| Alternate Title | Title Used | Year | Director(s) | Rank |
| Pâfekuto burû | Perfect Blue | 1997 | Satoshi Kon | 1317 |
| Paisà | Paisan | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini | 1018 |
| Papurika | Paprika | 2006 | Satoshi Kon | 1168 |
| Les Parapluies de Cherbourg | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Jacques Demy | 298 |
| The Parasite Murders | Shivers | 1975 | David Cronenberg | 2366 |
| Paris Asleep | The Crazy Ray | 1924 | René Clair | 2362 |
| Paris qui dort | The Crazy Ray | 1924 | René Clair | 2362 |
| Partie de campagne | A Day in the Country | 1946 | Jean Renoir | 1001 |
| Pasqualino Settebellezze | Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller | 1721 |
| La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 123 |
| Pelle erobreren | Pelle the Conqueror | 1987 | Bille August | 2363 |
| Per qualche dollaro in più | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | 468 |
| Per un pugno di dollari | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 383 |
| The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor | 2568 |
| The Phantom Carriage | The Phantom Chariot | 1921 | Victor Sjöström | 1464 |
| La Pianiste | The Piano Teacher | 2001 | Michael Haneke | 1445 |
| La Piel que habito | The Skin I Live In | 2011 | Pedro Almodóvar | 2244 |
| Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco | Pixote | 1981 | Hector Babenco | 1793 |
| Les Plages d'Agnès | The Beaches of Agnès | 2008 | Agnès Varda | 2735 |
| La Planète sauvage | Fantastic Planet | 1973 | René Laloux | 728 |
| Plein soleil | Purple Noon | 1960 | René Clément | 1695 |
| Police Story | Jackie Chan's Police Story | 1985 | Jackie Chan | 2431 |
| Popiól i diament | Ashes and Diamonds | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda | 547 |
| The Postman | Il Postino | 1994 | Michael Radford | 2353 |
| Potemkin | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 90 |
| Pred dozhdot | Before the Rain | 1994 | Milcho Manchevski | 2442 |
| La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV | The Rise of Louis XIV | 1966 | Roberto Rossellini | 2477 |
| Le Procès | The Trial | 1962 | Orson Welles | 1244 |
| Professione: reporter | The Passenger | 1975 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 833 |
| Profondo rosso | Deep Red | 1975 | Dario Argento | 1049 |
| I Pugni in tasca | Fist in His Pocket | 1965 | Marco Bellocchio | 2081 |
| Le Quai des brumes | Port of Shadows | 1938 | Marcel Carné | 1841 |
| Les Quatre cents coups | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 60 |
| Quince Tree of the Sun | The Dream of Light | 1992 | Víctor Erice | 1742 |
| The Raid 2: Berandal | The Raid 2 | 2014 | Gareth Evans | 2020 |
| Rambo: First Blood | First Blood | 1982 | Ted Kotcheff | 775 |
| The Raven | Le Corbeau | 1943 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1582 |
| Le Rayon vert | Summer | 1986 | Eric Rohmer | 1778 |
| Rec | [Rec] | 2007 | Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza | 1444 |
| Red | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 282 |
| The Red Circle | Le Cercle rouge | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 656 |
| Red Dragon | Manhunter | 1986 | Michael Mann | 1377 |
| La Règle du jeu | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 99 |
| Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie | The Saragossa Manuscript | 1965 | Wojciech Has | 2291 |
| Relatos salvajes | Wild Tales | 2014 | Damián Szifrón | 2706 |
| Revenge of the Vampire | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava | 1246 |
| Riget | The Kingdom | 1994 | Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier | 2810 |
| Ringu | Ring | 1998 | Hideo Nakata | 889 |
| Road to Eternity | The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | 2367 |
| Rocco e i suoi fratelli | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti | 727 |
| Rogue One | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 2016 | Gareth Edwards | 2060 |
| Roma, città aperta | Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 239 |
| Le Roman d'un tricheur | The Story of a Cheat | 1936 | Sacha Guitry | 2448 |
| Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro | The Castle of Cagliostro | 1979 | Hayao Miyazaki | 2576 |
| Russkiy kovcheg | Russian Ark | 2002 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1325 |
| Saikaku ichidai onna | The Life of Oharu | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 986 |
| Le Salaire de la peur | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 210 |
| Salinui chueok | Memories of Murder | 2003 | Bong Joon Ho | 852 |
| Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma | Salò | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 928 |
| Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom | Salò | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 928 |
| The Samurai | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 375 |
| San xia hao ren | Still Life | 2006 | Zhangke Jia | 2465 |
| Le Sang d'un poète | The Blood of a Poet | 1932 | Jean Cocteau | 1659 |
| Sånger från andra våningen | Songs from the Second Floor | 2000 | Roy Andersson | 1982 |
| Sanma no aji | An Autumn Afternoon | 1962 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1187 |
| Sans toit ni loi | Vagabond | 1985 | Agnès Varda | 1427 |
| Sanshô dayû | Sansho the Bailiff | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 376 |
| Såsom i en spegel | Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman | 1770 |
| Satan's Tango | Sátántangó | 1994 | Béla Tarr | 650 |
| Satyricon | Fellini Satyricon | 1969 | Federico Fellini | 2023 |
| Saul fia | Son of Saul | 2015 | László Nemes | 2498 |
| Sayat Nova | The Color of Pomegranates | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov | 1125 |
| Le Scaphandre et le papillon | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | Julian Schnabel | 895 |
| Scarface, The Shame of a Nation | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 534 |
| Scener ur ett äktenskap | Scenes from a Marriage | 1974 | Ingmar Bergman | 950 |
| 'Sciuscià' (Ragazzi) | Shoeshine | 1946 | Vittorio De Sica | 1715 |
| Se, jie | Lust, Caution | 2007 | Ang Lee | 2218 |
| Se7en | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 102 |
| El secreto de sus ojos | The Secret in Their Eyes | 2009 | Juan José Campanella | 1455 |
| Sedmikrásky | Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilová | 1138 |
| Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss | Veronika Voss | 1982 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 2799 |
| Sei donne per l'assassino | Blood and Black Lace | 1964 | Mario Bava | 2531 |
| Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 79 |
| Sennen joyû | Millennium Actress | 2001 | Satoshi Kon | 2133 |
| Seppuku | Harakiri | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi | 754 |
| Serbuan maut | The Raid: Redemption | 2011 | Gareth Evans | 1331 |
| Serbuan Maut 2: Berandal | The Raid 2 | 2014 | Gareth Evans | 2020 |
| Seul contre tous | I Stand Alone | 1998 | Gaspar Noé | 2717 |
| Seven Doors of Death | The Beyond | 1981 | Lucio Fulci | 2308 |
| Seventh Voyage of Sinbad | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | 1958 | Nathan Juran | 1785 |
| The Shadow Warrior | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa | 1416 |
| Shi mian mai fu | House of Flying Daggers | 2004 | Yimou Zhang | 1493 |
| Shichinin no samurai | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 22 |
| Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro wo, kimi ni | End of Evangelion | 1997 | Hideaki Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki | 1591 |
| Shoot the Pianist | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 807 |
| Sien nui yau wan | A Chinese Ghost Story | 1987 | Siu-Tung Ching | 2532 |
| Sigur Rós: Heima | Heima | 2007 | Dean DeBlois | 2502 |
| Sins of Lola Montes | Lola Montès | 1955 | Max Ophüls | 1181 |
| Siu lam juk kau | Shaolin Soccer | 2001 | Stephen Chow | 1990 |
| Det Sjunde inseglet | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 93 |
| Skammen | Shame | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 2355 |
| Smultronstället | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 170 |
| El Sol del membrillo | The Dream of Light | 1992 | Víctor Erice | 1742 |
| A Soldier's Prayer | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer | 1961 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1669 |
| I Soliti ignoti | Big Deal on Madonna Street | 1958 | Mario Monicelli | 1836 |
| Solyaris | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 227 |
| Sommarnattens leende | Smiles of a Summer Night | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman | 1108 |
| A Song of Love | Un chant d'amour | 1950 | Jean Genet | 2075 |
| La Sortie des usines Lumière | Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory | 1895 | Louis Lumière | 2230 |
| Le Souffle au coeur | Murmur of the Heart | 1971 | Louis Malle | 2777 |
| The Sound of Trumpets | Il Posto | 1961 | Ermanno Olmi | 2153 |
| La Souriante Madame Beudet | The Smiling Madame Beudet | 1923 | Germaine Dulac | 2595 |
| The South | El Sur | 1983 | Víctor Erice | 2494 |
| Soy Cuba | I Am Cuba | 1964 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 965 |
| Spies | Spione | 1928 | Fritz Lang | 2201 |
| Spoorloos | The Vanishing | 1988 | George Sluizer | 795 |
| Spring in a Small City | Spring in a Small Town | 1948 | Mu Fei | 2354 |
| The Spy | Spione | 1928 | Fritz Lang | 2201 |
| Stachka | Strike | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1176 |
| La Stanza del figlio | The Son's Room | 2001 | Nanni Moretti | 2545 |
| Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 6 |
| Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 36 |
| Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 236 |
| A Story from Chikamatsu | The Crucified Lovers | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 2021 |
| The Story of the Fox | Le Roman de Renard | 1930 | Irene and Wladyslaw Starewicz | 2628 |
| Sud pralad | Tropical Malady | 2004 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2009 |
| The Sun of the Quince Tree | The Dream of Light | 1992 | Víctor Erice | 1742 |
| Suna No Onna | Woman in the Dunes | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 667 |
| Sunless | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker | 561 |
| Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 81 |
| Sunset Boulevard | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 25 |
| Superfly | Super Fly | 1972 | Gordon Parks Jr. | 1830 |
| Superman: The Movie | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 275 |
| The Swamp | La Ciénaga | 2001 | Lucrecia Martel | 2485 |
| Switchblade Romance | High Tension | 2003 | Alexandre Aja | 2563 |
| Sympathy for Lady Vengeance | Lady Vengeance | 2005 | Chan-wook Park | 2227 |
