In case anybody asks you to think of a movie without an “S” in its name (as though that is hard), I have compiled this convenient list of the top 500. Sometimes it is handy being a computer programmer.
- Adaptation (2002)
- Affliction (1998)
- The African Queen (1952)
- L’Age d’Or (1930)
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
- A.I. (2001)
- Airplane! (1980)
- Aladdin (1992)
- All About Eve (1950)
- All About My Mother (1999)
- Amarcord (1974)
- Amélie (2001)
- America, America (1963)
- The American Friend (1977)
- American Graffiti (1973)
- The Americanization of Emily (1964)
- American Movie (1999)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- The Apartment (1960)
- Apollo 13 (1995)
- L’Argent (1983)
- L’Atalante (1934)
- Atlantic City (1981)
- L’Avventura (1961)
- The Awful Truth (1937)
- Baby Doll (1956)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- The Bad and the Beautiful (1953)
- Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
- Ball of Fire (1942)
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
- Bambi (1942)
- The Band Wagon (1953)
- The Bank Dick (1940)
- Barfly (1987)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- Barton Fink (1991)
- Le Beau Mariage (1982)
- Beautiful People (2000)
- Bed and Board (1971)
- Beetlejuice (1988)
- Before the Rain (1994)
- Being John Malkovich (1999)
- Being There (1979)
- Belle de Jour (1968)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (1983)
- The Bicycle Thief (1949)
- The Big Chill (1983)
- The Big Clock (1948)
- The Big Heat (1953)
- Big Night (1996)
- The Big Red One (1980)
- Billy Liar (1963)
- Birdy (1984)
- Black Robe (1991)
- Blow-Up (1966)
- Blue Collar (1978)
- Blue Velvet (1986)
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
- Bob le Flambeur (1955)
- Body Heat (1981)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
- Le Boucher (1970)
- Bound for Glory (1976)
- Boyz N the Hood (1991)
- Brazil (1985)
- Breaker Morant (1980)
- Breaking Away (1979)
- The Bride Wore Black (1968)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Brief Encounter (1946)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Bull Durham (1988)
- Bullitt (1968)
- The Butcher Boy (1998)
- Cabaret (1972)
- The Caine Mutiny (1954)
- Calle 54 (2000)
- Camelot (1967)
- Camille (1937)
- Carnal Knowledge (1971)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- Catch-22 (1970)
- Cavalcade (1933)
- The Celebration (1998)
- La Cérémonie (1996)
- Charley Varrick (1973)
- Chicago (2002)
- Chicken Run (2000)
- La Chienne (1931)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Chloë in the Afternoon (1972)
- Chocolat (1988)
- The Citadel (1938)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- The Clockmaker (1973)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- The Color of Money (1986)
- Coming Home (1978)
- Contempt (1964)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- The Country Girl (1954)
- Crumb (1994)
- Cry, the Beloved Country (1952)
- The Crying Game (1992)
- The Damned (1969)
- Daniel (1983)
- Danton (1983)
- Dark Victory (1939)
- Darling (1965)
- David Copperfield (1935)
- Dawn of the Dead (1979)
- Day for Night (1973)
- The Day of the Jackal (1973)
- The Dead (1987)
- Dead Calm (1989)
- Dead End (1937)
- Dead Man Walking (1995)
- Dead of Night (1946)
- Death in Venice (1971)
- The Decalogue (2000)
- Deep End (1971)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Diabolique (1955)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
- Die Hard (1988)
- Diner (1982)
- Dinner at Eight (1933)
- The Dirty Dozen (1967)
- Dirty Harry (1971)
- Diva (1982)
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- La Dolce Vita (1961)
- Don’t Look Back (1967)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Down by Law (1986)
- Dracula (1931)
- Dumbo (1941)
- Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
- 8 1/2 (1963)
- Eight Men Out (1988)
- The Elephant Man (1980)
- Elmer Gantry (1960)
- The Entertainer (1960)
- Europa, Europa (1991)
- The Exterminating Angel (1967)
- A Face in the Crowd (1957)
- Face to Face (1976)
- The Family Game (1984)
- Fanny & Alexander (1983)
- Farewell, My Concubine (1993)
- Far from Heaven (2002)
- Fargo (1996)
- Fat City (1972)
- Fatal Attraction (1987)
- Father of the Bride (1950)
- La Femme Infidèle (1969)
- La Femme Nikita (1991)
- Fitzcarraldo (1982)
- The Flamingo Kid (1984)
- The Fly (1958)
- The Flamingo Kid (1984)
- Force of Evil (1948)
- A Foreign Affair (1948)
- The Fortune Cookie (1966)
- The French Connection (1971)
- Frenzy (1972)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- The Fugitive (1947)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- The Full Monty (1997)
- Funny Face (1957)
- Funny Girl (1968)
- Fury (1936)
- Gallipoli (1981)
- Gandhi (1982)
- Gate of Hell (1954)
- The General (1998)
- General Della Rovere (1960)
- Genevieve (1954)
- Georgy Girl (1966)
- Get Carter (1971)
- Giant (1956)
- Gigi (1958)
- The Girl Can’t Help It (1956)
- The Go-Between (1971)
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- Going My Way (1944)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1968)
- The Good Earth (1937)
- The Graduate (1967)
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- The Great Man (1957)
- The Great McGinty (1940)
- Green for Danger (1947)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- The Gunfighter (1950)
- Gunga Din (1939)
- Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
- Hair (1979)
- Hamlet (1948)
- Hamlet (2000)
- Handle With Care (1977)
- Harry and Tonto (1974)
- A Hatful of Rain (1957)
- The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
- Heartland (1981)
- Heavy Traffic (1973)
- Heimat (1985)
- Henry V (1946)
- Henry V (1989)
- Henry Fool (1998)
- High and Low (Japan) (1963)
- The High and the Mighty (1954)
- High Art (1998)
- High Noon (1952)
- The Hill (1965)
- The Homecoming (1973)
- Hope and Glory (1987)
- How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
- Hud (1963)
- I Know Where I’m Going! (1947)
- I Remember Mama (1948)
- I Want to Live! (1958)
- If… (1969)
- Ikiru (1952)
- I’m All Right Jack (1960)
- Imitation of Life (1959)
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- In the Bedroom (2001)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- The Informer (1935)
- Inherit the Wind (1960)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- Jean de Florette (1987)
- Jerry Maguire (1996)
- Johnny Guitar (1954)
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- Ju Dou (1990)
- Junior Bonner (1972)
- The King and I (1956)
- King Kong (1933)
- King Lear (1971)
- The King of Comedy (1983)
- Klute (1971)
- Knife in the Water (1963)
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Lacombe Lucien (1974)
- The Lady Eve (1941)
- Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)
- Lamerica (1994)
- Laura (1944)
- The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- A League of Their Own (1992)
- The Leopard (1963)
- The Letter (1963)
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1945)
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
- Life With Father (1947)
- Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
- Lili (1953)
- Little Big Man (1970)
- The Little Fugitive (1953)
- Little Vera (1988)
- Little Women (1933)
- Little Women (1994)
- Living in Oblivion (1995)
- Local Hero (1983)
- Lola (1982)
- Lolita (1962)
- The Long Goodbye (1973)
- The Long Good Friday (1982)
- The Long Voyage Home (1940)
- Look Back in Anger (1959)
- Love (1973)
- Love Affair (1939)
- Love and Death (1975)
- A Love in Germany (1984)
- Love in the Afternoon (1957)
- Lovely and Amazing (2002)
- Love on the Run (1979)
- Lover Come Back (1962)
- Loving (1970)
- M (1931)
- Mad Max (1980)
- The Magic Flute (1975)
- The Major and the Minor (1942)
- Major Barbara (1941)
- Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
- Malcolm X (1992)
- Man Hunt (1941)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
- The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
- The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Manhattan (1979)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
- Married to the Mob (1988)
- The Marrying Kind (1952)
- Marty (1955)
- The Match Factory Girl (1990)
- Mayerling (1937)
- Melvin and Howard (1980)
- The Men (1950)
- Ménage (1986)
- Metropolitan (1990)
- Midnight (1939)
- Midnight Cowboy (1969)
- The Miracle Worker (1962)
- Mon Oncle d’Amérique (1980)
- Moonlighting (1982)
- The More the Merrier (1943)
- Morgan! (1966)
- Mother (1996)
- Moulin Rouge (1953)
- The Mouthpiece (1932)
- Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
- Mulholland Dr. (2001)
- Murmur of the Heart (1971)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- My Beautiful Laundrette (1986)
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- My Dinner With Andre (1981)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- My Left Foot (1989)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- My Own Private Idaho (1991)
- My 20th Century (1990)
- Mon Oncle (1958)
- National Velvet (1944)
- Network (1976)
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- A Night to Remember (1958)
- 1900 (1977)
- Ninotchka (1939)
- Norma Rae (1979)
- Now, Voyager (1942)
- Odd Man Out (1947)
- Of Mice and Men (1940)
- Oklahoma! (1955)
- On the Beach (1959)
- On the Town (1949)
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- One Foot in Heaven (1941)
- One Hour with You (1932)
- One Night of Love (1934)
- One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
- One, Two, Three (1961)
- Open City (1946)
- Ordinary People (1980)
- Othello (1952)
- Our Town (1940)
- The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
- Paint Your Wagon (1969)
- The Parallax View (1974)
- Pather Panchali (1958)
- Patton (1970)
- The Pawnbroker (1965)
- Payday (1973)
- Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
- Le Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir (1974)
- Petulia (1968)
- The Piano (1993)
- The Pillow Book (1997)
- Pillow Talk (1959)
- The Pink Panther (1964)
- Pinocchio (1940)
- Pixote (1981)
- Platoon (1986)
- The Player (1992)
- Playtime (1967)
- Point Blank (1967)
- Ponette (1997)
- Pretty Baby (1978)
- Pride and Prejudice (1940)
- Prince of the City (1981)
- The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
- The Public Enemy (1931)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Pygmalion (1938)
- Quadrophenia (1979)
- The Quiet Man (1952)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Rain Man (1988)
- Ran (1985)
- The Rapture (1991)
- Re-Animator (1985)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Red (1994)
- The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
- Red River (1948)
- Repo Man (1984)
- The Return of Martin Guerre (1983)
- Reuben, Reuben (1983)
- Richard III (1956)
- Ride the High Country (1962)
- Rififi (1956)
- The Road Warrior (1982)
- Robocop (1987)
- Roger & Me (1989)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- Romeo and Juliet (1936)
- Romeo and Juliet (1968)
- Room at the Top (1959)
- A Room With a View (1986)
- ‘Round Midnight (1986)
- 7 Up/28 Up (1985)
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
- Talk to Her (2002)
- Tampopo (1986)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- A Taxing Woman (1987)
- 10 (1979)
- The Tender Trap (1955)
- La Terra trema (1947)
- They Live by Night (1949)
- They Were Expendable (1945)
- They Won’t Forget (1937)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- The Thin Blue Line (1988)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- The Thin Red Line (1998)
- The Third Generation (1979)
- The Third Man (1949)
- Throne of Blood (1957)
- The Tin Drum (1979)
- To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- To Catch a Thief (1955)
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- To Live (1994)
- Top Hat (1935)
- Topaz (1969)
- Topkapi (1964)
- Total Recall (1990)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- Traffic (2000)
- The Train (1965)
- The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
- The Trouble with Harry (1955)
- True Grit (1969)
- True Love (1989)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
- Twentieth Century (1934)
- Two Women (1961)
- Umberto D. (1952)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- The Verdict (1982)
- Vertigo (1958)
- Videodrome (1982)
- Violette Nozière (1978)
- Viridiana (1962)
- Viva Zapata! (1952)
- The Voice of the Turtle (1947)
- Waking Life (2001)
- Walkabout (1971)
- The War Game (1966)
- Watch on the Rhine (1943)
- The Waterdance (1991)
- The Way We Were (1973)
- Weekend (1968)
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- White Heat (1949)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- The Wild Child (1970)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Woman of the Year (1942)
- The Women (1939)
- Women in Love (1970)
- Working Girl (1988)
- The World of Apu (1959)
- The World of Henry Orient (1964)
- Written on the Wind (1956)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- The Yearling (1983)
- Yi Yi: A One and a Two (2000)
- Yojimbo (1961)
- You Can Count On Me (2000)
- You Only Live Once (1937)
- Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
- Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
- Z (1969)
- Zero for Conduct (1933)