| Title Used | Alternate Title | Year | Director(s) | Rank |
| The Ladies of the Bois De Boulogne | Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne | 1945 | Robert Bresson | 1741 |
| Lancelot of the Lake | Lancelot du Lac | 1974 | Robert Bresson | 1335 |
| Land without Bread | Las Hurdes | 1933 | Luis Buñuel | 1596 |
| Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1639 |
| Laputa: Castle in the Sky | Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | 2276 |
| Laputa: Castle in the Sky | Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | 2276 |
| The Last Laugh | Der Letzte Mann | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 496 |
| The Last Metro | Le Dernier métro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 1814 |
| Last Tango in Paris | Le Dernier Tango à Paris | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 271 |
| Last Tango in Paris | Ultimo tango a Parigi | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 271 |
| Last Year at Marienbad | L'Année dernière à Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 382 |
| Late Spring | Banshun | 1949 | Yasujiro Ozu | 875 |
| The Leopard | Il Gattopardo | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 420 |
| Lessons of Darkness | Lektionen in Finsternis | 1992 | Werner Herzog | 2311 |
| Life Is Beautiful | La Vita è bella | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | 248 |
| Life of Brian | Monty Python's Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 180 |
| The Life of Oharu | Diary of Oharu | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 954 |
| The Life of Oharu | Saikaku ichidai onna | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 954 |
| Like Water for Chocolate | Como agua para chocolate | 1992 | Alfonso Arau | 611 |
| The Lives of Others | Das Leben der Anderen | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 1273 |
| The Lodger | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | 1927 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2464 |
| Lola Montès | Sins of Lola Montes | 1955 | Max Ophüls | 497 |
| The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum | Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann | 1975 | Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta | 2259 |
| Love on the Run | L'Amour en fuite | 1979 | François Truffaut | 1909 |
| The Lovers on the Bridge | Les Amants du Pont-Neuf | 1991 | Leos Carax | 1964 |
| Loves of a Blonde | A Blonde in Love | 1965 | Milos Forman | 1447 |
| Loves of a Blonde | Lásky jedné plavovlásky | 1965 | Milos Forman | 1447 |
| M*A*S*H | MASH | 1970 | Robert Altman | 117 |
| Ma Vie en Rose | My Life in Pink | 1997 | Alain Berliner | 2043 |
| Maedchen in Uniform | Girls in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan | 2056 |
| Maedchen in Uniform | Mädchen in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan | 2056 |
| The Magician | Ansiktet | 1958 | Ingmar Bergman | 1772 |
| The Magician | The Face | 1958 | Ingmar Bergman | 1772 |
| The Makioka Sisters | Sasame-yuki | 1983 | Kon Ichikawa | 2196 |
| A Man and a Woman | Un homme et un femme | 1966 | Claude Lelouch | 1392 |
| Man Bites Dog | C'est arrivé près de chez vous | 1992 | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde | 1735 |
| Man Bites Dog | It Happened In Your Neighborhood | 1992 | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde | 1735 |
| A Man Escaped | Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut | 1956 | Robert Bresson | 565 |
| Man of Marble | Czlowiek z marmuru | 1977 | Andrzej Wajda | 1642 |
| The Man with the Movie Camera | Chelovek s kinoapparatom | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 284 |
| The Man Without a Past | Mies vailla menneisyyttä | 2002 | Aki Kaurismäki | 1967 |
| Manhunter | Red Dragon | 1986 | Michael Mann | 1288 |
| Manon of the Spring | Manon des Sources | 1986 | Claude Berri | 572 |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Die Ehe der Maria Braun | 1979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 512 |
| Masculine Feminine | Masculin, féminin: 15 faits précis | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1312 |
| Memories of Underdevelopment | Memorias del Subdesarrollo | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1132 |
| Men in Black | MIB | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 610 |
| Miracle in Milan | Miracolo a Milano | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica | 2041 |
| The Mirror | Zerkalo | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 973 |
| Mon oncle d'Amérique | My American Uncle | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 1120 |
| Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 1887 |
| Mother | Mat | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1927 |
| Mother and Son | Mat i syn | 1997 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1910 |
| The Mother and the Whore | La Maman et la Putain | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 1017 |
| The Motorcycle Diaries | Diarios de motocicleta | 2004 | Walter Salles | 1536 |
| Mr. Hulot's Holiday | Les Vacances de M. Hulot | 1953 | Jacques Tati | 321 |
| Murder, My Sweet | Farewell My Lovely | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | 991 |
| Murmur of the Heart | Le Souffle au coeur | 1971 | Louis Malle | 1688 |
| The Music Room | Jalsaghar | 1958 | Satyajit Ray | 1208 |
| My Father's Glory | La Gloire de mon père | 1990 | Yves Robert | 2435 |
| My Left Foot | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | 1989 | Jim Sheridan | 739 |
| My Life as a Dog | Mitt liv som hund | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | 646 |
| My Life to Live | Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 966 |
| My Mother's Castle | Le Château de ma mère | 1990 | Yves Robert | 2375 |
| My Neighbor Totoro | Tonari no Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | 892 |
| My Night at Maud's | Ma nuit chez Maud | 1969 | Eric Rohmer | 1023 |
| My Sassy Girl | Yeopgijeogin geunyeo | 2001 | Jae-young Kwak | 2389 |
| The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | The Enigma of Kaspar Hausar | 1974 | Werner Herzog | 927 |
| The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | Every Man for Himself and God against All | 1974 | Werner Herzog | 927 |
| The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle | 1974 | Werner Herzog | 927 |
| The Mystery of Picasso | Le Mystère Picasso | 1956 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 2183 |
| Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult | The Naked Gun III | 1994 | Peter Segal | 2339 |
| The Name of the Rose | Der Name der Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 1875 |
| The Nasty Girl | Das Schreckliche Mädchen | 1990 | Michael Verhoeven | 1348 |
| National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Christmas Vacation | 1989 | Jeremiah S. Chechik | 2357 |
| National Lampoon's Vacation | Vacation | 1983 | Harold Ramis | 1738 |
| Never on Sunday | Pote tin Kyriaki | 1960 | Jules Dassin | 2044 |
| Night and Fog | Nuit et brouillard | 1955 | Alain Resnais | 1066 |
| The Night of the Shooting Stars | La Notte di San Lorenzo | 1982 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | 1429 |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick | 567 |
| Nights of Cabiria | Le Notti di Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 425 |
| Nosferatu | Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 115 |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 1222 |
| Nostalgia | Nostalghia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1982 |
| La Notte | The Night | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1301 |
| La Notte | La Nuit | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1301 |
| Nowhere in Africa | Nirgendwo in Afrika | 2001 | Caroline Link | 1843 |
| October | Oktyabr | 1928 | Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 766 |
| October | Ten Days That Shook the World | 1928 | Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 766 |
| The Official Story | La Historia Oficial | 1985 | Luis Puenzo | 974 |
| Los Olvidados | The Young and the Damned | 1950 | Luis Buñuel | 303 |
| Olympia | Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 477 |
| Olympia | Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 477 |
| Olympia | Olympiad Berlin 1936 | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 477 |
| Once Upon a Time in China | Wong Fei Hung | 1991 | Hark Tsui | 2140 |
| Once Upon a Time in the West | C'era una volta il West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 136 |
| One Hundred and One Dalmatians | 101 Dalmatians | 1961 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman | 1187 |
| Onibaba | The Demon | 1964 | Kaneto Shindô | 1278 |
| Open City | Roma, città aperta | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 210 |
| Open City | Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 210 |
| Open Your Eyes | Abre los ojos | 1997 | Alejandro Amenábar | 2228 |
| Orpheus | Orphée | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 470 |
| Othello | The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice | 1952 | Orson Welles | 1500 |
| Out of the Past | Build My Gallows High | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 222 |
