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Saboteur 1942
An early prototype for the iconic North by Northwest this chase thriller sees the gentle and charming Robert Cummings, wrongly accused of being a spy, taking on the evil might of the Nazi empire. The climax of the pursuit at the Statue of Liberty is one of cinema's greatest set pieces
Sabrina 1954
Chauffeur's daughter Audrey Hepburn falls for a no-good playboy and warms the heart of his older, workaholic brother in Billy Wilder's star-studded Cinderella satire
Sacrifice, The 1986
The final statement from one of the 20th century's greatest directors. A haunting, stark and beautiful reflection on the ephemeral nature of reality
Salo, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom 1975
Pasolini's last film (he was killed shortly before its release) portrays some of the most intensely brutal, sadistic scenes imaginable. Intelligent, provactive and deeply, deeply unpleasant
Salvador 1986
Slegehammer polemic from Oliver Stone based on the experiences of real-life journalist Richard Boyle, who found himself in a civil war in El Salvador in 1980. Brutally powerful
Sand Pebbles, The 1966
Powerful naval epic set in turbulent 1920s China. Supported by Dickie Attenborough and Candice Bergen, Steve McQueen received one of the film's eight Oscar nominations for his portrayal of a headstrong sailor who inadvertently sparks an international incident
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning 1960
A very young Albert Finney makes his debut as a prototypically Angry Young Man in this ground-breaking piece of Social Realism - experimental for its time, and still a fascinating study of youthful post-war disaffection
Saturday Night Fever 1977
Classic 70s disco movie, with a star-making turn from John Travolta, that explores the simmering frustrations of youth to the most memorable of soundtracks
Saving Private Ryan 1998
Spielberg shockingly takes you into the heart of the D-Day landings action before following everyman soldier Tom Hanks on his Boy's Own mission into enemy territory
Say It Isn't So 2001
Boy meets girl. Boy shags girl. Boy finds out girl is his sister. From the makers of Dumb And Dumber comes a taste-free farce about keeping it in the family
Scarlet Street 1945
Classic film noir from Fritz Lang. Heavily censored on first release for its sordid, cynical storyline, it's a masterpiece of the very bleakest stripe
Scary Movie 2000
Miramax horror spoof cash-in on their own Scream franchise, co-starring, co-written and directed by sundry members of the Wayans family
Scary Movie 2 2001
A sequel that has less to do with frights and fun than with Miramax milking their unexpected cash cow for all it's worth
Scooby-Doo 2002
Scooby-Doo and those pesky kids hit the screen in this lacklustre mix of live action and computer animation starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr
Score 1995
Reservoir Dogs meets Hard Boiled in a brutal but brazenly derivative thriller. Eye-wateringly violent throughout, it claims to push back the boundaries of Japanese cinema
Scorpion King, The 2002
Spin-off from the modern Mummy films set "before the time of the pyramids". Wrestler The Rock stars as a formidable assassin taking on the might of an all-conquering empire
Scream 1996
The film that kicked off not just a trilogy, but a whole subgenre of postmodern teen slashers. Smart, innovative, funny and downright scary
Scream 2 1997
Wes Craven's knowing and popular horror trilogy reaches its second instalment. Pretty much more of the same: perky youths, geeky gags and bloody knives
Scream 3 2000
Murders in Hollywood provide a suitable setting for the climactic part of the definitive postmodern slasher trilogy
Scrooge 1951
A stodgy adaptation of Charles Dickens' hardy perennial that does little justice to its source material. Bah! Humbug!
Secret Ballot 2001
A ballot box parachutes out of the sky and lands among an indifferent electorate in this absurdly comic look at democracy from Iran
Servant, The 1963
Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter's profoundly unsettling depiction of class war and moral corruption in swinging London. Playboy James Fox employs Dirk Bogarde as his manservant but gradually their roles are reversed
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers 1954
Seven Year Itch, The 1955
When his family go away for the summer, one man is tempted by his beautiful neighbour, Marilyn Monroe. And who can blame him?
Sex And Lucia 2001
A lusty, daring and hypnotic tale of love's strange ways from the Basque magic-realist-cum-surrealist, Julio Medem
Sex, Lies And Videotape 1989
Steven Soderbergh's feature debut concerns the shifting sexual attitudes and power structures of a group of four Americans, including James Spader and Andie MacDowell
Sexy Beast 2000
Ex-criminal Ray Winstone's idyllic retirement is disrupted when Ben Kingsley asks, nay demands, that he do one more job. Another Brit-gangster flick. No wait, come back!
Shadow Of A Doubt 1943
One of Hitchcock's best films from the war years. Dark and suggestive, it anticipates David Lynch's Blue Velvet with it's skewed view of a seemingly ideal small town filled with dysfunctional families and wandering psychotics
Shadow Of The Vampire 2000
This fabulous gothic yarn and homage to silent cinema takes the premise that Nosferatu actor Max Schreck was indeed a vampire to gleefully gloomy heights. Stars John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe
Shaft 1971
Clad in leather and cruising the streets of New York to the wah-wahing of Isaac Hayes' classic funk score, Richard Roundtree is the original black private dick, John Shaft
Shaft 2000
Chaotic update of the original 70s blaxploitation flick. An Armani-clad Samuel L Jackson stars, while Richard Roundtree appears as the uncle - the first John Shaft
Shaft's Big Score! 1972
Follow-up to Shaft, with the man finding himself in the middle of a gang war. The grit of the original is replaced by cranked-up sex and violence
Shakespeare Wallah 1965
Early Merchant-Ivory film based around the adventures of an English theatre company touring India. Felicity Kendal stars as the budding English rose who falls for playboy Sashi Kapoor
Shallow Grave 1994
A twisted, funny thriller from the director of Trainspotting. Features Ewan McGregor before he was a megastar and (a lamentably naked) Keith Allen
Shallow Hal 2001
Gross-out humour goes all mushy in the Farrelly brothers' romantic comedy about a "shallow" guy who falls in love with a 300-pound fatty - because he can only see her inner beauty
Shanghai Noon 2000
Entertaining and highly kinetic East meets Western starring the indestructible Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson and Lucy Liu
Shaolin Drunkard 1983
Directed by Crouching Tiger/Matrix choreographer Woo-PingYeun this is one of the 70s loopiest kung fu comedies. Murderous toads, fire-breathing puppets, impromptu cosmetic surgery and serious drinking make for a kick-ass comic killer
Shawshank Redemption, The 1994
Mugged at the Oscars by Forrest Gump, this irresistible prison drama promotes the unquenchable human spirit with an intelligence that the gooey Gump readily sacrificed
She Devils On Wheels 1968
"Guts as hard as the steel of their "hogs"! Soft, Hell!". Exploitation mastermind Herschell Gordon Lewis turned his unique filmmaking talents to the biker genre with this tire-burning, fist-fighting, man-eating classic
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon 1949
John Wayne plays a cavalry captain facing up to imminent retirement in John Ford's elegaic Western. The centrepiece of the trilogy kicked off with Fort Apache and closed with Rio Grande
Sheltering Sky, The 1990
Disappointing adaptation of Paul Bowles' classic novel of alienation and illness in Morocco. Stars John Malkovich, Timothy Spall and Debra Winger
Shiner 2000
Michael Caine does Shakespearean tragedy, East End style. A spot-on performance bolsters this suitably seedy, but slightly lacklustre production
Shining, The 1980
Stanley Kubrick's atmospheric adaptation of a Stephen King tale. Jack Nicholson stars, in maniacal, terrifying form
Shinjuku Triad Society 1995
Life is cheap on the streets of Shinjuku in this early Takashi Miike Yakuza thriller
Shivers 1975
David Cronenberg's first commercial film. A horror tale of parasites invading the bodies of residents of a luxury tower block, turning them into sex-mad zombies
Shocker 1989
Crazed killer Horace Pinker is condemned to the electric chair but emerges as an empowered body-shifting demon. Wes Craven's transitional film after the hugely successful 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series
Shogun Assassin 1980
A spellbinding and gracefully violent Samurai epic created by re-editing, dubbing and re-scoring the first two episodes in the Japanese 'Baby Cart' series
Shooters 2001
Fresh out of prison, Irish ex-con Gilly is swiftly embroiled in the London underworld of drugs, guns and violence in this low-budget crime thriller in the Lock Stock mould
Shooting Fish 1997
Good-natured British romantic comedy about two con artists and the woman they both fall for. Colourful, low budget fun from writer-director Stefan Schwartz, ironically hindered by its own modesty
Shrek 2001
Hilarious, irreverent digitally-animated fable from the makers of Antz. A Scottish ogre, a talking donkey, a midget tyrant, a princess with a secret and a whole raft of fairy-tale characters poke fun at uptightness and dole out liberalism
Sicilian, The 1987
Ludicrous would-be epic with a miscast Christopher Lambert as an Italian Robin Hood. This muddle is a far cry from The Deer Hunter's director's triumphant early work
Signs 2002
M Night Shyamalan continues his run of moody, broody pictures with this tale of a crisis of faith, set against the backdrop of an alien invasion. Mel Gibson is the star frowner
Silence, The 1963
Is there anybody out there? No. Classic, uncompromisingly sombre and thoughtful Bergman
Silver Bullet 1985
Panic grips the small town of Tarker's Mills as a series of vicious murders threaten the local inhabitants and prompt vigilante action. Based on the Stephen King novelette 'Cycle of the Werewolf'
Singin' In The Rain 1952
Gloriously exuberant and abidingly popular musical from the 1950s heyday. Stanley Donen's film sets the Gene Kelly/Debbie Reynolds romance against the fascinating backdrop of the coming of sound in movies
Sirens 1994
Erotic, enjoyable and easy on the eye, this Australian soft porno/ religious pot boiler stars Hugh Grant and Elle Macpherson
Sixth Sense, The 1999
Writer-director M Night Shyamalan's massive sleeper hit. A sombre tale of the supernatural with real humanity and a superb twist, starring Bruce Willis and newcomer Haley Joel Osment
Skulls, The 2000
Something's rotten in the state of New England. A strangely watchable, but undoubtedly bad conspiracy theory pot-boiler
Sleepless 2000
A return to the 'giallo' genre for horror deity Dario Argento. The 'killer dwarf' is back in Turin, up to his murdering ways again after a 17-year absence
Sleuth 1972
Lawrence Olivier and Michael Caine star in an Acting World Championship
that's also an excellent thriller with more twists than Brands Hatch
Sliding Doors 1998
Gwyneth Paltrow stars as the London publicist sliding between parallel story lines set in alternate realities. The physics is complicated but the film's simply a good old romantic comedy
Small Time Crooks 2000
A botched bank job spawns a winning cookie corporation and rapid social climbing in this classic new comedy from Woody Allen
Smallest Show on Earth, The 1957
A young couple inherit a decrepit cinema from a long-forgotten uncle and, with a staff of old-aged eccentrics, attempt to revive its fortunes
Smiles Of A Summer Night 1955
Winner of the best poetic humour award at Cannes in 1956, this is an appealing comedy of manners with Bergman, the master of Swedish cinema, demonstrating a surprising deftness and lightness of touch
Snatch 2000
It's heists, bareknuckle boxers, scary gangsters and the familiar bumbling London petty criminals in the second offering from the man who is to blame for kicking off the 90s lad mag crime caper
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs 1937
One of the all-time great Disney animations, and an unexpectedly resonant story, with oh-so-demure Snow White brilliantly counterpoised by the Wicked Queen and those great character 'actors' - the Dwarfs
Society 1989
Notorious late 1980s fable that undergoes a transition from soapy melodrama to astonishing horror as its teen hero unearths the truth about his wealthy family
Solaris 1972
Enigmatic and profound Soviet sci-fi psychodrama. A deeply moving exploration of loss, memory and longing, and a fine response to the challenge laid down by 2001: A Space Odyssey
Solas 1999
A sombre portrayal of a dysfunctional family in working-class Seville from Andalusian writer-director Benito Zambrano. Marred by a contrived resolution, but otherwise it's a film with a sense of real anguish
Soldier of Orange 1977
Rutger Hauer stars in Paul Verhoeven's award-winning WWII epic. Lengthy, lurid but also sensitive to character, it follows a group of students as they take opposing sides in Nazi-occupied Holland
Some Kind Of Wonderful 1987
A classy teen drama from king of the prom flicks, John Hughes. When her best friend starts dating the most popular girl in school, our misfit tomboy heroine suddenly realises she loves him
Some Like It Hot 1959
A script crackling with ideas and gags, and uniformly assured performances, with Tony Curtis's triple characterization in particular a revelation. Marilyn Monroe reputedly fluffed take after take, but the result was still a real gem
Son's Room, The 2001
Finely acted tale of a family thrown into turmoil by a personal tragedy, from Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti. Its virtues of directness, simplicity and universality make for a work of considerable emotional power
Sonatine 1993
Stunning, violent gang war thriller from Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano who stars as a disillusioned hit man
Sound Of Music, The 1965
How do you solve a problem like the Nazis? By becoming the von Trapp Family Singers and hoodwinking the SS with your floral costume and patriotic songs, of course
South 1919
The steadfast courage of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 polar expedition was captured brilliantly by Frank Hurley and has been loving restored for this BFI release
South West Nine 2001
A vibrant tale of mixed-up Brixton life from feature film newcomer Richard Parry, displaying both narrative and visual confidence. He elicits some entertaining performances from his youthful cast
Space Cowboys 2000
A lovingly-rendered tribute to the Golden Age of space travel with a distinguished cast that is hopelessly out of time and out of tune
Spaceballs 1987
Tired Star Wars parody made ten years after the original film was released. About as funny as watching your grandmother fall under a bus
Spartacus 1960
The essential historical epic, and a forebear of Gladiator, this tale of a slave rebellion from Kubrick and producer/star Kirk Douglas is a true classic, despite its wearying length
Speed 1994
50 mph action thriller. A simple plot is made tense and compelling thanks to some tight direction and excellent performances from Dennis Hopper and an unusually perky Keanu Reeves
Spellbound 1945
An Alfred Hitchcock and David O Selznick collaboration heavily influenced by psychoanalytic theory. Overwrought, melodramatic, implausible and absolutely superb entertainment
Sphere 1998
A team of 'experts' is sent to investigate a mysterious alien craft, which is marooned at the bottom of the ocean
Spider-Man 2002
Tobey Maquire dons the familiar red and blue costume of "your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man" for this adaptation of the much-loved comic book. Sam Raimi directs
Spoorloos 1988
Memorably chilling Dutch tale of abduction, obsession and psychosis. Immaculately crafted, understated, compelling and downright frightening
Spy Game 2001
In this slick espionage thriller from director Tony Scott, Robert Redford plays an ageing CIA operative with just 12 hours to save his young protégé, played by Brad Pitt, from execution in a Chinese jail
Spy Kids 2001
Primary-coloured action as precocious sprogs set off to rescue their secret agent parents from an evil genius bent on world domination. Desperado director Robert Rodriguez takes the helm
Stalker 1979
Typically slow, meditative epic from Russian master Tarkovsky. A guide leads two men into the mysterious Zone, on a quest to realise their deepest wishes
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986
The ageing stars of the original TV series get another outing, this time time-warping back to 1980s San Francisco to fetch a whale. Director Leonard Nimoy angles for laughs. You'd have to really
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 1999
The tale of a young Obi-Wan Kenobi and the boy who would become Darth Vader. Despite its faults there's still plenty to intrigue and entertain Star Wars fanatics in the first instalment of the new trilogy
Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones 2002
Light years ahead of the calamitous The Phantom Menace. George Lucas' space opera franchise gets back on track with Anakin Skywalker's drift toward the dark side of the Force
Stargate 1994
Writing-producing-directing team Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin cross-breed matinee pulp with militaristic sci-fi to create this untaxing romp about a device that transports a gang of Americans to an ancient Egypt-style alien world
Starman 1984
A not entirely deserving flop from Escape From New York director John Carpenter. Jeff Bridges plays an alien on the run from the authorities who becomes increasingly attracted to earth women
Starship Troopers 1997
Paul
Verhoeven's satire is so cutting it even makes fun of its target
audience. Turning World War II on its head and blasting it off into
space, the 'good guys' are a bunch of fascists intent on annihilating
a race of alien invaders. There's sick violence inflicted on beautiful bodies and
one hell of a lot of nuke action.
State and Main 2000
David Mamet lays into the shits behind the glitz in Hollywood with precision and bile while giving a rose tinted portrayal of small town naivety
Stir Crazy 1980
A pleasantly ludicrous prison comedy starring two great comedians, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, at the peak of their powers. Features cinema's funniest ever chicken impression
Stir Of Echoes 1999
Successfully spooky Hollywood film starring Kevin Bacon as an ordinary joe who starts experiencing disconcerting visions after being hypnotised. A similarly-themed contemporary of The Sixth Sense
Stormriders, The 1998
Hong Kong martial arts action blockbuster that redeems an addled and predictably daft story through its self conscious mimicry of videogames
Storytelling 2001
Two stories consider the art of storytelling with frequent hilarity, but with a questionable treatment of controversial subject matter. It's a quality film, but one of dubious virtue
Straight Story, The 1999
A langruous, lyrical gem from Twin Peaks director David Lynch. Based on a true story, it follows Alvin Straight as he travels 350 miles on the back of a lawnmower to visit his sick brother
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