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The Silence of the Marsh
The Silence of the Marsh (El silencio del pantano) is a 2019 Spanish psychological thriller directed by Marc Vigil, adapting Juanjo Braulio's novel. Pedro Alonso plays Q, a crime novelist whose murders may be real; released January 2020 in Spain, on Netflix April 2020.
The Silenced
The Silenced (경성학교: 사라진 소녀들) is a 2015 South Korean mystery-horror film by Lee Hae-young, set in 1938 colonial Keijyo at a girls' boarding school where students vanish; starring Park Bo-young, Uhm Ji-won, and Park So-dam.
The Silencers
The Silencers (1966) is a Columbia spy comedy starring Dean Martin as Matt Helm, first of four Matt Helm films, directed by Phil Karlson, based on Donald Hamilton novels, earning about $7 million.
The Silencing
The Silencing (2020) is an American-Canadian thriller directed by Robin Pront, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Annabelle Wallis as a hunter and sheriff tracking a serial killer; Saban Films released it in August 2020.
The Silent Brotherhood (book)
The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground is Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt's 1989 Free Press book about The Order, the Robert Mathews-led neo-Nazi group that killed Alan Berg; republished as The Order in 2024.
The Silent Cry
The Silent Cry (万延元年のフットボール, Man'en Gannen no Futtobōru) is a 1967 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe set in a Shikoku village, winner of the 1967 Tanizaki Prize.
The Silent Forest
The Silent Forest (無聲) is Ko Chen-nien's 2020 Taiwanese debut drama about sexual abuse at a school for deaf students, adapted from the 2009-2011 Tainan special school case; eight Golden Horse nominations, two wins, NT$50 million box office.
The Silent Hour
The Silent Hour is a 2024 American crime thriller directed by Brad Anderson, written by Dan Hall, starring Joel Kinnaman, Sandra Mae Frank, Mekhi Phifer, and Mark Strong, about a hearing-loss Boston detective protecting a deaf murder witness from corrupt cops; released October 11, 2024.
The Silent Noise
The Silent Noise is a 2026 Filipino mystery-thriller limited series from ABS-CBN Studios on Prime Video, directed by Onat Diaz, starring Angelica Panganiban and Zanjoe Marudo as parents of a deaf boy, Eli (KD Omalin), in the coastal town of Escondido; it premiered March 20, 2026, in over 240 countries and won Best Asian Content at the Global OTT Awards 2026.
The Silent Patient
The Silent Patient is a 2019 psychological thriller novel by Alex Michaelides, his debut, in which a psychotherapist tries to make a painter who shot her husband speak again.
The Silent Planet
The Silent Planet (2024) is a Canadian sci-fi thriller written and directed by Jeffrey St. Jules, starring Elias Koteas and Briana Middleton as convicts on penal planet #384; premiered at Fantasia 2024, released March 7, 2025.
The Silent Sea (고요의 바다) (TV series)
The Silent Sea (고요의 바다) is an eight-episode Korean Netflix sci-fi mystery thriller released December 24, 2021, starring Bae Doona, Gong Yoo, and Lee Joon, directed by Choi Hang-yong from his 2014 short film, about a lunar mission to Balhae Base on a water-starved future Earth.
The Silesian Songs
The Silesian Songs (Slezské písně) is the only poetry collection of the Czech poet Petr Bezruč, depicting the oppression of Silesia's people under Austro-Hungarian rule in a rebellious voice.
The Silesian Weavers
The Silesian Weavers, or Die schlesischen Weber, is an 1844 political poem by Heinrich Heine about the Silesian weavers' revolt, later called the Marseillaise of the German workers.
The Silkworm
The Silkworm (2014) is the second Cormoran Strike detective novel by J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith, published by Sphere (UK) and Little, Brown (US), featuring the murder of novelist Owen Quine and his manuscript Bombyx Mori.
The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion is Tolkien's posthumous 1977 mythology of Middle-earth's First Age, edited by Christopher Tolkien with Guy Gavriel Kay from unfinished drafts, including the Ainulindalë creation account.
The Silver Age
The Silver Age (《白银时代》) is a dystopian novel and story collection by the Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, second volume of his Era Trilogy between The Golden Age and The Bronze Age.
The Silver Chair
The Silver Chair is a 1953 children's fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis, fourth in publication order among the Chronicles of Narnia, in which Eustace and Jill rescue Prince Rilian.
The Silver Dream of Salomea
The Silver Dream of Salomea (Sen srebrny Salomei) is an 1843 drama by Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, set in Ukraine during the peasant uprising of 1768.
The Silver Scream
The Silver Scream is Ice Nine Kills' fifth album (2018, Fearless Records), a metalcore concept record whose 13 songs each adapt a horror film, with a linked music-video storyline and a 2021 sequel, Welcome to Horrorwood.
The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood
The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood (2021), also called Welcome to Horrorwood, is the sixth album by horror-themed metalcore band Ice Nine Kills, a Fearless Records sequel to The Silver Scream with tracks based on films like American Psycho and Candyman.
The Silver Tassie
The Silver Tassie is an anti-war play in four acts by the Irish dramatist Seán O'Casey, finished in 1928 and rejected by Dublin's Abbey Theatre in its most famous refusal.
The Silver World
The Silver World (Eunsegye) is a 1908 Korean new novel by Yi In-jik whose stage adaptation at Wongaksa that year was Korea's first new drama performance.
The Simple Art of Murder
The Simple Art of Murder: Raymond Chandler's December 1944 Atlantic Monthly essay attacking the British puzzle whodunit and defining the hard-boiled detective, also the title of his 1950 Houghton Mifflin collection of that essay plus eight pulp stories.
The Simple Life
The Simple Life is the American reality series (Fox, December 2, 2003 to 2007; later E!) starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie as socialites doing rural manual labor, a Green Acres-inspired show that pioneered celebrity influencer reality TV.
The Simpsons
The Simpsons: American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening, developed with James L. Brooks and Sam Simon; premiered on FOX December 17, 1989 after Tracey Ullman shorts; longest-running scripted primetime series, 800 episodes, renewed through season 40.
The Simpsons future predictions
The Simpsons future predictions: claimed forecasts by the animated sitcom, led by the 2000 "Bart to the Future" Trump presidency gag and the Kamala Harris outfit parallel, with many viral claims debunked as fabricated or AI-generated images.
The Simpsons Guy
The Simpsons Guy is the one-hour Family Guy season 13 premiere (September 28, 2014), the first official Simpsons–Family Guy crossover, proposed by Richard Appel, written by Patrick Meighan, directed by Peter Shin, with mixed reviews and a controversial rape joke.
The Simpsons house
The Simpsons house, 742 Evergreen Terrace, is the fictional two-story Simpson family home in Springfield, with a flexible floor plan and a rarely seen rumpus room; a $120,000 real-life replica was built in Henderson, Nevada in 1997.
The Simpsons Movie
The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film directed by David Silverman, the feature-length spin-off of the television series The Simpsons, released by 20th Century Fox.