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Vivre sa vie
Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux (My Life to Live) is Jean-Luc Godard's 1962 French black-and-white drama in twelve tableaux, starring Anna Karina as Nana, a record-shop clerk who drifts into prostitution; it won the Special Jury Prize at Venice 1962.
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song, original 2021 WIT Studio sci-fi anime (13 episodes plus a recap) by Tappei Nagatsuki and Eiji Umehara, music by Satoru Kosaki; AI songstress Vivy and Matsumoto spend 100 years preventing an AI-human war; it later reached Netflix.
Vixen (band)
Vixen is an American all-female hard rock/glam metal band founded by guitarist Jan Kuehnemund of St. Paul, Minnesota. Known for 1988's Vixen album, "Edge of a Broken Heart" (#26) and "Cryin'" (#22), gold certification, and continued touring under later lineups.
Vixen (comics)
Vixen (Mari Jiwe McCabe) is a DC Comics superheroine who mimics any animal's abilities through the Tantu Totem. Created by Gerry Conway and Bob Oksner, she debuted in Action Comics #521 (1981) after her planned solo series was cancelled in the 1978 DC Implosion.
Vixen (web series)
Vixen is a 2015-2016 CW Seed animated web series, the Arrowverse spin-off about Mari McCabe, whose Tantu Totem lets her mimic any animal's abilities, voiced by Megalyn Echikunwoke.
VIXX (빅스)
VIXX (빅스, Voice Visual Value in Excelsis) is a South Korean boy band formed by Jellyfish Entertainment in 2012 via Mnet's MyDOL, known as concept kings for dark narrative comebacks such as Hyde, Voodoo Doll, and Error; now a three-member group (Ken, Leo, Hyuk).
Viy (2014 film)
Viy (Вий), also released as Forbidden Empire or Viy 3D, is a 2014 dark fantasy film directed by Oleg Stepchenko, loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's story "Viy" and set in early-eighteenth-century Ukraine.
Viy (Вий) (1967 film)
Viy (Вий), 1967 Mosfilm Soviet horror-fantasy film by Georgi Kropachev and Konstantin Yershov, adapted from Gogol's 1835 novella; starring Leonid Kuravlyov and Natalya Varley, seen by about 32 million USSR viewers.
Viy 2: Journey to China (Вий 2: Путешествие в Китай)
Viy 2: Journey to China (Тайна печати дракона; The Mystery of the Dragon Seal, The Iron Mask) is a 2019 Russian-Chinese fantasy adventure sequel to Viy (2014), directed by Oleg Stepchenko, starring Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jason Flemyng; a $50 million box-office failure.
Viz (comics)
Viz is a British adult comedy magazine founded in Newcastle in 1979 by Chris Donald, parodying children's comics with profane strips like the Fat Slags and Roger Mellie; it peaked at 1.2 million copies in 1991 and is now a monthly Metropolis Group title.
Viz Media
Viz Media (VIZ Media, LLC) is the largest North American manga publisher and a leading anime distributor, founded 1986 in San Francisco by Seiji Horibuchi, now a Shogakukan-Shueisha joint venture with Shonen Jump and VIZ Manga digital services.
Vizma Belševica
Vizma Belševica was a Latvian poet, prose writer, and translator whose work clashed with Soviet censorship and earned repeated Nobel Prize nominations; she died in 2005.
Vkhutemas
Vkhutemas was a Soviet state school of art, architecture, and design in Moscow, operating from 1920 to 1930 and regarded alongside the Bauhaus as a foundation of modern design.
Vlad Love (ぶらどらぶ)
Vlad Love (ぶらどらぶ) is a 2021 original ONA anime by Mamoru Oshii (chief director) and Junji Nishimura, produced by Drive with Production I.G: 12 episodes about blood donor Mitsugu Bamba and the vampire Mai Vlad Transylvania, streamed on Crunchyroll.
Vladimir (TV series)
Vladimir is a 2026 Netflix eight-episode comedy-drama limited series adapted by Julia May Jonas from her 2022 novel, starring Rachel Weisz as an unnamed professor obsessed with colleague Vladimir (Leo Woodall); premiered March 5, 2026.
Vladimir Borovikovsky
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (1757–1825) was a portrait and icon painter of the Russian Empire, born in Myrhorod, and one of the leading Russian portraitists of his era.
Vladimir Dal
Vladimir Ivanovich Dal (1801–1872) was a Russian lexicographer, writer, and physician who compiled the four-volume Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language with over 200,000 words.
Vladimir Favorsky
Vladimir Andreevich Favorsky (Владимир Андреевич Фаворский) was a Russian and Soviet wood engraver, book designer, and teacher, founder of the Moscow school of wood engraving and VKhUTEMAS rector.
Vladimir Ghika
Vladimir Ghika (1873–1954) was a Romanian prince turned Catholic priest who died in Jilava prison in 1954 and was beatified as a martyr in 2013.
Vladimir Harkonnen
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Siridar-Baron of Giedi Prime in Frank Herbert's 1965 Dune, is the antagonist who destroys Duke Leto Atreides, secretly fathers Lady Jessica, and is killed by Alia in 10193 AG.
Vladimir Herzog
Vladimir Herzog, known as Vlado, was a Brazilian journalist and TV Cultura news director tortured and killed by the military dictatorship in São Paulo in 1975.
Vladimir Horowitz (Владимир Самойлович Горовиц)
Vladimir Horowitz (Владимир Самойлович Горовиц, 1903–1989), Ukrainian-born American virtuoso pianist; left the USSR in 1925, debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1928, married Wanda Toscanini, withdrew four times from the stage, and returned to Moscow in 1986.
Vladimir Kiselyov
Vladimir Kiselyov, also known as Vladimir Kiselev (Владимир Киселёв), born 1952, is a Soviet and Russian drummer turned producer who created Zemlyane and owns Russkoe Radio.
Vladimir Korolenko
Vladimir Korolenko (Владимир Короленко), 1853 to 1921, was a Russian short-story writer and publicist of Ukrainian-Polish parentage known for stories of exiles set in Siberia and Ukraine.
Vladimir Kulich
Vladimir Kulich (born 1956, Prague) is a Czech-born actor known as Buliwyf in The 13th Warrior (1999), The Beast in Angel, Tiberius in Ironclad, Erik in Vikings, and the voice of Ulfric Stormcloak in Skyrim.
Vladimir Kuzmin
Vladimir Kuzmin (Владимир Кузьмин), born 1955 in Moscow, is a Soviet and Russian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, a leading figure of Russian rock-pop since the late 1970s.
Vladimir Makanin
Vladimir Makanin (Владимир Маканин, 1937–2017) was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the leading post-Soviet prose writers, known for Caucasian Prisoner and The Underground, or a Hero of Our Time.
Vladimir Makovsky
Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky (Владимир Егорович Маковский, 1846–1920) was a Russian genre painter and leading member of the Peredvizhniki, known for small narrative scenes of Moscow life.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Владимир Владимирович Маяковский, 1893–1930), Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, and painter of Russian Futurism: cubo-futurist manifesto signer, author of The Cloud in Trousers, Mystery-Bouffe, The Bedbug, and The Bathhouse, died by suicide in Moscow in 1930.
Vladimir Mulyavin
Vladimir Mulyavin (Владимир Мулявин, 1941–2003) was a Belarusian singer, guitarist, and composer who founded and led the folk ensemble Pesnyary, becoming a People's Artist of the USSR in 1991.