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Valery Larbaud
Valery Larbaud was a French writer, critic, and translator, born and died in Vichy, who made Joyce known in France and wrote under the pseudonym A. O. Barnabooth.
Valhalla Rising (film)
Valhalla Rising is a 2009 Viking art film by Nicolas Winding Refn, a Danish-British co-production starring Mads Mikkelsen as One-Eye, a mute enslaved warrior who escapes with a boy and drifts by fogged ship to an unknown land; premiered at Venice and Toronto 2009, released by IFC Films.
Vali Vijelie
Vali Vijelie is the stage name of Valentin Rusu, a Romanian manele singer of Romani origin, born in Bucharest in 1970 and active since the 1990s.
Valiant (film)
Valiant (2005) is a CGI-animated comedy about a small wood pigeon joining the Royal Homing Pigeon Service in WWII, directed by Gary Chapman, produced by Vanguard Animation and Ealing Studios for Disney, budgeted at $40 million.
Valiant Comics
Valiant Comics, also Valiant Entertainment, is an American superhero comic publisher founded in 1989 by Jim Shooter and Steven Massarsky; home of X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, and Harbinger, sold to Acclaim, relaunched 2012, now DMG-owned with Alien Books publishing.
Valiant One
Valiant One is a 2025 American military thriller directed by Steve Barnett, starring Chase Stokes and Lana Condor as US soldiers who must escape across the Korean DMZ after their helicopter crashes in North Korea; released by Briarcliff Entertainment on January 31, 2025.
Valimai (வலிமை)
Valimai (வலிமை) is a 2022 Tamil action thriller directed by H. Vinoth, starring Ajith Kumar as cop Arjun hunting a biker gang. Released 24 February 2022; grossed ₹164.50 crore worldwide on a ₹150 crore budget; streamed on ZEE5.
Valinor
Valinor (Valinórë) is Tolkien's Blessed Realm in Aman west of Middle-earth, home of the Valar and the Two Trees, settled after Almaren fell, hidden after the Noldor exile, and removed from the round world after Númenor's fall.
Valiyavan (வலியவன்)
Valiyavan (வலியவன், also known as Challenge in Telugu) is a 2015 Tamil action-romance film directed by M. Saravanan, starring Jai and Andrea Jeremiah, released 27 March 2015 with music by D. Imman and mixed reviews.
Valkyrae
Valkyrae, real name Rachell Hofstetter, is an American streamer who rose on Twitch in 2015 and won Content Creator of the Year at The Game Awards 2020.
Valkyrie (film)
Valkyrie is a 2008 historical thriller directed by Bryan Singer and starring Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who led the July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.
Valkyrie (Marvel Comics)
Valkyrie (Brunnhilde) is a Marvel Comics Asgardian superheroine created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema, debuting in Avengers #83 (1970) as the Enchantress's disguise, joining the Defenders in 1973, dying in War of the Realms (2019), and succeeded by Jane Foster.
Valkyrie Drive
Valkyrie Drive (ヴァルキリードライヴ) is a Marvelous media franchise announced at AnimeJapan in 2015: the Mermaid anime by Arms, the Bhikkhuni PS Vita game, and the Siren social game, about A-Virus-infected girls who become weapons when aroused.
Vallan (film)
Vallan is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film written and directed by VR Mani Seiyon, starring Sundar C as a suspended police officer investigating a businessman's murder.
Vallathol Narayana Menon (വള്ളത്തോൾ നാരായണ മേനോൻ)
Vallathol Narayana Menon (വള്ളത്തോൾ നാരായണ മേനോൻ), 1878–1958, Malayalam poet of the great trio with Asan and Ulloor; author of Chitrayogam, Magdalana Mariyam, Sahityamanjari; founder of Kerala Kalamandalam (1930); Padma Bhushan 1955.
Vallavan
Vallavan (வல்லவன்) is a 2006 Tamil romance thriller, Silambarasan's directorial debut, starring him with Nayanthara, Reema Sen, and Sandhya, with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja; released around Diwali 2006 and re-released remastered in 2023.
Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham (வல்லவனுக்கு புல்லும் ஆயுதம்)
Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham (வல்லவனுக்கு புல்லும் ஆயுதம்), 2014 Tamil action comedy directed by Srinath, starring Santhanam and Ashna Zaveri; remake of Rajamouli's Maryada Ramanna, released 10 May 2014 by Studio Green.
Valle salvaje
Valle salvaje (Spanish daily period soap, also spelled Valle Salvaje) premiered 18 September 2024 on La 1; set in 1763, created by Josep Cister, produced by Bambú with Netflix, its first daily telenovela.
Vallenato
Vallenato, also called música vallenata, is a Colombian Caribbean accordion genre from Valledupar with four airs (son, paseo, merengue, puya), played on accordion, caja, and guacharaca, and UNESCO-listed heritage since 2015.
Valley Girl (1983 film)
Valley Girl (1983), Martha Coolidge's Romeo-and-Juliet teen romance starring Deborah Foreman and a young Nicolas Cage, cost $350,000, grossed $17 million, and defined 1980s Valley youth culture and its new wave soundtrack.
Valley Girl (2020 film)
Valley Girl (2020) is a jukebox musical romance remake of the 1983 film, directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, starring Jessica Rothe and Josh Whitehouse, released streaming May 5, 2020 after its 2018 theatrical date was pulled over Logan Paul controversies.
Valley Girl Problems
Valley Girl Problems is the second EP by American singer-actress Kylie Cantrall, released July 24, 2026 via Republic Records, Artist Partner Group, and Heroine Music. Nine songs, about 17 minutes, produced by Tricky Stewart with Tayla Parx; lead single "Carrie Bradshaw"; debuted at number 7 on Spotify's Weekly Top Albums Debut USA chart.
Valley of the Damned
Valley of the Damned is DragonForce's 2003 debut power metal album (also the title of its 2000 DragonHeart demo), released on Noise/Sanctuary, produced by Herman Li and Sam Totman, remixed in 2007.
Valley of the Dolls (film)
Valley of the Dolls (1967 film), Mark Robson's 20th Century-Fox adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's novel, starring Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon Tate; a critical flop that grossed $20 million and became a cult classic.
Valmiki
Valmiki (Vālmīki, वाल्मीकि), the adikavi or First Poet, is the sage credited with composing the Sanskrit Ramayana, India's earliest literary work, dated roughly 750–500 BCE, celebrated each Valmiki Jayanti.
Valmont (film)
Valmont is Miloš Forman's 1989 film adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses, starring Colin Firth and Annette Bening; a $35 million Orion Pictures production that flopped against Frears's Dangerous Liaisons but won Césars and an Oscar nomination.
Valpolicella
Valpolicella is a DOC wine zone near Verona, Veneto, Italy, covering Valpolicella DOC, Ripasso, Amarone and Recioto wines from Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella grapes, often dried by appassimento.
Valve trombone
Valve trombone: a trombone whose pitch is changed by three piston or rotary valves instead of a slide, invented in the 1820s, popular in 19th-century Italian and Austrian orchestras, later displaced by the slide trombone.
Valy
Valy (والی), born Valy Hedjasi, is an Afghan pop singer born in Mashhad, Iran, raised in Germany, known for his 2007 debut album After Love.
Valya Harkonnen
Valya Harkonnen is the protagonist of HBO's Dune: Prophecy, played by Emily Watson and Jessica Barden. Second Mother Superior of the Sisterhood, she masters the Voice and drives the Atreides-Harkonnen feud 10,000 years before Dune.