| Alternate Title | Title Used | Year | Director(s) | Rank |
| El Laberinto del Fauno | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 82 |
| Ladri di biciclette | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 69 |
| Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand | Turtles Can Fly | 2004 | Bahman Ghobadi | 2299 |
| Land in Anguish | Terra em Transe | 1967 | Glauber Rocha | 2420 |
| Lásky jedné plavovlásky | Loves of a Blonde | 1965 | Milos Forman | 1966 |
| Låt den rätte komma in | Let the Right One in | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | 290 |
| Lat sau san taam | Hard Boiled | 1992 | John Woo | 649 |
| Das Leben der Anderen | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 244 |
| The Legend of Drunken Master | Drunken Master II | 1994 | Chia-Liang Liu | 1402 |
| Lektionen in Finsternis | Lessons of Darkness | 1992 | Werner Herzog | 2145 |
| Léon | Léon: The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 259 |
| Letyat zhuravli | The Cranes are Flying | 1957 | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1030 |
| Der Letzte Mann | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 835 |
| Leviafan | Leviathan | 2014 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | 2360 |
| La Ley del deseo | Law of Desire | 1987 | Pedro Almodóvar | 2534 |
| Liberty for Us | À Nous la Liberté | 1931 | René Clair | 2526 |
| Life, and Nothing More… | And Life Goes on | 1992 | Abbas Kiarostami | 2195 |
| Lift to the Scaffold | Elevator to the Gallows | 1958 | Louis Malle | 706 |
| The Little Soldier | Le Petit soldat | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 2577 |
| Le Locataire | The Tenant | 1976 | Roman Polanski | 1421 |
| The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | The Lodger | 1927 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1876 |
| Lola Rennt | Run Lola Run | 1998 | Tom Tykwer | 750 |
| The Lonely Wife | Charulata | 1964 | Satyajit Ray | 1425 |
| Loong Boonmee raleuk chat | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | 2010 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 1686 |
| M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 84 |
| M:i:III | Mission: Impossible III | 2006 | J.J. Abrams | 2521 |
| Ma nuit chez Maud | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Éric Rohmer | 1034 |
| Ma vie de Courgette | My Life as a Zucchini | 2016 | Claude Barras | 2030 |
| Mad Max 2 | The Road Warrior | 1981 | George Miller | 325 |
| Madame de... | The Earrings of Madame De… | 1953 | Max Ophüls | 801 |
| Mädchen in Uniform | Maedchen in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan | 1925 |
| Madeo | Mother | 2009 | Bong Joon Ho | 1469 |
| The Madman | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 671 |
| Majo no takkyubin | Kiki’s Delivery Service | 1989 | Hayao Miyazaki | 740 |
| La Mala educación | Bad Education | 2004 | Pedro Almodóvar | 1699 |
| La Maman et la Putain | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 922 |
| Män som hatar kvinnor | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2009 | Niels Arden Oplev | 2317 |
| Manbiki kazoku | Shoplifters | 2018 | Hirokazu Koreeda | 1082 |
| Manon des Sources | Manon of the Spring | 1986 | Claude Berri | 1874 |
| El Maquinista | The Machinist | 2004 | Brad Anderson | 2850 |
| Mar adentro | The Sea Inside | 2004 | Alejandro Amenábar | 1488 |
| La Marche de l'empereur | March of the Penguins | 2005 | Luc Jacquet | 1385 |
| La Maschera del demonio | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava | 1224 |
| Masculin, féminin: 15 faits précis | Masculine Feminine | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1948 |
| MASH | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 344 |
| The Mask of Satan | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava | 1224 |
| The Master Killer | Shaolin Master Killer | 1978 | Chia-Liang Liu | 3041 |
| Mat i syn | Mother and Son | 1997 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 2584 |
| Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General | Witchfinder General | 1968 | Michael Reeves | 2383 |
| The Meaning of Life | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Jones | 2375 |
| Meghe Dhaka Tara | The Cloud-Capped Star | 1960 | Ritwik Ghatak | 2482 |
| La Meglio gioventù | The Best of Youth | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana | 1024 |
| Memorias del Subdesarrollo | Memories of Underdevelopment | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1463 |
| Memories of Teardrops | Only Yesterday | 1991 | Isao Takahata | 1477 |
| Le Mépris | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 496 |
| Meredith Willson's The Music Man | The Music Man | 1962 | Morton DaCosta | 1440 |
| Metoroporisu | Metropolis | 2001 | Rintarô | 2721 |
| Mia aioniotita kai mia mera | Eternity and a Day | 1998 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2828 |
| MIB | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 637 |
| Mies vailla menneisyyttä | The Man without a Past | 2002 | Aki Kaurismäki | 3020 |
| Mimi wo sumaseba | Whisper of the Heart | 1995 | Yoshifumi Kondô | 1775 |
| Miracolo a Milano | Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica | 2790 |
| Mitt liv som hund | My Life as a Dog | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | 1651 |
| Miyazaki's Spirited Away | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 32 |
| Moartea domnului Lazarescu | The Death of Mister Lazarescu | 2005 | Cristi Puiu | 1603 |
| La Môme | La Vie en rose | 2007 | Olivier Dahan | 1566 |
| Mononoke-hime | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | 205 |
| La montaña sagrada | The Holy Mountain | 1973 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1352 |
| Monty Python's Life of Brian | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 194 |
| Morte a Venezia | Death in Venice | 1971 | Luchino Visconti | 944 |
| Mou gaan dou | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai Keung Lau and Alan Mak | 711 |
| Una Mujer fantástica | A Fantastic Woman | 2017 | Sebastián Lelio | 2092 |
| La mujer sin cabeza | The Headless Woman | 2008 | Lucrecia Martel | 2746 |
| Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 1988 | Pedro Almodóvar | 865 |
| Murder in Thornton Square | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 1280 |
| Murderers Among Us | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 84 |
| My American Uncle | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 2675 |
| My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | My Left Foot | 1989 | Jim Sheridan | 890 |
| My Life in Pink | Ma Vie en Rose | 1997 | Alain Berliner | 2871 |
| My Name Is Ivan | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1025 |
| Na srebrnym globie | On the Silver Globe | 1988 | Andrzej Zulawski | 3047 |
| Der Name der Rose | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2180 |
| Napoléon vu par Abel Gance | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | 621 |
| Narayama bushiko | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shôhei Imamura | 2190 |
| National Lampoon's Animal House | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 489 |
| Nattvardsgästerna | Winter Light | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | 1464 |
| Neco z Alenky | Alice | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer | 2368 |
| Nema-ye Nazdik | Close-Up | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami | 531 |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion | End of Evangelion | 1997 | Hideaki Anno | 1407 |
| Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache | Kriemhild's Revenge | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 2201 |
| Die Nibelungen: Siegfried | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1622 |
| Night of the Demon | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 1063 |
| The Night Watch | Le Trou | 1960 | Jacques Becker | 1706 |
| The Night | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1454 |
| Nikita | La Femme Nikita | 1990 | Luc Besson | 1760 |
| Nine 1/2 Weeks | 9 1/2 Weeks | 1986 | Adrian Lyne | 2321 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | 1984 | 1984 | Michael Radford | 2260 |
| Ningen no jôken | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1689 |
| Ningen no jôken II | The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | 2640 |
| Ningen no jôken III | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer | 1961 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1766 |
| No Greater Love | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1689 |
| No Greater Love | Europa '51 | 1952 | Roberto Rossellini | 2666 |
| Nobi | Fires on the Plain | 1959 | Kon Ichikawa | 2454 |
| Noel Coward's Brief Encounter | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean | 211 |
| La Noire de... | Black Girl | 1966 | Ousmane Sembene | 1181 |
| Nora inu | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa | 2684 |
| Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 107 |
| Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 992 |
| Nostalghia | Nostalgia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1478 |
| Nostalgia de la luz | Nostalgia for the Light | 2010 | Patricio Guzmán | 2160 |
| Le Notti di Cabiria | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 693 |
| Novecento | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 2059 |
| Nóz w wodzie | Knife in the Water | 1962 | Roman Polanski | 983 |
| La Nuit Américaine | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut | 662 |
| Nuit et brouillard | Night and Fog | 1956 | Alain Resnais | 490 |
| Nun va Goldoon | A Moment of Innocence | 1996 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 2533 |
| Nuovo cinema Paradiso | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 275 |
| Obchod na korze | The Shop on Main Street | 1965 | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | 1980 |
| Obsession | Ossessione | 1943 | Luchino Visconti | 1731 |
| Ôdishon | Audition | 1999 | Takashi Miike | 463 |
| Offret | The Sacrifice | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1202 |
| Offret - Sacrificatio | The Sacrifice | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1202 |
| Ohayô | Good Morning | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu | 2085 |
| Oktyabr | October | 1928 | Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein | 1939 |
| Okuribito | Departures | 2008 | Yôjirô Takita | 2303 |
| Oldeuboi | Oldboy | 2003 | Park Chan-wook | 141 |
| Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker | Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 1097 |
| Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit | Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 1154 |
| Olympiad Berlin 1936 | Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 1097 |
| Olympiad Berlin 1936 | Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 1154 |
| Omohide poro poro | Only Yesterday | 1991 | Isao Takahata | 1477 |
| Once Upon a Time... the Revolution | Duck, You Sucker | 1971 | Sergio Leone | 2234 |
| Ong-Bak | Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior | 2003 | Prachya Pinkaew | 2334 |
| Ônibus 174 | Bus 174 | 2002 | José Padilha | 2970 |
| Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | 1960 | Mikio Naruse | 2251 |
| Open City | Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 360 |
| Operazione paura | Kill, Baby...Kill! | 1966 | Mario Bava | 2213 |
| El Orfanato | The Orphanage | 2007 | J.A. Bayona | 803 |
| Orfeu Negro | Black Orpheus | 1959 | Marcel Camus | 1591 |
| Orphée | Orpheus | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 797 |
| Ostre sledované vlaky | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jirí Menzel | 947 |
| Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo | I Was Born, But... | 1932 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1538 |
| Otto e mezzo | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 100 |
| Out 1, noli me tangere | Out 1 | 1971 | Jacques Rivette | 2279 |
| Outback | Wake in Fright | 1971 | Ted Kotcheff | 2376 |
| Outsiders | Ceddo | 1977 | Ousmane Sembene | 2169 |
