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Soul food
Soul food is the traditional African American cuisine originating with enslaved people of African ancestry in the American South; also called Southern food. Known for greens, black-eyed peas, fried chicken, cornbread, and 1960s naming tied to Black pride.
Soul Food (film)
Soul Food (1997) is a comedy-drama written and directed by George Tillman Jr., starring Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, and Nia Long, about a Chicago family's Sunday dinners after the matriarch's coma; it grossed $43.5M and spawned a Showtime series.
Soul for Real
Soul for Real (also Soul IV Real): American contemporary R&B quartet of the four Dalyrimple brothers from Wyandanch, NY, formed 1992; debut single "Candy Rain" (1994) hit number 2 on the Hot 100 and the album went platinum; later albums For Life and Heat.
Soul II Soul
Soul II Soul, the London collective founded by Jazzie B (Trevor Beresford Romeo), began as a sound system and scored 1989 UK number one hits 'Back to Life' and the albums Club Classics Vol.1 and Volume II, winning two Grammys and still touring.
Soul Kitchen
Soul Kitchen is Fatih Akin's 2009 German comedy about Hamburg restaurateur Zinos Kazantsakis, starring Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, and Birol Ünel; it won the Special Jury Prize at Venice 2009.
Soul Man (film)
Soul Man (1986) is an American comedy directed by Steve Miner, starring C. Thomas Howell as a white student who uses tanning pills to pose as black for a Harvard Law scholarship; protested by the NAACP, grossing $27.3 million.
Soul Mate (TV series)
Soul Mate (ソウルメイト) is a Japanese live-action limited series on Netflix, starring Hayato Isomura and Ok Taec-yeon as two men whose bond spans Berlin, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Soul Mate (七月与安生) (2016 film)
Soul Mate (七月与安生, Soulmate) is a 2016 Mandarin drama directed by Derek Tsang, adapted from Annie Baby's novella, starring Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun, who tied for the 2016 Golden Horse Best Actress award.
Soul Men
Soul Men is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Malcolm D. Lee, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac as estranged former soul singers.
Soul music
Soul music: gospel-influenced African American popular music genre, also called soul, evolving from rhythm and blues in the late 1950s; defined by melismatic, improvisatory gospel vocals, call-and-response, and regional scenes at Stax, Motown, and Muscle Shoals.
Soul on Fire
Soul on Fire (2025) is a Sony AFFIRM Films biographical drama directed by Sean McNamara, based on John O'Leary's memoir On Fire, about his survival of a 1987 fire that burned 100 percent of his body; released October 10, 2025, grossing $7.3 million.
Soul Plane
Soul Plane (2004) is an American comedy, Jessy Terrero's directorial debut, starring Kevin Hart, Snoop Dogg, and Tom Arnold. Nashawn Wade wins a $100 million lawsuit and founds NWA Airlines; MGM released it May 28, 2004 to poor reviews and a $13.9M US gross.
Soul Stories
Soul Stories (സോൾ സ്റ്റോറീസ്) is a 2024 Malayalam anthology web series directed by Sanil Kalathil about women in a patriarchal society, streaming on ManoramaMax from October 2024.
Soul Surfer (film)
Soul Surfer is a 2011 American biographical drama directed by Sean McNamara, starring AnnaSophia Robb as Bethany Hamilton, a surfer who lost her left arm in a shark attack.
Soul Tax
The soul tax (подушная подать) was the principal direct tax of the Russian Empire, introduced by Peter I in 1724 and levied on every male of the tax-paying estates.
Soul theorem
The soul theorem is a 1972 result of Cheeger and Gromoll: every complete non-compact Riemannian manifold of non-negative curvature is diffeomorphic to the normal bundle of a compact soul.
Soul Train
Soul Train is Don Cornelius's American music-dance TV series, the Black answer to American Bandstand, airing from Chicago in 1970 and in national syndication 1971-2006, famous for the Soul Train line and Afro Sheen sponsorship.
Soul Train Music Award for Career Achievement
Soul Train Music Award for Career Achievement, originally the Heritage Award for Career Achievement and later the Quincy Jones Award, is a lifetime honor at the Soul Train Music Awards; recipients include Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Smokey Robinson, Prince, Diana Ross, LL Cool J, and Jermaine Dupri.
Soul Train Music Awards
Soul Train Music Awards: annual American awards honoring African American music, founded by Don Cornelius in 1987; first ceremony March 23, 1987 at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; BET-run, Thanksgiving-timed; suspended after 2023, revived for CBS in 2026.
Soul Train Music Awards ceremonies, 1990–1994
The Soul Train Music Awards ceremonies of 1990–1994 were the fourth through eighth annual editions honoring rhythm and blues, gospel, and rap, held each March at Los Angeles's Shrine Auditorium.
Soul Train Music Awards ceremonies, 2000–2004
The Soul Train Music Awards ceremonies of 2000–2004 were the 14th through 18th annual editions honoring R&B, hip-hop, rap, and gospel artists, held in Los Angeles.
Soul Train Music Awards top categories
Soul Train Music Awards top categories: the prize groupings of the awards show founded by Don Cornelius in 1987, from 14 committee-voted 1987 categories to Song of the Year, the Ashford and Simpson Songwriter's Award, and the 2026 fan-voted R&B/Soul Song of the Year and RNB X International Artist.
Soulbrain
Soulbrain is a South Korean company in Seongnam producing lithium-ion battery electrolytes from plants in Korea, the United States, Hungary, and Malaysia, plus semiconductor etchants and display materials.
Soulcalibur
Soulcalibur (ソウルキャリバー) is Namco/Bandai Namco's weapon-based 3D fighting game series, begun with Soul Edge and the 1999 Dreamcast Soulcalibur (Metascore 98); over 15 million sold, latest main entry Soulcalibur VI (2018).
Soulcalibur II
Soulcalibur II (ソウルキャリバーII) is Namco's 2002/2003 3D weapons-based fighter for arcades, PS2, Xbox, and GameCube, with exclusive guests Link, Spawn, and Heihachi, Metacritic 92-93, and Weapon Master Mode.
Soulcalibur V
Soulcalibur V (ソウルキャリバーV) is a 2012 3D weapon-based fighting game by Project Soul and Namco Bandai for PS3 and Xbox 360, set 17 years after Soulcalibur IV, starring Patroklos, with Critical Edge supers, Just Guard, and guest character Ezio Auditore.
Soulcalibur VI
Soulcalibur VI (SCVI, ソウルキャリバーVI) is Bandai Namco Project Soul's 2018 weapon-based fighting game reboot on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, with Reversal Edge, Soul Chronicle and Libra of Soul story modes, and Metacritic 84.
Soule
Soule (Xiberoa, Zuberoa) is the smallest of the seven historic Basque provinces, in Pyrénées-Atlantiques between Lower Navarre and Béarn; capital Mauléon, Souletin dialect, Coutume of 1520, institutions lost in 1730-1731.
Souleymane's Story
Souleymane's Story (L'Histoire de Souleymane) is Boris Lojkine's 2024 French drama about a Guinean delivery cyclist preparing for an OFPRA asylum interview; it won Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and Best Actor and four Césars.
Soulfly
Soulfly is the heavy metal band founded by Max Cavalera after leaving Sepultura in 1996; active since 1997, it has released thirteen albums from Soulfly (1998) to Chama (2025).