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The World Is Not Enough

The World Is Not Enough is a 1999 James Bond film, the nineteenth in the Eon series and the third starring Pierce Brosnan, directed by Michael Apted.

The World Is Still Beautiful

Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii (それでも世界は美しい, The World Is Still Beautiful) is Dai Shiina's shōjo manga serialized in Hana to Yume 2012–2020, 25 volumes, 3 million copies, with a 12-episode 2014 Studio Pierrot anime.

The World Is to Dig

The World Is to Dig is the 24th studio album by They Might Be Giants, released April 14, 2026 on Idlewild Recordings; 18 songs, 44 minutes, produced with Patrick Dillett.

The World Needs a Hero

The World Needs a Hero is Megadeth's ninth studio album, released May 15, 2001 on Sanctuary Records. Produced by Dave Mustaine, it peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard 200 and marked a return to heavier metal after Risk.

The World of Apu

The World of Apu (Apur Sansar, 1959) is Satyajit Ray's Bengali drama closing the Apu Trilogy, adapted from Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's Aparajita, starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore.

The World of Fantasy (灵域)

The World of Fantasy (灵域, also Spirit Realm) is a 2021 iQIYI Chinese fantasy drama, 36 episodes, adapted from Ni Cangtian's web novel, starring Fan Chengcheng as amnesiac Qin Lie and Cheng Xiao as Ling Yushi.

The World of Ice & Fire

The World of Ice & Fire (2014) is a 336-page companion history book to A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin with Westeros.org founders Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson, framed as an in-universe history by Maester Yandel and the source of most of Fire & Blood.

The World of Kanako

The World of Kanako (渇き。, Kawaki) is Tetsuya Nakashima's 2014 Japanese thriller adapting Akio Fukamachi's prize-winning novel Hateshinaki Kawaki, starring Koji Yakusho as an ex-detective searching for his missing daughter, played by debutante Nana Komatsu.

The World of Love

The World of Love (세계의 주인, Sagyeui Juin) is Yoon Ga-eun's 2025 South Korean drama about teen survivor Jooin, starring Seo Su-bin; Toronto Platform premiere, Montgolfière d'Or winner, first Korean film released in China after the 2016 hallyu ban.

The World of the Married (부부의 세계)

The World of the Married (부부의 세계) is a 2020 JTBC Korean drama remaking BBC One's Doctor Foster, starring Kim Hee-ae, Park Hae-joon, and Han So-hee; its finale hit 28.371%, a Korean cable drama record.

The World to Come

The World to Come (2020) is Mona Fastvold's period romance drama, adapted by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard from Jim Shepard's short story, starring Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby, Christopher Abbott, and Casey Affleck as 1850s upstate New York farm couples; it competed at Venice 77, won the Queer Lion, and was released by Bleecker Street in 2021.

The World Will Tremble

The World Will Tremble is a 2025 Lior Geller war drama, also called Świat będzie drżał, dramatizing the 1942 Chełmno camp escape of Szlama Ber Winer and Michał Podchlebnik, who delivered the first Holocaust eyewitness account.

The World Won't Listen

The World Won't Listen is a 1987 Rough Trade compilation by The Smiths, second of three issued while active, peaking at UK number 2; the US instead received the expanded Louder Than Bombs.

The World: A Naive Poem

The World: A Naive Poem (Polish: Świat – poema naiwne) is a cycle of twenty short poems by Czesław Miłosz, written in occupied Warsaw in 1943.

The World's 50 Best Restaurants

The World's 50 Best Restaurants (now The 50 Best Restaurants) is an annual fine-dining ranking founded in 2002 by Restaurant magazine, published by William Reed, voted by a 1,100-plus expert Academy in 28 regions, adjudicated by Deloitte.

The World's Best

The World's Best names two subjects: a 2019 CBS global talent competition hosted by James Corden with judges Drew Barrymore, RuPaul and Faith Hill, and theworlds.best, an independent hotel, restaurant and cruise rating publication using GEM, Fork and Anchor marks.

The World's End (film)

The World's End (2013) is Edgar Wright's sci-fi comedy, third in the Cornetto trilogy, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as friends repeating a 12-pub crawl in Newton Haven amid an alien takeover.

The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat (世界最高の暗殺者、異世界貴族に転生する)

Japanese light novel series by Rui Tsukiyo and Reia (Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko, 2019), also called Sekai Saikou no Ansatsusha. A betrayed assassin is reborn as noble Lugh Tuatha Dé to kill the hero; adapted into manga and a Silver Link anime, Season 2 due January 2027.

The World's Greatest First Love (世界一初恋)

Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi (The World's Greatest First Love) is a BL manga by Shungiku Nakamura, serialized since 2006, set at Marukawa Books' shoujo manga editorial department; adapted into a 2011 Studio DEEN anime and two films.

The World's Hardest Game

The World's Hardest Game (TWHG, WHG1) is a 2007-2008 Flash browser game by Snubby Land (Stephen Critoph): a red square dodges blue circles across 30 one-hit-restart levels, spawning sequels, speedruns, and ports.

The World's Strictest Parents

The World's Strictest Parents: British BBC Three reality series (2008–2011, 33 episodes) sending two unruly teens to strict host families abroad for a week; adapted for CMT in the US in 2009 with an Online Parenting Survival Guide.

The World's Strongest Rearguard

The World's Strongest Rearguard (世界最強の後衛, Sekai Saikyou no Kouei) is a Tôwa isekai light novel with Huuka Kazabana illustrations, published by Kadokawa Books since 2017, about office worker Arihito Atobe reborn as a Labyrinth Country Seeker with the support-only Rearguard class; adapted to manga by Rikizo and a 2026 Maho Film anime.

The World's Strongest Witch

The World's Strongest Witch (Sekai Saikyou no Majo, Hajimemashita) is a Japanese fantasy comedy light novel by Mochimaru Sakaki and riritto. Lorna Hermit, expelled for an SSS-rank skill called Internet, uses the world's strategy guide to become the strongest witch; six SQEX Novel volumes, a Tamaki Toga manga, and a Bridge/Aisle anime aired October 2026.

The World's Wife

The World's Wife is a 1999 poetry collection by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, retelling famous stories in the voices of women like Mrs Midas and Queen Kong.

The Worm Ouroboros

The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison's 1922 heroic high fantasy novel, depicts the war between King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland, written in sixteenth-century English and ending with the world rewound to its opening.

The Worm Valley (云南虫谷)

The Worm Valley (云南虫谷, Candle in the Tomb: The Worm Valley) is a 2021 Chinese web drama adapted from Tianxia Bachang's novel, directed by Fei Zhenxiang, starring Pan Yueming, Zhang Yuqi, and Jiang Chao; 16 episodes on Tencent Video, Douban 7.9 falling to 6.7.

The Worst Movie Ever!

The Worst Movie Ever! (2011), also styled The Worst Movie EVER!, is Glenn Berggoetz's $1,100 micro-budget spoof comedy that sold one ticket, grossed $11 on opening weekend, and finished at $25,450 worldwide.

The Worst of Evil (최악의 악)

The Worst of Evil (최악의 악) is a 2023 Disney+ Korean crime noir, 12 episodes, Sept 27–Oct 25, 2023. Directed by Han Dong-wook; produced by Kakao Entertainment, Baram Pictures, Sanai Pictures; stars Ji Chang-wook, Wi Ha-joon, Im Se-mi, Bibi; set in 1995 Gangnam drug trade; IMDb 8.6.

The Worst Person in the World (film)

The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske) is a 2021 Norwegian romantic comedy-drama by Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, starring Renate Reinsve as Julie in 12 chapters; it won Cannes Best Actress and earned two Oscar nominations.

The Worst Witch

The Worst Witch is Jill Murphy's eight-book children's series (1974–2018) about clumsy trainee witch Mildred Hubble at Miss Cackle's Academy, a forerunner of the magical school genre, adapted into a 1986 TV movie, 1998 and 2017 TV series, and an Olivier-winning stage show.