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Sukkwan Island (film)
Sukkwan Island is a 2025 psychological survival drama by Vladimir de Fontenay, adapted from David Vann's novella in Legend of a Suicide; it premiered in Sundance's World Cinema Dramatic Competition, stars Swann Arlaud and Woody Norman, and was relocated from Alaska to the Norwegian fjords.
Sully (film)
Sully is a 2016 American biographical drama directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger, who landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River.
Summer of Soul
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is Questlove's 2021 Oscar-winning documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, built from 40 hours of Hal Tulchin footage unseen for 50 years.
Summer Wars (サマーウォーズ)
Summer Wars (サマーウォーズ) is a 2009 Japanese animated film by Mamoru Hosoda, his first original feature after The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, in which math prodigy Kenji Koiso and the Jinnouchi family fight the rogue AI Love Machine in the virtual world OZ; it won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Animation Film.
Sunshine on Leith (film)
Sunshine on Leith (2013) is Dexter Fletcher's British musical film, adapted by Stephen Greenhorn from his Dundee Rep stage show, set to Proclaimers songs, starring George MacKay, Peter Mullan and Jane Horrocks, grossing £4.1m in the UK.
Super (2010 American film)
Super (2010) is James Gunn's American dark comedy about fry cook Frank Darbo, the Crimson Bolt vigilante, with Rainn Wilson, Elliot Page, Liv Tyler, and Kevin Bacon; IFC Films released it in 2011 to $422,618 worldwide.
Super 30 (film)
Super 30 (सुपर 30) is a 2019 Hindi biographical drama directed by Vikas Bahl, starring Hrithik Roshan as mathematician Anand Kumar and his free IIT coaching program; Phantom Films' last production, released 12 July 2019.
Super Size Me
Super Size Me (2004) is Morgan Spurlock's Oscar-nominated documentary about eating only McDonald's for 30 days, gaining about 25 pounds on roughly 5,000 calories a day, and its contested health claims.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is a 2024 documentary by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui about actor-activist Christopher Reeve, his 1995 paralysis, and disability advocacy, narrated partly from his Still Me audiobook.
Superhero film
Superhero film: comic-book-adapted movies centered on superhuman heroes, from Superman (1978) through the MCU's $31.9 billion run to the post-2020 box-office decline and 2020s fatigue debate.
Superlópez
Superlópez (2018) is a Spanish superhero comedy directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera, starring Dani Rovira as Jan's 1973 comic character; it grossed over €12.5 million in Spain and won the Goya for best special effects.
Superman (1941 film)
Superman (1941), also called The Mad Scientist or The Death Ray, is the first Fleischer Studios animated Superman short, directed by Dave Fleischer, released September 26, 1941 by Paramount, with the energy-cannon plot, Bud Collyer's voice, an Oscar nomination, and Superman's first screen flight.
Superman: Red Son (film)
Superman: Red Son (2020) is a Warner Bros. Animation direct-to-video film, also called Superman: Hijo Rojo, adapting Mark Millar's 2003 Elseworlds comic in which Kal-El lands in Stalinist Russia, kills Stalin, and rules the USSR while Lex Luthor leads America.
Supernatural horror film
Supernatural horror film: a horror subgenre whose threats are ghosts, demons, witches, and curses rather than natural monsters. Dates to Méliès's 1896 The House of the Devil; spans 1930s gothic cycles, The Exorcist, J-horror and K-horror, and current occult- and folklore-driven demand.
Surf's Up (film)
Surf's Up (サーフズ・アップ) is a 2007 Sony Pictures Animation computer-animated mockumentary about penguin surfer Cody Maverick entering the Big Z Memorial Surf Off; 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, one Oscar nomination, directed by Ash Brannon and Chris Buck.
Surviving Picasso
Surviving Picasso is a 1996 Merchant Ivory biographical drama directed by James Ivory, starring Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso and Natascha McElhone as Françoise Gilot, covering 1943–1953; the Picasso estate banned use of his real artworks.
Suzume
Suzume (すずめの戸締まり, Suzume no Tojimari) is Makoto Shinkai's 2022 CoMix Wave Films anime about 17-year-old Suzume Iwato closing disaster doors across Japan; released November 11, 2022, 121 minutes, Berlinale competition selection, Metascore 77.
Suzumi-bune (すヾみ舟)
Suzumi-bune (すヾみ舟, also すゞみ舟) is a 1932 Japanese animated short by Hakuzan Kimura, regarded as Japan's first adult (pornographic) animation; it was seized by police, lost for decades, and reportedly rediscovered in 2017 but never publicly screened.
Swashbuckler film
Swashbuckler film: costume adventure genre defined by swordplay and a hero fighting for a noble cause, launched by Fairbanks's The Mark of Zorro (1920), peaking with Flynn and Power, later revived by The Duellists and Zorro variations.
Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (film)
Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकर), 2024 Hindi biographical drama on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, directed by and starring Randeep Hooda; released 22 March 2024, won Best Debut Director National Film Award, criticized as one-sided.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is Tim Burton's 2007 film adaptation of the 1979 Sondheim musical, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, released December 21, 2007, rated R, with a Metascore of 83.
Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare
Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare is a 2024 Netflix documentary, from the Tortoise podcast Sweet Bobby, about Kirat Assi, catfished for years by her cousin Simran Bhogal impersonating Bobby Jandu.
Sweet Charity (film)
Sweet Charity (1969) is Bob Fosse's feature directorial debut, a Universal musical starring Shirley MacLaine as dance hall hostess Charity Hope Valentine, adapted from the 1966 Broadway musical based on Fellini's Nights of Cabiria.
Sweet Dreams (1985 film)
Sweet Dreams (1985) is a biographical drama directed by Karel Reisz, starring Jessica Lange as country singer Patsy Cline and Ed Harris as Charlie Dick, released by TriStar, grossing $9.1 million.
Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film) is a Disney adventure film about a Swiss family shipwrecked on a tropical island. It was shot on the Caribbean island of Tobago.
Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale (劇場版 ソードアート・オンライン -オーディナル・スケール-)
Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale (劇場版 ソードアート・オンライン -オーディナル・スケール-) is a 2017 A-1 Pictures anime film, an original story by Reki Kawahara set in 2026 around the Augma AR device, released February 18, 2017.
Sword of the Stranger
Sword of the Stranger (ストレンヂア 無皇刃譚, Stranger: Mukou Hadan) is a 2007 Bones anime film directed by Masahiro Ando: a Sengoku-era ronin, Nanashi, guards the boy Kotaro and his dog from Ming Dynasty assassins led by Luo-Lang.
Swordsman (笑傲江湖)
Swordsman (笑傲江湖, Xiao Ao Jiang Hu) is the 1990 Hong Kong wuxia film adapted from Jin Yong's novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, begun by King Hu, completed under Tsui Hark, starring Sam Hui, and spawning the Swordsman trilogy.
Take Care of Maya
Take Care of Maya (2023) is Henry Roosevelt's Netflix documentary about Maya Kowalski, held at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in 2016 on medical child abuse suspicion, her mother's suicide, and the resulting trials.
Taking Chance
Taking Chance (2009) is an HBO Films drama directed by Ross Katz, starring Kevin Bacon as Marine Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, who escorted the remains of 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps from Dover AFB to Dubois, Wyoming, based on Strobl's journal; Golden Globe and Emmy-winning.