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Spinning Out
Spinning Out is a 2020 Netflix drama series, 10 episodes, created by former skater Samantha Stratton, starring Kaya Scodelario as injured skater Kat Baker; canceled after one season.
Spiral (2021 film)
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) is the ninth Saw film, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman from Chris Rock's idea, starring Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, and Max Minghella as police hunt a Jigsaw-style killer targeting corrupt cops; released May 14, 2021, it earned 39% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Spiral (TV series)
Spiral (Engrenages) is a French police and legal drama, Canal+'s first internationally successful crime series, running eight seasons (2005–2020, 86 episodes) about Paris's 2e DPJ unit, with Laure Berthaud, Joséphine Karlsson, and Judge Roban; International Emmy 2015.
Spirit Fingers (TV series)
Spirit Fingers (스피릿 핑거스) is a 2025 TVING South Korean drama, 12 episodes, adapted from Han Kyoung Chal's Naver webtoon (1.3 billion views); starring Park Ji-hu and Jo Jun-young, released Oct 29 to Nov 26, 2025, ranked 9th in TIME's Best K-Dramas of 2025.
Spirit Riding Free
Spirit Riding Free is a DreamWorks/Netflix CGI animated series (2017, creator Aury Wallington) about Lucky Prescott, her mustang Spirit Jr., and friends Pru and Abigail in Miradero; inspired by the 2002 film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
Spirit Untamed
Spirit Untamed is a 2021 American computer-animated adventure film from DreamWorks Animation, directed by Elaine Bogan, about a girl named Lucky Prescott who befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a 2002 DreamWorks animated Western directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook, with Matt Damon narrating a mute mustang's story, Bryan Adams songs, a Hans Zimmer score, an $80 million budget, $122.6 million gross, and a Best Animated Feature Oscar nomination lost to Spirited Away.
Spirited (film)
Spirited (2022) is an Apple Original Films Christmas musical comedy retelling A Christmas Carol from the ghosts' perspective, directed by Sean Anders, starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds, with songs by Pasek and Paul, released on Apple TV+ November 18, 2022.
Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し)
Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) is Studio Ghibli's 2001 Hayao Miyazaki film about Chihiro working in a spirit bathhouse; Japan's then record-grossing film, Golden Bear and Oscar winner.
Spiritual successor
A spiritual successor, also called a spiritual sequel, is a new work resembling an earlier one under a separate brand, most commonly in video games.
Spit (2025 film)
Spit (2025) is an Australian comedy-crime film by Jonathan Teplitzky and Chris Nyst, a sequel to Gettin' Square, starring David Wenham as Johnny Spitieri, detained on return to Australia; released 6 March 2025.
Spitting Image
Spitting Image: British satirical puppet sketch show on ITV 1984–1996, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law, and Martin Lambie-Nairn; latex caricatures of Thatcher and others, 15 million peak viewers, BritBox revival 2020, cancelled after two series.
Spitting Image (2020 TV series)
Spitting Image (2020) was a BritBox revival of the British satirical puppet show, led by Roger Law with showrunner Jeff Westbrook, two 10-episode series from October 2020 to December 2021, cancelled in 2022.
SPL II: A Time for Consequences (โหดซัดโหด)
SPL II: A Time for Consequences (杀破狼2, Saat po long 2) is a 2015 Hong Kong action thriller by Soi Cheang starring Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, Simon Yam, and Zhang Jin, a name-only sequel to SPL about a Thai prison fronting an organ-trafficking ring.
SPL: Sha Po Lang (杀破狼)
SPL: Sha Po Lang (殺破狼, Kill Zone) is a 2005 Hong Kong action crime film directed by Wilson Yip, starring Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, and Wu Jing; Yen's realistic action direction won a Hong Kong Film Award and spawned two sequels.
Splash (film)
Splash (1984) is a Ron Howard romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah about a man in love with a mermaid; it was the first Touchstone film, Disney's mature-themes label, released March 9, 1984.
Splash Splash Love (퐁당퐁당 Love)
Splash Splash Love (퐁당퐁당 LOVE) is a 2015 MBC 54th-anniversary time-slip romance web drama in which math-fearing senior Jang Dan-bi lands in drought-era Joseon and tutors young King Lee Do; 10 Naver episodes, 2 TV parts, starring Kim Seul-gi and Yoon Doo-joon.
Splatter film
Splatter film (gore film, splatter movie): a horror subgenre concentrating on explicit gore and graphic violence rather than suspense. Originated with Herschell Gordon Lewis's Blood Feast (1963); term coined by George Romero for Dawn of the Dead (1978).
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass (1961) is Elia Kazan's drama from William Inge's Oscar-winning original screenplay, starring Natalie Wood and a debuting Warren Beatty as 1920s Kansas teens destroyed by sexual repression.
Splice (film)
Splice (Nouvelle espèce) is a 2009 sci-fi horror film by Vincenzo Natali starring Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, and Delphine Chanéac as Dren, a human-animal hybrid; Sundance premiere 2010, Warner Bros. release, 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Splinter (2008 film)
Splinter (2008) is an American horror film, Toby Wilkins's feature debut, starring Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, and Paulo Costanzo. Parasite creature feature set at an Oklahoma gas station; 82 minutes, Magnet Releasing, six Screamfest 2008 awards, $522,497 worldwide gross.
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is a 2025 Netflix adult animated series, the first adaptation of Ubisoft's Splinter Cell games, created by Derek Kolstad, starring Liev Schreiber as Sam Fisher, renewed for season 2.
Split (2016 American film)
Split (2016) is M. Night Shyamalan's psychological horror thriller starring James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb, a kidnapper with 23 DID personalities, and Anya Taylor-Joy. A stealth sequel to Unbreakable, it grossed $278.5 million on a small budget and drew criticism for stigmatizing dissociative identity disorder.
Split screen effect
Split screen effect: a film technique showing two or more complete images simultaneously in separate frame sections; also called split-screen shot or split frame; used since early silent cinema, notably Vertov, Gance's Polyvision, and 1960s films like The Thomas Crown Affair.
Split Second
Split Second (1992) is a British-American sci-fi horror film directed by Tony Maylam, starring Rutger Hauer as a detective hunting a heart-ripping killer in a flooded 2008 London; released 1 May 1992, distinct from the 2010 racing game Split/Second.
Splitsville (film)
Splitsville (2025 film), also known simply as Splitsville, is a screwball comedy by Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona about open marriage; Cannes 2025, Neon release August 22, 2025.
Splitting Up Together
Splitting Up Together is an American ABC sitcom (2018–2019), adapted by Emily Kapnek from the Danish series Bedre skilt end aldrig, in which divorced parents Lena (Jenna Fischer) and Martin (Oliver Hudson) bird-nest, alternating weeks between house and garage apartment, across 26 episodes in two seasons.
Spock
Spock, often called Mr Spock, is a fictional Star Trek character, the half-Vulcan, half-human science officer and first officer of the starship Enterprise, played by Leonard Nimoy.
Spoiler (media)
A spoiler is information that prematurely reveals the outcome or key plot points of a fictional work, a term traced to a 1971 National Lampoon piece by Doug Kenney.
Spoiler Alert (film)
Spoiler Alert is a 2022 American romantic dramedy directed by Michael Showalter, starring Jim Parsons as journalist Michael Ausiello and Ben Aldridge as his husband, photographer Kit Cowan.