspiration deal, OPHANIM album, Vatican performance.

Voir

Voir is a 2021 Netflix documentary series of six 20-minute visual essays on cinema, executive produced by David Fincher and David Prior, narrated by critics including Sasha Stone, Tony Zhou, and Drew McWeeny, distinct from the French verb voir.

Vojislav Govedarica (Војислав Говедарица)

Vojislav Govedarica (Војислав Говедарица), stage name Voyo Goric, nickname Voja Krstarica; Serbian-American actor and Sylvester Stallone's bodyguard; played Sgt. Yushin in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985); 1940–2023.

Volcano (1997 film)

Volcano (1997) is a Mick Jackson disaster film for 20th Century Fox starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche, in which lava erupts beneath Los Angeles; released after Dante's Peak, it grossed about $120 million worldwide.

Voldemort: Origins of the Heir

Voldemort: Origins of the Heir is a 2018 Italian fan film by Tryangle Films, directed by Gianmaria Pezzato, depicting Tom Riddle's rise; crowdfunded on Kickstarter, released free on YouTube after a Warner Bros. agreement.

Volker Bruch

Volker Bruch (born 1980, Munich) is a German-Austrian actor, graduate of the Max Reinhardt Seminar Vienna, known for Gereon Rath in Babylon Berlin (Grimme-Preis, Goldene Kamera 2018) and Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter.

Volstagg

Volstagg the Enormous, the Lion of Asgard, is Marvel Comics' Falstaff-inspired Asgardian of the Warriors Three (Fandral, Hogun), created by Lee and Kirby in 1965; later War Thor wielding Ultimate Mjolnir, played by Ray Stevenson in the Thor films.

Voltaire High

Voltaire High (Mixte) is a 2021 French Prime Video period comedy-drama by Marie Roussin: in September 1963, eleven girls join a boys' lycée in Saint-Jean-d'Angély; one season, canceled, Canneséries audience prize.

Voltes V (超電磁マシーン ボルテスV)

Voltes V (超電磁マシーン ボルテスV) is a 1977–1978 Japanese super robot anime by Toei and Tadao Nagahama, the Robot Romance Trilogy's second entry, where five machines combine into one robot; banned in the 1979 Marcos martial law era, it became a Philippine national phenomenon and inspired the 2023 live-action Voltes V: Legacy.

Voltes V: Legacy

Voltes V: Legacy is GMA Network's 2023 live-action Philippine adaptation of the 1970s Japanese anime Voltes V, directed by Mark Reyes, 90 episodes, starring Miguel Tanfelix, with Toei Company and Telesuccess, and a 2024 Japanese theatrical release.

Voltron

Voltron: American mecha franchise from World Events Productions' 1984 series, adapted from Toei's Beast King GoLion (百獣王ゴライオン) and Dairugger XV; five robot lions combine into one giant robot; spawned Legendary Defender and an Amazon MGM live-action film.

Voltron (film)

Voltron (film): upcoming Amazon MGM Studios live-action adaptation of the 1984 Voltron: Defender of the Universe anime, directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, starring Henry Cavill and Sterling K. Brown, filmed in Queensland, streaming on Prime Video in 2027.

Voltron Force

Voltron Force is a 2011 American animated series on Nicktoons, a 26-episode sequel to Voltron: Defender of the Universe in which cadets Daniel, Vince, and Larmina join the original Lion pilots; cancelled after one season.

Voltron: Legendary Defender

Voltron: Legendary Defender is the DreamWorks Animation Netflix reboot (2016-2018, 78 episodes, 8 seasons) of the 1984 Voltron/GoLion franchise, run by Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery, with five lion pilots forming Voltron.

Volver

Volver (2006) is a Spanish comedy-drama by Pedro Almodóvar, produced by El Deseo, starring Penélope Cruz and Carmen Maura. It won Cannes Best Screenplay and a shared ensemble Best Actress, five European Film Awards, and five Goyas, with Cruz earning her first Oscar nomination.

Von Ryan's Express

Von Ryan's Express is a 1965 Twentieth Century-Fox World War II film directed by Mark Robson, starring Frank Sinatra as Colonel Ryan leading Allied POWs' train escape from Italy, adapted from David Westheimer's 1964 novel.

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Vondie Curtis-Hall (Vondi Curtis Hall), American actor, screenwriter, and director born in Detroit. Broadway's Dreamgirls and Lena Horne show, Chicago Hope's Dr. Dennis Hancock, Emmy-nominated for ER, and writer-director of Gridlock'd with Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur.

Vonetta McGee

Vonetta McGee (Lawrence Vonetta McGee, 1945-2010), American actress who began in Italian cinema with The Great Silence and Faustina, then starred in 1970s blaxploitation films including Blacula, Shaft in Africa, and Thomasine & Bushrod, later appearing in Repo Man and on television.

Voot (OTT Platform)

Voot, an Indian Viacom18 OTT streaming service launched March 2016 as a free ad-supported platform, added the Voot Select paid tier in 2020, and was merged into JioCinema in August 2023; its content now lives on JioHotstar (from February 2025), distinct from all similarly named apps.

Vought Rising

Vought Rising is a 1950s-set Prime Video prequel to The Boys, starring Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy and Aya Cash as Clara Vought/Stormfront in a murder mystery about Vought's origins; 8 episodes, showrunner Paul Grellong, premiering 2027.

Vowels (film)

Vowels (வௌவல்ஸ்), also Vowels – An Atlas of Love, is a 2026 Tamil romantic anthology film of five vowel-themed love stories by directors Dhilip Kumar, Sangeeth Nath, Santhosh Ravi, Jagan Rajendran, and Hemanth Kumar, starring Yugi Sethu and Chinni Jayanth, released 13 March 2026.

Vox (Hazbin Hotel)

Vox (Vincent Whittman) is the TV-headed sinner demon Overlord of Hazbin Hotel, voiced by Christian Borle: main antagonist of season 2, leader of the Vees and VoxTek, rival of Alastor, defeated in 'Curtain Call'.

Vox Lux

Vox Lux (2018) is Brady Corbet's drama, subtitled A Twenty-First Century Portrait, starring Natalie Portman and Raffey Cassidy as Celeste, a school-shooting survivor who becomes a pop superstar; songs by Sia, score by Scott Walker, premiered at Venice.

Voyage of the Damned

Voyage of the Damned is a 1976 Stuart Rosenberg drama, based on Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts's 1974 book, dramatizing the 1939 MS St. Louis voyage of 937 Jewish refugees denied landing in Havana; three Oscar nominations.

Voyage of the Damned (Doctor Who)

Voyage of the Damned (Doctor Who): 2007 BBC One Christmas special, story 188, third since the 2005 revival, written by Russell T Davies, starring David Tennant and guest star Kylie Minogue as waitress Astrid Peth aboard a spaceship replica of the Titanic; drew 13.31 million viewers and a 52% share.

Voyage of the Rock Aliens

Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984), also released as Attack of the Rock 'n' Roll Aliens, is a James Fargo sci-fi comedy musical starring Pia Zadora, Tom Nolan, and Craig Sheffer about aliens landing in a guitar-shaped spaceship in Speelburgh.

Voyage of Time

Voyage of Time is Terrence Malick's 2016 documentary on the history of the universe, released as the 90-minute Life's Journey narrated by Cate Blanchett and the 45-minute IMAX version narrated by Brad Pitt, with science advising from Andrew Knoll and Lee Smolin.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961 film)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961 film), Irwin Allen's Fox sci-fi adventure starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, and Peter Lorre, in which the Seaview fires a nuclear missile at a burning Van Allen belt; it spawned the 1964 ABC TV series.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series), Irwin Allen's 1964–1968 ABC series spun off from his 1961 film, follows Richard Basehart's Admiral Nelson and David Hedison's Captain Crane aboard the nuclear submarine Seaview across 110 episodes in four seasons.