| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1401 | Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox |
| 681 | Sideways | 2004 | Alexander Payne |
| 1519 | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang |
| 1713 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 1950 | The Silence | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 31 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme |
| 925 | Silent Running | 1972 | Douglas Trumbull |
| 1020 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols |
| 2160 | Silver Streak | 1976 | Arthur Hiller |
| 1388 | A Simple Plan | 1998 | Sam Raimi |
| 586 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez |
| 5 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly |
| 2272 | Singles | 1992 | Cameron Crowe |
| 1062 | Sixteen Candles | 1984 | John Hughes |
| 186 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 1098 | Slacker | 1991 | Richard Linklater |
| 710 | Slap Shot | 1977 | George Roy Hill |
| 2039 | Slaughterhouse-Five | 1972 | George Roy Hill |
| 578 | Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen |
| 1462 | Sleeping Beauty | 1959 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 630 | Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | Nora Ephron |
| 1457 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton |
| 1057 | Sleuth | 1972 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 864 | Sling Blade | 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton |
| 1487 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle |
| 2093 | Small Change | 1976 | François Truffaut |
| 1843 | Smile | 1975 | Michael Ritchie |
| 667 | Smiles of a Summer Night | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1863 | Smoke | 1995 | Wayne Wang |
| 1032 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie |
| 81 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand |
| 439 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 1864 | Solaris | 2002 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2100 | Soldier of Orange | 1977 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 2168 | A Soldier's Story | 1984 | Norman Jewison |
| 1568 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 11 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder |
| 2258 | Something Wild | 1986 | Jonathan Demme |
| 2107 | Son of Frankenstein | 1939 | Rowland V. Lee |
| 1197 | Sonatine | 1993 | Takeshi Kitano |
| 2135 | Songs from the Second Floor | 2000 | Roy Andersson |
| 795 | Sons of the Desert | 1933 | William A. Seiter |
| 1798 | The Son's Room | 2001 | Nanni Moretti |
| 782 | Sophie's Choice | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 556 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls |
| 72 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise |
| 947 | Sounder | 1972 | Martin Ritt |
| 1278 | South Pacific | 1958 | Joshua Logan |
| 476 | South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Trey Parker |
| 1988 | The Southerner | 1945 | Jean Renoir |
| 1141 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer |
| 2158 | The Spanish Prisoner | 1997 | David Mamet |
| 197 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 389 | Speed | 1994 | Jan de Bont |
| 1213 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1280 | Spellbound | 2002 | Jeffrey Blitz |
| 2263 | Spider | 2002 | David Cronenberg |
| 503 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi |
| 790 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi |
| 2247 | The Spider's Stratagem | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 1647 | Spione | 1928 | Fritz Lang |
| 1504 | The Spiral Staircase | 1945 | Robert Siodmak |
| 604 | The Spirit of the Beehive | 1973 | Víctor Erice |
| 198 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1400 | Splash | 1984 | Ron Howard |
| 712 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan |
| 2181 | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | 2004 | Stephen Hillenburg |
| 1809 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Ki-duk Kim |
| 1608 | Spy Kids | 2001 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 1644 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | 1965 | Martin Ritt |
| 2004 | The Spy Who Loved Me | 1977 | Lewis Gilbert |
| 905 | Stage Door | 1937 | Gregory La Cava |
| 97 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford |
| 260 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
| 535 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder |
| 1898 | Stalingrad | 1993 | Joseph Vilsmaier |
| 510 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 1341 | Stand and Deliver | 1988 | Ramón Menéndez |
| 321 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner |
| 1937 | A Star Is Born | 1937 | William A. Wellman |
| 245 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor |
| 2052 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams |
| 1493 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | 1986 | Leonard Nimoy |
| 2268 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | 1991 | Nicholas Meyer |
| 1579 | Star Trek: First Contact | 1996 | Jonathan Frakes |
| 1818 | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | 1979 | Robert Wise |
| 616 | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | 1982 | Nicholas Meyer |
| 8 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas |
| 837 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas |
| 899 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | 2002 | George Lucas |
| 1269 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas |
| 1992 | Starman | 1984 | John Carpenter |
| 471 | Starship Troopers | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 2224 | State of the Union | 1948 | Frank Capra |
| 1555 | The Station Agent | 2003 | Thomas McCarthy |
| 789 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | 1928 | Charles Reisner |
| 2116 | The Steel Helmet | 1951 | Samuel Fuller |
| 1191 | Steel Magnolias | 1989 | Herbert Ross |
| 911 | Stella Dallas | 1937 | King Vidor |
| 2234 | The Stepfather | 1987 | Joseph Ruben |
| 1789 | The Stepford Wives | 1975 | Bryan Forbes |
| 1891 | Stepmom | 1998 | Chris Columbus |
| 261 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill |
| 2061 | Stir Crazy | 1980 | Sidney Poitier |
| 1070 | Stolen Kisses | 1968 | François Truffaut |
| 961 | Stop Making Sense | 1984 | Jonathan Demme |
| 1927 | Storm over Asia | 1928 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 1309 | The Story of a Cheat | 1936 | Sacha Guitry |
| 1998 | The Story of Adele H. | 1975 | François Truffaut |
| 1636 | Story of G.I. Joe | 1945 | William A. Wellman |
| 1505 | The Story of Qiu Ju | 1992 | Yimou Zhang |
| 1232 | The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums | 1939 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 224 | La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini |
| 746 | The Straight Story | 1999 | David Lynch |
| 2148 | Straight Time | 1978 | Ulu Grosbard |
| 2097 | Strange Days | 1995 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 534 | Stranger than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 223 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 808 | Straw Dogs | 1971 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 131 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan |
| 815 | Strictly Ballroom | 1992 | Baz Luhrmann |
| 1005 | Strike | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
| 1452 | Stripes | 1981 | Ivan Reitman |
| 1484 | Stuart Little | 1999 | Rob Minkoff |
| 1480 | The Stunt Man | 1980 | Richard Rush |
| 130 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges |
| 1840 | Summer | 1986 | Eric Rohmer |
| 2055 | Summertime | 1955 | David Lean |
| 1777 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | 1971 | John Schlesinger |
| 1860 | A Sunday in the Country | 1984 | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 104 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| 33 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder |
| 2205 | The Sunshine Boys | 1975 | Herbert Ross |
| 1981 | Superbad | 2007 | Greg Mottola |
| 1947 | Superfly | 1972 | Gordon Parks Jr. |
| 283 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner |
| 1518 | Superman II | 1980 | Richard Lester |
| 1892 | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | 1987 | Todd Haynes |
| 2111 | The Sure Thing | 1985 | Rob Reiner |
| 1755 | Suspicion | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 377 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento |
| 517 | The Sweet Hereafter | 1997 | Atom Egoyan |
| 174 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 1233 | Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | 1971 | Melvin Van Peebles |
| 2092 | Sweetie | 1989 | Jane Campion |
| 1328 | Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August | 1974 | Lina Wertmüller |
| 350 | Swing Time | 1936 | George Stevens |
| 774 | Swingers | 1996 | Doug Liman |
| 1959 | Swiss Family Robinson | 1960 | Ken Annakin |
