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The Smurfs
The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs) are Peyo's Belgian comic characters, blue and three apples tall, first appearing 23 October 1958 in Spirou, later stars of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Sony and Paramount films, and the Nickelodeon series.
The Smurfs (film)
The Smurfs is a 2011 American live-action/animated comedy from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, directed by Raja Gosnell, in which the Smurfs flee Gargamel and land in New York City.
The Smurfs 2
The Smurfs 2 is a 2013 American live-action/animated family comedy directed by Raja Gosnell, a sequel to the 2011 film, in which Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette and takes her to Paris.
The Snake Pit (1948 film)
The Snake Pit (1948) is Anatole Litvak's psychological drama starring Olivia de Havilland as Virginia Cunningham, adapted from Mary Jane Ward's novel; six Oscar nominations, won Best Sound, credited with spurring mental-hospital reforms in 26 states.
The Snake's Skin
The Snake's Skin (გველის პერანგი) is a 1925 modernist novel by the Georgian writer Grigol Robakidze, conceived in Iran in 1917 and regarded as a cornerstone of Georgian literary modernism.
The Snapper
The Snapper (1993) is a Stephen Frears comedy-drama, written by Roddy Doyle from his Barrytown novel, about pregnant Sharon Curley refusing to name her baby's father. A BBC film that moved from BBC2 to cinema release, winning Toronto's People's Choice Award.
The Sneetches and Other Stories
The Sneetches and Other Stories is Dr. Seuss's 1961 Random House collection of four verse stories, led by "The Sneetches," an allegory of prejudice and arbitrary markers exploited by Sylvester McMonkey McBean.
The Snitch Cartel
The Snitch Cartel (El cartel de los sapos) is a 2011 Colombian-Mexican crime film directed by Carlos Moreno, adapted from Andrés López López's book and the Caracol TV series, starring Manolo Cardona as a Norte del Valle cartel informant.
The Snoopy Show
The Snoopy Show (2021–2023) is a WildBrain-produced 2-D animated Apple TV+ series starring Snoopy and Woodstock in Peanuts adventures; 39 episodes in three seasons, premiered February 5, 2021, ended December 2023.
The Snow Girl
The Snow Girl (La chica de nieve) is a Spanish Netflix crime thriller from Atípica Films, adapted from Javier Castillo's novels, following journalist Miren Rojo (Milena Smit) investigating disappearances in Málaga across two seasons (2023, 2025).
The Snow Maiden
The Snow Maiden (Снегурочка, "A Spring Tale") is an 1873 play by Alexander Ostrovsky, drawn from a Russian folk tale, later made into a famous Rimsky-Korsakov opera.
The Snow Man
"The Snow Man" is a fifteen-line poem by Wallace Stevens, first published in 1921, asking what it takes to see a winter landscape without projecting human emotion onto it.
The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen (Danish: Sneedronningen/Snedronningen) is Hans Christian Andersen's 1844 literary fairy tale in seven stories, in which Gerda rescues Kay from the Snow Queen's palace by thawing his heart with her tears.
The Snow White Murder Case (白ゆき姫殺人事件)
The Snow White Murder Case (白ゆき姫殺人事件) is a 2014 Japanese suspense film by Yoshihiro Nakamura, adapted from Minato Kanae's novel, in which a cosmetics employee's murder and a missing plain colleague ignite a Twitter-fueled witch hunt.
The Snowman
The Snowman is a 26-minute 1982 Channel 4 animated film adapted from Raymond Briggs's 1978 wordless picture book, directed by Dianne Jackson, produced by John Coates at TVC, with Howard Blake's "Walking in the Air", Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning, and shown every Christmas since.
The Snowman (2017 film)
The Snowman (2017) is Tomas Alfredson's crime thriller adapting Jo Nesbø's Snømannen, starring Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole; a rushed production left 10–15% of the script unfilmed, and the film earned 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story)
Hemingway short story first published in Esquire, August 1936, subtitled "A long story"; about Harry, a writer dying of gangrene on safari; reprinted in Best American Short Stories 1937 and filmed in 1952 with Gregory Peck.
The Social Dilemma
The Social Dilemma is a 2020 Netflix documentary-drama directed by Jeff Orlowski-Yang, also called a docudrama on the attention economy, in which former Google, Facebook, and Twitter employees describe how algorithms manipulate users; it drew 38 million viewers in four weeks and won two Primetime Emmy Awards.
The Social Network
The Social Network (2010) is David Fincher's biographical drama, written by Aaron Sorkin from Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg; it won three Oscars and joined the National Film Registry in 2024.
The Social Reckoning
The Social Reckoning is a 2026 Aaron Sorkin drama and companion piece to The Social Network, dramatizing Frances Haugen's Facebook Files leaks to WSJ reporter Jeff Horwitz, starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg.
The Society (TV series)
The Society is a 2019 Netflix teen mystery drama (10 episodes, TV-MA) created by Christopher Keyser with Marc Webb, a modern Lord of the Flies about West Ham teens trapped in New Ham; renewed July 2019, cancelled August 2020 due to COVID-19.
The Soft Parade
The Soft Parade is the fourth studio album by the American rock band The Doors, released in 1969, featuring brass and string arrangements and the top-5 hit "Touch Me."
The Soft Skin
The Soft Skin (La Peau douce) is François Truffaut's 1964 French black-and-white adultery drama starring Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, and Nelly Benedetti, inspired by the Pierre Jaccoud case, a Cannes selection that flopped on release and was later reevaluated.
The Software Devloveper
The Software Devloveper (The Software DevLOVEper) is a 2020 Telugu comedy-romance web series on YouTube, produced by and starring Shanmukh Jaswanth, directed by Subbu K, 10 episodes, Infinitum Media, free to watch.
The Solid Gold Cadillac
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) is a Columbia Pictures satirical comedy directed by Richard Quine, starring Judy Holliday and Paul Douglas, adapted from the Kaufman-Teichmann Broadway play; it won the Oscar for Best Black-and-White Costume Design.
The Solid Mandala
The Solid Mandala is a 1966 novel by the Australian writer Patrick White about the twin brothers Waldo and Arthur Brown, set in the fictional Sydney suburb of Sarsaparilla.
The Solitaire Mystery
The Solitaire Mystery (Kabalmysteriet) is a 1990 philosophical fantasy novel for young readers by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder, written before Sophie's World and translated into about thirty languages.
The Solitary Reaper
The Solitary Reaper is a 32-line William Wordsworth lyric, composed November 1805 and published in Poems in Two Volumes (1807), about a Gaelic-singing Highland woman reaping alone, sourced from Thomas Wilkinson's Scottish tour manuscript.
The Soloist
The Soloist is a 2009 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Wright, starring Jamie Foxx as homeless musician Nathaniel Ayers and Robert Downey Jr. as columnist Steve Lopez.
The Son (2002 film)
The Son (Le fils) is a 2002 Belgian-French drama by the Dardenne brothers about a carpenter whose new apprentice killed his son. Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes 2002.