| W biały dzień | Edward Żebrowski | historical film | Poland |
| W. | Oliver Stone | drama film, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film | United States |
| Wa'alaikumsalam Paris | Benni Setiawan | drama film, comedy film | Indonesia |
| Wag the Dog | Barry Levinson | satirical film, comedy drama | United States |
| Wages for Wives | Frank Borzage | — | — |
| Wahadelko | Filip Bajon | drama film | Poland |
| Waist Deep | Vondie Curtis-Hall | romance film, drama film, action film, hood film, crime film | United States |
| Wait 'til You're Older | Teddy Chan | fantasy film, comedy drama | Hong Kong |
| Wait for Us at Dawn | Emil Loteanu | — | Soviet Union |
| Waiting for Guffman | Christopher Guest | comedy film, mockumentary | United States |
| Waiting to Exhale | Forest Whitaker | drama film, female buddy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Waiting... | Rob McKittrick | coming-of-age film, comedy film | United States |
| Wajah Tum Ho | Vishal Pandya | erotic film | India |
| Wake Up and Dream | Lloyd Bacon | — | — |
| Wake Up Dead Man | Rian Johnson | mystery film, comedy film, detective fiction | United States |
| Wake Up Sid | — | drama film, romantic comedy | India |
| Wake Up, Mes Bons Amis! | Pierre Perrault | documentary film | Canada |
| Waking Life | Richard Linklater | drama film, fantasy film | United States |
| 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 Into Paradise | Lee Robinson | — | — |
| Walk Like a Man | Melvin Frank | comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Walker on Water | Anu Aun | documentary film | Estonia |
| Walking is Medicine | Alanis Obomsawin | documentary film | Canada |
| Walking, Walking | Ermanno Olmi | drama film | Italy |
| Wall Street | Oliver Stone | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Oliver Stone | drama film, prison film | United States |
| WALL-E | Andrew Stanton | romance film, romantic comedy film, post-apocalyptic film, comedy film, dystopian film, flashback film, children's film, adventure film, adventure science fiction, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions | Christopher Sadler | family film, comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Wallander – Blodsband | Stephan Apelgren | thriller film | Sweden |
| Wallander – Läckan | Henrik Georgsson | thriller film | Sweden |
| Wallander – Mörkret | Stephan Apelgren | thriller film | Sweden |
| Wallander – Prästen | Henrik Georgsson | thriller film | Sweden |
| Wallander – Skytten | Agneta Fagerström-Olsson | thriller film | Sweden |
| Walls of Gold | Kenneth MacKenna | drama film | United States |
| Walnut Bread | Arūnas Žebriūnas | drama film, tragicomedy | Soviet Union |
| Walpurgis Night | Gustaf Edgren | drama film | Sweden |
| Walter | — | action film, crime thriller film | India |
| Waltz of the Toreadors | John Guillermin | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Waltz Time | Paul L. Stein | — | — |
| Waltzing Regitze | Kaspar Rostrup | drama film | Denmark |
| Walzerkrieg | Ludwig Berger | musical film | Germany |
| Wandering Heart | Leonardo Brzezicki | drama film | Argentina |
| Wanted! Jane Turner | Edward Killy | drama film, crime film | United States |
| War | Philip Atwell | action film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| War 2 | — | action thriller | India |
| War and Peace | Satsuo Yamamoto | drama film | Japan |
| War Dogs | Todd Phillips | drama film, comedy film, war film, biographical film, crime film | United States |
| War for the Planet of the Apes | Matt Reeves | drama film, post-apocalyptic film, action film, dystopian film, war film, science fiction film | United States |
| War Machine | Patrick Hughes | action film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand |
| War of the Buttons | John Roberts | drama film | France, United Kingdom |
| War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave | C. Thomas Howell | kaiju, horror film, thriller film, independent film, science fiction film | United States |
| War Under the Roofs | Viktor Turov | war film | Soviet Union |
| Warcraft | Duncan Jones | fantasy film, action film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Warkop DKI Reborn: Jangkrik Boss Part 1 | Anggy Umbara | comedy film, adventure film | Indonesia |
| Warlock | Edward Dmytryk | Western film | United States |
| Warm Bodies | Jonathan Levine | teen film, romantic comedy film, post-apocalyptic film, zombie comedy, comedy horror | United States |
| Warriors for Freedom | Usmar Ismail | drama film | Indonesia |
| Warriors Two | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Warsaw Melody | Ruben Simonov | drama film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Warszawska premiera | Jan Rybkowski | — | — |
| Wasei Kingu Kongu | Torajirō Saitō | fantasy film, silent film, parody film | Japan |
| Washing an Indian Baby | — | — | — |
| Wassa | Philip Atwell | action film, silent film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Watchers | Jon Hess | monster film, horror film, science fiction film | Canada, United States |
| Watchmen | Zack Snyder | drama film, superhero film, action film, dystopian film, alternate history film, neo-noir, vigilante film | United States |
| Water (1985 film) | Dick Clement | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Waterhole No. 3 | William A. Graham | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| Waterland | Stephen Gyllenhaal | mystery film, drama film | United Kingdom |
| Waterloo | Karl Grune | — | — |
| Waterloo Bridge | James Whale | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| Waterloo Road | Sidney Gilliat | — | — |
| Watermelon Man | Melvin Van Peebles | comedy drama | United States |
| Watusi | Kurt Neumann | fantasy film | United States |
| Way Back Home | Jerry Lopez Sineneng | drama film | Philippines |
| Way of the Warrior Kid | McG | drama film | United States |
| Wayfarers | Ola Solum | drama film | Norway |
| Wayne's World 2 | Stephen Surjik | comedy film, buddy film | United States |
| We and Our Mountains | Henrik Malyan | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| We Are Family | Sidharth Malhotra | drama film, comedy film, musical film | India |
| We Are Family | Wang Chuan-Tsung | romance film | Taiwan |
| We Are Family | Renat Davletyarov | comedy film | Russia |
| We Are Still Here | Ásdís Thoroddsen, Ted Geoghegan | horror film, ghost film | United States |
| We Are the Night | Dennis Gansel | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, vampire film | Germany |
| We Are the Others | Jean-François Asselin | thriller film | Canada |
| We Believed | Mario Martone | drama film | Italy |
| We Dive at Dawn | Anthony Asquith | war film | United Kingdom |
| 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 Looked in the Death's Face | Naum Birman | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lynne Ramsay | romance film, drama film, thriller film | United Kingdom, United States |
| We of the Never Never | Igor Auzins | — | Australia |
| We Ride - The Story of Snowboarding | Orlando von Einsiedel | — | United Kingdom |
| We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks | Alex Gibney | documentary film | United States |
| We the Living | Goffredo Alessandrini | drama film | Italy |
| We Want Roses Too | Alina Marazzi | documentary film | Italy |
| We Were Children | Tim Wolochatiuk | documentary film | Canada |
| We Were Dancing | Robert Z. Leonard | romantic comedy film | United States |
| We Will Go | Enya Baroux | comedy film, comedy drama | France |
| 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 from Kronstadt | Efim Dzigan | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| We're in the Money | Ray Enright | — | — |
| We're No Angels | Neil Jordan | comedy film, Christmas film, prison film, buddy film | United States |
| We're Not Dressing | Benjamin Glazer, Norman Taurog | romantic comedy film, musical film | United States |
| We're on the Jury | Ben Holmes | comedy film | United States |
| We're Rich Again | William A. Seiter | — | — |
| We, the Women | Luchino Visconti, Gianni Franciolini, Alfredo Guarini, Roberto Rossellini, Luigi Zampa | drama film, comedy film | Italy |
| We, Two of Men | Yurii Lysenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Weary River | Frank Lloyd | — | — |
| Wedding Bell Blues | Dana Lustig | female buddy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Wedding Crashers | David Dobkin | buddy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Wedding Day | Raffaello Matarazzo | comedy film | Italy |
| Wedding Group | Alex Bryce | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Wedding Night in Paradise | Paul Martin | comedy film | Austria |
| Wedding Proposal | Emil Heradi | drama film | Indonesia |
| Wedlock | Lewis Teague | action film, science fiction film, crime film | United States |
| Wednesday, Thursday Morning | Grzegorz Pacek | drama film | Poland |
| Week-ends | Anne Villacèque | drama film, comedy drama | France |
| Weekend of a Champion | Frank Simon, Roman Polanski | documentary film | United Kingdom |
| Weininger's Last Night | Paulus Manker | drama film, biographical film | Germany, Austria |
| Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | Jim Abrahams | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Welcome to Collinwood | Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | comedy film, heist film | United States |
| Welcome to Lapland | David Serrano de la Peña | comedy film | Spain |
| Welcome to Sarajevo | Michael Winterbottom | drama film, war film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Welcome to Switzerland | Sabine Gisiger | documentary film | Switzerland |
| Welcome to the Club | Walter Shenson | comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Welcome to the Punch | Eran Creevy | action film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wells Fargo Gunmaster | Philip Ford | Western film | United States |
| Wer | William Brent Bell | horror film | United States |
| Werewolf | Leida Laius | drama film | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| West of Cimarron | Lester Orlebeck | — | — |
| West of Dodge City | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| West of the Divide | Robert N. Bradbury | — | — |
| West of Zanzibar | Harry Watt | — | — |
| West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | romance film, drama film, musical film, crime film | United States |
| Western | Manuel Poirier | comedy film, road movie, comedy drama | France |
| Western Blood | Lynn Reynolds | — | — |
| Western Renegades | Wallace Fox | Western film | United States |
| Western Union | Fritz Lang, Darryl F. Zanuck, Otto Brower, Harry Joe Brown | Western film | United States |
| Westerplatte | Stanisław Różewicz | drama film, war film | Poland |
| Westward Ho | Robert N. Bradbury | Western film | United States |
| Westward Passage | Robert Milton | — | — |
| Westworld | Michael Crichton | Western film, action film, horror film, dystopian film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Wet Weekend | Kichitarō Negishi | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| What a Circus! | Lotte Svendsen | drama film, family film, comedy film | Denmark |
| What a Girl Wants | Dennie Gordon | coming-of-age film, teen film, romantic comedy film | United States |
| What a Sun | Jane Kavčič | romance film, teen film, drama film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| What About Bob? | Frank Oz | comedy film | United States |
| What Did the Lady Forget? | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film | Japan |
| What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? | Lee H. Katzin | crime thriller film, thriller film | United States |
| What Every Woman Learns | Fred Niblo | — | — |
| What Happened to Andres Lapeteus? | Grigori Kromanov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| What is My Sin? | George Ovadiah | — | Iran |
| What Is Your Name? Part II | Hideo Ōba | romance film, drama film | Japan |
| What Lies Beneath | Robert Zemeckis | drama film, horror film, ghost film, psychological horror fiction | United States |
| What Men Talk About. Continuation | — | comedy film | Russia |
| What Obsticles Are Becoming for Us? | Ravjaagiin Dorjpalam | — | — |
| What Price Glory? | Raoul Walsh | — | — |
| What Scoundrels Men Are! | Mario Camerini | comedy film | Italy |
| What the Bleep Do We Know!? | William Arntz, Mark Vicente, Betsy Chasse | science fiction film, comedy drama | United States |
| What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? | Satoshi Miki | kaiju, drama film, comedy film | Japan |
| What Will I Become? | Lexie Bean, Logan Rozos | documentary film | United States |
| What Will People Say | Iram Haq | drama film | France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
| What Would You Do? | Edmund Lawrence | — | — |
| What's 30... What's 40... What's 50... | Kostas Karagiannis | comedy film | Greece |
| What's Between Us | Claudia Lorenz | drama film | Switzerland |
| What's in a Name? | Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte | drama film, comedy film | France, Belgium |
| What's Worth While? | Lois Weber | — | — |
| What's Your Hurry? | Sam Wood | — | — |
| What's Your Reputation Worth? | Webster Campbell | — | — |
| 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 a Tree Falls | Asier Altuna | drama film | Spain |
| When Asia Speaks | Gordon Weisenborn | documentary film | Canada |
| When Dinosaurs Roamed America | Pierre de Lespinois | nature documentary | United States |
| When Fall Is Coming | François Ozon | comedy drama | France |
| When Father Was Away on Business | Emir Kusturica | coming-of-age film, comedy drama | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| When Harry Met Sally | Rob Reiner | comedy film, Christmas film, romantic comedy | United States |
| When I Close My Eyes | Franci Slak | romance film, thriller film, crime film | Slovenia |
| When Jim Returned | Wallace Reid | — | — |
| When Love Begins | José Javier Reyes | — | Philippines |
| When Love Is King | Ben Turbett | — | — |
| When the Bough Breaks | Jon Cassar | mystery film, drama film, horror film, erotic thriller, thriller film, psychological thriller, erotic film, documentary film | United States |
| When the Mountains Tremble | Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates | documentary film | United States, Guatemala |
| When We First Met | Ari Sandel | time-travel film, romantic comedy film | United States |
| When We Were Boys | Richard Goudreau | comedy drama | Canada |
| When Were You Born | William C. McGann | — | — |
| When will you get divorced? | Oleksii Komarovskyi | romantic comedy film | Latvia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Bulgaria |
| When Willie Comes Marching Home | John Ford | comedy film, war film | United States |
| 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 |
| Where Danger Lives | John Farrow | — | — |
| Where did Our Fathers Remain | Dzintra Geka-Vaska | documentary film | Latvia |
| Where Has Love Gone? | Valeriu Gagiu | drama film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Where Is Kyra? | Andrew Dosunmu | drama film, independent film | United States |
| 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 Love Leads | Frank Griffin | — | — |
| Where the Buffalo Roam | Art Linson | comedy film, biographical film | United States |
| Where the Heart Is | Matt Williams | teen film, drama film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Where the Heart Is | Robert Guédiguian | drama film, comedy film | France |
| Where the Lilies Bloom | William A. Graham | drama film | United States |
| Where the Pavement Ends | Rex Ingram | — | — |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Lyman Dayton, Sam Pillsbury | adventure film | United States |
| Where There's a Will | Vernon Sewell | — | — |
| Where Was I? | William A. Seiter | — | — |
| Where's George? | Jack Raymond | sport film | United Kingdom |
| Which Brings Me To You | Peter Hutchings | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Which Way Home | Rebecca Cammisa | documentary film | United States |
| Which Way to the Septic Tank? | Thodoros Maragos | comedy film | Greece |
| Which Woman? | Tod Browning | — | — |
| Whichever Way the Ball Bounces | Rajko Grlić | drama film | Yugoslavia |
| Whip It | Drew Barrymore | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| Whipsaw | Sam Wood | crime film | United States |
| Whirlpool | Roy William Neill | — | — |
| Whirlwind Raiders | Vernon Keays | Western film | United States |
| Whisper of the Heart | Yoshifumi Kondō | coming-of-age film, love triangle romance, romance film, drama film, drama anime and manga, slice of life, adventure film | Japan |
| Whispering Corridors 6: The Humming | Lee Miyoung | horror film | South Korea |
| Whispering Ghosts | Alfred L. Werker | mystery film | United States |
| Whispering Winds | James Flood | — | — |
| Whispers | Douglas Jackson | horror film, thriller film | Canada, United States |
| Whistle Down the Wind | Bryan Forbes | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Whistling in the morning | Chisato Ikoma | — | Japan |
| Whit Monday | Sergey Selyanov | drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| White and Unmarried | Tom Forman | — | — |
| White as Milk, Red as Blood | Giacomo Campiotti | comedy film | Italy |
| White Dew | Igor Dobrolyubov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| White Explosion | Stanislav Govorukhin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| White Flannels | Lloyd Bacon | — | — |
| White Heat | Raoul Walsh | — | — |
| White Lily | Hideo Nakata | pink film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | Japan |
| White Men Can't Jump | Calmatic | sport film, basketball film, comedy film | United States |
| White Men Can't Jump | Ron Shelton | basketball film, comedy film, buddy film | United States |
| White Nights | Alexander Korda | — | — |
| White Rose | Alexander Korda | — | — |
| 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 |
| Who Am I? | Jackie Chan, Benny Chan | martial arts film, comedy film, action film, spy film | Hong Kong |
| Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? | John Korty | documentary film | United States |
| Who are you, Mamma Moo? | Christian Ryltenius | children's film | Sweden |
| Who Gets the Dog? | Huck Botko | comedy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Who Is Cletis Tout? | Chris Ver Wiel | comedy film, heist film | Canada, United States |
| Who Is Joe Louis? | Juha Rosma | drama film | Finland, Poland |
| Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Ted Kotcheff | comedy film | France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Italy |
| Who Killed Pasolini? | Marco Tullio Giordana | drama film, trial film, crime film | Italy |
| Who Killed the Electric Car? | Chris Paine | documentary film | United States |
| Who Let the Dog Bite? | Laetitia Dosch | comedy drama | France, Switzerland |
| Who Shall Take My Life? | Colin Campbell | — | — |
| Who Stole Roger Rabbit? | Max Cool | pornographic parody film, pornographic film | United Kingdom |
| Who truly knows what a Life is? | Annelie Boros, Vera Brückner | docudrama, documentary film | Germany |
| Whom the Gods Destroy | William P.S. Earle | — | — |
| Whom the Gods Love | Basil Dean | — | — |
| Whoops! | Stig Olin | comedy film | Sweden |
| Whose Life Is It Anyway? | John Badham | drama film | United States |
| Why America Will Win | Richard Stanton | — | — |
| Why Be Good? | William A. Seiter | — | — |
| Why Bring That Up? | George Abbott | — | — |
| Why Did I Get Married Too? | Tyler Perry | romantic comedy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Why Do You Love Me | Herwin Novianto | comedy drama | Indonesia |
| Why Girls Leave Home | William Berke | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Why Husbands Go Mad | Leo McCarey | — | — |
| Why I Would Not Marry | Richard Stanton | — | — |
| Why Would We Not Sing! | Vladimir Alexandrovich Orlov | musical film | Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Wichita | Jacques Tourneur | Western film | United States |
| Wicked: For Good | Jon M. Chu | fantasy film, musical film | United States |
| Wicker Park | Paul McGuigan | romance film, mystery film, drama film, melodrama, thriller film | United States |
| Wielka majówka | Krzysztof Rogulski | comedy film | Poland |
| Wiener-Dog | Todd Solondz | comedy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Wife's Sponsor | — | erotic film | South Korea |
| Wild America | William Dear | children's film | United States |
| Wild Beauty | Wallace Fox | — | — |
| Wild Bill | Dexter Fletcher | drama film, comedy film, prison film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Wild Flowers | Jaime Rosales | drama film | France, Spain |
| Wild Flowers | Park Suk-young | drama film | South Korea |
| Wild Gold | George Marshall | romance film | United States |
| Wild Horse Mesa | Henry Hathaway | romance film, Western film | United States |
| Wild Side | Sébastien Lifshitz | transgender film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | France, United Kingdom, Belgium |
| Wild Swans | Helle Karis | cinematic fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| Wild Target | Pierre Salvadori | comedy film | France |
| Wild Things 2 | Jack Perez | thriller, LGBTQ-related film, erotic film, crime film | United States |
| Wild Tour | Shō Miyake | — | Japan |
| Wildlife | Paul Dano | drama film | United States |
| WildLike | Frank Hall Green | drama film | United States |
| Will Any Gentleman...? | Michael Anderson | — | — |
| Will Penny | Tom Gries | Western film | United States |
| Will You Go Out Tomorrow? | Kamara Kamalova | melodrama, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Willy McBean and his Magic Machine | Arthur Rankin Jr. | science fiction film | United States |
| Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | Mel Stuart | drama film, family film, fantasy film, children's film, musical film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wimbledon | Richard Loncraine | romantic comedy film, sport film | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Win to win | Stefania Casini | — | Italy |
| Win Win | Tom McCarthy | sport film, comedy drama | United States |
| Winchester '73 | Anthony Mann | Western film | United States |
| Wind River | Taylor Sheridan | mystery film, Western film, thriller film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Winds of the Milky Way | Lennart Meri | documentary film | Soviet Union, Estonia, Hungary, Finland |
| Winds of the Wasteland | Mack V. Wright, John Wayne, Phyllis Fraser | Western film | United States |
| Windtalkers | John Woo | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Wine | Bagrat Hovhannisyan | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Wine of Youth | King Vidor | — | — |
| Wine to love | Domenico Fortunato | comedy film | Italy |
| Wing and a Prayer | Henry Hathaway | war film | United States |
| Wing Commander | Chris Roberts | action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Winged Victory | George Cukor | drama film, propaganda film, war film | United States |
| Wings (1956 film) | Konstantin Zubov, Tatyana Lukashevich | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Wings Over Honolulu | H. C. Potter | — | — |
| Winner Take All | W. S. Van Dyke | — | — |
| Winners of the Wilderness | W. S. Van Dyke | — | — |
| Winter A-Go-Go | Richard Benedict | comedy drama | United States |
| Winter Wonderland | Bernard Vorhaus | drama film | United States |
| Winter's Child | Olivier Assayas | drama film | France |
| 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 upon a Pike | Alexander Rou | — | — |
| Wish You Were Dead | Andy Phillip | comedy film | United States |
| Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies | Jack Sholder | fantasy film, horror film | United States |
| 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 Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade | Lorraine Gray | documentary film | United States |
| With Six You Get Eggroll | Howard Morris | romance film, family film, comedy film | United States |
| Withnail and I | Bruce Robinson | black comedy film, buddy film, comedy drama | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Without a Clue | Thom Eberhardt | comedy film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Without Dowry | Yakov Protazanov | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Without Her | Jean Beaudin | thriller film | Canada |
| Without Limits | Robert Towne | drama film, sport film, biographical film | United States |
| Without Pity | Alberto Lattuada | drama film | Italy |
| Witnesses | Vinko Brešan | drama film | Croatia |
| Wittgenstein | Derek Jarman | drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film | United Kingdom |
| Wives and Lovers | John Rich | romance film, comedy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Wives Under Suspicion | James Whale | — | — |
| Wizards | Ralph Bakshi | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, technofantasy, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie | Lev L. Spiro | teen film, fantasy film, treasure hunt film | United States |
| Wolf | Mike Nichols | drama film, comedy horror, werewolf film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Wolf Creek | Greg McLean | horror film, slasher film | Australia |
| Wolf Hiding | Marc Ma | — | People's Republic of China |
| Wolf Man | Leigh Whannell | body horror film, fiction film, horror film, thriller film, feature film, supernatural horror film, werewolf film | United States |
| Wolf Summer | Peder Norlund | drama film | Norway |
| Wolfen | Michael Wadleigh | horror film, crime film | United States |
| Wolfwalkers | Ross Stewart, Tomm Moore | fantasy film, adventure film, independent film | France, United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, Luxembourg |
| Wolves | David Hayter | romance film, fantasy film, action film, horror film, werewolf film | France, Canada |
| Wolves of the City | Leigh Jason | — | — |
| Woman Hungry | Clarence G. Badger | Western film, musical film | United States |
| Woman in a Fur Coat | Jan Molander | drama film | Sweden |
| Woman in Hiding | Michael Gordon | — | — |
| Woman of the Year | George Stevens | romantic comedy | United States |
| Woman of Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film, silent film | Japan |
| Woman Who Exposes Herself | Masaru Konuma | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Woman with Pierced Nipples | Shōgorō Nishimura | pink film, drama film, erotic film | Japan |
| Woman with Red Hair | Tatsumi Kumashiro | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Woman's World | Jean Negulesco | drama film | United States |
| Women Aren't Angels | Lawrence Huntington | — | — |
| Women in Love | Ken Russell | romance film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom |
| Women In Prison | Seiji Hisamatsu | — | Japan |
| Women in Skirts | Francesco Nuti | romantic comedy film | Italy |
| Women of the Night | Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| Women VS Men | Tahir Mamedov | comedy film | Russia |
| Women Without Men | Shoja Azari, Shirin Neshat | drama film | France, Germany, Austria, Iran |
| Women Without Men | Elmo Williams | — | — |
| Women's Weapons | Robert G. Vignola | — | — |
| Won't Last a Day Without You | — | romantic comedy film | Philippines |
| Wonder Boys | Curtis Hanson | drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, United States |
| Wonder of Women | Clarence Brown | — | — |
| 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 Apples | Arif Babayev | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Wonderland | Inari Niemi | drama film, comedy film, Christmas film | Finland |
| Wonderstruck | Todd Haynes | drama film | United States |
| Wonka | Paul King | fantasy film, comedy film, speculative fiction film, adventure film, musical film | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Wood Pigeon | Ali Hatami | drama film | Iran |
| Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches | Dinara Asanova | romance film, teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Workers, Peasants | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | drama film | France, Italy |
| Working for Peanuts | Jack Hannah | — | — |
| Working Title: Wunderkind | Marianna Kaat | documentary film | United Kingdom, Russia, Estonia |
| Working Women of the World | Marie-France Collard | documentary film | France, Belgium |
| World of Miracles | Luigi Capuano | drama film | Italy |
| Wormwood | Marshall Parker Farnum | — | — |
| Worst Woman | Kim Jong-kwan | romance film, drama film | South Korea |
| Would You Believe It! | Walter Forde | — | — |
| Wounded Game | Nikolai Gubenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Wounds | Babak Anvari | horror film, psychological horror fiction | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | Randa Haines | romance film, drama film, buddy film | United States |
| Write Down, I Am an Arab | Ibtisam Mara'ana | documentary film | Palestine, Israel |
| Write or Dance | Lee Sang-deok | drama film | South Korea |
| Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | — | — |
| Wrong Connection | Viktor Tregubovich | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Wrong Side Raju | Mikhil Musale | crime film | India |
| Wyatt Earp's Revenge | Michael Feifer | Western film | United States |
| Wyoming Roundup | Thomas Carr | Western film | United States |
| WΔZ | Tom Shankland | drama film, horror film, thriller film, crime film | United Kingdom |