| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 2235 | Sabotage | 1936 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1437 | Saboteur | 1942 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1016 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder |
| 1872 | The Sacrifice | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 772 | Safe | 1995 | Todd Haynes |
| 606 | Safety Last! | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor |
| 1371 | Salaam Bombay! | 1988 | Mira Nair |
| 914 | Salesman | 1968 | Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin |
| 1527 | Salň | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 1228 | Salt of the Earth | 1954 | Herbert J. Biberman |
| 1562 | Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone |
| 1567 | Salvatore Giuliano | 1962 | Francesco Rosi |
| 535 | Le Samouraď | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 2255 | Samson and Delilah | 1949 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 1716 | Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto | 1954 | Hiroshi Inagaki |
| 2133 | Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple | 1955 | Hiroshi Inagaki |
| 2120 | Samurai 3: Duel at Ganryu Island | 1956 | Hiroshi Inagaki |
| 1310 | San Francisco | 1936 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 1046 | Sands of Iwo Jima | 1949 | Allan Dwan |
| 2008 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1097 | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker |
| 459 | Sansho the Bailiff | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 2478 | The Santa Clause | 1994 | John Pasquin |
| 1110 | Sátántangó | 1994 | Béla Tarr |
| 743 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | 1960 | Karel Reisz |
| 346 | Saturday Night Fever | 1977 | John Badham |
| 2509 | Save the Last Dance | 2001 | Thomas Carter |
| 67 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg |
| 438 | Say Anything… | 1989 | Cameron Crowe |
| 315 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks |
| 260 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma |
| 505 | The Scarlet Empress | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 2504 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1934 | Harold Young |
| 1781 | Scarlet Street | 1945 | Fritz Lang |
| 2489 | Scary Movie | 2000 | Keenan Ivory Wayans |
| 799 | Scenes from a Marriage | 1973 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1871 | Scent of a Woman | 1992 | Martin Brest |
| 22 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1900 | Schizopolis | 1996 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1339 | The School of Rock | 2003 | Richard Linklater |
| 305 | Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven |
| 1939 | Scream 2 | 1997 | Wes Craven |
| 748 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst |
| 1219 | The Sea Hawk | 1940 | Michael Curtiz |
| 1681 | The Sea Inside | 2004 | Alejandro Amenábar |
| 1684 | Seabiscuit | 2003 | Gary Ross |
| 2232 | Seance on a Wet Afternoon | 1964 | Bryan Forbes |
| 2149 | The Search | 1948 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 23 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford |
| 1128 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | Steven Zaillian |
| 1068 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer |
| 2359 | The Secret Garden | 1993 | Agnieszka Holland |
| 2042 | The Secret of NIMH | 1982 | Don Bluth |
| 1587 | The Secret of Roan Inish | 1994 | John Sayles |
| 1272 | Secretary | 2002 | Steven Shainberg |
| 436 | Secrets & Lies | 1996 | Mike Leigh |
| 1951 | Selena | 1997 | Gregory Nava |
| 357 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee |
| 1079 | Senso | 1954 | Luchino Visconti |
| 2437 | Separate Tables | 1958 | Delbert Mann |
| 1992 | Serenity | 2005 | Joss Whedon |
| 923 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks |
| 1472 | Serpico | 1973 | Sidney Lumet |
| 753 | The Servant | 1963 | Joseph Losey |
| 1420 | The Set-Up | 1949 | Robert Wise |
| 143 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher |
| 887 | Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller |
| 555 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | 1954 | Stanley Donen |
| 1419 | Seven Days in May | 1964 | John Frankenheimer |
| 2329 | Seven Men from Now | 1956 | Budd Boetticher |
| 36 | The Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 670 | The Seven Year Itch | 1955 | Billy Wilder |
| 1563 | Seventh Heaven | 1927 | Frank Borzage |
| 98 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 491 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | 1989 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1152 | Sexy Beast | 2000 | Jonathan Glazer |
| 401 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1733 | Shadowlands | 1993 | Richard Attenborough |
| 742 | Shadows | 1959 | John Cassavetes |
| 1242 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | 1964 | Sergei Parajanov |
| 685 | Shaft | 1971 | Gordon Parks |
| 229 | Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | John Madden |
| 1520 | Shall We Dance | 1937 | Mark Sandrich |
| 1797 | Shall We Dance? | 1996 | Masayuki Suo |
| 821 | Shallow Grave | 1994 | Danny Boyle |
| 1194 | Shame | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 928 | Shampoo | 1975 | Hal Ashby |
| 146 | Shane | 1953 | George Stevens |
| 1383 | Shanghai Express | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 643 | Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright |
| 48 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont |
| 922 | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 | Lowell Sherman |
| 842 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | 1949 | John Ford |
| 1566 | The Sheik | 1921 | George Melford |
| 226 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton |
| 1382 | Sherman's March | 1986 | Ross McElwee |
| 808 | She's Gotta Have It | 1986 | Spike Lee |
| 1018 | Shine | 1996 | Scott Hicks |
| 129 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 2214 | Ship of Fools | 1965 | Stanley Kramer |
| 2268 | Shivers | 1975 | David Cronenberg |
| 479 | Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann |
| 913 | Shock Corridor | 1963 | Samuel Fuller |
| 1158 | Shoeshine | 1946 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 2319 | Sholay | 1975 | Ramesh Sippy |
| 596 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut |
| 1207 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel |
| 344 | The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 916 | The Shop on Main Street | 1965 | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos |
| 594 | Short Cuts | 1993 | Robert Altman |
| 1149 | A Short Film about Killing | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieslowski |
| 763 | A Shot in the Dark | 1964 | Blake Edwards |
| 981 | Show Boat | 1936 | James Whale |
| 2226 | Show Boat | 1951 | George Sidney |
| 1842 | Show Me Love | 1998 | Lukas Moodysson |
| 1901 | Show People | 1928 | King Vidor |
| 1503 | Showgirls | 1995 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 289 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson |
| 1826 | Shrek 2 | 2004 | Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon |
