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The Story of Tracy Beaker (TV series)

The Story of Tracy Beaker (TSOTB) is a British CBBC children's drama adapted from Jacqueline Wilson's 1991 book, starring Dani Harmer as care-home girl Tracy Beaker; five series from 8 January 2002 to 2005, with the Dumping Ground spin-offs following.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) is an RKO biographical musical directed by H. C. Potter, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the real ballroom dance team; their ninth and final RKO film, based on Irene Castle's memoirs, ending with Vernon's death.

The Story of Woo Viet (胡越的故事)

The Story of Woo Viet (胡越的故事) is a 1981 Ann Hui Hong Kong drama starring Chow Yun-fat as a Vietnamese refugee turned Manila hitman; second of her Vietnam Trilogy, first Hong Kong Film Awards Best Screenplay winner.

The Story of Yingying

The Story of Yingying (Yingying zhuan) is a Tang dynasty tale by Yuan Zhen about scholar Zhang Sheng's love affair with Cui Yingying, whom he abandons.

The Story of Zahra

The Story of Zahra (Ḥikāyat Zahra) is a 1980 novel by Lebanese writer Hanan al-Shaykh about a young woman's life during the Lebanese Civil War.

The Story So Far (band)

The Story So Far: American pop-punk band formed 2007 in Walnut Creek, California, on Pure Noise Records; albums Under Soil and Dirt through I Want to Disappear (2024); Billboard 200 peak No. 19 with Proper Dose.

The Storyteller (2022 film)

The Storyteller (2022) is a Hindi drama by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan adapting Satyajit Ray's short story Golpo Boliye Tarini Khuro, starring Paresh Rawal as storyteller Tarini and Adil Hussain as an insomniac Gujarati businessman; premiered at Busan 2022, streamed on Disney+ Hotstar in 2025.

The Storyteller (Picoult novel)

The Storyteller, also known as The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult, is a 2013 novel by the American writer Jodi Picoult, her first to take up the Holocaust.

The Straight Story

The Straight Story (1999) is David Lynch's G-rated Disney biographical road drama, based on Alvin Straight's 1994 lawnmower journey from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin; it competed at Cannes and earned Richard Farnsworth a Best Actor Oscar nomination.

The Straikerz

The Straikerz are a rawstyle duo from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2015 by Xavi Fontanet and Guillem Gomariz, known for viral tracks like "Incoming" and appearances at Defqon.1.

The Strain

The Strain: 2009 vampire horror novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, first of the Strain Trilogy; vampirism spreads as a parasitic worm outbreak investigated at JFK by CDC's Ephraim Goodweather; basis of the 2014-2017 FX series and a 2027 Norwegian series.

The Strain (TV series)

The Strain is an American horror television series created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan from their novel trilogy, about a vampiric outbreak in New York.

The Strand Magazine

The Strand Magazine: British monthly founded by George Newnes in January 1891, closed March 1950, famed for Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories; name revived by a US mystery quarterly in 1998 and a King's College London student magazine in 2017.

The Stranded (เคว้ง)

The Stranded (เคว้ง, Khweng) is a Thai supernatural mystery series and Netflix's first Thai original, released worldwide in 2019, following students stranded by a tsunami.

The Strange House (変な家) (manga)

The Strange House (変な家, Hen na Ie) is a horror-mystery manga by Kyo Ayano adapting Uketsu's 2020 Omocoro real-estate mystery about a house with an anomalous floor plan; serialized on comic HOWL from June 2023, with a 2024 film adaptation and Seven Seas English edition.

The Strange Thing About the Johnsons

The Strange Thing About the Johnsons is Ari Aster's 2011 AFI thesis short film about a son abusing his father; it premiered at Slamdance, leaked online in November 2011, and went viral.

The Stranger

The Stranger (2020) is a British eight-part Netflix limited series created by Harlan Coben from his 2015 novel, starring Richard Armitage and Hannah John-Kamen; the stranger was changed from a man in the book to a woman, and the setting moved from New Jersey to Greater Manchester.

The Stranger (1946 film)

The Stranger is a 1946 American film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young, about a Nazi war criminal hiding in Connecticut.

The Stranger (1991 film)

The Stranger (Agantuk) is a 1991 Bengali drama directed by Satyajit Ray, his last completed film, about a man claiming to be a family's long-lost uncle.

The Stranger (2022 film)

The Stranger (2022) is an Australian crime thriller directed by Thomas M. Wright, starring Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris, based on Kate Kyriacou's book The Sting and the Daniel Morcombe murder case; it premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard and streamed on Netflix from October 19, 2022.

The Stranger (2025 film)

The Stranger (L'Étranger) is François Ozon's 2025 French drama adapting Camus's 1942 novel, starring Benjamin Voisin as Meursault, shot in black and white in Morocco, premiered at Venice 2025, and released in the US in 2026.

The Stranger (album)

The Stranger (1977) is Billy Joel's fifth studio album, his first with producer Phil Ramone, recorded at A&R Studios, New York. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, spawned four Top 40 hits including "Just the Way You Are," won two 1979 Grammys, and is his best-selling studio album with Diamond certification.

The Stranger (Camus novel)

The Stranger (L'Étranger, The Outsider) is Albert Camus's 1942 Gallimard novel about Meursault, an emotionally detached French Algerian condemned for killing an unnamed Arab; famous for Sartre's absurd reading, translations, and Daoud's response.

The Strangers (2008 film)

The Strangers is a 2008 American home-invasion horror film directed by Bryan Bertino, starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman as a couple terrorized by three masked strangers.

The Strangers (film series)

The Strangers film series: five American home-invasion horror films from Bryan Bertino's 2008 original and 2018's Prey at Night to Renny Harlin's 2024-2026 Chapter trilogy, built on masked killers who attack "because you were home."

The Strangers: Chapter 1

The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024) is a Renny Harlin home invasion horror film starring Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez, first of a Lionsgate reboot trilogy shot concurrently in Slovakia, grossing $35.1M US with 21% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Strangers: Prey at Night

The Strangers: Prey at Night is a 2018 American home-invasion horror film directed by Johannes Roberts and the sequel to the 2008 film The Strangers.

The Stranglers

The Stranglers: English rock band formed 1974 in Guildford, Surrey, also known as The Guildford Stranglers. Punk-era band with keyboard-driven sound; albums Rattus Norvegicus, No More Heroes; hit Golden Brown; still touring.

The Strays (film)

The Strays (2023) is a British psychological thriller, the feature debut of writer-director Nathaniel Martello-White, starring Ashley Madekwe as Neve/Cheryl, a Black woman who remade herself in a white suburb, with Bukky Bakray and Jorden Myrie; Netflix release February 22, 2023.

The Street Lawyer

The Street Lawyer is John Grisham's 1998 Doubleday legal thriller, his ninth novel, in which Washington antitrust lawyer Michael Brock, held hostage by a homeless gunman, quits Drake & Sweeney to fight a wrongful eviction.