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The Wasp (2024 film)
The Wasp (2024 film) is a British-American psychological thriller directed by Guillem Morales, starring Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer, and involves a housewife in Bath.
The Wasp Factory
The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks's 1984 debut novel (Macmillan, his 30th birthday), narrated by teenage Frank Cauldhame on a Scottish island; Gothic transgressive fiction famous for its wasp-oracle device, 1984 controversy, and gender-twist ending.
The Wasps
The Wasps (Greek: Σφῆκες) is a comedy by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes, first performed at the Lenaia festival of 422 BC, that satirizes the Athenian jury courts and the citizens addicted to serving on them.
The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a 435-line poem by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1922 and regarded as a defining work of literary modernism, reflecting postwar cultural emptiness.
The Wasted Times (ワンス・アポン・ア・タイム・イン・上海)
The Wasted Times (羅曼蒂克消亡史, Japan title ワンス・アポン・ア・タイム・イン・上海) is Cheng Er's 2016 Chinese crime drama set in 1937 Shanghai, starring Ge You, Zhang Ziyi, and Tadanobu Asano in a nonlinear wartime gangster story; distinct from the 2014 film Once Upon a Time in Shanghai.
The Watch (2012 film)
The Watch is a 2012 American science-fiction comedy directed by Akiva Schaffer, starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade as suburban men fighting aliens.
The Watch (TV series)
The Watch (TV series) is a 2021 BBC America eight-episode fantasy comedy-drama inspired by Terry Pratchett's Discworld City Watch novels, starring Richard Dormer as Sam Vimes. Not the Netflix series The Watcher; never renewed for a second season after fan and family criticism.
The Watcher (2022 TV series)
The Watcher (2022 TV series): Netflix mystery thriller by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, starring Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale as the Brannocks, based on the unsolved 657 Boulevard Watcher letters case; renewed for a second season.
The Watcher in the Woods
The Watcher in the Woods is Disney's 1980 PG supernatural horror film directed by John Hough, starring Bette Davis, based on Florence Engel Randall's 1976 novel, withdrawn after its New York premiere and re-released in 1981 with a new ending.
The Watchers
The Watchers is a 2024 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan in her feature debut, based on A.M. Shine's 2021 novel and starring Dakota Fanning.
The Watchers on the Wall
The Watchers on the Wall is the ninth episode of Game of Thrones season 4 (39th overall), aired June 8, 2014. Directed by Neil Marshall, written by Benioff and Weiss, it depicts the wildling assault on Castle Black in a single-location battle episode.
The Water Diviner
The Water Diviner (2014) is Russell Crowe's directorial debut, a Gallipoli drama starring Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, and Yilmaz Erdogan; released by Warner Bros. in April 2015, it grossed $34.6M in the US and won three AACTA Awards.
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep is a 2007 family fantasy film about a Scottish boy who raises the creature that becomes the Loch Ness Monster.
The Water Is Wide (song)
The Water Is Wide, also called O Waly, Waly, is a Scottish folk song (Roud 87, related to Child 204 Jamie Douglas) compiled by Cecil Sharp from Somerset singers in 1906 and popularized by Pete Seeger's 1958 recording.
The Water Magician (水属性の魔法使い) (novel series)
The Water Magician (水属性の魔法使い) is a Japanese isekai fantasy light novel series by Tadashi Kubō, serialized on Shōsetsuka ni Narō from 2020 and published by TO Books from 2021, about reincarnated water mage Ryo; it has manga, junior, and 2025 TBS anime adaptations.
The Water Magician (瀧の白糸) (1933 film)
The Water Magician (瀧の白糸, Taki no Shiraito) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1933 Japanese silent drama, produced by Irie Production from Izumi Kyōka's Giketsu Kyōketsu, starring Takako Irie as a water performer funding her lover's law studies.
The Water Margin (水浒传)
The Water Margin (水浒传, Shuihu zhuan), also called Zhongyi Shuihu zhuan, is a Ming vernacular novel, one of the Four Great Classical Novels, telling of outlaws led by Song Jiang at Mount Liang in the Northern Song; attributed to Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, it survives in 70-, 100-, and 120-chapter editions.
The Waterboy
The Waterboy is a 1998 American sports comedy directed by Frank Coraci and starring Adam Sandler as Bobby Boucher, a waterboy who becomes a college football star.
The Waterboys
The Waterboys are a British folk rock band formed in 1983 by Scottish songwriter Mike Scott, known for the Big Music era, the Ivor Novello-winning 'The Whole of the Moon', and Fisherman's Blues (1988).
The Waterfront (TV series)
The Waterfront is a 2025 Netflix crime drama created by Kevin Williamson, starring Holt McCallany and Maria Bello as leaders of a North Carolina fishing family turned drug smugglers; eight episodes, canceled after one season.
The Watermelon Woman
The Watermelon Woman (1996) is Cheryl Dunye's debut feature, the first US theatrical feature directed by an out Black lesbian. A Philadelphia mockumentary-romantic comedy about a fictional 1930s actress, Fae Richards, it won the 1996 Teddy Award and sparked an NEA funding controversy.
The Waters of Mars
The Waters of Mars is a 2009 Doctor Who special written by Phil Ford and Russell T Davies, starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor at Bowie Base One, Mars, 2059, facing the Flood and becoming the Time Lord Victorious; it won the 2010 Hugo Award.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 is a 1995 children's historical novel by Christopher Paul Curtis about an African American family from Flint, Michigan.
The Wave (2008 film)
Die Welle (The Wave), 2008 German drama by Dennis Gansel starring Jürgen Vogel; a teacher's classroom experiment in autocracy becomes a fascist-like movement, adapted from Todd Strasser's novel and Ron Jones's 1967 Third Wave experiment.
The Wave (2015 film)
The Wave (Bølgen) is Roar Uthaug's 2015 Norwegian disaster film, Norway's first, about an Åkerneset landslide triggering a tsunami toward Geiranger with ten minutes' warning; it drew 832,643 admissions, won three Amanda awards, and was Norway's 88th Oscar submission.
The wave (music)
The Wave, or New Wave of Post-Hardcore, was a tongue-in-cheek name for a late-2000s/2010s underground scene (La Dispute, Touché Amoré, Pianos Become the Teeth, Defeater) reviving 1990s emo, screamo, and post-hardcore.
The Wave (novel)
The Wave (Die Welle), 1981 young adult novel by Todd Strasser as Morton Rhue; novelization of Norman Lear's ABC-TV movie, dramatizing Ron Jones's 1967 Third Wave fascism experiment at Cubberley High School, Palo Alto.
The Waves
The Waves (1931) is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel, published by the Hogarth Press; six characters, Bernard, Neville, Louis, Susan, Rhoda, and Jinny, speak soliloquies framed by sea interludes, with the silent Percival at the group's center.
The Waves Extinguish the Wind
The Waves Extinguish the Wind (Волны гасят ветер) is a 1984 science fiction novella by the Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, concluding their Noon Universe cycle.
The Way (2010 film)
The Way is a 2010 drama film directed by Emilio Estevez, starring Martin Sheen as a father who walks the Camino de Santiago after his son dies.