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Secret Love Song

Secret Love Song: Little Mix ballad featuring Jason Derulo from Get Weird (2015), third single February 3, 2016; written by Ashurst, Rohan, Furner, and Derulo. Its solo piano version, Pt. II, became an LGBTQ+ anthem.

Secret Lover

Secret Lover (秘密關係) is a 2025 Taiwanese BL drama adapted from KOMEOKA SIG's manga, directed by Chiang Ping Chen, starring GUNO and Chance, aired on GTV in 10 episodes, distinct from the Korean Watcha series Secret Relationship.

Secret Magic Control Agency II: Mission Sleeping Beauty (Ганзель и Гретель. Миссия «Спящая красавица»)

Secret Magic Control Agency II: Mission Sleeping Beauty is a 2025 Russian animated fantasy comedy, the sequel to Hansel and Gretel and the Magic Agency, directed by Vladimir Nikolaev.

Secret Mall Apartment

Secret Mall Apartment is Jeremy Workman's 2024 documentary, executive produced by Jesse Eisenberg, about eight Rhode Island artists who secretly built and lived in a 750-square-foot apartment inside Providence Place Mall from 2003 to 2007 until their 2007 arrest.

Secret Name (film)

Secret Name (La place d'une autre) is a 2021 French period drama by Aurélia Georges, adapted from Wilkie Collins' The New Magdalen, starring Lyna Khoudri and Sabine Azéma; it premiered at Locarno 2021 and was released in France on 19 January 2022.

Secret Obsession

Secret Obsession is a 2019 Netflix psychological thriller directed by Peter Sullivan, starring Brenda Song, Mike Vogel, and Dennis Haysbert; an amnesia thriller watched by 40 million households but panned by critics (29% on Rotten Tomatoes).

Secret of Mana

Secret of Mana (聖剣伝説2, Seiken Densetsu 2) is Square's 1993 SNES action RPG starring Randi, Primm, and Popoi; known for three-player co-op via Super Multitap, real-time combat, ring menus, and Hiroki Kikuta's score; remade in 3D in 2018 to mixed reviews.

Secret of the Three Kingdoms (三国机密之潜龙在渊)

Secret of the Three Kingdoms (三国机密之潜龙在渊, The Secret Dragon in the Abyss) is a 2018 Tencent Video web drama adapted from Ma Boyong's novel, starring Ma Tianyu as twin brothers Liu Xie and Liu Ping, with Elvis Han and Wan Qian; 54 episodes, 200 million yuan investment.

Secret of the Wings

Secret of the Wings (2012) is the fourth Disney Fairies animated film, directed by Peggy Holmes, in which Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) discovers her frost-fairy twin Periwinkle (Lucy Hale) in the forbidden Winter Woods.

Secret police

Secret police, or political police, are covert state agencies that surveil and repress regime opponents using informant networks; examples include the Gestapo, Soviet OGPU/NKVD, and East Germany's Stasi, whose files covered 6.5 million citizens.

Secret Recipe

Secret Recipe is the bass music project of Benjamin Hannus, an Oakland, California producer and DJ who founded the Wormhole Entertainment event brand and heads the Wormhole Music Group label.

Secret Relationships (비밀사이)

Secret Relationships (비밀 사이, Bimil Sai) is a 2025 South Korean BL web drama, 8 episodes on Watcha and iQIYI, adapted from McQueen Studio's Kakao webtoon about office worker Jung Da-on and three suitors.

Secret Santa

Secret Santa, also called Kris Kringle, Wichteln, or Julklapp, is a Christmas gift exchange where each participant is secretly and randomly assigned one recipient. Typical budgets run $20–$50; a valid draw is a derangement with no self-assignments.

Secret Service (British TV series)

Secret Service is a 2026 five-part ITV espionage drama adapted from Tom Bradby's novel, starring Gemma Arterton as MI6 Russia Desk head Kate Henderson hunting a Russian asset in the UK Cabinet. Directed by James Marsh, written with Jemma Kennedy, filmed in Malta and London; distinct from the 1969 Anderson puppet series.

Secret Service code name

Secret Service code names are one-word identifiers assigned via the White House Communications Agency to the president, vice president, candidates, and families; begun under Truman ("General", 1945) for unencrypted radio security, now mainly tradition.

Secret sharing

Secret sharing, also called secret splitting or a threshold scheme, is a cryptographic method splitting a secret into shares, invented by Shamir and Blakley in 1979.

Secret Six (comics)

Secret Six is a DC Comics team name: a 1968 group of blackmailed specialists led by Mockingbird, and Gail Simone's 2005 villain-mercenary team (Catman, Deadshot, Scandal Savage), revived by Nicole Maines in 2025.

Secret society

Secret society: an association keeping membership, purpose, or rituals concealed, from Freemasonry and the Illuminati to African initiation societies and college fraternities; defined by initiation rites, oaths of secrecy, and claimed hidden knowledge.

Secret Society of Second-Born Royals

Secret Society of Second-Born Royals is a 2020 Disney+ original fantasy adventure film directed by Anna Mastro, starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Princess Sam of Illyria, a second-born royal who discovers superpowers from a genetic trait and trains with other second-born royals.

Secret Society of Super Villains

Secret Society of Super Villains: DC Comics supervillain team created by Gerry Conway and Pablo Marcos, debuting 1976; secretly founded by Darkseid with Manhunter as front man; series ran 15 issues to 1978.

Secret space program

The Secret space program is a claim covering documented classified space activity and uncorroborated off-world narratives. Official reviews have found no evidence of hidden extraterrestrial technology.

Secret Squirrel

Secret Squirrel: Hanna-Barbera's 1965 spy-parody cartoon squirrel, Agent 000, voiced by Mel Blanc with sidekick Morocco Mole; NBC series 1965-1968, revived 1993 in 2 Stupid Dogs, source of CIA slang.

Secret succession system

The secret succession system (秘密立储制度) was a Qing dynasty practice, begun in 1723, in which the emperor hid his chosen heir's name behind a palace plaque.

Secret Sunshine (밀양)

Secret Sunshine (밀양, Milyang) is Lee Chang-dong's 2007 South Korean drama starring Jeon Do-yeon and Song Kang-ho, about a widow in Miryang whose son is murdered; Jeon won Cannes Best Actress 2007.

Secret Superstar

Secret Superstar (2017) is a Hindi musical drama, Advait Chandan's directorial debut, starring Zaira Wasim as a burqa-clad YouTube singer and Aamir Khan; it earned about $130.8 million worldwide, mostly in China, and won three Filmfare Awards.

Secret treaty

Secret treaty: an international agreement whose existence or contents are withheld from publics or legislatures. Central to pre-1914 diplomacy (Straits agreement 1915, Sykes-Picot); opposed by Wilson's open diplomacy and curtailed by League Covenant Article 18 and UN Charter Article 102 registration rules.

Secret War in Laos

The Secret War in Laos was a covert conflict in which the CIA backed the Royal Lao Government and Hmong forces against the communist Pathet Lao until 1975.

Secret Wars

Secret Wars names two Marvel Comics crossovers, the 1984 twelve-issue Beyonder Battleworld series by Jim Shooter and Mike Zeck, the 2015 Hickman/Ribic multiverse-destroying event with God Emperor Doom, and the Russo-directed MCU film set for December 17, 2027.

Secret Wars (2015 comic book)

Secret Wars (2015) is Marvel's Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribić nine-issue crossover in which Earth-616 and the Ultimate Universe collide, leaving Battleworld ruled by God Emperor Doctor Doom; a basis for Avengers: Secret Wars.

Secret Window

Secret Window is a 2004 American psychological thriller written and directed by David Koepp, adapted from Stephen King's novella "Secret Window, Secret Garden" and starring Johnny Depp as a writer accused of plagiarism.