| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 871 | Paisan | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 1606 | The Pajama Game | 1957 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen |
| 437 | The Palm Beach Story | 1942 | Preston Sturges |
| 446 | Pandora's Box | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
| 353 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 1579 | Paper Moon | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 1292 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 953 | The Parallax View | 1974 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 1812 | Parenthood | 1989 | Ron Howard |
| 1818 | Paris Is Burning | 1990 | Jennie Livingston |
| 473 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders |
| 1845 | The Party | 1968 | Blake Edwards |
| 2023 | A Passage to India | 1984 | David Lean |
| 1063 | The Passenger | 1975 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 143 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 1365 | The Passion of the Christ | 2004 | Mel Gibson |
| 1697 | Passport to Pimlico | 1949 | Henry Cornelius |
| 1105 | Pat and Mike | 1952 | George Cukor |
| 885 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | 1973 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 159 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray |
| 152 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 2239 | The Patriot | 2000 | Roland Emmerich |
| 241 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 1547 | The Pawnbroker | 1964 | Sidney Lumet |
| 2029 | Pearl Harbor | 2001 | Michael Bay |
| 258 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell |
| 1093 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | 1985 | Tim Burton |
| 1104 | Pelle the Conqueror | 1987 | Bille August |
| 1875 | Pennies from Heaven | 1981 | Herbert Ross |
| 1695 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | 1996 | Milos Forman |
| 1256 | Pépé Le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier |
| 317 | Performance | 1970 | Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg |
| 1651 | Persepolis | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi |
| 158 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 2057 | Personal Best | 1982 | Robert Towne |
| 999 | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske |
| 2181 | The Petrified Forest | 1936 | Archie Mayo |
| 1469 | Petulia | 1968 | Richard Lester |
| 2048 | Phantasm | 1979 | Don Coscarelli |
| 2145 | The Phantom of Liberty | 1974 | Luis Buñuel |
| 627 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian |
| 2045 | Phantom of the Paradise | 1974 | Brian De Palma |
| 898 | Philadelphia | 1993 | Jonathan Demme |
| 109 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor |
| 945 | Pi | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 470 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski |
| 247 | The Piano | 1993 | Jane Campion |
| 1888 | The Piano Teacher | 2001 | Michael Haneke |
| 400 | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson |
| 675 | Pickup on South Street | 1953 | Samuel Fuller |
| 1775 | Picnic | 1955 | Joshua Logan |
| 567 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | Peter Weir |
| 1952 | Pieces of April | 2003 | Peter Hedges |
| 551 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 2334 | The Pillow Book | 1996 | Peter Greenaway |
| 936 | Pillow Talk | 1959 | Michael Gordon |
| 500 | Pink Flamingos | 1972 | John Waters |
| 1331 | Pink Floyd the Wall | 1982 | Alan Parker |
| 2367 | The Pink Panther Strikes Again | 1976 | Blake Edwards |
| 820 | The Pink Panther | 1963 | Blake Edwards |
| 217 | Pinocchio | 1940 | Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen |
| 2027 | The Pirate | 1948 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 1874 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | Gore Verbinski |
| 379 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski |
| 2281 | Pit and the Pendulum | 1961 | Roger Corman |
| 2346 | Pitch Black | 2000 | David Twohy |
| 1298 | Pixote | 1981 | Hector Babenco |
| 356 | A Place in the Sun | 1951 | George Stevens |
| 1350 | Places in the Heart | 1984 | Robert Benton |
| 1831 | Le Plaisir | 1952 | Max Ophüls |
| 1318 | Plan 9 from Outer Space | 1958 | Edward D. Wood Jr. |
| 1017 | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | 1987 | John Hughes |
| 240 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 2024 | Platform | 2000 | Zhang Ke Jia |
| 122 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone |
| 1622 | Play It Again, Sam | 1972 | Herbert Ross |
| 1759 | Play Misty for Me | 1971 | Clint Eastwood |
| 492 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman |
| 378 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati |
| 1260 | Pleasantville | 1998 | Gary Ross |
| 578 | Point Blank | 1967 | John Boorman |
| 1077 | Point Break | 1991 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2312 | Pollock | 2000 | Ed Harris |
| 691 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper |
| 2060 | Porgy and Bess | 1959 | Otto Preminger |
| 1708 | Port of Shadows | 1938 | Marcel Carné |
| 2196 | Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | William Dieterle |
| 1038 | The Poseidon Adventure | 1972 | Ronald Neame |
| 977 | Il Postino | 1994 | Michael Radford |
| 779 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett |
| 1951 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1981 | Bob Rafelson |
| 814 | Predator | 1987 | John McTiernan |
| 1688 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan |
| 1555 | Pretty in Pink | 1986 | Howard Deutch |
| 298 | Pretty Woman | 1990 | Garry Marshall |
| 1751 | Pride & Prejudice | 2005 | Joe Wright |
| 1277 | Pride and Prejudice | 1940 | Robert Z. Leonard |
| 671 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood |
| 1711 | Primary Colors | 1998 | Mike Nichols |
| 1699 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | 1969 | Ronald Neame |
| 1395 | Primer | 2004 | Shane Carruth |
| 2185 | The Prince of Egypt | 1998 | Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells |
| 1995 | Prince of the City | 1981 | Sidney Lumet |
| 132 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner |
| 537 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1519 | The Prisoner of Zenda | 1937 | John Cromwell |
| 1796 | Private Benjamin | 1980 | Howard Zieff |
| 1769 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1933 | Alexander Korda |
| 1041 | Prizzi's Honor | 1985 | John Huston |
| 184 | The Producers | 1968 | Mel Brooks |
| 282 | The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson |
| 2021 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks |
| 1861 | La Promesse | 1996 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 2273 | Proof | 1991 | Jocelyn Moorhouse |
| 2005 | Providence | 1977 | Alain Resnais |
| 7 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 426 | The Public Enemy | 1931 | William A. Wellman |
| 15 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 1868 | Pump Up the Volume | 1990 | Allan Moyle |
| 1332 | Pumping Iron | 1977 | George Butler and Robert Fiore |
| 1131 | Punch-Drunk Love | 2002 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 1443 | The Puppet Master | 1993 | Hsiao-hsien Hou |
| 1998 | Purple Noon | 1960 | René Clément |
| 1804 | Purple Rain | 1984 | Albert Magnoli |
| 837 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1985 | Woody Allen |
| 2361 | Pyaasa | 1957 | Guru Dutt |
| 1168 | Pygmalion | 1938 | Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard |
