| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 616 | Paisan | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 1764 | The Pajama Game | 1957 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen |
| 2511 | Pale Rider | 1985 | Clint Eastwood |
| 360 | The Palm Beach Story | 1942 | Preston Sturges |
| 367 | Pandora's Box | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
| 894 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 1817 | Paper Moon | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 1093 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 1346 | The Parallax View | 1974 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 1591 | Parenthood | 1989 | Ron Howard |
| 2014 | Paris is Burning | 1990 | Jennie Livingston |
| 431 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders |
| 2440 | Parting Glances | 1986 | Bill Sherwood |
| 2097 | The Party | 1968 | Blake Edwards |
| 1758 | A Passage to India | 1984 | David Lean |
| 905 | The Passenger | 1975 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 139 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 1292 | The Passion of the Christ | 2004 | Mel Gibson |
| 1773 | Passport to Pimlico | 1949 | Henry Cornelius |
| 1024 | Pat and Mike | 1952 | George Cukor |
| 1175 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | 1973 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 157 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray |
| 144 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 2287 | Patriot Games | 1992 | Phillip Noyce |
| 2181 | The Patriot | 2000 | Roland Emmerich |
| 178 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 1264 | The Pawnbroker | 1964 | Sidney Lumet |
| 1747 | Pearl Harbor | 2001 | Michael Bay |
| 287 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell |
| 1177 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | 1985 | Tim Burton |
| 2080 | Peggy Sue Got Married | 1986 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 879 | Pelle the Conqueror | 1987 | Bille August |
| 1355 | Pennies from Heaven | 1981 | Herbert Ross |
| 2451 | People on Sunday | 1930 | Curt and Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Fred Zinnemann |
| 1329 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | 1996 | Milos Forman |
| 1256 | Pépé Le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier |
| 414 | Performance | 1970 | Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg |
| 151 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1933 | Personal Best | 1982 | Robert Towne |
| 1031 | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske |
| 1975 | The Petrified Forest | 1936 | Archie Mayo |
| 1330 | Petulia | 1968 | Richard Lester |
| 2402 | Phantasm | 1979 | Don Coscarelli |
| 2370 | Phantom of Liberty | 1974 | Luis Buñuel |
| 463 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian |
| 777 | Philadelphia | 1993 | Jonathan Demme |
| 81 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor |
| 1171 | Pi | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 586 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski |
| 203 | The Piano | 1993 | Jane Campion |
| 1892 | The Piano Teacher | 2001 | Michael Haneke |
| 447 | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson |
| 656 | Pickup on South Street | 1953 | Samuel Fuller |
| 1529 | Picnic | 1955 | Joshua Logan |
| 556 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | Peter Weir |
| 1626 | Pieces of April | 2003 | Peter Hedges |
| 521 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 2285 | The Pillow Book | 1996 | Peter Greenaway |
| 774 | Pillow Talk | 1959 | Michael Gordon |
| 631 | Pink Flamingos | 1972 | John Waters |
| 1366 | Pink Floyd the Wall | 1982 | Alan Parker |
| 838 | The Pink Panther | 1963 | Blake Edwards |
| 245 | Pinocchio | 1940 | Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen |
| 1825 | The Pirate | 1948 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 449 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski |
| 1931 | Pit and the Pendulum | 1961 | Roger Corman |
| 2250 | Pitch Black | 2000 | David Twohy |
| 1004 | Pixote | 1981 | Hector Babenco |
| 313 | A Place in the Sun | 1951 | George Stevens |
| 1193 | Places in the Heart | 1984 | Robert Benton |
| 1949 | Le Plaisir | 1952 | Max Ophüls |
| 1362 | Plan 9 from Outer Space | 1959 | Edward D. Wood Jr. |
| 1340 | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | 1987 | John Hughes |
| 279 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 2225 | Planet of the Apes | 2001 | Tim Burton |
| 2286 | Platform | 2000 | Zhang Ke Jia |
| 111 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone |
| 1573 | Play It Again, Sam | 1972 | Herbert Ross |
| 2433 | Play Misty for Me | 1971 | Clint Eastwood |
| 506 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman |
| 351 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati |
| 1368 | Pleasantville | 1998 | Gary Ross |
| 710 | Point Blank | 1967 | John Boorman |
| 1743 | Point Break | 1991 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2269 | Pollock | 2000 | Ed Harris |
| 719 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper |
| 2222 | Ponette | 1996 | Jacques Doillon |
| 1891 | Porgy and Bess | 1959 | Otto Preminger |
| 1403 | Port of Shadows | 1938 | Marcel Carné |
| 1850 | Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | William Dieterle |
| 983 | The Poseidon Adventure | 1972 | Ronald Neame |
| 2134 | Postcards from the Edge | 1990 | Mike Nichols |
| 818 | Il Postino | 1994 | Michael Radford |
| 633 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett |
| 986 | Predator | 1987 | John McTiernan |
| 2417 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan |
| 1599 | Pretty in Pink | 1986 | Howard Deutch |
| 272 | Pretty Woman | 1990 | Garry Marshall |
| 2125 | Pride & Prejudice | 2005 | Joe Wright |
| 917 | Pride and Prejudice | 1940 | Robert Z. Leonard |
| 2059 | Pride and Prejudice | 1995 | Simon Langton |
| 665 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood |
| 2438 | Primal Fear | 1996 | Gregory Hoblit |
| 2270 | Primary | 1960 | Robert Drew |
| 1651 | Primary Colors | 1998 | Mike Nichols |
| 1881 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | 1969 | Ronald Neame |
| 2105 | The Prince of Egypt | 1998 | Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells |
| 1622 | Prince of the City | 1981 | Sidney Lumet |
| 145 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner |
| 791 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1253 | The Prisoner of Zenda | 1937 | John Cromwell |
| 1412 | Private Benjamin | 1980 | Howard Zieff |
| 1550 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1933 | Alexander Korda |
| 2137 | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | 1970 | Billy Wilder |
| 903 | Prizzi's Honor | 1985 | John Huston |
| 217 | The Producers | 1968 | Mel Brooks |
| 312 | The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson |
| 2230 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks |
| 1801 | La Promesse | 1996 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 1857 | Proof | 1991 | Jocelyn Moorhouse |
| 1705 | Providence | 1977 | Alain Resnais |
| 9 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 350 | The Public Enemy | 1931 | William A. Wellman |
| 20 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 1806 | Pump Up the Volume | 1990 | Allan Moyle |
| 1445 | Pumping Iron | 1977 | George Butler and Robert Fiore |
| 1314 | Punch-Drunk Love | 2002 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 1369 | The Puppet Master | 1993 | Hsiao-hsien Hou |
| 804 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1985 | Woody Allen |
| 2365 | Pyaasa | 1957 | Guru Dutt |
| 1101 | Pygmalion | 1938 | Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard |
