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Titles starting from letter "S"
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A young man named Tristan Thorne (Charlie Cox) lives in the small English village of Wall bordering on a supernatural parallel world. Trying to win the heart of Victoria (Sienna Miller), the most beautiful but selfish girl in the village, Tristan makes a reckless promise to retrieve a fallen star by crossing the forbidden old wall and entering the magical realm. In the kingdom of Stormhold, Tristan finds more than he has bargained for: the fallen star turns out to have been transformed into a striking young woman, Yvaine (Claire Danes). Moreover, he is not the only one in search of the luminous star. Yvaine is hunted by the King's (Peter O'Toole) four scheming sons, who are desperate to use her cosmic powers to succeed the throne, and the villainous old witch, Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer), who yearns to devour her heart to achieve eternal youth and beauty. On his odyssey, Tristan has an incredible encounter with a sky pirate named Captain Shakespeare (Robert De Niro), faces a life-and-death struggle with Yvaine's nemeses, and discovers the secret to his own identity and the meaning of true love. |
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A giant structure found in the desert has studied by various scientist for nearly fifty years and are no where near discovering what it is. Until Daniel jackson, a language expert deciphers and reveals that it's a Stargate. He also discovers how to make it work. They then learn that it's some kind interstellar transport device. Now a group of soldiers led by despondent Colonel Jack O'Neill go to the planet, also accompanying them is Jackson, who said that he can reactivate the Stargate to send them back but he forgot to mention that he needs to find the symbols and they can't find anything, so it appears that they are trapped. And if that isn't enough, some aliens arrive and capture them and have nefarious plans for Earth. |
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Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history. |
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Ben (Seann William Scott) has some major debts and intends to rob a bank, under cover of the big rave party he is going to host. The whole point is that the club is located next to the bank where the valuable statue adorns the hall. The rave show will last for seven hours, it should be enough to disguise all attempts break the wall, penetrate into the bank and to still the statue. But there are more obstacles on their way then a simple wall: they should struggle with a cranky club owner, Chinese mafia, Irish thugs, crazed transvestites and a horny teen girl. |
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The time is the future. Johnny Rico joins the military after graduation to become a citizen and for the love of his high school sweetheart. In the war against the bug aliens of Klendathu, the military is a very dangerous place to be. Johnny works his way through several battles and with the help of his friends and comrades, helps turn the tide of the war, and save the human race. |
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"Starsky & Hutch" takes place in the 70s. Two guys played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are stripped of their badges, done by a drug kingpin (Vince Vaughn) and totally ripped off in a disco contest. Vaughn's character is a maniacal drug lord with an absurd moustache who is prone to dramatic outbursts. So, yeah, they got some scores to settle. Driving a red and white Ford Torino and solving cases with the assistance of their informant Huggy Bear (Snoop Dogg), they investigate their latest case, and soon realize that the culprit is none other than Reese Feldman (Vince Vaughn), the criminal involved in their first bust. |
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Against the backdrop of Manhattan's changing literary and publishing world, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is asked by Heather Wolfe, a graduate student and budding literary critic, to agree to interviews. He's reluctant to spend the time: his health is failing and he wants to finish one more book. Also he's worried about his daughter, Ariel, who's approaching 40, underemployed, single and wanting a child. But he agrees, hoping Heather can help resurrect interest in his work. As Heather probes Frank's writing and his past, Ariel reconnects to a former lover. Emotions can be raw and messy, and as relationships change, who gets the better part of the bargain? |
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Two teenagers - Mark Deloach (Jonathan Tucker) and Dori Lawrence (Rachael Leigh Cook) – live in two almost different worlds, but they have something in common – their lives are spiraling out of control. He became a Marine to avoid responsibility for a nearly fatal drunk driving accident, while she slowly looses touch with reality after the burst of schizophrenia. Relations between a high-school rich kid serving in the Marine Corps, and his girlfriend's roommate, a schizophrenic actress, whose career slowly crashes gave birth to this movie based on the true events. When Mark is to leave, the pair turns out to be unable to forget each other, Mark and Dori do their best to heal one another in spite of the distance between them. |
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While having a consultation with psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor), deranged college student and amateur artist Henry Lethem (Ryan Gosling) claims to have killed both of his parents. He also informs Sam about his plan to follow the lead of his idol and commit suicide in three days, on his 21st birthday. Wanting to prevent the suicide of the troubled patient, Sam decides to help him break free from his obsession. While investigating the intriguing case, he gradually gets drawn into the web of Henry's nightmarish illusions, standing on the sharpest edge of death or life.
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It's generally known that video games have a negative influence on the younger generation. A few American fellow teenagers may not know this but must guess about a deleterious effect of violent video games. Their guess is confirmed when it becomes apparent that a seemingly harmless video game called "Stay Alive" has a bloodcurdling connection with reality. The idea of the game is to play some spine-chilling situations from the life of a 17th century vicious and brutal noblewoman, Elizabeth Bathory, known as the Blood Countess. When the buddies start dying in the same way in life as they do in the game, the remaining gamers realize that they must find a way to stay alive before it's too late...
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In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control. |
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Everyone deserves a chance to follow their dreams, but some people only get one shot. Tyler Gage is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore¹s tracks and the only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day making it out of there. Nora is a privileged ballet dancer attending Baltimore¹s ultra-elite Maryland School of the Arts — and the only thing standing in the way of her obviously brilliant future is finding a great dance partner for her senior showcase. When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland School of the Arts, he arrives as an angry outsider, until his skills as a gifted street dancer draw Nora¹s attention. Now, as sparks fly between them, both on and off stage, Tyler realizes he has just one performance to prove that he can step up to a life far larger than he ever imagined. |
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Romantic sparks occur between two dance students from different backgrounds at the Maryland School of the Arts. |
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After moving into the small town of Stepford, Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman), an ex-TV producer, finds herself and her family in the midst of a kind of American dream – a clean city, amiable neighbors and so on. But one day she noticed, that things are not as perfect as it seems, there's something wrong, something artificial in this town fulfilled by the spirit of glamorous serenity. When her friends Bobbie (Bette Midler) and Roger (Roger Bart) suddenly turned into typical Stepford Philistines, she began to guess if she will she uncover the truth about the Stepford wives ' lot or simply become another insouciant glamour icon. |
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The hilarious British comedy depicts an episode in the life of Albert Steptoe (Wilfred Brambell) and his son Harold (Harry H. Corbett), two carefree junk dealers living peacefully together in the junk yard. All goes well until Harold, who likes visiting hot spots, becomes enamoured of an alluring stripper named Zita (Carolyn Seymour). He loves her so much that he decides to marry her. But when Harold takes his wife home, Albert flies into a rage and schemes to turn his daughter-in-law out of doors by all means. |
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Haley Graham is a rebellious 17 year-old who is forced to return to the regimented world of gymnastics after a run-in with the law. She is sentenced to her ultimate nightmare: she is to attend to an elite gymnastics academy run by legendary hardnosed coach Burt Vickerman (Jeff Bridges). Haley is surprised finding an unexpected ally in the person of her new coach. He respects Haley's talent, and together she shows him and her new teammates how to follow the rules while still expressing your individuality. |
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It's a quiet little town where nothing happens - until the day the bank is hit for half a million dollars of Indian casino money by a thief wearing a clowns mask. From here the story follows a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse between bank robber and former cop Parker (James Spader) and small-town police officer Ray DeCarlo (David Keith) determined to catch him. Parker doesn't help himself by holing up with a nurse who happens to be DeCarlo's former wife. Throw in a rookie FBI agent, Indians who want their money back, some former friends of Parker who are not so friendly anymore and his fate seems sealed. |
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Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) is an ordinary 23-year-old hairdresser who likes a calm, carefree life, and the last thing she wants to think of is religion. After receiving a gift of the rosary beads that belonged to a now deceased priest in a small town in Brazil, her life swiftly and drastically changes. Frankie begins speaking with another person's voice and suffering from stigmata, the bleeding wounds Jesus Christ received from his crucifixion. The news reaching the Vatican, Cardinal Daniel Houseman (Jonathan Pryce) sends Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), once a scientist and now an ordained Jesuit priest, to the U.S. to investigate the matter. |
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Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural tallent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up. |
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After his younger brother’s death, a 19-year-old talented street dancer, DJ Williams (Columbus Short) moves to Atlanta, Georgia and attends Truth University which is historically considered to be the stronghold of African Americans. At first, he finds it tough to adapt himself to his new environment, for everyone regards him as a misfit. But when DJ gets an opportunity to show off his dancing skills, he catches the attention of school's main two fraternities, both of which want him to pledge and partake in a "stepping" competition. DJ gradually becomes a fraternity head, thereby arousing the wrath of the ex-leader. At the same time he has to solve his love problems...
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