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Skin (2018 short film)
The 2018 American short film Skin, directed by Guy Nattiv and produced by Jaime Ray Newman, tells the story of a white supremacist family in a gang war.
Skywalkers: A Love Story
Skywalkers: A Love Story is a 2024 Netflix documentary by Jeff Zimbalist and Maria Bukhonina about Russian rooftoppers Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, culminating in their illegal Merdeka 118 climb.
Slam Dunk: The Movie
Slam Dunk: The Movie (スラムダンク) is Toei Animation's first theatrical Slam Dunk film, released March 12, 1994. The 30-minute short, directed by Nobutaka Nishizawa, depicts Shohoku's practice match against Takezono High and Sakuragi's rivalry with Oda.
Slasher film
Slasher film: horror subgenre in which a killer stalks and murders victims, usually with bladed weapons, until a surviving "Final Girl" subdues him. Founded by Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Black Christmas (1974), defined by Halloween (1978), revived by Scream (1996).
Slauson Rec
Slauson Rec is Leo Lewis O'Neil's 2025 documentary, premiered at Cannes, about Shia LaBeouf's free experimental theater school at the Slauson Rec Center in South Central Los Angeles (2018–2020), built from about 800 hours of participant-shot footage.
Slayers Premium (スレイヤーズぷれみあむ)
Slayers Premium (スレイヤーズぷれみあむ) is the fifth Slayers theatrical anime movie, premiered in Japan in December 2001. Unlike the four earlier Lina-and-Naga films, it uses the TV series cast and continuity, following an octopus-language curse in the seaside town Acassi.
Sleepers (film)
Sleepers (1996), Barry Levinson's crime drama adapted from Lorenzo Carcaterra's disputed memoir, stars Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, and Dustin Hoffman; Hell's Kitchen boys abused at Wilkinson Home for Boys take revenge, Metascore 49, one Oscar nomination.
Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)
Sleeping Beauty (1959), Disney's animated musical fantasy of Princess Aurora and Maleficent, premiered January 29, 1959; made in Technirama 70mm on a $6 million budget with music from Tchaikovsky's ballet.
Sleuth (1972 film)
Sleuth (1972), also released as La huella, is Joseph L. Mankiewicz's final film, adapted by Anthony Shaffer from his Tony-winning play, starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine in a two-hander battle of wits, with four Oscar nominations and famously fictitious supporting cast credits.
Slime (film)
Slime is an upcoming American animated dystopian sci-fi monster film, the feature directorial debut of Jeron Braxton, starring Kid Cudi as Glenn and Willow Smith as Muna, produced by Hammerstone Studios, Mad Solar, and Capstone Global.
Slumberland (film)
Slumberland (2022) is a Netflix family fantasy film directed by Francis Lawrence, starring Jason Momoa as Flip and Marlow Barkley as Nemo, loosely based on Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland strip; released theatrically November 11, 2022 and streaming November 18, 2022.
Smallfoot
Smallfoot is a 2018 American computer-animated musical comedy from Warner Animation Group in which a young yeti named Migo discovers a human, reversing the Bigfoot legend.
Smoking/No Smoking
Smoking/No Smoking is Alain Resnais' 1993 French diptych adapting Alan Ayckbourn's Intimate Exchanges, with Sabine Azéma and Pierre Arditi playing nine Yorkshire villagers whose lives branch on whether Celia smokes a cigarette; it won the 1994 César for Best Film.
Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical
Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical is a 2025 Apple TV+ Peanuts animated musical special, the first in 35 years, directed by Erik Wiese with songs by Ben Folds and Jeff Morrow, in which Charlie Brown tries to save Cloverhill Ranch summer camp.
Snoopy Presents: There's No Place Like Home, Snoopy
Snoopy Presents: There's No Place Like Home, Snoopy is a 2026 animated Peanuts special, the fifty-third, in which Charlie Brown helps Snoopy find his sold doghouse.
Snoopy, Come Home
Snoopy, Come Home (1972) is the second theatrical Peanuts feature, directed by Bill Melendez and written by Charles Schulz, in which Snoopy visits his ailing former owner Lila; it introduced Woodstock and used a Sherman Brothers score instead of Vince Guaraldi's jazz.
Snow Bear
Snow Bear is a 2025 American hand-drawn animated short by Aaron Blaise, director of Brother Bear, about a lonely polar bear who builds a snow companion. Made solo over three years with 11,000+ drawings, it won the Annie Award and made the 98th Oscars shortlist.
Snow White (1933 film)
Snow-White (1933) is a Fleischer Studios Betty Boop cartoon short directed by Dave Fleischer, released March 31, 1933, famous for Cab Calloway's rotoscoped "St. James Infirmary Blues" sequence, inducted into the National Film Registry in 1994, and now in the public domain.
Snow White (Disney character)
Snow White is Disney's princess heroine of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the first American feature-length animated film, voiced by Adriana Caselotti and adapted from the Grimm tale Sneewittchen.
Snow White and the Huntsman
Snow White and the Huntsman is a 2012 Universal fantasy film, Rupert Sanders's directorial debut, starring Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, and Chris Hemsworth. Made for $170 million, it grossed about $396.6 million worldwide and scored 48% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) is Disney's first animated feature, premiered December 21, 1937 at the Carthay Circle Theater, directed by David Hand, costing about $1.5 million and grossing $8 million, with an honorary seven-dwarf Oscar.
Snowden (film)
Snowden is a 2016 biographical thriller directed by Oliver Stone, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden, the former CIA and NSA contractor who leaked documents exposing the agency's global mass-surveillance programs.
Snuff film
Snuff film: a supposed film depicting real murder made for profit, an urban legend circulating since the mid-1970s; term coined by Ed Sanders (1972), popularized by the 1976 hoax film Snuff; no verified example exists.
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley is a 2024 cozy musical adventure game by Hyper Games and Raw Fury, starring Snufkin dismantling the Park Keeper's parks, with Sigur Rós music, on PC, Switch, Xbox, PS5, and mobile.
Softcore pornography
Softcore pornography: erotic film, video, or photography showing nudity and simulated sexual situations without explicit depiction of genitalia or intercourse; sits between erotica and hardcore, spanning sexploitation cinema, Cinemax serials, and Japan's pink film.
Soleil Ô
Soleil Ô (Oh, Sun), Med Hondo's 1970 Mauritanian-French debut feature, follows an African immigrant facing racism in Paris; Golden Leopard at Locarno 1970, later banned in several countries, restored by the African Film Heritage Project.
Somebody (침범) (film)
Somebody (침범, Chimbeom) is a 2025 South Korean mystery thriller directed by Kim Yeo-jung and Lee Jung-chan, adapted from Kong Se Ri's 2020 webcomic, starring Kwak Sun-young, Kwon Yu-ri, and Lee Sul, released March 12, 2025.
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956 film)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) is Robert Wise's MGM boxing biopic of Rocky Graziano, starring Paul Newman in a role first meant for James Dean; it won two black-and-white Academy Awards.
Something the Lord Made
Something the Lord Made is a 2004 HBO Films biographical drama directed by Joseph Sargent, starring Alan Rickman as Alfred Blalock and Mos Def as Vivien Thomas, pioneers of blue baby heart surgery; it won three Emmys and a Peabody Award.
Something Wicked This Way Comes (film)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) is Disney's dark fantasy horror film directed by Jack Clayton, written by Ray Bradbury from his 1962 novel, starring Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce as Mr. Dark; it flopped at the box office and reached Disney+ in October 2025.