SABOTAGE

1936

Hitchcock spy story w/Sylvia Sidney

SABOTEUR

1942

Hitchcock WWII spy suspenser

SABRINA

1954

A.Hepburn & Bogart in Wilder comedy

THE SACRIFICE

1986

Andrei Tarkovsky's final film

SADIE THOMPSON

1928

Gloria Swanson "silent" classic

SAFETY LAST

1923

classic Harold Lloyd "silent" comedy

SAHARA

1943

Bogart & unit stranded in desert w/Nazis

SALAAM BOMBAY! 1988 Mira Nair's film about children living on the streets of Bombay
SALESMAN 1968 seminal Maysles Brothers doc re: 4 door-to-door salesmen
SALT FOR SVANETIA 1930 Russian doc re: remote mountain valley

SALT OF THE EARTH

1953

brave film re: Chicano zinc miners that took on HUAC

SAN FRANCISCO

1936

Clark Gable and the earthquake

SANDS OF IWO JIMA

1949

John Wayne as sergeant in WWII

SANJURO

1962

Kurosawa samurai film w/Mifune

SANS SOLEIL 1983 Chris Marker's camera traces woman's travels & memories

SANSHIRO SUGATA

1943

Kurosawa's 1st feature film

THE SAPHEAD

1921

Buster Keaton's first feature

SATAN'S BREW 1976 Fassbinder dark comedy about anarchist poet
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING 1960 Albert Finney in British "kitchen sink" drama

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER

1971

John Travolta dances to stardom

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN 1998 Spielberg's WWII film with Tom Hanks won 5 Oscars

SAYONARA

1957

east-west interracial romance w/Marlon Brando

SCANDAL

1950

contemporary Kurosawa film w/Mifune

A SCANDAL IN PARIS 1946 Douglas Sirk tale of elegant conman who becomes chief of police

SCARFACE

1932

classic early gangster film w/Paul Muni

THE SCARLET EMPRESS

1934

von Sternberg directs Dietrich as Catherine

THE SCARLET LETTER

1926

"silent"-and best- version w/Lillian Gish

SCARLET STREET 1945 Fritz Lang film noir with Edward G. Robinson

SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE

1973

Ingmar Bergman drama covers 10 years

SCORSESE ON SCORSESE 2004 doc re: famed New York director

THE SEA HAWK

1940

high seas adventure w/Errol Flynn

SEA OF LOVE 1989 Al Pacino & Ellen Barkin in thriller

THE SEA WOLF

1941

Jack London tale w/Edward G. Robinson

THE SEARCH

1948

post-WWII drama w/Montgomery Clift

THE SEARCHERS

1956

John Ford-John Wayne classic western

SECONDS

1966

regeneration tale w/Rock Hudson

THE SECRET GARDEN

1949

1st version of kids' story w/M. O'Brien

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY

1947

Danny Kaye in James Thurder tale

SECRETS & LIES 1996 Successful black woman finds out her birth mother is white
SELMA 2014 Ava DuVernay's drama about MLK Jr.'s 1965 Alabama march

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

1995

Emma Thompson does Jane Austen

SENSO

1954

Luchino Visconti's masterpiece

SEPARATE TABLES

1958

Burt Lancaster-Deborah Kerr drama

SERGEANT YORK

1941

Gary Cooper as WWI hero

SERPICO 1973 Al Pacino as honest NYC cop

THE SET-UP

1949

washed up fighter R. Ryan won't take fall

SE7EN (SEVEN) 1995 detectives B. Pitt & M. Freeman go after serial killer

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS

1954

original screen musical w/Keel & Powell

SEVEN CHANCES

1925

classic Buster Keaton comedy

SEVEN DAYS IN MAY

1964

military tries to overthrow US gov't

THE SEVEN SAMURAI

1954

Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece

THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH

1955

Billy Wilder comedy w/Marilyn Monroe

THE SEVENTH CROSS

1944

Spencer Tracy flees concentration camp

THE SEVENTH SEAL

1957

Ingmar Bergman Swedish classic

THE SEVENTH VEIL 1945 Ann Todd is concert pianist with troubled past

THE SEVENTH VICTIM

1943

Val Lewton chiller w/Kim Hunter

THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD

1958

Ray Harryhausen fantasy classic

SHADOW OF A DOUBT

1943

Hitchcock profile of murderer in sm.town

SHALL WE DANCE

1937

classic Astaire-Rogers musical

SHANE

1953

Geo.Stevens' classic western w/Alan Ladd

SHANGHAI EXPRESS

1932

von Sternberg takes Dietrich on train ride

THE SHAPE OF WATER 2017 Oscar-winning fairy tale from Guillermo del Toro

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

1994

Tim Robbins & Morgan Freeman in King story

SHE DONE HIM WRONG

1933

the fabulous Mae West's best film

SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON

1949

the Duke in classic John Ford western

SHERLOCK, JR.

1924

classic Buster Keaton "silent" comedy

THE SHINING 1980 Kubrick adapts King with Nicholson starring

SHINING VICTORY

1941

romantic story w/Geraldine Fitzgerald

SHIP OF FOOLS

1965

all-star soap afloat w/Nazi theme

SHOCK CORRIDOR 1963 reporter fakes insanity to solve murder in Sam Fuller tale
SHOCKPROOF 1949 beautiful ex-con falls for her parole officer

SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER

1960

Francois Truffaut's second feature

THE SHOOTING

1967-71

absurdist western w/Jack Nicholson

THE SHOOTIST

1976

Wayne & Bacall in late Siegel western

THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER

1940

Ernst Lubitsch romantic comedy

THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET 1965 Eastern European tragicomedy set in WWII

SHOPWORN ANGEL

1938

Margaret Sullavan-James Stewart soaper

A SHOT IN THE DARK

1964

Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau

SHOW BOAT

1936

Ferber-Hammerstein-Kern musical directed by James Whale

SHOW BOAT

1951

remake w/Grayson, Keel & Warfield

SHOW PEOPLE

1928

King Vidor's "silent" look at H'wood

SID & NANCY 1986 Gary Oldman & Chloe Webb as Sid Vicious & Nancy Spungen

THE SIGN OF THE CROSS

1932

C.B.DeMille epic w/Claudette Colbert

SIGN OF THE PAGAN

1954

Douglas Sirk's version of Attila the Hun

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 1991 Jonathan Demme's Oscar-winning thriller

SILK STOCKINGS

1957

musical NINOTCHKA w/Fred Astaire

SIMON OF THE DESERT 1965 Luis Bunuel story of ascetic atop pillar in desert

SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET

1931

Helen Hayes' Oscar-winning performance

SINCE YOU WENT AWAY

1944

Selznick's soaper about WWII at home

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

1952

classic Gene Kelly musical

SINK THE BISMARCK!

1960

Brits hunt unsinkable WWII German battleship

SISTER KENNY

1946

Rosalind Russell fights infantile paralysis

SISTERS 1973 reporter tries to convince cops she saw murder; De Palma directs
SITTING PRETTY 1948 Clifton Webb as Mr. Belvedere, genius babysitter

SIXTEEN CANDLES

1984

John Hughes comedy w/Molly Ringwald

THE SKIN GAME 1931 Hitchcock adapts John Galsworthy
SLEEP, MY LOVE 1948 Douglas Sirk noir drama with Claudette Colbert

SLEEPER

1973

Woody Allen wakes up 200 years in future

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE

1993

Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romantic comedy

SLEUTH

1972

Olivier & Caine in intriguing mystery

SLIGHTLY FRENCH 1949 Douglas Sirk comedy with Dorothy Lamour & Don Ameche
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE 2008 Mumbai teen grows up in the slums, appears on quiz show

SMALL CHANGE

1976

Truffaut story about kids growing up

SMART MONEY

1931

Robinson & Cagney in crime drama

SMILE

1975

Michael Ritchie beauty pageant satire

SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT

1955

humorous Ingmar Bergman romantic tale

THE SMILING LIEUTENANT

1931

Lubitsch musical w/Chevalier & Colbert

SO FUNNY IT HURT: BUSTER KEATON AND MGM 2004 doc re:great comedian's decline at hands of ultimate movie factory

SOLARIS

1972

sci-fi masterpiece from Andrei Tarkovsky

SOME CAME RUNNING

1959

Minnelli directs Sinatra, MacLaine, Martin

SOME LIKE IT HOT

1959

Billy Wilder comedy w/Monroe& Lemmon

SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME

1956

Paul Newman as Rocky Graziano

SOMETHING OF VALUE

1957

Mau Mau uprising w/R.Hudson, S.Poitier

SON OF FRANKENSTEIN

1939

Karloff's last film as the legendary monster

THE SON OF THE SHEIK

1926

Rudolph Valentino "silent" classic

THE SONG OF BERNADETTE

1943

Jennifer Jones as peasant girl of Lourdes

THE SORROW AND THE PITY

1971

Marcel Ophuls' classic doc re: WWII France

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER

1948

Barbara Stanwyck suspense soaper

SOULS AT SEA

1937

ship tragedy w/Gary Cooper & Geo.Raft

SOUNDER

1972

Martin Ritt's study of sharecroppers

THE SOUTHERNER 1945 French director Jean Renoir's best US film

SPANISH EARTH

1937

Joris Ivens doc re: Spanish Civil War

SPARROWS

1926

"silent" melodrama w/Mary Pickford

SPARTACUS

1960

Kubrick's story of slave Kirk Douglas

SPEAK EASILY

1932

Buster Keaton speaks!

SPEEDY

1928

Harold Lloyd "silent" comedy

SPELLBOUND

1945

Hitchcock's psychological romance

THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE

1946

mystery w/Dorothy McGuire

THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE 1973 girl in Spain is obsessed w/Frankenstein monster
SPIRITED AWAY 2002 Miyazaki's animated modern masterpiece

SPITE MARRIAGE

1929

Buster Keaton's last "silent" is hilarious

SPLASH

1984

Speilberg fantasy w/Hanks & Hannah

SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS

1961

Elia Kazan drama w/Beatty & Wood

SPLIT SECOND

1953

hostages held in A-bomb test site

THE SPOILERS

1942

John Wayne & Marlene Dietrich in Yukon

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

1966

Richard Burton in LeCarre spy story

STAGE DOOR

1937

K. Hepburn in theatrical boarding house

STAGE DOOR CANTEEN

1943

WWII soldiers meet canteen hostesses

STAGE FRIGHT

1950

Hitchcock drama w/Jane Wyman, Dietrich

STAGECOACH

1939

John Ford classic western w/J.Wayne

STALAG 17

1953

POW camp drama w/William Holden

STALKER

1979

sci-fi masterpiece from Andrei Tarkovsky

STAND-IN

1937

Howard & Blondell in Hollywood comedy

A STAR IS BORN

1937

Janet Gaynor & Fredric March in H'wood

A STAR IS BORN

1954

Judy Garland & James Mason in H'wood

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN

1982

TV series' cast in 2nd --- & best --- film

STAR WARS 1977 George Lucas' original tale of outer space adventures

STAR WITNESS

1931

Walter Huston as idealistic D.A.

STARS IN MY CROWN

1950

Joel McCrea as minister in 19th-C. Amer.

STATE FAIR 1945

Rogers & Hammerstein musical set at Iowa State Fair

STATE OF THE UNION

1948

Tracy & Hepburn directed by Frank Capra

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.

1928

Buster Keaton "silent" comedy classic

THE STEAMROLLER AND THE VIOLIN

1960

Andrei Tarkovsky's short fable for adults

THE STEEL HELMET

1951

Sam Fuller's Korean War

STELLA DALLAS

1937

King Vidor classic w/Barbara Stanwyck

STELLA MARIS

1918

"silent" w/Mary Pickford playing 2 roles

THE STERILE CUCKOO

1969

early Liza Minnelli comedy-drama

STEVE McQUEEN: THE ESSENCE OF COOL 2005 doc re: life & career of great 1960s star

THE STING

1973

Newman & Redford Best Picture

STORMY WEATHER

1943

all-black musical w/Lena Horne & Bill Robinson

THE STORY OF ADELE H

1975

Francois Truffaut drama w/Isabelle Adjani

THE STORY OF G.I. JOE

1945

Mitchum's breakthru in story of WWII reporter

THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR

1936

Paul Muni as famed scientist

THE STORY OF VERNON & IRENE CASTLE

1939

Astaire-Rogers' final RKO film

THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS

1946

evil B. Stanwyck gets away with murder

THE STRANGER

1946

Orson Welles' study of escaped Nazi

STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR

1940

early film noir w/Peter Lorre

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN

1951

Hitchcock story of criss cross murder

STREET SCENE

1931

King Vidor's film of Pulitzer Prize-winning play

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

1951

Kazan classic w/Brando & Vivien Leigh

STRICTLY DISHONORABLE 1931 Preston Sturges' play about cad opera singer & young woman
STRIKE 1925 Sergei Eisenstein's debut film as a director

STRIKE UP THE BAND

1940

Busby Berkeley musical w/Garland & Rooney

STROMBOLI

1950

Ingrid Bergman in Rosselini drama

THE STRONG MAN

1926

early Capra comedy w/Harry Langdon

THE STUDENT PRINCE IN OLD HEIDELBERG

1927

Lubitsch "silent" comedy-romance

THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES

1968

Pat Neal & Martin Sheen in prize-winning play

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER

1959

E.Taylor & K.Hepburn do Tenn. Williams

THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS

1974

Spielberg takes Goldie Hawn across US

SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS

1941

Preston Sturges comedy w/Joel McCrea

SUMMER HOLIDAY

1948

Mamoulian musical w/Mickey Rooney

SUMMER STORM 1944 Douglas Sirk adaptation of Chekov with George Sanders

THE SUNDOWNERS

1960

Robert Mitchum-Deborah Kerr drama

SUNRISE

1927

F.W. Murnau "silent" masterpiece

SUNSET BLVD.

1950

Billy Wilder expose of H'wood w/Holden

THE SUNSHINE BOYS

1975

Walter Matthau & George Burns comedy

SUPERMAN

1978

Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel

SUPERMAN II

1980

Christopher Reeve, again & even better

THE SUSPECT

1944

Charles Laughton plots to kill his wife

SUSPICION

1941

Hitchcock suspenser w/Grant & Fontaine

SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH

1962

Paul Newman in Tennessee Williams play

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

1957

Burt Lancaster noir drama set in NYC

SWEETIE 1989 Jane Campion's 1st feature film involves 2 sisters

THE SWIMMER

1968

Burt Lancaster in Frank & Eleanor Perry film

SWING TIME

1936

Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers dancefest

 

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