| Alternate Title | Title Used | Year | Director(s) | Rank |
| Kaidan | Kwaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | 2224 |
| Kakushi-toride no san-akunin | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | 987 |
| La Kermesse héroïque | Carnival in Flanders | 1935 | Jacques Feyder | 2479 |
| Khaneh siah ast | The House Is Black | 1963 | Forugh Farrokhzad | 2407 |
| Khane-ye Doust Kodjast? | Where is the Friend's Home? | 1987 | Abbas Kiarostami | 1485 |
| The Knack | The Knack... and How to Get It | 1965 | Richard Lester | 2499 |
| Kôkaku kidôtai | Ghost in the Shell | 1995 | Mamoru Oshii | 1116 |
| Konets Sankt-Peterburga | The End of St. Petersburg | 1927 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 2448 |
| Krótki film o zabijaniu | A Short Film about Killing | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1149 |
| Kumonosu jô | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 581 |
| El Laberinto del Fauno | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 894 |
| Ladri di biciclette | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 63 |
| Lan feng zheng | The Blue Kite | 1993 | Zhuangzhuang Tian | 1528 |
| Lancelot du Lac | Lancelot of the Lake | 1974 | Robert Bresson | 1335 |
| Lásky jedné plavovlásky | Loves of a Blonde | 1965 | Milos Forman | 1447 |
| Lat sau sen taan | Hard Boiled | 1992 | John Woo | 904 |
| Das Leben der Anderen | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 1273 |
| The Legend of Drunken Master | Drunken Master II | 1994 | Chia-Liang Liu | 2094 |
| Lektionen in Finsternis | Lessons of Darkness | 1992 | Werner Herzog | 2311 |
| Léon | The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 312 |
| Letyat zhuravli | The Cranes are Flying | 1957 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 1736 |
| Der Letzte Mann | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 496 |
| Liberty for Us | À Nous la Liberté | 1931 | René Clair | 634 |
| Life, and Nothing More… | And Life Goes on | 1991 | Abbas Kiarostami | 1823 |
| Le Locataire | The Tenant | 1976 | Roman Polanski | 1469 |
| The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | The Lodger | 1927 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2464 |
| Lola Rennt | Run Lola Run | 1998 | Tom Tykwer | 489 |
| The Lonely Wife | Charulata | 1964 | Satyajit Ray | 1136 |
| Ma nuit chez Maud | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Eric Rohmer | 1023 |
| Mad Max 2 | The Road Warrior | 1981 | George Miller | 370 |
| Madame de... | The Earrings of Madame De… | 1953 | Max Ophüls | 293 |
| Mädchen in Uniform | Maedchen in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan | 2056 |
| Majo no takkyubin | Kiki’s Delivery Service | 1989 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1961 |
| La Mala educación | Bad Education | 2004 | Pedro Almodóvar | 2488 |
| La Maman et la Putain | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 1017 |
| Manon des Sources | Manon of the Spring | 1986 | Claude Berri | 572 |
| Mar adentro | The Sea Inside | 2004 | Alejandro Amenábar | 1681 |
| March of the Wooden Soldiers | Babes in Toyland | 1934 | Gus Meins and Charley Rogers | 2320 |
| Marusa no onna | A Taxing Woman | 1987 | Juzo Itami | 2515 |
| La Maschera del demonio | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava | 1014 |
| Masculin, féminin: 15 faits précis | Masculine Feminine | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1312 |
| MASH | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 117 |
| The Mask of Satan | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava | 1014 |
| Mat | Mother | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1927 |
| Mat i syn | Mother and Son | 1997 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1910 |
| A Matter of Life and Death | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 242 |
| Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General | The Conqueror Worm | 1968 | Michael Reeves | 812 |
| The Meaning of Life | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 1887 |
| Meghe Dhaka Tara | The Cloud-Capped Star | 1960 | Ritwik Ghatak | 1675 |
| La Meglio gioventù | The Best of Youth | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana | 1611 |
| Memorias del Subdesarrollo | Memories of Underdevelopment | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1132 |
| Menschen Am Sonntag | People on Sunday | 1930 | Curt and Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Fred Zinnemann | 2451 |
| Le Mépris | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 373 |
| Mia aioniotita kai mia mera | Eternity and a Day | 1998 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2501 |
| MIB | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 610 |
| Mies vailla menneisyyttä | The Man Without a Past | 2002 | Aki Kaurismäki | 1967 |
| Miracolo a Milano | Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica | 2041 |
| Mitt liv som hund | My Life as a Dog | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | 646 |
| Miyamoto Musashi | Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto | 1954 | Hiroshi Inagaki | 1716 |
| Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhen: kettô Ganryûjima | Samurai 3: Duel at Ganryu Island | 1956 | Hiroshi Inagaki | 2120 |
| Miyazaki's Spirited Away | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 246 |
| A Modern Hero | Knute Rockne, All American | 1940 | Lloyd Bacon | 2201 |
| Mononoke-hime | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | 791 |
| Monty Python's Life of Brian | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 180 |
| Morte a Venezia | Death in Venice | 1971 | Luchino Visconti | 703 |
| Mou gaan dou | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai-keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak | 1878 |
| Mujeres al Borde De un Ataque de Nervios | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 1988 | Pedro Almodóvar | 584 |
| Murder in Thornton Square | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 688 |
| Musíme si pomáhat | Divided We Fall | 2000 | Jan Hrebejk | 1968 |
| My American Uncle | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 1120 |
| My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | My Left Foot | 1989 | Jim Sheridan | 739 |
| My Life in Pink | Ma Vie en Rose | 1997 | Alain Berliner | 2043 |
| My Name Is Ivan | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1948 |
| Le Mystère Picasso | The Mystery of Picasso | 1956 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 2183 |
| The Naked Gun III | Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult | 1994 | Peter Segal | 2339 |
| Der Name der Rose | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 1875 |
| Narayama bushiko | Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shohei Imamura | 1127 |
| National Lampoon's Animal House | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 282 |
| Nattvardsgästerna | Winter Light | 1962 | Ingmar Bergman | 2047 |
| Neco z Alenky | Alice | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer | 1486 |
| Nema-ye Nazdik | Close Up | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami | 736 |
| Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache | Kriemhild's Revenge | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1186 |
| Die Nibelungen: Siegfried | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1417 |
| Night of the Demon | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 888 |
| The Night Watch | Le Trou | 1960 | Jacques Becker | 2295 |
| The Night | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1301 |
| Nikita | La Femme Nikita | 1990 | Luc Besson | 1174 |
| Nine 1/2 Weeks | 9 1/2 Weeks | 1986 | Adrian Lyne | 1483 |
| Nirgendwo in Afrika | Nowhere in Africa | 2001 | Caroline Link | 1843 |
| No Greater Love | Europa '51 | 1952 | Roberto Rossellini | 2126 |
| Noel Coward's Brief Encounter | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean | 159 |
| La Noire de... | Black Girl | 1966 | Ousmane Sembene | 2210 |
| Nora inu | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa | 1998 |
| Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 115 |
| Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 1222 |
| Nostalghia | Nostalgia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1982 |
| La Notte di San Lorenzo | The Night of the Shooting Stars | 1982 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | 1429 |
| Le Notti di Cabiria | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 425 |
| Novecento | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 814 |
| Nóz w wodzie | Knife in the Water | 1962 | Roman Polanski | 620 |
| La Nuit Américaine | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut | 322 |
| Nuit et brouillard | Night and Fog | 1955 | Alain Resnais | 1066 |
| La Nuit | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1301 |
| Nuovo cinema Paradiso | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 192 |
| Obchod na korze | The Shop on Main Street | 1965 | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | 916 |
| Ôdishon | The Audition | 1999 | Takashi Miike | 1233 |
| Offret | The Sacrifice | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1872 |
| Offret - Sacrificatio | The Sacrifice | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1872 |
| Oktyabr | October | 1928 | Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 766 |
| Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker | Olympia | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 477 |
| Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit | Olympia | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 477 |
| Olympiad Berlin 1936 | Olympia | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 477 |
| Orfeu Negro | Black Orpheus | 1959 | Marcel Camus | 891 |
| Orphée | Orpheus | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 470 |
| Ostre sledované vlaky | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jirí Menzel | 716 |
| Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo | I Was Born, But... | 1932 | Yasujiro Ozu | 1941 |
| Otto e mezzo | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 82 |
| L'Ours | The Bear | 1988 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 1783 |
| Out of Rosenheim | Bagdad Café | 1987 | Percy Adlon | 1410 |
