| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 144 | Cabaret | 1972 | Bob Fosse |
| 2344 | Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 223 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene |
| 2020 | Cabiria | 1914 | Giovanni Pastrone |
| 467 | Caddyshack | 1980 | Harold Ramis |
| 1900 | La Cage aux Folles | 1978 | Edouard Molinaro |
| 884 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 1686 | Calamity Jane | 1953 | David Butler |
| 1208 | The Cameraman | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick |
| 681 | Camille | 1936 | George Cukor |
| 1240 | Candyman | 1992 | Bernard Rose |
| 1857 | Cannibal Holocaust | 1980 | Ruggero Deodato |
| 1656 | A Canterbury Tale | 1944 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
| 1160 | Cape Fear | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson |
| 1646 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1425 | Capote | 2005 | Bennett Miller |
| 1800 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz |
| 1137 | Captains Courageous | 1937 | Victor Fleming |
| 1255 | Capturing the Friedmans | 2003 | Andrew Jarecki |
| 1351 | Carlito's Way | 1993 | Brian De Palma |
| 1305 | Carmen Jones | 1954 | Otto Preminger |
| 1972 | Carnal Knowledge | 1971 | Mike Nichols |
| 824 | Carnival of Souls | 1962 | Herk Harvey |
| 2152 | Caro Diario | 1993 | Nanni Moretti |
| 1162 | Carousel | 1956 | Henry King |
| 269 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma |
| 2280 | Carry On... Up the Khyber | 1968 | Gerald Thomas |
| 3 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz |
| 488 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese |
| 917 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell |
| 1432 | Casque d'Or | 1952 | Jacques Becker |
| 1119 | Cast Away | 2000 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 2300 | Casualties of War | 1989 | Brian De Palma |
| 1510 | Cat Ballou | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein |
| 2025 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks |
| 458 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 1109 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols |
| 2030 | Ceddo | 1977 | Ousmane Sembene |
| 637 | The Celebration | 1998 | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 727 | Celine & Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette |
| 695 | Central Station | 1998 | Walter Salles |
| 1335 | Le Cercle rouge | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 2094 | La Cérémonie | 1995 | Claude Chabrol |
| 1712 | César | 1936 | Marcel Pagnol |
| 2307 | The Champ | 1931 | King Vidor |
| 1463 | Champion | 1949 | Mark Robson |
| 2335 | The Changeling | 1980 | Peter Medak |
| 1971 | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | 1978 | Fred Schepisi |
| 2072 | Chaplin | 1992 | Richard Attenborough |
| 638 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen |
| 1323 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | Michael Curtiz |
| 320 | Chariots of Fire | 1981 | Hugh Hudson |
| 1336 | Charulata | 1964 | Satyajit Ray |
| 1430 | Chasing Amy | 1997 | Kevin Smith |
| 2371 | The Cheat | 1915 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 1489 | Chelsea Girls | 1966 | Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol |
| 624 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall |
| 747 | Chicken Run | 2000 | Peter Lord and Nick Park |
| 1755 | La Chienne | 1931 | Jean Renoir |
| 1742 | Children of a Lesser God | 1986 | Randa Haines |
| 609 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 129 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné |
| 1016 | Chimes at Midnight | 1965 | Orson Welles |
| 1118 | The China Syndrome | 1979 | James Bridges |
| 20 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski |
| 1863 | A Chinese Ghost Story | 1987 | Siu-Tung Ching |
| 1112 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 1968 | Ken Hughes |
| 1114 | Chocolat | 2000 | Lasse Hallström |
| 2186 | Chopper | 2000 | Andrew Dominik |
| 642 | A Christmas Story | 1983 | Bob Clark |
| 2251 | Christopher Strong | 1933 | Dorothy Arzner |
| 1931 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch |
| 2109 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 2005 | Andrew Adamson |
| 579 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar Wai Wong |
| 2139 | The Cider House Rules | 1999 | Lasse Hallström |
| 941 | Cinderella | 1950 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske |
| 1624 | Cinderella Man | 2005 | Ron Howard |
| 192 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore |
| 1687 | The Circus | 1928 | Charles Chaplin |
| 2 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
| 1492 | Citizen Ruth | 1996 | Alexander Payne |
| 68 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin |
| 2066 | City of Angels | 1998 | Brad Silberling |
| 227 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles |
| 1836 | City of Hope | 1991 | John Sayles |
| 901 | The City of Lost Children | 1995 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 1761 | A City of Sadness | 1989 | Hsiao-hsien Hou |
| 1614 | City Slickers | 1991 | Ron Underwood |
| 1304 | Claire's Knee | 1970 | Eric Rohmer |
| 2064 | Clash of the Titans | 1981 | Desmond Davis |
| 1383 | Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | Phillip Noyce |
| 1136 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda |
| 1397 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 322 | Clerks. | 1994 | Kevin Smith |
| 36 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 103 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg |
| 2003 | A Close Shave | 1995 | Nick Park |
| 762 | Close Up | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 664 | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jirí Menzel |
| 1664 | The Cloud-Capped Star | 1960 | Ritwik Ghatak |
| 2063 | Cloverfield | 2008 | Matt Reeves |
| 452 | Clueless | 1995 | Amy Heckerling |
| 935 | Coal Miner's Daughter | 1980 | Michael Apted |
| 1578 | Cocoon | 1985 | Ron Howard |
| 2054 | Collateral | 2004 | Michael Mann |
| 2348 | La Collectionneuse | 1967 | Eric Rohmer |
| 1153 | The Color of Money | 1986 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1121 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1968 | Sergei Parajanov |
| 630 | The Color Purple | 1985 | Steven Spielberg |
| 407 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov |
| 1356 | Coming Home | 1978 | Hal Ashby |
| 1026 | The Commitments | 1991 | Alan Parker |
| 1406 | Con Air | 1997 | Simon West |
| 1672 | Conan the Barbarian | 1982 | John Milius |
| 169 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 987 | The Conqueror Worm | 1968 | Michael Reeves |
| 2235 | The Constant Gardner | 2005 | Fernando Meirelles |
| 775 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 422 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 155 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1171 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | 1989 | Peter Greenaway |
| 336 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg |
| 1309 | Cool Runnings | 1993 | Jon Turteltaub |
| 2242 | Coraline | 2009 | Henry Selick |
| 1815 | Le Corbeau | 1943 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 895 | The Court Jester | 1955 | Melvin Frank and Norman Panama |
| 1476 | The Cranes are Flying | 1957 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili |
| 655 | Crash | 1996 | David Cronenberg |
| 1078 | Crash | 2004 | Paul Haggis |
| 1462 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 | Jack Arnold |
| 443 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1217 | The Crime of Mr. Lange | 1936 | Jean Renoir |
| 503 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen |
| 1590 | Crocodile Dundee | 1986 | Peter Faiman |
| 1440 | Cross of Iron | 1977 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 165 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee |
| 2275 | Croupier | 1998 | Mike Hodges |
| 968 | The Crow | 1994 | Alex Proyas |
| 337 | The Crowd | 1928 | King Vidor |
| 1932 | The Crucible | 1996 | Nicholas Hytner |
| 1230 | Cruel Intentions | 1999 | Roger Kumble |
| 1829 | The Cruel Sea | 1953 | Charles Frend |
| 550 | Crumb | 1994 | Terry Zwigoff |
| 547 | The Crying Game | 1992 | Neil Jordan |
| 1813 | Cube | 1997 | Vincenzo Natali |
| 2349 | Cul-de-sac | 1966 | Roman Polanski |
| 1999 | The Curse of Frankenstein | 1957 | Terence Fisher |
| 2294 | The Curse of the Cat People | 1944 | Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch |
| 833 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 1621 | Cutter's Way | 1981 | Ivan Passer |
| 729 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
