| Film | Year | Director | Source |
| The Wackness | 2008 | Jonathan Levine | |
| The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | |
| Waiting for Guffman | 1996 | Christopher Guest | |
| Waitress | 2007 | Adrienne Shelly | |
| Wake Up and Dream | 1934 | Kurt Neumann | |
| Walden (also known as Diaries, Notes, and Sketches) | 1968 | Jonas Mekas | |
| Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story | 2007 | Jake Kasdan | |
| Walk on the Wild Side | 1962 | Edward Dmytryk | |
| Walkabout | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg | |
| WALL-E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | |
| Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Ari Folman | |
| Wanda | 1970 | Barbara Loden | |
| Wanda, the Sadistic Hypnotist (also known as The Sadistic Hypnotist) | 1969 | Greg Corarito | |
| The Wanderers | 1979 | Philip Kaufman | |
| The Wannsee Conference | 1984 | Heinz Schirk | |
| War and Peace | 1967 | Sergei Bondarchuk | |
| War Comes to America | 1945 | Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak | |
| The War Game | 1966 | Peter Watkins | |
| War Hunt | 1962 | Denis Sanders | |
| The War Is Over | 1966 | Alain Resnais | |
| War of the Colossal Beast | 1958 | Bert I. Gordon | |
| The War of the Gargantuas | 1966 | Ishirō Honda | |
| The War of the Worlds | 1953 | Byron Haskin | |
| Warning Sign | 1985 | Hal Barwood | |
| The Warped Ones | 1960 | Koreyoshi Kurahara | |
| The Warriors | 1979 | Walter Hill | |
| The Wasp Woman | 1959 | Roger Corman | |
| The Watchmaker of St. Paul (also known as The Clockmaker) | 1974 | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| Watchmen | 2009 | Zack Snyder | |
| Waterloo Bridge | 1940 | Mervyn LeRoy | |
| Waterworld | 1995 | Kevin Reynolds | |
| Wavelength | 1967 | Michael Snow | |
| The Way We Were | 1973 | Sydney Pollack | |
| The Wayward Cloud | 2005 | Tsai Ming-liang | |
| We Can't Go Home Again | 1973 | Nicholas Ray | |
| The Wedding Singer | 1998 | Frank Coraci | |
| Wednesday's Child (also known as Family Life) | 1971 | Ken Loach | |
| Weekend | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| Welcome Home Brother Charles (also known as Soul Vengeance) | 1975 | Jamaa Fanaka | |
| Welcome to the Dollhouse | 1995 | Todd Solondz | |
| Went the Day Well? | 1942 | Alberto Cavalcanti | |
| Werewolf of London | 1935 | Stuart Walker | |
| The Werewolf of Washington | 1973 | Milton Moses Ginsberg | |
| Werewolf Woman (also known as The Legend of the Wolf Woman) | 1976 | Rino Di Silvestro | |
| Wes Craven's New Nightmare (also known as New Nightmare) | 1994 | Wes Craven | |
| Westworld | 1973 | Michael Crichton | |
| Wet Hot American Summer | 2001 | David Wain | |
| What a Carve Up! | 1961 | Pat Jackson | |
| What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? | 1969 | Lee H. Katzin | |
| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | |
| What's New Pussycat? | 1965 | Clive Donner | |
| What's Opera, Doc? | 1957 | Chuck Jones | |
| What's Up, Doc? | 1972 | Peter Bogdanovich | |
| What's Up, Tiger Lily? | 1966 | Woody Allen and Senkichi Taniguchi | |
| When Harry Met Sally... | 1989 | Rob Reiner | |
| When Night Is Falling | 1995 | Patricia Rozema | |
| When Strangers Marry | 1944 | William Castle | |
| When the Clouds Roll By | 1919 | Victor Fleming | |
| When Time Ran Out | 1980 | James Goldstone | |
| When We Were Kings | 1996 | Leon Gast | |
| Where Eagles Dare | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton | |
| Where's Poppa? | 1970 | Carl Reiner | |
| Whisky Galore! | 1949 | Alexander Mackendrick | |
| White Dog | 1982 | Samuel Fuller | |
| White Heat | 1949 | Raoul Walsh | |
| White Palace | 1990 | Luis Mandoki | |
| The White Ribbon | 2009 | Michael Haneke | |
| The White Snake Enchantress (also known as Panda and the Magic Serpent, The Great White Snake, and The Tale of the White Serpent) | 1958 | Taiji Yabushita | |
| White Sun of the Desert | 1970 | Vladimir Motyl | |
| White Zombie | 1932 | Victor Halperin | |
| Who Killed Brown Owl? | 2004 | Christine Molloy | |
| Who Wants to Kill Jessie? | 1966 | Václav Vorlíček | |
| The Wicked Lady | 1945 | Leslie Arliss | |
| The Wicker Man | 1973 | Robin Hardy | |
| Wide Sargasso Sea | 1993 | John Duigan | |
| The Wild Angels | 1966 | Roger Corman | |
| Wild at Heart | 1990 | David Lynch | |
| The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | |
| Wild Grass | 2009 | Alain Resnais | |
| Wild in the Streets | 1968 | Barry Shear | |
| The Wild One | 1953 | László Benedek | |
| Wild Seed | 1965 | Brian G. Hutton | |
| Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | |
| Wild Style | 1983 | Charlie Ahearn | |
| Wild Target | 2010 | Jonathan Lynn | |
| Wild Wild West | 1999 | Barry Sonnenfeld | |
| William Winckler's Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove (also known as Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove) | 2005 | William Winckler | |
| Willow | 1988 | Ron Howard | |
| Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart | |
| Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | |
| Winstanley | 1975 | Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo | |
| Winter Kills | 1979 | William Richert | |
| The Winter War | 1989 | Pekka Parikka | |
| Wisconsin Death Trip | 1999 | James Marsh | |
| Wise Blood | 1979 | John Huston | |
| Witchcraft Through the Ages (also known as Häxan) | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen | |
| The Witches | 1990 | Nicolas Roeg | |
| The Witches of Eastwick | 1987 | George Miller | |
| Witchfinder General (also known as The Conqueror Worm) | 1968 | Michael Reeves | |
| Withnail and I | 1987 | Bruce Robinson | |
| Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | |
| The Wiz | 1978 | Sidney Lumet | |
| The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | |
| Wolfen | 1981 | Michael Wadleigh | |
| Woman in the Dunes | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | |
| Woman in the Moon | 1929 | Fritz Lang | |
| A Woman Under the Influence | 1974 | John Cassavetes | |
| The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 1988 | Pedro Almodóvar | |
| Woodstock | 1970 | Michael Wadleigh | |
| World's Biggest Gang Bang | 1995 | John T. Bone | |
| The World's Greatest Sinner | 1962 | Timothy Carey | |
| The Wormwood Star | 1956 | Curtis Harrington | |
| The Wounded Man | 1983 | Patrice Chéreau | |
| WR: Mysteries of the Organism | 1971 | Dušan Makavejev | |
| Wrath of Daimajin | 1966 | Kazuo Mori | |
| The Wrestler | 2008 | Darren Aronofsky | |
| Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | |