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  • Ruggles of Red Gap

    Comedy starring Charles Laughton. When upstanding English butler Marmaduke Ruggles is gambled away by his aristocrat employer to a small-town American couple, his life changes immeasurably.
  • Safety Last!

    Classic silent comedy starring Harold Lloyd. A young man goes to the city to seek his fortune and thereby win his sweetheart's hand. After landing a clerical job in a department store, he talks his boss into hiring a "human fly" to climb the building as a publicity stunt, but has to act as a stand-in when the stuntman is arrested. Image © Alamy.
  • Le Samouraï

    Thriller starring Alain Delon. A contract killer commits a murder, unperturbed by the presence of witnesses. Within a short time, he is himself the target on the run from the unknown man who commissioned his services, and from a dogged policeman.
  • Scarface

    Crime drama starring Paul Muni. Low-level thug Tony Camonte becomes a major figure in Chicago's south side mob through his ruthless violence, as well as his willingness to betray his allies and superiors. But he has one major weakness: his beloved sister.
  • Schindler's List

    Steven Spielberg's classic biographical drama starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes. In 1939, businessman Oskar Schindler, a Gentile, comes to Krakow with the idea of getting rich quickly by using cheap Jewish labour in his factory supplying the German war effort. As Jewish persecution spreads throughout Europe, Schindler, although a close associate of SS officers, finds it worth his while to protect his workers from the escalating evil around him.
  • Scream

    Black comedy horror starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich and Drew Barrymore. A group of teenagers targeted by an obsessive horror fanatic pays the ultimate price for failing to answer his film-trivia questions.
  • Scrooge

    Classic version of Charles Dickens's tale, starring Alastair Sim. On Christmas Eve, a tight-fisted businessman is visited by three ghosts who remind him of the true spirit of the season.
  • Sense and Sensibility

    Period romantic drama, based on the novel by Jane Austen. Emma Thompson writes and stars with Kate Winslet in the story of the Dashwood sisters, who are disinherited following the death of their father and find that their reduced circumstances have an adverse effect on their romantic aspirations.
  • Se7en

    Crime thriller starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Veteran detective William Somerset and his new partner, rookie David Mills, discover alarming evidence that links two gruesome murders - a serial killer is working his way through the seven deadly sins and there are five more brutal killings to come.
  • Seven Samurai

    Classic action drama starring Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune. In the 16th century, the inhabitants of a small Japanese village hire samurai warriors to defend their property from an annual raid by ruthless bandits.
  • Shallow Grave

    Black comedy drama starring Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGregor. Three friends are seeking a fourth person to share their well appointed flat in Edinburgh, and think they have found the ideal candidate in Hugo. But they soon discover that Hugo is not all he seems, and their friendship is under threat.
  • Shaun of the Dead

    Comedy horror starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. On the day north London slacker Shaun decides to sort his life out, the dead rise and the city becomes overrun with zombies. Can Shaun and best mate Ed fight off the marauding hordes of the undead and win back Shaun's girlfriend? Or will they just go down the pub?
  • The Silence of the Lambs

    Classic psychological thriller starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. Promising FBI student Clarice Starling is assigned to help in the search for the serial killer known as "Buffalo Bill", a brutal murderer who skins the bodies of his female victims. Starling seeks the assistance of Dr Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, a sociopathic former psychiatrist held in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane.
  • Singin' in the Rain

    Classic musical comedy starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor. Silent film stars Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the golden couple of 1920s Hollywood. However, when "talkies" become all the rage, prima donna Lina is shown up by the new technology and aspiring actress Kathy Selden is called in to dub her voice.
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Classic animation with the voice of Adriana Caselotti. When an evil queen learns that her beauty has but one rival, she attempts to kill the fair and innocent Snow White, who escapes to the forest and moves in with seven dwarfs. The tranquility she finds there is threatened when the queen redoubles her efforts.
  • Some Like It Hot

    Classic comedy starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Chicago, 1929, the era of Prohibition and tough racketeers. When two underemployed musicians witness the St Valentine's Day Massacre, they nearly become victims themselves. Their only escape is a jazz band heading for Florida, but there's a problem - it's an all-girl orchestra.
  • Sonatine

    Crime drama starring Takeshi Kitano. High-ranking Tokyo yakuza enforcer Murakawa is sent to Okinawa to settle a dispute between two clans. When the situation breaks down, Murakawa and his fellow mobsters flee and lay low on the coast, waiting for trouble to find them again.
  • The Sound of Music

    Classic family musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. When trainee nun Maria begins to have doubts about her vocation, she leaves her convent in Salzburg to become governess to the seven children of Captain Von Trapp, a widower and retired naval officer. The spirited Maria instils a love of music in the children, but the family's happiness is threatened by the Nazi occupation of Austria.
  • The Souvenir

    Romantic drama starring Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke and Tilda Swinton. In 1980s London, film student Julie begins a relationship with the affluent, worldly Foreign Office employee Anthony. Though the romance starts off well enough, Anthony's behaviour becomes increasingly strange when the couple move in together, and Julie begins to suspect that her partner is merely using her for money.
  • Stagecoach

    Classic western starring John Wayne and Claire Trevor. The Ringo Kid, a fugitive from justice, joins an assortment of passengers on the stagecoach to Lordsburg, a journey that takes them through Native American territory.
  • A Star Is Born

    Musical drama starring Judy Garland and James Mason. Celebrated screen star Norman Maine is saved from drunkenly making a fool of himself in public by struggling young singer Esther Blodgett. Impressed by her talent, Maine encourages her to try the movies, little knowing that Esther's spectacular rise to stardom will mirror his own spectacular fall.
  • Star Wars Episode IV: a New Hope

    Sci-fi fantasy adventure starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. In a galaxy far, far away, Princess Leia is captured by Darth Vader while trying to steal the plans of the evil Empire's new secret weapon. Meanwhile, on the desert planet of Tatooine, young Luke Skywalker discovers her plight and, in the company of two robots and former Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, sets off to rescue her.
  • Stop Making Sense

    Concert documentary in which Talking Heads perform 16 songs from across their first five studio albums at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983.
  • Strictly Ballroom

    Romantic comedy drama starring Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice. The staid world of regional ballroom dancing in Australia is scandalised when spirited Scott Hastings becomes determined to break with tradition and devise his own steps. His maverick attitude alienates those closest to him and only a dowdy beginner is willing to devote herself to helping Scott perform his exciting choreography, though he proves less than grateful for her assistance.
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