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Stone (2010 film)

Stone (2010 film), John Curran drama written by Angus MacLachlan: parole officer Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro) versus arsonist Gerald Creeson (Edward Norton) and wife Lucetta (Milla Jovovich); limited Overture Films release, $22M budget, weak box office, mixed reviews.

Stone Cold Fox

Stone Cold Fox is a 2025 American action thriller, Sophie Tabet's directorial debut, starring Kiernan Shipka, Krysten Ritter, and Kiefer Sutherland. Set in the 1980s, it follows Fox, who escapes an abusive commune and must return when the queenpin Goldie kidnaps her sister; released November 7, 2025 by Vertical and streamed on Netflix from January 9, 2026.

Stonehearst Asylum

Stonehearst Asylum, also released as Eliza Graves, is a 2014 Brad Anderson psychological thriller starring Jim Sturgess, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Kingsley, and Michael Caine, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's story about patients taking over a Victorian asylum.

Stonewall (2015 film)

Stonewall is a 2015 American historical drama film directed by Roland Emmerich, dramatizing the 1969 Stonewall riots. Criticized as whitewashing history, it was a box office failure.

Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense (1984) is Jonathan Demme's concert film of Talking Heads, shot at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, released October 19, 1984, and restored in 4K by A24 for its 2023 40th anniversary.

Stop-Loss (film)

Stop-Loss (2008) is Kimberly Peirce's Iraq War drama starring Ryan Phillippe as Sgt. Brandon King, a soldier ordered back to duty under the Army's stop-loss policy who goes AWOL. Paramount release, $10.9M gross, 64% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is a 1992 American action comedy directed by Roger Spottiswoode, in which Sylvester Stallone's detective is partnered with his meddling mother, played by Estelle Getty.

Stop! That! Train!

Stop! That! Train! is a 2026 American disaster-movie spoof comedy directed by Adam Shankman, starring Ginger Minj, Jujubee, and RuPaul as President Gagwell aboard the runaway Glamazonian Express; released by Bleecker Street June 12, 2026.

Stopmotion (film)

Stopmotion (2023) is a British psychological horror film and the feature debut of director Robert Morgan, starring Aisling Franciosi as animator Ella Blake, whose puppet film blurs with reality after her mother's death; 93 minutes, Sitges Special Jury Prize, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Stories We Tell

Stories We Tell (2012) is Sarah Polley's NFB documentary investigating her mother Diane's affair and her biological father Harry Gulkin, using staged Super 8 home movies; 94% Rotten Tomatoes, NY and LA critics' Best Documentary winner.

Storks (film)

Storks is a 2016 American computer-animated comedy film directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland, in which storks now ship packages until an unauthorized baby comes off the production line.

Storm Reid

Storm Reid (born 2003, Atlanta) is an American actress and singer, Emmy winner for The Last of Us, known for A Wrinkle in Time, Euphoria, and Missing, releasing music via her label 1720 Music.

Stormbreaker (film)

Stormbreaker, released in some markets as Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, is a 2006 action film directed by Geoffrey Sax, adapted by Anthony Horowitz from his own novel.

Stormy Daniels

Stormy Daniels is an American adult film performer, director, writer, and television presenter. She testified in the2024 New York criminal trial concerning Donald Trump’s business records.

Story of O (film)

Story of O (French: Histoire d'O) is a 1975 French erotic drama film directed by Just Jaeckin, adapted from Pauline Réage's 1954 novel, starring Corinne Cléry as O.

Story of Women

Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes) is Claude Chabrol's 1988 French drama starring Isabelle Huppert as an abortionist in Vichy France, based on Francis Szpiner's book about Marie-Louise Giraud, guillotined in 1943; Huppert won the 1988 Venice Volpi Cup.

Stowaway (2021 film)

Stowaway (2021) is a Joe Penna sci-fi drama on Netflix: a Mars-bound crew finds an accidental stowaway who damaged the CO2 scrubber, forcing a lifeboat-style moral choice. Stars Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson.

Stoya

Stoya (Jessica Stojadinović, born 1986 or 1987) is an American adult film performer (since 2006/2007), director, and writer; known for Digital Playground, the 2015 James Deen accusation, the book Philosophy, Pussycats and Porn, and Slate's 'How to Do It' column.

Straight Out of Brooklyn

Straight Out of Brooklyn is a 1991 American drama, the debut feature of 19-year-old Matty Rich, about a Red Hook teenager robbing a drug dealer to escape poverty; it won a 1991 Sundance Special Jury Prize and the 1992 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.

Straight Outta Compton (film)

Straight Outta Compton (2015) is F. Gary Gray's Universal biographical drama about N.W.A, starring O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, and Jason Mitchell; it opened No. 1 with $56.1 million and grossed $201.6 million worldwide.

Straight Time

Straight Time (1978) is a Ulu Grosbard crime drama starring Dustin Hoffman as paroled burglar Max Dembo, adapted from Edward Bunker's novel No Beast So Fierce, with Bunker co-writing and acting.

Strand Theatre (Manhattan)

Strand Theatre (Manhattan), also the Mark Strand and later Warner Theatre, was America's first movie palace, a 2,989-seat 1914 Thomas Lamb theater at Broadway and 47th Street, demolished in 1987.

Strange Brew

Strange Brew (1983), full title The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew, is an MGM comedy co-directed by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, loosely based on Hamlet, about two SCTV hosers foiling a brewery mind-control plot.

Strange but True (film)

Strange but True is a 2019 psychological thriller directed by Rowan Athale, adapted by Eric Garcia from John Searles' novel, starring Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, Amy Ryan, Brian Cox, and Blythe Danner; Metascore 55, $343,038 worldwide gross.

Strange Days (film)

Strange Days is a 1995 dystopian sci-fi thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, starring Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett; a 1995 box-office flop ($7.3M gross) now a cult cyberpunk classic about SQUID experience recordings in 1999 Los Angeles.

Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital

Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital is a 2024 Philippine found footage horror film, a meta adaptation of Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum directed by Kerwin Go, in which seven Filipino celebrities live-stream a ghost hunt at the abandoned Xinglin Hospital in Tainan, Taiwan; an MMFF 2024 entry released on Netflix in 2025.

Strange Harvest (film)

Strange Harvest is a 2024 American horror mockumentary by Stuart Ortiz, also titled Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire, following San Bernardino detectives hunting the ritualistic serial killer Mr. Shiny; released theatrically August 8, 2025.

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror is a 2025 documentary, also called Strange Journey, directed by Linus O'Brien, son of creator Richard O'Brien. It premiered at SXSW 2025, runs 89 minutes, and chronicles the Rocky Horror stage show, 1975 film, and midnight-screening cult phenomenon.

Strange Magic (film)

Strange Magic is a 2015 American computer-animated musical fantasy film directed by Gary Rydstrom, produced by Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic from a story by George Lucas.

Strange Way of Life

Strange Way of Life (Extraña forma de vida) is Pedro Almodóvar's 31-minute 2023 Spanish queer western short, starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke as reunited former lovers and hired gunmen in Bitter Creek; it premiered at Cannes 2023 as the first Saint Laurent Productions film.