| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1196 | Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox |
| 680 | Sideways | 2004 | Alexander Payne |
| 1713 | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang |
| 1858 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 2014 | The Silence | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 30 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme |
| 913 | Silent Running | 1972 | Douglas Trumbull |
| 1051 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols |
| 2037 | Silver Streak | 1976 | Arthur Hiller |
| 1494 | A Simple Plan | 1998 | Sam Raimi |
| 575 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez |
| 6 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly |
| 2372 | Singles | 1992 | Cameron Crowe |
| 2299 | Sisters | 1973 | Brian De Palma |
| 1173 | Sixteen Candles | 1984 | John Hughes |
| 171 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 1142 | Slacker | 1991 | Richard Linklater |
| 673 | Slap Shot | 1977 | George Roy Hill |
| 2131 | Slaughterhouse-Five | 1972 | George Roy Hill |
| 553 | Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen |
| 1530 | Sleeping Beauty | 1959 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 652 | Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | Nora Ephron |
| 1516 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton |
| 1124 | Sleuth | 1972 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 826 | Sling Blade | 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton |
| 872 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle |
| 1914 | Smile | 1975 | Michael Ritchie |
| 760 | Smiles of a Summer Night | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1943 | Smoke | 1995 | Wayne Wang |
| 2157 | Smoke Signals | 1998 | Chris Eyre |
| 2119 | The Snapper | 1993 | Stephen Frears |
| 1088 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie |
| 89 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand |
| 377 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 1689 | Solaris | 2002 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2166 | Soldier of Orange | 1977 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 2241 | A Soldier's Story | 1984 | Norman Jewison |
| 1640 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 10 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder |
| 2169 | Somebody Up There Likes Me | 1956 | Robert Wise |
| 2310 | Something Wild | 1986 | Jonathan Demme |
| 2172 | Son of Frankenstein | 1939 | Rowland V. Lee |
| 1079 | Sonatine | 1993 | Takeshi Kitano |
| 2091 | Song of the South | 1946 | Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson |
| 2202 | Songs from the Second Floor | 2000 | Roy Andersson |
| 844 | Sons of the Desert | 1933 | William A. Seiter |
| 1862 | The Son's Room | 2001 | Nanni Moretti |
| 823 | Sophie's Choice | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 599 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls |
| 79 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise |
| 1107 | Sounder | 1972 | Martin Ritt |
| 1391 | South Pacific | 1958 | Joshua Logan |
| 466 | South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Trey Parker |
| 2049 | The Southerner | 1945 | Jean Renoir |
| 1257 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer |
| 2226 | The Spanish Prisoner | 1997 | David Mamet |
| 211 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 370 | Speed | 1994 | Jan de Bont |
| 1289 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1401 | Spellbound | 2002 | Jeffrey Blitz |
| 2366 | Spider | 2002 | David Cronenberg |
| 501 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi |
| 765 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi |
| 1560 | Spione | 1928 | Fritz Lang |
| 1564 | The Spiral Staircase | 1945 | Robert Siodmak |
| 543 | The Spirit of the Beehive | 1973 | Víctor Erice |
| 174 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1515 | Splash | 1984 | Ron Howard |
| 769 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan |
| 2269 | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | 2004 | Stephen Hillenburg |
| 1718 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Ki-duk Kim |
| 1768 | Spy Kids | 2001 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 1497 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | 1965 | Martin Ritt |
| 1902 | The Spy Who Loved Me | 1977 | Lewis Gilbert |
| 897 | Stage Door | 1937 | Gregory La Cava |
| 106 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford |
| 265 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
| 569 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder |
| 1725 | Stalingrad | 1993 | Joseph Vilsmaier |
| 509 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 1436 | Stand and Deliver | 1988 | Ramón Menéndez |
| 315 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner |
| 2159 | A Star Is Born | 1937 | William A. Wellman |
| 250 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor |
| 2062 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams |
| 1482 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | 1986 | Leonard Nimoy |
| 2158 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | 1991 | Nicholas Meyer |
| 1417 | Star Trek: First Contact | 1996 | Jonathan Frakes |
| 1894 | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | 1979 | Robert Wise |
| 507 | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | 1982 | Nicholas Meyer |
| 8 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas |
| 876 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas |
| 959 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | 2002 | George Lucas |
| 1252 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas |
| 2121 | Starman | 1984 | John Carpenter |
| 441 | Starship Troopers | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 2081 | State of the Union | 1948 | Frank Capra |
| 1485 | The Station Agent | 2003 | Thomas McCarthy |
| 797 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | 1928 | Charles Reisner |
| 1969 | The Steel Helmet | 1951 | Samuel Fuller |
| 1239 | Steel Magnolias | 1989 | Herbert Ross |
| 938 | Stella Dallas | 1937 | King Vidor |
| 2339 | The Stepfather | 1987 | Joseph Ruben |
| 2124 | The Stepford Wives | 1975 | Bryan Forbes |
| 2073 | Stepmom | 1998 | Chris Columbus |
| 281 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill |
| 2265 | Stir Crazy | 1980 | Sidney Poitier |
| 1327 | Stolen Kisses | 1968 | François Truffaut |
| 926 | Stop Making Sense | 1984 | Jonathan Demme |
| 1992 | Storm over Asia | 1928 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 1592 | The Story of a Cheat | 1936 | Sacha Guitry |
| 2362 | The Story of Adele H. | 1975 | François Truffaut |
| 1907 | Story of G.I. Joe | 1945 | William A. Wellman |
| 1565 | The Story of Qiu Ju | 1992 | Yimou Zhang |
| 1357 | The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums | 1939 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 243 | La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini |
| 738 | The Straight Story | 1999 | David Lynch |
| 2217 | Straight Time | 1978 | Ulu Grosbard |
| 2009 | Strange Days | 1995 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 597 | Stranger than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 235 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 726 | Straw Dogs | 1971 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 2264 | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 145 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan |
| 864 | Strictly Ballroom | 1992 | Baz Luhrmann |
| 1086 | Strike | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
| 1730 | Stripes | 1981 | Ivan Reitman |
| 2225 | Stroszek | 1977 | Werner Herzog |
| 1616 | Stuart Little | 1999 | Rob Minkoff |
| 1540 | The Stunt Man | 1980 | Richard Rush |
| 125 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges |
| 1757 | Summer | 1986 | Eric Rohmer |
| 2128 | Summertime | 1955 | David Lean |
| 1838 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | 1971 | John Schlesinger |
| 1938 | A Sunday in the Country | 1984 | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 99 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| 33 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder |
| 1763 | Superfly | 1972 | Gordon Parks Jr. |
| 2337 | Super Size Me | 2004 | Morgan Spurlock |
| 1959 | Superbad | 2007 | Greg Mottola |
| 272 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner |
| 1387 | Superman II | 1980 | Richard Lester |
| 1965 | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | 1988 | Todd Haynes |
| 2177 | The Sure Thing | 1985 | Rob Reiner |
| 1822 | Suspicion | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 327 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento |
| 1975 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | Tim Burton |
| 512 | The Sweet Hereafter | 1997 | Atom Egoyan |
| 2391 | Sweet Sixteen | 2002 | Ken Loach |
| 177 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 1092 | Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | 1971 | Melvin Van Peebles |
| 2163 | Sweetie | 1989 | Jane Campion |
| 1522 | Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August | 1974 | Lina Wertmüller |
| 2322 | The Swimmer | 1968 | Frank Perry |
| 392 | Swing Time | 1936 | George Stevens |
| 860 | Swingers | 1996 | Doug Liman |
| 2016 | Swiss Family Robinson | 1960 | Ken Annakin |
