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The Runner (2015 film)
The Runner (2015) is an American political drama, the writing and directing debut of Austin Stark, starring Nicolas Cage as Louisiana congressman Colin Price, whose career collapses in a sex scandal after the 2010 BP oil spill; also starring Sarah Paulson, Connie Nielsen, Peter Fonda, and Wendell Pierce.
The Runner (2026 film)
The Runner (2026 film): Kevin Macdonald thriller on Prime Video starring Gal Gadot as a London lawyer forced to run and obey a kidnapper's calls (Damian Lewis) to save her son; 11% on Rotten Tomatoes; distinct from the Alan Ritchson film Runner.
The Running Man (1987 film)
The Running Man (1987) is a Paul Michael Glaser sci-fi action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ben Richards, forced onto a deadly game show in a totalitarian 2019 America; loosely based on Stephen King's Richard Bachman novel, remade by Edgar Wright in 2025.
The Running Man (2025 film)
The Running Man is a 2025 American-British dystopian action thriller directed by Edgar Wright, starring Glen Powell as a man hunted on a deadly televised game show.
The Russia House (film)
The Russia House is a 1990 American spy drama directed by Fred Schepisi from John le Carré's 1989 novel, starring Sean Connery as a publisher recruited to assess a Soviet manuscript.
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is Norman Jewison's 1966 Cold War comedy, adapted from Nathaniel Benchley's The Off-Islanders, about a grounded Soviet submarine off New England; it won two Golden Globes and earned four Oscar nominations.
The Sabarmati Report
The Sabarmati Report (द साबरमती रिपोर्ट), 2024 Hindi political drama by Dheeraj Sarna starring Vikrant Massey, based on the 2002 Godhra train burning; released 15 November 2024, streamed on ZEE5 from January 2025.
The Sacrament (2013 film)
The Sacrament (2013) is Ti West's found-footage-style horror thriller, produced by Eli Roth, about Vice journalists visiting the Eden Parish commune, a fictionalized retelling of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre; released by Magnolia in 2014, grossing $9,221, with a 66% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The Sacred Riana
The Sacred Riana is Marie Antoinette Riana Graharani, an Indonesian bizarre illusionist born 1992 in Jakarta, known for her ghostly persona and doll Riani; she won Asia's Got Talent Season 2 in 2017 and reached the AGT Season 13 quarterfinals in 2018.
The Sacrifice
The Sacrifice (Offret) is Andrei Tarkovsky's 1986 final film, a Swedish-French parable in which Alexander offers everything to God to avert nuclear war; it won Cannes' Grand Prix and the 1988 BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Saddle Club
The Saddle Club: Bonnie Bryant's horse-themed children's book series (1988–2001, 101 books) and its Australian/Canadian live-action TV adaptation (2001–2009) about Stevie, Carole, and Lisa at Pine Hollow Stables, now being remade as animation.
The Sadness (哭悲)
The Sadness (哭悲) is a 2021 Taiwanese splatter horror film, Rob Jabbaz's debut, in which a mutating virus turns sentient Taipei residents into sadists; released January 2021 in Taiwan, on Shudder in May 2022, it won Fantasia's Best First Feature.
The Saga of Tanya the Evil
The Saga of Tanya the Evil (幼女戦記, Yōjo Senki) is Carlo Zen's military fantasy light novel series about a salaryman reincarnated as soldier Tanya Degurechaff, adapted by studio NUT into a 2017 TV anime, a 2019 film, and a second season airing July 2026.
The Saint (1997 film)
The Saint is a 1997 American spy thriller directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Val Kilmer as gentleman thief Simon Templar, based on Leslie Charteris's novels.
The Saint (2017 film)
The Saint (2017) is an American action TV movie directed by Ernie Barbarash, starring Adam Rayner as Leslie Charteris's thief Simon Templar with Eliza Dushku, Ian Ogilvy, and Roger Moore; it grew from a 2013 pilot and involves $2.5 billion in stolen African aid funds.
The Saint (franchise)
The Saint franchise adapts Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar, first published in 1928, across RKO films (1938–1953), radio, Roger Moore's 1962–1969 ITV series, Ian Ogilvy's Return of the Saint, the 1997 Val Kilmer film, and a 2017 TV movie.
The Saint (Simon Templar)
The Saint, or Simon Templar, is a fictional gentleman adventurer created by Leslie Charteris. He appeared in nearly a hundred books and is considered the progenitor of James Bond.
The Saint (TV series)
The Saint (ITV, 1962–1969) is a British adventure series starring Roger Moore as Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar, a Robin Hood-style adventurer; 118 episodes (71 black and white, 47 color), produced by Robert S. Baker for Lew Grade's ITC, later revived with Ian Ogilvy and Simon Dutton.
The Salesman (2016 film)
The Salesman (Forushande, فروشنده) is Asghar Farhadi's 2016 Iranian-French drama about actors Emad and Rana; it won Cannes Best Screenplay and Best Actor and the 2017 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Salisbury Poisonings
The Salisbury Poisonings: the March 2018 Novichok attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, England, the Amesbury death of Dawn Sturgess, the 2025 Dawn Sturgess Inquiry, and the 2020 BBC drama about the response.
The Salt of the Earth (2014 film)
The Salt of the Earth (Le sel de la terre / O Sal da Terra), 2014 documentary by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado about photographer Sebastião Salgado; Cannes Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, 2015 Oscar nominee.
The Salvation (film)
The Salvation is a 2014 Danish western directed by Kristian Levring, starring Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
The Same Boat
"The Same Boat" is a title shared by several works: Same Boat, a 2020 Chris Roberti time-travel romance comedy filmed secretly on a cruise ship; The Walking Dead season 6 episode 13 (2016); and picture books by Saltzberg and Shapiro.
The Samurai and the Prisoner
The Samurai and the Prisoner (黒牢城, Kokurojo) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2026 jidaigeki mystery, adapted from Honobu Yonezawa's Naoki Prize-winning novel, starring Masahiro Motoki and Masaki Suda as besieged lord Araki Murashige and prisoner Kuroda Kanbei at 1578's Arioka Castle.
The Samurai Trilogy
The Samurai Trilogy (宮本武蔵三部作) is Hiroshi Inagaki's three-part 1954-1956 Toho color series starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto, adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel; the first film won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
The Sand
The Sand (2015), also released as Killer Beach or Blood Sand, is an American horror sci-fi comedy directed by Isaac Gabaeff: hung-over students trapped on a beach where a tentacled creature under the sand devours anyone who touches it.
The Sand Castle (2024 film)
The Sand Castle (من وراء الموج) is a 2024 Arabic-language psychological thriller, Matty Brown's debut feature, starring Nadine Labaki, Ziad Bakri, and the Al Rafeea siblings; it premiered at the 2024 Red Sea festival and streams on Netflix from January 24, 2025.
The Sand Pebbles (film)
The Sand Pebbles (1966) is Robert Wise's epic war drama, adapted from Richard McKenna's novel, starring Steve McQueen as gunboat machinist Jake Holman on China's Yangtze River in 1926; eight Oscar nominations, $30 million gross.
The Sandkings
The Sandkings is the 1995 two-hour premiere of the revived Outer Limits on Showtime, adapted from George R.R. Martin's Hugo- and Nebula-winning novelette, directed by Stuart Gillard, starring Beau Bridges as a scientist raising Martian creatures at home.
The Sandman (audio drama)
The Sandman (audio drama) is a multi-part Audible Original full-cast adaptation of Neil Gaiman's DC comic, directed by Dirk Maggs, first released July 15, 2020; the best-selling Audible Original, with James McAvoy as Dream.