| Fans' Rank |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 28 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | 56 |
| 498 | Say Anything… | 1989 | Cameron Crowe | 453 |
| 88 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 248 |
| 390 | Scent of a Woman | 1992 | Martin Brest | 1957 |
| 11 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 21 |
| 309 | Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven | 312 |
| 80 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 25 |
| 478 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee | 420 |
| 42 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 118 |
| 40 | The Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 37 |
| 103 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 117 |
| 361 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock | 365 |
| 245 | Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | John Madden | 246 |
| 313 | Shane | 1953 | George Stevens | 162 |
| 13 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 50 |
| 373 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 257 |
| 38 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 108 |
| 424 | Short Cuts | 1993 | Robert Altman | 579 |
| 233 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 281 |
| 497 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan | 1713 |
| 17 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 31 |
| 490 | A Simple Plan | 1998 | Sam Raimi | 1388 |
| 488 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 586 |
| 48 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 5 |
| 84 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | 186 |
| 451 | Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen | 578 |
| 493 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton | 1457 |
| 273 | Sling Blade | 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton | 864 |
| 234 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie | 1032 |
| 255 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand | 81 |
| 402 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 439 |
| 56 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 11 |
| 169 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise | 72 |
| 342 | South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Trey Parker | 476 |
| 193 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 197 |
| 323 | Speed | 1994 | Jan de Bont | 389 |
| 265 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi | 503 |
| 394 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi | 790 |
| 260 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 198 |
| 272 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 97 |
| 395 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder | 535 |
| 375 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 510 |
| 165 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 321 |
| 336 | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | 1982 | Nicholas Meyer | 616 |
| 5 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 8 |
| 398 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas | 837 |
| 130 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | 261 |
| 285 | La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini | 224 |
| 167 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 223 |
| 139 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 131 |
| 393 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 130 |
| 230 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 104 |
| 50 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 33 |
| 300 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 283 |
| 319 | The Sweet Hereafter | 1997 | Atom Egoyan | 517 |
| 438 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 174 |
| 379 | Swingers | 1996 | Doug Liman | 774 |
| 8 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 19 |
| 377 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 357 |
| 63 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 110 |
| 73 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 94 |
| 298 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper | 252 |
| 413 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 216 |
| 320 | There's Something about Mary | 1998 | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | 430 |
| 419 | The Thin Man | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke | 405 |
| 211 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick | 410 |
| 217 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | 233 |
| 49 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 28 |
| 119 | This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner | 99 |
| 338 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 285 |
| 243 | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 243 |
| 382 | Three Kings | 1999 | David O. Russell | 637 |
| 362 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 629 |
| 82 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 64 |
| 64 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 55 |
| 249 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujiro Ozu | 124 |
| 369 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos | 1442 |
| 253 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 175 |
| 447 | Top Gun | 1986 | Tony Scott | 440 |
| 411 | Top Hat | 1935 | Mark Sandrich | 153 |
| 403 | Total Recall | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven | 840 |
| 75 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 51 |
| 91 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 60 |
| 218 | Toy Story 2 | 1999 | John Lasseter | 290 |
| 205 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 696 |
| 113 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | 132 |
| 101 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 74 |
| 228 | True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott | 444 |
| 146 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | 302 |
| 112 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | 338 |
| 449 | Ugetsu | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 262 |
| 504 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 414 |
| 354 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan | 2137 |
| 68 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 67 |
| 150 | The Untouchables | 1987 | Brian De Palma | 395 |
| 29 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | 63 |
| 22 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 10 |
| 459 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 259 |
| 134 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 82 |
| 489 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | 1993 | Lasse Hallström | 1340 |
| 235 | When Harry Met Sally… | 1989 | Rob Reiner | 178 |
| 259 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 411 |
| 271 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | Mike Nichols | 452 |
| 93 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 48 |
| 213 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 203 |
| 288 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart | 397 |
| 264 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 206 |
| 374 | Witness | 1985 | Peter Weir | 472 |
| 33 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 7 |
| 465 | X2 | 2003 | Bryan Singer | 944 |
| 406 | X-Men | 2000 | Bryan Singer | 836 |
| 254 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 391 |
| 147 | Young Frankenstein | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 255 |
