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Standby

Stand-by (Standby) is a 2000 French drama by Roch Stéphanik starring Dominique Blanc as a woman abandoned at Orly airport who stays and turns to prostitution; it won the 2001 César for Best Actress and the Prix Cyril Collard.

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

Standing in the Shadows of Motown: 2002 Paul Justman documentary, from Allan Slutsky's 1989 Jamerson book, honoring Motown's Funk Brothers; Grammy-winning soundtrack, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, Detroit reunion concert film.

Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties

Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story is a 2024 mockumentary, the fourth Trailer Park Boys film, directed by Charlie Lightening, written by and starring Mike Smith as Bubbles on a failed European tour with Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters; it grossed $223,675 worldwide.

Standoff (film)

Standoff (2016) is a Canadian-American thriller, Adam Alleca's directorial debut, starring Thomas Jane, Laurence Fishburne, and Ella Ballentine; a veteran with a one-shell shotgun protects a girl who photographed an assassin. Not the 1998 cult thriller or the 2016 teen comedy The Standoff.

Stanley Baker

Stanley Baker (William Stanley Baker, 1928–1976), Welsh actor and producer of Zulu, Hell Drivers, and The Guns of Navarone; knighted 1976, died of lung cancer aged 48.

Stanley Baxter

Stanley Livingstone Baxter (1926–2025), Scottish actor, comedian and impressionist; star of The Stanley Baxter Show, the Parliamo Glasgow sketches and lavish TV specials reaching over 20 million viewers; BAFTA winner.

Stanley Donen

Stanley Donen (April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019), American film director and choreographer of the MGM golden age, co-directed On the Town and Singin' in the Rain with Gene Kelly, directed Seven Brides, Funny Face, Charade, and Two for the Road, and received an honorary 1998 Academy Award.

Stanley Holloway

Stanley Holloway was an English actor and comedian who performed in musical revues and monologues. He is best known for playing Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady.

Stanley Ka Dabba

Stanley Ka Dabba (स्टेनली का डब्बा, Stanley's Tiffin Box) is a 2011 Hindi drama written, directed, and produced by Amole Gupte, starring his son Partho as an orphan schoolboy barred from school for not bringing a tiffin.

Stanley Kamel

Stanley Kamel (1943–2008), American character actor, played Dr. Charles Kroger, Adrian Monk's psychiatrist, on Monk, and earlier Eric Peters on Days of Our Lives; died of a heart attack April 8, 2008.

Stanley Kramer

Stanley Kramer (1913–2001), American film producer-director nicknamed "Hollywood's conscience," known for The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and the 1962 Thalberg Award.

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), American director and former Look magazine photographer based in Britain from 1961, made thirteen features including 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut.

Stanley Kubrick filmography

Stanley Kubrick filmography: 13 feature films from Fear and Desire (1953) to Eyes Wide Shut (1999), plus four early documentaries (Day of the Fight, Flying Padre, Mr. Lincoln, The Seafarers) and unrealized projects like Napoleon and Aryan Papers.

Stanley Livingston

Stanley Livingston (born 1950), American actor, producer, and director, best known as Chip Douglas on My Three Sons (1960–1972); the only actor besides Fred MacMurray in all 12 seasons, later a filmmaker and founder of The Actor's Journey.

Stanley Simons

Stanley Simons (born 2000), Australian-born American actor from Sydney living in Brooklyn; debut Angelfish (2019), Sundance film Superior, Mike Von Erich in The Iron Claw (2023), and Julian in the Off-Broadway play The Saviors (2026).

Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci, born 1960 in Peekskill, New York, is an American character actor, director, and food broadcaster; Oscar-nominated for The Lovely Bones, host of Searching for Italy and Tucci in Italy, and author of Taste.

Stans (film)

Stans (2025) is an Eminem-produced documentary directed by Steven Leckart about the rapper's superfans, inspired by his 2000 song "Stan." It premiered at SXSW London, ran one weekend at AMC theaters from August 7, 2025, and streams on Paramount+.

Star (2024 film)

Star (ஸ்டார்) is a 2024 Tamil coming-of-age romantic drama written and directed by Elan, starring Kavin as aspiring actor Kalai, with Lal, Aaditi Pohankar, and Preity Mukhundhan; released 10 May 2024, music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, streaming on Prime Video.

Star (Disney+)

Star was the general entertainment brand tile on Disney+ outside the US, launched February 23, 2021, carrying mature content from 21st Century Fox studios; its Latin American sibling Star+ merged into Disney+ in June 2024, and Hulu replaced Star internationally on October 8, 2025.

Star (TV series)

Star (Lee Daniels' Star) is a Fox musical drama created by Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy, airing 2016-2019 over three seasons about the Atlanta girl group Take 3, starring Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny, Brittany O'Grady, and Queen Latifah.

Star 80

Star 80 (1983) is Bob Fosse's final film, a biographical drama starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts as Dorothy Stratten and Paul Snider, whose 1980 murder-suicide it dramatizes; released by Warner Bros., it earned Roberts a Golden Globe nomination.

Star Blazers

Star Blazers is the 1979 US syndicated English adaptation of the Japanese anime Uchū Senkan Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト), with renamed ship Argo, edited violence, and three sagas: Quest for Iscandar, Comet Empire, Bolar Wars.

Star Cinema

Star Cinema (ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc.) is the leading Filipino film studio, founded 1993 in Quezon City; producer of Rewind, Hello, Love, Goodbye, and most top-grossing Philippine films.

Star City (TV series)

Star City is an Apple TV alternate-history drama (2026), a spinoff of For All Mankind from Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, and Ronald D. Moore, showing the Soviet side of the space race after a Soviet first moon landing; eight episodes, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Star Destroyer

The Star Destroyer is a dagger-shaped capital ship used by the Galactic Empire and the Galactic Republic. It comes in various classes, including the massive Super Star Destroyer.

Star Detective Precure!

Star Detective Precure! (名探偵プリキュア!), 23rd Precure series by Toei Animation, premiered February 1, 2026 on ABC TV/TV Asahi. Anna Akechi time-travels from 2027 to 1999, becomes Cure Answer with Mikuru Kobayashi (Cure Mystic) against the Phantom Thieves.

Star Fox (2026 video game)

Star Fox is a 2026 rail shooter for Nintendo Switch 2: a Velan Studios-developed, Nintendo-published full remake of Star Fox 64 (1997), released June 25, 2026 at $49.99 with a 4v4 online Battle Mode.

Star in My Mind (แล้วแต่ดาว)

Star in My Mind (แล้วแต่ดาว) is a 2022 Thai BL series by GMMTV, aired on GMM25 April 8 to May 27, 2022, 8 episodes, starring Joong Archen Aydin and Dunk Natachai Boonprasert, adapted from peachhplease's novel, first half of Star and Sky with Sky in Your Heart.

Star Magic

Star Magic, formerly the ABS-CBN Talent Center, is the talent management arm of ABS-CBN, a Philippine media company, founded in 1992 to train and manage stars.

Star Search

Star Search is the American talent competition created by Al Masini, hosted by Ed McMahon 1983–1995, that launched Beyoncé, Britney Spears, and Dave Chappelle; revived 2003–2004 with Arsenio Hall and rebooted live on Netflix in 2026 with Anthony Anderson, real-time voting, and winner TJ Salta.