| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 2822 | D.O.A. | 1949 | Rudolph Maté |
| 859 | Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilová |
| 954 | Dallas Buyers Club | 2013 | Jean-Marc Vallée |
| 2244 | The Dam Busters | 1955 | Michael Anderson |
| 2033 | Damn Yankees! | 1958 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen |
| 2704 | The Damned | 1969 | Luchino Visconti |
| 2860 | The Damned | 1962 | Joseph Losey |
| 1724 | The Damned United | 2009 | Tom Hooper |
| 2359 | Dance, Girl, Dance | 1940 | Dorothy Arzner |
| 632 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier |
| 356 | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Kevin Costner |
| 1376 | Dangerous Liaisons | 1988 | Stephen Frears |
| 2867 | The Darjeeling Limited | 2007 | Wes Anderson |
| 839 | Dark City | 1998 | Alex Proyas |
| 2100 | The Dark Crystal | 1982 | Jim Henson and Frank Oz |
| 2868 | Dark Days | 2000 | Marc Singer |
| 18 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan |
| 438 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | Christopher Nolan |
| 1286 | Dark Star | 1974 | John Carpenter |
| 2942 | Dark Victory | 1939 | Edmund Goulding |
| 2464 | Darkman | 1990 | Sam Raimi |
| 814 | Daughters of the Dust | 1991 | Julie Dash |
| 2664 | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor |
| 242 | Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero |
| 1640 | Dawn of the Dead | 2004 | Zack Snyder |
| 1435 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | 2014 | Matt Reeves |
| 662 | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut |
| 1625 | A Day in the Country | 1946 | Jean Renoir |
| 1197 | Day of the Dead | 1985 | George A. Romero |
| 1727 | The Day of the Jackal | 1973 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 799 | Day of Wrath | 1943 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 298 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise |
| 1329 | Days of Being Wild | 1990 | Kar-Wai Wong |
| 2552 | Days of Glory | 2006 | Rachid Bouchareb |
| 243 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick |
| 2493 | Days of Wine and Roses | 1962 | Blake Edwards |
| 379 | Dazed and Confused | 1993 | Richard Linklater |
| 679 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 1898 | Dead Man Walking | 1995 | Tim Robbins |
| 1600 | Dead Man's Shoes | 2004 | Shane Meadows |
| 787 | Dead of Night | 1945 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer |
| 291 | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir |
| 725 | Dead Ringers | 1988 | David Cronenberg |
| 1990 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg |
| 2066 | The Dead | 1987 | John Huston |
| 888 | Deadpool | 2016 | Tim Miller |
| 2366 | Deadpool 2 | 2018 | David Leitch |
| 1752 | Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father | 2008 | Kurt Kuenne |
| 944 | Death in Venice | 1971 | Luchino Visconti |
| 1603 | The Death of Mister Lazarescu | 2005 | Cristi Puiu |
| 3042 | The Death of Stalin | 2017 | Armando Iannucci |
| 2194 | Death Proof | 2007 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2926 | Death Wish | 1974 | Michael Winner |
| 508 | The Decalogue | 1989 | Krzysztof Kieslowski |
| 1461 | The Decline of Western Civilization | 1981 | Penelope Spheeris |
| 2460 | The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years | 1988 | Penelope Spheeris |
| 784 | Deep Red | 1975 | Dario Argento |
| 121 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino |
| 2179 | The Defiant Ones | 1958 | Stanley Kramer |
| 730 | Delicatessen | 1991 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 556 | Deliverance | 1972 | John Boorman |
| 2923 | Demolition Man | 1993 | Marco Brambilla |
| 153 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese |
| 2303 | Departures | 2008 | Yôjirô Takita |
| 1533 | Dersu Uzala | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1713 | The Descendants | 2011 | Alexander Payne |
| 746 | The Descent | 2005 | Neil Marshall |
| 1498 | Desert Hearts | 1985 | Donna Deitch |
| 2304 | Design for Living | 1933 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 2235 | Desperado | 1995 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 1526 | Desperately Seeking Susan | 1985 | Susan Seidelman |
| 1285 | Despicable Me | 2010 | Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud |
| 2600 | Despicable Me 2 | 2013 | Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud |
| 2889 | Destination Moon | 1950 | Irving Pichel |
| 1105 | Destry Rides Again | 1939 | George Marshall |
| 1271 | Detour | 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| 1740 | Devil in a Blue Dress | 1995 | Carl Franklin |
| 1931 | The Devil Rides Out | 1968 | Terence Fisher |
| 1751 | The Devil Wears Prada | 2006 | David Frankel |
| 2436 | The Devil's Advocate | 1997 | Taylor Hackford |
| 873 | The Devil's Backbone | 2001 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 2862 | Devils on the Doorstep | 2000 | Wen Jiang |
| 1010 | The Devils | 1971 | Ken Russell |
| 295 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 1101 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 715 | Diary of a Country Priest | 1951 | Robert Bresson |
| 2400 | Diary of a Lost Girl | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
| 2969 | Dick Tracy | 1990 | Warren Beatty |
| 85 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan |
| 2471 | Die Hard 2 | 1990 | Renny Harlin |
| 1511 | Die Hard with a Vengeance | 1995 | John McTiernan |
| 1677 | Diner | 1982 | Barry Levinson |
| 2186 | Dinner at Eight | 1933 | George Cukor |
| 423 | Dirty Dancing | 1987 | Emile Ardolino |
| 537 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich |
| 300 | Dirty Harry | 1971 | Don Siegel |
| 1770 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | 1988 | Frank Oz |
| 368 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel |
| 1571 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | 1988 | Terence Davies |
| 329 | District 9 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp |
| 2167 | Diva | 1981 | Jean-Jacques Beineix |
| 902 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | Julian Schnabel |
| 2687 | Divorce - Italian Style | 1961 | Pietro Germi |
| 1666 | Django | 1966 | Sergio Corbucci |
| 411 | Django Unchained | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 75 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee |
| 2837 | The Docks of New York | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 1810 | Doctor Strange | 2016 | Scott Derrickson |
| 393 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean |
| 2761 | Dodge City | 1939 | Michael Curtiz |
| 1690 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | 2004 | Rawson Marshall Thurber |
| 1669 | Dodsworth | 1936 | William Wyler |
| 227 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet |
| 2133 | Dog Star Man: Part IV | 1964 | Stan Brakhage |
| 2558 | Dogma | 1999 | Kevin Smith |
| 2385 | Dogtooth | 2009 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 1984 | Dogtown and Z-Boys | 2001 | Stacy Peralta |
| 869 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier |
| 124 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini |
| 1173 | Donnie Brasco | 1997 | Mike Newell |
| 136 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly |
| 910 | Dont Look Back | 1967 | D.A. Pennebaker |
| 160 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg |
| 2932 | Dope | 2015 | Rick Famuyiwa |
| 51 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder |
| 964 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski |
| 2176 | Doubt | 2008 | John Patrick Shanley |
| 2466 | Le Doulos | 1962 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 961 | Down by Law | 1986 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 526 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel |
| 2653 | Downhill Racer | 1969 | Michael Ritchie |
| 1289 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 1307 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | 1922 | Fritz Lang |
| 781 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young |
| 16 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 517 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning |
| 1891 | Drag Me to Hell | 2009 | Sam Raimi |
| 1707 | The Draughtsman's Contract | 1982 | Peter Greenaway |
| 2502 | The Dream of Light | 1992 | Víctor Erice |
| 1817 | The Dreamers | 2003 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 1908 | Dreamgirls | 2006 | Bill Condon |
| 1322 | Dredd | 2012 | Pete Travis |
| 1174 | Dressed to Kill | 1980 | Brian De Palma |
| 469 | Drive | 2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn |
| 2261 | Drive My Car | 2021 | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi |
| 2749 | The Driver | 1978 | Walter Hill |
| 2527 | Driving Miss Daisy | 1989 | Bruce Beresford |
| 1691 | Drugstore Cowboy | 1989 | Gus Van Sant |
| 1402 | Drunken Master II | 1994 | Chia-Liang Liu |
| 1783 | Duck Amuck | 1953 | Chuck Jones |
| 129 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey |
| 2234 | Duck, You Sucker | 1971 | Sergio Leone |
| 1384 | Duel | 1971 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1564 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor |
| 1014 | Dumb & Dumber | 1994 | Peter Farrelly |
| 482 | Dumbo | 1941 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 1062 | Dune | 2021 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2345 | Dune | 1984 | David Lynch |
| 1629 | Dune: Part Two | 2024 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 460 | Dunkirk | 2017 | Christopher Nolan |
