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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) is an RKO biographical musical directed by H. C. Potter, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the real ballroom dance team; their ninth and final RKO film, based on Irene Castle's memoirs, ending with Vernon's death.
The Story of Woo Viet (胡越的故事)
The Story of Woo Viet (胡越的故事) is a 1981 Ann Hui Hong Kong drama starring Chow Yun-fat as a Vietnamese refugee turned Manila hitman; second of her Vietnam Trilogy, first Hong Kong Film Awards Best Screenplay winner.
The Storyteller (2022 film)
The Storyteller (2022) is a Hindi drama by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan adapting Satyajit Ray's short story Golpo Boliye Tarini Khuro, starring Paresh Rawal as storyteller Tarini and Adil Hussain as an insomniac Gujarati businessman; premiered at Busan 2022, streamed on Disney+ Hotstar in 2025.
The Straight Story
The Straight Story (1999) is David Lynch's G-rated Disney biographical road drama, based on Alvin Straight's 1994 lawnmower journey from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin; it competed at Cannes and earned Richard Farnsworth a Best Actor Oscar nomination.
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons is Ari Aster's 2011 AFI thesis short film about a son abusing his father; it premiered at Slamdance, leaked online in November 2011, and went viral.
The Stranger (1946 film)
The Stranger is a 1946 American film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young, about a Nazi war criminal hiding in Connecticut.
The Stranger (1991 film)
The Stranger (Agantuk) is a 1991 Bengali drama directed by Satyajit Ray, his last completed film, about a man claiming to be a family's long-lost uncle.
The Stranger (2022 film)
The Stranger (2022) is an Australian crime thriller directed by Thomas M. Wright, starring Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris, based on Kate Kyriacou's book The Sting and the Daniel Morcombe murder case; it premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard and streamed on Netflix from October 19, 2022.
The Stranger (2025 film)
The Stranger (L'Étranger) is François Ozon's 2025 French drama adapting Camus's 1942 novel, starring Benjamin Voisin as Meursault, shot in black and white in Morocco, premiered at Venice 2025, and released in the US in 2026.
The Strangers (2008 film)
The Strangers is a 2008 American home-invasion horror film directed by Bryan Bertino, starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman as a couple terrorized by three masked strangers.
The Strangers (film series)
The Strangers film series: five American home-invasion horror films from Bryan Bertino's 2008 original and 2018's Prey at Night to Renny Harlin's 2024-2026 Chapter trilogy, built on masked killers who attack "because you were home."
The Strangers: Chapter 1
The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024) is a Renny Harlin home invasion horror film starring Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez, first of a Lionsgate reboot trilogy shot concurrently in Slovakia, grossing $35.1M US with 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Strangers: Prey at Night
The Strangers: Prey at Night is a 2018 American home-invasion horror film directed by Johannes Roberts and the sequel to the 2008 film The Strangers.
The Strays (film)
The Strays (2023) is a British psychological thriller, the feature debut of writer-director Nathaniel Martello-White, starring Ashley Madekwe as Neve/Cheryl, a Black woman who remade herself in a white suburb, with Bukky Bakray and Jorden Myrie; Netflix release February 22, 2023.
The Stringer
The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo is a 2025 Bao Nguyen documentary, also called The Stringer, alleging Nguyen Thanh Nghe, not Nick Ut, took the 1972 Napalm Girl photo; AP kept the credit, World Press Photo suspended it.
The Strongest Man in the World
The Strongest Man in the World (1975) is a Walt Disney comedy, the third Medfield College film, starring Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley, whose cereal gains superhuman strength from a lab accident.
The Student
The Student (El estudiante) is a 2011 Argentine political drama directed by Santiago Mitre in his debut feature, starring Esteban Lamothe, Romina Paula, and Ricardo Díaz Mourelle.
The Stuff
The Stuff is a 1985 satirical horror-comedy by Larry Cohen about an addictive white dessert that takes over its eaters, starring Michael Moriarty; released by New World Pictures, later restored in 4K by Arrow Video.
The Stunt Driver
The Stunt Driver is a 2026 Canadian comedy-drama biopic directed by Michael Dowse, starring Jay Baruchel as stunt driver Ken Carter, who attempted a mile-long rocket-car jump across the St. Lawrence River; also starring Ed Helms, Ben Foster as Evel Knievel, and Laurence Leboeuf.
The Subject Was Roses
The Subject Was Roses is a 1968 MGM drama directed by Ulu Grosbard, adapted by Frank D. Gilroy from his Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play, starring Patricia Neal, Oscar winner Jack Albertson, and Martin Sheen as a WWII veteran in his parents' failing marriage.
The Substance
The Substance (2024) is a body horror film by Coralie Fargeat starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid; it won Best Screenplay at Cannes 2024 and the 2025 Oscar for Makeup and Hairstyling.
The Substitute
The Substitute is a 1996 American action thriller directed by Robert Mandel. It stars Tom Berenger as a mercenary who goes undercover at a Miami high school.
The Sudbury Devil
The Sudbury Devil is a 2023 American independent folk horror film by Andrew Rakich (Atun-Shei Films), about Puritan witch hunters in 1678 Massachusetts; made for $25,000, premiered at The Satanic Temple in Salem, self-streamed from December 2023.
The Sugarland Express
The Sugarland Express is Steven Spielberg's 1974 theatrical debut, a Texas chase comedy-drama starring Goldie Hawn and William Atherton as a couple who kidnap a trooper to reclaim their son, based on a 1969 true incident, Cannes Best Screenplay winner.
The Suicide Squad (film)
The Suicide Squad (2021) is James Gunn's R-rated standalone sequel to David Ayer's 2016 Suicide Squad, starring Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, and John Cena; it grossed $168.7 million on a $185 million budget and spawned Peacemaker.
The Suite Life Movie
The Suite Life Movie is a 2011 Disney Channel Original Movie directed by Sean McNamara, starring Dylan and Cole Sprouse as twins Zack and Cody, who join the Gemini Project and begin sharing sensations, thoughts, and feelings.
The Sullivans (1944 film)
The Sullivans, retitled The Fighting Sullivans, is Lloyd Bacon's 1944 Twentieth Century-Fox drama about the five Sullivan brothers killed aboard USS Juneau at Guadalcanal, which changed Navy sibling-assignment policy and inspired Saving Private Ryan.
The Sum of All Fears (film)
The Sum of All Fears (2002) is a Paramount political thriller directed by Phil Alden Robinson, starring Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan and Morgan Freeman, in which neo-Nazis detonate a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl; Metascore 45.
The Sun Also Rises (太阳照常升起) (2007 film)
The Sun Also Rises (太阳照常升起) is Jiang Wen's 2007 Chinese drama, adapted from Ye Mi's novella Velvet, told in four non-linear magical-realist segments set in 1976 and 1958; it competed at Venice 2007 and won Golden Horse Best Film Editing.
The Sun Is Also a Star
The Sun Is Also a Star is a 2019 American teen romance film directed by Ry Russo-Young, based on Nicola Yoon's novel, starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton.