| Alternate Title | Title Used | Year | Director(s) | Rank |
| Le Pacte des loups | Brotherhood of the Wolf | 2001 | Christophe Gans | 2328 |
| Paisà | Paisan | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini | 616 |
| Les Parapluies de Cherbourg | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Jacques Demy | 377 |
| Partie de campagne | A Day in the Country | 1936 | Jean Renoir | 604 |
| Pasqualino Settebellezze | Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller | 887 |
| La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 139 |
| Pelle erobreren | Pelle the Conqueror | 1987 | Bille August | 879 |
| Per qualche dollaro in più | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | 1637 |
| Per un pugno di dollari | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 702 |
| The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor | 778 |
| Le Peuple migrateur | Winged Migration | 2001 | Jacques Perrin | 2254 |
| La Pianiste | The Piano Teacher | 2001 | Michael Haneke | 1892 |
| Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco | Pixote | 1981 | Hector Babenco | 1004 |
| La Planète sauvage | Fantastic Planet | 1973 | René Laloux | 1812 |
| Popiól i diament | Ashes and Diamonds | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda | 416 |
| The Postman | Il Postino | 1994 | Michael Radford | 818 |
| Pote tin Kyriaki | Never on Sunday | 1960 | Jules Dassin | 2044 |
| Potemkin | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 65 |
| Potomok Chingis-Khana | Storm over Asia | 1928 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1798 |
| Pred dozhdot | Before the Rain | 1994 | Milcho Manchevski | 1659 |
| Prelude to War | Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War | 1943 | Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak | 2265 |
| Préparez vos mouchoirs | Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | 1978 | Bertrand Blier | 2383 |
| La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV | The Rise to Power of Louis XIV | 1966 | Roberto Rossellini | 1379 |
| Le Procès | The Trial | 1962 | Orson Welles | 2160 |
| Professione: reporter | The Passenger | 1975 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 905 |
| Qiu Ju da guan si | The Story of Qiu Ju | 1992 | Yimou Zhang | 1354 |
| Le Quai des brumes | Port of Shadows | 1938 | Marcel Carné | 1403 |
| Les Quatre cents coups | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 78 |
| Quince Tree of the Sun | The Dream of Light | 1992 | Víctor Erice | 2128 |
| Rambo: First Blood | First Blood | 1982 | Ted Kotcheff | 1551 |
| The Raven | Le Corbeau | 1943 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1583 |
| Le Rayon vert | Summer | 1986 | Eric Rohmer | 1761 |
| Red | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 231 |
| The Red Circle | Le Cercle rouge | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1962 |
| Red Dragon | Manhunter | 1986 | Michael Mann | 1288 |
| Regain | Harvest | 1937 | Marcel Pagnol | 2245 |
| La Règle du jeu | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 58 |
| La Reine Margot | Queen Margot | 1994 | Patrice Chéreau | 1954 |
| Riget | The Kingdom | 1994 | Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier | 1915 |
| Ringu | Ring | 1998 | Hideo Nakata | 1189 |
| Rocco e i suoi fratelli | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti | 769 |
| Le Roi de coeur | King of Hearts | 1966 | Phillippe de Broca | 1570 |
| Roma, città aperta | Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 210 |
| Le Roman d'un tricheur | The Story of a Cheat | 1936 | Sacha Guitry | 1600 |
| Rome, Open City | Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 210 |
| Les Roseaux sauvages | The Wild Reeds | 1994 | André Téchiné | 1578 |
| Russkij kovcheg | Russian Ark | 2002 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1477 |
| Safar e Ghandehar | Kandahar | 2001 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 2301 |
| Saikaku ichidai onna | The Life of Oharu | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 954 |
| Le Salaire de la peur | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 285 |
| Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma | Salò | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1527 |
| Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom | Salò | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1527 |
| Le Sang d'un poète | The Blood of a Poet | 1930 | Jean Cocteau | 1504 |
| Sanma no aji | An Autumn Afternoon | 1962 | Yasujiro Ozu | 1525 |
| Sans toit ni loi | Vagabond | 1985 | Agnès Varda | 1069 |
| Sanshô dayû | Sansho the Bailiff | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 459 |
| Sasame-yuki | The Makioka Sisters | 1983 | Kon Ichikawa | 2196 |
| Såsom i en spegel | Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman | 1706 |
| Satan's Tango | Sátántangó | 1994 | Béla Tarr | 1110 |
| Satyricon | Fellini Satyricon | 1969 | Federico Fellini | 1532 |
| Sayat Nova | The Color of Pomegranates | 1968 | Sergei Parajanov | 1077 |
| Scarface, The Shame of a Nation | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 315 |
| Scener ur ett äktenskap | Scenes from a Marriage | 1973 | Ingmar Bergman | 799 |
| Das Schreckliche Mädchen | The Nasty Girl | 1990 | Michael Verhoeven | 1348 |
| Sciuscià | Shoeshine | 1946 | Vittorio De Sica | 1158 |
| Se7en | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 143 |
| Sedmikrasky | Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilová | 1703 |
| Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 246 |
| Seppuku | Harakiri | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi | 2218 |
| Seventh Voyage of Sinbad | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | 1958 | Nathan Juran | 1122 |
| The Shadow Warrior | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa | 1007 |
| Shall We Dansu? | Shall We Dance? | 1996 | Masayuki Suo | 1797 |
| Shi mian mai fu | House of Flying Daggers | 2004 | Yimou Zhang | 1947 |
| Shichinin no samurai | The Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 36 |
| Shonen | Boy | 1969 | Nagisa Oshima | 2454 |
| Shoot the Pianist | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 596 |
| Sien nui yau wan | A Chinese Ghost Story | 1987 | Siu-Tung Ching | 1718 |
| Sins of Lola Montes | Lola Montès | 1955 | Max Ophüls | 497 |
| Det Sjunde inseglet | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 98 |
| Skammen | Shame | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 1194 |
| Smultronstället | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 182 |
| El Sol del membrillo | The Dream of Light | 1992 | Víctor Erice | 2128 |
| Soldaat van Oranje | Soldier of Orange | 1977 | Paul Verhoeven | 2019 |
| I Soliti ignoti | Big Deal on Madonna Street | 1958 | Mario Monicelli | 1796 |
| Solyaris | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 526 |
| Sommarnattens leende | Smiles of a Summer Night | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman | 635 |
| Le Souffle au coeur | Murmur of the Heart | 1971 | Louis Malle | 1688 |
| Sous les toits de Paris | Under the Roofs of Paris | 1930 | René Clair | 2298 |
| Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba | I Am Cuba | 1964 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 1548 |
| Spies | Spione | 1928 | Fritz Lang | 1978 |
| Spoorloos | The Vanishing | 1988 | George Sluizer | 1001 |
| The Spy | Spione | 1928 | Fritz Lang | 1978 |
| Stachka | Strike | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 858 |
| La Stanza del figlio | The Son's Room | 2001 | Nanni Moretti | 2310 |
| Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 7 |
| Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 46 |
| Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 199 |
| Steven Soderbergh's Schizopolis | Schizopolis | 1996 | Steven Soderbergh | 1900 |
| La Strategia del ragno | The Spider's Stratagem | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1628 |
| The Sun of the Quince Tree | The Dream of Light | 1992 | Víctor Erice | 2128 |
| Suna No Onna | Woman in the Dunes | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 827 |
| Sunless | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker | 1097 |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 95 |
| Sunset Boulevard | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 34 |
| Superman: The Movie | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 314 |
| Sur mes lèvres | Read My Lips | 2001 | Jacques Audiard | 2432 |
| Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved | Sweet Charity | 1969 | Bob Fosse | 2147 |
| Szegénylegények | The Round-up | 1966 | Miklós Jancsó | 1661 |
