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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 Sellout (novel)
The Sellout (2015) is Paul Beatty's satirical novel about narrator Me, who resegregates the erased Los Angeles neighborhood of Dickens; it won the 2016 Man Booker Prize, the first American winner, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
The Senator (tree)
The Senator was a giant bald cypress (Big Tree) in Longwood, Florida, estimated 2,500-3,500 years old and the largest tree east of the Mississippi until it burned on January 16, 2012.
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes's 2011 Man Booker Prize-winning novel from Jonathan Cape, follows unreliable narrator Tony Webster as a legacy of 500 pounds and Adrian's diary force him to reexamine his past; adapted to film in 2017 by Ritesh Batra.
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 Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
Kermode's The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (OUP, 1967; Mary Flexner Lectures, Bryn Mawr, 1965), distinct from Barnes's 2011 novel, argues fictions of apocalypse give meaning to time.
The Sensual World
The Sensual World is Kate Bush's sixth studio album, released October 1989 on EMI, reaching UK number 2. Its title track reworks Molly Bloom's Ulysses soliloquy after the Joyce estate refused permission; later re-recorded as Flower of the Mountain.
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 Sentinel (short story)
"The Sentinel" ("Sentinel of Eternity") is Arthur C. Clarke's 1948 short story, first published 1951 in 10 Story Fantasy, about a lunar pyramid artifact whose destruction signals aliens; it inspired 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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 Serenity of Suffering
The Serenity of Suffering is Korn's twelfth studio album, released 21 October 2016 on Roadrunner, produced by Nick Raskulinecz with Corey Taylor guesting; it returned to the band's classic heavy nu metal sound and hit #4 on the Billboard 200.
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 and the Rope
The Serpent and the Rope is a 1960 semi-autobiographical novel by Raja Rao following Ramaswamy, a South Indian Brahmin in France, whose marriage to a French woman falls apart.
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 Setting Sun
The Setting Sun (Shayō) is a 1947 novel by the Japanese writer Dazai Osamu, portraying an aristocratic family's decline after Japan's World War II defeat and coining the term shayō-zoku.
The Settlers
The Settlers, city-building real-time strategy series launched 1993 by Blue Byte (Serf City: Life is Feudal), acquired by Ubisoft 2001; seven mainline entries to 2010, New Allies 2023, known for production chains and indirect control of settlers.
The Seven Basic Plots
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories is Christopher Booker's 2004 Continuum book arguing all stories fit seven Jungian archetypal plots: monster, rags to riches, quest, voyage and return, comedy, tragedy, rebirth.
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 and the Four Last Things
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things is an oil painting in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, long attributed to Hieronymus Bosch, whose authorship the BRCP disputes.
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.