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The Samurai Trilogy
The Samurai Trilogy (宮本武蔵三部作) is Hiroshi Inagaki's three-part 1954-1956 Toho color series starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto, adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel; the first film won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
The Sand
The Sand (2015), also released as Killer Beach or Blood Sand, is an American horror sci-fi comedy directed by Isaac Gabaeff: hung-over students trapped on a beach where a tentacled creature under the sand devours anyone who touches it.
The Sand Castle (2024 film)
The Sand Castle (من وراء الموج) is a 2024 Arabic-language psychological thriller, Matty Brown's debut feature, starring Nadine Labaki, Ziad Bakri, and the Al Rafeea siblings; it premiered at the 2024 Red Sea festival and streams on Netflix from January 24, 2025.
The Sand Child
The Sand Child (L'Enfant de sable) is a 1985 novel by Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun about a father who raises his eighth child, a girl, as a boy named Ahmed.
The Sand Pebbles (film)
The Sand Pebbles (1966) is Robert Wise's epic war drama, adapted from Richard McKenna's novel, starring Steve McQueen as gunboat machinist Jake Holman on China's Yangtze River in 1926; eight Oscar nominations, $30 million gross.
The Sandkings
The Sandkings is the 1995 two-hour premiere of the revived Outer Limits on Showtime, adapted from George R.R. Martin's Hugo- and Nebula-winning novelette, directed by Stuart Gillard, starring Beau Bridges as a scientist raising Martian creatures at home.
The Sandman (audio drama)
The Sandman (audio drama) is a multi-part Audible Original full-cast adaptation of Neil Gaiman's DC comic, directed by Dirk Maggs, first released July 15, 2020; the best-selling Audible Original, with James McAvoy as Dream.
The Sandman (comic book)
The Sandman (comic book): Neil Gaiman's 75-issue DC/Vertigo series, 1989-1996, about Dream/Morpheus and the Endless; won the 1991 World Fantasy Award and nine Eisner Awards, adapted by Netflix 2022-2025.
The Sandman (TV series)
The Sandman is an American fantasy drama television series developed for Netflix by Allan Heinberg from Neil Gaiman's DC comic, starring Tom Sturridge as Dream, or Morpheus.
The Sandpiper
The Sandpiper is a 1965 MGM romantic drama directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, and Charles Bronson; a Big Sur artist and married clergyman affair, remembered for the Oscar-winning song "The Shadow of Your Smile".
The Sandwich Man (儿子的大玩偶)
The Sandwich Man (兒子的大玩偶) is a 1983 Taiwanese omnibus film by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wan Jen, and Tseng Chuang-hsiang, adapting three Huang Chun-ming stories; regarded as the founding work of Taiwan New Cinema.
The Santa Clause
The Santa Clause is a 1994 Disney Christmas comedy starring Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, who becomes the new Santa after the old one falls off his roof; directed by John Pasquin, it grossed $145.5 million in the US and spawned two sequels and a Disney+ series.
The Santa Clause 2
The Santa Clause 2, also known as Santa Claus 2, is a 2002 American Christmas comedy starring Tim Allen as Santa, who must marry to keep the job.
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is a 2006 American Christmas comedy film starring Tim Allen and Martin Short, the third in Disney's Santa Clause series.
The Santa Clauses
The Santa Clauses is a Disney+ comedy-fantasy series (2022–2023, two six-episode seasons) created by Jack Burditt, continuing the Santa Clause films with Tim Allen's Scott Calvin seeking a Santa successor, later training son Cal against Mad Santa.
The Sapphires (film)
The Sapphires is a 2012 Australian musical comedy-drama directed by Wayne Blair, adapted from Tony Briggs' stage play about four Yorta Yorta women who sang soul for US troops in 1968 Vietnam; it was Australia's most popular film of 2012 and won 12 AACTA Awards.
The Saragossa Manuscript
The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie) is Wojciech Jerzy Has's 1964 Polish black-and-white film adapting Jan Potocki's nested frame-tale novel, starring Zbigniew Cybulski, with Penderecki's score, and restored in 4K by WFDiF.
The Sarah Jane Adventures
The Sarah Jane Adventures is a BBC/CBBC Doctor Who spin-off (2007–2011) starring Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, created by Russell T Davies, running five series across 55 episodes before Sladen's 2011 death cut it short.
The Sarashina Diary
The Sarashina Diary (Sarashina Nikki) is a Heian-period Japanese memoir by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, recalling her life from girlhood in the eastern provinces to widowhood in the capital.
The Sash
The Sash ("The Sash My Father Wore") is a loyalist ballad sung at Orange Order parades in Northern Ireland and Scotland, its melody adapted from Johnny Patterson's Irish music-hall song "The Hat My Father Wore".
The Saturdays
The Saturdays (The Sats) were a British and Irish girl group formed in London in 2008, scoring a UK number one with "What About Us" in 2013.
The Savage Five (五虎将)
The Savage Five (五虎將, Wu hu jiang) is a 1974 Shaw Brothers martial arts film directed by Chang Cheh and written with Ni Kuang, starring David Chiang, Ti Lung, Chen Kuan-tai, Danny Lee, and Wong Chung as villagers resisting bandits, with spaghetti western influences.
The Savages (film)
The Savages is Tamara Jenkins's 2007 American comedy-drama starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Philip Bosco, about estranged siblings caring for a father with dementia; Sundance premiere, two Oscar nominations, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Savant
The Savant is an eight-episode Apple TV+ limited thriller starring Jessica Chastain as Jodi Goodwin, an undercover investigator infiltrating online hate groups. Inspired by Andrea Stanley's 2019 Cosmopolitan article about the ADL investigator "K"; postponed after the Charlie Kirk assassination, now set for spring 2027.
The Saviors
The Saviors is a 2026 American darkly comedic sci-fi thriller by Kevin Hamedani and Travis Betz, starring Adam Scott and Danielle Deadwyler as a divorcing couple who suspect their Middle Eastern tenants; SXSW premiere, March 2027 release.
The Saviors Tour
The Saviors Tour was a 108-show worldwide concert tour by the American punk rock band Green Day, staged across 2024 and 2025 in support of the album Saviors.
The Saxon Stories
The Saxon Stories, renamed The Last Kingdom after the TV adaptation, is Bernard Cornwell's 13-novel historical fiction series (2004-2020) about Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a Saxon raised by Danes in ninth- and tenth-century England during Alfred the Great's wars.
The Scaffold
The Scaffold (Plakha) is a 1986 novel by the Soviet Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov, his last Soviet work, intertwining the fates of wolves, a journalist, and a shepherd in the Kazakh steppe.
The Scalphunters
The Scalphunters is a 1968 Sydney Pollack Western comedy starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, and Shelley Winters, in which a trapper chases his stolen furs through Kiowa and scalphunter hands.
The Scandal (2026 TV series)
The Scandal (스캔들) is a 2026 Netflix Korean period drama, 8 episodes, directed by Jung Ji-woo, adapting Dangerous Liaisons (1782) in Joseon-era Korea with Son Ye-jin, Ji Chang-wook, and NANA; premiered September 18, 2026.