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Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year (1942) is an MGM romantic comedy directed by George Stevens, the first of nine Spencer Tracy–Katharine Hepburn films, written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin, Oscar-winning screenplay, based loosely on columnist Dorothy Thompson.

Woman of Tokyo (東京の女)

Woman of Tokyo (東京の女, Tokyo no Onna) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1933 silent Shochiku melodrama in which typist Chikako secretly works as a dance-hall hostess to pay her brother Ryoichi's tuition, with tragic results.

Woman Sesame Oil Maker (香魂女)

Woman Sesame Oil Maker (香魂女, Xiang hun nü) is Xie Fei's 1993 Chinese drama, adapted from Zhou Daxin's novella, starring Siqin Gaowa; it shared the 1993 Berlin Golden Bear with The Wedding Banquet.

Woman Unknown (film)

Woman Unknown (Kvinde ukendt) is a 2026 Danish-Swedish-Latvian drama by May el-Toukhy about a post-WWII Danish housemaid hiding an affair with a German soldier; it won the 2026 Venice Golden Lion and the Volpi Cup for Mathilde Arcel.

Woman Walks Ahead

Woman Walks Ahead is a 2017 Western drama directed by Susanna White, starring Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes, and Sam Rockwell, about Caroline Weldon painting Sitting Bull; released by A24 in 2018.

Womb (2025 film)

Womb (2025 film) most commonly denotes the American horror thriller directed by Bridget Smith, written by Mike Walsh, starring Taylor Hanks and Myles Clohessy, released digitally February 11, 2025; the title was also used by 2025 shorts from New Zealand, South Korea, and Czechia.

Womb (film)

Womb (2010), also released as Clone, is a German-Hungarian-French sci-fi drama by Benedek Fliegauf starring Eva Green and Matt Smith, about a woman who bears and raises a clone of her dead lover.

Women (女人心)

Women (女人心, Nüren xin) is Stanley Kwan's 1985 Hong Kong directorial debut, a Shaw Brothers drama starring Chow Yun-fat, Cora Miao, and Cherie Chung about a divorcée and her single friends; it earned nine Hong Kong Film Award nominations.

Women in Beijing (北京女子图鉴)

Women in Beijing (北京女子图鉴) is a 2018 Youku web drama, an authorized adaptation of Tokyo Women's Journal, starring Qi Wei as Chen Ke, a Sichuan woman building a career in Beijing over 2008-2018; 20 episodes, screenwriter Zhang Jia, Douban 6.2, distinct from Wang Xin's same-title novel and its four seasonal web films.

Women in Blue (TV series)

Women in Blue (Las Azules) is a Mexican Spanish-language Apple TV+ crime drama created by Fernando Rovzar and Pablo Aramendi, premiering July 31, 2024, about four women in Mexico's first female police force hunting a serial killer; season 2 premiered August 12, 2026.

Women in Love (film)

Women in Love (1969) is Ken Russell's British film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel, written and produced by Larry Kramer, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Jennie Linden, and Oscar-winning Glenda Jackson, famous for its nude wrestling scene.

Women in Shang Hai (上海女子图鉴)

Women in Shang Hai (上海女子图鉴, Women in Shanghai) is a 2018 Youku web drama, 20 episodes, adapted from Tokyo Girl, starring Wang Zhen'er as Luo Haiyan, an Anhui graduate climbing Shanghai's workplace, directed by Cheng Liang.

Women in Taipei (台北女子图鉴)

Women in Taipei (台北女子圖鑑) is a 2022 Disney+ Taiwanese drama, a licensed adaptation of Tokyo Girl, starring Gwei Lun-mei as Tainan native Lin I-shan over 11 episodes spanning 20 years; it drew major backlash for north-south stereotypes.

Women of the Night (夜の女たち)

Women of the Night (夜の女たち, Yoru no onna-tachi) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1948 Shochiku drama, his postwar comeback, about two sisters descending into prostitution in ruined Osaka, shot neorealist-style on location with Kinuyo Tanaka.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1988 Spanish comedy about abandoned actress Pepa, starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas, an Oscar-nominated, five-Goya international breakthrough.

Women playwrights in the anglophone theatre

Women playwrights in the anglophone theater are the women who have written plays for English-language stages from the Restoration to the present, from Aphra Behn onward.

Women Talking (film)

Women Talking (2022) is Sarah Polley's drama adapted from Miriam Toews's 2018 novel about Mennonite women in an isolated colony deciding to stay, fight, or leave after systematic drugging and rape; it won the 2023 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Women theatre directors

Women theater directors are women who stage theatrical productions; Broadway's share of women directors peaked at thirteen percent in 1950, then fell to zero by 1955.

Women Wearing Shoulder Pads

Women Wearing Shoulder Pads (Mujeres con hombreras) is Adult Swim's first Spanish-language series, a stop-motion adult comedy melodrama created by Gonzalo Cordova with Cinema Fantasma, set in 1980s Quito, Ecuador, following Marioneta Negocios's campaign to promote guinea pigs as pets; premiered August 17, 2025, eight 11-minute episodes, Metacritic 88.

Won Bin (원빈)

Won Bin (원빈), real name Kim Do-jin (김도진), born 1977, is a South Korean actor famous for Autumn in My Heart, Taegukgi, Mother, and The Man from Nowhere (2010), his last acting role; he has since appeared only in commercials.

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (film)

Won't You Be My Neighbor? is a 2018 American documentary directed by Morgan Neville about Fred Rogers, creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, premiering at Sundance in January 2018.

Wonder (film)

Wonder is a 2017 American drama film directed by Stephen Chbosky, adapted from R.J. Palacio's novel, starring Jacob Tremblay as Auggie Pullman, a boy with facial differences starting school.

Wonder Boys (film)

Wonder Boys is a 2000 American comedy-drama directed by Curtis Hanson, adapted by Steve Kloves from Michael Chabon's 1995 novel, starring Michael Douglas as stalled novelist Grady Tripp; it won Bob Dylan an Oscar for "Things Have Changed" and grossed $19.4 million in the US.

Wonder Egg Priority (ワンダーエッグ・プライオリティ)

Wonder Egg Priority (ワンダーエッグ・プライオリティ) is a 2021 original TV anime by CloverWorks, directed by Shin Wakabayashi and written by Shinji Nojima, about Ai Ohto fighting to revive her dead friend; 12 episodes plus a criticized June 2021 special finale.

Wonder Girl

Wonder Girl is a DC Comics superheroine alias held by several characters, chiefly Donna Troy (1965), Cassie Sandsmark (1996), and Yara Flor, each a younger partner or successor to Wonder Woman in comics and television.

Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark)

Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark), DC Comics superheroine created by John Byrne, debuting Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #105 (1996); daughter of Helena Sandsmark and Zeus, founding Young Justice member, later Teen Titans leader and Silent Armor bearer on Prime Earth.

Wonder Man

Wonder Man (Simon Williams) is a Marvel Comics superhero introduced in The Avengers #9 (October 1964) with ionic-energy powers, creator of the Vision's brain patterns; also a 2026 Disney+ series starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

Wonder Man (miniseries)

Wonder Man is a 2026 Disney+ Marvel Television miniseries created by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as actor Simon Williams and Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slattery; the second Marvel Spotlight series, renewed then canceled in 2026.

Wonder Park

Wonder Park is a 2019 computer-animated adventure comedy film. It follows a math whiz girl who finds her imaginary amusement park physically alive in the woods.

Wonder Pets: In the City

Wonder Pets: In the City is a 2024 Apple TV+ animated preschool series, a reboot of Nickelodeon's Wonder Pets!, following Izzy the Guinea Pig, Tate the Snake, and Zuri the Bunny on mini-opera rescue adventures from their New York City kindergarten.