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2001: A Space Odyssey
A 1968 British-American science fiction film tracing humanity's contact with a mysterious black monolith from prehistory through a Jupiter mission gone awry.
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List of Movies That Contain S
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Asylum
A 2005 British-Irish romantic drama directed by David Mackenzie about the wife of a psychiatrist at a 1950s mental hospital who begins a destructive affair with a patient.
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Casablanca
A 1942 American romantic drama set in wartime Morocco, where a jaded American expatriate must choose between love and the anti-Nazi resistance.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
A 1982 American science fiction film about a suburban California boy who befriends a stranded alien and helps him return to his home planet.
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Forrest Gump
A 1994 American comedy-drama following a slow-witted but kind-hearted Alabama man whose life intersects with several decades of American historical events.
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Goodfellas
A 1990 American crime film tracing the rise and fall of New York mob associate Henry Hill from his 1950s youth to his 1980 turn as a federal witness.
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I Am Sam
A 2001 American drama directed by Jessie Nelson about an intellectually disabled father who battles in court to retain custody of his seven-year-old daughter.
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Interstellar
A 2014 American science fiction film about a former NASA pilot leading an expedition through a wormhole in search of a habitable replacement for Earth.
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It's a Wonderful Life
A 1946 American Christmas fantasy about a despairing small-town banker shown by a guardian angel what the world would have been without him.
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Jaws
A 1975 American thriller about a beach-town police chief, a marine scientist, and a fisherman hunting a great white shark off the New England coast.
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Jurassic Park
A 1993 American science fiction film about a tropical-island theme park stocked with cloned dinosaurs that escape containment during a preview visit.
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Knives Out
A 2019 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson about a Southern detective investigating the suspicious death of a wealthy crime novelist surrounded by self-interested heirs.
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Mary Poppins
A 1964 American musical fantasy about a magical English nanny who arrives at a strained Edwardian London household and rearranges its priorities.
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North by Northwest
A 1959 American spy thriller about a Madison Avenue advertising executive mistaken for a government agent and pursued across the country.
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Psycho
A 1960 American horror thriller about a secretary on the run who stops at an isolated motel run by a disturbed young man and his mother.
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Quills
A 2000 American historical drama directed by Philip Kaufman about the Marquis de Sade's final years in the Charenton asylum near Paris and his battle to keep writing.
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Quiz Show
A 1994 American historical drama directed by Robert Redford about the 1950s television quiz show scandals, focusing on the rigged NBC program Twenty-One.
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Quo Vadis
A 1951 American epic historical drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy about a Roman general who falls in love with a Christian woman during the reign of Emperor Nero.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
A 1981 American adventure about an archaeologist hired by US intelligence to recover the Ark of the Covenant before Nazi expeditions can find it first.
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Rebel Without a Cause
A 1955 American drama about a troubled high-school transfer student navigating one volatile night with two equally unmoored classmates in suburban Los Angeles.
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Sanctum
A 2011 Australian-American 3D adventure thriller directed by Alister Grierson about a group of cave divers trapped in a vast Papua New Guinea cave system after a tropical storm.
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Sansho Dayu
A 1954 Japanese period drama directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, often released abroad as Sansho the Bailiff, about a Heian-era family torn apart and sold into slavery.
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Saving Private Ryan
A 1998 American war film following an Army Ranger unit ordered to find and bring home a paratrooper whose three brothers have been killed in action.
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Schindler's List
A 1993 American historical drama about Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who used his Krakow factories to protect more than a thousand Jewish workers from Nazi extermination.
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Singin' in the Rain
A 1952 American musical comedy about a silent-film studio scrambling to adapt to the sudden arrival of talking pictures in 1927 Hollywood.
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Sleepy Hollow
A 1999 American gothic horror film directed by Tim Burton, very loosely adapting Washington Irving's 1820 short story about a New York town haunted by a headless horseman.
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Sleuth
A 1972 British mystery thriller directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz adapting Anthony Shaffer's stage play, in which a successful mystery writer invites his wife's lover to his English country house.
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Some Like It Hot
A 1959 American comedy about two Chicago musicians who witness a mob killing and flee disguised as women in a touring all-female band.
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Star Wars
A 1977 American space-opera adventure about a farm boy, a smuggler, and a princess fighting to deliver stolen battle-station plans to a galactic rebellion.
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Step Up
A 2006 American dance romance film directed by Anne Fletcher about a Baltimore street dancer who is paired with a classically trained student at the Maryland School of the Arts.
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Sunset Boulevard
A 1950 American film noir about a failed Hollywood screenwriter who becomes entangled with a forgotten silent-film star living in faded grandeur.
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The Avengers
A 2012 American superhero film bringing together six Marvel heroes to repel an alien army led by Thor's adopted brother Loki against New York.
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The Empire Strikes Back
A 1980 American space-opera sequel in which the Rebel Alliance scatters under Imperial pursuit while a young Jedi trains under an ancient master.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
A 2001 New Zealand-American fantasy epic about a hobbit who inherits a dangerous magical ring and joins a quest to destroy it in the fires of its making.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
A 2003 New Zealand-American fantasy epic concluding the quest as the armies of the West confront Sauron while the ring approaches Mount Doom.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
A 2002 New Zealand-American fantasy epic following the splintered fellowship as armies of Saruman threaten the kingdom of Rohan and the journey east continues.
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The Maltese Falcon
A 1941 American film noir about a San Francisco private detective drawn into a hunt for a jewel-encrusted statuette of legendary value.
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The Shawshank Redemption
A 1994 American prison drama about a wrongfully convicted banker who endures two decades inside a Maine penitentiary while quietly engineering an escape.
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The Silence of the Lambs
A 1991 American psychological thriller about a young FBI trainee consulting an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist to catch a serial killer on the run.
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The Sound of Music
A 1965 American musical about a young Austrian postulant who becomes governess to a naval officer's seven children on the eve of the Nazi annexation.
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The Stuff
A 1985 American satirical horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen about a creamy, sugar-free dessert that turns out to be a parasitic organism consuming its consumers.
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West Side Story
A 1961 American musical updating Romeo and Juliet to 1950s Manhattan, where rival white and Puerto Rican street gangs collide around a love affair.
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Whiplash
A 2014 American drama written and directed by Damien Chazelle about an ambitious jazz drummer at an elite New York conservatory and his abusive bandleader.
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