| Title Used | Alternate Title | Year | Director(s) | Rank |
| The Ladies of the Bois De Boulogne | Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne | 1945 | Robert Bresson | 2151 |
| Lancelot of the Lake | Lancelot du Lac | 1974 | Robert Bresson | 1607 |
| Land without Bread | Las Hurdes | 1933 | Luis Buñuel | 2013 |
| Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2262 |
| Laputa: Castle in the Sky | Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | 2245 |
| Laputa: Castle in the Sky | Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | 2245 |
| The Last Laugh | Der Letzte Mann | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 591 |
| The Last Metro | Le Dernier métro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 1739 |
| Last Tango in Paris | Le Dernier Tango à Paris | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 397 |
| Last Tango in Paris | Ultimo tango a Parigi | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 397 |
| Last Year at Marienbad | L'Année dernière à Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 439 |
| Late Spring | Banshun | 1949 | Yasujiro Ozu | 855 |
| The Leopard | Il Gattopardo | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 332 |
| Let the Right One In | Låt den rätte komma in | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | 1444 |
| Life Is Beautiful | La Vita è bella | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | 238 |
| Life of Brian | Monty Python's Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 147 |
| The Life of Oharu | Diary of Oharu | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1044 |
| The Life of Oharu | Saikaku ichidai onna | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1044 |
| Like Water for Chocolate | Como agua para chocolate | 1992 | Alfonso Arau | 705 |
| The Lives of Others | Das Leben der Anderen | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 505 |
| Lola Montès | Sins of Lola Montes | 1955 | Max Ophüls | 730 |
| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings | 1978 | Ralph Bakshi | 2208 |
| Love on the Run | L'Amour en fuite | 1979 | François Truffaut | 2229 |
| The Lovers on the Bridge | Les Amants du Pont-Neuf | 1991 | Leos Carax | 1758 |
| Loves of a Blonde | A Blonde in Love | 1965 | Milos Forman | 1301 |
| Loves of a Blonde | Lásky jedné plavovlásky | 1965 | Milos Forman | 1301 |
| M*A*S*H | MASH | 1970 | Robert Altman | 128 |
| Ma Vie en Rose | My Life in Pink | 1997 | Alain Berliner | 2253 |
| Maedchen in Uniform | Girls in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan | 2319 |
| Maedchen in Uniform | Mädchen in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan | 2319 |
| A Man and a Woman | Un homme et un femme | 1966 | Claude Lelouch | 1313 |
| Man Bites Dog | C'est arrivé près de chez vous | 1992 | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde | 1201 |
| Man Bites Dog | It Happened In Your Neighborhood | 1992 | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde | 1201 |
| A Man Escaped | Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut | 1956 | Robert Bresson | 511 |
| The Man with the Movie Camera | Chelovek s kinoapparatom | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 296 |
| The Man with the Movie Camera | Living Russia, or The Man with a Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 296 |
| The Man Without a Past | Mies vailla menneisyyttä | 2002 | Aki Kaurismäki | 2329 |
| Manhunter | Red Dragon | 1986 | Michael Mann | 1147 |
| Manon of the Spring | Manon des Sources | 1986 | Claude Berri | 617 |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Die Ehe der Maria Braun | 1979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 585 |
| Masculine Feminine | Masculin, féminin: 15 faits précis | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1434 |
| Memories of Underdevelopment | Memorias del Subdesarrollo | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1207 |
| Men in Black | MIB | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 562 |
| Miracle in Milan | Miracolo a Milano | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica | 1881 |
| The Mirror | Zerkalo | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 887 |
| Mon oncle d'Amérique | My American Uncle | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 1300 |
| Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 2369 |
| Mother | Mat | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 2133 |
| Mother and Son | Mat i syn | 1997 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1471 |
| The Mother and the Whore | La Maman et la Putain | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 1087 |
| The Motorcycle Diaries | Diarios de motocicleta | 2004 | Walter Salles | 1531 |
| Mr. Hulot's Holiday | Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot | 1953 | Jacques Tati | 311 |
| Murder, My Sweet | Farewell My Lovely | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | 1241 |
| Murmur of the Heart | Le Souffle au coeur | 1971 | Louis Malle | 2215 |
| The Music Room | Jalsaghar | 1959 | Satyajit Ray | 1317 |
| My Left Foot | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | 1989 | Jim Sheridan | 683 |
| My Life as a Dog | Mitt liv som hund | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | 700 |
| My Life to Live | Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1028 |
| My Neighbor Totoro | Tonari no Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | 554 |
| My Night at Maud's | Ma nuit chez Maud | 1969 | Eric Rohmer | 805 |
| The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | The Enigma of Kaspar Hausar | 1974 | Werner Herzog | 1025 |
| The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | Every Man for Himself and God against All | 1974 | Werner Herzog | 1025 |
| The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle | 1974 | Werner Herzog | 1025 |
| The Name of the Rose | Der Name der Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2184 |
| The Nasty Girl | Das Schreckliche Mädchen | 1990 | Michael Verhoeven | 1602 |
| National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Christmas Vacation | 1989 | Jeremiah S. Chechik | 2114 |
| National Lampoon's Vacation | Vacation | 1983 | Harold Ramis | 1865 |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Kaze no tani no Naushika | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1647 |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Warriors of the Wind | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1647 |
| Night and Fog | Nuit et brouillard | 1955 | Alain Resnais | 744 |
| The Night of the Shooting Stars | La Notte di San Lorenzo | 1982 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | 2190 |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick | 419 |
| Nights of Cabiria | Le Notti di Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 440 |
| Nosferatu | Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 105 |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 1047 |
| Nostalgia | Nostalghia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1675 |
| La Notte | The Night | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1299 |
| La Notte | La Nuit | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1299 |
| Nowhere in Africa | Nirgendwo in Afrika | 2001 | Caroline Link | 1821 |
| October | Oktyabr | 1928 | Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 839 |
| October | Ten Days That Shook the World | 1928 | Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 839 |
| The Official Story | La Historia Oficial | 1985 | Luis Puenzo | 1371 |
| Los Olvidados | The Young and the Damned | 1950 | Luis Buñuel | 329 |
| Olympia | Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 596 |
| Olympia | Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 596 |
| Olympia | Olympiad Berlin 1936 | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 596 |
| Once Upon a Time in China | Wong Fei Hung | 1991 | Hark Tsui | 2090 |
| Once Upon a Time in the West | C'era una volta il West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 107 |
| One Hundred and One Dalmatians | 101 Dalmatians | 1961 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman | 1089 |
| Onibaba | The Demon | 1964 | Kaneto Shindô | 1324 |
| Open City | Roma, città aperta | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 205 |
| Open City | Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 205 |
| Open Your Eyes | Abre los ojos | 1997 | Alejandro Amenábar | 1597 |
| The Orphanage | El Orfanato | 2007 | Juan Antonio Bayona | 2236 |
| Orpheus | Orphée | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 561 |
| Othello | The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice | 1952 | Orson Welles | 1790 |
| Out of the Past | Build My Gallows High | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 242 |
