| Fans' Rank |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 62 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 73 |
| 9 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
| 431 | 21 Grams | 2003 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1426 |
| 408 | 25th Hour | 2002 | Spike Lee | 1219 |
| 489 | 28 Days Later... | 2002 | Danny Boyle | 553 |
| 400 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 355 |
| 101 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 60 |
| 76 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 74 |
| 507 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg | 593 |
| 187 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze | 888 |
| 335 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 212 |
| 238 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 286 |
| 133 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 151 |
| 170 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker | 164 |
| 374 | Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 204 |
| 502 | Aladdin | 1992 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 535 |
| 30 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 16 |
| 48 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 61 |
| 97 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 56 |
| 574 | All about My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar | 257 |
| 273 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | 225 |
| 233 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 290 |
| 136 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 531 |
| 67 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | 163 |
| 595 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | 367 |
| 84 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 119 |
| 26 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 142 |
| 278 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | 362 |
| 123 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | 428 |
| 492 | American Psycho | 2000 | Mary Harron | 855 |
| 485 | An American Werewolf in London | 1981 | John Landis | 436 |
| 347 | Amores perros | 2000 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 457 |
| 226 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 160 |
| 258 | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 360 |
| 39 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 20 |
| 105 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 62 |
| 12 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 8 |
| 322 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 776 |
| 606 | Army of Darkness | 1992 | Sam Raimi | 1399 |
| 535 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra | 533 |
| 344 | As Good as It Gets | 1997 | James L. Brooks | 791 |
| 294 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 219 |
| 414 | Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 348 |
| 571 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | 1997 | Jay Roach | 735 |
| 561 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | 1605 |
| 240 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 195 |
| 460 | Babe | 1995 | Chris Noonan | 492 |
| 54 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 45 |
| 452 | Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis | 1095 |
| 591 | Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | Robert Zemeckis | 1697 |
| 246 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 228 |
| 585 | Bambi | 1942 | David Hand | 311 |
| 204 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 231 |
| 318 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 733 |
| 224 | Batman | 1989 | Tim Burton | 462 |
| 252 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 414 |
| 580 | Batman Returns | 1992 | Tim Burton | 698 |
| 315 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 145 |
| 442 | Battle Royale | 2000 | Kinji Fukasaku | 600 |
| 211 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 90 |
| 302 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 524 |
| 231 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 154 |
| 539 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | 237 |
| 581 | Beetlejuice | 1988 | Tim Burton | 1072 |
| 320 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | Richard Linklater | 373 |
| 367 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater | 315 |
| 127 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 346 |
| 309 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | 554 |
| 392 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 317 |
| 164 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 159 |
| 232 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 184 |
| 102 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 57 |
| 609 | Big | 1988 | Penny Marshall | 501 |
| 248 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 711 |
| 61 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 108 |
| 191 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 177 |
| 221 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | 251 |
| 554 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | 312 |
| 357 | Black Hawk Down | 2001 | Ridley Scott | 947 |
| 464 | Black Narcissus | 1947 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 410 |
| 32 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 11 |
| 517 | The Blair Witch Project | 1999 | Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez | 281 |
| 255 | Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 192 |
| 371 | Blood Simple | 1984 | Joel Coen | 506 |
| 307 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 246 |
| 95 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 103 |
| 298 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | 343 |
| 116 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 97 |
| 141 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 319 |
| 152 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | 247 |
| 503 | Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Oliver Stone | 1467 |
| 532 | The Bourne Identity | 2002 | Doug Liman | 854 |
| 290 | Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | Michael Moore | 630 |
| 484 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | 649 |
| 81 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | 185 |
| 78 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 115 |
| 324 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 359 |
| 271 | The Breakfast Club | 1985 | John Hughes | 456 |
| 466 | Breaking the Waves | 1996 | Lars von Trier | 418 |
| 161 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 65 |
| 266 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 155 |
| 88 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 94 |
| 312 | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean | 174 |
| 206 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 91 |
| 149 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 136 |
| 375 | Cabaret | 1972 | Bob Fosse | 224 |
| 370 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 141 |
| 573 | Caddyshack | 1980 | Harold Ramis | 528 |
| 409 | Carlito's Way | 1993 | Brian De Palma | 804 |
| 455 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 278 |
| 8 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
| 257 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 398 |
| 412 | Cast Away | 2000 | Robert Zemeckis | 1395 |
| 356 | Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 988 |
| 534 | The Celebration | 1998 | Thomas Vinterberg | 525 |
| 369 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 1007 |
| 380 | Chasing Amy | 1997 | Kevin Smith | 1263 |
| 387 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | 617 |
| 341 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | 258 |
| 262 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 179 |
| 21 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 21 |
| 269 | A Christmas Story | 1983 | Bob Clark | 548 |
| 281 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar-Wai Wong | 403 |
| 177 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 217 |
| 6 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 4 |
| 77 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 46 |
| 66 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 128 |
| 603 | The City of Lost Children | 1995 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 990 |
| 197 | Clerks. | 1994 | Kevin Smith | 364 |
| 18 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 24 |
| 135 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 120 |
| 482 | Collateral | 2004 | Michael Mann | 1645 |
| 563 | The Color Purple | 1985 | Steven Spielberg | 862 |
| 575 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | 277 |
| 526 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 229 |
| 474 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis | 1222 |
| 352 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 371 |
| 165 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 162 |
| 593 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | 1989 | Peter Greenaway | 1102 |
| 166 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 285 |
| 415 | Crash | 2004 | Paul Haggis | 1054 |
| 480 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | 550 |
| 306 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen | 647 |
| 138 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 191 |
| 598 | The Crying Game | 1992 | Neil Jordan | 958 |
| 379 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 532 |
| 168 | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Kevin Costner | 318 |
| 299 | Dark City | 1998 | Alex Proyas | 814 |
| 292 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 47 |
| 178 | Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero | 307 |
| 358 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise | 245 |
| 227 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 221 |
| 354 | Dazed and Confused | 1993 | Richard Linklater | 389 |
| 381 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 541 |
| 423 | Dead Man Walking | 1995 | Tim Robbins | 1363 |
| 275 | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir | 433 |
| 365 | The Decalogue | 1989 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 413 |
| 83 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 110 |
| 287 | Deliverance | 1972 | John Boorman | 404 |
| 210 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 238 |
| 473 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 305 |
| 531 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 826 |
| 59 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | 83 |
| 314 | Dirty Harry | 1971 | Don Siegel | 206 |
| 398 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 316 |
| 118 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | 89 |
| 399 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 425 |
| 131 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | 208 |
| 538 | Dogma | 1999 | Kevin Smith | 2371 |
| 353 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 626 |
| 169 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 86 |
| 543 | Donnie Brasco | 1997 | Mike Newell | 878 |
| 110 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 176 |
| 524 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 165 |
| 86 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
| 449 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1004 |
| 528 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 424 |
| 11 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 12 |
| 570 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | 530 |
| 137 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 85 |
| 458 | Dumb & Dumber | 1994 | Peter Farrelly | 939 |
| 71 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
| 594 | East of Eden | 1955 | Elia Kazan | 766 |
| 332 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 181 |
| 114 | Ed Wood | 1994 | Tim Burton | 435 |
| 193 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 203 |
| 547 | Election | 1999 | Alexander Payne | 546 |
| 403 | Elephant | 2003 | Gus Van Sant | 1170 |
| 143 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | 368 |
| 15 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 36 |
| 438 | The English Patient | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | 510 |
| 401 | Enter the Dragon | 1973 | Robert Clouse | 481 |
| 286 | Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch | 220 |
| 55 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 76 |
| 274 | Evil Dead II | 1987 | Sam Raimi | 369 |
| 327 | The Evil Dead | 1981 | Sam Raimi | 417 |
| 74 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | 88 |
| 596 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel | 613 |
| 194 | Eyes Wide Shut | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick | 699 |
