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Starstruck (2010 film)
StarStruck (2010) is a Disney Channel Original Movie romantic musical comedy directed by Michael Grossman, starring Sterling Knight as pop star Christopher Wilde and Danielle Campbell as Jessica Olson, premiered February 14, 2010.
Starter for 10 (film)
Starter for 10 (2006 British coming-of-age romantic comedy drama, also Starter For Ten) directed by Tom Vaughan, written by David Nicholls from his 1985-set novel; James McAvoy as Brian Jackson chasing a University Challenge spot at Bristol University, with Tom Hanks and Sam Mendes producing.
Starting Over
Starting Over is a 1979 American romantic comedy directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, and Candice Bergen. James L. Brooks's first feature screenplay, adapted from Dan Wakefield's novel, earned Clayburgh and Bergen Oscar nominations and grossed $26.5 million in 52 days.
Starve Acre
Starve Acre: 2023 British folk horror film directed by Daniel Kokotajlo, adapted from Andrew Michael Hurley's 2019 novel, starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark as grieving parents in 1970s Yorkshire; premiered at the BFI London Film Festival.
State and Main
State and Main (2000) is a David Mamet ensemble comedy, also described as a screwball showbiz satire, about a Hollywood film crew shooting The Old Mill in Waterford, Vermont; starring Hoffman, Macy, Baldwin, and Parker, it won ensemble and screenplay awards.
State Fair (1945 film)
State Fair (1945) is Rodgers and Hammerstein's only original film musical, a Technicolor remake of the 1933 Fox film, directed by Walter Lang, starring Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews, and winning the Best Song Oscar for "It Might as Well Be Spring."
State Fair (1962 film)
State Fair (1962) is a Twentieth Century-Fox musical comedy directed by José Ferrer, the third film version of Philip Stong's story, set in Texas with Pat Boone, Ann-Margret, Bobby Darin, and Alice Faye, and five new Richard Rodgers songs written after Oscar Hammerstein's death.
State of Grace (1990 film)
State of Grace is a 1990 American crime drama directed by Phil Joanou, starring Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Ed Harris, and Robin Wright as an undercover cop infiltrating Hell's Kitchen's Irish mob, loosely based on the Westies; it flopped against GoodFellas but holds an 86% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Static (1985 film)
Static (1985) is Mark Romanek's independent comedy-drama debut, co-written with star Keith Gordon, about Ernie Blick, who builds a TV said to show heaven. Premiered at Chicago 1985, US release 1986; Romanek later disowned it.
Station West
Station West is a 1948 RKO Western film noir directed by Sidney Lanfield, starring Dick Powell, Jane Greer, and Agnes Moorehead, adapted from Luke Short's novel about an undercover Army agent investigating gold-shipment thefts.
Status Update
Status Update is a 2018 American teen comedy directed by Scott Speer, written by Jason Filardi, starring Ross Lynch as Kyle Moore, whose magical app U-niverse makes his social media posts come true; 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Stavisky
Stavisky... (1974) is Alain Resnais's French-Italian biographical drama, written by Jorge Semprún, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as the swindler Serge Alexandre Stavisky, with Charles Boyer and a Stephen Sondheim score.
Stay (2005 film)
Stay (2005) is an American psychological thriller directed by Marc Forster, written by David Benioff, starring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, and Ryan Gosling; a psychiatrist tries to stop a suicidal patient, released by 20th Century Fox, grossing $8.5 million.
Stay Alive
Stay Alive (2006) is a horror film directed by William Brent Bell, co-written with Matthew Peterman, about a video game whose players die in real life; it earned $23.1M and 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Staying Alive (1983 film)
Staying Alive is a 1983 American musical drama directed and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta as Brooklyn dancer Tony Manero.
Steadicam
Steadicam, invented by Garrett Brown and patented in 1974, is a body-worn vest, iso-elastic arm, and counterweighted sled camera stabilizer with a three-axis gimbal; it debuted in Bound for Glory (1976), was famed in Rocky and The Shining, and is now owned by Tiffen.
Steal Away (film)
Steal Away is Clement Virgo's 2025 Canadian-Belgian psychological thriller, adapted with Tamara Faith Berger from Karolyn Smardz Frost's Steal Away Home, starring Angourie Rice and Mallori Johnson; premiered at TIFF 2025, released theatrically in Canada July 17, 2026. Distinct from the Realm Studios Fisk Jubilee Singers project and other same-titled films.
Stealing Beauty
Stealing Beauty (Io ballo da sola, Beauté volée) is Bernardo Bertolucci's 1996 comedy-drama starring Liv Tyler as Lucy Harmon, an American seeking her father in Tuscany; it competed at Cannes 1996, with Jeremy Irons, Darius Khondji cinematography, and a Jeremy Thomas production.
Stealing Pulp Fiction
Stealing Pulp Fiction (2024) is Danny Turkiewicz's heist comedy feature debut about friends plotting to steal Quentin Tarantino's personal 35mm Pulp Fiction print from his theater; premiered Newport Beach 2024, US release June 2025, 78 minutes, 33% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. is Buster Keaton's 1928 silent comedy, his last independent film, about a collegian and his riverboat-captain father, famous for the cyclone sequence and falling house-facade stunt, released 12 May 1928 and in US public domain since 1956.
Steamboat Willie
Steamboat Willie is the 1928 Walt Disney animated short, animated by Ub Iwerks, that premiered November 18, 1928 as the first released Mickey Mouse cartoon with synchronized sound, and entered the US public domain on January 1, 2024.
Steamboy (スチームボーイ)
Steamboy (スチームボーイ) is Katsuhiro Otomo's 2004 steampunk anime film about young inventor Ray Steam and the Steam Ball; Sunrise production, $22 million budget, most expensive Japanese anime at the time.
Steel (1997 film)
Steel (1997) is a Warner Bros. superhero film directed by Kenneth Johnson, starring Shaquille O'Neal as DC Comics' John Henry Irons. It grossed $1.8 million on a $16 million budget and holds 4% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Steel Dawn
Steel Dawn is a 1987 post-apocalyptic action film directed by Lance Hool, starring Patrick Swayze as Nomad, defending a desert town's water from Damnil; formerly titled Desert Warrior and Peacekeeper, filmed in Namibia, distributed by Vestron Pictures.
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross, adapted from Robert Harling's play, about six women who gather at a Louisiana beauty shop; it earned Julia Roberts an Academy Award nomination.
Steel Rain (강철비)
Steel Rain (강철비) is a 2017 South Korean political action thriller directed by Yang Woo-suk, adapted from his own webtoon, in which a North Korean agent defects with the wounded leader after a coup to stop a nuclear war; it drew about 4.45 million admissions and a 2020 sequel.
Steel Rain 2: Summit (スティール・レイン)
Steel Rain 2: Summit (강철비2: 정상회담) is a 2020 South Korean thriller by Yang Woo-suk, sequel to Steel Rain, in which a North Korean coup traps the South, North, and US leaders on the nuclear submarine Baekdu-ho.
Stefano Sollima
Stefano Sollima (born 1966, Rome) is an Italian director, son of Sergio Sollima, known for Romanzo Criminale, Gomorrah – The Series, Suburra, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Without Remorse, Adagio, and Netflix's Il Mostro.
Stella Dallas
Stella Dallas is Olive Higgins Prouty's 1923 novel of a self-sacrificing working-class mother, adapted into silent (1925), sound (1937, Barbara Stanwyck), and 1990 films plus a 1937-1955 radio serial.
Stella Does Tricks
Stella Does Tricks, also known simply as Stella Does Tricks, is a 1996 British drama directed by Coky Giedroyc, written by A.L. Kennedy, starring Kelly Macdonald as a Glaswegian teenage prostitute in London; released in UK cinemas in 1998.