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The Sea Inside
The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) is a 2004 Spanish drama by Alejandro Amenábar about quadriplegic Ramón Sampedro's right-to-die campaign, starring Javier Bardem. It won the 2005 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, a Golden Globe, Venice's Silver Lion and Volpi Cup, and a record 14 Goyas.
The Seagull (2018 film)
The Seagull is a 2018 American drama film directed by Michael Mayer, adapted by Stephen Karam from Anton Chekhov's play and starring Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan.
The Secret Garden (2020 film)
The Secret Garden (2020) is a British fantasy drama directed by Marc Munden, adapted by Jack Thorne from Burnett's 1911 novel, starring Dixie Egerickx, Colin Firth, and Julie Walters, set in 1947 with a rewritten ending.
The Secret Life of Bees (film)
The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Gina Prince-Bythewood's drama adapted from Sue Monk Kidd's novel, starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, and Sophie Okonedo; set in 1964 South Carolina, released by Fox Searchlight, grossing about $40 million worldwide.
The Secret of Kells
The Secret of Kells (2009) is a hand-drawn animated film by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey of Cartoon Saloon about the Book of Kells' creation, nominated for the 2010 Best Animated Feature Oscar.
The Secret of NIMH
The Secret of NIMH is Don Bluth's 1982 hand-drawn animated fantasy debut, adapted from Robert C. O'Brien's Newbery novel Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, about a widowed mouse aided by intelligent lab rats, made for $7 million by ex-Disney animators.
The Seeker (film)
The Seeker is a 2007 American fantasy film based on Susan Cooper's novel The Dark Is Rising, starring Alexander Ludwig as a boy who fights the Dark.
The Seven Five
The Seven Five (Precinct Seven Five) is Tiller Russell's 2014 documentary on NYPD officer Michael Dowd, who ran a drug-dealing criminal ring from Brooklyn's 75th Precinct; his 1992 arrest triggered New York's biggest police corruption scandal.
The Seventh Brother
The Seventh Brother (A hetedik testvér; Bobo und die Hasenbande) is a Hungarian animated film by Tibor Hernádi and Jenõ Koltai about an abandoned puppy adopted by six rabbit siblings; English dub names him Tiny, German sequel Bobo und die Hasenbande 2 (1997).
The Shack (2017 film)
The Shack is a 2017 American drama-fantasy film directed by Stuart Hazeldine, adapted from William P. Young's 2007 novel and starring Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer.
The Shadow (1994 film)
The Shadow is a 1994 American superhero film directed by Russell Mulcahy, starring Alec Baldwin as a vigilante who fights crime in 1930s New York.
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption is Frank Darabont's 1994 prison drama adapted from Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman; a box-office flop with seven Oscar nominations and no wins, it later topped the IMDb user poll.
The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky: 1990 Bernardo Bertolucci film adapting Paul Bowles's 1949 novel; John Malkovich and Debra Winger as the Moresbys adrift in 1947 North Africa; Storaro cinematography, Sakamoto score, BAFTA and Golden Globe wins.
The Shipping News
The Shipping News is a 2001 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, adapted from E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and starring Kevin Spacey.
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru (里斯本丸沉没)
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru (里斯本丸沉没) is Fang Li's 2024 Chinese documentary about the 1942 torpedoing of a Japanese ship carrying 1,816 British POWs, the deaths of 828, and the rescue of 384 by Zhoushan fishermen.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008), also called Sisterhood 2, is Sanaa Hamri's sequel drama starring Tamblyn, Ferrera, Lively, and Bledel, condensing Brashares's books two through four; it grossed $44.1 million in the US.
The Six Billion Dollar Man
The Six Billion Dollar Man is Eugene Jarecki's 2025 documentary about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, named for the price Ecuador allegedly charged the Trump administration for his extradition; also the title of an unmade Mark Wahlberg feature remake of The Six Million Dollar Man.
The Skeleton Dance
The Skeleton Dance is Disney's 1929 black-and-white Silly Symphony short, the first of its series, directed by Walt Disney, animated by Ub Iwerks, scored by Carl Stalling, showing four graveyard skeletons dancing at midnight; public domain.
The Skin Game
The Skin Game (1931) is Alfred Hitchcock's British International Pictures drama, adapted with Alma Reville from John Galsworthy's 1920 play about the Hillcrist gentry feuding with the nouveau riche Hornblowers over land, starring Edmund Gwenn and Helen Haye.
The Sky Crawlers (スカイ・クロラシリーズ)
The Sky Crawlers (スカイ・クロラ) is Hiroshi Mori's novel series of five books plus a short-story collection, and Mamoru Oshii's 2008 Production I.G anime film about the Kildren, eternally adolescent pilots fighting a staged corporate war.
The Smeds and the Smoos
The Smeds and the Smoos is a 2022 BBC One Christmas animated special adapted from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's 2019 picture book, Magic Light Pictures' tenth such adaptation, animated by Blue Zoo, watched by 8.1 million viewers, and winner of the 2023 International Emmy for Best Kids' Animation.
The Snowman
The Snowman is a 26-minute 1982 Channel 4 animated film adapted from Raymond Briggs's 1978 wordless picture book, directed by Dianne Jackson, produced by John Coates at TVC, with Howard Blake's "Walking in the Air", Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning, and shown every Christmas since.
The Social Dilemma
The Social Dilemma is a 2020 Netflix documentary-drama directed by Jeff Orlowski-Yang, also called a docudrama on the attention economy, in which former Google, Facebook, and Twitter employees describe how algorithms manipulate users; it drew 38 million viewers in four weeks and won two Primetime Emmy Awards.
The Social Network
The Social Network (2010) is David Fincher's biographical drama, written by Aaron Sorkin from Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg; it won three Oscars and joined the National Film Registry in 2024.
The Soloist
The Soloist is a 2009 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Wright, starring Jamie Foxx as homeless musician Nathaniel Ayers and Robert Downey Jr. as columnist Steve Lopez.
The Song of Bernadette (film)
The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 Twentieth Century-Fox drama directed by Henry King, starring Jennifer Jones as Bernadette Soubirous; adapted from Franz Werfel's 1941 novel, it won four Oscars and the first Golden Globe Best Picture.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010 film)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a 2010 American fantasy film directed by Jon Turteltaub, starring Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel, about a sorcerer training a physics student in magic.
The Sorrow and the Pity
The Sorrow and the Pity (Le Chagrin et la Pitié), Marcel Ophüls's 1969 two-part documentary on Clermont-Ferrand under Nazi occupation, shown on French TV only in 1981, Oscar-nominated, and pivotal in breaking the Gaullist resistance myth.
The Sound and the Fury (2014 film)
The Sound and the Fury is a 2014 American drama directed by James Franco, adapted from William Faulkner's 1929 novel about the decaying Compson family of Mississippi.
The Sound of Music (film)
The Sound of Music (1965) is Robert Wise's five-Oscar film musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, adapted from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway show about the von Trapp family, premiered March 2, 1965, and became the first film to gross over $100 million.