List of cult films: S

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

Film	Year	Director	Source
The Sadistic Hypnotist (also known as Wanda, the Sadistic Hypnotist)	1969	Greg Corarito	[1]
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	1975	Pier Paolo Pasolini	[2][3][1][4][5]
Salon Kitty	1976	Tinto Brass	[1]
Salt of the Earth	1954	Herbert J. Biberman	[6][5]
Salvador	1986	Oliver Stone	[4][5]
Salvatore Giuliano	1962	Francesco Rosi	[5][7]
Le Samouraï	1967	Jean-Pierre Melville	[4][5]
San Francisco	1936	W. S. Van Dyke	[5]
O Sangue (also known as Blood)	1989	Pedro Costa	[5]
Sans Soleil	1983	Chris Marker	[5]
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians	1964	Nicholas Webster	[8][4][5]
Santa Fe Satan (also known as Catch My Soul)	1974	Patrick McGoohan	[1]
Santa Sangre	1989	Alejandro Jodorowsky	[1]
Santo vs. las Mujeres Vampiro	1962	Alfonso Corona Blake	[5]
The Saragossa Manuscript	1965	Wojciech Jerzy Has	[1][9][5][10]
Satan's Cheerleaders	1977	Greydon Clark	[11]
Satan's Sabbath (also known as Le diable est parmi nous and The Possession of Virginia)	1972	Jean Beaudin	[1]
The Satanic Rites of Dracula	1973	Alan Gibson	[11]
Satanis: The Devil's Mass	1970	Ray Laurent	[12]
Saturday Night Fever	1977	John Badham	[5]
Satya	1998	Ram Gopal Varma	[5]
Savage Beast Goes Mad (also known as Crazed Beast and Kurutta yaju)	1976	Sadao Nakajima	[13]
Savage Grace	2007	Tom Kalin	[5]
Savage Nights (also known as Les Nuits Fauves)	1992	Cyril Collard	[1]
Saw	2004	James Wan	[4]
A Scanner Darkly	2006	Richard Linklater	[4][5]
Scanners	1981	David Cronenberg	[3][1][8][4]
Scarecrow	1973	Jerry Schatzberg	[5]
Scarface	1932	Howard Hawks	[5]
Scarface	1983	Brian De Palma	[1][5]
The Scarlet Empress	1934	Josef von Sternberg	[14][5]
Schindler's List	1993	Steven Spielberg	[5]
Schizopolis	1996	Steven Soderbergh	[3]
Schlock	1973	John Landis	[5]
School of the Holy Beast (also known as Convent of the SacredBeast and The Transgressor)	1974	Norifumi Suzuki	[13]
Schramm	1993	Jörg Buttgereit	[9]
Schulmädchen-Report (also known as Schoolgirl Report)	1970	Ernst Hofbauer	[1]
Scorned	1993	Andrew Stevens	[1]
Scorpio Rising	1964	Kenneth Anger	[15][1][5]
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	2010	Edgar Wright	[16]
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man	2006	Stephen Kijak	[5]
Scream	1996	Wes Craven	[5]
Scream and Scream Again	1970	Gordon Hessler	[11]
Scream Blacula Scream	1973	Bob Kelljan	[9]
Screamers	1995	Christian Duguay	[4]
Scum	1979	Alan Clarke	[5]
SCUM Manifesto	1976	Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig	[1]
The Sea Hawk	1940	Michael Curtiz	[5]
Séance on a Wet Afternoon	1964	Bryan Forbes	[5]
The Searchers	1956	John Ford	[14][1][4][5]
Searching for Bobby Fischer	1993	Steven Zaillian	[5]
Sebastiane	1976	Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress	[7]
Second Fiddle	1939	Sidney Lanfield	[5]
Seconds	1966	John Frankenheimer	[5]
Secret Ceremony	1968	Joseph Losey	[12]
The Secret Garden	1993	Agnieszka Holland	[5]
The Secret of Roan Inish	1994	John Sayles	[5]
Seducing Doctor Lewis	2003	Jean-François Pouliot	[5]
See Spot Run	2001	John Whitesell	[5]
Sekal Has to Die	1998	Vladimír Michálek	[5]
Seizure	1974	Oliver Stone	[9]
The Sensuous Three (also known as Harlis)	1972	Robert van Ackeren	[1]
Séraphine	2008	Martin Provost	[5]
A Serbian Film	2010	Srđan Spasojević	[10]
Serial Mom	1994	John Waters	[5]
The Serpent and the Rainbow	1988	Wes Craven	[1][4]
Serpico	1973	Sidney Lumet	[5]
The Servant	1963	Joseph Losey	[15][4][5][7]
The Set-Up	1949	Robert Wise	[7]
Seven (also stylized as Se7en)	1995	David Fincher	[1][7]
Seven Samurai	1954	Akira Kurosawa	[1]
Seventh Heaven	1997	Benoît Jacquot	[5]
The Seventh Seal	1957	Ingmar Bergman	[6][5]
Sex and Zen	1991	Michael Mak	[1][5]
Sex and Zen III	1998	Aman Chang	[1]
Sex: The Annabel Chong Story	1999	Gough Lewis	[1]
Sex, Lies, and Videotape	1989	Steven Soderbergh	[4][5]
The Sexorcist (also known as The Eerie Midnight Horror Show and Enter the Devil)	1974	Mario Gariazzo	[10]
Sexy Beast	2000	Jonathan Glazer	[5]
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	1978	Michael Schultz	[5]
Shack Out on 101	1955	Edward Dein	[12]
Shadow of a Doubt	1943	Alfred Hitchcock	[5]
Shadow of the Vampire	2000	E. Elias Merhige	[5]
Shadows	1959	John Cassavetes	[5][7]
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors	1965	Sergei Parajanov	[5]
Shaft	1971	Gordon Parks	[1][4][5]
Shaft in Africa	1973	John Guillermin	[1][5]
Shahenshah	1988	Tinnu Anand	[17]
Shake, Rattle & Rock!	1956	Edward L. Cahn	[1]
Shakes the Clown	1991	Bobcat Goldthwait	[4]
Shakespeare in Love	1998	John Madden	[1]
Shallow Grave	1994	Danny Boyle	[15]
Shane	1953	George Stevens	[1][5]
Shanghai Noon	2000	Tom Dey	[5]
Shanks	1974	William Castle	[5]
Shaun of the Dead	2004	Edgar Wright	[1][4][5]
The Shawshank Redemption	1994	Frank Darabont	[16][4][5]
She Killed in Ecstasy	1971	Jesús Franco	[2]
Sherlock Jr.	1924	Buster Keaton	[7]
The Shining	1980	Stanley Kubrick	[4][5]
Shivers	1975	David Cronenberg	[1][9][4][5]
Shoah	1985	Claude Lanzmann	[5]
Shock	1946	Alfred L. Werker	[5]
Shock Corridor	1963	Samuel Fuller	[14][15][16][4][5][7]
Shock Waves	1977	Ken Wiederhorn	[11][4]
Shogun Assassin	1980	Robert Houston	[1][13]
Sholay	1975	Ramesh Sippy	[15][1][5]
Shoot the Piano Player	1960	François Truffaut	[5]
Shoot to Kill	1990	Peter Kosminsky	[5]
The Shooting	1966	Monte Hellman	[14][1][5]
The Shop on Main Street	1965	Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos	[5]
A Short Film About Killing	1988	Krzysztof Kieślowski	[5]
Shortbus	2006	John Cameron Mitchell	[5]
A Shot in the Dark	1964	Blake Edwards	[5]
Show Me Love	1998	Lukas Moodysson	[5]
Showgirls	1995	Paul Verhoeven	[2][15][1][4][5][7]
The Sicilian Clan	1969	Henri Verneuil	[5]
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist	1997	Kirby Dick	[1]
Sid & Nancy	1986	Alex Cox	[3][4][5]
The Sign of the Cross	1932	Cecil B. DeMille	[5]
The Silence of the Lambs	1991	Jonathan Demme	[1][5]
Silent Movie	1976	Mel Brooks	[1]
The Silent Partner	1978	Daryl Duke	[12]
Silent Running	1972	Douglas Trumbull	[4][5]
The Silent Star (also known as First Spaceship on Venus)	1960	Kurt Maetzig	[10]
The Silent Village	1943	Humphrey Jennings	[5]
The Silver Chalice	1954	Victor Saville	[5]
Silsila	1981	Yash Chopra	[17]
Sin City	2005	Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino	[18][5]
Sin nombre	2009	Cary Joji Fukunaga	[5]
Singin' in the Rain	1952	Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen	[14][1][4][5][7]
The Sinners of Hell (also known as Jigoku)	1960	Nobuo Nakagawa	[12][3]
Sins of the Fleshapoids	1965	Mike Kuchar	[1]
Sissi	1955	Ernst Marischka	[1]
Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress	1957	Ernst Marischka	[1]
Sissi – The Young Empress	1956	Ernst Marischka	[1]
Sisters	1972	Brian De Palma	[15][3]
Sisters in Law	2005	Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto	[5]
Skidoo	1968	Otto Preminger	[1][5]
Skinamarink	2022	Kyle Edward Ball	[10]
Slacker	1990	Richard Linklater	[16][3][1]
Slap Shot	1977	George Roy Hill	[4][5]
Sleep	1964	Andy Warhol	[1]
Sleep Furiously	2008	Gideon Koppel	[5]
Sleep with Me	1994	Rory Kelly	[1]
Sleepaway Camp	1983	Robert Hiltzik	[9]
Sleeper	1973	Woody Allen	[1][5]
Sleepy Hollow	1999	Tim Burton	[1]
Slithis (also known as Spawn of the Slithis)	1978	Stephen Traxler	[11]
Smithereens	1982	Susan Seidelman	[1]
Smokey and the Bandit	1977	Hal Needham	[5]
Snakes on a Plane	2006	David R. Ellis	[1]
Snakes on a Train	2006	Peter Mervis	[5]
Sneakers	1992	Phil Alden Robinson	[5]
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937	Multiple	[5]
Snuff	1976	Michael Findlay and Horacio Fredriksson	[1]
So Close	2002	Corey Yuen	[5]
Society	1989	Brian Yuzna	[9][4]
Solaris	1972	Andrei Tarkovsky	[3]
Soldier Blue	1970	Ralph Nelson	[4]
Solomon and Sheba	1959	King Vidor	[5]
Some Like It Hot	1959	Billy Wilder	[6][1][5][7]
Something Wicked This Way Comes	1983	Jack Clayton	[5]
Something Wild	1986	Jonathan Demme	[4][5]
Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things	1971	Thomas Casey	[12]
Son of Paleface	1952	Frank Tashlin	[5]
Sonatine	1993	Takeshi Kitano	[4][5][19]
The Song Remains the Same (also known as Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same)	1976	Peter Clifton and Joe Massot	[1]
Sons of the Desert	1933	William A. Seiter	[7]
Sorcerer	1977	William Friedkin	[16]
La Sorcière (also known as The Sorceress)	1956	André Michel	[9]
Soul Vengeance (also known as Welcome Home Brother Charles)	1975	Jamaa Fanaka	[2]
La Soufrière	1977	Werner Herzog	[5]
The Sound of Music	1965	Robert Wise	[2][1][5]
The Sound of One Hand Clapping	1998	Richard Flanagan	[5]
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	1999	Trey Parker	[5]
Southern Comfort	1981	Walter Hill	[4]
Soylent Green	1973	Richard Fleischer	[5]
Space Amoeba (also known as Yog: Monster from Space)	1970	Ishirō Honda	[8]
Space Is the Place	1974	John Coney	[1][10]
Space Sweepers	2021	Jo Sung-hee	[10]
Spaceballs	1987	Mel Brooks	[1]
Spanking the Monkey	1994	David O. Russell	[4][5]
Spartacus	1960	Stanley Kubrick	[1][5]
Spawn of the Slithis (also known as Slithis)	1978	Stephen Traxler	[11]
Speed	1994	Jan de Bont	[1]
Speed Racer	2008	The Wachowskis	[16]
Spellbound	1945	Alfred Hitchcock	[5]
Spellbound	2002	Jeffrey Blitz	[5]
Spider	2002	David Cronenberg	[5]
Spider Baby	1967	Jack Hill	[1]
The Spider's Stratagem	1970	Bernardo Bertolucci	[4]
SpiderBabe	2003	Johnny Crash	[1]
Spies (Spione)	1928	Fritz Lang	[5]
Spirit of the Dead (also known as The Asphyx and The Horror of Death)	1972	Peter Newbrook	[11]
Spirited Away	2001	Hayao Miyazaki	[5]
Spirits of the Dead	1968	Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini	[1]
Splendor in the Grass	1961	Elia Kazan	[5]
Splice	2009	Vincenzo Natali	[1]
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	2003	Kim Ki-duk	[5]
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold	1965	Martin Ritt	[5]
The Squeeze	1977	Michael Apted	[5][10]
Squirm	1976	Jeff Lieberman	[11]
Stalker	1979	Andrei Tarkovsky	[4][5][10]
The Stand	1994	Mick Garris	[5]
Stand by Me	1986	Rob Reiner	[5]
A Star Is Born	1954	George Cukor	[1][5]
Star Trek	2009	J. J. Abrams	[5]
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	1982	Nicholas Meyer	[4]
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	1999	George Lucas	[1]
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones	2002	George Lucas	[1]
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith	2005	George Lucas	[1]
Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope	1977	George Lucas	[2][1][4]
Star Wars Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back	1980	Irvin Kershner	[2][1]
Star Wars Episode VI – Return of the Jedi	1983	Richard Marquand	[1]
Stardust	1974	Michael Apted	[5]
Stardust Memories	1980	Woody Allen	[1][4][7]
Starship Troopers	1997	Paul Verhoeven	[16][1]
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation	2004	Phil Tippett	[1]
Startup.com	2001	Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus	[5]
State of Grace	1990	Phil Joanou	[5]
Staying Alive	1983	Sylvester Stallone	[5]
Steamboy	2004	Katsuhiro Otomo	[5]
The Steel Helmet	1951	Samuel Fuller	[5]
The Stepford Wives	1975	Bryan Forbes	[5]
The Stink of Flesh	2005	Scott Phillips	[9]
Stop Making Sense	1984	Jonathan Demme	[1][5]
The Story of a Cheat (also known as Confessions of a Cheat and Le Roman d'un tricheur)	1936	Sacha Guitry	[7]
The Story of Louis Pasteur	1936	William Dieterle	[5]
The Story of Mankind	1957	Irwin Allen	[5]
Story of O (also known as Histoire d'O)	1975	Just Jaeckin	[1]
La Strada	1954	Federico Fellini	[5]
Straight and Narrow	1970	Beverly Grant and Tom Conrad	[5]
The Straight Story	1999	David Lynch	[5]
Straight Time	1978	Ulu Grosbard	[5]
Strange Brew	1983	Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas	[16]
Strange Days	1995	Kathryn Bigelow	[1]
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers	1946	Lewis Milestone	[4]
The Stranger	1946	Orson Welles	[5]
Stranger Than Paradise	1984	Jim Jarmusch	[16][5]
Straw Dogs	1971	Sam Peckinpah	[3][1][4][5]
Stray Dog	1949	Akira Kurosawa	[5]
The Street Fighter	1974	Shigehiro Ozawa	[13]
Street Mobster	1972	Kinji Fukasaku	[13]
Street of Crocodiles	1986	Brothers Quay	[5]
Street Without a Name	1934	Pierre Chenal	[5]
A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	Elia Kazan	[5]
The Streetfighter (also known as Hard Times)	1975	Walter Hill	[5][7]
Streets of Fire	1984	Walter Hill	[1]
Strictly Ballroom	1992	Baz Luhrmann	[5]
Stripes	1981	Ivan Reitman	[4]
Stuck on You	2003	Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly	[5]
Student Bodies	1981	Mickey Rose	[5]
Submersion of Japan	1973	Shiro Moritani	[5][13]
Subway	1985	Luc Besson	[4]
Successive Slidings of Pleasure	1974	Alain Robbe-Grillet	[1]
Suddenly	1954	Lewis Allen	[5]
Suddenly, Last Summer	1959	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	[5]
Suicide Club	2001	Sion Sono	[1]
Sullivan's Travels	1941	Preston Sturges	[6][15][1][4][5][7]
The Sum of Us	1994	Geoff Burton and Kevin Dowling	[5]
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	1927	F. W. Murnau	[5]
Sunset Boulevard	1950	Billy Wilder	[14][15][1][4][5]
Super Fly	1972	Gordon Parks, Jr.	[15][1][5]
Super Fly T.N.T.	1973	Ron O'Neal	[1]
Superman	1978	Richard Donner	[5]
Superman	1987	B. Gupta	[17]
Superman and the Mole Men	1951	Lee Sholem	[8]
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story	1987	Todd Haynes	[2][1]
Surakksha	1979	Raveekant Nagaich	[17]
Suspiria	1977	Dario Argento	[2][1][5]
Suspiria	2018	Luca Guadagnino	[10]
Suture	1993	Scott McGehee and David Siegel	[5]
Swamp Thing	1982	Wes Craven	[9]
The Swarm	1978	Irwin Allen	[8]
Sweeney 2	1978	Tom Clegg	[5]
Sweeney!	1977	David Wickes	[5]
Sweet Charity	1969	Bob Fosse	[5]
The Sweet Hereafter	1997	Atom Egoyan	[5]
Sweet Movie	1974	Dušan Makavejev	[3]
Sweet Smell of Success	1957	Alexander Mackendrick	[4]
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song	1971	Melvin Van Peebles	[16][1][4][5][7]
Swept Away	2002	Guy Ritchie	[5]
The Swimmer	1968	Frank Perry	[4]
Switchblade Sisters	1975	Jack Hill	[1]
Swoon	1992	Tom Kalin	[5]
Sylvia Scarlett	1935	George Cukor	[14][1][5]
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm	1968	William Greaves	[3]
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance	2002	Park Chan-wook	[1]
Sympathy for the Underdog	1971	Kinji Fukasaku	[5][13]
Synecdoche, New York	2008	Charlie Kaufman	[5]