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The Shadowless Tower (白塔之光)
The Shadowless Tower (白塔之光) is Zhang Lü's 2023 Chinese drama about Beijing food critic Gu Wentong reconnecting with his long-estranged father, named for the shadowless White Pagoda of Miaoying Temple; Berlinale competition entry and four-time Tiantan Award winner.
The Shadows
The Shadows: English instrumental rock group formed 1958 as the Drifters, Cliff Richard's backing band, famous for "Apache" and Hank Marvin's Fender Stratocaster twang; Britain's most successful instrumental group.
The Shaggs
The Shaggs were an American all-female rock band formed in 1965 in New Hampshire. Their father, Austin Wiggin Jr., formed the group to fulfill a palm-reading prophecy.
The Shaggy D.A.
The Shaggy D.A. is Disney's 1976 live-action comedy sequel to The Shaggy Dog, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Dean Jones as adult Wilby Daniels, whose district attorney campaign is disrupted by a magic Borgia ring that turns him into a sheepdog.
The Shaggy Dog (1959 film)
The Shaggy Dog (1959) is Walt Disney's first live-action comedy, directed by Charles Barton, in which Tommy Kirk's Wilby Daniels becomes a Bratislavian sheepdog via a magic ring. A surprise hit earning over $8 million domestically, it spawned sequels and remakes.
The Shaggy Dog (2006 film)
The Shaggy Dog is a 2006 American family comedy directed by Brian Robbins, starring Tim Allen as a deputy district attorney transformed into a dog by a genetic serum.
The Shallows (film)
The Shallows (2016) is a Jaume Collet-Serra survival thriller starring Blake Lively as surfer Nancy Adams, stranded 200 yards from shore by a great white shark; it grossed $119 million worldwide on a $13-17 million budget.
The Shaman's Story
The Shaman's Story, better known as Munyeodo (무녀도), is a 1936 short story by the Korean writer Kim Tongni, dramatizing the conflict between a village shaman and her Christian son.
The Shambles
The Shambles, York: a narrow medieval cobbled street from King's Square to Pavement, recorded in Domesday 1086 as a butchers' street, with timber buildings of about 1350-1475 and a Margaret Clitherow shrine.
The Shameless (2024 film)
The Shameless (2024) is a Hindi-language drama by Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov, premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2024, where Anasuya Sengupta became the first Indian actor to win its Best Actress award; shot in Nepal.
The Shamen
The Shamen: Scottish band from Aberdeen (formed 1986) that evolved from psychedelic rock into acid house and rave, led by Colin Angus with Mr. C; known for En-Tact, Boss Drum, and the 1992 UK No. 1 "Ebeneezer Goode"; disbanded 1999.
The Shangri-Las
The Shangri-Las were an American girl group formed in Queens, New York, in the early 1960s, known for hits like "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" and "Leader of the Pack."
The Shannara Chronicles
The Shannara Chronicles is an MTV fantasy series (2016-2017) created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, adapting Terry Brooks's The Elfstones of Shannara; two 10-episode seasons, filmed in New Zealand, Metascore 52, canceled after season 2.
The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water is Guillermo del Toro's 2017 Cold War-era fantasy romance about mute janitor Elisa (Sally Hawkins) loving a captive amphibian man (Doug Jones); it won the Venice Golden Lion and four Oscars including Best Picture.
The Shard
The Shard, also known as the Shard of Glass, is a 95-storey, 309.6-meter skyscraper at London Bridge in Southwark, London, and the tallest building in the United Kingdom.
The Shards (TV series)
The Shards is a 2026 FX drama series created by Ryan Murphy with Bret Easton Ellis, adapting Ellis's 2023 autofictional novel. Nine episodes set in 1981 Los Angeles follow prep-school senior Bret amid the Trawler serial killings; premiered August 5, 2026.
The Shattering Peace
The Shattering Peace is John Scalzi's 2025 seventh Old Man's War novel (Tor Books), following diplomat Gretchen Trujillo investigating the vanished 50,000-person Unity Colony amid a looming Consu civil war.
The Shaukeens (द शौकीन्स)
The Shaukeens (द शौकीन्स), also called The Fondness, is a 2014 Hindi comedy directed by Abhishek Sharma, remaking Basu Chatterjee's 1982 Shaukeen, starring Anupam Kher, Annu Kapoor, Piyush Mishra, Lisa Haydon, and Akshay Kumar as himself.
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption is Frank Darabont's 1994 prison drama adapted from Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman; a box-office flop with seven Oscar nominations and no wins, it later topped the IMDb user poll.
The Sheep and the Goats
The Sheep and the Goats is the traditional name for Matthew 25:31–46, where the Son of Man separates the nations as a shepherd separates sheep from goats.
The Sheep Detectives
The Sheep Detectives (2026), Kyle Balda's family whodunit adapted from Leonie Swann's German novel Three Bags Full, stars Hugh Jackman as murdered shepherd George Hardy, whose talking sheep investigate his death; Amazon MGM, 109 minutes, PG.
The Sheik (1921 film)
The Sheik (1921) is an American silent romantic drama directed by George Melford, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, adapted from E. M. Hull's 1919 novel; a Paramount hit that made Valentino a star and founded the Hollywood sheik-film genre.
The Sheik (wrestler)
The Sheik (Edward George Farhat, 1926–2003), Lebanese-American pro wrestler and Detroit promoter, pioneer of hardcore wrestling, WWWF US champion, WWE Hall of Famer, uncle and trainer of Sabu.
The Sheldonian Theatre
The Sheldonian Theatre is the University of Oxford's principal assembly room and ceremonial hall on Broad Street, built between 1664 and 1669 to a design by Christopher Wren and funded by Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon.
The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky: 1990 Bernardo Bertolucci film adapting Paul Bowles's 1949 novel; John Malkovich and Debra Winger as the Moresbys adrift in 1947 North Africa; Storaro cinematography, Sakamoto score, BAFTA and Golden Globe wins.
The Shepheardes Calender
The Shepheardes Calender is Edmund Spenser's first major work, a book of twelve pastoral eclogues named for the months, published anonymously in London in 1579 and dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney.
The Shepherd (2026 film)
The Shepherd is an upcoming 2026 American horror thriller directed by John Hyams, starring Georgina Campbell as a woman who hitches a ride with a frightening stranger.
The Shepherd of Hermas
The Shepherd of Hermas, or Pastor Hermae, is an early Christian apocalyptic text calling believers to repentance, written in Greek in Rome around 90 to 140 CE.
The Sheykh Khaz'al affair and the conquest of Arabistan (1924–25)
The Sheykh Khaz'al affair (فتح خوزستان و سقوط شیخ خزعل) was Reza Khan's 1924–25 campaign ending Arab self-rule in Khuzestan, with Sheikh Khaz'al arrested in April 1925.
The Shield
The Shield (FX, 2002–2008), created by Shawn Ryan, is a police drama starring Michael Chiklis as corrupt Strike Team leader Vic Mackey in Los Angeles's fictional Farmington district, inspired by the Rampart scandal; its record 4.8-million-viewer premiere established FX as a scripted-drama network.