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Scorpio Rising (film)
Scorpio Rising, Kenneth Anger's 1963 experimental short (about 28–31 minutes, 16mm), portrays a Brooklyn biker gang through montage and a 1960s pop soundtrack with no dialogue, mixing occult, homoerotic, Christian, and Nazi imagery; it survived a 1964 obscenity conviction and influenced Scorsese, Lynch, and the music video.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is Edgar Wright's 2010 Universal action-comedy, adapted from Bryan Lee O'Malley's six-volume graphic novels, starring Michael Cera as a Toronto bassist battling his girlfriend's seven evil exes; a box-office disappointment that became a cult classic.
Screwball comedy
Screwball comedy: Hollywood romantic-comedy subgenre of the mid-1930s to early 1940s, born of the Depression and the Production Code, marked by fast dialogue, battle-of-the-sexes plots, and films like It Happened One Night and Bringing Up Baby.
Scrooge (1970 film)
Scrooge (1970 film): British musical adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, directed by Ronald Neame, written by Leslie Bricusse, starring Albert Finney and Alec Guinness; first big-screen musical and first color version, later a Christmas TV staple.
Sea Lions of the Galapagos
Sea Lions of the Galapagos is a 2025 Disneynature and Silverback Films documentary on Disney+, released Earth Day April 22, 2025. Narrated by Brendan Fraser and directed by Hugh Wilson with Keith Scholey, it follows sea lion pup Leo and mother Luna, with companion film Guardians of the Galapagos.
Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden
Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden (also Codename: Geronimo) is a 2012 John Stockwell television film on the National Geographic Channel dramatizing the Abbottabad raid, released ahead of Zero Dark Thirty.
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Searching for Bobby Fischer is a 1993 Paramount drama, Steven Zaillian's directorial debut, adapted from Fred Waitzkin's 1988 book about chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin, starring Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley, and Laurence Fishburne; Oscar-nominated for cinematography.
Searching for Sugar Man
Searching for Sugar Man, 2012 documentary by Malik Bendjelloul, follows South African fans Stephen Segerman and Craig Bartholomew-Strydom as they trace the rumored-dead Detroit singer Sixto Rodriguez; it won the 2013 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
Seaspiracy
Seaspiracy, 2021 Netflix documentary by Ali Tabrizi and Kip Andersen's Cowspiracy team, attacking sustainable-fishing claims; hit Netflix top 10 in 32 countries but was heavily criticized by fisheries scientists over disputed statistics.
Secret Headquarters
Secret Headquarters is a 2022 Paramount+ family superhero comedy directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, starring Owen Wilson, Walker Scobell, and Michael Peña; a boy finds his dad's superhero lair under their house. Released August 12, 2022; 44% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Secret Mall Apartment
Secret Mall Apartment is Jeremy Workman's 2024 documentary, executive produced by Jesse Eisenberg, about eight Rhode Island artists who secretly built and lived in a 750-square-foot apartment inside Providence Place Mall from 2003 to 2007 until their 2007 arrest.
Secret of the Wings
Secret of the Wings (2012) is the fourth Disney Fairies animated film, directed by Peggy Holmes, in which Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) discovers her frost-fairy twin Periwinkle (Lucy Hale) in the forbidden Winter Woods.
Secretary (2002 film)
Secretary (2002 film), based on Mary Gaitskill's story, is a romantic comedy-drama about a secretary and a lawyer that earned the Independent Spirit Award.
Seeking Mavis Beacon
Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024) is Jazmin Renée Jones's documentary, made with Olivia McKayla Ross, searching for Renée L'Esperance, the Haitian model behind the fictional Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing icon; Sundance premiere, NEON release, 76% Tomatometer.
Senna (film)
Senna (2010) is Asif Kapadia's archive-only documentary on Formula One champion Ayrton Senna, from his 1984 debut to his 1994 death, covering his rivalry with Alain Prost; it won two BAFTAs and the Sundance audience award.
Sense and Sensibility (2026 film)
Sense and Sensibility (2026 film), Georgia Oakley's Jane Austen adaptation for Focus Features and Working Title, scripted by Diana Reid, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones as Elinor and Esmé Creed-Miles as Marianne; released UK September 25, 2026, US October 16, 2026.
Sense and Sensibility (film)
Sense and Sensibility (1995), Ang Lee's film of Jane Austen's novel, screenplay by Emma Thompson, starring Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman; seven Oscar nominations, Thompson won Best Adapted Screenplay, Golden Bear winner.
Seoul Station (film)
Seoul Station (서울역) is a 2016 South Korean animated zombie horror film written and directed by Yeon Sang-ho, following survivors of a zombie outbreak at Seoul Station.
Serena (2014 film)
Serena (2014 film): Susanne Bier drama starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, adapted from Ron Rash's 2008 novel about a Depression-era North Carolina timber couple; shot in Prague in 2012, released 2014-2015, 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, distinct from the 2016 Williams documentary and 2026 AI thriller.
Sergeant York (film)
Sergeant York (1941) is a Warner Bros biographical war film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Gary Cooper as WWI Medal of Honor recipient Alvin C. York; Cooper won his first Best Actor Oscar and the film joined the National Film Registry in 2008.
Sergio (2020 film)
Sergio (2020 film), also known as Sergio: Netflix biographical drama, directed by Greg Barker, written by Craig Borten, starring Wagner Moura as UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello and Ana de Armas as Carolina Larriera; premiered at Sundance January 2020, streamed on Netflix April 17, 2020; 118 minutes, R-rated, 44% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Set Fire to the Stars
Set Fire to the Stars (2014) is a British black-and-white drama, Andy Goddard's debut feature, starring Elijah Wood as John Malcolm Brinnin and co-writer Celyn Jones as Dylan Thomas on his 1950 New York reading tour, based on Brinnin's memoir Dylan Thomas in America.
Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)
Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 American biographical drama directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Brad Pitt as Austrian climber Heinrich Harrer, who befriends the young Dalai Lama.
Seventh Son (film)
Seventh Son is a 2014 fantasy adventure film directed by Sergei Bodrov, based on Joseph Delaney's novel The Spook's Apprentice, starring Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, and Julianne Moore.
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is a 2010 British biopic of Ian Dury, directed by Mat Whitecross, written by Paul Viragh, starring Andy Serkis, who sings with the Blockheads; premiered at Tribeca 2010. Also a 2015 FX series with Denis Leary.
Shadowlands (1993 film)
Shadowlands (1993) is Richard Attenborough's biographical romantic drama, written by William Nicholson, starring Anthony Hopkins as C.S. Lewis and Debra Winger as Joy Gresham; Oscar-nominated, BAFTA Best British Film winner.
Shahid (film)
Shahid (शाहिद) is Hansal Mehta's 2013 Hindi biographical courtroom drama starring Rajkummar Rao as lawyer Shahid Azmi, assassinated in 2010; it won National Film Awards for Best Direction and Best Actor and reached Prime Video India 13 years after release.
Shakuntala Devi (शकुंतला देवी) (film)
Shakuntala Devi (शकुंतला देवी), 2020 Hindi biographical comedy-drama directed by Anu Menon, starring Vidya Balan as the Human Computer; released 31 July 2020 on Amazon Prime Video, told through daughter Anupama Banerji's eyes.
Shamo (军鸡)
Shamo (军鸡, Japanese 軍鶏) is a 2007 Hong Kong-Japan action film directed by Soi Cheang, adapted from the Hashimoto Izo and Akio Tanaka manga about Ryo Narushima, a parent-killer who becomes a prison-trained karate fighter.
Shark Tale
Shark Tale is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy from DreamWorks, set underwater, where a small fish named Oscar fakes a reputation as a shark killer.