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The Star (2017 film)

The Star is a 2017 American animated comedy that retells the Nativity from the animals' perspective, directed by Timothy Reckart and released by Sony Pictures Animation.

The Star Chamber

The Star Chamber is a 1983 American legal thriller directed by Peter Hyams and starring Michael Douglas as a Los Angeles judge who joins a secret society of judges.

The Starling

The Starling (2021) is a Netflix comedy-drama directed by Theodore Melfi, written by Matt Harris, starring Melissa McCarthy, Chris O'Dowd, and Kevin Kline, about a couple grieving their baby's death while a starling bird attacks the wife's garden.

The Starving Games

The Starving Games is a 2013 parody comedy by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer spoofing The Hunger Games, starring Maiara Walsh as Kantmiss Evershot; released November 8, 2013, with a 0% Rotten Tomatoes critic score.

The Station Agent

The Station Agent is Tom McCarthy's 2003 indie comedy-drama starring Peter Dinklage as Finbar McBride, a lonely train enthusiast who inherits an abandoned New Jersey depot; it won Sundance's Audience and Waldo Salt Screenwriting awards and a BAFTA for its screenplay.

The Steel Helmet

The Steel Helmet (1951) is Samuel Fuller's Korean War film, the first American feature about that war, made for $104,000 in ten days, starring Gene Evans and James Edwards, and controversial for its treatment of racism and war crimes.

The Stepfather (1987 film)

The Stepfather is a 1987 American psychological thriller directed by Joseph Ruben, starring Terry O'Quinn as a serial killer who marries widows and infiltrates families.

The Stepfather (2009 film)

The Stepfather (2009) is a Screen Gems horror thriller remake of the 1987 cult film, directed by Nelson McCormick, written by J.S. Cardone, starring Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, and Penn Badgley; released October 16, 2009, grossing $29.1 million.

The Stepford Wives (1975 film)

The Stepford Wives (1975), Bryan Forbes film adapted by William Goldman from Ira Levin's 1972 novel, starring Katharine Ross; a box office flop that became a feminist horror cult classic and gave English the phrase "Stepford wife."

The Stepford Wives (2004 film)

The Stepford Wives is a 2004 American comedy-drama directed by Frank Oz. Nicole Kidman stars as Joanna Eberhart, a former New York executive who moves to Stepford, Connecticut.

The Stepmother (2022 film)

The Stepmother (2022 film), a Tubi original thriller directed by Chris Stokes and written with Marques Houston, released June 17, 2022; a widowed father is targeted by a predatory new stepmother, followed by two sequels.

The Sterile Cuckoo

The Sterile Cuckoo is a 1969 American comedy-drama, Alan J. Pakula's directorial debut, starring Liza Minnelli as eccentric college student Pookie Adams and earning two Oscar nominations.

The Sting

The Sting (1973) is a George Roy Hill comedy-drama written by David S. Ward, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw as 1930s Chicago con men. It won 7 of 10 Oscars including Best Picture and was the second and last Newman-Redford teaming.

The Stoning of Soraya M.

The Stoning of Soraya M. (also La Femme Lapidée) is a 2008 American drama directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh, adapted from Freidoune Sahebjam's 1994 book, dramatizing the 1986 stoning of an Iranian woman falsely accused of adultery; starring Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marnò, and Jim Caviezel.

The Stool Pigeon (线人)

The Stool Pigeon (线人, Xian Ren) is a 2010 Hong Kong crime film by Dante Lam, reuniting Nick Cheung and Nicholas Tse from The Beast Stalker; it won Tse the 30th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry: Gabrielle Zevin's 2014 novel about widowed bookseller A.J. Fikry of Island Books on Alice Island, and its 2022 Hans Canosa film adaptation starring Kunal Nayyar and Lucy Hale.

The Storm Riders (风云:雄霸天下)

The Storm Riders (風雲雄霸天下, Fung Wan) is Andrew Lau's 1998 Hong Kong wuxia fantasy adapted from Ma Wing-shing's comic, starring Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, and Sonny Chiba; top HK film of 1998 and a CGI milestone.

The Story of a Small Town (小城故事)

The Story of a Small Town (小城故事) is a 1979 Taiwanese drama by Li Hsing, produced by Ta Chung Motion Picture Company, set in Sanyi's woodcarving community, winner of four 1979 Golden Horse Awards and famous for Teresa Teng's theme song.

The Story of Adèle H.

The Story of Adèle H. (L'Histoire d'Adèle H.) is François Truffaut's 1975 French drama starring Isabelle Adjani as Victor Hugo's daughter, based on Frances Vernor Guille's journal reconstruction, released 8 October 1975.

The Story of Ah Kam

The Story of Ah Kam (阿金, The Stunt Woman) is Ann Hui's 1996 Hong Kong action-drama starring Michelle Yeoh as a mainland-born stuntwoman and Sammo Hung as her stunt-team chief, released 10 October 1996 by Golden Harvest.

The Story of Dr. Wassell

The Story of Dr. Wassell is Cecil B. DeMille's 1944 Paramount Technicolor WWII film starring Gary Cooper as Navy doctor Corydon Wassell, who evacuated twelve wounded sailors from Java; based on James Hilton's commissioned 1943 book, inspired by Roosevelt's radio broadcast.

The Story of Ermei

The Story of Ermei (Jingzhe, 惊蛰) is a 2003 Chinese drama by Wang Quanan about a 20-year-old peasant girl who flees an arranged marriage, works in a town, and returns; it won the 2003 Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress. Distinct from Ermo (1994).

The Story of G.I. Joe

The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), also released as G.I. Joe, is William Wellman's war drama based on Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War and Brave Men, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum, a four-time Oscar nominee and 2009 National Film Registry selection.

The Story of Louis Pasteur

The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 Warner Bros. biographical film directed by William Dieterle, starring Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur; it won three Oscars including Best Actor and dramatizes germ theory, anthrax, and rabies.

The Story of Marie and Julien

The Story of Marie and Julien (Histoire de Marie et Julien) is Jacques Rivette's 2003 supernatural romance with Emmanuelle Béart and Jerzy Radziwilowicz, revived from a 1975 project abandoned after two shooting days.

The Story of Qiu Ju (秋菊打官司)

The Story of Qiu Ju (秋菊打官司) is Zhang Yimou's 1992 Golden Lion-winning drama starring Gong Li, adapted from Chen Yuanbin's Wan Jia Su Song, about a pregnant peasant woman demanding an apology from a village chief.

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men is Disney's 1952 live-action Robin Hood film, directed by Ken Annakin, starring Richard Todd, Joan Rice, and Peter Finch, shot in England with blocked funds.

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (残菊物語)

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (残菊物語, Zangiku Monogatari) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1939 Shochiku film about kabuki actor Kikunosuke and Otoku, the only surviving entry in his performing arts trilogy and his first mature long-take work.

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (残菊物語)

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (残菊物語, Zangiku Monogatari) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1939 Shochiku film about kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke II and Otoku, first of his performing arts trilogy and its only surviving entry.

The Story of the Weeping Camel

The Story of the Weeping Camel (Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel) is a 2003 German-Mongolian narrative documentary by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni about a Gobi Desert camel rejecting her white calf, saved by a musical coaxing ritual; Oscar-nominated 2005.