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The Siege at Thorn High
The Siege at Thorn High (Pengepungan di Bukit Duri) is a 2025 Indonesian dystopian action thriller by Joko Anwar, starring Morgan Oey as a teacher searching for his nephew amid anti-Chinese riots; released April 2025, streamed on Prime Video.
The Siege of Jadotville (film)
The Siege of Jadotville is a 2016 Richie Smyth war drama, a Netflix release starring Jamie Dornan as Commandant Pat Quinlan, depicting the 1961 siege of Ireland's A Company, 35th Battalion, in Katanga, based on Declan Power's book.
The Sign of the Cross
The Sign of the Cross (1932) is Cecil B. DeMille's pre-Code Paramount epic from Wilson Barrett's 1895 play, starring Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, and Charles Laughton as Nero; notorious for its milk-bath and arena scenes, cut in 1935, restored in 1993.
The Signal (2014 film)
The Signal (2014 film): American sci-fi thriller by William Eubank, starring Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp, Laurence Fishburne; Sundance premiere, $4M budget, Focus Features limited release.
The Signature
The Signature (2024) is a Hindi drama on ZEE5, Gajendra Ahire's remake of his Marathi film Anumati, starring Anupam Kher as a husband refusing to sign his comatose wife's DNR form.
The Silence (1963 film)
The Silence (Tystnaden) is Ingmar Bergman's 1963 Swedish black-and-white drama, third in his Silence of God trilogy, about two sisters and a boy stranded in a hotel in an unnamed city; its explicit sex scenes caused a major 1963 censorship scandal.
The Silence (2019 film)
The Silence (2019) is a Netflix horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, adapted from Tim Lebbon's 2015 novel, starring Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka as a family fleeing sound-hunting creatures called vesps and a cult; released April 10, 2019, poorly reviewed.
The Silence of the Lambs (film)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Jonathan Demme's psychological thriller starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, adapted from Thomas Harris's novel; it swept the 1992 Big Five Oscars and is the only horror film to win Best Picture.
The Silence of the Marsh
The Silence of the Marsh (El silencio del pantano) is a 2019 Spanish psychological thriller directed by Marc Vigil, adapting Juanjo Braulio's novel. Pedro Alonso plays Q, a crime novelist whose murders may be real; released January 2020 in Spain, on Netflix April 2020.
The Silenced
The Silenced (경성학교: 사라진 소녀들) is a 2015 South Korean mystery-horror film by Lee Hae-young, set in 1938 colonial Keijyo at a girls' boarding school where students vanish; starring Park Bo-young, Uhm Ji-won, and Park So-dam.
The Silencers
The Silencers (1966) is a Columbia spy comedy starring Dean Martin as Matt Helm, first of four Matt Helm films, directed by Phil Karlson, based on Donald Hamilton novels, earning about $7 million.
The Silencing
The Silencing (2020) is an American-Canadian thriller directed by Robin Pront, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Annabelle Wallis as a hunter and sheriff tracking a serial killer; Saban Films released it in August 2020.
The Silent Forest
The Silent Forest (無聲) is Ko Chen-nien's 2020 Taiwanese debut drama about sexual abuse at a school for deaf students, adapted from the 2009-2011 Tainan special school case; eight Golden Horse nominations, two wins, NT$50 million box office.
The Silent Hour
The Silent Hour is a 2024 American crime thriller directed by Brad Anderson, written by Dan Hall, starring Joel Kinnaman, Sandra Mae Frank, Mekhi Phifer, and Mark Strong, about a hearing-loss Boston detective protecting a deaf murder witness from corrupt cops; released October 11, 2024.
The Silent Planet
The Silent Planet (2024) is a Canadian sci-fi thriller written and directed by Jeffrey St. Jules, starring Elias Koteas and Briana Middleton as convicts on penal planet #384; premiered at Fantasia 2024, released March 7, 2025.
The Simpsons Movie
The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film directed by David Silverman, the feature-length spin-off of the television series The Simpsons, released by 20th Century Fox.
The Singers
The Singers (2025) is Sam A. Davis's 18-minute American short film adapting Ivan Turgenev's 1850 story, with a cast of first-time actors found via social media; it won the 2026 Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film in a tie, distinct from the 2024 Austrian film of the same name.
The Singing Ringing Tree
The Singing Ringing Tree (Das singende, klingende Bäumchen) is a 1957 DEFA East German fairy-tale film by Francesco Stefani about a princess, a prince turned bear, and an evil dwarf, famous as a spooky BBC cult serial.
The Single Moms Club
The Single Moms Club is a 2014 Tyler Perry comedy-drama, also called Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club, about five single mothers forming a support group; it earned $16 million and spawned OWN's If Loving You Is Wrong.
The Sinking of Japan (日本沈没)
The Sinking of Japan (日本沈没, Nihon Chinbotsu) is a 2006 Japanese disaster film directed by Shinji Higuchi, in which scientists predict Japan will sink within a year.
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru (里斯本丸沉没)
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru (里斯本丸沉没) is Fang Li's 2024 Chinese documentary about the 1942 torpedoing of a Japanese ship carrying 1,816 British POWs, the deaths of 828, and the rescue of 384 by Zhoushan fishermen.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (film)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) is a Warner Bros. coming-of-age comedy-drama directed by Ken Kwapis, adapted from Ann Brashares' novel, starring Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, and Amber Tamblyn; it grossed about $42 million worldwide and spawned a 2008 sequel.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008), also called Sisterhood 2, is Sanaa Hamri's sequel drama starring Tamblyn, Ferrera, Lively, and Bledel, condensing Brashares's books two through four; it grossed $44.1 million in the US.
The Sisters Brothers (film)
The Sisters Brothers (2018) is Jacques Audiard's first English-language Western, adapted from Patrick deWitt's novel, starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as assassin brothers hunting a gold prospector; Silver Lion winner at Venice 2018.
The Sitter
The Sitter is a 2011 American comedy film directed by David Gordon Green, starring Jonah Hill as a college student babysitting three children in New York.
The Six Billion Dollar Man
The Six Billion Dollar Man is Eugene Jarecki's 2025 documentary about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, named for the price Ecuador allegedly charged the Trump administration for his extradition; also the title of an unmade Mark Wahlberg feature remake of The Six Million Dollar Man.
The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American supernatural thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment as a child psychologist and a boy who sees dead people.
The Skeleton Dance
The Skeleton Dance is Disney's 1929 black-and-white Silly Symphony short, the first of its series, directed by Walt Disney, animated by Ub Iwerks, scored by Carl Stalling, showing four graveyard skeletons dancing at midnight; public domain.
The Skeleton Key
The Skeleton Key is a 2005 American supernatural horror film directed by Iain Softley and starring Kate Hudson as a hospice nurse at a Louisiana plantation house.
The Skeleton Twins
The Skeleton Twins is a 2014 American comedy-drama directed by Craig Johnson and written with Mark Heyman, starring Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as estranged twins Milo and Maggie Dean reunited by same-day suicide attempts; it won Sundance's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.