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The Seduction of Mimi

The Seduction of Mimi (Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore) is Lina Wertmüller's 1972 Italian political sex-farce starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato; a Sicilian laborer who defies the Mafia, loses his job, and rebuilds his life in Turin.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (دانه‌ی انجیر معابد) is Mohammad Rasoulof's 2024 Germany-France-Iran drama about a Tehran investigating judge turning on his family during the 2022 protests; shot in secret, it won Cannes' Special Prize and an Oscar nomination.

The Seeding

The Seeding is a 2024 psychological horror film, the feature debut of writer-director Barnaby Clay, starring Scott Haze and Kate Lyn Sheil. It premiered at Tribeca 2023, opened January 26, 2024 via Magnet Releasing, and was shot in a Utah canyon.

The Seeker (film)

The Seeker is a 2007 American fantasy film based on Susan Cooper's novel The Dark Is Rising, starring Alexander Ludwig as a boy who fights the Dark.

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising is a 2007 American fantasy film directed by David L. Cunningham, based on Susan Cooper's novel about a boy fighting the Dark.

The Seinfeld Chronicles

The Seinfeld Chronicles, also known as "Good News, Bad News", is the 1989 pilot of NBC sitcom Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, directed by Art Wolff, featuring Kessler instead of Kramer and no Elaine.

The Self-Preservation Society (The Boys episode)

"The Self-Preservation Society" is episode 7 of The Boys season 1 (2019), directed by Daniel Attias, written by Craig Rosenberg and Ellie Monahan; Mesmer betrays the team and A-Train abducts Hughie's father.

The Selfish Giant

The Selfish Giant (2013) is a British social-realist drama by Clio Barnard, inspired by Oscar Wilde's tale, about Bradford boys Arbor (Conner Chapman) and Swifty (Shaun Thomas) collecting scrap for dealer Kitten (Sean Gilder); Cannes 2013, BAFTA-nominated.

The Sense of an Ending (film)

The Sense of an Ending (2017) is Ritesh Batra's drama adapting Julian Barnes's Booker-winning novel, starring Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling; Nick Payne's screenplay reworks the unreliable first-person narration into a story told through relationships.

The Sentimental Swordsman (多情剑客无情剑)

The Sentimental Swordsman (多情剑客无情剑) is a 1977 Hong Kong Shaw Brothers wuxia film directed by Chor Yuen, adapted from Gu Long's novel and starring Ti Lung as Li Xunhuan.

The Sentinel (1977 film)

The Sentinel (1977) is a Michael Winner supernatural horror film based on Jeffrey Konvitz's 1974 novel, starring Cristina Raines as a model in a Brooklyn brownstone guarding Hell's gateway; critically panned (Metascore 19), it earned four Saturn nominations.

The Sentinel (2006 film)

The Sentinel is a 2006 American political thriller directed by Clark Johnson, in which Secret Service agent Pete Garrison, played by Michael Douglas, is framed as a mole in an assassination plot.

The Sentinels (TV series)

The Sentinels (Les Sentinelles) is a French Canal+ sci-fi war series (2025, 8 episodes) created by Guillaume Lemans, adapted from Xavier Dorison and Enrique Breccia's graphic novel, about WWI super-soldiers created with the Dyxenal serum, starring Louis Peres.

The Serial Killer's Wife

The Serial Killer's Wife is a 2023 four-part Paramount+ UK psychological thriller miniseries adapted from Alice Hunter's novel, starring Annabel Scholey, Jack Farthing, and Luke Treadaway, directed by Laura Way, filmed in Kent, released December 15, 2023.

The Serpent (TV series)

The Serpent is a 2021 BBC One/Netflix eight-part true-crime drama by Mammoth Screen about Charles Sobhraj's 1970s hippie-trail murders and Herman Knippenberg's investigation, starring Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman and Billy Howle.

The Serpent and the Rainbow (film)

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) is a Wes Craven horror film, also known as L'Emprise des ténèbres, starring Bill Pullman as a Harvard anthropologist investigating the Haitian zombification drug from Wade Davis's book, set in 1978 Duvalier-era Haiti.

The Serpent Queen

The Serpent Queen is a Starz historical drama (2022-2024) created by Justin Haythe, based on Leonie Frieda's Catherine de Medici biography, starring Samantha Morton; two seasons, 16 episodes, cancelled October 2024 with a Minnie Driver Elizabeth I spinoff planned.

The Serpent's Egg

The Serpent's Egg (Das Schlangenei, Ormens ägg) is Ingmar Bergman's 1977 English-language drama, his first film made outside Sweden, produced by Dino De Laurentiis in Munich exile, set in 1923 Weimar Berlin amid the rise of Nazism.

The Servant (1963 film)

The Servant (1963) is a British psychological drama directed by Joseph Losey, scripted by Harold Pinter from Robin Maugham's novella, starring Dirk Bogarde and James Fox in a class-power struggle in a London house.

The Servant (방자전) (2010 film)

The Servant (방자전, 房子傳) is a 2010 South Korean erotic historical comedy by Kim Dae-woo, the 18th film adaptation of Chunhyangjeon, retold from the servant Bang-ja's viewpoint; it topped the Korean box office and drew about 3 million admissions.

The Servant of Two Masters

The Servant of Two Masters (Il servitore di due padroni) is a 1746 comedy by Carlo Goldoni about the hungry servant Truffaldino secretly serving two masters at once.

The Set-Up

The Set-Up (1949) is a Robert Wise RKO boxing noir starring Robert Ryan as Stoker Thompson, a 35-year-old boxer whose manager secretly fixes his fight; adapted from Joseph Moncure March's 1928 poem, it runs 72 minutes in real time.

The Seven Deadly Sins (七つの大罪) (manga)

The Seven Deadly Sins (七つの大罪, Nanatsu no Taizai) is Nakaba Suzuki's fantasy shonen manga, serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine 2012–2020 across 41 volumes, winning the 39th Kodansha Manga Award and spawning the sequel Four Knights of the Apocalypse.

The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky

The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky (劇場版 七つの大罪 天空の囚われ人) is a 2018 A-1 Pictures anime film, the first film of The Seven Deadly Sins, with an original Nakaba Suzuki story set in the Sky Temple against the Six Knights of Black.

The Seven Five

The Seven Five (Precinct Seven Five) is Tiller Russell's 2014 documentary on NYPD officer Michael Dowd, who ran a drug-dealing criminal ring from Brooklyn's 75th Precinct; his 1992 arrest triggered New York's biggest police corruption scandal.

The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom

The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom (Marronnier Ōkoku no Shichinin no Kishi) is a medieval knight fantasy manga by Nao Iwamoto, serialized since 2016.

The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch (1955) is Billy Wilder's comedy starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, adapted from George Axelrod's Broadway play, famous for the white subway-grate dress scene and shaped by Hays Code censorship.

The Seventh Brother

The Seventh Brother (A hetedik testvér; Bobo und die Hasenbande) is a Hungarian animated film by Tibor Hernádi and Jenõ Koltai about an abandoned puppy adopted by six rabbit siblings; English dub names him Tiny, German sequel Bobo und die Hasenbande 2 (1997).

The Seventh Continent

The Seventh Continent (Der siebente Kontinent) is Michael Haneke's 1989 Austrian debut feature, first of the glaciation trilogy, depicting a Linz family's routine life ending in planned collective suicide, based on a true story.

The Seventh Curse (原振侠与卫斯理)

The Seventh Curse (原振侠与卫斯理) is a 1986 Golden Harvest Hong Kong action-horror film directed by Lam Nai-choi, starring Chin Siu-ho, Chow Yun-fat, and Maggie Cheung; the first film adaptation of Ni Kuang's Wisely character, earning HK$10.22 million.