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Vengeance (2009 film)

Vengeance (復仇) is Johnnie To's 2009 Hong Kong-France action thriller, written by Wai Ka-fai, starring Johnny Hallyday as an amnesiac chef avenging his daughter's family in Macau; it competed at Cannes 2009.

Vengeance (2022 film)

Vengeance (2022) is B.J. Novak's directorial debut, a darkly comic thriller in which New York podcaster Ben Manalowitz investigates a casual girlfriend's death in West Texas; Focus Features released it July 29, 2022.

Vengeance (2026 film)

Vengeance is a 2026 Indian Tamil-language political drama film, the directorial debut of Rahul Ashok, starring Abarnathi as an ambitious civil servant who rises through politics, released in March 2026.

Vengeance Is Mine (復讐するは我にあり)

Vengeance Is Mine (復讐するは我にあり, Fukushū suru wa ware ni ari) is Shohei Imamura's 1979 Japanese crime drama, based on Ryūzō Saki's Naoki Prize novel about serial killer Akira Nishiguchi, starring Ken Ogata as Iwao Enokizu during a 78-day, five-victim killing spree; it won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Picture.

Vengeance: A Love Story

Vengeance: A Love Story is a 2017 American vigilante thriller directed by Johnny Martin, starring Nicolas Cage, adapted from Joyce Carol Oates' novella Rape: A Love Story, released September 15, 2017.

Vengeance! (报仇)

Vengeance! (報仇) is Chang Cheh's 1970 Shaw Brothers martial arts film, also called Kung Fu Vengeance, starring David Chiang and Ti Lung; it won Best Director and Best Actor at the 16th Asian Film Festival and shifted Hong Kong cinema from wuxia swordplay to Republic-era kung fu.

Venghai (வேங்கை)

Venghai (வேங்கை), also spelled Vengai, is a 2011 Tamil action drama directed by Hari, starring Dhanush, Tamannaah Bhatia, Rajkiran, and Prakash Raj; released 7 July 2011 after a Madras High Court title dispute.

Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica), the world's oldest film festival, founded 1932 by La Biennale on the Lido di Venezia; Golden Lion top prize since 1949; 83rd edition 2–12 September 2026.

Venice Preserv'd

Venice Preserv'd is a 1682 tragedy by Thomas Otway in which an impoverished nobleman betrays a plot against the Venetian Senate to save his wife.

Venice: The Series

Venice: The Series, also called Venice the Series, is an American web soap opera co-created by Crystal Chappell and Kim Turrisi, premiering December 4, 2009, inspired by Guiding Light's Otalia storyline, starring Chappell as gay designer Gina Brogno in Venice Beach, fan-funded, and a 2014 Daytime Emmy winner.

Venisamhara

Venisanhara (वेणीसंहारम्, Veṇīsaṃhāra), meaning "the binding of the braid," is a six-act Sanskrit drama by Bhatta Narayana that dramatizes the Mahabharata war through Bhima's vengeance; it is his only surviving play.

Venkat Prabhu

Venkat Prabhu (வெங்கட் பிரபு), born Venkat Kumar Gangai Amaren in 1975, is a Tamil film director, actor, and playback singer, son of Gangai Amaran and nephew of Ilaiyaraaja, known for Chennai 600028, Mankatha, Maanaadu, and GOAT.

Venkatadri Express (వెంకటాద్రి ఎక్స్‌ప్రెస్) (film)

Venkatadri Express (వెంకటాద్రి ఎక్స్‌ప్రెస్) is a 2013 Telugu comedy-romance film, Merlapaka Gandhi's directorial debut, starring Sundeep Kishan and Rakul Preet Singh; a son at 99 recorded mistakes misses the train to Tirupati and it became Sundeep Kishan's first solo hit.

Venkatesh (దగ్గుబాటి వెంకటేష్) (actor)

Daggubati Venkatesh (దగ్గుబాటి వెంకటేష్), also Victory Venkatesh, born 1960, is a Telugu film actor, son of producer D. Ramanaidu, Suresh Productions board member, multiple Nandi and Filmfare Award winner.

Venkitesh V. P.

Venkitesh V. P. (വെങ്കിടേഷ്‌ വി പി), also called Venki, is a Malayalam actor and TV personality; he played villain Murugan in the 2025 Telugu film Kingdom opposite Vijay Deverakonda, after roles in Stand Up, The Priest, and Kho Kho, and runs the Suda Suda Idli food truck in Thiruvananthapuram.

Venky Mama (వెంకీ మామా)

Venky Mama (Telugu: వెంకీ మామా) is a 2019 Indian Telugu-language action comedy drama directed by K. S. Ravindra, starring real-life uncle and nephew Venkatesh Daggubati and Naga Chaitanya.

Vennela Kishore filmography

Vennela Kishore (Bokkala Kishore Kumar, born 1980, Kamareddy) is a Telugu comedy actor named after his 2005 debut film Vennela; over 130 films, directed Vennela 1 1/2 and Jaffa, Nandi and SIIMA Best Comedian winner.

Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu (வெண்ணிலா கபடிகுழு)

Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu (வெண்ணிலா கபடிகுழு, White Moon Kabaddi Team) is a 2009 Tamil sports drama directed by Suseenthiran, starring debutant Vishnu Vishal, Kishore, and Saranya Mohan, about a losing village kabaddi team; remade in Telugu and Hindi, with a 2019 sequel.

Venom (2005 film)

Venom (2005) is an American voodoo slasher horror film directed by Jim Gillespie, starring Agnes Bruckner and D.J. Cotrona; shot as Backwater, it grossed $881,745 domestically against a $25 million budget and holds 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Venom (2018 film)

Venom (2018) is a Sony/Columbia superhero film directed by Ruben Fleischer, starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, host of an alien symbiote. It grossed $856.1M worldwide despite 31% Rotten Tomatoes, spawning two sequels.

Venom (character)

Venom: Marvel Comics alien symbiote bonded to Eddie Brock, first fully appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #300 (1988) after the 1984 Secret Wars black suit; weak to fire and sound, later an anti-hero and lead of Sony's near-$2 billion film trilogy.

Venom (Sony's Spider-Man Universe)

Venom is a superhero film trilogy in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, comprising films released in 2018, 2021, and 2024, all starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, host to an alien symbiote.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Venom: Let There Be Carnage, also known as Venom 2, is a 2021 American superhero film in which Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock faces the serial killer Cletus Kasady, host of the symbiote Carnage.

Venti (Genshin Impact)

Venti (温迪) is the 5-star Anemo bow bard of Genshin Impact, secretly the Anemo Archon Barbatos of Mondstadt and the game's first limited 5-star. Known for crowd-control burst, Viridescent Venerer support, and later Hexerei DPS buffs.

Ventriloquism

Ventriloquism, from Latin venter and loqui (belly-speaking), is the art of making one's voice appear to come from a dummy or other source; its perceptual basis is the ventriloquism effect, visual capture of sound location, studied since Eurykles of Athens to Edgar Bergen and modern labs.

Venu Thottempudi

Venu Thottempudi (వేణు తొట్టెంపూడి), born 1976, is a Telugu film actor whose hits include Swayamvaram, Chirunavvutho, and Hanuman Junction; he won a Nandi Special Jury Award for his debut and returned in Ramarao on Duty (2022).

Venus (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Venus de Milo (Mei Pieh Chi; IDW comic version Bonnie) is the first female Ninja Turtle, introduced in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation (1997) and reintroduced in IDW's TMNT #127 (2022) as a Punk Frog rebuilt by Dr. Barlow.

Venus in Fur (film)

Venus in Fur (La Vénus à la fourrure) is Roman Polanski's 2013 French-Polish film adapting David Ives's play and Sacher-Masoch's 1870 novella, starring Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric in a two-hander audition drama, in Competition at Cannes 2013.

Venus Xtravaganza

Venus Xtravaganza, born Thomas Pellagatti (1965–1988), was a transgender ballroom performer of the House of Xtravaganza, featured in Paris Is Burning; strangled in Manhattan in December 1988, her murder remains unsolved.

Veppam Kulir Mazhai (வெப்பம் குளிர் மழை)

Veppam Kulir Mazhai (வெப்பம் குளிர் மழை) is a 2024 Tamil rural drama, Pascal Vedamuthu's directorial debut, starring Dhirav, Ismath Banu, and MS Bhaskar as a childless couple facing social pressure; released 29 March 2024, streamed on Aha Tamil.