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The Saboteur

The Saboteur is a 2009 open-world action game by Pandemic Studios and EA, set in Nazi-occupied Paris, starring Irish race car driver Sean Devlin, inspired by William Grover-Williams, with a black-and-white will-to-fight visual system.

The Sacrament (2013 film)

The Sacrament (2013) is Ti West's found-footage-style horror thriller, produced by Eli Roth, about Vice journalists visiting the Eden Parish commune, a fictionalized retelling of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre; released by Magnolia in 2014, grossing $9,221, with a 66% Rotten Tomatoes score.

The Sacramento Bee

The Sacramento Bee is a daily newspaper founded in Sacramento, California, in 1857. It covers the Northern Sacramento Valley and surrounding regions, and has won five Pulitzer Prizes.

The Sacred and the Profane

The Sacred and the Profane (German: Das Heilige und das Profane) is a 1957 book by Mircea Eliade contrasting sacred and profane modes of being in the world.

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions is a 1986 essay collection by Laguna Pueblo writer Paula Gunn Allen, published by Beacon Press.

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross is a 1970 book by John Marco Allegro arguing that Christianity began as a fertility cult centered on the mushroom Amanita muscaria.

The Sacred Night

The Sacred Night (La Nuit sacrée) is a 1987 novel by Moroccan-born French writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, a sequel to The Sand Child that won the 1987 Prix Goncourt.

The Sacred Pipe

The Sacred Pipe is a ceremonial pipe central to Lakota religion, an instrument of prayer and portable altar given to the people by White Buffalo Calf Woman.

The Sacred Riana

The Sacred Riana is Marie Antoinette Riana Graharani, an Indonesian bizarre illusionist born 1992 in Jakarta, known for her ghostly persona and doll Riani; she won Asia's Got Talent Season 2 in 2017 and reached the AGT Season 13 quarterfinals in 2018.

The Sacred Wood

The Sacred Wood is a 1920 collection of critical essays by T. S. Eliot, his first full-length prose volume, containing "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and essays on individual poets.

The Sacrifice

The Sacrifice (Offret) is Andrei Tarkovsky's 1986 final film, a Swedish-French parable in which Alexander offers everything to God to avert nuclear war; it won Cannes' Grand Prix and the 1988 BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Saddle Club

The Saddle Club: Bonnie Bryant's horse-themed children's book series (1988–2001, 101 books) and its Australian/Canadian live-action TV adaptation (2001–2009) about Stevie, Carole, and Lisa at Pine Hollow Stables, now being remade as animation.

The Sadies

The Sadies: Toronto roots-rock band formed 1994, led by brothers Dallas and Travis Good of the Good Brothers family, with Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky. Known for country-surf-psychedelia fusion, collaborations with Neko Case, Andre Williams, and Gord Downie, and the JUNO-winning Colder Streams (2022), the last album with Dallas Good, who died in February 2022.

The Sadness (哭悲)

The Sadness (哭悲) is a 2021 Taiwanese splatter horror film, Rob Jabbaz's debut, in which a mutating virus turns sentient Taipei residents into sadists; released January 2021 in Taiwan, on Shudder in May 2022, it won Fantasia's Best First Feature.

The Safekeep

The Safekeep is the 2024 debut novel of Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden, set in Overijssel in 1961, where Isabel's houseguest Eva exposes the house's Jewish wartime past; shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and winner of the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction.

The Safety Dance

"The Safety Dance" (1982) by Men Without Hats, written by Ivan Doroschuk, is a synth-pop protest against club bouncers banning pogoing; it hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983 and entered the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020.

The Saga of Darren Shan

The Saga of Darren Shan, aka Cirque du Freak, is a 12-book YA vampire horror series by Irish author Darren Shan (Darren O'Shaughnessy), published from January 2000, about a boy made a half-vampire by Larten Crepsley; adapted into a 2009 film and a Takahiro Arai manga.

The Saga of Tanya the Evil

The Saga of Tanya the Evil (幼女戦記, Yōjo Senki) is Carlo Zen's military fantasy light novel series about a salaryman reincarnated as soldier Tanya Degurechaff, adapted by studio NUT into a 2017 TV anime, a 2019 film, and a second season airing July 2026.

The Sahotas

The Sahotas were a British Punjabi bhangra band formed by five brothers in Wolverhampton, blending reggae, rock, and dance music with bhangra rhythms from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s.

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (午後の曳航, Gogo no Eikō) is a 1963 novella by Yukio Mishima about a boy, his widowed mother, and a sailor in Yokohama.

The Saint (1997 film)

The Saint is a 1997 American spy thriller directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Val Kilmer as gentleman thief Simon Templar, based on Leslie Charteris's novels.

The Saint (2017 film)

The Saint (2017) is an American action TV movie directed by Ernie Barbarash, starring Adam Rayner as Leslie Charteris's thief Simon Templar with Eliza Dushku, Ian Ogilvy, and Roger Moore; it grew from a 2013 pilot and involves $2.5 billion in stolen African aid funds.

The Saint (franchise)

The Saint franchise adapts Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar, first published in 1928, across RKO films (1938–1953), radio, Roger Moore's 1962–1969 ITV series, Ian Ogilvy's Return of the Saint, the 1997 Val Kilmer film, and a 2017 TV movie.

The Saint (Simon Templar)

The Saint, or Simon Templar, is a fictional gentleman adventurer created by Leslie Charteris. He appeared in nearly a hundred books and is considered the progenitor of James Bond.

The Saint (TV series)

The Saint (ITV, 1962–1969) is a British adventure series starring Roger Moore as Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar, a Robin Hood-style adventurer; 118 episodes (71 black and white, 47 color), produced by Robert S. Baker for Lew Grade's ITC, later revived with Ian Ogilvy and Simon Dutton.

The Saint of Bright Doors

The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera's 2023 Tordotcom debut novel, follows Fetter, a shadowless son raised to kill his saint father, the Perfect and Kind, in the city of Luriat; it won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and was a 2024 Hugo finalist.

The Salem

The Salem was a Liberian-registered supertanker scuttled off Senegal in January 1980, after her crew secretly discharged Kuwaiti crude at Durban, South Africa, breaking the oil embargo.

The Salesman (2016 film)

The Salesman (Forushande, فروشنده) is Asghar Farhadi's 2016 Iranian-French drama about actors Emad and Rana; it won Cannes Best Screenplay and Best Actor and the 2017 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Salisbury Poisonings

The Salisbury Poisonings: the March 2018 Novichok attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, England, the Amesbury death of Dawn Sturgess, the 2025 Dawn Sturgess Inquiry, and the 2020 BBC drama about the response.

The Salmon of Doubt

The Salmon of Doubt (2002) is Douglas Adams's posthumous collection, edited by Peter Guzzardi from his Mac computers, containing essays, speeches, and ten or eleven chapters of his unfinished third Dirk Gently novel, published one year after his death.