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Silent Friend

Silent Friend (Stille Freundin, Csendes barát) is a 2025 drama by Ildikó Enyedi about a ginkgo tree in Marburg's botanical garden linking three eras, 1908, 1972, and 2020, starring Tony Leung, Luna Wedler, and Léa Seydoux; it won the Venice FIPRESCI Prize and Marcello Mastroianni Award.

Silent Generation

The Silent Generation is the American cohort born 1928-1945, between the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers. Named by TIME in 1951, it is small (about 19 million), conformist and civic-minded in image, and the most Republican living generation.

Silent Hill

Silent Hill is Konami's psychological horror game franchise, first released in 1999 by Team Silent, known for fog, radio static, and Akira Yamaoka's music; revived from 2024 with the Silent Hill 2 remake, Silent Hill f, and Townfall.

Silent Hill (film)

Silent Hill is a 2006 horror film directed by Christophe Gans, based on Konami's video game series and starring Radha Mitchell as a mother searching for her missing daughter.

Silent Hill (video game)

Silent Hill (1999) is Konami Team Silent's PlayStation survival horror game, first in the Silent Hill series, known for fog, darkness, psychological horror, and an ongoing franchise revival with remakes.

Silent Hill 2 (2024 video game)

Silent Hill 2 is a 2024 survival horror game by Bloober Team and Konami, a remake of the 2001 classic, released for PlayStation 5 and PC.

Silent Hill 2 (サイレントヒル2)

Silent Hill 2 (サイレントヒル2) is Konami's 2001 KCET psychological horror game for PS2, Metacritic 89, starring James Sunderland; remade by Bloober Team in October 2024, selling over 5 million units by January 2026.

Silent Hill 3 (サイレントヒル3)

Silent Hill 3 (サイレントヒル3) is a 2003 survival horror game developed by Konami's Team Silent for the PlayStation 2, following teenager Heather Mason, the series' first female protagonist.

Silent Hill 4: The Room

Silent Hill 4: The Room is Konami Team Silent's 2004 survival horror game for PS2 and Xbox, in which Henry Townshend is trapped in Room 302; it introduced ghosts, limited inventory, and hauntings, and returned DRM-free on GOG in 2020.

Silent Hill f

Silent Hill f (サイレントヒル f) is a 2025 survival horror game by NeoBards and Konami, the first series entry set in Japan: 1960s Ebisugaoka, protagonist Shimizu Hinako, writer Ryukishi07, Metacritic 86.

Silent Hill: Downpour

Silent Hill: Downpour is a 2012 survival horror game by Vatra Games and Konami for PS3 and Xbox 360, following escaped convict Murphy Pendleton in a semi-open world Silent Hill with side quests; Metascore 64 (PS3), composer Daniel Licht.

Silent Hill: Homecoming

Silent Hill: Homecoming (2008), sixth series installment per Konami, survival horror developed by Double Helix Games for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC; Alex Shepherd searches Shepherd's Glen; Metacritic 70, about 0.45 million units sold.

Silent Hill: Origins

Silent Hill: Origins (2007) is a Climax Studios survival horror prequel for PSP and PS2 starring trucker Travis Grady, with breakable melee weapons, Akira Yamaoka's score, and Metacritic scores of 78 (PSP) and 70 (PS2).

Silent Hill: Revelation

Silent Hill: Revelation (Silent Hill: Revelation 3D) is a 2012 horror film by M.J. Bassett, sequel to the 2006 Silent Hill film and loosely based on Silent Hill 3, starring Adelaide Clemens; it earned 8% on Rotten Tomatoes and $17.5 million in the US.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2009) is Climax Studios' combat-free Wii, PS2, and PSP reimagining of the original Silent Hill, with psychological profiling, chase sequences, Akira Yamaoka's score, and a 79 Metacritic Wii score.

Silent Hill: The Short Message

Silent Hill: The Short Message is a free first-person psychological horror game by Konami and HexaDrive, released January 31, 2024 on PS5; Anita explores a German apartment block, Metacritic 52.

Silent Hill: Townfall

Silent Hill: Townfall is a 2026 first-person psychological horror game by Screen Burn Interactive, co-published by Konami and Annapurna Interactive, released September 24, 2026 on PS5, Steam, and Epic, set in 1996 on the Scottish island of St Amelia.

Silent Hills

Silent Hills: cancelled 2014-2015 Kojima Productions horror game with Guillermo del Toro and Norman Reedus, announced via the P.T. playable teaser (7780s Studio, Gamescom 2014), delisted April 2015 after the Konami-Kojima split.

Silent Love (サイレントラブ) (2024 film)

Silent Love (サイレントラブ) is a 2024 Japanese romance drama directed by Eiji Uchida, starring Ryosuke Yamada and Minami Hamabe, music by Joe Hisaishi, released January 26, 2024, 116 minutes, GAGA.

Silent majority

Silent majority: political phrase for unexpressed mass opinion, defined by Nixon's November 3, 1969 Vietnam address appealing to "the great silent majority" against antiwar protesters; later used by Reagan and Trump.

Silent Movie

Silent Movie is a 1976 American slapstick comedy directed by Mel Brooks, who stars as a director pitching the first major silent film in forty years.

Silent myocardial infarction

A silent myocardial infarction is a heart attack that causes no symptoms or only vague ones, recognized later on a routine ECG or imaging study.

Silent myocardial ischemia

Silent myocardial ischemia, also called silent ischemia, is reduced blood flow to the heart muscle without angina symptoms, the most common manifestation of coronary artery disease.

Silent Night

Silent Night (Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht), Austrian Christmas carol: lyrics by Joseph Mohr 1816, melody by Franz Xaver Gruber 1818, first performed Christmas Eve 1818 in Oberndorf near Salzburg with guitar.

Silent Night (2021 film)

Silent Night (2021) is Camille Griffin's British apocalyptic comedy-drama debut, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode at a last Christmas before a toxic climate cloud ends humanity; distinct from Will Thorne's 2021 crime thriller and John Woo's 2023 action film.

Silent Night (2023 film)

Silent Night is a 2023 American action thriller directed by John Woo and starring Joel Kinnaman as a father who, left mute by a gunshot, hunts the gang that killed his son.

Silent Night, Deadly Night

Silent Night, Deadly Night is a 1984 American Christmas horror film directed by Charles E. Sellier Jr. It became highly controversial due to its killer Santa advertising.

Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025 film)

Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025 film), also called the Silent Night Deadly Night reboot, is Mike P. Nelson's Christmas horror remake of the 1984 slasher, starring Rohan Campbell as killer Santa Billy Chapman, released by Cineverse December 12, 2025.

Silent Planet (group)

Silent Planet is a Los Angeles metalcore band formed in 2009, led by vocalist Garrett Russell and known for concept albums whose lyrics carry footnotes on history and theology.

Silent Running

Silent Running (1972) is Douglas Trumbull's directorial debut, a Universal eco-science-fiction film starring Bruce Dern as botanist Freeman Lowell, who preserves Earth's last forests aboard the Valley Forge with robots Huey, Dewey, and Louie.