# List of cult films: S

This is a list of cult films organized alphabetically by name. See List of cult films for main list.

## List of cult films

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| Film | Year | Director |
| The Sadistic Hypnotist (also known as Wanda, the Sadistic Hypnotist) | 1969 | Greg Corarito |
| Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire | 2023 | Prashant Neel |
| Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Salon Kitty | 1976 | Tinto Brass |
| Salt of the Earth | 1954 | Herbert J. Biberman |
| Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone |
| Salvatore Giuliano | 1962 | Francesco Rosi |
| Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| San Francisco | 1936 | W. S. Van Dyke |
| O Sangue (also known as Blood) | 1989 | Pedro Costa |
| Sans Soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker |
| Santa Claus Conquers the Martians | 1964 | Nicholas Webster |
| Santa Fe Satan (also known as Catch My Soul) | 1974 | Patrick McGoohan |
| Santa Sangre | 1989 | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| Santo vs. las Mujeres Vampiro | 1962 | Alfonso Corona Blake |
| The Saragossa Manuscript | 1965 | Wojciech Jerzy Has |
| Satan's Cheerleaders | 1977 | Greydon Clark |
| Satan's Sabbath (also known as Le diable est parmi nous and The Possession of Virginia) | 1972 | Jean Beaudin |
| The Satanic Rites of Dracula | 1973 | Alan Gibson |
| Satanis: The Devil's Mass | 1970 | Ray Laurent |
| Saturday Night Fever | 1977 | John Badham |
| Satya | 1998 | Ram Gopal Varma |
| Savage Beast Goes Mad (also known as Crazed Beast and Kurutta yaju) | 1976 | Sadao Nakajima |
| Savage Grace | 2007 | Tom Kalin |
| Savage Nights (also known as Les Nuits Fauves) | 1992 | Cyril Collard |
| Saw | 2004 | James Wan |
| A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | Richard Linklater |
| Scanners | 1981 | David Cronenberg |
| Scarecrow | 1973 | Jerry Schatzberg |
| Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks |
| Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma |
| The Scarlet Empress | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg |
| Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg |
| Schizopolis | 1996 | Steven Soderbergh |
| Schlock | 1973 | John Landis |
| School of the Holy Beast (also known as Convent of the SacredBeast and The Transgressor) | 1974 | Norifumi Suzuki |
| Schramm | 1993 | Jörg Buttgereit |
| Schulmädchen-Report (also known as Schoolgirl Report) | 1970 | Ernst Hofbauer |
| Scorned | 1993 | Andrew Stevens |
| Scorpio Rising | 1964 | Kenneth Anger |
| Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | 2010 | Edgar Wright |
| Scott Walker: 30 Century Man | 2006 | Stephen Kijak |
| Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven |
| Scream and Scream Again | 1970 | Gordon Hessler |
| Scream Blacula Scream | 1973 | Bob Kelljan |
| Screamers | 1995 | Christian Duguay |
| Scum | 1979 | Alan Clarke |
| SCUM Manifesto | 1976 | Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig |
| The Sea Hawk | 1940 | Michael Curtiz |
| Séance on a Wet Afternoon | 1964 | Bryan Forbes |
| The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford |
| Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | Steven Zaillian |
| Sebastiane | 1976 | Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress |
| Second Fiddle | 1939 | Sidney Lanfield |
| Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer |
| Secret Ceremony | 1968 | Joseph Losey |
| The Secret Garden | 1993 | Agnieszka Holland |
| The Secret of Roan Inish | 1994 | John Sayles |
| Seducing Doctor Lewis | 2003 | Jean-François Pouliot |
| See Spot Run | 2001 | John Whitesell |
| Sekal Has to Die | 1998 | Vladimír Michálek |
| Seizure | 1974 | Oliver Stone |
| The Sensuous Three (also known as Harlis) | 1972 | Robert van Ackeren |
| Séraphine | 2008 | Martin Provost |
| Serial Mom | 1994 | John Waters |
| The Serpent and the Rainbow | 1988 | Wes Craven |
| Serpico | 1973 | Sidney Lumet |
| The Servant | 1963 | Joseph Losey |
| The Set-Up | 1949 | Robert Wise |
| Seven (also stylized as Se7en) | 1995 | David Fincher |
| Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
| Seventh Heaven | 1997 | Benoît Jacquot |
| The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Sex and Zen | 1991 | Michael Mak |
| Sex and Zen III | 1998 | Aman Chang |
| Sex: The Annabel Chong Story | 1999 | Gough Lewis |
| Sex, Lies, and Videotape | 1989 | Steven Soderbergh |
| Sexy Beast | 2000 | Jonathan Glazer |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1978 | Michael Schultz |
| Shack Out on 101 | 1955 | Edward Dein |
| Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Shadow of the Vampire | 2000 | E. Elias Merhige |
| Shadows | 1959 | John Cassavetes |
| Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | 1965 | Sergei Parajanov |
| Shaft | 1971 | Gordon Parks |
| Shaft in Africa | 1973 | John Guillermin |
| Shahenshah | 1988 | Tinnu Anand |
| Shake, Rattle & Rock! | 1956 | Edward L. Cahn |
| Shakes the Clown | 1991 | Bobcat Goldthwait |
| Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | John Madden |
| Shallow Grave | 1994 | Danny Boyle |
| Shane | 1953 | George Stevens |
| Shanghai Noon | 2000 | Tom Dey |
| Shanks | 1974 | William Castle |
| Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright |
| The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont |
| She Killed in Ecstasy | 1971 | Jesús Franco |
| Sherlock Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton |
| The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Shivers | 1975 | David Cronenberg |
| Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann |
| Shock | 1946 | Alfred L. Werker |
| Shock Corridor | 1963 | Samuel Fuller |
| Shock Waves | 1977 | Ken Wiederhorn |
| Shogun Assassin | 1980 | Robert Houston |
| Sholay | 1975 | Ramesh Sippy |
| Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut |
| Shoot to Kill | 1990 | Peter Kosminsky |
| The Shooting | 1966 | Monte Hellman |
| The Shop on Main Street | 1965 | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos |
| A Short Film About Killing | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| Shortbus | 2006 | John Cameron Mitchell |
| A Shot in the Dark | 1964 | Blake Edwards |
| Show Me Love | 1998 | Lukas Moodysson |
| Showgirls | 1995 | Paul Verhoeven |
| The Sicilian Clan | 1969 | Henri Verneuil |
| Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist | 1997 | Kirby Dick |
| Sid & Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox |
| The Sign of the Cross | 1932 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme |
| Silent Movie | 1976 | Mel Brooks |
| The Silent Partner | 1978 | Daryl Duke |
| Silent Running | 1972 | Douglas Trumbull |
| The Silent Village | 1943 | Humphrey Jennings |
| The Silver Chalice | 1954 | Victor Saville |
| Silsila | 1981 | Yash Chopra |
| Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino |
| Sin nombre | 2009 | Cary Joji Fukunaga |
| Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen |
| The Sinners of Hell (also known as Jigoku) | 1960 | Nobuo Nakagawa |
| Sins of the Fleshapoids | 1965 | Mike Kuchar |
| Sissi | 1955 | Ernst Marischka |
| Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress | 1957 | Ernst Marischka |
| Sissi – The Young Empress | 1956 | Ernst Marischka |
| Sisters | 1972 | Brian De Palma |
| Sisters in Law | 2005 | Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto |
| Skidoo | 1968 | Otto Preminger |
| Slacker | 1990 | Richard Linklater |
| Slap Shot | 1977 | George Roy Hill |
| Sleep | 1964 | Andy Warhol |
| Sleep Furiously | 2008 | Gideon Koppel |
| Sleep with Me | 1994 | Rory Kelly |
| Sleepaway Camp | 1983 | Robert Hiltzik |
| Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen |
| Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton |
| Slithis (also known as Spawn of the Slithis) | 1978 | Stephen Traxler |
| Smithereens | 1982 | Susan Seidelman |
| Smokey and the Bandit | 1977 | Hal Needham |
| Snakes on a Plane | 2006 | David R. Ellis |
| Snakes on a Train | 2006 | Peter Mervis |
| Sneakers | 1992 | Phil Alden Robinson |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | Multiple |
| Snuff | 1976 | Michael Findlay and Horacio Fredriksson |
| So Close | 2002 | Corey Yuen |
| Society | 1989 | Brian Yuzna |
| Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Soldier Blue | 1970 | Ralph Nelson |
| Solomon and Sheba | 1959 | King Vidor |
| Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | 1983 | Jack Clayton |
| Something Wild | 1986 | Jonathan Demme |
| Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things | 1971 | Thomas Casey |
| Son of Paleface | 1952 | Frank Tashlin |
| Sonatine | 1993 | Takeshi Kitano |
| The Song Remains the Same (also known as Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same) | 1976 | Peter Clifton and Joe Massot |
| Sons of the Desert | 1933 | William A. Seiter |
| Sorcerer | 1977 | William Friedkin |
| La Sorcière (also known as The Sorceress) | 1956 | André Michel |
| Soul Vengeance (also known as Welcome Home Brother Charles) | 1975 | Jamaa Fanaka |
| La Soufrière | 1977 | Werner Herzog |
| The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise |
| The Sound of One Hand Clapping | 1998 | Richard Flanagan |
| South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Trey Parker |
| Southern Comfort | 1981 | Walter Hill |
| Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer |
| Space Amoeba (also known as Yog: Monster from Space) | 1970 | Ishirō Honda |
| Space Is the Place | 1974 | John Coney |
| Spaceballs | 1987 | Mel Brooks |
| Spanking the Monkey | 1994 | David O. Russell |
| Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick |
| Spawn of the Slithis (also known as Slithis) | 1978 | Stephen Traxler |
| Speed | 1994 | Jan de Bont |
| Speed Racer | 2008 | The Wachowskis |
| Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Spellbound | 2002 | Jeffrey Blitz |
| Spider | 2002 | David Cronenberg |
| Spider Baby | 1967 | Jack Hill |
| The Spider's Stratagem | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| SpiderBabe | 2003 | Johnny Crash |
| Spies (Spione) | 1928 | Fritz Lang |
| Spirit of the Dead (also known as The Asphyx and The Horror of Death) | 1972 | Peter Newbrook |
| Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Spirits of the Dead | 1968 | Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini |
| Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan |
| Splice | 2009 | Vincenzo Natali |
| Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Kim Ki-duk |
| The Spy Who Came In from the Cold | 1965 | Martin Ritt |
| The Squeeze | 1977 | Michael Apted |
| Squirm | 1976 | Jeff Lieberman |
| Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| The Stand | 1994 | Mick Garris |
| Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner |
| A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor |
| Star Trek | 2009 | J. J. Abrams |
| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | 1982 | Nicholas Meyer |
| Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas |
| Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | 2002 | George Lucas |
| Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas |
| Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope | 1977 | George Lucas |
| Star Wars Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner |
| Star Wars Episode VI – Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand |
| Stardust | 1974 | Michael Apted |
| Stardust Memories | 1980 | Woody Allen |
| Starship Troopers | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven |
| Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation | 2004 | Phil Tippett |
| Startup.com | 2001 | Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus |
| State of Grace | 1990 | Phil Joanou |
| Staying Alive | 1983 | Sylvester Stallone |
| Steamboy | 2004 | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| The Steel Helmet | 1951 | Samuel Fuller |
| The Stepford Wives | 1975 | Bryan Forbes |
| The Stink of Flesh | 2005 | Scott Phillips |
| Stop Making Sense | 1984 | Jonathan Demme |
| The Story of a Cheat (also known as Confessions of a Cheat and Le Roman d'un tricheur) | 1936 | Sacha Guitry |
| The Story of Louis Pasteur | 1936 | William Dieterle |
| The Story of Mankind | 1957 | Irwin Allen |
| Story of O (also known as Histoire d'O) | 1975 | Just Jaeckin |
| La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini |
| Straight and Narrow | 1970 | Beverly Grant and Tom Conrad |
| The Straight Story | 1999 | David Lynch |
| Straight Time | 1978 | Ulu Grosbard |
| Strange Brew | 1983 | Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas |
| Strange Days | 1995 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | 1946 | Lewis Milestone |
| The Stranger | 1946 | Orson Welles |
| Stranger Than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch |
| Straw Dogs | 1971 | Sam Peckinpah |
| Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa |
| The Street Fighter | 1974 | Shigehiro Ozawa |
| Street Mobster | 1972 | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Street of Crocodiles | 1986 | Brothers Quay |
| Street Without a Name | 1934 | Pierre Chenal |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan |
| The Streetfighter (also known as Hard Times) | 1975 | Walter Hill |
| Streets of Fire | 1984 | Walter Hill |
| Strictly Ballroom | 1992 | Baz Luhrmann |
| Stripes | 1981 | Ivan Reitman |
| Stuck on You | 2003 | Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly |
| Student Bodies | 1981 | Mickey Rose |
| Submersion of Japan | 1973 | Shiro Moritani |
| Subway | 1985 | Luc Besson |
| Successive Slidings of Pleasure | 1974 | Alain Robbe-Grillet |
| Suddenly | 1954 | Lewis Allen |
| Suddenly, Last Summer | 1959 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Suicide Club | 2001 | Sion Sono |
| Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges |
| The Sum of Us | 1994 | Geoff Burton and Kevin Dowling |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 1927 | F. W. Murnau |
| Sunset Boulevard | 1950 | Billy Wilder |
| Super Fly | 1972 | Gordon Parks, Jr. |
| Super Fly T.N.T. | 1973 | Ron O'Neal |
| Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner |
| Superman | 1987 | B. Gupta |
| Superman and the Mole Men | 1951 | Lee Sholem |
| Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | 1987 | Todd Haynes |
| Surakksha | 1979 | Raveekant Nagaich |
| Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento |
| Suture | 1993 | Scott McGehee and David Siegel |
| Swamp Thing | 1982 | Wes Craven |
| The Swarm | 1978 | Irwin Allen |
| Sweeney 2 | 1978 | Tom Clegg |
| Sweeney! | 1977 | David Wickes |
| Sweet Charity | 1969 | Bob Fosse |
| The Sweet Hereafter | 1997 | Atom Egoyan |
| Sweet Movie | 1974 | Dušan Makavejev |
| Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | 1971 | Melvin Van Peebles |
| Swept Away | 2002 | Guy Ritchie |
| The Swimmer | 1968 | Frank Perry |
| Switchblade Sisters | 1975 | Jack Hill |
| Swoon | 1992 | Tom Kalin |
| Sylvia Scarlett | 1935 | George Cukor |
| Symbiopsychotaxiplasm | 1968 | William Greaves |
| Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance | 2002 | Park Chan-wook |
| Sympathy for the Underdog | 1971 | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Synecdoche, New York | 2008 | Charlie Kaufman |