| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 148 | Cabaret | 1972 | Bob Fosse |
| 1404 | Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 237 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene |
| 1807 | Cabiria | 1914 | Giovanni Pastrone |
| 549 | Caddyshack | 1980 | Harold Ramis |
| 2143 | La Cage aux Folles | 1978 | Edouard Molinaro |
| 577 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 2030 | Calamity Jane | 1953 | David Butler |
| 1166 | The Cameraman | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick |
| 437 | Camille | 1936 | George Cukor |
| 2085 | The Candidate | 1972 | Michael Ritchie |
| 1157 | Candyman | 1992 | Bernard Rose |
| 2512 | A Canterbury Tale | 1944 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
| 1549 | Cape Fear | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson |
| 1723 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese |
| 2367 | Capote | 2005 | Bennett Miller |
| 1324 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz |
| 865 | Captains Courageous | 1937 | Victor Fleming |
| 1904 | Capturing the Friedmans | 2003 | Andrew Jarecki |
| 1880 | Carlito's Way | 1993 | Brian De Palma |
| 1085 | Carmen Jones | 1954 | Otto Preminger |
| 2318 | Carnal Knowledge | 1971 | Mike Nichols |
| 2479 | Carnival in Flanders | 1935 | Jacques Feyder |
| 1020 | Carnival of Souls | 1962 | Herk Harvey |
| 1713 | Caro Diario | 1993 | Nanni Moretti |
| 1075 | Carousel | 1956 | Henry King |
| 275 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma |
| 1913 | Carry On... Up the Khyber | 1968 | Gerald Thomas |
| 2 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz |
| 560 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1869 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell |
| 1349 | Casque d'Or | 1952 | Jacques Becker |
| 1125 | Cast Away | 2000 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 2275 | The Castle | 1997 | Rob Sitch |
| 2028 | Casualties of War | 1989 | Brian De Palma |
| 1332 | Cat Ballou | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein |
| 1837 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks |
| 338 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 1135 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols |
| 1896 | Cavalcade | 1933 | Frank Lloyd |
| 1830 | Ceddo | 1977 | Ousmane Sembene |
| 735 | The Celebration | 1998 | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 649 | Celine & Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette |
| 745 | Central Station | 1998 | Walter Salles |
| 1962 | Le Cercle rouge | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 2494 | La Cérémonie | 1995 | Claude Chabrol |
| 1671 | César | 1936 | Marcel Pagnol |
| 1225 | Champion | 1949 | Mark Robson |
| 2163 | Chan Is Missing | 1982 | Wayne Wang |
| 1935 | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | 1978 | Fred Schepisi |
| 582 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen |
| 1321 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | Michael Curtiz |
| 297 | Chariots of Fire | 1981 | Hugh Hudson |
| 2398 | Charley Varrick | 1973 | Don Siegel |
| 2334 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005 | Tim Burton |
| 2121 | Charlie's Angels | 2000 | McG |
| 2368 | Charlotte's Web | 1973 | Charles A. Nichols and Iwao Takamoto |
| 1136 | Charulata | 1964 | Satyajit Ray |
| 1345 | Chasing Amy | 1997 | Kevin Smith |
| 1752 | The Cheat | 1915 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 1468 | Chelsea Girls | 1966 | Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol |
| 680 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall |
| 707 | Chicken Run | 2000 | Peter Lord and Nick Park |
| 1313 | La Chienne | 1931 | Jean Renoir |
| 2209 | Childhood of Maxim Gorky | 1938 | Mark Donskoy |
| 1338 | Children of a Lesser God | 1986 | Randa Haines |
| 1142 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 108 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné |
| 841 | Chimes at Midnight | 1965 | Orson Welles |
| 1000 | The China Syndrome | 1979 | James Bridges |
| 19 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski |
| 1718 | A Chinese Ghost Story | 1987 | Siu-Tung Ching |
| 1262 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 1968 | Ken Hughes |
| 937 | Chocolat | 2000 | Lasse Hallström |
| 2219 | Chopper | 2000 | Andrew Dominik |
| 625 | A Christmas Story | 1983 | Bob Clark |
| 1920 | Christopher Strong | 1933 | Dorothy Arzner |
| 1769 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch |
| 593 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar Wai Wong |
| 2109 | The Cider House Rules | 1999 | Lasse Hallström |
| 919 | Cinderella | 1950 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske |
| 1928 | Cinderella Man | 2005 | Ron Howard |
| 192 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore |
| 2159 | The Circle | 2000 | Jafar Panahi |
| 2005 | The Circus | 1928 | Charles Chaplin |
| 1 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
| 2115 | Citizen Ruth | 1996 | Alexander Payne |
| 55 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin |
| 1895 | City of Angels | 1998 | Brad Silberling |
| 331 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles |
| 1660 | City of Hope | 1991 | John Sayles |
| 1270 | The City of Lost Children | 1995 | Marc Caro and Jean-Marie Jeunet |
| 1702 | City of Sadness | 1989 | Hsiao-hsien Hou |
| 1534 | City Slickers | 1991 | Ron Underwood |
| 2204 | The Civil War | 1990 | Ken Burns |
| 1268 | Claire's Knee | 1970 | Eric Rohmer |
| 2434 | Clash of the Titans | 1981 | Desmond Davis |
| 1874 | Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | Phillip Noyce |
| 1070 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda |
| 1169 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 361 | Clerks. | 1994 | Kevin Smith |
| 2482 | The Clock | 1945 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 2282 | Clockers | 1995 | Spike Lee |
| 2498 | The Clockmaker | 1974 | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 43 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 103 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1803 | A Close Shave | 1995 | Nick Park |
| 736 | Close Up | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 716 | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jirí Menzel |
| 1675 | The Cloud-Capped Star | 1960 | Ritwik Ghatak |
| 464 | Clueless | 1995 | Amy Heckerling |
| 870 | Coal Miner's Daughter | 1980 | Michael Apted |
| 1538 | Cocoon | 1985 | Ron Howard |
| 2507 | Cold Mountain | 2003 | Anthony Minghella |
| 1759 | Collateral | 2004 | Michael Mann |
| 1255 | The Color of Money | 1986 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1077 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1968 | Sergei Parajanov |
| 481 | The Color Purple | 1985 | Steven Spielberg |
| 570 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov |
| 1124 | Coming Home | 1978 | Hal Ashby |
| 1058 | The Commitments | 1991 | Alan Parker |
| 2387 | The Company of Wolves | 1984 | Neil Jordan |
| 1664 | Con Air | 1997 | Simon West |
| 1715 | Conan the Barbarian | 1982 | John Milius |
| 184 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 812 | The Conqueror Worm | 1968 | Michael Reeves |
| 750 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 373 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 2426 | The Contender | 2000 | Rod Lurie |
| 176 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1106 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | 1989 | Peter Greenaway |
| 362 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg |
| 1315 | Cool Runnings | 1993 | Jon Turteltaub |
| 2419 | Cop Land | 1997 | James Mangold |
| 1583 | Le Corbeau | 1943 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 2470 | Counsellor at Law | 1933 | William Wyler |
| 2415 | Coup de Torchon | 1981 | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 959 | The Court Jester | 1955 | Melvin Frank and Norman Panama |
| 1736 | The Cranes are Flying | 1957 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili |
| 793 | Crash | 1996 | David Cronenberg |
| 1316 | Crash | 2004 | Paul Haggis |
| 1385 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 | Jack Arnold |
| 1972 | Cria! | 1976 | Carlos Saura |
| 365 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1184 | The Crime of Mr. Lange | 1936 | Jean Renoir |
| 488 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen |
| 2171 | Criss Cross | 1949 | Robert Siodmak |
| 1453 | Crocodile Dundee | 1986 | Peter Faiman |
| 1818 | Cross of Iron | 1977 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 1930 | Crossfire | 1947 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 2192 | Crossing Delancey | 1988 | Joan Micklin Silver |
| 205 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee |
| 847 | The Crow | 1994 | Alex Proyas |
| 258 | The Crowd | 1928 | King Vidor |
| 1780 | The Crucible | 1996 | Nicholas Hytner |
| 1510 | Cruel Intentions | 1999 | Roger Kumble |
| 1724 | The Cruel Sea | 1953 | Charles Frend |
| 605 | Crumb | 1994 | Terry Zwigoff |
| 503 | The Crying Game | 1992 | Neil Jordan |
| 2148 | Cube | 1997 | Vincenzo Natali |
| 2312 | The Curse of Frankenstein | 1957 | Terence Fisher |
| 2070 | The Curse of the Cat People | 1944 | Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise |
| 888 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 1342 | Cutter's Way | 1981 | Ivan Passer |
| 2297 | Cyclo | 1995 | Anh Hung Tran |
| 2118 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1950 | Michael Gordon |
| 696 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
