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Samsara (2011 film)
Samsara (2011) is a nonverbal documentary by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, sequel to Baraka, shot on 70mm over five years in 25 countries, premiered at TIFF 2011, released 2012.
Samshayam (സംശയം)
Samshayam (സംശയം) is a 2025 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by debutant Rajesh Ravi, starring Vinay Forrt, Lijomol Jose, and Sharafudheen, about a wife suspecting her toddler was switched at birth; released 2025, U-certified, streaming on Manorama Max since 24 July 2025. Distinct from the 2025 Malayalam film Sahasam.
Samskara (ಸಂಸ್ಕಾರ)
Samskara (ಸಂಸ್ಕಾರ) is a 1970 Kannada black-and-white film directed by Pattabhirama Reddy from U.R. Ananthamurthy's 1965 novel, scripted by and starring Girish Karnad; it won the National Award for Best Feature Film and launched Kannada's Navya movement.
Samson (2018 film)
Samson (2018 film) is an American biblical action-drama directed by Bruce Macdonald. It stars Taylor James and was released in 2018, though it received largely negative reviews.
Samson (28 Days Later)
Samson is the Alpha Infected leader in the 28 Days Later franchise, played by Chi Lewis-Parry in 28 Years Later (2025) and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026). Named by Dr. Kelson, he becomes the first known Infected to regain his mind after treatment.
Samson and Delilah (1949 film)
Samson and Delilah (1949) is Cecil B. DeMille's Paramount Technicolor biblical epic starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr, based on Judges 13-16 and Jabotinsky's novel; it was 1950's biggest hit and won two color Oscars.
Samuel (animated series)
Samuel: French black-and-white 2D animated series by Émilie Tronche, about a 10-year-old boy's diary in the early 2000s; 21×4' episodes on Arte, viral with 40+ million views, sold to Netflix.
Samuel Anderson (actor)
Samuel Anderson (born 1982, Handsworth, Birmingham) is an English actor, also credited as Sam Anderson, known for Crowther in The History Boys, Ross Kirk in Emmerdale, Danny Pink in Doctor Who (2014), and Mal in Amandaland; distinct from the American actor Sam Anderson of Lost.
Samuel Barnett (actor)
Samuel Barnett (born 1980, Whitby, England) is a British actor known as Posner in The History Boys (Tony and Olivier nominations, Drama Desk Award), the title role in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and Twelfth Night on Broadway.
Samuel Benchetrit
Samuel Benchetrit (born 1973, Champigny-sur-Marne) is a French director, screenwriter, playwright, and novelist; Sundance best-screenplay winner for J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster, Cannes director of Asphalte and Cette musique ne joue pour personne, husband of Vanessa Paradis.
Samuel Blenkin
Samuel Blenkin (born 1996, Cheltenham, England) is an English actor trained at Guildhall School, known as Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Boy Kavalier in Alien: Earth, Hamlet Hail to the Thief, and Black Mirror's Loch Henry.
Samuel E. Wright
Samuel E. Wright was an American actor and voice performer who died in 2021. He is known for voicing Sebastian in The Little Mermaid and Mufasa in The Lion King.
Samuel French (company)
Samuel French is an Anglo-American play publisher and licensing house, founded in New York City in 1846 and acquired by Concord Music in December 2018.
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller (Sam Fuller, 1911 or 1912-1997), American writer-director-producer of gritty B movies such as The Steel Helmet, Shock Corridor, The Big Red One, and White Dog; tabloid crime reporter turned infantryman, auteur admired by the French New Wave.
Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn (Szmuel Gelbfisz, 1879–1974), Polish-born American film producer, co-founder of Goldwyn Pictures (the G in MGM) and famed independent producer of Wuthering Heights and The Best Years of Our Lives.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (1926–2015), son of Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn, founded the Samuel Goldwyn Company in 1979, championed independent film with Mystic Pizza and The Madness of King George, and produced Master and Commander.
Samuel Johnson (actor)
Samuel Joseph Johnson OAM (born 1978), Australian actor of The Secret Life of Us and Molly, Gold Logie 2017 winner, and Love Your Sister charity co-founder with sister Connie Johnson.
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson (Samuel Leroy Jackson, born 1948) is an American actor of Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, and Marvel's Nick Fury; over 150 films and the highest cumulative global box office of any actor.
Samuel Larsen
Samuel Larsen (Samuel Peter Acosta Larsen), American actor and singer born 1991 in San Francisco; co-won The Glee Project season 1 in 2011 with Damian McGinty, played Joe Hart on Glee, later Zed in After and roles in Shoulder Dance.
Samuel Loomis
Samuel Loomis: Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers' psychiatrist in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) franchise, named after the Psycho character and played by Donald Pleasence 1978-1995, later Malcolm McDowell.
Samuel Page
Samuel Page, born Samuel Elliott in 1976 in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, is an American actor and Princeton biology graduate known for All My Children's Trey, Greg on Mad Men, Connor Ellis on House of Cards, Richard Hunter on The Bold Type, and Hallmark Christmas films.
Samuel Roukin
Samuel Roukin (born 1980, Southport, England) is an English actor known as John Graves Simcoe in AMC's Turn: Washington's Spies, the voice of Ghost in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, and an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator.
Samuel West
Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 1966), English actor, narrator, and theatre director, son of Timothy West and Prunella Scales; RSC Hamlet and Richard II, Sheffield Theatres artistic director 2005–2007, Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small.
Samurai (2002 film)
Samurai (சாமுராய்) is a 2002 Tamil vigilante action thriller, Balaji Sakthivel's directorial debut, starring Vikram as a medical student who abducts corrupt officials after his friend's suicide; music by Harris Jayaraj.
Samurai Assassin (侍)
Samurai Assassin (侍, Samurai) is Kihachi Okamoto's 1965 black-and-white Toho jidaigeki starring Toshiro Mifune as ronin Niiro Tsuruchiyo, who joins the 1860 plot to assassinate Ii Naosuke at Sakurada Gate, unknowingly killing his own father.
Samurai Champloo
Samurai Champloo (サムライチャンプルー, Samurai Chanpurū) is a 26-episode anime TV series directed by Shinichirō Watanabe at Manglobe, aired on Fuji TV 2004–2005, blending Edo-period samurai action with a Nujabes-led hip-hop soundtrack.
Samurai cinema
Samurai cinema, known in Japanese as chambara, is the Japanese film genre of sword-fight films, a subset of period drama, peaking in the mid-1950s and early 1960s.
Samurai Cop
Samurai Cop is a 1991 direct-to-video action film by Iranian expatriate director Amir Shervan, starring Mathew Karedas as Joe Marshall fighting the Yakuza Katana gang in Los Angeles; a so-bad-it's-good cult classic with a 2015 sequel.
Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance
Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance, aka Revenge of the Samurai Cop, is Gregory Hatanaka's 2015 crowdfunded sequel to the 1991 cult action film Samurai Cop, reuniting Mathew Karedas and Mark Frazer 25 years later against the reorganized Katana crime syndicate.
Samurai Gourmet (野武士のグルメ)
Samurai Gourmet (野武士のグルメ, Nobushi no Gurume) is a Japanese food franchise by Masayuki Kusumi: an essay, a manga with Shigeru Tsuchiyama, and a 12-episode 2017 Netflix drama starring Naoto Takenaka and Tetsuji Tamayama.