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W.E.
W.E. (2011) is Madonna's second feature film, co-written with Alek Keshishian, a dual-narrative romantic drama about Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII and a 1998 New Yorker obsessed with them; it premiered at Venice, grossed $582.1K, and won a Golden Globe for its song "Masterpiece".
W.I.T.C.H. (TV series)
W.I.T.C.H. is an animated series adapted from an Italian Disney comic magazine. It ran for two seasons, following five teenage Guardians defending their world from Prince Phobos.
W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings
W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings is a 1975 American comedy film starring Burt Reynolds as W.W. Bright, a crook robbing gas stations in the 1950s South.
w/ Bob & David
w/ Bob & David: 2015 Netflix sketch comedy by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, reuniting the Mr. Show team; four half-hour episodes plus a making-of special, Metascore 76.
W1A (TV series)
W1A is a BBC Two mockumentary sitcom (2014–2020, 14 episodes plus a Zoom special) by John Morton, satirizing BBC management through Hugh Bonneville's Head of Values Ian Fletcher, with Jessica Hynes and narrator David Tennant.
Waar
Waar (وار) is a 2013 Pakistani action thriller depicting the country's fight against terrorism, directed by Bilal Lashari and starring Shaan Shahid; it became the highest-grossing Pakistani film at the time.
Waaris (1988 film)
Waaris (Waris), 1988 Hindi drama directed by Ravindra Peepat, adapted from Sohan Singh Hans's Punjabi novel Kaare Hatthi; a land-inheritance feud starring Smita Patil, Raj Babbar, Amrish Puri; Patil's lines dubbed by Rekha after her death.
Waaris (वारिस) (2016 TV series)
Waaris (वारिस) is an Indian Hindi-language social drama that aired on And TV from May 2016 to December 2017, starring Arti Singh, Farnaz Shetty, and Neel Motwani.
Wacky Races (1968 TV series)
Wacky Races (1968) is a Hanna-Barbera/Heatter-Quigley CBS animated series, 17 episodes, in which 11 cars including Dick Dastardly and Muttley's Mean Machine race across America; Dastardly never wins, and two spin-offs followed in 1969.
Waco (miniseries)
Waco (2018) is a six-part Paramount Network miniseries created by John Erick and Drew Dowdle, based on Gary Noesner's and David Thibodeau's books, starring Taylor Kitsch as David Koresh and Michael Shannon as the FBI negotiator during the 1993 siege.
Waco: American Apocalypse
Waco: American Apocalypse is a 2023 three-part Netflix documentary directed by Tiller Russell about the 1993 Waco siege, using FBI negotiation tapes, unreleased news footage, and interviews with survivors, agents, and journalists.
Wade Wilson (film character)
Wade Wilson is the film version of Marvel's Deadpool in the X-Men film series, played by Ryan Reynolds: a wisecracking mercenary mutated into the mute Weapon XI in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), then rebooted in Deadpool (2016) and joined to the MCU in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
Wadjda (وجدة)
Wadjda (وجدة), 2012 comedy-drama by Haifaa Al Mansour; first feature shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and first by a Saudi woman director; a Riyadh girl enters a Quran recitation contest to buy a green bicycle; Venice premiere, BAFTA-nominated.
Waffles + Mochi
Waffles + Mochi is a Netflix children's series from Higher Ground Productions, premiered March 16, 2021, in which puppets Waffles and Mochi travel the world learning about food with Michelle Obama; a 2022 spin-off, Waffles + Mochi's Restaurant, followed.
Wag the Dog
Wag the Dog is a 1997 Barry Levinson black comedy starring Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, adapted from Larry Beinhart's American Hero, in which spin doctors fabricate an Albanian war to distract from a presidential sex scandal weeks before the Lewinsky story broke.
Wagle Ki Duniya
Wagle Ki Duniya (वागले की दुनिया), an Indian Hindi sitcom based on R. K. Laxman's Common Man, aired on Doordarshan 1988-1990 and was revived on Sony SAB in 2021 as Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey, ending 9 August 2025 after 1362 episodes.
Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey
Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey (वागले की दुनिया) is a Sony SAB Hindi family sitcom (2021–2025, 1362 episodes) starring Sumeet Raghavan, a sequel to the 1988–90 Doordarshan show based on R.K. Laxman's characters.
Wagner Moura
Wagner Moura (Wagner Maniçoba de Moura), Brazilian actor born 1976 in Salvador, Bahia; star of Tropa de Elite, Narcos (as Pablo Escobar), and O Agente Secreto; first Brazilian nominated for the Best Actor Oscar and winner of the 2026 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama.
Wagon Master
Wagon Master is John Ford's 1950 black-and-white Western (also styled Wagonmaster) from Argosy Pictures, starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, and Joanne Dru as guides of a Mormon wagon train to Utah, shot near Moab and one of Ford's own favorites.
Wagon Train
Wagon Train (1957-1965) is an American NBC/ABC Western TV series about a caravan from St. Joseph, Missouri, to California, starring Ward Bond and Robert Horton, reaching number one in the 1961-62 Nielsen ratings.
Wagons East
Wagons East is a 1994 American comedy Western directed by Peter Markle, in which settlers hire John Candy's wagon master to lead them back East; it was Candy's final film.
WAGS (TV series)
WAGS (WAGS LA), E! reality series 2015-2017 about wives and girlfriends of professional athletes in Los Angeles; three seasons, Machete Productions, spin-offs WAGS Miami and WAGS Atlanta.
WAGS Miami
WAGS Miami, an E! reality series and first spin-off of WAGS, aired 2016–2017 (2 seasons, 17 episodes) following wives and girlfriends of Miami professional athletes; cancelled in 2018.
Wah-Wah
Wah-Wah (2005) is Richard E. Grant's semi-autobiographical directorial debut drama about a boy's adolescence in 1969 colonial Swaziland amid his parents' divorce, starring Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, and Nicholas Hoult.
Wahaj Ali (وہاج علی)
Wahaj Ali (وہاج علی), Pakistani TV actor; theater 2007, Geo TV producer 2011, screen debut 2015 in Ishq Ibadat; breakthrough as Murtasim in Tere Bin (2023) opposite Yumna Zaidi; noted for Jo Bichar Gaye, Jin Ki Shadi Un Ki Shadi, Mitti De Bawe.
Waheed Alli, Baron Alli
Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born 1964) is a British media entrepreneur and Labour life peer, co-founder of Planet 24 (The Big Breakfast, The Word), ennobled by Tony Blair in 1998 as the youngest and first openly gay member of the Lords, and a major Labour donor central to the 2024 'passes for glasses' controversy.
Waheeda Rehman (वहीदा रहमान)
Waheeda Rehman (वहीदा रहमान), born 3 February 1938 in Chengalpattu, is an Indian actress of Hindi and Telugu cinema, known for Pyaasa, Guide, and Reshma Aur Shera, and the first Muslim woman to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (2021).
Waifu
Waifu (ワイフ) is anime-fandom slang for a fictional character, usually female, treated as a playful wife; re-borrowed from the Japanese loanword for English "wife," popularized by Azumanga Daioh's "mai waifu" scene.
Wait Until Dark (film)
Wait Until Dark (1967) is a Warner Bros. suspense thriller directed by Terence Young, starring Audrey Hepburn as a blind woman terrorized by Alan Arkin's Roat over a heroin-stuffed doll, adapted from Frederick Knott's 1966 Broadway play.
Waiting for Dutch
"Waiting for Dutch" is the season 2 premiere of FX's Fargo, aired October 12, 2015. Written by Noah Hawley and set in 1979, it follows Rye Gerhardt's diner killings and Peggy Blumquist's cover-up, earning a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.