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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.
If you've been searching for movies that start with S, you'll find 11 detailed movies below. We're not interested in giving you only a list of names — every entry on this page links to a full profile with the kind of detail you'd actually want to know.
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List of Movies That Start With S
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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.
About movies starting with S
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