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Saints and Soldiers [2004] Genre: Action / War / Drama / Adventure
Tagline: Trapped behind enemy lines. All they have is their hope.
Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma / 100 Days of Sodom [1975]Genre: Drama / Horror / War
Tagline: The 120 Days of Sodom
Plot Outline: Four fascist libertines round up 9 teenages boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture.
The Salton Sea [2002] Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: If You're Looking For The Truth, You've Come To The Wrong Place.
Plot Outline: After his wife is murdered, a man drifts into a world populated by thugs and speed junkies.
Samurai: Musashi Miyamoto [1954]Genre: Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Plot Outline: With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town's wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle.
Samurai: Duel at Ichijoji Temple [1955]Genre: Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Plot Outline: After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto.
Samurai: Duel at Ganryu Island / Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhen: kettô Ganryûjima [1956]Genre: Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Plot Outline: A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun.
Samurai Wolf / Kiba okaminosuke [1966] [Japan]Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Plot Synopsis:
This is the story of a vagrant samura‹- the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba- who arrives at a village to defense a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samura‹, named Sana‹, who is without scruples.
The fight between them will become personal, for the honor and love of the blind woman.
Samurai Wolf 2 / Kiba okaminosuke jigoku giri [1967] [Japan]Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Plot Synopsis:
This second adventure of Kiba surpasses the first on several levels. The pessimism you only glimpsed in Samurai Wolf 1 is overtly present here. However hard Kiba fights and tries to save everyone, he is just one man and can't stop the black face of the human heart from surfacing.
Even though you are not a big fan of the genre, this Hideo Gosha flick is not to be missed.
Saving Face [2004]Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Tagline: A romantic comedy about right, wrong and everything in between.
Plot Outline: A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Saving Private Ryan [1998] Genre: Action / Drama / War
Tagline: In the Last Great Invasion of the Last Great War, The Greatest Danger for Eight Men was Saving... One.
Plot Outline: Based on a World War II drama. US soldiers try to save their comrade, paratrooper Private Ryan, who's stationed behind enemy lines.
Scarface [1983] Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name...SCARFACE.
Plot Outline: In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug empire while succumbing to greed.
The Scent of Green Papaya / Mùi du du Xanh / L'odeur de la Papaye Verte [1993]Genre: Drama
Plot Outline:
Mui goes to live with a pianist who has a fiance. The pianist and Mui have a relationship, and he teaches her to read.
School for Scoundrels [2006]Genre: Comedy
Tagline: Too nice? Too honest? Too *you*? Help is on the way.
Plot Outline: A young guy short on luck, enrolls in a class to build confidence to help win over the girl of his dreams, which becomes complicated when his teacher has the same agenda.
The Science of Sleep / La Science Des Rêves [2006] Genre: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance Tagline: Close your eyes. Open your heart. Plot Outline: A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Scoop [2006]Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Mystery
Tagline: The perfect man. The perfect story. The perfect murder.
Plot Outline: An American journalism student (Johansson) in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat (Jackman) as the incident unfurls.
The Score [2001] Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller
There are no partners in crime
Plot Outline: An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.
Scream [1996] Genre: Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Don't Answer The Phone. Don't Open The Door. Don't Try To Escape.
Plot Outline: A psychopathic serial killer is stalking a group of teens just like in the movies!
Scream 2 [1997] Genre: Horror / Mystery / Thriller
There's a student out of bed. If they don't find him or her, the screams will only double!
Plot Outline: It has been two years since the tragic events at Woodsboro. Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives.
Scream 3 [2000] Genre: Comedy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: The Third and Final chapter in the trilogy that made you laugh, and made you Scream.
Plot Outline: Sidney visits the set of "Stab 3," after pictures of her mother become the clue to a series of murders around Hollywood.
The Sea Inside / Mar adentro [2004] Genre: Biography / Drama
Plot Outline: The real-life story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
Secret Window [2004] Genre: Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: Some windows should never be opened.
Plot Outline: A writer is accused for plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for "justice."
Secretary [2002]enre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Tagline: Assume the position.
Plot Outline: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Senso `45 [2002] Genre: Drama
Soredemo hoshii [Japan]
Plot Outline: Trapped in an unhappy marriage, the wife of a high ranking Fascist official starts a dangerous, self-destructive relationship with a duplicitous S.S. Officer.
Serenity / Firefly [2005]Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: Can't stop the signal.
Plot Outline: The film follows the ship Serenity's crew as it tries to evade an alliance assassin sent to recapture the telepath River. The crew must discover the mystery of the planet Miranda while avoiding alliance and reever ships. Eventually the crew must defend the entrance to a galaxy-wide broadcasting station.
Seven [1995] Genre: Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
Plot Outline: Police drama about two cops, one new and one about to retire, after a serial killer using the seven deadly sins as his MO.
The Seven Year Itch [1955] Genre: Comedy / Romance
Tagline: It TICKLES and TANTALIZES! - The funniest comedy since laughter began!
Plot Outline: When his family goes away for the summer, a so far faithful husband is tempted by a beautiful neighbor (Marilyn Monroe).
Sex and Lucia / Lucía y el sexo [2003]
Genre: Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Sex & the Beauties / Sing Gam Diy Shut [2004] Genre: Comedy / Romance
Plot Outline: Like the groundbreaking television series SEX AND THE CITY, this funny, sexy comedy focuses on the lives of a group of women friends in Hong Kong, who gather regularly to talk about sex and the men in their lives.
Info: Wong Jing takes on Sex and the City
Sex with Love / Sexo Con Amor [2003 / 2006][Chile]Genre: Comedy
Plot Summary:
While discussing how their children's school should teach fourth grade sex education, several parents are forced to examine their own ideas about sex. SEX WITH LOVE explores what happens between three couples when both partners make efforts (within and outside of the marriage) to reawaken their senses and indulge their most primal desires.
SEXtet [2007]Genre: Comedy / Romance
Tagline: Cheap Sexfilm by Eddy Terstall
Plot Outline:
Feature film about love and relationships in Amsterdam, consisting of an ingeniously interwoven plot of several stories and characters. Together with the feature SIMON (2004) this one is part of Terstall's trilogy about the liberties of the present Dutch society.
Sexy Teacher [2006][Korea]Genre: Comedy
Synopsis
Beautiful, sexy Ji-young is placed at an all boys’ high school as student-teacher. Teenage boys in puberty think of her as a sex goddess and fantasize about her. Then from one of the classrooms, Dean of Students sees a silhouette of a couple embracing and hears a woman moaning. He goes to the classroom only to discover a pair of red stilettos. He suspects Ji-young and is resolved to protect the boys from her sexual charms.
Shadowboxer [2005]Genre: Drama / Thriller / Crime
Tagline: Feeling Protected Is Very Seductive
Plot Outline: When Rose, a female assassin, is diagnosed with terminal cancer; she decides to carry out one final killing, assisted by lover and also stepson, Mickey.
Shaolin Soccer / Siu lam juk kau [2003] Genre: Action / Comedy / Sport
Tagline: Kick some grass!
Plot Outline: A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
Shaun of the Dead [2004]Genre: Comedy / Horror / Romance
Tagline: It's just one of those days when you're feeling a little...dead.
Plot Outline: A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
The Shawshank Redemption [1994] Genre: Drama
Tagline: Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Plot Outline: The life of Andy Dufresne changes when he is convicted and jailed for the murder of his wife.
SherryBaby [2006]Genre: Drama
Tagline: No one makes it alone.
Plot Summary: Sherry Swanson returns home to New Jersey after serving a three year prison sentence. Eager to reestablish a relationship with her young daughter.
Shindler’s List [1993] Genre: Biography / Drama / History / War
Tagline: Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
Plot Outline: Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.
The Shining [1980]Genre: Horror / Thriller
Tagline: A Masterpiece Of Modern Horror
Plot Outline: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Shinobi [2005]Genre: Action / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Plot Outline: Shinobi centers on the drama resulting from the war between two ninja clans in the early part of the Tokugawa era.
Shoot Em Up [2007]Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Thriller
Tagline: Just another family man making a living.
Plot Outline:
A man named Mr. Smith (Owen) delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
Shooter [2007]Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: Yesterday was about honor. Today is about justice.
Plot Outline:
A marksman (Wahlberg) living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why.
The Shop Around The Corner [1940] Genre: Comedy / Romance / Drama
Plot Outline: "Matuschek's" is the gift shop around the corner. Among the staff is Alfred Kralik, a likeable young man who's in love with a woman he has never met and whose name he doesn't even know. When Klara Novak comes to work as a clerk in the shop, the sparks begin to fly...
Shopgirl [2005] Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Tagline: Relationships don't always fit like a glove.
Plot Outline: A film adaptation of Steve Martin's novel about a complex love triangle between a bored salesgirl, a wealthy businessman and an aimless young man.
Shopoholics, The / Jui oi nui yun kau muk kong [2005]Genre: Comedy
Synopsis:
Shop until you drop in this snazzy comedy starring mega-star Cecilia Cheung as Fong Fong. Fong is a super-Shopaholic who has landed herself into some serious debt. She seeks the help of Choosey (Lau Ching Wan), a psychiatrist who has hilarious psychological issues of his own. Enter billionaire Richie (Jordan Chan), a competitive shopaholic whose habit is to only buy what others want. Both men develop feelings for Fong, but will she pick money over moral matter? The Shopaholics is a hilarious love-triangle that begs the age old question: Can money buy true love?
Shortbus [2006]Genre: Drama / Sexuality
Tagline: Writer/director John Cameron Mitchell follows up the cult classic HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH with another salacious slice of sex-laden cinema.
Showgirls [1995] Genre: Drama
Tagline: Leave Your Inhibitions At The Door
Plot Outline: A young drifter, named Nomi, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls.
Showtime [2002]Genre: Action / Comedy
Tagline: Lights. Camera. Aggravation.
Plot Outline: A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show.
Sicko [2007]Genre: Documentary / Comedy
Tagline: This might hurt a little.
Plot Outline:
A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories.
Side Effects [2002] Genre: Short
Tagline: Welcome to LABCO
Plot Outline: When a shy, 20-something guy becomes a human guinea pig in an experimental drug test, he meets the girl of his dreams, but the drug that brings them together may be the very thing that keeps them apart.
Sideways [2004] Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance
In search of wine. In search of women. In search of themselves.
Plot Outline: Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment, embark on a week long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.
Signs [2002] Genre: Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: It's Not Like They Didn't Warn Us.
Plot Outline: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
The Silence of the Lambs [1991] Genre: Crime / Thriller
Tagline: Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer. - Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer.
Silent Hill [2006] Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Enjoy your stay.
A woman goes in search for her daughter, within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill. Based on the video game.
The Simpsons Movie [2007]Genre: Animation / Comedy
Tagline: See our family. And feel better about yours.
Plot Outline:
After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons family are declared fugitives.
Sin City [2005] Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: Hell of a way to end a partnership.
Plot Outline: A film that explores the dark and miserable southern town Basin City and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in the violent corruption of the city.
Sir! No Sir! [2005]Genre: Documentary / History / War
Tagline: If You Ever Wanted To End A War...
Plot Summary: This feature-length documentary focuses on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and subversion. It speaks mainly to veterans, but serves as a ready reminder to civilians that soldiers may oppose war as stridently as any civilian, and at greater personal peril.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants [2005]Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Tagline: Laugh. Cry. Share the pants.
Plot Outline: Four best girlfriends hatch a plan to stay connected with one another as their lives start off in different directions: they pass around a pair of secondhand jeans that fits each of their bodies perfectly.
The Situation [2007]Genre: Drama
Plot Outline:
A love triangle between a CIA operative, an American journalist, and an Iraqi photographer plays out against the backdrop of the war in Iraq.
The Sixth Sense [1999]Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: Not every gift is a blessing.
Plot Outline: A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
Sixty Six [2006] Genre: Biography / Comedy / Drama
Plot Outline: A boy's barmitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow [2004] Genre: Action / Adventure / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: Join the Resistance
Plot Outline: After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
Sky High [2005]Genre: Action / Family / Comedy / Adventure
Tagline: Brains, Brawn And Beyond.
Plot Outline: Set in a world where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young Will Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and an extraordinary being.
Sleuth [1972]Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: If it was murder, where's the body? [original movie poster]
Plot Outline:
A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Sliding Doors [1998]Genre: Drama / Romance
There are two sides to every story. Helen is about to live both of them ...at the same time. Romance was never this much fun.
A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. We see it both ways, in parallel.
Slither [2006]Genre: Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi
Tagline: Horror Has a New Face
Plot Outline:
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Smile [2005] Genre: Adventure / Drama
Based on 80,000 true stories.
Introduced to a volunteer opportunity with the Doctor's Gift Program, Katie (Mika Boorem) signs up for a trip to China, where she meets Lin (Yi Ding), a girl with whom she shares a birthday. Lin has a facial deformity that discourages her from ever showing her face, but her friendship with Katie helps her start to see life in a new way.
Smokin Aces [2006]Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller
Tagline: May the best hitman win.
Plot Outline: When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
Snakes on a Plane [2006]Genre: Action / Horror / Thriller
Plot Outline: On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, lets loose a crate full of deadly snakes.
Snatch [2000] Genre: Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Tagline: Stealin' Stones and Breakin' Bones
Plot Outline: Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Snow Cake [2006]Genre: Drama
Tagline: Sometimes stopping is the most important part of the journey...
Plot Outline: A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman (Weaver) and a man (Rickman) who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.
So Close / Chik yeung tin si [1993] Genre: Adventure / Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: Looks can be deceiving.
Plot Outline: A conflict of interest between two high-kicking assassin sisters is complicated as they're pursued by the criminals who hired them and an equally high-kicking female cop.
Something the Lord Made [2004]Genre: Drama
Tagline: A breakthrough that changed the face of medicine. A unique partnership that broke the rules.
Plot Outline: A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
Somewhere in Time [1980]Genre: Drama / Romance / Fantasy
Tagline: Beyond fantasy. Beyond obsession. Beyond time itself... he will find her.
Plot Outline:
"Come back to me." These were the strange words uttered by aged actress Elise McKenna to playwright Richard Collier, and they have haunted him ever since. So he uses self-hypnosis to find the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
Son of The Mask [2005] Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Plot Outline: Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days [2005]Genre: Drama / War
Tagline: In 1943, one young woman stood up to the Nazis, her courage made her a legend, this is her story . . .
Plot Outline: A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
Spanglish [2004] Genre: Comedy / Romance / Drama
Tagline: A comedy with a language all its own.
Plot Outline: A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
Speed [1994] Genre: Action / Thriller
Tagline: Get ready for rush hour.
Plot Outline: A young cop must save the passengers of a bus that has a bomb set to explode if the bus goes below 50 MPH.
Speed 2: Cruise Control [1997] Genre: Action / Romance / Thriller
Tagline: Rush hour hits the water.
Plot Outline: A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seaborn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.
Spiderman [2002] Genre: Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: With great power comes great responsibility.
Plot Outline: When bitten by a genetically modified spider, a nerdy, shy, and awkward high school student gains spider-like abilities that he eventually must use to fight evil as a superhero after tragedy befalls his family.
Spiderman 2 [2004] Genre: Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot Outline: Peter Parker is beset with numerous personal problems while Spider-Man confronts the brilliant Dr. Otto Octavius, who has been transformed into "Doctor Octopus" (aka, "Doc Ock"), a multi-tentacled menace.
Spin Kick / Tae Kwon Do Boys [2004][Korea]Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis:
Manseh high school used to be well known for its Taekwondo team, but its fame has died with the passing of time. The present team is in chaos much like sheep that have no shepherd. The team is in a passionless state, with no interest what-so-ever in improving their skills. So no one expects them to pass the preliminary round of the national Taekwondo competition which is just two weeks away. Only the principal of the school and the team coach, Koh, fret over the competition, hoping to regain the fame of the school. But, as fate would have it, an unexpected solution presents its self.
The Squid and the Whale [2005] Genre: Comedy / Drama
Tagline: Joint Custody Blows.
Plot Outline: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Star Wars [1977] Genre: Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Plot Outline: Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet, teams up with other rebels, and tries to save Princess Leia from the evil clutches of Darth Vader.
Star Wars: Ep 01, The Phantom Menace [1999] Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Plot Outline: Every generation has a legend. Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning.
Star Wars: Ep 02, Attack of the Clones [2002] Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi
Tagline: A Jedi Shall Not Know Anger. Nor Hatred. Nor Love.
Plot Outline: Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala while his teacher, Obi-Wan Kenobi, makes an investigation of a separatist assassination attempt on Padmé which leads to the discovery of a secret Republican clone army.
Star Wars: Ep 03, Revenge of the Sith [2005] Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Tagline: The saga is complete.
Plot Outline: After three years of fighting in the Clone Wars, Anakin Skywalker concludes his journey towards the Dark Side of the Force, putting his friendship with Obi Wan Kenobi and his marriage at risk.
Stardust [2007]Genre: Adventure / Fantasy / Romance
Tagline: This summer a star falls. The chase begins.
Plot Outline:
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm.
The Station Agent [2003] Genre: Comedy / Drama
Tagline: Loneliness is much better when you have got someone to share it with.
Plot Outline: When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Stigmata [1999]Genre: Fantasy / Mystery / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Tagline: The messenger must be silenced.
Plot Summary:
A priest from the Vatican is sent in to investigate claims that a small town in Brazil has a church where statues bleed from the eyes
The Stepford Wives [2004] Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Plot Outline: What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech terrifying little town, in a very modern comedy-thriller.
Stomp The Yard [2007]Genre: Drama / Musical / Romance
Tagline: Beyond the pride. Beyond the rivalry. Beyond the tradition.
Plot Summary:
After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.
Stoned [2006] Genre: Biography / Drama / Music
The wild and wicked world of Brian Jones
Plot Outline: A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones (Gregory), who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
Stranger Than Fiction [2006]Genre: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Tagline: Harold Crick isn't ready to go. Period.
Plot Outline: An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.
Straw Dogs [1971]Genre: Drama / Thriller
Tagline: The knock at the door meant the birth of one man and the death of seven others!
Plot Outline: A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
Striking Range [2006]Genre: Action / Adventure
Synopsis: Lou Diamond Phillips and Tom Wright star in director Daniel Millican's STRIKING RANGE, an action-packed thrill ride of a movie. The script crackles with fast-paced dialogue, fight scenes, chase sequences, explosions, and clever plot twists, and all of this is bolstered by spectacular set designs, music, and special effects.
Striptease [1996] Genre: Comedy / Drama / Crime / Thriller
Tagline: Some People Get Into Trouble No Matter What They WEAR.
Plot Outline: A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her.
Stuck On You [2003] Genre: Comedy / Drama
Tagline: Brothers stick together
Plot Outline: Conjoined twins from Martha's Vineyard move to Los Angeles so that one of them can pursue an acting career.
Studio 54 [1998] Genre: Drama / History
Tagline: Welcome to the Party
Plot Outline: Famous 70's NYC nightclub seen and told through the eyes of a young employee.
Suicide Club / Jisatsu saakuru / Suicide Circle [2002]Genre: Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: Sore de wa minasan, sayonara [Well then, goodbye everybody.]
Plot Outline: A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
Summer Catch [2001] Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sport
Tagline: Are you game?
Plot Outline: A rich girl whose family summers on Cape Cod has a romance with a local poor boy who hopes to become a major league baseball player.
Summer in Berlin / Sommer vorm Balkon [2005] Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Andreas Dresen's tragicomic movie focuses on two women and their daily struggle for survival during a summer in Berlin
Sunset Boulevard [1950][dvd-r]Genre: Drama / Film-Noir
Tagline: A Hollywood Story
Movie Concensus:
Arguably the greatest movie about Hollywood, Billy Wilder’s masterpiece Sunset Boulevard is a tremendously entertaining combination of noir, black comedy, and character study.
Movie Synopsis:
Billy Wilder's masterpiece SUNSET BOULEVARD, a corrosive black comedy that remains the most memorable assault on the emptiness and vanity of the movie business, stars William Holden as young, down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis.
Sunshine [2007]Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: If the sun dies, so do we.
Plot Outline:
A team of astronauts are sent to re-ignite the dying sun 50 years into the future.
Superbad [2007]Genre: Comedy / Romance
Plot Outline: Two co-dependent high school seniors (Hill and Cera) are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
Plot Synopsis:
Produced by Judd Apatow and co-written by Seth Rogen--both of 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN and KNOCKED UP fame--SUPERBAD is the story of two horny teenage geeks looking to lose their virginity before college.
Superman 1 [1978]Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Tagline: You'll Believe a Man Can Fly!
Plot Outline: An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest super-hero.
Superman 2 [1980]Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Tagline: The three outlaws from Krypton descend to Earth to confront the Man of Steel in a cosmic battle for world supremacy.
Plot Outline: Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to marry Lois, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he
inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
Superman 3 [1983]Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Tagline: If the world's most powerful computer can control even Superman...no one on earth is safe.
Plot Outline: Synthetic kryptonite laced with tobacco tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel.
Superman 4 [1987]Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Tagline: Nuclear Power. In the best hands, it is dangerous. In the hands of Lex Luthor, it is pure evil. This is Superman's greatest battle. And it is for all of us.
Plot Outline: The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
Superman Returns [2006]Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Plot Outline: After a long visit to the lost remains of the planet Krypton, the Man of Steel returns to earth to become the peoples savior once again and reclaim the love of Lois Lane.
Super Size Me [2004]Genre: Documentary / Comedy
Tagline: A film of epic portions.
Plot Outline:
An irreverent look at obesity in America and one of its sources - fast food corporations.
Survive Style 5+ [2004] [Jap]Genre: Comedy / Drama / Horror / Mystery
Plot Summary:
A man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead; a self-absorbed ad agency creative director who comes up with one unworkably inane idea after another; a Brittish hitman who only wants to know everyone's function in life; and an unfortunate office worker and father whose brain is left scrambled after a stage hypnotist is murdered in mid-performance. Starting off as unrelated plot lines, they intertwine with each other as they continue on their respective ways.
SWAT [2003]Genre: Action / Crime
Tagline: Even cops dial 911
Plot Outline: An imprisoned drug kingpin offers a huge cash reward to anyone that can break him out of police custody and only the LAPD's Special Weapons and Tactics team can prevent it.
Sweet Land [2006]Genre: Drama / Romance
Tagline: A love story
Plot Outline:
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2005 Hamptons International Film Festival, Sweet Land is a poignant and lyrical celebration of land, love, and the American immigrant experience.
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota meet the man destined to be her husband. Bureaucracy and social morality cause major complications.
The Sweetest Thing [2002]Genre: Comedy / Romance
Tagline: First came the rules of love. Now comes the fun.
Plot Outline:
A girl finds she is forced to educate herself on the etiquette of wooing the opposite sex when she finally meets Mr. Right.
Swimming Pool [2003] Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: Dive into this summer's sexiest mystery
Plot Outline: A British mystery author (Rampling) visits her publisher's (Dance) home in the South of France, where her interaction with his unusual daughter (Sagnier) sets off some touchy dynamics.
Syriana [2005] Genre: Drama / Thriller
Tagline: Everything is connected
Plot Outline: A politically-charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved and affected by it.
