Salt: Woman loses her job and her husband after getting in touch with her original contractors.
Saludos Amigos: A travelogue of South America with cameos from Donald Duck and Goofy has a Spanish title but is presented in English.
SamSam: A superhero is sad about not having superpowers. Meanwhile, a girl's parents have conflicting ideas about what their daughter should become. Also features a scene where a bunch of aliens break in a young boy's room to shoot pee at him with squirt guns.
Sanjuro: A man wants some noisy kids to shut up so he can take a nap.
Santa Claus and the Magic Drum: Man wanted really badly to work for Santa Claus, but Santa never answered him, so he decides to play a drum instead. Also, it's not even a hour long, but they have time to sing the same song about working for Santa three times and play it instrumentally twice.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: Extraterrestrials learn the true meaning of giving after one of their kind gets pummeled with toys for attempting to kill a spirit associated with the winter solstice.
The Santa Clause: Tim Allen kills a man and is forced to assume his identity.
The Santa Clause 2: Tim Allen must find a wife as part of the new identity.
The Santa Clause 3 : Martin Short takes Tim Allen's new identity via loophole.
Santa's Slay: Santa is pissed. Why wouldn't he be? He's Jewish! And Satan!
Satellite Girl and Milk Cow: A spacecraft is turned into a human girl by the wizard Merlin reincarnated as a toilet paper roll. She falls in love with a man who was so sad about being friendzoned by his crush that he turned into a cow and is now hunted by a giant furnace and a guy with unexplained magic powers who wants to suck out his liver with a magic toilet plunger. That's not even taking things out of context, that's literally the plot summary.
Saving Mr. Banks: A well known business man and film maker wanted to make a passion project only to find out that the author is not the team player he thought she was.
Alternatively: In the Signature Scene, a guy holds a boombox.
Scanners: World is rocked by the mind-blowing effects of a tranquilizer prescribed to pregnant women. Got some really dumb sequels.
Schindler's List: Rich alcoholic industrialist womanizer engages in human trafficking.
Alternatively: A greedy and vain Slav factory owner decides he’s rather be loved than rich and is given posthumous worldwide recognition as a hero by a Hollywood producer.
Schizopolis: A man writing a speech that no one will give has an affair with his wife but breaks it off when he falls in love with the same woman. Also, the guy who impersonates Dr. Galazkiewicz in the Bud Light commercials has a fat fetish and an incoherent man with offensive genitalia has lots of sex.
School of Rock: An unemployed middle-aged man steals the identity of a substitute elementary school teacher, and gives the children an unusual curriculum.
School Ties: A Jew goes to school. Trouble ensues.
Scooby-Doo (2002): Four young adults and a dog solve a mystery at a haunted island/theme park.
Searching For Sugarman: The true story of South African fans searching for their late music idol, only to give a washed up day laborer the most extreme artistic career comeback in music history.
Secret Honor: Richard Nixon, completely alone, talks into a tape-recorder in his study for an hour and a half.
The Secret Life of Pets: A pair of hobos infiltrate a terrorist organization and effortlessly kill their second-in-command. Unable to replicate their success, the hobos spend much of the rest of the movie on the run from these terrorists, whose leader is hell-bent on killing those two himself. This is a family film from a studio best known for its slapstick comedy.
The Secret of NIMH: A single mother uses her connections to a shady organization to move her house to a more convenient place.
Or, a movie based very loosely on a book that changes the ending and characers' personalities and is a G-rated movie where characters are stabbed with blood coming out.
The Secret of Kells: A boy is told to not go in the forest, yet does so anyway.
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird: Citizens of an acid-tripped one-road town go on country-wide manhunt for a 10-foot tall adolescent who's run away from foster care.
Alternatively, overgrown kid runs away from xenophobic foster family, attempts to hitchhike back to his former home, and is kidnapped and imprisoned by con men. Meanwhile, residents of his old neighborhood go on a manhunt and eventually rescue him. Intended for children.
Sesame Street: Don't Eat the Pictures: Said 10-foot-tall adolescent gets locked in a famous museum overnight. While everyone goes on a manhunt for him (again), he tries to help conduct a lost soul to the afterlife.
The Cookie Thief: Big Eater gets framed for stealing artwork from a different museum. A Saturday Night Live alumni gets roped into their predicament.
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street: The same 10-foot-tall adolescent from before nearly freezes to death while standing on a roof. The B-plot is a recreation of a classic short story about personal sacrifice.
SHAZAM! (2019): Manchild takes crash course in heroism while being targeted by a guy who wanted his job.
SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods: Manchild tries handling his family working with him, while being targeted by sisters who dowright hate that their job exists.
Sherlock Holmes (2009): Mildly autistic shut-in matches wits with resurrected peer while attempting to sabotage best friend's engagement.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Mildly autistic shut-in matches wits with math teacher after sabotaging his best friend's honeymoon.
The Shining: A hotel near some of America's most popular ski resorts shuts down for the Winter and is left in the care of a hallucinating drunk and his insane family.
A glorifed janitor greets his wife & son after opening the bathroom door.
Doctor Sleep: The insane son becomes a pen pal of a girl trying to evade a group of people who like to huff smoke. He eventually brings everyone to that hotel.
Shoot 'Em Up: A Brit with a carrot fetish has numerous gunfights with a father of one over a baby.
Eighty-six minutes of Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti shooting at each other over a baby.
An anti-gun message who uses guns to solve all of their problems.
Shooter: Evil industrial-military cabal uses robot gun to frame world's most awesome special forces sniper for the President's murder. In a turn of events that no-one could have predicted (and driven on by the knowledge that the cabal also killed his dog) the sniper uses his awesome abilities to take them all out one by one - illustrating along the way the inherent danger in various forms of domestic cooking gas supply.
Short Circuit: A computer geek and his perpetually horny Indian friend try to rescue a peacenik Weapon of Mass Destruction from technophobic security guard for dissection. Friend To All Animals tries to protect said WoMD from both of them.
Alternatively, something originally designed to be a marital aid, now equipped with a deadly laser, wanders away from the place it was created and only convinces it's designer to help after it laughs at one of it's designer's jokes.
Shrek: A grumpy man and a clingy jackass are sent to rescue a woman due to a zoning dispute.
Shrek 2: While said man tries to make his in-laws like him, the metro-sexual son of a fast-food addicted Evil Matriarch tries to steal his wife.
Alternatively: A fairy godmother decides to play matchmaker. She must be stopped.
Shrek the Third: Grumpy man gets afraid of both fatherhood and a future inheritance. Meanwhile, the metro-sexual tries to kill him... with a stage play.
Shrek Forever After: Grumpy man ruins the lives of himself and all his friends because settling down has made him bored.
Shrek Retold: The same as the first one, except the art style, actors and medium change every few minutes, making it harder to follow the story.
Shutter Island: Conspiracy Theorist wanders around insane asylum during a hurricane; suspects Gandhi of being the mastermind behind the whole thing all along.
A doctor plays pretend with a veteran suffering from PTSD in order to try and bring the veteran back to reality. Ultimately he just decides it'll be easier just to perform a lobotomy and call it a day.
Sideways: Two guys go on a week-long bachelor party. One has lots of sex, the other one feels sorry for himself.
Manhunter \ Red Dragon: Video editor develops obsession with William Blake painting, and is pursued by man with liquid personality. Scheming convict ruins the lives of everyone involved.
Simon Birch: A rural boy and Catholic classmates befriend a murderous midget.
Or: Young Jim Carrey's faith is restored after a midget beats his mother to death with a bat.
Sing: A struggling property owner must save his theater from closure by hosting a singing competition to raise money, and the mafia gets involved.
Sing 2: The property owner goes with his friends to make it big in the industry. He nearly dies. Twice.
Singin' in the Rain: A famous actor must reinvent himself after the surprising discovery that he can't actually act. His girlfriend has a co-worker try to take credit for her work.
Alternatively: A dripping man does a one-footed stomp in a gutter while his silly friend runs into a brick wall and the female love interest earns a living by talking.
Sintel: When a homeless woman loses her pet, she devotes her entire life to getting him back.
Or: It takes a woman 15 years to notice 15 years have passed.
Sita Sings the Blues: Sita from the Hindu epic The Ramayana singing songs from the jazz singer Annette Hanshaw.
Also: A woman copes with her divorce by reading a story from the country her ex eloped to. Then, she turns both things into an animation. Nearly-Public Domain jazz ensues.
Snatch.: After a caravan purchase goes wrong, boxing managers end up in a convoluted heist plot with tons of people dying. They include a terrifying pigfarmer, multiple people claiming they can catch bullets (they are half right), and an American tourist dissatisfied with London.
Sneakers: A plucky team of professional bank robbers get into hot water thanks to their ringleader's old college buddy, who happens to be in the business of triggering global recessions.
Or: An animal lover stumbles across a group of short people who sing about prostitutes on drugs as part of their daily work routine. A woman who can't get enough of staring into her mirror all day gives the animal lover spoiled fruit out of spite.
Song of the Sea: A girl and her brother meet a lot of seals and stones.
Alternatively, man is so sad about his wife leaving him that he throws away his daughter's clothes.
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020): An extremely fast extraterrestrial is forced to leave his home planet and goes to Earth, where he causes a disruption that makes him enlist the help of a police officer to keep the government from capturing him.
Alternatively, a cop is forced to help a lonely, isolated child who has stalked him for the past ten years from a government agent who wants to dissect him. The cop is labeled as a national terrorist as a result, and proceeds to keep his very obnoxious sister-in-law captive in her own house. It's a children's film.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022): The fast, lonely extraterrestrial is visited by a deformed, lonely extraterrestrial seeking him and an angry, lonely extraterrestrial seeking a big rock.
Son of the White Horse: A horse gives birth to a swole guy whose head is on fire. Said guy proceeds to spank his brothers when they don't provide him food, save some women from their husbands with progressively more heads, and then attempt to murder his brothers because of a misunderstanding.
Soul: A jazz musician dies, is born in reverse, and becomes a cat while his corpse is mortally possessed by Tina Fey.
Or, more simply, a jazz musician falls in a sewer and dies.
The Sound of Music: Family bonds and resists a dictatorship with the aid of musical numbers.
Or: A love triangle that pits a former nun against a noblewoman over a man that is also the father of the former nun's charges. One of the charges is dating a Nazi soldier. The former nun teaches the man to loosen up and to love, through the power of sickly sweet noise.
Or: A stuffy aristocrat marries a nun Reassigned to Antarctica because she makes his kids dress up in drapes. Later the other nuns wreck a car because they would do anything to get rid of her.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut: Owing to over-sensitivity about a movie with bad language, an interfering parent starts World War III. Meanwhile, Satan has boyfriend difficulties, and a young boy tries to discover what the clitoris is in order to impress his girlfriend.
Spaceballs: Two guys in a Winnebago rescue a Rebellious Princess and her maid. After visiting a midget who is trying to make some money with merchandising, they fight air-stealing aliens who have a bunch of Assholes working for them.
Spartacus: A bunch of rebellious slaves impersonate their leader.
Species: People are sent to kill hot ingenue who wants to get laid.
Speed: Police officer earns enmity of embittered retiree who forces him to use swift-moving public transportation.
Or: A group of housemates argue over what to do with the guests one of them brought home. Sensing the awkward, the guests try to leave, but keep ending up in the wrong rooms. Several of the housemates try reaching out to a friend for help in resolving the situation, but things only escalate until one of them lets the cat out.
Speed Racer: Large companies manipulate the stock market to maximize their return. The impact this has on sport is investigated.
Spider-Man: Due to bug bite and money not paid, teenager loses his uncle. This causes him to later fight the father of a friend who dresses very oddly.
Spider-Man 2: Crime-fighter forgets abilities due to stress. Meanwhile nuclear physicist is possessed by his creation.
Spider-Man 3: Alien turns crime-fighter into aggressive man who does Tony Manero impressions. Meanwhile, criminal tries to help his ill daughter despite contracting a weird skin condition.
Or: Alien turns hero into aggressive man, then takes control of Eric Forman.
The Amazing Spider-Man: Teenager visits a scientist who worked with his dad, leading him to get a bug bite infection (which turns out to be a good thing) and the scientist to recover from an injury (which turns out to be a bad thing).
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Teenager confronts a former fan who is tired of being ignored, a former classmate who is tired of being ill, and the question of whether maintaining his relationship could cost his girl's life. (It does)
Spider-Man: Homecoming: As he tries to handle an internship, teenager ends up interfering in the businesses of the father of his high school crush.
Or: A washed-up loser, a drummer who's supposed to be dead but isn't, an anime character and her expressive mecha, a stand-up comedian, and a Nazi-fighting noir detective try to help an aspiring mixed-race artist cope with tragedy and changes in his life. Meanwhile, a rich fat guy and his superpowered henchmen nearly destroy the world just so the fat guy can FaceTime his family.
Or: A seizure-inducing movie that kills a beloved superhero and then mocks his legacy by introducing various knock-offs of him that include a hobo with a mid-life crisis, a girl who is mostly known for being dead, a noir detective parody, a mecha anime reference, and a cartoon pig. Eventually, the hero's mantle is taken by a kid who constantly forgets to tie his shoes and has no idea what 'puberty' means.
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie: A kitchen utensil and his five-pointed friend travel half the globe for a hat to prove that they're not kids.
The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water: The kitchen utensil, his five pointed friend, three of their friends, and their microscopic nemesis travel to a restaurant for a piece of paper.
Stalker (1979): For almost three hours, a trio of scraggly men try to sneak into an abandoned chemical plant while arguing in Russian about the meaning of life. The most famous scene consists of a little girl knocking an empty glass off a table and not much else.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Captain and war criminal have a scenery-eating contest. The budget was cut to TV movie levels, and one of the cast agreed to get killed off because he was convinced the series was hitting a dead end.
Star Trek: Insurrection: A Large Ham with a nice sofa attempts to quit his plastic surgery addiction. Our heroes must prevent this and save a planet sparsely populated with supermodels. An android starts shooting people because he's having a fit of ethics.
Star Trek: Nemesis: The Frenchman with a British accent is cloned, but whoever did it forgot to fix the genetic problems that the original had already fixed. A "clone" of the android is also found. The original android jumps between two starships to fix everything for his captain.
Star Trek Into Darkness: While going after a renegade who turns out to be a war criminal, captain finds out his boss has some unusual plans regarding space exploration.
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith: The greatest hero of all time betrays his comrades, murders his wife and conquers all known civilizations, despite his protracted denial. Evil Overlord gets vindication for past grievances.
Solo: A space cowboy attempts to reconnect with his ex-girlfriend and inadvertently installs her as the new head of the local crime syndicate in the process.
Episode IV: A New Hope: The galaxy's nascent chance of salvation is a boy who farms water in a desert, has inappropriate sexual attraction to his long lost twin sister, and kills millions through the use of faulty safety regulations and the voices in his head.
Alternatively: The story of an orphaned boy who becomes radicalized after a military strike kills his family. He is indoctrinated into an ancient religion, joins a band of rebel insurgents, and carries out a terrorist attack killing 300,000 people.
Rogue One: Disgruntled contractor adds said safety flaw. Everyone dies to ensure the info will eventually reach the farmboy through said twin sister.
Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back: Corrupt government counter-attacks. Boy learns mystical powers from a Muppet with a speech impediment, then gets his hand cut off by his long-lost father.
Alternatively: A guy with a sword. His father. They don't get along.
Episode VII: The Force Awakens: A man quits his job and meets a woman in the desert. They steal a guy's ship to take a ball back to its owners and see a discredited mystical concept resurging.
Episode VIII: The Last Jedi: An emergency evacuation goes wrong. Their hope of survival involves the above woman and an old guy who turn to be the final reminders of the mystical, heroic figures.
The Stepfather: The family life of a man who likes building little houses unravels around him.
Stepfather II: A man leaves an asylum, settles down with a new family and must deal with nosy neighbors and other such busybodies.
Stepfather III: A man leaves another asylum, has plastic surgery and marries a woman whose handicapped son hates him. Starts screwing around on the side and works in greenhouse using special fertilizer.
Still Crazy: Washed-up old rock stars try and pretend they're still big.
Stop-Loss: Troubled soldier really doesn't want to go back to work.
The Stunt Man: A Vietnam vet on the run from the cops accidentally kills a man, then agrees to become an actor in a cheesy World War I movie. He falls in love, while Peter O'Toole proceeds to screw with his head (and the heads of the audience).
Strange Days: Loser who deals in illicit goods has trouble letting go of the past and getting over his ex-girlfriend. An Action Girl limo driver with a crush on him, two corrupt police officers and a psychotic rapist-murderer help him move on.
Superman: The Movie: Young man from Kansas goes on a trek to the Arctic after his adoptive father's death. He then disregards his birth father's advice and saves woman from crashing helicopter. Meanwhile, wig-wearing man attempts to make a killing in real estate.
Alternately: A young immigrant protects the city he loves from a real estate agent.
Or: Man wears underwear outside pants and makes planet Earth spin backwards.
Superman II: After romantic get-away with his girlfriend, young man discovers that old acquaintances of his father have arrived in town at the worst possible time for him. This results in another Arctic trek, followed by battle in which a removable plastic seal plays a significant role.
Superman III: Man hooks up with his old high-school girlfriend and experiences identity crisis after being given a rock partially made from tar.
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace: Man engages in self-appointed one-man nuclear disarmament program and comes into conflict with another man made from a strand of his hair. A woman demonstrates the ability to breathe in space. For many, exactly as bad as it sounds.
Superman Returns: Man returns from extended fact-finding mission to learn his ex-girlfriend is in a relationship with someone else and has a kid. This results in him following her and listening in to her conversations a lot. Meanwhile, an ex-convict plans another unscrupulous real-estate deal.
Man of Steel: Young man from Kansas discovers that he's from somewhere else as old acquaintances of his father arrive trying to build a replica of their hometown.
The Swan Princess: Prince goes on a hunting trip while trying to sort out his confused attraction to a girl who regularly turns into a bird. He almost kills her twice. Afterwards, she enthusiastically marries him.
The Swan Princess 2: Escape from Castle Mountain/Secret of the Castle: Prince is distracted from romantic activities when an old man who dresses like a clown and rides in a hot air balloon attempts to steal a piece of glass from the prince's castle. His wife turns into a bird again.
The Swan Princess 3: Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom/Treasure: Prince's advisor develops an attraction to a Funny Foreigner. National security is threatened when she steals a few pieces of paper and interrupts a festival. His wife turns into a bird again.
The Swan Princess Christmas: Prince's holiday celebrations are interrupted by an old enemy. Hanging up wind chimes and singing are the only ways to stop him. The prince's wife turns into a bird again.
The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale: Prince adopts a mute girl while squirrels take over the kingdom. His wife finally manages to stop turning into a bird.
, and protracted offensive deployment involving replicated individuals.
