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The Starving Games
The Starving Games is a 2013 parody comedy by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer spoofing The Hunger Games, starring Maiara Walsh as Kantmiss Evershot; released November 8, 2013, with a 0% Rotten Tomatoes critic score.
The Station Agent
The Station Agent is Tom McCarthy's 2003 indie comedy-drama starring Peter Dinklage as Finbar McBride, a lonely train enthusiast who inherits an abandoned New Jersey depot; it won Sundance's Audience and Waldo Salt Screenwriting awards and a BAFTA for its screenplay.
The Steel Helmet
The Steel Helmet (1951) is Samuel Fuller's Korean War film, the first American feature about that war, made for $104,000 in ten days, starring Gene Evans and James Edwards, and controversial for its treatment of racism and war crimes.
The Stepfather (1987 film)
The Stepfather is a 1987 American psychological thriller directed by Joseph Ruben, starring Terry O'Quinn as a serial killer who marries widows and infiltrates families.
The Stepfather (2009 film)
The Stepfather (2009) is a Screen Gems horror thriller remake of the 1987 cult film, directed by Nelson McCormick, written by J.S. Cardone, starring Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, and Penn Badgley; released October 16, 2009, grossing $29.1 million.
The Stepford Wives (1975 film)
The Stepford Wives (1975), Bryan Forbes film adapted by William Goldman from Ira Levin's 1972 novel, starring Katharine Ross; a box office flop that became a feminist horror cult classic and gave English the phrase "Stepford wife."
The Stepford Wives (2004 film)
The Stepford Wives is a 2004 American comedy-drama directed by Frank Oz. Nicole Kidman stars as Joanna Eberhart, a former New York executive who moves to Stepford, Connecticut.
The Stepmother (2022 film)
The Stepmother (2022 film), a Tubi original thriller directed by Chris Stokes and written with Marques Houston, released June 17, 2022; a widowed father is targeted by a predatory new stepmother, followed by two sequels.
The Sterile Cuckoo
The Sterile Cuckoo is a 1969 American comedy-drama, Alan J. Pakula's directorial debut, starring Liza Minnelli as eccentric college student Pookie Adams and earning two Oscar nominations.
The Steve Harvey Show
The Steve Harvey Show: WB sitcom (1996-2002, six seasons, 122 episodes) created by Winifred Hervey, starring Steve Harvey as ex-R&B singer turned Chicago music teacher Steve Hightower, with Cedric the Entertainer; multiple NAACP Image Award winner.
The Steve Wilkos Show
The Steve Wilkos Show: American syndicated daytime talk show (2007–2026, 19 seasons) hosted by ex-Chicago police officer and ex-Jerry Springer security head Steve Wilkos, produced by NBCUniversal, known for lie-detector-based confrontations and canceled in NBCU's 2026 syndication exit.
The Sticky
The Sticky is a 2024 Canadian Prime Video dark comedy series, created by Brian Donovan and Ed Herro, starring Margo Martindale, inspired by the 2011-12 Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist; six episodes, cancelled February 2025.
The Stig
The Stig is the anonymous helmeted racing driver of BBC's Top Gear (since 2002), created by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman. Played by Perry McCarthy, Ben Collins, and finally Phil Keen (revealed 2024); Collins's 2010 autobiography ended the BBC's secrecy fight.
The Sting
The Sting (1973) is a George Roy Hill comedy-drama written by David S. Ward, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw as 1930s Chicago con men. It won 7 of 10 Oscars including Best Picture and was the second and last Newman-Redford teaming.
The Stinky & Dirty Show
The Stinky & Dirty Show is an American animated preschool series (2015-2019) on Prime Video, based on Jim and Kate McMullan's I Stink! books, following a garbage truck and backhoe solving problems in Go City.
The Stolen Earth
The Stolen Earth (2008) is the Doctor Who Series 4 finale part one, written by Russell T Davies, directed by Graeme Harper; 8.78m viewers, Davros's return, and a regeneration cliffhanger resolved in Journey's End.
The Stoning of Soraya M.
The Stoning of Soraya M. (also La Femme Lapidée) is a 2008 American drama directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh, adapted from Freidoune Sahebjam's 1994 book, dramatizing the 1986 stoning of an Iranian woman falsely accused of adultery; starring Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marnò, and Jim Caviezel.
The Stool Pigeon (线人)
The Stool Pigeon (线人, Xian Ren) is a 2010 Hong Kong crime film by Dante Lam, reuniting Nick Cheung and Nicholas Tse from The Beast Stalker; it won Tse the 30th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor.
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry: Gabrielle Zevin's 2014 novel about widowed bookseller A.J. Fikry of Island Books on Alice Island, and its 2022 Hans Canosa film adaptation starring Kunal Nayyar and Lucy Hale.
The Storm Riders (风云：雄霸天下)
The Storm Riders (風雲雄霸天下, Fung Wan) is Andrew Lau's 1998 Hong Kong wuxia fantasy adapted from Ma Wing-shing's comic, starring Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, and Sonny Chiba; top HK film of 1998 and a CGI milestone.
The Story & the Engine
The Story & the Engine is Doctor Who Series 15, Episode 5 (2025), written by Inua Ellams, set in a Lagos, Nigeria barber shop in 2019 where the Barber traps men to fuel the story-powered spider Noctis Inknid; stars Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu, Ariyon Bakare, with a Jo Martin Fugitive Doctor cameo.
The Story Makers
The Story Makers is a British CBeebies pre-school series (2002–2004) set in a children's library where, at midnight, puppets Jelly and Jackson and Wordsworth presenters make stories with a story machine, in 245 episodes across four series.
The Story of a Small Town (小城故事)
The Story of a Small Town (小城故事) is a 1979 Taiwanese drama by Li Hsing, produced by Ta Chung Motion Picture Company, set in Sanyi's woodcarving community, winner of four 1979 Golden Horse Awards and famous for Teresa Teng's theme song.
The Story of Adèle H.
The Story of Adèle H. (L'Histoire d'Adèle H.) is François Truffaut's 1975 French drama starring Isabelle Adjani as Victor Hugo's daughter, based on Frances Vernor Guille's journal reconstruction, released 8 October 1975.
The Story of Ah Kam
The Story of Ah Kam (阿金, The Stunt Woman) is Ann Hui's 1996 Hong Kong action-drama starring Michelle Yeoh as a mainland-born stuntwoman and Sammo Hung as her stunt-team chief, released 10 October 1996 by Golden Harvest.
The Story of Dr. Wassell
The Story of Dr. Wassell is Cecil B. DeMille's 1944 Paramount Technicolor WWII film starring Gary Cooper as Navy doctor Corydon Wassell, who evacuated twelve wounded sailors from Java; based on James Hilton's commissioned 1943 book, inspired by Roosevelt's radio broadcast.
The Story of Ermei
The Story of Ermei (Jingzhe, 惊蛰) is a 2003 Chinese drama by Wang Quanan about a 20-year-old peasant girl who flees an arranged marriage, works in a town, and returns; it won the 2003 Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress. Distinct from Ermo (1994).
The Story of G.I. Joe
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), also released as G.I. Joe, is William Wellman's war drama based on Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War and Brave Men, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum, a four-time Oscar nominee and 2009 National Film Registry selection.
The Story of Louis Pasteur
The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 Warner Bros. biographical film directed by William Dieterle, starring Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur; it won three Oscars including Best Actor and dramatizes germ theory, anthrax, and rabies.
The Story of Marie and Julien
The Story of Marie and Julien (Histoire de Marie et Julien) is Jacques Rivette's 2003 supernatural romance with Emmanuelle Béart and Jerzy Radziwilowicz, revived from a 1975 project abandoned after two shooting days.