| Title Used | Alternate Title | Year | Director(s) | Rank |
| Lady Vengeance | Chinjeolhan geumjassi | 2005 | Park Chan-wook | 2215 |
| Lady Vengeance | Sympathy for Lady Vengeance | 2005 | Park Chan-wook | 2215 |
| Land without Bread | Las Hurdes | 1933 | Luis Buñuel | 2236 |
| Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1985 |
| Laputa: Castle in the Sky | Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1039 |
| Laputa: Castle in the Sky | Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1039 |
| The Last Laugh | Der Letzte Mann | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 835 |
| The Last Metro | Le Dernier métro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 2452 |
| Last Tango in Paris | Ultimo tango a Parigi | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 607 |
| Last Year at Marienbad | L'Année dernière à Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 433 |
| Late Spring | Banshun | 1949 | Yasujirô Ozu | 593 |
| Law of Desire | La Ley del deseo | 1987 | Pedro Almodóvar | 2534 |
| Léon: The Professional | Léon | 1994 | Luc Besson | 259 |
| Léon: The Professional | The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 259 |
| The Leopard | Il Gattopardo | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 340 |
| Lessons of Darkness | Lektionen in Finsternis | 1992 | Werner Herzog | 2145 |
| Let the Right One in | Låt den rätte komma in | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | 290 |
| Leviathan | Leviafan | 2014 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | 2360 |
| Life Is Beautiful | La Vita è bella | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | 258 |
| Life of Brian | Monty Python's Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 194 |
| The Life of Oharu | Diary of Oharu | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1299 |
| The Life of Oharu | Saikaku ichidai onna | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1299 |
| The Lives of Others | Das Leben der Anderen | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 244 |
| The Lodger | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | 1927 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1876 |
| Lola Montès | Sins of Lola Montes | 1955 | Max Ophüls | 1169 |
| Love Exposure | Ai no mukidashi | 2008 | Sion Sono | 2109 |
| The Lovers on the Bridge | Les Amants du Pont-Neuf | 1991 | Leos Carax | 2248 |
| Loves of a Blonde | A Blonde in Love | 1965 | Milos Forman | 1966 |
| Loves of a Blonde | Lásky jedné plavovlásky | 1965 | Milos Forman | 1966 |
| Lust, Caution | Se, jie | 2007 | Ang Lee | 1543 |
| M | M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 84 |
| M | Murderers Among Us | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 84 |
| M*A*S*H | MASH | 1970 | Robert Altman | 344 |
| Ma Vie en Rose | My Life in Pink | 1997 | Alain Berliner | 2871 |
| The Machinist | El Maquinista | 2004 | Brad Anderson | 2850 |
| Maedchen in Uniform | Girls in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan | 1925 |
| Maedchen in Uniform | Mädchen in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan | 1925 |
| A Man and a Woman | Un homme et un femme | 1966 | Claude Lelouch | 2266 |
| Man Bites Dog | C'est arrivé près de chez vous | 1992 | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde | 2131 |
| Man Bites Dog | It Happened In Your Neighborhood | 1992 | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde | 2131 |
| A Man Escaped | Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut | 1956 | Robert Bresson | 617 |
| Man of Marble | Czlowiek z marmuru | 1977 | Andrzej Wajda | 2501 |
| The Man with the Movie Camera | Chelovek s kino-apparatom | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 240 |
| The Man without a Past | Mies vailla menneisyyttä | 2002 | Aki Kaurismäki | 3020 |
| Manhunter | Red Dragon | 1986 | Michael Mann | 1626 |
| Manon of the Spring | Manon des Sources | 1986 | Claude Berri | 1874 |
| March of the Penguins | La Marche de l'empereur | 2005 | Luc Jacquet | 1385 |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Die Ehe der Maria Braun | 1979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1007 |
| Masculine Feminine | Masculin, féminin: 15 faits précis | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1948 |
| A Matter of Life and Death | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 316 |
| Memories of Murder | Salinui chueok | 2003 | Bong Joon Ho | 657 |
| Memories of Underdevelopment | Memorias del Subdesarrollo | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1463 |
| Men in Black | MIB | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 637 |
| Metropolis | Metoroporisu | 2001 | Rintarô | 2721 |
| Millennium Actress | Sennen joyû | 2001 | Satoshi Kon | 1716 |
| Miracle in Milan | Miracolo a Milano | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica | 2790 |
| The Mirror | Zerkalo | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 597 |
| Mission: Impossible III | M:i:III | 2006 | J.J. Abrams | 2521 |
| The Mitchells vs. the Machines | La familia Mitchell vs. las máquinas | 2021 | Michael Rianda | 1794 |
| A Moment of Innocence | Bread and Flower | 1996 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 2533 |
| A Moment of Innocence | Nun va Goldoon | 1996 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 2533 |
| Mon oncle d'Amérique | My American Uncle | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 2675 |
| Monika | Sommaren med Monika | 1953 | Ingmar Bergman | 3048 |
| Monika | Summer with Monika | 1953 | Ingmar Bergman | 3048 |
| Monsieur Verdoux | A Comedy of Murders | 1947 | Charles Chaplin | 1658 |
| Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Jones | 2375 |
| Mother | Madeo | 2009 | Bong Joon Ho | 1469 |
| Mother and Son | Mat i syn | 1997 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 2584 |
| The Mother and the Whore | La Maman et la Putain | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 922 |
| The Motorcycle Diaries | Diarios de motocicleta | 2004 | Walter Salles | 2646 |
| Mr. Hulot's Holiday | Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot | 1953 | Jacques Tati | 525 |
| Ms. 45 | Angel of Vengeance | 1981 | Abel Ferrara | 2838 |
| Murder, My Sweet | Farewell My Lovely | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | 1855 |
| The Music Man | Meredith Willson's The Music Man | 1962 | Morton DaCosta | 1440 |
| The Music Room | Jalsaghar | 1958 | Satyajit Ray | 1417 |
| My Left Foot | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | 1989 | Jim Sheridan | 890 |
| My Life as a Dog | Mitt liv som hund | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | 1651 |
| My Life as a Zucchini | Ma vie de Courgette | 2016 | Claude Barras | 2030 |
| My Life to Live | Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 724 |
| My Neighbor Totoro | Tonari no Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | 144 |
| My Night at Maud's | Ma nuit chez Maud | 1969 | Éric Rohmer | 1034 |
| The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | The Enigma of Kaspar Hausar | 1974 | Werner Herzog | 1763 |
| The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | Every Man for Himself and God against All | 1974 | Werner Herzog | 1763 |
| The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle | 1974 | Werner Herzog | 1763 |
| The Name of the Rose | Der Name der Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2180 |
| Napoléon | Abel Gance's Napoleon | 1927 | Abel Gance | 621 |
| Napoléon | Napoléon vu par Abel Gance | 1927 | Abel Gance | 621 |
| National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Christmas Vacation | 1989 | Jeremiah S. Chechik | 2404 |
| National Lampoon's Vacation | Vacation | 1983 | Harold Ramis | 1509 |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Kaze no tani no Naushika | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki | 710 |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Warriors of the Wind | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki | 710 |
| The NeverEnding Story | Die Unendliche Geschichte | 1984 | Wolfgang Petersen | 672 |
| New Nightmare | Wes Craven's New Nightmare | 1994 | Wes Craven | 2690 |
| Night and Fog | Nuit et brouillard | 1956 | Alain Resnais | 490 |
| The Nightmare before Christmas | Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick | 231 |
| Nights of Cabiria | Le Notti di Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 693 |
| Nine to Five | 9 to 5 | 1980 | Colin Higgins | 1559 |
| Ninja Scroll | Jûbê ninpûchô | 1993 | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | 2574 |
| Nobody Knows | Dare mo shiranai | 2004 | Hirokazu Koreeda | 1569 |
| Nosferatu | Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 107 |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 992 |
| Nostalgia | Nostalghia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1478 |
| Nostalgia for the Light | Nostalgia de la luz | 2010 | Patricio Guzmán | 2160 |
| Not on Your Life | The Executioner | 1963 | Luis García Berlanga | 2952 |
| Not on Your Life | El Verdugo | 1963 | Luis García Berlanga | 2952 |
| La Notte | The Night | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1454 |
| October | Oktyabr | 1928 | Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein | 1939 |
| October | Ten Days That Shook the World | 1928 | Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein | 1939 |
| The Official Story | La Historia Oficial | 1985 | Luis Puenzo | 2598 |
| Oldboy | Oldeuboi | 2003 | Park Chan-wook | 141 |
| Los Olvidados | The Young and the Damned | 1950 | Luis Buñuel | 570 |
| Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 1097 |
| Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | Olympiad Berlin 1936 | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 1097 |
| Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 1154 |
| Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | Olympiad Berlin 1936 | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 1154 |
| On the Silver Globe | Na srebrnym globie | 1988 | Andrzej Zulawski | 3047 |
| On the Silver Globe | The Silver Globe | 1988 | Andrzej Zulawski | 3047 |
| Once upon a Time in Anatolia | Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da | 2011 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 1804 |
| Once Upon a Time in China | Wong Fei Hung | 1991 | Hark Tsui | 2650 |
| Once Upon a Time in the West | C'era una volta il West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 76 |
| One Cut of the Dead | Kamera wo tomeruna! | 2017 | Shin'ichirô Ueda | 2840 |
| One Hundred and One Dalmatians | 101 Dalmatians | 1961 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman | 885 |
| Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior | Ong-Bak | 2003 | Prachya Pinkaew | 2334 |
| Onibaba | The Demon | 1964 | Kaneto Shindô | 1252 |
| Only Yesterday | Memories of Teardrops | 1991 | Isao Takahata | 1477 |
| Only Yesterday | Omohide poro poro | 1991 | Isao Takahata | 1477 |
| Open Your Eyes | Abre los ojos | 1997 | Alejandro Amenábar | 2008 |
| The Orphanage | El Orfanato | 2007 | J.A. Bayona | 803 |
| Orpheus | Orphée | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 797 |
| Ossessione | Obsession | 1943 | Luchino Visconti | 1731 |
| Othello | The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice | 1951 | Orson Welles | 2031 |
| Out 1 | Out 1, noli me tangere | 1971 | Jacques Rivette | 2279 |
| Out of the Past | Build My Gallows High | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 461 |
