| W – The Killer of Flanders Fields | Frank Van Mechelen | crime film | Belgium |
| W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings | John G. Avildsen | crime film | United States |
| Wading the Bog | Leonīds Leimanis | drama film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Wadjda | Haifaa al-Mansour | drama film | Germany, United States, Netherlands, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates |
| Wages for Wives | Frank Borzage | — | — |
 Wagon Master | John Ford | Western film | United States |
| Wagons East! | Peter Markle | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| Wagtails Army | Aleksandrs Leimanis | — | Soviet Union |
| Wahadelko | Filip Bajon | drama film | Poland |
| Wait and See | Walter Forde | — | — |
| Wait Until Spring, Bandini | Dominique Deruddere | drama film | France, United States, Belgium, Italy |
| Waiter | Alex van Warmerdam | black comedy film | Belgium, Netherlands |
| Waiter, Scarper! | Ladislav Smoljak | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Waiting for "Superman" | Davis Guggenheim | documentary film | United States |
| Waiting for Love | Pyotr Todorovsky | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Waiting for Spring | Marie-Genevieve Chabot | documentary film | Canada |
| Waiting for the Storms | François Delisle | drama film, social science fiction, photo comics | Canada |
| Waitress! | Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz | comedy film, sexploitation film | United States |
| Wajah Tum Ho | Vishal Pandya | erotic film | India |
 Wakaki hi wa kanashi | Tsuruo Iwama | — | — |
| Wake in Fright | Ted Kotcheff | drama film, thriller film | United States, Australia |
 Wake Island | John Farrow | action film, propaganda film, war film | United States |
| Wake Up and Dream | Kurt Neumann | musical film | United States |
| Wake Up Love | Eliseo Subiela | comedy film | Argentina |
| Waking Life | Richard Linklater | drama film, fantasy film | United States |
| Waking Ned | Kirk Jones | comedy film | France, United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| Walk a Crooked Mile | Gordon Douglas | drama film, film noir, propaganda film | United States |
| Walk Like a Man | Melvin Frank | comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Walk Like A Panther | Dan Cadan | comedy drama | United Kingdom |
 Walk on the Wild Side | Edward Dmytryk | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United States |
| Walk, Don't Run | Charles Walters | romantic comedy | United States |
| Walking, Walking | Ermanno Olmi | drama film | Italy |
| Wall Street | Oliver Stone | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Wall Street Cowboy | Joseph Kane | — | — |
| Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions | Christopher Sadler | family film, comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Wallander – Luftslottet | Anders Engström | thriller film | Sweden |
 Wallander – Mörkret | Stephan Apelgren | thriller film | Sweden |
 Wallander – Skytten | Agneta Fagerström-Olsson | thriller film | Sweden |
 Wallander – Tjuven | Stephan Apelgren | thriller film | Sweden |
| Walls of Gold | Kenneth MacKenna | drama film | United States |
| Walter | Anna Mastro | comedy drama | United States |
 Waltz of Love | Wilhelm Thiele | romance film, musical film | Germany |
| Waltz Time | Wilhelm Thiele | musical film | United Kingdom |
| Waltzes from Vienna | Alfred Hitchcock | — | — |
| Walzerkrieg | Ludwig Berger | musical film | Germany |
| Wanderer of the Wasteland | Wallace Grissell | Western film | United States |
| Wanderlust | David Wain | comedy film | United States |
| Wanted | B.V.S.Ravi | heroic bloodshed | India |
| Wanted: For Forced Entry | — | pink film | Japan |
| War | Philip Atwell | action film, thriller 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 of the Arrows | Kim Han-min | drama film, action film, war film | South Korea |
| War of the Buttons | Yann Samuell | comedy film | France |
| 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 Pigs | Ryan Little | action film, war film | United States |
| War redemptive | Edoardo Bencivenga | — | — |
| War Room | Alex Kendrick | drama film | United States |
| War Under the Roofs | Viktor Turov | war film | Soviet Union |
| War, Inc. | Joshua Seftel | action film, war film | United States |
| Warbus | Ferdinando Baldi | action film | Italy, Philippines |
| Ward No. 6 | Karen Shakhnazarov | drama film | Russia |
 WarGames | John Badham | drama film, thriller film | United States |
| Warlock | Edward Dmytryk | Western film | United States |
| Warm Summer Rain | Joe Gayton | drama film | United States |
| Warriors Two | Sammo Hung | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
| Warsaw Ghetto | Hugh Burnett | documentary film | — |
| Warsaw Melody | Ruben Simonov | drama film, melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Warszawska syrena | Tadeusz Makarczyński | — | — |
| Waseteg | Phyllis Grant | Indigenous storytelling in North America, indigenous cinema, family film, fantasy film, children's film | Canada |
| Washed Out | Zrinko Ogresta | drama film | Croatia |
| Watch on the Rhine | Herman Shumlin | — | — |
 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 |
| Waterhole No. 3 | William A. Graham | comedy film, Western film | United States |
 Waterloo Bridge | James Whale | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| Watermelon Man | Melvin Van Peebles | comedy drama | United States |
| Waterworld | Kevin Reynolds | post-apocalyptic film, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film | United States |
| Watusi | Kurt Neumann | fantasy film | United States |
| Wavemakers | Caroline Martel | documentary film | Canada |
| Way Back Home | Jerry Lopez Sineneng | drama film | Philippines |
| Way Down East | D. W. Griffith | — | — |
| Way Down East | Henry King | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Way Out West | Fred Niblo | — | — |
| Wayfarers | Ola Solum | drama film | Norway |
| Ways to Strength and Beauty | Wilhelm Prager | — | — |
| Wazir | Bejoy Nambiar | crime thriller film | India |
| We Are Cheerful, Happy, Talented! | Alexander Surin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| We Are Family | Renat Davletyarov | comedy film | Russia |
| We Are Pregnant | Juana Macías | comedy film, romantic comedy | Spain |
| We Are the Others | Jean-François Asselin | thriller film | Canada |
| We Are Your Friends | Max Joseph | romance film, drama film, musical film | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| We Can Be Heroes! | Ulf Malmros | drama film | Sweden |
| We Come During Spring | Armand Lohikoski | comedy film | Finland |
| We Found Love | Melina Matsoukas | — | United States |
| We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Stacie Passon | mystery film, thriller film | United States |
| We Have Only One Life | Giorgos Tzavellas | comedy film | Greece |
| We Joined the Navy | Wendy Toye | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| We Knew Him Only by Sight | Anton Tymonyshyn | war film | Soviet Union |
| We Lived for Estonia | Andres Sööt | documentary film | Estonia |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lynne Ramsay | romance film, drama film, thriller film | United Kingdom, United States |
| We Still Kill the Old Way | Sacha Bennett | drama film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| We Were Children | Tim Wolochatiuk | documentary film | Canada |
| We Will Be Ok | Back Jae-ho | drama film | South Korea |
| We Will Go | Enya Baroux | comedy film, comedy drama | France |
| We Work Again | — | documentary 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 the Millers | Rawson Marshall Thurber | comedy film, road movie, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Weapons | Adam Bhala Lough | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Web of Danger | Philip Ford | action film | United States |
| Wedding Bills | Erle C. Kenton | — | — |
 Wedding Day | Raffaello Matarazzo | comedy film | Italy |
| Wedding Dress | Gwon Hyeong-jin | drama film | South Korea |
| Wedding in Malinovka | Andrey Tutyshkin | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Wedding Night in Paradise | Paul Martin | comedy film | Austria |
| Wedding Unplanned | Reem Kherici | comedy film | France |
| Wednesday's Child | John S. Robertson | drama film | United States |
 Wee Willie Winkie | John Ford | children's film | United States |
| Week-End Marriage | Thornton Freeland | — | — |
| Week-ends | Anne Villacèque | drama film, comedy drama | France |
| Weekend | Stanislav Govorukhin | drama film, film noir, thriller film, detective film | Russia |
| Weekend for Three | Irving Reis | comedy film | United States |
| Weekend Rebels | Marc Rothemund | tragicomedy | Germany |
| Weird Science | John Hughes | teen film, fantasy film, action film, science fiction film, buddy film, science fiction comedy, romantic comedy | United States |
| Weird: The Al Yankovic Story | Eric Appel | comedy film, parody film, biographical film | United States |
| Welcome Home | George Ratliff | drama film, thriller film | United States |
| Welcome Home | Jean-Xavier de Lestrade | drama film | France |
| Welcome to Mooseport | Donald Petrie | romantic comedy film, comedy film | Germany, United States |
| Welcome to the Punch | Eran Creevy | action film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wells Fargo | Frank Lloyd | Western film | United States |
| Werckmeister Harmonies | Ágnes Hranitzky, Béla Tarr | drama film | France, Germany, Hungary |
| Werewolves Within | Josh Ruben | werewolf film | United States |
| Wes Craven's New Nightmare | Wes Craven | horror film | United States |
| West 11 | Michael Winner | thriller film | United Kingdom |
| West Is West | Andy De Emmony | teen film, comedy drama | United Kingdom |
| West of Cimarron | Lester Orlebeck | — | — |
| West of the Water Tower | Rollin S. Sturgeon | — | — |
| West of Zanzibar | Harry Watt | — | — |
| West Point Widow | Robert Siodmak | comedy film | United States |
 West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | romance film, drama film, musical film, crime film | United States |
 Western Limited | Christy Cabanne | — | — |
| Westerplatte | Stanisław Różewicz | drama film, war film | Poland |
| Wet Paint | Arthur Rosson | — | — |
| Whalefall | Brian Duffield | survival film, thriller film | United States |
| What a Beautiful Surprise | Alessandro Genovesi | comedy film | Italy |
| What a Blonde | Leslie Goodwins | comedy film | United States |
| What a Life | Theodore Reed | comedy drama | United States |
| What About Juvenile Delinquency? | Herk Harvey | — | — |
| 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 Doesn't Kill You | Brian Goodman | drama film, heist film, crime film | United States |
| What Happened to Father? | C. J. Williams | — | — |
| What I Want to Tell You | Raquiel Palomino Ochoa | documentary film | Peru |
| What Men Long For | Rudolf Havlík | comedy film | Czech Republic |
| What Men Want | Ernst Laemmle | drama film | United States |
 What Next, Corporal Hargrove? | Richard Thorpe | comedy film, war film | United States |
| What Price Glory | John Ford | comedy film | United States |
| What the Butler Saw | Godfrey Grayson | — | — |
| What the Moon Saw | Pino Amenta | — | Australia |
| What They Found | Sam Mendes | documentary television film | United Kingdom |
 What to Expect When You're Expecting | Kirk Jones | romantic comedy | United States |
| 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 Women Will Do | Edward José | — | — |
| What! No Beer? | Edward Sedgwick | burlesque | United States |
| What's Love Got to Do with It | Brian Gibson | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| What's the Worst That Could Happen? | Sam Weisman | comedy film, crime film | United States |
| What's Your Hurry? | Sam Wood | — | — |
 What's Your Reputation Worth? | Webster Campbell | — | — |
| Whatever It Takes | David Raynr | teen film, romantic comedy | United States |
| When a Man Loves a Woman | Luis Mandoki | romance film, drama film | United States |
| When a Woman Sins | J. Gordon Edwards | — | — |
| When I Close My Eyes | Franci Slak | romance film, thriller film, crime film | Slovenia |
 When Knighthood Was in Flower | Robert G. Vignola | — | — |
| When Love Begins | José Javier Reyes | — | Philippines |
| When Love Was Blind | Frederic Richard Sullivan | — | — |
| When Marnie Was There | Hiromasa Yonebayashi | mystery film, drama film | Japan |
| When Mom Is Away | Alessandro Genovesi | comedy film | Italy |
| 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 the Applause Died | Nick Bougas | documentary film | United States |
| 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 Clouds Roll By | Theodore Reed | — | — |
| When the earth trembles | Aleksandr Kosarev | drama film | Soviet Union |
| When the Game Stands Tall | Thomas Carter | American football film, drama film, family film | United States |
| When the Heavens Fall... | Risto Jarva | drama film | Finland |
| When the Mad Aunts Arrive | Franz Josef Gottlieb | comedy film | Germany |
| When the Mills are Running | Bengt Järrel | — | Sweden |
| When the Mountains Tremble | Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates | documentary film | United States, Guatemala |
| When the Rain and Wind Knock at the Window | Aloizs Brenčs | drama film | Soviet Union |
| When This Summer is Over | Jang Byung-ki | coming-of-age film | South Korea |
| When Tomorrow Comes | John M. Stahl | — | — |
| When You're in Love | Robert Riskin, Harry Lachman | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Where Are You Going Moshé? | Hassan Benjelloun | drama film | Morocco, Canada |
| Where Do We Go from Here? | Gregory Ratoff | — | — |
| Where is Ahmed? | Adil Isgandarov | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union, Azerbaijan |
| Where Is Kyra? | Andrew Dosunmu | drama film, independent film | United States |
| Where Is St. Nicholas' Big Book? | Armando de Boer | Sinterklaas film | Netherlands |
| Where Is Winky's Horse? | Mischa Kamp | comedy film | Belgium, Netherlands |
| Where Love Has Gone | Edward Dmytryk | drama film | United States |
| Where No One Knows Us | Arash T. Riahi | drama film | Austria |
| Where Once We Walked | Peter Lindholm | romance film, drama film, war film, historical drama | Finland |
| Where the Heart Is | Robert Guédiguian | drama film, comedy film | France |
 Where the North Begins | Chester M. Franklin | — | — |
| Where There's Life | Sidney Lanfield | — | — |
| Where to Invade Next | Michael Moore | documentary film | United States |
 Where Was I? | William A. Seiter | — | — |
| Where's Firuze? | Ezel Akay | musical film | Turkey |
| Where's Picone? | Nanni Loy | comedy film | Italy |
| Which of the Nine? | István Szőts | drama film | Hungary |
| Which Way Home | Rebecca Cammisa | documentary film | United States |
| Which Way to the Septic Tank? | Thodoros Maragos | comedy film | Greece |
| While at War | Alejandro Amenábar | drama film, historical film, war film | Spain, Argentina |
| While Defending the Front Line | Yuly Fayt | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
 While the City Sleeps | Fritz Lang | film noir | United States |
| While the City Sleeps | Jack Conway | — | — |
| Whimsical | Gholam-Reza Sarkub | — | Iran |
| Whirlpool | Otto Preminger | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Whisper If I Forget | Çağan Irmak | drama film | Turkey |
| Whisper of the Heart | Yūichirō Hirakawa | drama film | Japan |
| Whispering Footsteps | Howard Bretherton | — | — |
| Whispering Pages | Alexander Sokurov | drama film | Russia |
| Whispering Smith | Leslie Fenton | — | — |
| Whispering Winds | James Flood | — | — |
| Whispers | Douglas Jackson | horror film, thriller film | Canada, United States |
| Whispers: An Elephant's Tale | Dereck Joubert | — | United States |
 Whistling in the Dark | S. Sylvan Simon | — | — |
| Whistling in the Dark | Elliott Nugent | — | — |
| Whit Monday | Sergey Selyanov | drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
 White Acacia | Georgi Natanson | operetta, film performance | Soviet Union |
| White and Unmarried | Tom Forman | — | — |
| White Bim Black Ear | Stanislav Rostotsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| White Dew | Igor Dobrolyubov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| White Dog | Samuel Fuller | drama film, horror film | United States |
| White Elephant | Pablo Trapero | drama film | Argentina |
| White Face | T. Hayes Hunter | — | — |
| White Gold | Jamshid Sheybani | — | Iran |
 White Heat | Raoul Walsh | — | — |
| White House Down | Roland Emmerich | political thriller film, drama film, action film, thriller film | United States |
| White Lightnin' | Dominic Murphy | drama film | United Kingdom |
| White Lightning | Edward Bernds | — | — |
| White Men Can't Jump | Calmatic | sport film, basketball film, comedy film | United States |
| White Moss | — | drama film, melodrama | Russia |
| White Noise | Geoffrey Sax | mystery film, drama film, horror film, thriller film | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| White Shadows in the South Seas | Robert J. Flaherty | — | — |
| White Snake | — | fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale | People's Republic of China, United States |
| White Snow of Russia | Yuri Vyshinsky | drama film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| White Tiger | Karen Shakhnazarov | fantasy film, historical film, action film, adventure film, war film | Russia |
| White Witch Doctor | Henry Hathaway | adventure film | United States |
| Whitney | Kevin Macdonald | biographical film, documentary film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody | Kasi Lemmons | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Who Are U? | Choi Ho | romance film | South Korea |
| 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 Without Sin | Raffaello Matarazzo | — | — |
| Who Killed Joe Merrion? | Tefft Johnson | — | — |
| 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 Stole Roger Rabbit? | Max Cool | pornographic parody film, pornographic film | United Kingdom |
| Who's Got The | Jo Jin-kyu | drama film | South Korea |
 Who's Nailin' Paylin? | Jerome Tanner | pornographic parody film, pornographic film, MILF pornography | United States |
| Who's Your Caddy? | Don Michael Paul | comedy film | United States |
| Whom the Gods Love | Karl Hartl | drama film, biographical film | Germany, Austria |
| Whoops! | Stig Olin | comedy film | Sweden |
| Whose Was the Hand? | Alfred Rolfe | — | — |
| Why America Will Win | Richard Stanton | — | — |
 Why Be Good? | William A. Seiter | — | — |
| Why Cheat India? | Soumik Sen | drama film, crime film | India |
| Why Would We Not Sing! | Vladimir Alexandrovich Orlov | musical film | Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Wichita | Jacques Tourneur | Western film | United States |
| Wicked | Jon M. Chu | fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, musical film | United States |
| Wicked City | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | horror anime and manga, fantasy film, horror film, neo-noir, science fiction film | Japan |
| Wielka majówka | Krzysztof Rogulski | comedy film | Poland |
 Wife | Mikio Naruse | drama film | Japan |
| Wife, Husband and Friend | Gregory Ratoff | — | — |
 Wild Beauty | Henry MacRae | — | — |
| Wild Bill | Dexter Fletcher | drama film, comedy film, prison film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Wild Bill Hickok Rides | Ray Enright | Western film | United States |
| Wild Blood | Marco Tullio Giordana | drama film, biographical film | France, Italy |
| Wild Gold | George Marshall | romance film | United States |
| Wild Horse Mesa | Henry Hathaway | romance film, Western film | United States |
| Wild Horses | Marcelo Piñeyro | drama film | Argentina |
| Wild Stallion | Lewis D. Collins | Western film | United States |
| Wild Sumac | William V. Mong | — | — |
| Wild Youth | George Melford | — | — |
| Wildfeuer | Jo Baier | biographical film | Germany |
| Wildwitch | Kaspar Munk | — | Norway, Czech Republic, Hungary, Denmark |
 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Frank Tashlin | — | — |
| Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot | George Seaton | — | — |
| Willow | Ron Howard | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Willy's Wonderland | Kevin Lewis | horror film, comedy horror | United States |
 Winchester | Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | horror film, ghost film, supernatural fiction | United States |
| Wind Chill | Gregory Jacobs | horror film, Christmas film, ghost film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wind River | Taylor Sheridan | mystery film, Western film, thriller film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
 Wine | Louis J. Gasnier | — | — |
| Winged Victory | George Cukor | drama film, propaganda film, war film | United States |
 Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | drama film, fantasy film | France, Germany |
| Wings of Life | Louis Schwartzberg | nature documentary, documentary film | France, United States |
| Wings of Mercy | Evelyn Spice Cherry, Lawrence Cherry | documentary film | Canada |
| Wings of the Hawk | Budd Boetticher | Western film | United States |
 Wings of the Morning | J. Gordon Edwards | — | — |
| Winner Takes All | Clifton Ko | romantic comedy | Hong Kong |
| Winnetou and Old Firehand | Alfred Vohrer | adventure film | Germany |
| Winnie the Pooh | Don Hall, Stephen Anderson | fantasy film, comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Winning London | Craig Shapiro | comedy film | United States |
| Winter A-Go-Go | Richard Benedict | comedy drama | United States |
| Winter Cherry | Igor Maslennikov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Winter in Prostokvashino | Vladimir Popov | family film, fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| Winter Wonderland | Bernard Vorhaus | drama film | United States |
| Winter's Child | Olivier Assayas | drama film | France |
 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 |
| Wishing Stairs | Yun Jae-yeon | drama film, horror film | South Korea |
| Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies | Jack Sholder | fantasy film, horror film | United States |
| 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 Little Help from Myself | François Dupeyron | comedy film, comedy drama | France |
| With my father's permission | Amir Abbas Mohammadi | drama film | Iran |
| With Shared Love | Sergey Mikaelyan | drama film | People's Republic of Bulgaria, Soviet Union |
| With Six You Get Eggroll | Howard Morris | romance film, family film, comedy film | United States |
| Without Blood | — | drama film, war film | United States, Italy |
| Without Mercy | Elemér Ragályi | fiction film | Hungary |
| Without the Right to Fail | Yevgeniya Zhigulenko | adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Without Witness | Nikita Mikhalkov | drama film | Soviet Union |
 Witness for the Prosecution | Billy Wilder | trial film, crime film | United States |
| Witnesses | Vinko Brešan | drama film | Croatia |
| Wittgenstein | Derek Jarman | drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film | United Kingdom |
 Wives and Other Wives | Lloyd Ingraham | — | — |
 Wives Under Suspicion | James Whale | — | — |
| Wodzirej | Feliks Falk | slice of life | Polish People's Republic |
| Wohin mit mir? | — | documentary film | Germany |
| Woke Up Like This | — | comedy film | Philippines |
| Wolf | Nathalie Biancheri | drama film | Ireland, Poland |
| Wolf Children Ame and Yuki | Mamoru Hosoda | coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, children's film, supernatural film | Japan |
| Wolf Cub Among People | Talgat Temenov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Wolf Hiding | Marc Ma | — | People's Republic of China |
| Wolf Summer | Peder Norlund | drama film | Norway |
 Wolf Totem | Jean-Jacques Annaud | drama film, adventure film | France, People's Republic of China |
| Wolf Warrior | Wu Jing | war film, action thriller | People's Republic of China |
| Wolfen | Michael Wadleigh | horror film, crime film | United States |
| Wolves of the City | Leigh Jason | — | — |
| Woman Hungry | Clarence G. Badger | Western film, musical film | United States |
| Woman Is the Future of Man | Hong Sang-soo | romance film, fiction film | South Korea |
| Woman of Desire | Robert Ginty | drama film, erotic thriller | United States |
| Woman on the Roof | Anna Jadowska | drama film | France, Sweden, Poland |
| Woman Who Exposes Herself | Masaru Konuma | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Woman with a Dagger | Yakov Protazanov | — | — |
| Woman, Not Prone to Adventures | Nikolay Mikhaylov | drama film, melodrama | Ukraine |
| Women | Pavel Lyubimov | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Women and the Guards | Una Celma | documentary film | Latvia |
| Women Are Like That | Stanley Logan | drama film | United States |
| Women Don't Lie | Michael Juncker | comedy film | Germany, Austria |
| Women in War | John H. Auer | drama film, war film | United States |
| Women of the World | Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, Franco E. Prosperi, Paolo Cavara | documentary film | Italy |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar | black comedy film | Spain |
| Women Talking | Sarah Polley | drama film | United States |
| Women VS Men | Tahir Mamedov | comedy film | Russia |
| Women Without Men | Elmo Williams | — | — |
| Won by Wireless | — | — | — |
| Won Through a Medium | Mack Sennett | — | — |
| Wonder Bar | Busby Berkeley | — | — |
| Wonder Wheel | Woody Allen | drama film | United States |
| Wonder Woman 1984 | Patty Jenkins | drama film, superhero film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film, war film | United States |
| Wonderland | James Cox | drama film, biographical film, crime film | Canada, United States |
| Wonderland | Michael Winterbottom | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Wooden Pistols | Shapoor Gharib | drama film | Iran |
| Woodlawn | Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin | American football film, drama film, independent film | United States |
| Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches | Dinara Asanova | romance film, teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Woodstock | Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Wadleigh, Martin Scorsese | rockumentary, musical film, documentary film | United States |
| Woody Woodpecker | Alex Zamm | comedy film | United States |
| Words and Music | James Tinling | — | — |
| Workers '80 | Andrzej Zajączkowski, Andrzej Chodakowski | documentary film | Poland |
| Workers' Settlement | Vladimir Vengerov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Working Beks | Chris Martinez | comedy drama | Philippines |
| Working for Peanuts | Jack Hannah | — | — |
| Wounded Game | Nikolai Gubenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Wounds | Babak Anvari | horror film, psychological horror fiction | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wozzeck | Georg C. Klaren | drama film | Germany |
| Wreck-It Ralph | Rich Moore | family film, fantasy film, comedy film, crossover fiction, adventure film, science fiction film, comedy drama | United States |
| Written By | Wai Ka-fai | fantasy film | Hong Kong |
| Wrong | Quentin Dupieux | comedy film | France, United States |
| Wrong Is Right | Richard Brooks | comedy film | United States |
 Wrong Turn 2: Dead End | Joe Lynch | action film, horror film, LGBTQ-related film, slasher film | Canada, Germany, United States |
| Wrongfully Accused | Pat Proft | comedy film, parody film | Germany, United States |
| Wunschkonzert | Eduard von Borsody | — | — |
| Wuthering Heights | Emerald Fennell | romantic drama film, drama film, Gothic film, psychological drama film | United Kingdom, United States |
 Wuthering Heights | William Wyler | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Wyatt Earp | Lawrence Kasdan | Western film, action film, adventure film, biographical film | United States |
| Wyrmwood | Kiah Roache-Turner | post-apocalyptic film, zombie film | Australia |
| Wär ich geblieben doch auf meiner Heiden | Carl Becker | — | — |