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Shattered Glass (film)
Shattered Glass, 2003 drama directed by Billy Ray, dramatizes journalist Stephen Glass's fabrication scandal at The New Republic, starring Hayden Christensen and Peter Sarsgaard, based on Bissinger's 1998 Vanity Fair article.
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas is a 2015 Aardman stop-motion half-hour special directed by Jay Grace. Shaun tricks the Farmer into buying three llamas (Hector, Fernando, Raul) at an auction; it won a 2016 International Emmy Kids Award.
She Said (film)
She Said (2022) is a drama directed by Maria Schrader, written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz from Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's book, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan as the New York Times reporters who exposed Harvey Weinstein.
Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series)
Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series): fourteen Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce films, two at Twentieth Century-Fox in 1939 and twelve wartime-era entries at Universal from 1942 to 1946, ending with Dressed to Kill.
Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)
Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 American action-mystery film directed by Guy Ritchie, in which Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law's Dr. Watson battle Lord Blackwood in Victorian London.
Sherman's March (1985 film)
Sherman's March (1985/1986) is Ross McElwee's Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning first-person documentary in which a breakup derails his planned film about Sherman's 1864 March to the Sea into a search for love across the South; added to the National Film Registry in 2000.
Shershaah
Shershaah is a 2021 Hindi biographical war film on Param Vir Chakra awardee Captain Vikram Batra, directed by Vishnuvardhan, starring Sidharth Malhotra and Kiara Advani, released on Amazon Prime Video August 12, 2021, winning 52 awards including Filmfare Best Film.
Shirley (2020 film)
Shirley is a 2020 American biographical drama film directed by Josephine Decker, adapted from Susan Scarf Merrell's 2014 novel, in which Elisabeth Moss plays a fictionalized horror writer Shirley Jackson.
Shoah (film)
Shoah (1985) is Claude Lanzmann's 566-minute French Holocaust documentary, made over nearly 12 years without archival footage, using testimony from survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators, with hidden-camera interviews of former SS men; its outtakes are held by USHMM and Yad Vashem.
Shock and Awe (film)
Shock and Awe is Rob Reiner's 2017 drama about Knight Ridder journalists Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, who questioned the Bush administration's Iraq WMD claims before the 2003 invasion.
Short film
Short film: a motion picture of limited runtime, defined by the Academy as 40 minutes or less including credits. Also called Kurzfilm or court-métrage. Early cinema was entirely shorts; today shorts serve as a training ground and festival calling card rather than a revenue product.
Shrek (franchise)
The Shrek franchise is DreamWorks Animation's animated comedy series based on William Steig's book, beginning with 2001's Oscar-winning Shrek and spanning four films, two Puss in Boots spin-offs, television, a Broadway musical, theme parks, and Shrek 5 due June 30, 2027, grossing nearly $4 billion worldwide.
Shrek 5
Shrek 5 is DreamWorks Animation's upcoming fifth Shrek film, in theaters June 30, 2027. Directed by Conrad Vernon and Walt Dohrn, it returns Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz, with Zendaya voicing daughter Felicia, amid a MoonRay-driven animation-style change.
Shut Up, Little Man!
Shut Up, Little Man! is a 1987 series of covert San Francisco recordings of drunken neighbors Raymond Huffman and Peter Haskett, made by Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitch Deprey, that became a pre-internet cult sensation inspiring comics, plays, and Devo, and the subject of Matthew Bate's 2011 Sundance documentary.
Sicko
Sicko is a 2007 American documentary film written, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore, examining harms from private health insurance and contrasting US care with Canada, Britain, France, and Cuba.
Sid and Nancy
Sid and Nancy: 1986 British biopic by Alex Cox (with Abbe Wool) starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb as Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen; Roger Deakins shot it, Joe Strummer scored it.
Silent film
A silent film is a motion picture made without a recorded synchronized soundtrack of dialogue, music, or sound effects, produced chiefly from the 1890s to the late 1920s.
Silkwood
Silkwood (1983) is Mike Nichols's biographical drama starring Meryl Streep as Karen Silkwood, the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant whistleblower who died in a mysterious 1974 car crash; with Kurt Russell and Cher, five Oscar nominations.
Silly Symphony
Silly Symphony, Disney's music-driven cartoon series (1929–1939, 75 shorts begun with The Skeleton Dance), served as the studio's experimental ground for Technicolor, the multiplane camera, and seven Oscar-winning cartoons.
Sin City (film)
Sin City is a 2005 American neo-noir crime film directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, based on three of Miller's graphic novels set in Basin City.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, also known as Sin City 2, is a 2014 American neo-noir crime film co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller.
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is a 2003 DreamWorks animated adventure film directed by Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore, with Brad Pitt voicing the pirate Sinbad.
Sing (2016 American film)
Sing (2016) is an Illumination Entertainment computer-animated musical comedy distributed by Universal Pictures, directed by Garth Jennings, starring Matthew McConaughey as koala Buster Moon, who saves his theater with a singing competition; over 85 songs, $270.4M US gross.
Sing 2
Sing 2 (2021) is Illumination's computer-animated jukebox musical comedy sequel to Sing, written and directed by Garth Jennings, starring Matthew McConaughey's Buster Moon in Redshore City, with Bono in his animated debut as Clay Calloway; it grossed 408.4 million USD.
Sing a Bit of Harmony (アイの歌声を聴かせて)
Sing a Bit of Harmony (アイの歌声を聴かせて) is a 2021 Japanese animated musical sci-fi film directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura, about an AI schoolgirl, Shion, who sings to make classmate Satomi happy; it won a 45th Japan Academy Excellence Award.
Sins of My Father (film)
Sins of My Father (Pecados de mi padre), 2009 documentary by Nicolás Entel, tells Pablo Escobar's story through his son Sebastián Marroquín, who seeks reconciliation with the sons of Escobar's victims; premiered at Mar del Plata, released on 25 Colombian screens and HBO.
Siren (2006 film)
Siren (サイレン, Sairen; Forbidden Siren) is a 2006 Japanese horror film directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi, based on the PS2 Siren games, starring Yui Ichikawa, released by Toho on February 11, 2006.
Six Degrees of Separation (film)
Six Degrees of Separation is Fred Schepisi's 1993 comedy-drama, John Guare's adaptation of his Tony-winning Broadway play, starring Stockard Channing, Will Smith, and Donald Sutherland as a con artist infiltrates wealthy Manhattanites posing as Sidney Poitier's son.
Six Shooter (2004 film)
Six Shooter is Martin McDonagh's 2004 Irish black comedy short (27 min) starring Brendan Gleeson and Rúaidhrí Conroy about a bereaved man's train journey; it won the 2006 Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Skin (2018 feature film)
Skin is Guy Nattiv's 2018 biographical drama about neo-Nazi Bryon Widner, starring Jamie Bell and Danielle Macdonald; premiered at TIFF 2018, released in US theaters July 26, 2019, distinct from Nattiv's Oscar-winning 2018 short of the same name.