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The Sandman (TV series)

The Sandman is an American fantasy drama television series developed for Netflix by Allan Heinberg from Neil Gaiman's DC comic, starring Tom Sturridge as Dream, or Morpheus.

The Sandpiper

The Sandpiper is a 1965 MGM romantic drama directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, and Charles Bronson; a Big Sur artist and married clergyman affair, remembered for the Oscar-winning song "The Shadow of Your Smile".

The Sandwich Man (儿子的大玩偶)

The Sandwich Man (兒子的大玩偶) is a 1983 Taiwanese omnibus film by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wan Jen, and Tseng Chuang-hsiang, adapting three Huang Chun-ming stories; regarded as the founding work of Taiwan New Cinema.

The Santa Clause

The Santa Clause is a 1994 Disney Christmas comedy starring Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, who becomes the new Santa after the old one falls off his roof; directed by John Pasquin, it grossed $145.5 million in the US and spawned two sequels and a Disney+ series.

The Santa Clause 2

The Santa Clause 2, also known as Santa Claus 2, is a 2002 American Christmas comedy starring Tim Allen as Santa, who must marry to keep the job.

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is a 2006 American Christmas comedy film starring Tim Allen and Martin Short, the third in Disney's Santa Clause series.

The Santa Clauses

The Santa Clauses is a Disney+ comedy-fantasy series (2022–2023, two six-episode seasons) created by Jack Burditt, continuing the Santa Clause films with Tim Allen's Scott Calvin seeking a Santa successor, later training son Cal against Mad Santa.

The Sapphires (film)

The Sapphires is a 2012 Australian musical comedy-drama directed by Wayne Blair, adapted from Tony Briggs' stage play about four Yorta Yorta women who sang soul for US troops in 1968 Vietnam; it was Australia's most popular film of 2012 and won 12 AACTA Awards.

The Saragossa Manuscript

The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie) is Wojciech Jerzy Has's 1964 Polish black-and-white film adapting Jan Potocki's nested frame-tale novel, starring Zbigniew Cybulski, with Penderecki's score, and restored in 4K by WFDiF.

The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Sarah Jane Adventures is a BBC/CBBC Doctor Who spin-off (2007–2011) starring Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, created by Russell T Davies, running five series across 55 episodes before Sladen's 2011 death cut it short.

The Savage Five (五虎将)

The Savage Five (五虎將, Wu hu jiang) is a 1974 Shaw Brothers martial arts film directed by Chang Cheh and written with Ni Kuang, starring David Chiang, Ti Lung, Chen Kuan-tai, Danny Lee, and Wong Chung as villagers resisting bandits, with spaghetti western influences.

The Savages (film)

The Savages is Tamara Jenkins's 2007 American comedy-drama starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Philip Bosco, about estranged siblings caring for a father with dementia; Sundance premiere, two Oscar nominations, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Savant

The Savant is an eight-episode Apple TV+ limited thriller starring Jessica Chastain as Jodi Goodwin, an undercover investigator infiltrating online hate groups. Inspired by Andrea Stanley's 2019 Cosmopolitan article about the ADL investigator "K"; postponed after the Charlie Kirk assassination, now set for spring 2027.

The Saviors

The Saviors is a 2026 American darkly comedic sci-fi thriller by Kevin Hamedani and Travis Betz, starring Adam Scott and Danielle Deadwyler as a divorcing couple who suspect their Middle Eastern tenants; SXSW premiere, March 2027 release.

The Scalphunters

The Scalphunters is a 1968 Sydney Pollack Western comedy starring Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, and Shelley Winters, in which a trapper chases his stolen furs through Kiowa and scalphunter hands.

The Scandal (2026 TV series)

The Scandal (스캔들) is a 2026 Netflix Korean period drama, 8 episodes, directed by Jung Ji-woo, adapting Dangerous Liaisons (1782) in Joseon-era Korea with Son Ye-jin, Ji Chang-wook, and NANA; premiered September 18, 2026.

The Scandal of Chunhwa

The Scandal of Chunhwa (춘화연애담, Chunhwa Love Story) is a 2025 TVING South Korean historical romance series, 10 episodes, February 6 to March 6, 2025, starring Go Ara, Chang Ryul, and Kang Chan-hee, set in fictional Dongbangguk and rated 19.

The Scarecrow (허수아비) (TV series)

The Scarecrow (허수아비, Heosuabi) is a 2026 ENA/Genie TV Korean crime thriller, 12 episodes, starring Park Hae-soo, Lee Hee-joon, and Kwak Sun-young, inspired by the Hwaseong murders, produced by KT Studio Genie.

The Scarlet Letter (1926 film)

The Scarlet Letter (1926) is an MGM silent drama directed by Victor Sjöström (Seastrom), starring Lillian Gish as Hester Prynne with Lars Hanson and Henry B. Walthall, adapted by Frances Marion from Hawthorne's novel after Gish lifted a censorship ban.

The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)

The Scarlet Letter (1995) is Roland Joffé's Hollywood Pictures romantic drama freely adapted from Hawthorne's novel, starring Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall; it grossed $10.4 million against a $46-50 million budget and holds 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982 film)

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) is a CBS television movie directed by Clive Donner, starring Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, and Ian McKellen, adapting Orczy's novel plus Eldorado, filmed June 1982 in Britain.

The Scent of Green Papaya

The Scent of Green Papaya (Mùi đu đủ xanh, L'Odeur de la papaye verte) is Trần Anh Hùng's 1993 debut drama about servant girl Mui in 1950s Saigon, shot entirely in a French studio, winner of the Caméra d'Or and the first Vietnamese Oscar nominee.

The Scent of the Wind (風、薫る)

The Scent of the Wind (風、薫る, Kaze Kaoru) is NHK's 114th morning drama (asadora), the 2026 first-half series starring Ai Mikami and Juri Kosaka as double heroines modeled on Japan's first trained nurses Oze Chika and Suzuki Masa; it averaged 13.8% household ratings.

The Scholar Who Walks the Night (밤을 걷는 선비)

The Scholar Who Walks the Night (밤을 걷는 선비, 夜行书生) is a 2015 MBC fantasy sageuk romance drama, 20 episodes, starring Lee Jun-gi, Lee Yu-bi, Shim Chang-min, and Lee Su-hyeok, adapted from Jo Joo-Hee and Han Seung-Hee's webtoon; it ended at 7.7% Nielsen ratings behind SBS's Yong Pal.

The School for Scandal

The School for Scandal is a five-act comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, first performed at London's Drury Lane Theatre in 1777 and famous for its screen scene.

The School for Wives

The School for Wives (L'École des femmes) is a 1662 five-act comedy in verse by Molière, in which Arnolphe loses his ward Agnès to Horace.

The School Nurse Files

The School Nurse Files (보건교사 안은영) is a 2020 six-episode Netflix South Korean comic-fantasy series directed by Lee Kyoung-mi, based on Chung Se-rang's novel, starring Jung Yu-mi as a nurse who fights invisible jellies.

The Scooby-Doo Show

The Scooby-Doo Show is the syndicated title (since 1980) for 40 Hanna-Barbera Scooby-Doo episodes made for ABC package shows in 1976–78, including The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour and Laff-a-Lympics, introducing Scooby-Dum.

The Score (2001 film)

The Score is a 2001 American heist thriller directed by Frank Oz, starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, and Angela Bassett, notable as the first film pairing De Niro and Brando on screen.

The Scorpion King

The Scorpion King is a 2002 American action-adventure fantasy film directed by Chuck Russell, starring Dwayne Johnson as assassin Mathayus, a spin-off of The Mummy franchise.