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Spartan (film)
Spartan (film) is a 2004 political thriller written and directed by David Mamet. It stars Val Kilmer as Robert Scott, uncovering a high-level government conspiracy.
Spawn (1997 film)
Spawn (1997 film): New Line Cinema superhero horror film directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé, based on Todd McFarlane's comic, starring Michael Jai White and John Leguizamo; grossed over $100 million but was panned by critics.
Speak No Evil (2022 film)
Speak No Evil (Danish: Gæsterne) is a 2022 Danish psychological horror film by Christian and Mads Tafdrup about a Danish family visiting a Dutch couple whose politeness traps them; Sundance 2022 premiere, bleak ending, remade by Blumhouse in 2024.
Spec script
Spec script: a non-commissioned screenplay written unpaid on the writer's own initiative (also called speculative screenplay) to be sold, optioned, or used as a writing sample; distinct from assignments, pitches, and shooting scripts.
Special 26
Special 26 is a 2013 Hindi heist thriller directed and written by Neeraj Pandey, starring Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, and Manoj Bajpayee, about con artists posing as CBI officers, based on the 1987 Opera House heist.
Special Bulletin
Special Bulletin (1983) is an NBC television drama directed by Edward Zwick and written by Marshall Herskovitz, a simulated live newscast of nuclear terrorism in Charleston, S.C.; it won four Emmys.
Special Correspondents
Special Correspondents is a 2016 Netflix comedy written and directed by Ricky Gervais, starring Eric Bana, a remake of Envoyés très spéciaux about radio journalists faking Ecuador war reports from Queens; released April 29, 2016, poorly reviewed.
Species – The Awakening
Species – The Awakening (Species: The Awakening, 2007) is the fourth and final Species franchise film, a Sci-Fi Channel TV movie directed by Nick Lyon, starring Helena Mattsson as human-alien clone Miranda Hollander, with Ben Cross and Dominic Keating.
Species (film)
Species is a 1995 American science fiction horror film directed by Roger Donaldson. It stars Natasha Henstridge as Sil, a hybrid creature that grossed over $113 million worldwide.
Species II
Species II, also known as Species 2, is a 1998 American science fiction horror film and the sequel to Species, about an astronaut infected by alien DNA on Mars.
Species III
Species III is a 2004 American sci-fi horror TV film, third in the Species series, directed by Brad Turner, written by Ben Ripley, starring Sunny Mabrey as Sara, Robert Knepper, and Robin Dunne; it premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel November 27, 2004.
Spectral
Spectral (2016) is a military sci-fi action film directed by Nic Mathieu, starring James Badge Dale, about a Delta Force team fighting Bose-Einstein-condensate apparitions in Moldova; released as a Netflix exclusive on December 9, 2016.
Spectre (2015 film)
Spectre (2015) is the 24th James Bond film and Daniel Craig's fourth as 007, directed by Sam Mendes, released 6 November 2015, 148 minutes, 63% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speed (1994 film)
Speed (1994) is a 20th Century Fox action thriller, Jan de Bont's directorial debut, starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and Dennis Hopper; a bus bomb detonates below 50 mph, and the film grossed $350M and won two Oscars.
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Speed 2: Cruise Control (スピード2) is a 1997 American action thriller sequel to Speed, directed by Jan de Bont, starring Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, and Willem Dafoe; a hijacker sets a cruise ship on a collision course, and the film earned a 4% Tomatometer.
Speed Demon (2026 film)
Speed Demon (2026) is an American horror film directed by Jon Keeyes, written by Domenico Salvaggio, starring Katie Cassidy as Sister Lu and William H. Macy as Father Novak, about a demon-possession exorcism on a runaway Montreal-to-New York train; released May 31, 2026, distinct from the Michael Jackson song and the Scourge RPG buff.
Speed Racer (マッハGoGoGo) (film)
Speed Racer (Japanese: マッハGoGoGo, Mach GoGoGo) is a 2008 American racing film written and directed by the Wachowskis, starring Emile Hirsch and based on the 1967 anime series.
Speedy (1928 film)
Speedy (1928) is Harold Lloyd's final silent feature, a Ted Wilde comedy in which the scatterbrained New Yorker Speedy Swift saves the city's last horse-drawn streetcar, with a Babe Ruth cameo and extensive New York location shooting.
Speedy Scandal (과속스캔들)
Speedy Scandal (과속스캔들, Scandal Makers) is a 2008 South Korean family comedy, Kang Hyeong-cheol's directorial debut, starring Cha Tae-hyun, Park Bo-young, and Wang Seok-hyeon; it drew 8,245,523 admissions, topping the 2008 Korean box office.
Spellbound (1945 film)
Spellbound (1945) is Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck, produced by David O. Selznick, with a Salvador Dalí-designed dream sequence and Miklós Rózsa's Oscar-winning theremin score, based on The House of Dr. Edwardes.
Spellbound (2002 film)
Spellbound (2002) is Jeffrey Blitz's Oscar-nominated documentary following eight children, including winner Nupur Lala, through the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee; it grossed $5.7 million and won an Emmy.
Spellbound (2024 film)
Spellbound (2024) is a Netflix animated musical from Skydance Animation, directed by Vicky Jenson, with songs by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater. Princess Ellian (Rachel Zegler) seeks to restore her monster-transformed parents (Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem); released November 22, 2024.
Spencer (film)
Spencer (2021) is a psychological drama directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, starring Kristen Stewart as Diana, Princess of Wales, imagining her 1991 Christmas at Sandringham as she decides to leave Prince Charles; Venice premiere, Oscar-nominated performance.
Spencer Fox
Spencer Fox is an American actor, writer, and musician best known as the original voice of Dash Parr in Pixar's The Incredibles (2004), later a guitarist with Charly Bliss.
Spenser Confidential
Spenser Confidential is a 2020 Netflix action-comedy directed by Peter Berg, starring Mark Wahlberg as ex-cop Spenser with Winston Duke and Alan Arkin, based on Ace Atkins' Robert B. Parker's Wonderland, watched by 85 million households in four weeks.
Spermworld
Spermworld is a 2024 FX/Hulu documentary directed by Lance Oppenheim, produced by The New York Times and Edgeline Films, inspired by Nellie Bowles' article on unregulated Facebook sperm-donation groups; it follows donors Ari Nagel, Tyree Kelly, and Steve Walker.
SPF-18
SPF-18 is a 2017 American coming-of-age romantic drama, Alex Israel's feature directorial debut co-written with Baywatch creator Michael Berk, starring Carson Meyer, Noah Centineo, and Bianca A. Santos, released on iTunes September 29, 2017 and later on Netflix.
Sphere (1998 film)
Sphere (1998) is a Barry Levinson science fiction psychological thriller starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson, adapted from Michael Crichton's 1987 novel about a 300-year-old spacecraft on the Pacific floor; a critical and box office failure.
Spice World (film)
Spice World is a 1997 British musical comedy film starring the Spice Girls as themselves, directed by Bob Spiers, ahead of their Royal Albert Hall concert.
Spicy Love Soup (爱情麻辣烫)
Spicy Love Soup (爱情麻辣烫, Aiqing mala tang) is a 1997 Chinese romantic ensemble film, Zhang Yang's directorial debut, produced by Peter Loehr's Imar Film with Xi'an Film Studio; five love vignettes framed by a couple's wedding earned 30 million yuan, second only to Titanic that year.