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Soul Kitchen

Soul Kitchen is Fatih Akin's 2009 German comedy about Hamburg restaurateur Zinos Kazantsakis, starring Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, and Birol Ünel; it won the Special Jury Prize at Venice 2009.

Soul Man (film)

Soul Man (1986) is an American comedy directed by Steve Miner, starring C. Thomas Howell as a white student who uses tanning pills to pose as black for a Harvard Law scholarship; protested by the NAACP, grossing $27.3 million.

Soul Mate (TV series)

Soul Mate (ソウルメイト) is a Japanese live-action limited series on Netflix, starring Hayato Isomura and Ok Taec-yeon as two men whose bond spans Berlin, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Soul Mate (七月与安生) (2016 film)

Soul Mate (七月与安生, Soulmate) is a 2016 Mandarin drama directed by Derek Tsang, adapted from Annie Baby's novella, starring Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun, who tied for the 2016 Golden Horse Best Actress award.

Soul Men

Soul Men is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Malcolm D. Lee, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac as estranged former soul singers.

Soul on Fire

Soul on Fire (2025) is a Sony AFFIRM Films biographical drama directed by Sean McNamara, based on John O'Leary's memoir On Fire, about his survival of a 1987 fire that burned 100 percent of his body; released October 10, 2025, grossing $7.3 million.

Soul Plane

Soul Plane (2004) is an American comedy, Jessy Terrero's directorial debut, starring Kevin Hart, Snoop Dogg, and Tom Arnold. Nashawn Wade wins a $100 million lawsuit and founds NWA Airlines; MGM released it May 28, 2004 to poor reviews and a $13.9M US gross.

Soul Stories

Soul Stories (സോൾ സ്റ്റോറീസ്) is a 2024 Malayalam anthology web series directed by Sanil Kalathil about women in a patriarchal society, streaming on ManoramaMax from October 2024.

Soul Surfer (film)

Soul Surfer is a 2011 American biographical drama directed by Sean McNamara, starring AnnaSophia Robb as Bethany Hamilton, a surfer who lost her left arm in a shark attack.

Soul Train

Soul Train is Don Cornelius's American music-dance TV series, the Black answer to American Bandstand, airing from Chicago in 1970 and in national syndication 1971-2006, famous for the Soul Train line and Afro Sheen sponsorship.

Souleymane's Story

Souleymane's Story (L'Histoire de Souleymane) is Boris Lojkine's 2024 French drama about a Guinean delivery cyclist preparing for an OFPRA asylum interview; it won Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and Best Actor and four Césars.

Soulm8te

Soulm8te is a 2026 sci-fi horror erotic thriller, a M3GAN-universe spin-off directed by Kate Dolan, starring Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl. Canceled theatrically after M3GAN 2.0 flopped, it went straight to digital on August 1, 2026.

Soulmate (2023 film)

Soulmate (소울메이트) is a 2023 South Korean drama by Min Yong-keun, starring Kim Da-mi, Jeon So-nee, and Byeon Woo-seok; a remake of Derek Tsang's Soul Mate (2016), released March 15, 2023, about a 14-year friendship on Jeju Island and in Seoul.

Soulmates - Oru Saathukkudi Pranayam

Soulmates - Oru Saathukkudi Pranayam (ഒരു സാത്തുക്കുടി പ്രണയം) is a 2026 Malayalam romantic short film from Bethlehem Kudumba Unit, released on Bhavana Studios YouTube on 30 August 2026, credited to fictional director Joel Davis and actually made by Girish A.D.

Soulmates (TV series)

Soulmates (AMC, 2020) is a six-episode sci-fi anthology created by Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein about a future test that identifies your soulmate; renewed before premiere, cancelled by AMC in 2023.

Soulpepper

Soulpepper, also called Soulpepper Theatre Company, is Toronto's largest not-for-profit repertory theatre company, founded by actors in 1998 and resident at the Young Centre in the Distillery District, home of the Soulpepper Academy training program.

Soumitra Chatterjee (সৌমিত্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়)

Soumitra Chatterjee (সৌমিত্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়), 1935–2020, Bengali film and stage actor; debut as adult Apu in Ray's Apur Sansar (1959), 14 Ray films, Feluda in Sonar Kella; Dadasaheb Phalke Award and Legion of Honour recipient.

Sound City (film)

Sound City (2013) is Dave Grohl's documentary debut about Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, its custom Neve 8028 console, its closure in 2011, and new recordings made after Grohl moved the board to Studio 606.

Sound design

Sound design is the creative planning and creation of a work's audio elements in film, TV, radio, theater, and games. The term is credited to Walter Murch and Apocalypse Now (1979); film sound design centers on post-production editing, Foley, and mixing, while game sound uses adaptive and procedural audio.

Sound effect

A sound effect is a recorded, performed, or generated sound other than speech or music used to support performance. Covers ancient thunder machines, foley, electronic cue playback (QLab), and AI generation.

Sound film

Sound film: motion pictures with synchronized recorded sound, also called talkies. Key systems were Vitaphone sound-on-disc (1926 Don Juan, 1927 The Jazz Singer) and optical sound-on-film (Movietone, Photophone), which displaced silent cinema by the early 1930s.

Sound of Falling

Sound of Falling (In die Sonne schauen) is a 2025 German drama by Mascha Schilinski about four girls on the same Altmark farm across a century; it won the 2025 Cannes Jury Prize and was Germany's 2026 Oscar submission.

Sound of Freedom (film)

Sound of Freedom is a 2023 American drama film directed by Alejandro Monteverde and starring Jim Caviezel as Tim Ballard, a former agent rescuing trafficked children in Colombia.

Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot

Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot is a 2024 Angel Studios faith-based drama directed by Joshua Weigel, starring Nika King and Demetrius Grosse as Donna and W.C. Martin, whose Texas church adopted 77 foster children; it earned $11.7M worldwide and an A+ CinemaScore.

Sound of Metal

Sound of Metal is Darius Marder's 2019 debut drama starring Riz Ahmed as drummer Ruben Stone, who loses his hearing. Premiered at TIFF 2019, released by Amazon in 2020, it won Oscars for Best Sound and Best Film Editing.

Sound of My Voice

Sound of My Voice (2011) is an independent drama directed by Zal Batmanglij, co-written with and starring Brit Marling as cult leader Maggie, who claims to be a time traveler from 2054; released by Fox Searchlight in 2012, it grossed $424,088 and led to The OA.

Sound! Euphonium (響け!ユーフォニアム)

Sound! Euphonium (響け!ユーフォニアム, Hibike! Euphonium): Kyoto Animation's concert band youth anime adapted from Ayano Takeda's novel, airing 2015, 2016, and 2024 (NHK E-tele), with theatrical films and a 2026 two-part Final Movement finale, set in Uji, Kyoto.

Soundararaja (சௌந்தரராஜா)

Soundararaja (சௌந்தரராஜா), Tamil actor-producer born 1983 in Usilampatti, ex-engineer; villain in Sundarapandian (2012), Jigarthanda (2014), Bigil; TVK associate and Madurai Touring Talkies founder.

Soundariya Nanjundan

Soundariya Nanjundan (born 1995, Bengaluru) is an Indian actress in Tamil film, web series, and reality TV, known for Vera Maari Office, Darbar, and as Bigg Boss Tamil 8 runner-up.

Soundarya

Soundarya (సౌందర్య), the screen name of Sowmya Satyanarayana, was an Indian actress in Telugu cinema who made over 85 films before dying in a plane crash in 2004.