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The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries: American supernatural teen drama on The CW, 2009-2017, 8 seasons, 171 episodes, adapted from L.J. Smith's 1991 novels; developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec; stars Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder; spinoffs The Originals and Legacies.
The Van
The Van is a 1996 comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Roddy Doyle, following two Dublin friends whose friendship sours when they run a food van together.
The Van Beuren Corporation
The Van Beuren Corporation, also known as Van Beuren Studios, was a New York City animation studio active from 1928 until its closure in 1936.
The Vanished (2020 film)
The Vanished (2020), formerly Hour of Lead, is an American psychological thriller written and directed by Peter Facinelli, starring Thomas Jane, Anne Heche, and Jason Patric as parents searching for their missing daughter at an RV park; released August 21, 2020, scoring 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Vanishing (1988 film)
The Vanishing (Spoorloos, 1988) is a Dutch-French psychological thriller by George Sluizer, adapted from Tim Krabbé's Het Gouden Ei, about Saskia's disappearance and Rex's three-year search; it won the first European Film Award for Best Film and a 1993 American remake flopped.
The Vanishing (1993 film)
The Vanishing (1993 film), or La Disparue, is an American psychological thriller directed by George Sluizer. It is a remake of the 1988 Dutch film Spoorloos.
The Vanishing (2018 film)
The Vanishing is a 2018 British psychological thriller directed by Kristoffer Nyholm, starring Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, and Connor Swindells as lighthouse keepers who find gold.
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017) is an A24 drama directed by Shawn Christensen, starring Logan Lerman as a novelist who vanishes after his bestselling debut, with Elle Fanning and Kyle Chandler; Metascore 18, RT 12%.
The Vast of Night
The Vast of Night (2019) is Andrew Patterson's debut indie sci-fi film, written by James Montague and Craig W. Sanger, about a 1950s New Mexico DJ and switchboard operator tracing a mysterious frequency; Slamdance Audience Award winner released by Amazon Studios.
The Vatican Tapes
The Vatican Tapes is a 2015 demon-possession horror film directed by Mark Neveldine, starring Olivia Taylor Dudley, Michael Peña, and Dougray Scott, in which a possessed young woman turns out to carry the antichrist; it grossed $1.8 million and scored 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Vault (2021 film)
The Vault (original title Way Down) is a 2021 Spanish heist thriller directed by Jaume Balagueró, starring Freddie Highmore, about thieves robbing Francis Drake's treasure from the Bank of Spain vault during the 2010 World Cup final.
The Veil
The Veil is a 2024 six-episode FX/Hulu spy thriller miniseries created by Steven Knight, starring Elisabeth Moss as MI6 agent Imogen Salter and Yumna Marwan as Adilah El Idrissi; Metascore 52, ended May 28, 2024.
The Veil (2016 film)
The Veil (2016 film) refers chiefly to a Blumhouse horror film directed by Phil Joanou, written by Robert Ben Garant, starring Jessica Alba, Thomas Jane, and Lily Rabe, about a cult mass suicide survivor; a separate 2016 sci-fi film of the same name stars William Levy.
The Veil (검은 태양) (South Korean TV series)
The Veil (검은 태양, Geomeun Taeyang) is a 2021 MBC Korean spy-action thriller, 12 episodes, starring Namgoong Min as NIS agent Han Ji-hyuk; Grand Prize winner with a Moebius spin-off.
The VelociPastor
The VelociPastor is a 2018 American micro-budget ($35,000) comedy-horror film by Brendan Steere about a priest who turns into a dinosaur and fights ninjas; it grew from a viral 2011 fake trailer born of an autocorrect typo.
The Velvet Underground (2021 film)
The Velvet Underground (2021) is Todd Haynes's Apple TV+ documentary on the Velvet Underground band, told through 1960s New York underground art and experimental film, with split-screen Warhol-style montage, Cale and Tucker interviews, and a Metacritic score of 87.
The Velveteen Rabbit (2023 film)
The Velveteen Rabbit (2023) is a 44-minute Apple TV+ special adapting Margery Williams' 1922 book, directed by Jennifer Perrott and Rick Thiele, mixing live action with 2D, 3D, and stop-motion-style animation, starring Phoenix Laroche, Alex Lawther, and Helena Bonham Carter.
The Vengeance Trilogy
The Vengeance Trilogy (복수 3부작) is Park Chan-wook's informal trilogy of Korean revenge films: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003), and Lady Vengeance (2005), linked by theme, not plot.
The Venture Bros.
The Venture Bros. (also The Venture Brothers) is an Adult Swim animated series by Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, a Jonny Quest parody running 2003-2018, cancelled 2020, concluded by the 2023 film Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart.
The Verdict
The Verdict (1982) is Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama, scripted by David Mamet from Barry Reed's novel, starring Paul Newman as alcoholic Boston lawyer Frank Galvin in a medical malpractice trial against the Archdiocese of Boston; five Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
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.