| W | Richard Quine | thriller film | United States |
| W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | John G. Avildsen | crime film | United States |
| Wackersdorf – Ein Mythos | — | documentary film | Germany |
| Wagons East! | Peter Markle | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| Wahadelko | Filip Bajon | drama film | Poland |
| Waikiki Wedding | Frank Tuttle | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Waist Deep | Vondie Curtis-Hall | romance film, drama film, action film, hood film, crime film | United States |
| Wait and See | Walter Forde | — | — |
| Wait for Us at Dawn | Emil Loteanu | — | Soviet Union |
| Waiting for Dali | David Pujol i Rusinol | drama film, comedy film | Spain |
| Wakaki hi wa kanashi | Tsuruo Iwama | — | — |
| Wake Up and Dream | Lloyd Bacon | — | — |
| Wake Up Dead Man | Rian Johnson | mystery film, comedy film, detective fiction | United States |
| Wake Up Love | Eliseo Subiela | comedy film | Argentina |
| Wake Up Sid | — | drama film, romantic comedy | India |
| Waking the Dead | Keith Gordon | drama film, thriller film | United States |
| Waking Up in Reno | Jordan Brady | drama film, comedy film, road movie, comedy drama | United States |
| Walk Like a Dragon | James Clavell | Western film | United States |
| Walk Like a Man | Melvin Frank | comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Walk Ride Rodeo | Conor Allyn | drama film, biographical film, comedy drama | United States |
| Walk Softly, Stranger | Robert Stevenson | drama film, film noir | United States |
| Walker on Water | Anu Aun | documentary film | Estonia |
| Walking the Streets of Moscow | Georgiy Daneliya | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Wall of Noise | Richard Wilson | drama film | United States |
| Wall Street | Oliver Stone | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Oliver Stone | drama film, prison film | United States |
| Wallander – Bröderna | Jørn Faurschou | thriller film | Sweden |
| Wallander – Luftslottet | Anders Engström | thriller film | Sweden |
| Wallander – Läckan | Henrik Georgsson | thriller film | Sweden |
| Wallander: Mastermind | Peter Flinth | thriller film | Sweden |
| Wallander: The Revenge | Charlotte Brändström | thriller film | Sweden |
| Walnut Bread | Arūnas Žebriūnas | drama film, tragicomedy | Soviet Union |
| Waltz of the Toreadors | John Guillermin | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Waltzing Regitze | Kaspar Rostrup | drama film | Denmark |
| Walzerkrieg | Ludwig Berger | musical film | Germany |
| Wanda la peccatrice | Duilio Coletti | drama film | France, Italy |
| Wandering Girls | Ralph Ince | — | — |
| Wandering Heart | Leonardo Brzezicki | drama film | Argentina |
| Wanted! | Francis Meletzky | drama film | Germany |
| War | Philip Atwell | action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| War 2 | — | action thriller | India |
| War and Peace | Sergei Bondarchuk | romance film, drama film, historical film, war film, epic film | Soviet Union |
| War and Peace | Satsuo Yamamoto | drama film | Japan |
| War and the Woman | Ernest C. Warde | — | — |
| War Dogs | Todd Phillips | drama film, comedy film, war film, biographical film, crime film | United States |
| War Games: At the End of the Day | Cosimo Alemà | horror film | Italy |
| War Machine | David Michôd | comedy film, action film, war film | United States |
| War of the Buttons | Yves Robert | comedy film | France |
| Warcraft | Duncan Jones | fantasy film, action film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Warkop DKI Reborn: Jangkrik Boss Part 2 | Anggy Umbara | comedy film | Indonesia |
| Warm Summer Rain | Joe Gayton | drama film | United States |
| Warring Clans | Kihachi Okamoto | pirate film, Jidaigeki | Japan |
| Warrior | Gavin O'Connor | martial arts film, drama film, action film, kung fu film | United States |
| Warriors | Daniel Calparsoro | drama film, adventure film, war film | Spain |
| Warriors of Future | Ng Yuen-Fai | dystopian film, science fiction action film, adventure film | Hong Kong |
| Warriors of Heaven and Earth | He Ping | action film, adventure film | People's Republic of China, Hong Kong |
| Warriors Two | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Warsaw Ghetto | Hugh Burnett | documentary film | — |
| Warszawska syrena | Tadeusz Makarczyński | — | — |
| Wartime Romance | Pyotr Todorovsky | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Washington Square | Agnieszka Holland | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Watch on the Rhine | Herman Shumlin | — | — |
| Watchmen | Zack Snyder | drama film, superhero film, action film, dystopian film, alternate history film, neo-noir, vigilante film | United States |
| Waterloo | Karl Grune | — | — |
| Waterloo Bridge | Mervyn LeRoy | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| Watermelon Man | Melvin Van Peebles | comedy drama | United States |
| Waterwalker | Bill Mason | documentary film | Canada |
| Watusi | Kurt Neumann | fantasy film | United States |
| Way Back Home | Jerry Lopez Sineneng | drama film | Philippines |
| Way Down East | Henry King | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Way of a Gaucho | Jacques Tourneur | romance film, Western film | United States |
| Way Out West | Fred Niblo | — | — |
| Ways to Strength and Beauty | Wilhelm Prager | — | — |
| We Are Family | Renat Davletyarov | comedy film | Russia |
| We Are from Jazz | Karen Shakhnazarov | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| We Are Not Alone | Edmund Goulding | romance film, drama film | United States |
| We Can Be Heroes | Robert Rodriguez | family film, superhero film, action comedy film, adventure film | United States |
| We Didn't Learn This | Ilya Frez | teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| We Have a Pope | — | drama film, comedy film | France, Italy |
| We Have Only One Life | Giorgos Tzavellas | comedy film | Greece |
| We Knew Him Only by Sight | Anton Tymonyshyn | war film | Soviet Union |
| We Live in Time | John Crowley | romance film, drama film | United Kingdom |
| We Lived for Estonia | Andres Sööt | documentary film | Estonia |
| We Looked in the Death's Face | Naum Birman | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks | Alex Gibney | documentary film | United States |
| We Want Roses Too | Alina Marazzi | documentary film | Italy |
| We Were Dancing | Robert Z. Leonard | romantic comedy film | United States |
| We'll Find Happiness | Léa Pool | drama film | Canada, Luxembourg |
| We're All Going to the World's Fair | Jane Schoenbrun | drama film, horror film, found footage film | United States |
| We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story | Simon Wells, Dick Zondag, Phil Nibbelink, Ralph Zondag | family film, fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film, science fiction film, musical film | United States |
| We're No Angels | Michael Curtiz | comedy film, Christmas film, crime film | United States |
| We're Only Human | James Flood | drama film | United States |
| Weapons and Men | André Melançon | — | Canada |
| Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach | Leonid Gaidai | spy comedy film, crime comedy film, parody film | Russia, United States |
| Weathering with You | Makoto Shinkai | fantasy film, supernatural film | Japan |
| Wedding in Malinovka | Andrey Tutyshkin | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Wedding Night | Émile Gaudreault | romantic comedy | Canada |
| Wedding of the Century | Marja Pyykkö | comedy film | Finland |
| Wedding Proposal | Emil Heradi | drama film | Indonesia |
| Wee Willie Winkie | John Ford | children's film | United States |
| Weekend | Andrew Haigh | romance film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom |
| Weekend at Dunkirk | Henri Verneuil | — | France, Italy |
| Weekend of Shadows | Tom Jeffrey | — | Australia |
| Weird Science | John Hughes | teen film, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film, buddy film, science fiction comedy, romantic comedy | United States |
| Welcome Home | George Ratliff | drama film, thriller film | United States |
| Welcome to Mooseport | Donald Petrie | romantic comedy film, comedy film | Germany, United States |
| Welcome to the Club | Walter Shenson | comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Welcome, or No Trespassing | Elem Klimov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Wells Fargo | Frank Lloyd | Western film | United States |
| Wen er maar aan | Albert Jan van Rees | drama film, comedy film | Netherlands |
| Wer | William Brent Bell | horror film | United States |
| Werewolves Within | Josh Ruben | werewolf film | United States |
| Werner – Beinhart! | Niki List, Gerhard Hahn, Michael Schaack | comedy film, action film, live-action/animated film | Germany |
| West of Memphis | Amy J. Berg | prison film, documentary film | United States |
| West of the Divide | Robert N. Bradbury | — | — |
| West of the Pecos | Edward Killy | — | — |
| West Point Widow | Robert Siodmak | comedy film | United States |
| Westbound | Budd Boetticher | Western film | United States |
| Western Blood | Lynn Reynolds | — | — |
| Western Jamboree | Ralph Staub | — | — |
| Westerplatte | Stanisław Różewicz | drama film, war film | Poland |
| Westward Ho | Robert N. Bradbury | Western film | United States |
| Westward the Women | William A. Wellman | Western film, action film | United States |
| Wetlands | Guy Édoin | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | Canada |
| We’re Waiting for You, Lad | Ravil Batyrov | — | Soviet Union |
| What a Circus! | Lotte Svendsen | drama film, family film, comedy film | Denmark |
| What a Gang | Ze'ev Chavatzelet | drama film | Israel |
| What a Girl Wants | Dennie Gordon | coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film | United States |
| What a Life | Theodore Reed | comedy drama | United States |
| What a Man! | George Crone | romantic comedy film | United States |
| What a Sun | Jane Kavčič | romance film, teen film, drama film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| What a Wonderful Game | Pyotr Todorovsky | drama film | Russia |
| What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? | Sergio Corbucci | comedy film, Western film, Spaghetti Western, adventure film, buddy film | Spain, Italy |
| What Every Woman Knows | William Churchill deMille | — | — |
| What Happened to Jones | James Cruze | — | — |
| What happened to this city? | Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam | buddy film | India |
| What if Gargiulo Finds Out? | Elvio Porta | comedy film | Italy |
| What Is a Woman? | Justin Folk | documentary film | United States |
| What is Happening With You? | Vladimir Saroukhanov | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| What is My Sin? | George Ovadiah | — | Iran |
| What Is the Matter with Willi? | Werner Jacobs | comedy film | Germany |
| What Lies Beneath | Robert Zemeckis | drama film, horror film, ghost film, psychological horror fiction | United States |
| What Men Want | Adam Shankman | romantic comedy film, fantasy film | United States |
| What Planet Are You From? | Mike Nichols | comedy film, science fiction film | United States |
| What Price Glory | John Ford | comedy film | United States |
| What Price Glory? | Raoul Walsh | — | — |
| What Scoundrels Men Are! | Mario Camerini | comedy film | Italy |
| What the Moon Saw | Pino Amenta | — | Australia |
| What They Had | Elizabeth Chomko | drama film | United States |
| What War May Bring | Claude Lelouch | drama film, comedy drama | France |
| What We Do in the Shadows | Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement | comedy film, horror film, vampire film, comedy horror, mockumentary | New Zealand |
| What we remember | Roland Steiner | documentary film | East Germany |
| What Women Will Do | Edward José | — | — |
| What's Cooking? | Gurinder Chadha | drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom, United States |
| What's the Worst That Could Happen? | Sam Weisman | comedy film, crime film | United States |
| What's Up, Tiger Lily? | Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi | spy film | United States |
| What's Worth While? | Lois Weber | — | — |
| What's Your Husband Doing? | Lloyd Ingraham | — | — |
| When a Man Loves a Woman | Luis Mandoki | romance film, drama film | United States |
| When a Man Sees Red | Alan James | adventure film | United States |
| When Father Was Away on Business | Emir Kusturica | coming-of-age film, comedy drama | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| When I Was a Child | — | — | Soviet Union |
| When Love Is Over | Léonce Perret | drama film | France |
| When Lovers Part | Sidney Olcott | — | — |
| When My Baby Smiles at Me | Walter Lang | musical film | United States |
| When Nature Calls | Charlie Kaufman | comedy film | United States |
| When September comes | Edmond Keosayan | family film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| When She Starts, Look Out | Géza von Cziffra | comedy film | Germany |
| When the Applause Died | Nick Bougas | documentary film | United States |
| When the Clouds Roll By | Theodore Reed | — | — |
| When the Dead Speak | Robert Reinert | — | — |
| When the Game Stands Tall | Thomas Carter | American football film, drama film, family film | United States |
| When the Light Breaks | Rúnar Rúnarsson | coming-of-age film, drama film | France, Iceland, Croatia, Netherlands |
| When the Rain Falls | Shūsuke Kaneko | romance film, lesbian fiction, erotic film | Japan |
| When This Summer is Over | Jang Byung-ki | coming-of-age film | South Korea |
| When will you get divorced? | Oleksii Komarovskyi | romantic comedy film | Latvia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Bulgaria |
| When Worlds Collide | Rudolph Maté | fantasy film, comedy film, action film, horror film, thriller film, speculative fiction film, adventure film, science fiction film, disaster film | France, United States |
| When you are twelve years old | Kanymbek-Kano Kasymbekov | children's film | Soviet Union |
| When You're in Love | Robert Riskin, Harry Lachman | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| When You're Smiling | Joseph Santley | musical film | United States |
| Where Atilla Passes | Onur Karaman | drama film | Canada |
| Where Is Mikel? | Miguel Ángel Llamas, Amaia Merino | documentary film | Spain |
| Where Is St. Nicholas' Big Book? | Armando de Boer | Sinterklaas film | Netherlands |
| Where is the Nophelet? | Gerald Bezhanov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Where Is Winky's Horse? | Mischa Kamp | comedy film | Belgium, Netherlands |
| Where the Heart Is | John Boorman | drama film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Where the Lilies Bloom | William A. Graham | drama film | United States |
| Where the Money Is | Marek Kanievska | drama film, comedy film, heist film | United States |
| Where the Pavement Ends | Rex Ingram | — | — |
| Where the Penguins Fly | Josip Vujčić | drama film | Croatia |
| Where the Truth Lies | Atom Egoyan | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, erotic thriller, thriller film, erotic film | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Spike Jonze | drama film, fantasy film, children's film, adventure film | United States |
| Where the Wind Blows | Åke Ohberg | drama film | Norway, Sweden |
| Where There's Life | Sidney Lanfield | — | — |
| Where to Invade Next | Michael Moore | documentary film | United States |
| Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | Hy Averback | comedy film | United States |
| Which Brings Me To You | Peter Hutchings | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Which of the Nine? | István Szőts | drama film | Hungary |
| While Defending the Front Line | Yuly Fayt | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| While the Sun Shines | Anthony Asquith | — | — |
| While You Were Sleeping | Jon Turteltaub | Christmas film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Whimsical | Gholam-Reza Sarkub | — | Iran |
| Whiplash | Damien Chazelle | drama film, musical film | United States |
| Whirlpool | Roy William Neill | — | — |
| Whirlwind | Luis Marquina | comedy film | Spain |
| Whirlwind Raiders | Vernon Keays | Western film | United States |
| Whispering Corridors 6: The Humming | Lee Miyoung | horror film | South Korea |
| Whispering Footsteps | Howard Bretherton | — | — |
| Whispering Ghosts | Alfred L. Werker | mystery film | United States |
| Whispering Wires | Albert Ray | — | — |
| Whispers | Douglas Jackson | horror film, thriller film | Canada, United States |
| Whistle Down the Wind | Bryan Forbes | drama film | United Kingdom |
| White and Unmarried | Tom Forman | — | — |
| White Christmas | Michael Curtiz | romantic comedy film, Christmas film, musical film | United States |
| White Dew | Igor Dobrolyubov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| White Face | T. Hayes Hunter | — | — |
| White Fang | Alexandre Espigares | — | France, Luxembourg |
| White Heat | Thomas Bentley | — | — |
| White Lily | Hideo Nakata | pink film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | Japan |
| White Nights | Ivan Pyryev | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| White Noise | Geoffrey Sax | mystery film, drama film, horror film, thriller film | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| White Palms | Szabolcs Hajdu | drama film | Hungary |
| White Snow of Russia | Yuri Vyshinsky | drama film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| White Squall | Ridley Scott | drama film, action film, adventure film, disaster film | United Kingdom, United States |
| White Sun of the Desert | Vladimir Motyl | romance film, tragicomedy, ostern, adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| White Wilderness | James Algar | nature documentary, documentary film | United States |
| White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild | Terence H. Winkless | adventure film | United States |
| Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger | Joe Berlinger | documentary film | United States |
| Whitney | Kevin Macdonald | biographical film, documentary film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Who Am I? | Jackie Chan, Benny Chan | martial arts film, comedy film, action film, spy film | Hong Kong |
| Who Are U? | Choi Ho | romance film | South Korea |
| Who Goes There? | William P.S. Earle | — | — |
| Who Killed Santa Claus? | Christian-Jaque | drama film, Christmas film, crime film | France |
| Who Killed Who? | Tex Avery | comedy film, ghost film, parody film | United States |
| Who Stole Roger Rabbit? | Max Cool | pornographic parody film, pornographic film | United Kingdom |
| Who Will Enter the Last Carriage?.. | Boris Konunov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Who Will Marry Mary? | Walter Edwin | — | — |
| Who's That Knocking at My Door | Martin Scorsese | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Whom the Gods Love | Karl Hartl | drama film, biographical film | Germany, Austria |
| Whom the Gods Love | Basil Dean | — | — |
| Whoso Is Without Sin | Fred Paul | — | — |
| Why Did I Get Married? | Tyler Perry | LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama | United States |
| Why Do You Love Me | Herwin Novianto | comedy drama | Indonesia |
| Why Vandalism? | — | — | — |
| Widows | Sherry Hormann | comedy film | Germany |
| Widows | Sergey Mikaelyan | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Wiener-Dog | Todd Solondz | comedy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Wife of a Spy | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | historical drama | Japan |
| Wife to Be Sacrificed | Masaru Konuma | exploitation film, pink film, erotic thriller | Japan |
| Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself | Lone Scherfig | drama film, comedy film | France, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark |
| Wild Bill Hickok Rides | Ray Enright | Western film | United States |
| Wild Cargo | Armand Denis | — | — |
| Wild Generation | Matti Kassila | comedy film | Finland |
| Wild Gold | George Marshall | romance film | United States |
| Wild Harvest | Tay Garnett | drama film | United States |
| Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken | Steve Miner | romance film, drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Wild Heritage | Charles F. Haas | Western film | United States |
| Wild Horse Mesa | Henry Hathaway | romance film, Western film | United States |
| Wild Stallion | Lewis D. Collins | Western film | United States |
| Wild Swans | Helle Karis | cinematic fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| Wild Things | John McNaughton | teen film, mystery film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, neo-noir, erotic thriller, crime film | United States |
| Wild Tour | Shō Miyake | — | Japan |
| Wild Wild West | Barry Sonnenfeld | comedy film, Western film, action film, buddy cop film, steampunk film | United States |
| Wildcat Bus | Frank Woodruff | action film | United States |
| Will Any Gentleman...? | Michael Anderson | — | — |
| Will Eisner - profissão cartunista | — | documentary film | Brazil |
| Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Frank Tashlin | — | — |
| Willi Manages The Whole Thing | Werner Jacobs | comedy film, association football film | Germany |
| Willow | Ron Howard | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wilson | Henry King | — | — |
| Win Win | Tom McCarthy | sport film, comedy drama | United States |
| Winchester | Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | horror film, ghost film, supernatural fiction | United States |
| Wind in the Face | Aleksandr Zarkhi | — | — |
| Wind of Freedom | Leonid Trauberg | romance film, romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Windy City | Armyan Bernstein | drama film | United States |
| Wings | William A. Wellman | — | — |
| Wings of Danger | Terence Fisher | — | — |
| Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | drama film, fantasy film | France, Germany |
| Wings of the Hawk | Budd Boetticher | Western film | United States |
| Winners of the Wilderness | W. S. Van Dyke | — | — |
| Winnetou and the Crossbreed | Harald Philipp | Western film | Germany, Italy |
| Winnie the Pooh | Don Hall, Stephen Anderson | fantasy film, comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Winning London | Craig Shapiro | comedy film | United States |
| Winter Cherries 3 | Igor Maslennikov | melodrama | Russia |
| Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | Evgeny Afineevsky | documentary film | United Kingdom, Ukraine, United States |
| Winter's Child | Olivier Assayas | drama film | France |
| Winter's Tale | Akiva Goldsman | romance film, drama film, fantasy film | United States |
| Winterset | Alfred Santell | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Winx Club: The Mystery Of The Abyss | Iginio Straffi | fantasy film | Italy |
| Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom | Iginio Straffi | romance film, fantasy film, comedy film, melodrama, adventure film, speculative fiction | Italy |
| Wiosna, panie sierzancie | Tadeusz Chmielewski | comedy film | Poland |
| Wisdom | Emilio Estevez, Robert Wise | romance film, drama film, crime film | United States |
| Wise Girls | E. Mason Hopper | — | — |
| Wise Guys | Brian De Palma | comedy film, crime comedy film, action film, crime thriller film, black comedy film, buddy film, gangster film, crime film | United States |
| Wish Dragon | Chris Appelhans, Amy Heckerling | comedy film | People's Republic of China, United States |
| Wish I Had a Horse | Ravjaagiin Dorjpalam | drama film | Mongolia |
| Witch in Our Family | Harald Hamrell, Clæs Dietmann | family film | Norway, Sweden |
| Witches' Sabbath | János Rózsa | romance film, family film, adventure film | Hungary |
| Witchfinder General | Michael Reeves | drama film, historical film, horror film | United Kingdom |
| With a Song in My Heart | Walter Lang | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| With Byrd at the South Pole | Julian Johnson | documentary film | United States |
| With Fear and Passion | Nikos Foskolos | drama film | Greece |
| With Love | Marc Bisaillon | thriller film | Canada |
| With Open Arms | Philippe de Chauveron | comedy film | France, Belgium |
| With Our Heroes on the Somme | — | — | — |
| Without a Clue | Thom Eberhardt | comedy film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Without a Paddle | Steven Brill | comedy film, treasure hunt film | United States |
| Without Family | Giorgio Ferroni | drama film | Italy |
| Without Her | Jean Beaudin | thriller film | Canada |
| Without Pity | Alberto Lattuada | drama film | Italy |
| Without Remorse | Stefano Sollima | action film, spy film, thriller film | United States |
| Without Reservations | Mervyn LeRoy | comedy film | United States |
| Without the Right to Fail | Yevgeniya Zhigulenko | adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Witness | Peter Weir | drama film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Wives | Anja Breien | comedy drama | Norway |
| Wives Under Suspicion | James Whale | — | — |
| Woke Up Like This | — | comedy film | Philippines |
| Wolf Creek | Greg McLean | horror film, slasher film | Australia |
| Wolf Cub Among People | Talgat Temenov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Wolf Pack | Temet Natsagdorj | — | Mongolian People's Republic |
| Wolf Totem | Jean-Jacques Annaud | drama film, adventure film | France, People's Republic of China |
| Wolfen | Michael Wadleigh | horror film, crime film | United States |
| Wolfhound | Mikhail Tumanishvili | action film | Soviet Union |
| Wolfs | Jon Watts | thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Woman Between Wolf and Dog | André Delvaux | drama film | France, Belgium |
| Woman in the Jungle | Dimitri Buchowetzki | drama film | United States |
| Woman in the River | Gerhard Lamprecht | drama film | Germany, Austria |
| Woman of Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film, silent film | Japan |
| Woman on the Roof | Anna Jadowska | drama film | France, Sweden, Poland |
| Woman on Top | Fina Torres | LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy | United States, Venezuela |
| Woman They Almost Lynched | Allan Dwan | drama film, Western film | United States |
| Woman Without a Face | Gustaf Molander | drama film | Sweden |
| Woman's World | — | — | — |
| Women | Stanley Kwan | drama film | Hong Kong |
| Women and the Guards | Una Celma | documentary film | Latvia |
| Women Don't Lie | Michael Juncker | comedy film | Germany, Austria |
| Women Drive Me Crazy | Fausto Brizzi | romantic comedy | Italy |
| Women in Love | Johanne Prégent | — | Canada |
| Women In Prison | Seiji Hisamatsu | — | Japan |
| Women of the Night | Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| Women They Talk About | Lloyd Bacon | — | — |
| Women Without Men | Shoja Azari, Shirin Neshat | drama film | France, Germany, Austria, Iran |
| Women's Prison | Lewis Seiler | film noir, women in prison film, crime film | United States |
| Wonder Boys | Curtis Hanson | drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, United States |
| Wonder Man | H. Bruce Humberstone | fantasy film, comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Wonder Woman | Lauren Montgomery | fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Wonder Woman 1984 | Patty Jenkins | drama film, superhero film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film, war film | United States |
| Wonder Woman XXX: An Axel Braun Parody | Axel Braun | superhero film, pornographic parody film | United States |
| Wonderful Life | Sidney J. Furie | musical film | United Kingdom |
| Wonderland | Inari Niemi | drama film, comedy film, Christmas film | Finland |
| Wonderland | Michael Winterbottom | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Wood Pigeon | Ali Hatami | drama film | Iran |
| Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror | Kier-La Janisse | documentary film | United States |
| Woodstock | Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Wadleigh, Martin Scorsese | rockumentary, musical film, documentary film | United States |
| Workers' Settlement | Vladimir Vengerov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Workers, Peasants | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | drama film | France, Italy |
| World Agent | Herwin Novianto | comedy drama | Indonesia |
| World in My Corner | Jesse Hibbs | drama film, boxing film | United States |
| World War Z | Marc Forster | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, action film, horror film, thriller film, zombie film, adventure film, apocalyptic film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wormwood | Marshall Parker Farnum | — | — |
| Worst Woman | Kim Jong-kwan | romance film, drama film | South Korea |
| Wounded | Fernando Franco | drama film | Spain |
| Wounds | Babak Anvari | horror film, psychological horror fiction | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wow! Message from Space | Felix Binder | family film | Germany |
| Wozzeck | Georg C. Klaren | drama film | Germany |
| Wraak | Jonathan Elbers | action film, crime film | Netherlands |
| Wrath of Man | Guy Ritchie | action film, thriller film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wreck-It Ralph | Rich Moore | family film, fantasy film, comedy film, crossover fiction, adventure film, science fiction film, comedy drama | United States |
| Wrong | Quentin Dupieux | comedy film | France, United States |
| Wrong Turn | Rob Schmidt | teen film, horror film, thriller film, slasher film, splatter film | Canada, Germany, United States |
| Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead | Declan O'Brien | horror film, prison film, slasher film | United States |
| Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings | Declan O'Brien | action film, horror film, LGBTQ-related film, slasher film | United States |
| Wtorek | Witold Adamek | comedy film | Poland |
| Wunderlich's World | Dani Levy | comedy film | Germany, Switzerland |
| Wuthering Heights | A.V. Bramble | — | — |
| Wuthering Heights | Robert Fuest | romance film, drama film, fantasy film | United Kingdom |
| Wyatt Earp | Lawrence Kasdan | Western film, action film, adventure film, biographical film | United States |
| Wyoming Renegades | Fred F. Sears | — | — |