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Southern Comfort (1981 film)

Southern Comfort is Walter Hill's 1981 survival thriller in which Louisiana National Guardsmen steal Cajun canoes during a training exercise and are hunted through the bayou; read as a Vietnam allegory, it stars Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, and Fred Ward, with music by Ry Cooder.

Southern Fried Rice

Southern Fried Rice is a 2025 KeyTV web series by Nakia Stephens, executive produced by Keke Palmer, following KoKo Johnson, a Korean American raised by Black parents, at a fictional HBCU; it drew major backlash.

Southland (TV series)

Southland is an American LAPD crime drama created by Ann Biderman, aired on NBC in 2009 and on TNT 2010-2013 across five seasons and 43 episodes, known for hand-held documentary realism and two stunt-coordination Emmys.

Southland Tales

Southland Tales (2006) is Richard Kelly's dystopian sci-fi comedy-drama, follow-up to Donnie Darko, starring Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Seann William Scott; booed at Cannes, it earned $273.4K and 41% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Southpaw (film)

Southpaw (2015) is an American boxing drama directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by Kurt Sutter, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as champion Billy Hope, with Rachel McAdams and Forest Whitaker; originally developed for Eminem, released by The Weinstein Company, grossing $52.4M in the US.

Southside with You

Southside with You is Richard Tanne's 2016 romantic drama, also called Southside With You, dramatizing Barack and Michelle Obama's 1989 first date across Chicago's South Side, starring Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter, a Sundance 2016 premiere that grossed $6.3 million.

Sovereign (film)

Sovereign is a 2025 American crime thriller written and directed by Christian Swegal, starring Nick Offerman, Jacob Tremblay, and Dennis Quaid. Inspired by the 2010 West Memphis police shootout involving sovereign citizens Jerry and Joseph Kane, it premiered at Tribeca on June 8, 2025 and opened July 11 via Briarcliff Entertainment.

Soviet brainrot

Soviet brainrot: an internet meme genre pairing Soviet aesthetics with absurd content, from Soyuzmultfilm character edits (2021–2024) to the January 2026 AI mockumentary wave with Cheremsha, Brdyshch, and Syomga.

Soviet Central Television (Центральное телевидение СССР)

Soviet Central Television (Центральное телевидение СССР) was the state television broadcaster of the Soviet Union, producing and transmitting national programs from Moscow from 1957 to 1991.

Soviet montage theory

Soviet montage theory, also called the Soviet school of montage, is 1920s Soviet film theory holding that meaning arises from shot juxtaposition, developed by Kuleshov, Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Vertov, exemplified by Battleship Potemkin's Odessa Steps.

Sowcar Janaki (సంకరమంచి జానకి)

Sowcar Janaki, also known as Sankaramanchi Janaki, was an Indian actress who worked in South Indian cinema for over seven decades. She appeared in about 400 films.

Sowei mask

The sowei mask is a carved wooden helmet mask worn by women of the Sande society during initiation ceremonies, chiefly among the Mende people of Sierra Leone.

Soy Luna

Soy Luna is an Argentine Disney Channel teen telenovela (2016–2018, 232 episodes) starring Karol Sevilla as Luna Valente, a Mexican skater who moves to Buenos Aires; revived in 2026 with Soy Luna: Volver a Rodar, 12 episodes on Disney+.

Sōya Kurokawa (黒川想矢)

Sōya Kurokawa (黒川想矢), Japanese actor born 2009 in Saitama; debuted 2018, breakthrough as Minato in Kore-eda's Monster (2023), Japan Academy New Actor Award; young Kikuo in Kokuhō (2025).

Soylent Green

Soylent Green is a 1973 MGM dystopian science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer, based on Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room!, starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, set in 2022 New York, famous for the twist that Soylent Green is people.

Soyuzmultfilm (Союзмультфильм)

Soyuzmultfilm (Союзмультфильм), the Soviet and Russian state animation studio in Moscow founded June 10, 1936 as Soyuzdetmultfilm, produced over 1,000 films including Cheburashka, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Hedgehog in the Fog, and was restructured as FGUP in 1999.

Spa (2026 film)

Spa is a 2026 Indian Malayalam-language adult comedy-drama film written and directed by Abrid Shine, set in an urban massage therapy center called La Paradise.

Spa Weekend

Spa Weekend is a 2026 American comedy film directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, starring Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Michelle Buteau, and Anna Faris.

Space Adventure Cobra

Space Adventure Cobra (SPACE ADVENTURE コブラ) is a 1982 Japanese anime film by Osamu Dezaki adapting Buichi Terasawa's Cobra manga, following space pirate Cobra, his psychogun, the Royal sisters, and Crystal Bowie.

Space Babies

"Space Babies" is the 2024 Doctor Who Season 1 opener, also called the first episode of Series 14, written by Russell T Davies and directed by Julie Anne Robinson, in which the Doctor and Ruby Sunday visit Babystation Beta, a baby farm run by talking babies menaced by the Bogeyman.

Space Battleship Yamato (1974 film)

Space Battleship Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト) is the 1974 Japanese animated space opera series, 26 episodes on Yomiuri TV, re-edited into the hit 1977 Toei compilation film; created by Yoshinobu Nishizaki with Leiji Matsumoto's design work.

Space Battleship Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト)

Space Battleship Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト) is a 1974 Japanese SF anime (26 episodes, Yomiuri TV) whose 1977 film made anime a social phenomenon for adults; remade as 2199, 2202, 2205, and REBEL3199, with a new Anno-directed film announced in 2026.

Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage

Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage (Uchū Senkan Yamato: Aratanaru Tabidachi) is a 1979 Fuji TV animated telefeature, the third Yamato movie, in which the Yamato crew and Desslar defend Iscandar from the Dark Nebula Empire; remade as Yamato 2205 (2021–2022).

Space Cadet (2024 film)

Space Cadet (2024) is an American Prime Video comedy directed by Liz W. Garcia, starring Emma Roberts as Florida bartender Rex Simpson, who enters NASA astronaut training via a doctored application; 110 minutes, PG-13, released July 4, 2024.

Space Cop

Space Cop is a 2016 American direct-to-video sci-fi buddy-cop comedy by Red Letter Media's Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklasa, shot in Milwaukee for $80,000 and self-distributed.

Space Dandy (スペース☆ダンディ)

Space Dandy (スペース☆ダンディ) is a 2014 BONES science-fiction comedy anime, two seasons, 26 episodes, created by Shinichiro Watanabe, following alien hunter Dandy, robot QT, and Meow aboard the Aloha Oe.

Space Force (TV series)

Space Force is a Netflix workplace comedy created by Steve Carell and Greg Daniels, announced January 2019, starring Carell as General Mark R. Naird and John Malkovich as Dr. Adrian Mallory. Two seasons (2020, 2022), canceled April 2022; Rotten Tomatoes 39% season 1, 80% season 2.

Space Gen: Chandrayaan

Space Gen: Chandrayaan is a 2026 TVF Hindi web series on JioHotstar, created by Arunabh Kumar and directed by Anant Singh, dramatizing ISRO's journey from the Chandrayaan-2 failure to the Chandrayaan-3 south pole landing, starring Nakuul Mehta and Shriya Saran.

Space Ghost

Space Ghost is a Hanna-Barbera superhero created by Alex Toth, debuting on CBS in 1966, best known for his power bands and for being recast in 1994 as the host of Cartoon Network's surreal talk show Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.

Space Ghost (TV series)

Space Ghost (TV series), also called Space Ghost and Dino Boy, a 1966-1968 Hanna-Barbera CBS Saturday-morning superhero cartoon created by Alex Toth, starring an interplanetary hero with teen sidekicks Jan, Jace, and Blip, later the basis of Space Ghost Coast to Coast.