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Small Great Things

Centers on a labor/delivery nurse who takes care of newborns at a Connecticut hospital who’s ordered not touch the baby of a white supremacist couple. When the baby dies in her care, she’s then taken to court by the couple.

Seven Days to Live

Nick Yarris, a Pennsylvania man, is sentenced to death in 1982 for a rape and murder he did not commit. Yarris teaches himself to read in prison, where he discovers DNA testing and reads over 10,000 books. He sits in solitary confinement on Death Row for nearly 22 years until DNA testing proves his innocence in 2003. He is released from prison in January 2004.

Septimus Heap

Two babies that are switched at birth: one a boy who discovers his birthright as the seventh son of a seventh son, and who is destined to become a powerful wizard; the other a girl who is fated to become a princess.

Splinter Cell

In 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt defined the "Four Essential Freedoms," the basis for the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. But there is a fifth: The Freedom to protect the other four by any means necessary. As an elite Splinter Cell agent, Sam Fisher (Tom Hardy) is given the Fifth Freedom to protect and safeguard freedom across the world.

She Said

New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey face down threats and intimidation as they push through with their story about Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and assault over the past several decades.

Silver

17-year-old Liv meets the mysterious Henry. He belongs to a secret circle that possesses the ability of ‘lucid dreaming’. But little do they know that the fulfillment of their dreams comes with a high price.

Soapdish

The story centers on the real life problems and controversies behind the scenes of a top-rated soap opera, that turn the series into a phenomenon.

Signing Day

An extremely driven sports agent tries desperately to sign a young, coveted basketball star as her client. In her desperation and determination, she considers resorting to illegal and unethical means to book the client.

Steelskin

A miller tells a king that his daughter is capable of spinning straw into gold. The king locks the girl in a tower and demands that she do so by morning, but just as she's given up all hope, an imp-like creature arrives to spin the straw into gold in exchange for jewelry, but as the king's demands grow, so do the imp's. Eventually, the girl promises the imp her first-born son if he agrees to spin an entire room of straw into gold. When the imp returns years later to claim the boy, the now-queen begs him for another trade. The imp agrees, saying that if she can guess his name in three days, he'll let her keep her child.

Salt to the Sea

At the end of WWII, three refugees from East Prussia believe their way to safety is on the ship the Wilhelm Gustloff. Just when freedom seems in their grasp, tragedy strikes: the sinking of that ship ias one of the worst maritime disasters that ever occurred.

Shoot Like A Girl

Mary Jennings serves three tours in Afghanistan as a rescue helicopter pilot where she Medevac'd hundreds of men and women off of the battlefield. At one point, her helicopter is shot down during a rescue mission and she is shot by the Taliban. She fights through her injuries to save the three Americans that are the target of the rescue mission, and her own team. Their ordeal culminates in a daring escape hanging onto the skids of a Kiowa helicopter. Hegar also sues the secretary of defense asserting that the Combat Exclusion Policy (which prevents women from entering direct combat) is unconstitutional, and she wins. In 2013, the secretary of defense repeals the policy.

Sabbatical

A couple hits the doldrums in their seventh year of marriage. To inject some life into their union, they decide to take a two-week sabbatical from each other during which, within a set of rules, they can do whatever they want. When the wife returns to the agreed-upon meeting place two weeks later, however, she discovers that her husband has disappeared.

Satisfaction

The story centers on a male prostitute in London who loses the older woman who’s been taking care of him, and the call-out agency he’s ben working for. He makes a last ditch effort to find someone to take care of him, only to find an amazing woman, until the agency calls again.

Seducing Ingrid Bergman

In post-WWII 1945 Paris, right before the onset of the Cold War and communist witch hunting, Ingrid Bergman and war photographer Robert Capa have a torrid, clandestine romance. Capa, who fearlessly covered with his camera the Normandy invasion and other battles, becomes the catalyst for Bergman's self-awakening.

Sleeper

Set in a universe where a few people are spontaneously developing superpowers, Holden Carver, a man who can absorb pain and pass it on to others, infiltrates a criminal organization on behalf of a law enforcement agency. His allegiances come into question, especially when he falls for the alluring killer, Miss Misery.

Soul Train

Set in the 1980s, a young man from the L.A. hood looks to his gift for "popping," a street dance, as his way out of the hood.

System Crasher

A young girl with a traumatic past is labeled a "system crasher" and seen as a hopeless cause.

Shibumi

Details the struggle between the “Mother Company,” a conspiracy of energy companies that secretly controls much of the Western world, and a highly skilled assassin named Nicholaï Hel.

Sisterhood Everlasting

Ten years later, the four girls have grown apart, busy with their own adult lives. Tibby tries to bridge the distance in by reuniting the girls for a trip that will change their lives forever.