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Strike Back: Project Dawn

Strike Back: Project Dawn is the 2011 second season of Strike Back, a ten-episode Sky1/Cinemax co-production in which Stonebridge and ex-Delta Force operative Scott hunt terrorist Latif after John Porter's kidnapping.

Strike Back: Retribution

Strike Back: Retribution is the sixth season of the action series Strike Back (Cinemax season 5), a 2017-2018 revamp with a new cast starring Warren Brown, Daniel MacPherson, Roxanne McKee, and Alin Sumarwata, following the restored Section 20 hunting terrorist Omair Idrisi.

Strike Up the Band

Strike Up the Band (1940 MGM musical, distinct from the Gershwin Broadway show) stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland raising funds to reach Paul Whiteman's Chicago band contest; Busby Berkeley directs, Oscar for Best Sound.

Strike Witches (ストライクウィッチーズ)

Strike Witches (ストライクウィッチーズ) is a Japanese franchise by Fumikane Shimada about magic-wielding girls in Striker Units fighting the Neuroi, notably the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, spanning the 2008 GONZO TV anime, films, and the World Witches Series.

Striking Distance

Striking Distance is a 1993 American action thriller directed by Rowdy Herrington, starring Bruce Willis as a Pittsburgh detective demoted to river patrol, with Sarah Jessica Parker in a supporting role.

Striking Vipers

Striking Vipers is the Black Mirror season 5 premiere, written by Charlie Brooker and directed by Owen Harris, released June 5, 2019. Anthony Mackie and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II play friends whose VR fighting-game avatars, Lance and Roxette, have in-game sex.

Stringer Bell

Russell "Stringer" Bell, fictional character in HBO's The Wire played by Idris Elba; second-in-command of the Barksdale drug organization who takes economics classes, invests in real estate, and is killed by Omar Little and Brother Mouzone in season three.

Stringer Davis

Stringer Davis (James Buckley Stringer Davis, 1899–1973) was an English character actor, husband of Margaret Rutherford, who played the librarian Mr. Stringer in MGM's four 1960s Miss Marple films, a role written for him and absent from Christie's novels.

Strip Law

Strip Law is a Netflix adult animated courtroom comedy created by Cullen Crawford, premiering February 20, 2026, in which Las Vegas lawyer Lincoln Gumb (Adam Scott) teams with magician Sheila Flambé (Janelle James); canceled after one ten-episode season.

Stripchat

Stripchat is a freemium live webcam platform operated by Cyprus-based Technius Ltd, monetized via tips and per-minute private shows. A leading cam site by concurrent models, it was designated an EU VLOP in 2023, lost that status in 2025, and faces DSA proceedings.

Stripes (film)

Stripes is a 1981 American military comedy directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray as a cab driver who enlists in the U.S. Army with friend Harold Ramis.

Stripperella

Stripperella (Stan Lee's Stripperella) is a 2003-2004 American adult animated superhero comedy created by Stan Lee for Spike TV, voiced by Pamela Anderson as Erotica Jones, a stripper by night and crime-fighting superhero by later night, in one 13-episode season.

Striptease (film)

Striptease is a 1996 American comedy-drama film directed by Andrew Bergman, based on Carl Hiaasen's 1993 novel, in which Demi Moore's former FBI assistant dances to fund a custody battle.

Stroker Ace

Stroker Ace: 1983 Hal Needham NASCAR comedy starring Burt Reynolds, based on the novel Stand on It; a $14 million Universal-Warner Bros. co-venture that flopped with $13 million gross and 18% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Strong Girl Bong-soon (힘쎈여자 도봉순)

Strong Girl Bong-soon (힘쎈여자 도봉순, Strong Woman Do Bong-soon) is a 2017 JTBC Korean romantic comedy, 16 episodes, starring Park Bo-young, Park Hyung-sik, and Ji Soo, about a woman with hereditary superhuman strength hired as a bodyguard by a gaming CEO; it ranks among cable history's highest-rated K-dramas.

Strong Girl Nam-soon (힘쎈여자 강남순)

Strong Girl Nam-soon (힘쎈여자 강남순, Himssenyeoja Kangnamsoon) is a 2023 JTBC fantasy-comedy, 16 episodes October 7 to November 26, 2023, a spin-off of Strong Woman Do Bong-soon starring Lee Yoo-mi, streamed on TVING and Netflix.

Stronger (film)

Stronger is a 2017 American biographical drama directed by David Gordon Green, with Jake Gyllenhaal as Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

Strongest Deliveryman (최강배달꾼)

Strongest Deliveryman (최강배달꾼) is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Go Kyung-pyo, Chae Soo-bin, Kim Seon-ho, and Go Won-hee, aired on KBS2 in 16 episodes.

Stroszek

Stroszek (1977) is Werner Herzog's West German drama starring Bruno S., Eva Mattes, and Clemens Scheitz; a Berlin busker, a prostitute, and an eccentric emigrate to Wisconsin and find the American dream hollow. Written in four days for Bruno S., it won the German Film Critics' Award.

Strother Martin

Strother Martin (Strother Douglas Martin Jr.; 1919 to 1980) was an American character actor whose many Western roles included the chain-gang Captain in Cool Hand Luke (1967).

Strung

Strung (formerly Help) is a 2026 psychological thriller directed by Malcolm D. Lee, written by Alan B. McElroy, starring Chloe Bailey as a violinist tutoring a wealthy family's daughter; a Blumhouse-Tyler Perry Peacock film.

Stryfe

Stryfe (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers) is a Marvel Comics supervillain, the mutant clone and nemesis of Cable, leader of the Mutant Liberation Front, and antagonist of the 1992 X-Cutioner's Song crossover, created and raised by Apocalypse.

Stuart Campbell (actor)

Stuart Campbell, also Stuart William David Campbell, Scottish actor born 1998 in Bellshill, known for Young Ruben in Half Man, Bill Fraser in SAS: Rogue Heroes, Derfel in The Winter King, and his 2019 Stage Debut Award nomination for The Hunt at the Almeida Theatre.

Stuart Damon

Stuart Damon (Stuart Michael Zonis, 1937–2021), American actor; played Dr. Alan Quartermaine on General Hospital 1977–2013, Emmy winner 1999; also the Prince in 1965's Cinderella and Craig Stirling in The Champions.

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is a 2026 HBO Max sci-fi comedy, the third Big Bang Theory spin-off, created by Chuck Lorre, Zak Penn, and Bill Prady; Stuart Bloom breaks a quantum device, causing multiverse Armageddon; renewed for 2027.

Stuart Gordon

Stuart Gordon (1947–2020), American director and playwright, founded Chicago's Organic Theater Company, directed the cult horror film Re-Animator (1985) and other H.P. Lovecraft adaptations, and co-created Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

Stuart Little (film)

Stuart Little (1999) is a live-action/CGI family comedy directed by Rob Minkoff, based on E.B. White's 1945 novel, starring Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, and the voice of Michael J. Fox; it grossed over $300 million worldwide and spawned two sequels.

Stuart Little 2

Stuart Little 2 is a 2002 American live-action/computer-animated family comedy directed by Rob Minkoff, the sequel to Stuart Little (1999), with Michael J. Fox voicing Stuart.

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005) is an all-CG direct-to-video animated sequel directed by Audu Paden, with Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, and Wayne Brady voicing characters; Stuart rescues Snowbell from the Beast near Lake Garland.

Stuart Margolin

Stuart Margolin (1940–2022), American character actor and TV director, won back-to-back Emmys (1979, 1980) as Evelyn "Angel" Martin on The Rockford Files; also directed episodic TV.