| Fan's Rank |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 76 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 156 |
| 9 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 4 |
| 308 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 223 |
| 148 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 78 |
| 88 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 82 |
| 324 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze | 1181 |
| 272 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 155 |
| 165 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 71 |
| 216 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 181 |
| 168 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker | 206 |
| 41 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 54 |
| 46 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 88 |
| 80 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 35 |
| 228 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | 119 |
| 212 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 309 |
| 163 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 738 |
| 65 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | 141 |
| 140 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 230 |
| 23 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 123 |
| 195 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | 179 |
| 125 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | 868 |
| 296 | Andrei Rublev | 1969 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 200 |
| 221 | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 282 |
| 40 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 24 |
| 117 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 147 |
| 10 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 17 |
| 217 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 375 |
| 345 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra | 790 |
| 230 | As Good as It Gets | 1997 | James L. Brooks | 554 |
| 294 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | 1997 | Jay Roach | 469 |
| 305 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 189 |
| 347 | Babe | 1995 | Chris Noonan | 329 |
| 59 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 137 |
| 363 | Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis | 1112 |
| 276 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 218 |
| 244 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 423 |
| 318 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 953 |
| 154 | Batman | 1989 | Tim Burton | 493 |
| 189 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 65 |
| 331 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 645 |
| 184 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 252 |
| 127 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 356 |
| 279 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | 454 |
| 112 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 101 |
| 190 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 96 |
| 128 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 63 |
| 100 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 283 |
| 143 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 122 |
| 193 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | 238 |
| 31 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 25 |
| 213 | Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 264 |
| 320 | Blood Simple | 1984 | Joel Coen | 500 |
| 269 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 253 |
| 90 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 61 |
| 232 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | 345 |
| 86 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 41 |
| 167 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 430 |
| 160 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | 243 |
| 372 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | 520 |
| 45 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | 94 |
| 71 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 97 |
| 274 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 163 |
| 196 | The Breakfast Club | 1985 | John Hughes | 381 |
| 194 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 77 |
| 271 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 116 |
| 67 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 52 |
| 371 | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean | 159 |
| 171 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 44 |
| 98 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 100 |
| 357 | Cabaret | 1972 | Bob Fosse | 148 |
| 335 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 237 |
| 348 | Caddyshack | 1980 | Harold Ramis | 549 |
| 329 | Carlito's Way | 1993 | Brian De Palma | 1880 |
| 8 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 2 |
| 170 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 560 |
| 247 | Chasing Amy | 1997 | Kevin Smith | 1345 |
| 278 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 108 |
| 24 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 19 |
| 241 | A Christmas Story | 1983 | Bob Clark | 625 |
| 214 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 192 |
| 5 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 1 |
| 116 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 55 |
| 188 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 331 |
| 134 | Clerks. | 1994 | Kevin Smith | 361 |
| 19 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 43 |
| 78 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 103 |
| 352 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis | 750 |
| 156 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 176 |
| 151 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 362 |
| 346 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen | 488 |
| 106 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 205 |
| 370 | The Crying Game | 1992 | Neil Jordan | 503 |
