| Alternate Title | Title Used | Year | Director(s) | Rank |
| El Laberinto del Fauno | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 353 |
| Ladri di biciclette | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 67 |
| Lan feng zheng | The Blue Kite | 1993 | Zhuangzhuang Tian | 1891 |
| Lancelot du Lac | Lancelot of the Lake | 1974 | Robert Bresson | 1607 |
| Lásky jedné plavovlásky | Loves of a Blonde | 1965 | Milos Forman | 1301 |
| Lĺt den rätte komma in | Let the Right One In | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | 1444 |
| Lat sau san taam | Hard Boiled | 1992 | John Woo | 693 |
| Das Leben der Anderen | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 505 |
| The Legend of Drunken Master | Drunken Master II | 1994 | Chia-Liang Liu | 2076 |
| Léon | The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 282 |
| Letyat zhuravli | The Cranes are Flying | 1957 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 1476 |
| Der Letzte Mann | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 591 |
| Liberty for Us | Ŕ Nous la Liberté | 1931 | René Clair | 937 |
| Life, and Nothing More… | And Life Goes on | 1992 | Abbas Kiarostami | 1828 |
| Living Russia, or The Man with a Camera | The Man with the Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 296 |
| Le Locataire | The Tenant | 1976 | Roman Polanski | 1199 |
| Lola Rennt | Run Lola Run | 1998 | Tom Tykwer | 494 |
| The Lonely Wife | Charulata | 1964 | Satyajit Ray | 1336 |
| Ma nuit chez Maud | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Eric Rohmer | 805 |
| Mad Max 2 | The Road Warrior | 1981 | George Miller | 306 |
| Madame de... | The Earrings of Madame De… | 1953 | Max Ophüls | 308 |
| Mädchen in Uniform | Maedchen in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan | 2319 |
| Majo no takkyubin | Kiki’s Delivery Service | 1989 | Hayao Miyazaki | 2111 |
| La Mala educación | Bad Education | 2004 | Pedro Almodóvar | 2390 |
| La Maman et la Putain | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 1087 |
| Manon des Sources | Manon of the Spring | 1986 | Claude Berri | 617 |
| Mar adentro | The Sea Inside | 2004 | Alejandro Amenábar | 1431 |
| La Maschera del demonio | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava | 995 |
| Masculin, féminin: 15 faits précis | Masculine Feminine | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1434 |
| MASH | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 128 |
| The Mask of Satan | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava | 995 |
| Mat | Mother | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 2133 |
| Mat i syn | Mother and Son | 1997 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1471 |
| A Matter of Life and Death | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 265 |
| Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General | The Conqueror Worm | 1968 | Michael Reeves | 987 |
| The Meaning of Life | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 2369 |
| Meghe Dhaka Tara | The Cloud-Capped Star | 1960 | Ritwik Ghatak | 1664 |
| La Meglio gioventů | The Best of Youth | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana | 1747 |
| Memorias del Subdesarrollo | Memories of Underdevelopment | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1207 |
| Le Mépris | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 422 |
| MIB | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 562 |
| Mies vailla menneisyyttä | The Man Without a Past | 2002 | Aki Kaurismäki | 2329 |
| Miracolo a Milano | Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica | 1881 |
| Mitt liv som hund | My Life as a Dog | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | 700 |
| Miyamoto Musashi | Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto | 1954 | Hiroshi Inagaki | 2212 |
| Miyazaki's Spirited Away | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 174 |
| A Modern Hero | Knute Rockne, All American | 1940 | Lloyd Bacon | 1988 |
| La Môme | La Vie en rose | 2007 | Olivier Dahan | 2195 |
| Mononoke-hime | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | 537 |
| Monty Python's Life of Brian | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 147 |
| Morte a Venezia | Death in Venice | 1971 | Luchino Visconti | 821 |
| Mou gaan dou | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai-keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak | 1290 |
| Mujeres al Borde De un Ataque de Nervios | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 1988 | Pedro Almodóvar | 539 |
| Murder in Thornton Square | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 923 |
| Musíme si pomáhat | Divided We Fall | 2000 | Jan Hrebejk | 1904 |
| My American Uncle | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 1300 |
| My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | My Left Foot | 1989 | Jim Sheridan | 683 |
| My Life in Pink | Ma Vie en Rose | 1997 | Alain Berliner | 2253 |
| My Name Is Ivan | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1873 |
| Der Name der Rose | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2184 |
| Narayama bushiko | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shohei Imamura | 1344 |
| National Lampoon's Animal House | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 299 |
| Nattvardsgästerna | Winter Light | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | 1266 |
| Neco z Alenky | Alice | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer | 1213 |
| Nema-ye Nazdik | Close Up | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami | 762 |
| Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache | Kriemhild's Revenge | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1908 |
| Die Nibelungen: Siegfried | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1713 |
| Night of the Demon | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 833 |
| The Night Watch | Le Trou | 1960 | Jacques Becker | 1680 |
| The Night | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1299 |
| Nikita | La Femme Nikita | 1990 | Luc Besson | 810 |
| Nine 1/2 Weeks | 9 1/2 Weeks | 1986 | Adrian Lyne | 1280 |
| Nirgendwo in Afrika | Nowhere in Africa | 2001 | Caroline Link | 1821 |
| Noel Coward's Brief Encounter | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean | 148 |
| La Noire de... | Black Girl | 1969 | Ousmane Sembene | 2207 |
| Nora inu | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa | 2264 |
| Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 105 |
| Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 1047 |
| Nostalghia | Nostalgia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1675 |
| La Notte di San Lorenzo | The Night of the Shooting Stars | 1982 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | 2190 |
| Le Notti di Cabiria | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 440 |
| Novecento | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 970 |
| Nóz w wodzie | Knife in the Water | 1962 | Roman Polanski | 689 |
| La Nuit Américaine | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut | 414 |
| Nuit et brouillard | Night and Fog | 1955 | Alain Resnais | 744 |
| La Nuit | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1299 |
| Nuovo cinema Paradiso | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 192 |
| Obchod na korze | The Shop on Main Street | 1965 | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | 956 |
| Ôdishon | The Audition | 1999 | Takashi Miike | 802 |
| Oktyabr | October | 1928 | Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 839 |
| Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker | Olympia | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 596 |
| Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit | Olympia | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 596 |
| Olympiad Berlin 1936 | Olympia | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 596 |
| El Orfanato | The Orphanage | 2007 | Juan Antonio Bayona | 2236 |
| Orfeu Negro | Black Orpheus | 1959 | Marcel Camus | 1103 |
| Orphée | Orpheus | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 561 |
| Ostre sledované vlaky | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jirí Menzel | 664 |
| Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo | I Was Born, But... | 1932 | Yasujiro Ozu | 1963 |
| Otto e mezzo | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 80 |
| Out of Rosenheim | Bagdad Café | 1987 | Percy Adlon | 1808 |
