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The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption
The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption is a 2012 direct-to-video fantasy action film directed by Roel Reiné, starring Victor Webster as Mathayus, with Billy Zane and Ron Perlman; a $6 million Thailand-shot sequel to The Scorpion King 2.
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power is a 2015 direct-to-video sword-and-sorcery film, the fourth Scorpion King installment, directed by Mike Elliott with Victor Webster as Mathayus, framed for a king's murder in Norvania.
The Scorpion King: Book of Souls
The Scorpion King: Book of Souls (2018) is the fifth and final direct-to-video Scorpion King film, also called Scorpion King 5. Directed by Don Michael Paul, it stars Zach McGowan as Mathayus fighting the warlord Nebserek over a cursed sword and the Book of Souls.
The Scottish play
The Scottish play (also the Bard's play) is the theatrical euphemism for Shakespeare's Macbeth, avoided by name in theatres because of the famous stage superstition that speaking the title brings bad luck.
The Scouring of the Shire
The Scouring of the Shire is the penultimate chapter of Tolkien's The Return of the King, in which the returning hobbits defeat Saruman (Sharkey) and his ruffians at the Battle of Bywater and restore the ravaged Shire.
The Scout Association
The Scout Association (TSA) is the UK's national Scouting charity, founded from Baden-Powell's 1907 Brownsea Island camp, chartered 1912, renamed 1967; charity 306101, Gilwell Park, sections for ages 4-25.
The Scream
The Scream (Skrik) is a motif created by Edvard Munch in several versions between 1893 and about 1910, showing a figure on a bridge beneath a blood-red sky.
The Screamers
The Screamers: American electropunk band, Seattle Tupperwares 1975 then first-wave LA punk (1977-1981), Tomata du Plenty and Tommy Gear, ARP Odyssey and Rhodes instead of guitars, never released an official record during their active years.
The Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape Letters is C. S. Lewis's 1942 satirical Christian apologetic work of 31 letters from the senior devil Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood about tempting "the patient," serialized in The Guardian in 1941.
The Script
The Script is an Irish pop rock quartet formed in Dublin in 2001. Known for its blend of anthemic pop and R&B, the band has accumulated six UK numberone albums.
The Scroll of Fire
The Scroll of Fire (Megillat ha'esh) is a prose poem by Haim Nahman Bialik, written in Odessa in 1905 and one of his legends of destruction.
The Scurry
The Scurry is a British comedy-horror film about killer squirrels attacking a country park eco-café, directed by Craig Roberts, written by Tim Telling, starring Rhys Ifans, Ella Purnell, Paapa Essiedu, and Antonia Thomas; distinct from the 2024 Australian film Scurry.
The Sea (2025 film)
The Sea (Ha'yam, הים) is a 2025 Israeli drama by Shai Carmeli-Pollak about a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who sneaks past a checkpoint to see the sea. It won five Ophir Awards and is Israel's 2026 Oscar submission.
The Sea and Poison
The Sea and Poison (Umi to dokuyaku, 海と毒薬) is a 1958 novel by the Japanese writer Endō Shūsaku, depicting wartime vivisections of American airmen by doctors.
The Sea Beast (2022 film)
The Sea Beast is a 2022 Netflix animated adventure film directed by Chris Williams, starring Karl Urban, Zaris-Angel Hator, and Jared Harris; a 2023 Best Animated Feature Oscar nominee with a Metacritic score of 74.
The Sea Hawk (1940 film)
The Sea Hawk (1940) is a Warner Bros. swashbuckler directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn as privateer Geoffrey Thorpe. Despite the title, it is not an adaptation of Sabatini's novel; Koch and Miller wrote an original story with a 1940 anti-appeasement message.
The Sea Inside
The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) is a 2004 Spanish drama by Alejandro Amenábar about quadriplegic Ramón Sampedro's right-to-die campaign, starring Javier Bardem. It won the 2005 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, a Golden Globe, Venice's Silver Lion and Volpi Cup, and a record 14 Goyas.
The Sea of Fertility
The Sea of Fertility (Hōjō no Umi, 豊饒の海) is a four-volume novel cycle by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, his last work, finished the day he died in 1970.
The Sea of Monsters
The Sea of Monsters, second Percy Jackson novel by Rick Riordan (2006, Hyperion, Book 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians), follows Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson to the Golden Fleece in the Bermuda Triangle; adapted as a 2013 film and Disney+ season 2.
The Sea of Trees
The Sea of Trees is a 2015 Gus Van Sant drama starring Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, and Ken Watanabe, set in Japan's Aokigahara forest; booed at Cannes 2015 and widely panned.
The Sea Speaks His Name
The Sea Speaks His Name (Laut Bercerita) is a 2026 Indonesian political drama by Yosep Anggi Noen, adapted from Leila S. Chudori's 2017 novel, starring Reza Rahadian as disappeared student activist Biru Laut; it premiered in Busan competition and released in Indonesia October 29, 2026.
The Sea Wolves
The Sea Wolves (1980), directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, is a war film based on James Leasor's Boarding Party about Operation Creek, the 1943 Calcutta Light Horse raid on German radio ships in neutral Goa, starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, and David Niven.
The Sea-Wolf
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London in which the critic Humphrey Van Weyden, shipwrecked in San Francisco Bay, is taken aboard the sealing schooner Ghost by its amoral captain, Wolf Larsen.
The Sea, the Sea
The Sea, the Sea is a 1978 novel by Irish-born British writer Iris Murdoch, her nineteenth, following retired director Charles Arrowby; it won the 1978 Booker Prize.
The Seafarer (poem)
The Seafarer, an Old English elegiac poem in the Exeter Book (c. 970), also called a peregrinus monologue, depicts a sailor's hardship and Christian longing for heaven, debated since 1842 between dialogue, allegory, and ascetic readings.
The Seagull (2018 film)
The Seagull is a 2018 American drama film directed by Michael Mayer, adapted by Stephen Karam from Anton Chekhov's play and starring Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan.
The Seagull (site)
The Seagull (site): wreck of an 1848 Belfast-built iron sail-assisted paddle steamer, sunk by collision in 1868 off Horsey Gap, Norfolk; Scheduled Monument 1464587 since 2019, grouped with the Xanthe wreck.
The Seagull (Чайка)
The Seagull (Чайка) is Anton Chekhov's 1895 four-act comedy about art and unrequited love. It failed at its 1896 Saint Petersburg premiere, succeeded at the 1898 Moscow Art Theatre revival, and pioneered subtext-driven modern drama.
The Seahorses
The Seahorses were a short-lived English rock band formed in York in 1996 by ex-Stone Roses guitarist John Squire with Chris Helme, Stuart Fletcher, and Andy Watts; their 1997 Tony Visconti-produced album Do It Yourself and UK No. 3 single "Love Is the Law" preceded a February 1999 split.
The Sealed Angel
The Sealed Angel (Zapechatlennyi angel) is an 1872 novella by Nikolai Leskov, first published in 1873, centered on Old Believers whose Guardian Angel icon is confiscated.