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The Spider and the Fly (poem)
The Spider and the Fly, Mary Howitt's 1829 children's cautionary poem (written 1828), in which a spider's flattery lures a vain fly to her doom; famous for "Will you walk into my parlour," parodied by Carroll and adapted in DiTerlizzi's 2003 Caldecott Honor book.
The Spider's Stratagem
The Spider's Stratagem (Strategia del ragno) is Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 RAI television film, freely adapted from Borges's "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero", in which a son investigating his anti-fascist father's 1936 murder finds the hero staged his own assassination.
The Spider's Thread
The Spider's Thread (Kumo no ito) is a 1918 short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, his first children's work, retelling a Buddhist parable of a thief saved briefly from hell.
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Spiderwick Chronicles is a five-book children's fantasy series (2003–2004) by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black about the Grace children and Arthur Spiderwick's faerie field guide, followed by Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles and 2008 and 2024 screen adaptations.
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2024 TV series)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2024) is an eight-episode Roku Original fantasy series based on Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's books, starring Joy Bryant and Christian Slater; completed for Disney+, dropped in 2023, and picked up by Roku, premiering April 19, 2024.
The Spiderwick Chronicles (film)
The Spiderwick Chronicles is a 2008 American fantasy adventure film directed by Mark Waters, based on Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's five-book series, starring Freddie Highmore as the Grace twins.
The Spierig Brothers
The Spierig Brothers are identical twins Michael and Peter Spierig, German-born Australian directors of Undead, Daybreakers, Predestination, Jigsaw, and Winchester, who co-write, co-direct, and co-produce all their films.
The Spinners (American group)
The Spinners (American group), also the Detroit Spinners, a Detroit soul vocal group formed in 1954 as the Domingoes; 1970s hits with Thom Bell at Atlantic, including "I'll Be Around" and "Then Came You"; Rock Hall inductees 2023.
The Spiral (film)
The Spiral (L'estranea) is a 2026 Italian-French-Belgian Faustian horror thriller by Paolo Strippoli, starring Jasmine Trinca, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Adriano Giannini, and Romana Maggiora Vergano; Venice competition film and Italy's 2027 Oscar entry.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase (1946) is a Robert Siodmak RKO psychological thriller based on Ethel Lina White's Some Must Watch, starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, and Ethel Barrymore as a mute servant stalked by a killer targeting disabled women.
The Spirealm (致命游戏_(网路剧))
The Spirealm (致命游戏) is a 2024 Chinese horror-mystery web drama adapted from Xi Zixu's danmei novel Kaleidoscope of Death, starring Xia Zhiguang and Huang Junjie. iQIYI released all 78 short episodes on February 2, 2024 and pulled them within two hours under BL censorship; it later streamed internationally in 38 episodes on Viu and Viki.
The Spirit of '76
The Spirit of '76 is an oil painting by American artist Archibald Willard, first exhibited as Yankee Doodle at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Spirit of St. Louis is Billy Wilder's 1957 biographical film starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh, adapted from Lindbergh's 1953 Pulitzer-winning autobiography about the first solo nonstop New York to Paris flight; a $6 million Warner Bros. production that underperformed at the box office.
The Spirit of the Beehive
The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) is Víctor Erice's 1973 Spanish debut drama, set in 1940 Castile, where young Ana becomes obsessed with Frankenstein's monster; it won the 1973 San Sebastián Concha de Oro and ranks in Sight and Sound's greatest films polls.
The Spirit of the Chinese People
The Spirit of the Chinese People (中國人的精神, 春秋大義) is a 1915 book of English essays by Gu Hongming defending traditional Chinese civilization and proposing Confucian solutions to Europe's problems.
The Spirit Room
The Spirit Room is Michelle Branch's 2001 Maverick/Warner Bros. major-label debut, produced by John Shanks, with singles Everywhere, All You Wanted, and Goodbye to You; 2x Platinum, Billboard 200 No. 28.
The Splendid and the Vile
The Splendid and the Vile is Erik Larson's 2020 Crown narrative history of Winston Churchill's first year as prime minister, May 1940 to May 1941, during the London Blitz, built from diaries including Mary Churchill's and John Colville's.
The Split (1968 film)
The Split (1968) is an American heist film directed by Gordon Flemyng, starring Jim Brown as thief McClain, adapted from Donald E. Westlake's Parker novel The Seventh; first theatrical release to receive an R rating, about a $500,000 Los Angeles Coliseum robbery.
The Split (TV series)
The Split (BBC One, 2018-2022) is Abi Morgan's legal drama about the Defoes, a family of London divorce lawyers led by Nicola Walker, later spun off as The Split Up (2026).
The Split Up
The Split Up is a 2026 BBC legal drama, a spin-off of Abi Morgan's The Split, created by Ursula Rani Sarma. Six 60-minute episodes follow the Kishan family's Manchester divorce law firm, led by Ritu Arya and Sanjeev Bhaskar, renewed for a second series.
The Spoils of War (Game of Thrones)
The Spoils of War (S7E4) is Game of Thrones episode 64, aired August 6, 2017, directed by Matt Shakman; its Loot Train Battle featured Daenerys and Drogon attacking the Lannister army with a stunt fire record.
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants is a 2025 animated comedy-adventure film based on the TV series. It was directed by Derek Drymon and released by Paramount Pictures.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020) is the third SpongeBob theatrical film, the first fully CGI, directed by Tim Hill with Hans Zimmer's score; released in Canada August 14, 2020, then Paramount+ March 4, 2021.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water is a 2015 animated and live-action comedy, the second theatrical film based on SpongeBob SquarePants, released by Paramount Pictures.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 American animated comedy film, directed by series creator Stephen Hillenburg, in which SpongeBob and Patrick leave Bikini Bottom to recover King Neptune's stolen crown and save Mr. Krabs.
The Spooky Bunch (撞到正)
The Spooky Bunch (撞到正) is a 1980 Ann Hui horror comedy, written by Joyce Chan and produced by and starring Josephine Siao, about a Cantonese opera troupe haunted on Cheung Chau; Hui's second feature and part of her phantom trilogy.
The Sports Network
The Sports Network (TSN) is Canada's first English-language sports television network, launched September 1, 1984 by Labatt. Distinct from the magazine The Sporting News and from Time-Sensitive Networking; now owned by Bell Media with five feeds, TSN+, and rival Sportsnet.
The Spring River Flows East (一江春水向东流)
The Spring River Flows East (一江春水向东流) is a 1947 two-part Chinese epic melodrama by Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli, starring Bai Yang and Tao Jin, whose Shanghai record of 712,874 admissions made it China's first film epic.
The Spring to Come
The Spring to Come (Przedwiośnie) is a political novel by Stefan Żeromski, completed in 1924 and ranked among the most important Polish novels of the 20th century.
The Spy
The Spy is a 2019 six-episode Netflix limited series by Gideon Raff starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Mossad agent Eli Cohen, who infiltrated Syria as Kamel Amin Thaabet and was executed there on May 18, 1965.