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Village of the Damned (1960 film)
Village of the Damned (1960) is Wolf Rilla's British MGM sci-fi horror adapting John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos: a village blackout, telepathic blonde children, George Sanders, a 1964 sequel, and Carpenter's 1995 remake.
Village of the Damned (1995 film)
Village of the Damned, also known as John Carpenter's Village of the Damned, is a 1995 American science-fiction horror film directed by Carpenter, starring Christopher Reeve.
Village People
Village People, disco group created 1977 by Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo, named for Greenwich Village; six macho archetypes, hits Y.M.C.A., Macho Man, In the Navy; 100 million records; gay-to-straight crossover act.
Village Prose
Village Prose (деревенская проза) was a movement in Russian literature of the 1950s to 1980s depicting rural life, led by writers such as Rasputin and Astafyev.
Village Roadshow Pictures
Village Roadshow Pictures (VRP), American film production and co-financing arm of Village Roadshow Entertainment Group; Warner Bros. co-productions (The Matrix, Ocean's, Joker); Chapter 11 in March 2025, library sold to Alcon for $417.5 million.
Villagers (band)
Villagers are an Irish indie folk band formed in 2008 in Dublin by Conor J. O'Brien, formerly of The Immediate. Six Domino albums from Becoming a Jackal (2010) to That Golden Time (2024), two Mercury nominations, two Ivor Novello Awards.
Villain
A villain is a morally evil story character whose evil actions drive the plot, typically opposing the hero; one of the villain-victim-hero triad in character theory.
Villain (1971 film)
Villain (1971) is a British gangster film directed by Michael Tuchner, starring Richard Burton as Ronnie Kray-inspired East End crime boss Vic Dakin, adapted from James Barlow's novel The Burden of Proof, released May 1971 in New York and August 1971 in the UK.
Villain (2002 film)
Villain (வில்லன்), 2002 Tamil heist action film by K. S. Ravikumar starring Ajith Kumar in a dual role as twins Shiva and Vishnu, with Meena and Kiran Rathod; Diwali 2002 hit, Filmfare-winning, remade in Telugu.
Villain (2010 film)
Villain (悪人, Akunin) is a 2010 Japanese crime drama by Lee Sang-il, adapted from Shūichi Yoshida's novel, starring Satoshi Tsumabuki and Eri Fukatsu as fugitive lovers after a murder; it won four Japan Academy acting prizes and Montreal Best Actress.
Villain (2017 film)
Villain (വില്ലൻ), 2017 Malayalam crime thriller by B. Unnikrishnan starring Mohanlal as ADGP Mathew Manjooran; shot entirely in 8K, released 27 October 2017.
Villainous
Villainous (Villanos) is a Mexican animated comedy by Alan Ituriel about Black Hat Organization, which sells evil products to villains; 2017 shorts, six-episode season 2019–2021 on Max.
Villains (film)
Villains is a 2019 American horror-comedy film by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, starring Bill Skarsgård and Maika Monroe as criminal lovers who break into a house owned by Kyra Sedgwick and Jeffrey Donovan's characters and find a dark secret; premiered at SXSW, released September 20, 2019 by Gunpowder & Sky's Alter banner.
Villains (Queens of the Stone Age album)
Villains, seventh studio album by Queens of the Stone Age, released 25 August 2017 on Matador; produced by Mark Ronson and Mark Rankin, nine tracks, 48 minutes, danceable funk-rock sound.
Villains (빌런즈)
Villains (빌런즈) is an 8-episode 2025-2026 TVING Korean crime drama, not the KBS sitcom Villains Everywhere, about villains fighting over 500 billion won in counterfeit "Supernotes", starring Yoo Ji-tae, Kwak Do-won, Lee Beom-soo, and Lee Min-jung, delayed three years after a 2022 drunk-driving case.
Villains Are Destined to Die
Villains Are Destined to Die (악역의 엔딩은 죽음뿐), also Death Is the Only Ending for the Villainess, is Gwon Gyeoeul's Korean villainess-isekai web novel (2019) adapted by SUOL into a 214-chapter webtoon; Yen Press licenses both, and an anime was announced in 2026.
Villancico
A villancico is a Spanish song and verse form with a refrain and verses, born in Iberia in the late 1400s and later used in colonial Mexican cathedral music.
Villanelle
The villanelle, also called villanesque, is a 19-line fixed poetic form of five tercets plus a quatrain with two rhymes and two alternating refrains, derived from the Italian villanella; famous examples include Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night".
Villanelle (character)
Villanelle (Oksana Astankova) is a fictional psychopathic assassin created by Luke Jennings in the Codename Villanelle novellas and played by Jodie Comer in Killing Eve (BBC America, 2018–2022). Known for her perfume-derived codename, obsession with Eve Polastri, pink tulle dress, and the divisive finale death absent from the books.
Villanovan culture
The Villanovan culture, also known as the Villanovan civilization, was the Early Iron Age culture of central and northern Italy, regarded as the formative phase of the Etruscan civilization.
Villard de Honnecourt
Villard de Honnecourt was a thirteenth-century draftsman from Picardy in northern France, known through his sketchbook of drawings of Gothic cathedrals including Reims and Laon.
Ville Valo
Ville Valo (born 1976, Helsinki), also known as VV, is the Finnish singer-songwriter who fronted goth metal band HIM, co-founded in 1991 with Mige; HIM's Dark Light went gold in the US, and his 2023 solo debut is Neon Noir.
Villette (novel)
Villette (1853), Charlotte Brontë's final novel, published as Currer Bell in three volumes by Smith, Elder and Co., follows unreliable narrator Lucy Snowe teaching in a Brussels-inspired city, drawing on Brontë's unrequited love for Constantin Heger.
Villibharatam
Villibharatam (வில்லிபாரதம்), also called Villi Bharatam, is a 14th-century Tamil retelling of Vyasa's Mahabharata by the poet Villiputturar, the most important Tamil version of the epic.
Villiputturar
Villiputturar (வில்லிபுத்தூரார்), also called Villiputtur Alvar or Villi, was a 14th-century Tamil poet from Thanjavur whose Villi Bharatham, a celebrated Tamil version of the Mahabharata, runs to about 4,350 verses.
Villon's Wife
Villon's Wife (Viyon no tsuma, ヴィヨンの妻) is a 1947 short story by Japanese writer Osamu Dazai, told by the common-law wife of a thieving, drink-driven poet in postwar Tokyo.
Villu (வில்லு) (film)
Villu (வில்லு), 2009 Tamil action film directed by Prabhu Deva, starring Vijay in a dual role with Nayanthara, Prakash Raj, and Vadivelu; a remake of Soldier released 12 January 2009 that flopped.
Villupattu
Villupattu, also called villisai or villadichan pattu, is a Tamil folk art of musical storytelling in which a lead singer strikes a bow for rhythm.
Villy Sørensen
Villy Sørensen (1929–2001) was a Danish author, philosopher, critic, and translator, a central figure of Danish modernism who won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1974.
Vilma Palma e Vampiros
Vilma Palma e Vampiros is an Argentine pop-rock band from Rosario, formed in 1990 and led by vocalist Mario "Pájaro" Gómez, known for the hits "La Pachanga" and "Bye Bye".