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Spotlight (film)
Spotlight (2015), directed by Tom McCarthy and written with Josh Singer, dramatizes the Boston Globe Spotlight team's 2002 exposure of Catholic Church abuse cover-up; it won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Oscars.
Sprague Grayden
Sprague Grayden (born 1980, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts) is an American actress known for Jericho, 24, Sons of Anarchy, and as Kristi Rey in Paranormal Activity 2 and 3; Barnard College graduate, married to Alexis Cassar.
Spread (film)
Spread is a 2009 American comedy-drama-romance directed by David Mackenzie, starring Ashton Kutcher as LA hustler Nikki, with Anne Heche and Margarita Levieva; it premiered at Sundance, grossed $12 million worldwide, and scored 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Spree (film)
Spree is a 2020 American satirical thriller, also described as a horror comedy, directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko and co-written with Gene McHugh. Joe Keery plays rideshare driver Kurt Kunkle, who livestreams killing his passengers to go viral; premiered at Sundance 2020, released August 14, 2020 by RLJE Films.
Spriggan (スプリガン) (1998 film)
Spriggan (スプリガン) is a 1998 Japanese anime film by Studio 4°C, directed by Hirotsugu Kawasaki and supervised by Katsuhiro Otomo, adapting the Takashige and Minagawa manga about ARCAM agents defending Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat.
Spriggan (スプリガン) (manga)
Spriggan (スプリガン) is a 1989–1996 Shogakukan Weekly Shonen Sunday SF action manga by Takashige Hiroshi (story) and Minagawa Ryoji (art), 11 volumes, about ARCAM agent Ominae Yu protecting ancient-civilization OOPArts; adapted as a 1998 film and 2022 Netflix anime.
Spring (2014 film)
Spring (2014) is a horror-romance film by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, starring Lou Taylor Pucci and Nadia Hilker, about an American in Italy who falls for a woman with a monstrous secret.
Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers is Harmony Korine's 2012 crime film starring James Franco as Alien and Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine as college girls who rob a restaurant, hit Florida spring break, and enter crime; A24's third release, $5M budget, $30M+ gross.
Spring Byington
Spring Byington (Spring Dell Byington, 1886–1971), American character actress: Oscar-nominated as Penny Sycamore in You Can't Take It with You (1938), Marmee in Little Women (1933), and star of CBS's December Bride (1954–59).
Spring in a Small Town (2004 film)
Spring in a Small Town (小城之春, Springtime in a Small Town) is Tian Zhuangzhuang's 2002 color remake of Fei Mu's 1948 classic, written by Ah Cheng, shot by Mark Lee Ping-bing, premiered at Venice 2002, US release 2004, San Marco Prize winner.
Spring in a Small Town (小城之春) (1948 film)
Spring in a Small Town (小城之春) is Fei Mu's 1948 black-and-white Wenhua drama, written by Li Tianji, about a wife, her sick husband, and her visiting former lover; initially attacked and buried, it was rediscovered in the 1980s and ranked the greatest Chinese film in a 2005 Hong Kong Film Awards poll.
Spring of the Blade (一瓯春)
Spring of the Blade (一瓯春, Yi Ou Chun) is a 2026 Chinese historical revenge drama, 30 episodes, directed by Pan Anzi, starring Xu Kai and Zhou Ye, adapted from You Sijie's Jinjiang novel, set in Southern Song Qiantang, airing on iQiyi and Youku.
Spring of Youth (사계의 봄) (TV series)
Spring of Youth (사계의 봄, Sagyeui Bom; Spring of the Four Seasons) is a 2025 SBS Korean youth music romance drama, 10 episodes, May 6 to July 2, 2025, starring Ha Yoo-joon, Park Ji-hu, and N.Flying's Lee Seung-hyub, about an ousted K-pop band star forming a college band, noted for its record-low ratings.
Spring Snow (春の雪)
Spring Snow (春の雪, Haru no Yuki) is Yukio Mishima's 1969 novel, first volume of The Sea of Fertility tetralogy: the doomed 1912 Tokyo love of aristocrats Kiyoaki and Satoko, built on dream, reincarnation, and Yogācāra Buddhism.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄) is Kim Ki-duk's 2003 South Korean-German Buddhist drama following a monk's life in five seasonal chapters, shot at Jusanji Pond, a festival award winner with an 85 Metascore.
Springfield (The Simpsons)
Springfield is the fictional, state-unnamed town setting of The Simpsons, home of the Simpson family at 742 Evergreen Terrace since 1989; Matt Groening named it after Springfield, Oregon, though he later said the show is not set there.
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is a 2025 20th Century Studios biopic directed by Scott Cooper, starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen making the 1982 album Nebraska; released October 24, 2025, it earned $45.2 million worldwide.
Sprung
Sprung (2022) is an Amazon Freevee single-camera comedy created by Greg Garcia. Former inmate Jack (Garret Dillahunt), freed early in the pandemic, joins Rooster, Barb (Martha Plimpton), and Gloria in heists for good; one 9-episode season.
Spud (film)
Spud is a 2010 South African coming-of-age comedy directed by Donovan Marsh, adapted from John van de Ruit's novel, starring Troye Sivan and John Cleese, set in 1990 at a KwaZulu-Natal boarding school.
Spun
Spun (2002) is Jonas Åkerlund's feature directorial debut, an independent dark comedy written by Will De Los Santos and Creighton Vero, starring Jason Schwartzman, Mickey Rourke, Brittany Murphy, John Leguizamo, and Mena Suvari in a three-day crystal-meth odyssey; Metascore 41, US gross $410.2K.
Sputnik (film)
Sputnik (Спутник) is a 2020 Russian sci-fi horror film, Egor Abramenko's feature debut, about a 1983 Soviet cosmonaut hosting an alien parasite, examined by Oksana Akinshina's neuropsychologist at a secret base; it premiered online-only in April 2020.
Spy (2015 film)
Spy is a 2015 American action comedy film written and directed by Paul Feig, starring Melissa McCarthy as a CIA analyst on her first undercover mission.
Spy × Family
Spy × Family (SPY×FAMILY) is Tatsuya Endo's action-comedy manga serialized on Shonen Jump+ since 2019, about fake family of spy Loid, assassin Yor, telepath Anya; over 38 million copies, Wit Studio/CloverWorks anime since 2022.
Spy × Family (TV series)
Spy × Family (スパイファミリー) is the WIT STUDIO × CloverWorks anime of Tatsuya Endo's manga: spy Twilight builds a fake family with an assassin wife and telepathic daughter; three seasons since April 2022 plus the CODE: White film.
Spy × Family Code: White
Spy × Family Code: White (劇場版 SPY×FAMILY CODE: White) is a 2023 Japanese animated spy comedy film and the first theatrical film of the Spy × Family franchise.
Spy × Family season 3
Spy × Family season 3 (スパイファミリー) is the 2025 WIT Studio × CloverWorks anime season, 13 episodes aired October 4 to December 27, 2025 on TV Tokyo, adapting the bus hijacking, Twilight's backstory, and Mole Hunt arcs, with ending theme "Actor" by Lilas Ikuta.
Spy film
Spy film: the espionage film genre, also called cloak-and-dagger or secret agent cinema. Defined by spies, confidential information, and borders; landmarks include Lang's Spione (1928), Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), Bond, and the 1960s Cold War boom.
Spy Game
Spy Game (2001) is a Tony Scott espionage thriller starring Robert Redford and Brad Pitt as CIA mentor Nathan Muir and captured protégé Tom Bishop, released November 21, 2001, 127 minutes, R-rated, a mixed-review Universal/Beacon production.
Spy Hard
Spy Hard is a 1996 American spy-movie parody starring Leslie Nielsen as Agent WD-40. He is called out of retirement to stop General Rancor, played by Andy Griffith.
Spy Kids
Spy Kids is Robert Rodriguez's family spy-action franchise about the Cortez children rescuing their ex-spy parents, spanning four films (2001-2011), the Netflix series Mission Critical (2018), and the reboot Spy Kids: Armageddon (2023).