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The Sadness (哭悲)
The Sadness (哭悲) is a 2021 Taiwanese splatter horror film, Rob Jabbaz's debut, in which a mutating virus turns sentient Taipei residents into sadists; released January 2021 in Taiwan, on Shudder in May 2022, it won Fantasia's Best First Feature.
The Saint (1997 film)
The Saint is a 1997 American spy thriller directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Val Kilmer as gentleman thief Simon Templar, based on Leslie Charteris's novels.
The Saint (2017 film)
The Saint (2017) is an American action TV movie directed by Ernie Barbarash, starring Adam Rayner as Leslie Charteris's thief Simon Templar with Eliza Dushku, Ian Ogilvy, and Roger Moore; it grew from a 2013 pilot and involves $2.5 billion in stolen African aid funds.
The Salesman (2016 film)
The Salesman (Forushande, فروشنده) is Asghar Farhadi's 2016 Iranian-French drama about actors Emad and Rana; it won Cannes Best Screenplay and Best Actor and the 2017 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Salt of the Earth (2014 film)
The Salt of the Earth (Le sel de la terre / O Sal da Terra), 2014 documentary by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado about photographer Sebastião Salgado; Cannes Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, 2015 Oscar nominee.
The Salvation (film)
The Salvation is a 2014 Danish western directed by Kristian Levring, starring Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
The Samurai and the Prisoner
The Samurai and the Prisoner (黒牢城, Kokurojo) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2026 jidaigeki mystery, adapted from Honobu Yonezawa's Naoki Prize-winning novel, starring Masahiro Motoki and Masaki Suda as besieged lord Araki Murashige and prisoner Kuroda Kanbei at 1578's Arioka Castle.
The Samurai Trilogy
The Samurai Trilogy (宮本武蔵三部作) is Hiroshi Inagaki's three-part 1954-1956 Toho color series starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto, adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel; the first film won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
The Sand
The Sand (2015), also released as Killer Beach or Blood Sand, is an American horror sci-fi comedy directed by Isaac Gabaeff: hung-over students trapped on a beach where a tentacled creature under the sand devours anyone who touches it.
The Sand Castle (2024 film)
The Sand Castle (من وراء الموج) is a 2024 Arabic-language psychological thriller, Matty Brown's debut feature, starring Nadine Labaki, Ziad Bakri, and the Al Rafeea siblings; it premiered at the 2024 Red Sea festival and streams on Netflix from January 24, 2025.
The Sand Pebbles (film)
The Sand Pebbles (1966) is Robert Wise's epic war drama, adapted from Richard McKenna's novel, starring Steve McQueen as gunboat machinist Jake Holman on China's Yangtze River in 1926; eight Oscar nominations, $30 million gross.
The Sandpiper
The Sandpiper is a 1965 MGM romantic drama directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, and Charles Bronson; a Big Sur artist and married clergyman affair, remembered for the Oscar-winning song "The Shadow of Your Smile".
The Sandwich Man (儿子的大玩偶)
The Sandwich Man (兒子的大玩偶) is a 1983 Taiwanese omnibus film by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wan Jen, and Tseng Chuang-hsiang, adapting three Huang Chun-ming stories; regarded as the founding work of Taiwan New Cinema.
The Santa Clause
The Santa Clause is a 1994 Disney Christmas comedy starring Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, who becomes the new Santa after the old one falls off his roof; directed by John Pasquin, it grossed $145.5 million in the US and spawned two sequels and a Disney+ series.
The Santa Clause 2
The Santa Clause 2, also known as Santa Claus 2, is a 2002 American Christmas comedy starring Tim Allen as Santa, who must marry to keep the job.
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is a 2006 American Christmas comedy film starring Tim Allen and Martin Short, the third in Disney's Santa Clause series.
The Sapphires (film)
The Sapphires is a 2012 Australian musical comedy-drama directed by Wayne Blair, adapted from Tony Briggs' stage play about four Yorta Yorta women who sang soul for US troops in 1968 Vietnam; it was Australia's most popular film of 2012 and won 12 AACTA Awards.
The Saragossa Manuscript
The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie) is Wojciech Jerzy Has's 1964 Polish black-and-white film adapting Jan Potocki's nested frame-tale novel, starring Zbigniew Cybulski, with Penderecki's score, and restored in 4K by WFDiF.
The Savage Five (五虎将)
The Savage Five (五虎將, Wu hu jiang) is a 1974 Shaw Brothers martial arts film directed by Chang Cheh and written with Ni Kuang, starring David Chiang, Ti Lung, Chen Kuan-tai, Danny Lee, and Wong Chung as villagers resisting bandits, with spaghetti western influences.
The Savages (film)
The Savages is Tamara Jenkins's 2007 American comedy-drama starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Philip Bosco, about estranged siblings caring for a father with dementia; Sundance premiere, two Oscar nominations, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Saviors
The Saviors is a 2026 American darkly comedic sci-fi thriller by Kevin Hamedani and Travis Betz, starring Adam Scott and Danielle Deadwyler as a divorcing couple who suspect their Middle Eastern tenants; SXSW premiere, March 2027 release.
The Scalphunters
The Scalphunters is a 1968 Sydney Pollack Western comedy starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, and Shelley Winters, in which a trapper chases his stolen furs through Kiowa and scalphunter hands.
The Scarlet Letter (1926 film)
The Scarlet Letter (1926) is an MGM silent drama directed by Victor Sjöström (Seastrom), starring Lillian Gish as Hester Prynne with Lars Hanson and Henry B. Walthall, adapted by Frances Marion from Hawthorne's novel after Gish lifted a censorship ban.
The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)
The Scarlet Letter (1995) is Roland Joffé's Hollywood Pictures romantic drama freely adapted from Hawthorne's novel, starring Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall; it grossed $10.4 million against a $46-50 million budget and holds 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982 film)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) is a CBS television movie directed by Clive Donner, starring Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, and Ian McKellen, adapting Orczy's novel plus Eldorado, filmed June 1982 in Britain.
The Scent of Green Papaya
The Scent of Green Papaya (Mùi đu đủ xanh, L'Odeur de la papaye verte) is Trần Anh Hùng's 1993 debut drama about servant girl Mui in 1950s Saigon, shot entirely in a French studio, winner of the Caméra d'Or and the first Vietnamese Oscar nominee.
The Score (2001 film)
The Score is a 2001 American heist thriller directed by Frank Oz, starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, and Angela Bassett, notable as the first film pairing De Niro and Brando on screen.
The Scorpion King
The Scorpion King is a 2002 American action-adventure fantasy film directed by Chuck Russell, starring Dwayne Johnson as assassin Mathayus, a spin-off of The Mummy franchise.
The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior
The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008) is a direct-to-DVD prequel to The Scorpion King, directed by Russell Mulcahy, starring Michael Copon as young Mathayus and Randy Couture as Sargon, shot in Cape Town, South Africa.
The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption
The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption is a 2012 direct-to-video fantasy action film directed by Roel Reiné, starring Victor Webster as Mathayus, with Billy Zane and Ron Perlman; a $6 million Thailand-shot sequel to The Scorpion King 2.