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The Skin Game
The Skin Game (1931) is Alfred Hitchcock's British International Pictures drama, adapted with Alma Reville from John Galsworthy's 1920 play about the Hillcrist gentry feuding with the nouveau riche Hornblowers over land, starring Edmund Gwenn and Helen Haye.
The Skin I Live In
The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito), Pedro Almodóvar's 2011 Spanish body-horror thriller starring Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya, adapted from Thierry Jonquet's Mygale; Cannes 2011 competitor and 2012 BAFTA winner for Best Film Not in the English Language.
The Skulls (film)
The Skulls is a 2000 American thriller directed by Rob Cohen and starring Joshua Jackson and Paul Walker, about a college student who joins an elite secret society.
The Sky Crawlers (スカイ・クロラシリーズ)
The Sky Crawlers (スカイ・クロラ) is Hiroshi Mori's novel series of five books plus a short-story collection, and Mamoru Oshii's 2008 Production I.G anime film about the Kildren, eternally adolescent pilots fighting a staged corporate war.
The Sky Is Pink
The Sky Is Pink is a 2019 Hindi biographical drama directed by Shonali Bose, starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Farhan Akhtar, and Zaira Wasim, based on the family of Aisha Chaudhary, who died in 2015 of pulmonary fibrosis.
The Slammin' Salmon
The Slammin' Salmon is a 2009 Broken Lizard comedy directed by Kevin Heffernan, starring Michael Clarke Duncan as ex-boxer Cleon Salmon, whose Miami restaurant wait-staff contest pays $10,000 to the winner.
The Sleeping Beast Within
The Sleeping Beast Within (Kemono no nemuri, けものの眠り) is a 1960 Seijun Suzuki Nikkatsu crime thriller in which a retired salaryman's disappearance leads his daughter and reporter boyfriend into heroin smuggling and a Sun God cult.
The Sleeping Voice
The Sleeping Voice (La voz dormida) is Benito Zambrano's 2011 Spanish drama adapted from Dulce Chacón's novel, about sisters in Francoist Madrid in 1940; it won three Goyas and the San Sebastián Silver Shell for María León.
The Sleepover
The Sleepover is a 2020 Netflix family action-comedy directed by Trish Sie, written by Sarah Rothschild, starring Sadie Stanley, Maxwell Simkins, Malin Akerman, and Ken Marino; siblings rescue their mom, a former thief in witness protection, released August 21, 2020.
The Sloth Lane
The Sloth Lane (A Sloth Story; Los Pérez-Osos) is a 2024 Australian animated family film directed by Tania Vincent and Ricard Cussó, the fifth Tales from Sanctuary City entry, about sloths running a food truck against cheetah Dotti Pace.
The Slumber Party Massacre
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) is an American slasher film directed by Amy Holden Jones, written by Rita Mae Brown, and produced under Roger Corman for $220,000, about escaped killer Russ Thorn attacking a sleepover with a power drill.
The Small Back Room
The Small Back Room (1949, aka Hour of Glory) is a Powell and Pressburger black-and-white drama adapted from Nigel Balchin's 1943 novel, starring David Farrar as alcoholic bomb-disposal expert Sammy Rice, with Kathleen Byron; a box-office failure later restored in 4K.
The Smashing Machine (2025 film)
The Smashing Machine (2025) is Benny Safdie's A24 biographical drama starring Dwayne Johnson as UFC fighter Mark Kerr and Emily Blunt as Dawn Staples, adapted from John Hyams's 2002 HBO documentary; released October 3, 2025, it won Safdie the Venice Silver Lion and earned an Oscar makeup nomination.
The Smeds and the Smoos
The Smeds and the Smoos is a 2022 BBC One Christmas animated special adapted from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's 2019 picture book, Magic Light Pictures' tenth such adaptation, animated by Blue Zoo, watched by 8.1 million viewers, and winner of the 2023 International Emmy for Best Kids' Animation.
The Smile Man
The Smile Man (தி ஸ்மைல் மேன்) is a 2024 Tamil crime thriller directed by Syam Praveen, starring R. Sarathkumar in his 150th film as a cop with Alzheimer's hunting a serial killer; released 27 December 2024, streaming on Aha Tamil.
The Smurfs (film)
The Smurfs is a 2011 American live-action/animated comedy from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, directed by Raja Gosnell, in which the Smurfs flee Gargamel and land in New York City.
The Smurfs 2
The Smurfs 2 is a 2013 American live-action/animated family comedy directed by Raja Gosnell, a sequel to the 2011 film, in which Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette and takes her to Paris.
The Snake Pit (1948 film)
The Snake Pit (1948) is Anatole Litvak's psychological drama starring Olivia de Havilland as Virginia Cunningham, adapted from Mary Jane Ward's novel; six Oscar nominations, won Best Sound, credited with spurring mental-hospital reforms in 26 states.
The Snapper
The Snapper (1993) is a Stephen Frears comedy-drama, written by Roddy Doyle from his Barrytown novel, about pregnant Sharon Curley refusing to name her baby's father. A BBC film that moved from BBC2 to cinema release, winning Toronto's People's Choice Award.
The Snitch Cartel
The Snitch Cartel (El cartel de los sapos) is a 2011 Colombian-Mexican crime film directed by Carlos Moreno, adapted from Andrés López López's book and the Caracol TV series, starring Manolo Cardona as a Norte del Valle cartel informant.
The Snow White Murder Case (白ゆき姫殺人事件)
The Snow White Murder Case (白ゆき姫殺人事件) is a 2014 Japanese suspense film by Yoshihiro Nakamura, adapted from Minato Kanae's novel, in which a cosmetics employee's murder and a missing plain colleague ignite a Twitter-fueled witch hunt.
The Snowman
The Snowman is a 26-minute 1982 Channel 4 animated film adapted from Raymond Briggs's 1978 wordless picture book, directed by Dianne Jackson, produced by John Coates at TVC, with Howard Blake's "Walking in the Air", Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning, and shown every Christmas since.
The Snowman (2017 film)
The Snowman (2017) is Tomas Alfredson's crime thriller adapting Jo Nesbø's Snømannen, starring Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole; a rushed production left 10–15% of the script unfilmed, and the film earned 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Social Dilemma
The Social Dilemma is a 2020 Netflix documentary-drama directed by Jeff Orlowski-Yang, also called a docudrama on the attention economy, in which former Google, Facebook, and Twitter employees describe how algorithms manipulate users; it drew 38 million viewers in four weeks and won two Primetime Emmy Awards.
The Social Network
The Social Network (2010) is David Fincher's biographical drama, written by Aaron Sorkin from Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg; it won three Oscars and joined the National Film Registry in 2024.
The Social Reckoning
The Social Reckoning is a 2026 Aaron Sorkin drama and companion piece to The Social Network, dramatizing Frances Haugen's Facebook Files leaks to WSJ reporter Jeff Horwitz, starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg.
The Soft Skin
The Soft Skin (La Peau douce) is François Truffaut's 1964 French black-and-white adultery drama starring Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, and Nelly Benedetti, inspired by the Pierre Jaccoud case, a Cannes selection that flopped on release and was later reevaluated.
The Solid Gold Cadillac
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) is a Columbia Pictures satirical comedy directed by Richard Quine, starring Judy Holliday and Paul Douglas, adapted from the Kaufman-Teichmann Broadway play; it won the Oscar for Best Black-and-White Costume Design.
The Soloist
The Soloist is a 2009 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Wright, starring Jamie Foxx as homeless musician Nathaniel Ayers and Robert Downey Jr. as columnist Steve Lopez.
The Son (2002 film)
The Son (Le fils) is a 2002 Belgian-French drama by the Dardenne brothers about a carpenter whose new apprentice killed his son. Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes 2002.