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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.

Sing Street

A 14-year-old must break free of a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles, deal with his drop-out older brother's antics and survive in a new public school. He forms a band and runs away to London with his 15-year-old girlfriend.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Storming Las Vegas

Jose Vigoa, a Cuban-born commando veteran of the Soviet army, and his crew embarked on a violent 16-month crime wave that targeted some of Las Vegas' most prominent casinos. He was pitted against a 23-year vet of the Vegas police force, who was charged with tracking down Vigoa and his cohorts without letting the story make the papers and spoil Vegas's image.

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.

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.

Stone Rider

A young man wants a chance to escape Blackwater, the dust-bowl desert town he grew up in and lead a good life with the beautiful Sadie Blood.

School of Fear

Four children, all suffering from phobias, are sent to the exclusive yet secretive school where they conquer their fears and survive a perilous final test.

Shiver

A teen who becomes a wolf each winter and his girlfriend tries to help him find the secret to staying human.

Sweet Valley High

Two teenage girls, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, live in Sweet Valley, Calif. Jessica is the more conniving and materialistic of the sisters, and usually needs help from the more practical Elizabeth when her schemes go awry.

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.

Scandal Makers

A philandering pop singer's life is turned upside-down when he discovers that he has a daughter and a grandson.

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.