| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1414 | Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox |
| 941 | Sideways | 2004 | Alexander Payne |
| 1417 | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang |
| 2473 | The Sign of the Cross | 1932 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 2161 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 2164 | The Silence | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 39 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme |
| 1134 | Silent Running | 1972 | Douglas Trumbull |
| 2413 | Silk Stockings | 1957 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 1274 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols |
| 2090 | Silver Streak | 1976 | Arthur Hiller |
| 1609 | A Simple Plan | 1998 | Sam Raimi |
| 765 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez |
| 5 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly |
| 2427 | Singles | 1992 | Cameron Crowe |
| 2307 | Sister Act | 1992 | Emile Ardolino |
| 2348 | Six Degrees of Separation | 1993 | Fred Schepisi |
| 979 | Sixteen Candles | 1984 | John Hughes |
| 215 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 1151 | Slacker | 1991 | Richard Linklater |
| 718 | Slap Shot | 1977 | George Roy Hill |
| 2188 | Slaughterhouse-Five | 1972 | George Roy Hill |
| 641 | Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen |
| 1545 | Sleeping Beauty | 1959 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 539 | Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | Nora Ephron |
| 1519 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton |
| 975 | Sleuth | 1972 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 805 | Sling Blade | 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton |
| 1852 | Small Change | 1976 | François Truffaut |
| 1498 | Smile | 1975 | Michael Ritchie |
| 635 | Smiles of a Summer Night | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1862 | Smoke | 1995 | Wayne Wang |
| 2027 | Smoke Signals | 1998 | Chris Eyre |
| 2405 | Smokey and the Bandit | 1977 | Hal Needham |
| 1993 | The Snake Pit | 1948 | Anatole Litvak |
| 1672 | The Snapper | 1993 | Stephen Frears |
| 1176 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie |
| 87 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand |
| 2513 | Soapdish | 1991 | Michael Hoffman |
| 526 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 2019 | Soldier of Orange | 1977 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 1791 | A Soldier's Story | 1984 | Norman Jewison |
| 2135 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 12 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder |
| 2010 | Somebody Up There Likes Me | 1956 | Robert Wise |
| 2157 | Something Wild | 1986 | Jonathan Demme |
| 2073 | Something's Gotta Give | 2003 | Nancy Meyers |
| 2401 | Somewhere in Time | 1980 | Jeannot Szwarc |
| 2484 | Son of Dracula | 1943 | Robert Siodmak |
| 1861 | Son of Frankenstein | 1939 | Rowland V. Lee |
| 2324 | The Son of the Sheik | 1926 | George Fitzmaurice |
| 1239 | Sonatine | 1993 | Takeshi Kitano |
| 1853 | The Song of Bernadette | 1943 | Henry King |
| 2108 | Song of the South | 1946 | Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson |
| 806 | Sons of the Desert | 1933 | William A. Seiter |
| 2310 | The Son's Room | 2001 | Nanni Moretti |
| 775 | Sophie's Choice | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 502 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls |
| 62 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise |
| 884 | Sounder | 1972 | Martin Ritt |
| 1105 | South Pacific | 1958 | Joshua Logan |
| 617 | South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Trey Parker |
| 1484 | The Southerner | 1945 | Jean Renoir |
| 1299 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer |
| 2330 | The Spanish Prisoner | 1997 | David Mamet |
| 198 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 390 | Speed | 1994 | Jan de Bont |
| 1062 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1407 | Spellbound | 2002 | Jeffrey Blitz |
| 574 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi |
| 940 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi |
| 1628 | The Spider's Stratagem | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 1978 | Spione | 1928 | Fritz Lang |
| 1579 | The Spiral Staircase | 1945 | Robert Siodmak |
| 612 | The Spirit of the Beehive | 1973 | Víctor Erice |
| 246 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1030 | Splash | 1984 | Ron Howard |
| 640 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan |
| 2246 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Ki-duk Kim |
| 1602 | Spy Kids | 2001 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 1564 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | 1965 | Martin Ritt |
| 2280 | St. Elmo's Fire | 1985 | Joel Schumacher |
| 839 | Stage Door | 1937 | Gregory La Cava |
| 76 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford |
| 242 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
| 508 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder |
| 2341 | Stalingrad | 1993 | Joseph Vilsmaier |
| 513 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 1450 | Stand and Deliver | 1988 | Ramón Menéndez |
| 336 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner |
| 1679 | A Star Is Born | 1937 | William A. Wellman |
| 224 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor |
| 1693 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | 1986 | Leonard Nimoy |
| 1589 | Star Trek: First Contact | 1996 | Jonathan Frakes |
| 1859 | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | 1979 | Robert Wise |
| 727 | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | 1982 | Nicholas Meyer |
| 7 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas |
| 857 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas |
| 907 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | 2002 | George Lucas |
| 1690 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas |
| 1866 | Starman | 1984 | John Carpenter |
| 588 | Starship Troopers | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 1689 | The Station Agent | 2003 | Thomas McCarthy |
| 2300 | Stealing Beauty | 1996 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 844 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | 1928 | Charles Reisner |
| 1953 | The Steel Helmet | 1951 | Samuel Fuller |
| 1221 | Steel Magnolias | 1989 | Herbert Ross |
| 787 | Stella Dallas | 1937 | King Vidor |
| 2177 | The Stepfather | 1987 | Joseph Ruben |
| 1615 | The Stepford Wives | 1975 | Bryan Forbes |
| 1647 | Stepmom | 1998 | Chris Columbus |
| 254 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill |
| 964 | Stolen Kisses | 1968 | François Truffaut |
| 1130 | Stop Making Sense | 1984 | Jonathan Demme |
| 1798 | Storm over Asia | 1928 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 1600 | The Story of a Cheat | 1936 | Sacha Guitry |
| 1756 | The Story of Adele H. | 1975 | François Truffaut |
| 1388 | Story of G.I. Joe | 1945 | William A. Wellman |
| 1354 | The Story of Qiu Ju | 1992 | Yimou Zhang |
| 1131 | The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums | 1939 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 2333 | Story of Women | 1988 | Claude Chabrol |
| 209 | La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini |
| 740 | The Straight Story | 1999 | David Lynch |
| 2155 | Straight Time | 1978 | Ulu Grosbard |
| 1984 | Strange Days | 1995 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 537 | Stranger than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 220 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 963 | Straw Dogs | 1971 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 1998 | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 99 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan |
| 836 | Strictly Ballroom | 1992 | Baz Luhrmann |
| 858 | Strike | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
| 1746 | Stripes | 1981 | Ivan Reitman |
| 2457 | Stroszek | 1977 | Werner Herzog |
| 1625 | Stuart Little | 1999 | Rob Minkoff |
| 2197 | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | 1927 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 1416 | The Stunt Man | 1980 | Richard Rush |
| 2186 | Suddenly, Last Summer | 1959 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 113 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges |
| 1761 | Summer | 1986 | Eric Rohmer |
| 1542 | Summertime | 1955 | David Lean |
| 1632 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | 1971 | John Schlesinger |
| 1810 | A Sunday in the Country | 1984 | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 2289 | The Sundowners | 1960 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 95 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| 34 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder |
| 1845 | The Sunshine Boys | 1975 | Herbert Ross |
| 314 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner |
| 1766 | Superman II | 1980 | Richard Lester |
| 1987 | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | 1987 | Todd Haynes |
| 1522 | Suspicion | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 456 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento |
| 2147 | Sweet Charity | 1969 | Bob Fosse |
| 576 | The Sweet Hereafter | 1997 | Atom Egoyan |
| 170 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 1575 | Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song | 1971 | Melvin Van Peebles |
| 1442 | Sweetie | 1989 | Jane Campion |
| 1078 | Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August | 1974 | Lina Wertmüller |
| 307 | Swing Time | 1936 | George Stevens |
| 831 | Swingers | 1996 | Doug Liman |
| 1714 | Swiss Family Robinson | 1960 | Ken Annakin |
