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Splash (film)
Splash (1984) is a Ron Howard romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah about a man in love with a mermaid; it was the first Touchstone film, Disney's mature-themes label, released March 9, 1984.
Splatter film
Splatter film (gore film, splatter movie): a horror subgenre concentrating on explicit gore and graphic violence rather than suspense. Originated with Herschell Gordon Lewis's Blood Feast (1963); term coined by George Romero for Dawn of the Dead (1978).
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass (1961) is Elia Kazan's drama from William Inge's Oscar-winning original screenplay, starring Natalie Wood and a debuting Warren Beatty as 1920s Kansas teens destroyed by sexual repression.
Splice (film)
Splice (Nouvelle espèce) is a 2009 sci-fi horror film by Vincenzo Natali starring Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, and Delphine Chanéac as Dren, a human-animal hybrid; Sundance premiere 2010, Warner Bros. release, 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Splinter (2008 film)
Splinter (2008) is an American horror film, Toby Wilkins's feature debut, starring Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, and Paulo Costanzo. Parasite creature feature set at an Oklahoma gas station; 82 minutes, Magnet Releasing, six Screamfest 2008 awards, $522,497 worldwide gross.
Split (2016 American film)
Split (2016) is M. Night Shyamalan's psychological horror thriller starring James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb, a kidnapper with 23 DID personalities, and Anya Taylor-Joy. A stealth sequel to Unbreakable, it grossed $278.5 million on a small budget and drew criticism for stigmatizing dissociative identity disorder.
Split screen effect
Split screen effect: a film technique showing two or more complete images simultaneously in separate frame sections; also called split-screen shot or split frame; used since early silent cinema, notably Vertov, Gance's Polyvision, and 1960s films like The Thomas Crown Affair.
Split Second
Split Second (1992) is a British-American sci-fi horror film directed by Tony Maylam, starring Rutger Hauer as a detective hunting a heart-ripping killer in a flooded 2008 London; released 1 May 1992, distinct from the 2010 racing game Split/Second.
Splitsville (film)
Splitsville (2025 film), also known simply as Splitsville, is a screwball comedy by Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona about open marriage; Cannes 2025, Neon release August 22, 2025.
Spoiler Alert (film)
Spoiler Alert is a 2022 American romantic dramedy directed by Michael Showalter, starring Jim Parsons as journalist Michael Ausiello and Ben Aldridge as his husband, photographer Kit Cowan.
SpongeBob SquarePants (film series)
SpongeBob SquarePants film series: four theatrical movies based on the Nickelodeon series (2004, 2015, 2020, 2025), from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie to Search for SquarePants.
Spontaneous (film)
Spontaneous (2020) is a science fiction romantic black comedy, Brian Duffield's directorial debut, adapted from Aaron Starmer's 2016 YA novel, starring Katherine Langford and Charlie Plummer as seniors whose classmates explode; released by Paramount October 2020.
Spooks: The Greater Good
Spooks: The Greater Good (MI-5 in the US) is a 2015 British spy film directed by Bharat Nalluri, a spin-off of the BBC series Spooks, starring Peter Firth as Harry Pearce and Kit Harington as Will Holloway.
Spooky Encounters
Spooky Encounters (鬼打鬼, Gui da gui), aka Encounter of the Spooky Kind, is Sammo Hung's 1980 Hong Kong kung fu horror-comedy about a cuckolded cart driver fighting black magic, and the film that launched the jiangshi hopping-vampire genre.
Spotlight (film)
Spotlight (2015), directed by Tom McCarthy and written with Josh Singer, dramatizes the Boston Globe Spotlight team's 2002 exposure of Catholic Church abuse cover-up; it won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Oscars.
Spread (film)
Spread is a 2009 American comedy-drama-romance directed by David Mackenzie, starring Ashton Kutcher as LA hustler Nikki, with Anne Heche and Margarita Levieva; it premiered at Sundance, grossed $12 million worldwide, and scored 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Spree (film)
Spree is a 2020 American satirical thriller, also described as a horror comedy, directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko and co-written with Gene McHugh. Joe Keery plays rideshare driver Kurt Kunkle, who livestreams killing his passengers to go viral; premiered at Sundance 2020, released August 14, 2020 by RLJE Films.
Spriggan (スプリガン) (1998 film)
Spriggan (スプリガン) is a 1998 Japanese anime film by Studio 4°C, directed by Hirotsugu Kawasaki and supervised by Katsuhiro Otomo, adapting the Takashige and Minagawa manga about ARCAM agents defending Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat.
Spring (2014 film)
Spring (2014) is a horror-romance film by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, starring Lou Taylor Pucci and Nadia Hilker, about an American in Italy who falls for a woman with a monstrous secret.
Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers is Harmony Korine's 2012 crime film starring James Franco as Alien and Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine as college girls who rob a restaurant, hit Florida spring break, and enter crime; A24's third release, $5M budget, $30M+ gross.
Spring in a Small Town (2004 film)
Spring in a Small Town (小城之春, Springtime in a Small Town) is Tian Zhuangzhuang's 2002 color remake of Fei Mu's 1948 classic, written by Ah Cheng, shot by Mark Lee Ping-bing, premiered at Venice 2002, US release 2004, San Marco Prize winner.
Spring in a Small Town (小城之春) (1948 film)
Spring in a Small Town (小城之春) is Fei Mu's 1948 black-and-white Wenhua drama, written by Li Tianji, about a wife, her sick husband, and her visiting former lover; initially attacked and buried, it was rediscovered in the 1980s and ranked the greatest Chinese film in a 2005 Hong Kong Film Awards poll.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄) is Kim Ki-duk's 2003 South Korean-German Buddhist drama following a monk's life in five seasonal chapters, shot at Jusanji Pond, a festival award winner with an 85 Metascore.
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is a 2025 20th Century Studios biopic directed by Scott Cooper, starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen making the 1982 album Nebraska; released October 24, 2025, it earned $45.2 million worldwide.
Spud (film)
Spud is a 2010 South African coming-of-age comedy directed by Donovan Marsh, adapted from John van de Ruit's novel, starring Troye Sivan and John Cleese, set in 1990 at a KwaZulu-Natal boarding school.
Spun
Spun (2002) is Jonas Åkerlund's feature directorial debut, an independent dark comedy written by Will De Los Santos and Creighton Vero, starring Jason Schwartzman, Mickey Rourke, Brittany Murphy, John Leguizamo, and Mena Suvari in a three-day crystal-meth odyssey; Metascore 41, US gross $410.2K.
Sputnik (film)
Sputnik (Спутник) is a 2020 Russian sci-fi horror film, Egor Abramenko's feature debut, about a 1983 Soviet cosmonaut hosting an alien parasite, examined by Oksana Akinshina's neuropsychologist at a secret base; it premiered online-only in April 2020.
Spy (2015 film)
Spy is a 2015 American action comedy film written and directed by Paul Feig, starring Melissa McCarthy as a CIA analyst on her first undercover mission.
Spy × Family Code: White
Spy × Family Code: White (劇場版 SPY×FAMILY CODE: White) is a 2023 Japanese animated spy comedy film and the first theatrical film of the Spy × Family franchise.
Spy film
Spy film: the espionage film genre, also called cloak-and-dagger or secret agent cinema. Defined by spies, confidential information, and borders; landmarks include Lang's Spione (1928), Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), Bond, and the 1960s Cold War boom.