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Sweet Dreams (2025 film)

Sweet Dreams (2025 film) is a Hindi romantic drama directed by Victor Mukherjee. It stars Mithila Palkar and Amol Parashar, and two strangers begin dreaming about each other nightly.

Sweet Girl (film)

Sweet Girl is a 2021 Netflix action thriller, Brian Andrew Mendoza's directorial debut, starring Jason Momoa and Isabela Merced as a father and daughter seeking revenge against a pharmaceutical company; released August 20, 2021, filmed in Pittsburgh.

Sweet Home Alabama (film)

Sweet Home Alabama (2002) is a Touchstone romantic comedy directed by Andy Tennant, starring Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, and Patrick Dempsey; a New York designer returns to Pigeon Creek, Alabama, for a divorce from her high school husband.

Sweet November (2001 film)

Sweet November is a 2001 American romantic drama directed by Pat O'Connor, starring Keanu Reeves as an advertising executive and Charlize Theron as the woman who offers to change his life in one month.

Sweet Sixteen (2002 film)

Sweet Sixteen is Ken Loach's 2002 social-realist drama, written by Paul Laverty, about Greenock teenager Liam (Martin Compston) dealing drugs to buy his imprisoned mother a home; it won Cannes Best Screenplay and became Loach's first BBFC 18-certificate film.

Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Alexander Mackendrick's film noir with Burt Lancaster as columnist J.J. Hunsecker and Tony Curtis as press agent Sidney Falco, from a Lehman novelette, a 1957 flop later canonized.

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) is Melvin Van Peebles's independent action thriller, progenitor of blaxploitation: $500,000 budget, 19-day shoot, X rating, $10-15 million gross, Earth Wind & Fire score.

Sweetheart (2025 film)

Sweetheart (Gioia mia) is a 2025 Italian family drama, Margherita Spampinato's feature debut, starring Marco Fiore and Aurora Quattrocchi. It premiered at Locarno 2025, winning the CINÉ+ Special Jury Prize and a Best Performance Pardo, and won two 2026 David di Donatello awards.

Sweetheart!

Sweetheart! is a 2025 Tamil romantic comedy-drama, the directorial debut of Swineeth S Sukumar, starring Rio Raj as Vasu and Gopika Ramesh as Manu, whose unexpected pregnancy drives the story. Yuvan Shankar Raja produced it via YSR Films and composed the music; it released March 14, 2025, and streamed on JioHotstar from April 11, 2025.

Sweetness (film)

Sweetness is a 2025 Canadian thriller and Emma Higgins's feature debut, premiering at SXSW. Kate Hallett plays teen superfan Rylee, who kidnaps rockstar Payton (Herman Tømmeraas) of the band Floorplan to force him sober; a Gen Z take on Misery.

Sweetsick

Sweetsick is an upcoming fantasy drama film written and directed by Alice Birch in her directorial debut, starring Cate Blanchett and Spike Fearn, produced by House Productions and Dirty Films with Film4 and Searchlight Pictures.

Sweety Naughty Crazy

Sweety Naughty Crazy (ஸ்வீட்டி நாட்டி கிரேஸி) is a 2026 Tamil–Telugu adult romantic comedy, Rajasekar G's directorial debut, starring Thrigun, Srijita Ghosh, Iniya, and Radha; released 13 February 2026 with an A certificate.

Swept Away (2002 film)

Swept Away (2002), also released internationally as Love, Sex, Drugs and Money, is Guy Ritchie's remake of Lina Wertmüller's 1974 Italian classic, starring Madonna and Adriano Giannini as castaways; it grossed under $600,000 domestically and won five Razzies including Worst Picture.

Swimfan

Swimfan (2002) is an American teen psychological thriller directed by John Polson, starring Jesse Bradford and Erika Christensen, about an obsessive new student stalking a champion high school swimmer; it opened #1, grossed $34.4 million on a $10 million budget, but scored 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Swimming Home (film)

Swimming Home is a 2024 drama film, Justin Anderson's feature debut, adapting Deborah Levy's 2011 Man Booker-nominated novel; Mackenzie Davis, Christopher Abbott, Ariane Labed, and Nadine Labaki star; it premiered in IFFR's Tiger Competition and holds 31% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Swimming Pool (2003 film)

Swimming Pool (2003), François Ozon's first English-language film, is a France-UK psychological thriller starring Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, and Charles Dance; it competed at Cannes 2003, won Rampling the European Film Award for Best Actress, and grossed $10.1 million in the US.

Swing Girls (スウィングガールズ)

Swing Girls (スウィングガールズ) is a 2004 Japanese teen comedy by Shinobu Yaguchi, starring Juri Ueno, about high school girls who form a big band after food poisoning fells the brass band; 8th at the 2004 Japanese box office, seven Japan Academy Prize wins.

Swing Shift (film)

Swing Shift is a 1984 Jonathan Demme comedy-drama starring Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, and Ed Harris about WWII aircraft-factory workers; it was famously re-edited after Hawn's reshoots and grossed $6,650,206.

Swing Time (film)

Swing Time (1936) is a George Stevens RKO musical, the sixth of ten Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers films, with a Kern-Fields score including Oscar winner "The Way You Look Tonight" and the blackface "Bojangles of Harlem" number.

Swing Vote (2008 film)

Swing Vote (2008 film) is a Touchstone/Disney political comedy-drama directed by Joshua Michael Stern, starring Kevin Costner as Bud Johnson, a New Mexico man whose single vote decides a tied presidential election; released August 1, 2008, 120 minutes, $16.3M US gross.

Swingers (1996 film)

Swingers is a 1996 American comedy-drama directed by Doug Liman, written by and starring Jon Favreau, about young actors in mid-1990s Los Angeles navigating the singles scene after a breakup.

Swiped (2025 film)

Swiped (2025) is a 20th Century Studios biographical drama, also called the Whitney Wolfe Herd film, directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg with Lily James as the Tinder co-founder and Bumble founder; it premiered at TIFF September 9, 2025 and streams on Hulu from September 19, 2025.

Swiri (쉬리)

Swiri (쉬리, Shiri), 1999 South Korean espionage action film by Kang Je-gyu starring Han Suk-kyu, Choi Min-sik, Song Kang-ho, and Kim Yun-jin; first Korean blockbuster, 6.2 million admissions, re-released in 4K in 2025.

Swiss Army Man

Swiss Army Man (2016), the Daniels' feature debut, is a surrealist comedy-drama starring Paul Dano as a castaway and Daniel Radcliffe as a flatulent talking corpse; Sundance Directing Award winner distributed by A24.

Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film)

Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film) is a Disney adventure film about a Swiss family shipwrecked on a tropical island. It was shot on the Caribbean island of Tobago.

Switching Channels

Switching Channels is a 1988 American screwball romantic comedy directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, and Christopher Reeve, adapted from the 1928 play The Front Page.

Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night (劇場版 ソードアート・オンライン -プログレッシブ- 星なき夜のアリア)

Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night (星なき夜のアリア) is a 2021 A-1 Pictures anime film directed by Ayako Kono, retelling SAO's first floor from Asuna's viewpoint, opening #1 in Japan and followed by Scherzo of Deep Night.

Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale (劇場版 ソードアート・オンライン -オーディナル・スケール-)

Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale (劇場版 ソードアート・オンライン -オーディナル・スケール-) is a 2017 A-1 Pictures anime film, an original story by Reki Kawahara set in 2026 around the Augma AR device, released February 18, 2017.

Sword in the Moon (청풍명월)

Sword in the Moon (청풍명월, Cheongpungmyeongwol) is a 2003 Korean muhyeop period action film by Kim Ui-seok, starring Choi Min-soo and Cho Jae-hyun as sworn friends split by the 1623 Injo coup; Cannes 2004, 536,258 admissions.

Sword of the Stranger

Sword of the Stranger (ストレンヂア 無皇刃譚, Stranger: Mukou Hadan) is a 2007 Bones anime film directed by Masahiro Ando: a Sengoku-era ronin, Nanashi, guards the boy Kotaro and his dog from Ming Dynasty assassins led by Luo-Lang.