| Fans' Rank |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 449 | (500) Days of Summer | 2009 | Marc Webb | 842 |
| 41 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 66 |
| 4 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
| 653 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1142 |
| 407 | 25th Hour | 2002 | Spike Lee | 1051 |
| 480 | 28 Days Later… | 2002 | Danny Boyle | 409 |
| 327 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 415 |
| 657 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 2007 | Cristian Mungiu | 778 |
| 72 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 70 |
| 61 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 100 |
| 576 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg | 655 |
| 263 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze | 1050 |
| 438 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 265 |
| 288 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 306 |
| 130 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 178 |
| 188 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker | 196 |
| 496 | Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 175 |
| 644 | Aladdin | 1992 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 427 |
| 497 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 471 |
| 17 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 6 |
| 55 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 50 |
| 85 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 64 |
| 373 | All about My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar | 320 |
| 261 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | 234 |
| 471 | All That Heaven Allows | 1955 | Douglas Sirk | 782 |
| 602 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse | 558 |
| 182 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 282 |
| 212 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 494 |
| 70 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | 190 |
| 86 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 119 |
| 73 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 218 |
| 408 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | 395 |
| 157 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | 458 |
| 658 | An American in Paris | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli | 405 |
| 485 | American Psycho | 2000 | Mary Harron | 493 |
| 561 | Amores perros | 2000 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 612 |
| 166 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 264 |
| 35 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 33 |
| 52 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 59 |
| 14 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 10 |
| 604 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 857 |
| 522 | Army in the Shadows | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 424 |
| 583 | As Good as It Gets | 1997 | James L. Brooks | 1150 |
| 508 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | 713 |
| 300 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 332 |
| 368 | Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 365 |
| 535 | Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron | 149 |
| 531 | The Avengers | 2012 | Joss Whedon | 313 |
| 168 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 299 |
| 563 | Babe | 1995 | Chris Noonan | 650 |
| 54 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 30 |
| 174 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 272 |
| 538 | Bambi | 1942 | David Hand | 342 |
| 641 | Band of Outsiders | 1964 | Jean-Luc Godard | 953 |
| 219 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 233 |
| 275 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 905 |
| 517 | Batman | 1989 | Tim Burton | 486 |
| 282 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 384 |
| 278 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 158 |
| 507 | Battle Royale | 2000 | Kinji Fukasaku | 664 |
| 230 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei Eisenstein | 131 |
| 626 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 572 |
| 310 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 106 |
| 412 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | 201 |
| 133 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | Richard Linklater | 263 |
| 172 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater | 314 |
| 148 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 451 |
| 513 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | 601 |
| 448 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 378 |
| 214 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 188 |
| 144 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 200 |
| 81 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 69 |
| 586 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 694 |
| 36 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 104 |
| 264 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 215 |
| 639 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | 2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1140 |
| 251 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | 226 |
| 319 | Black Narcissus | 1947 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 446 |
| 227 | Black Swan | 2010 | Darren Aronofsky | 440 |
| 32 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 12 |
| 489 | The Blair Witch Project | 1999 | Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez | 271 |
| 439 | Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 232 |
| 397 | Blood Simple | 1984 | Joel Coen | 609 |
| 253 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 346 |
| 96 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 133 |
| 461 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | 351 |
| 161 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 116 |
| 126 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 318 |
| 191 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | 217 |
| 332 | Boyhood | 2014 | Richard Linklater | 536 |
| 618 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | 497 |
| 202 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | 278 |
| 82 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 114 |
| 606 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 326 |
| 313 | The Breakfast Club | 1985 | John Hughes | 418 |
| 567 | Breaking the Waves | 1996 | Lars von Trier | 580 |
| 147 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 97 |
| 421 | Brick | 2005 | Rian Johnson | 1230 |
| 349 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 123 |
| 120 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 91 |
| 244 | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean | 211 |
| 585 | A Brighter Summer Day | 1991 | Edward Yang | 659 |
| 235 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 128 |
| 343 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Ang Lee | 111 |
| 151 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 162 |
| 314 | Cabaret | 1972 | Bob Fosse | 257 |
| 345 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 174 |
| 476 | Carlito's Way | 1993 | Brian De Palma | 945 |
| 472 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 159 |
| 3 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
| 432 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 404 |
| 302 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 358 |
| 465 | Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 733 |
| 558 | The Celebration | 1998 | Thomas Vinterberg | 720 |
| 628 | Le Cercle rouge | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 577 |
| 360 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 1009 |
| 623 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | 763 |
| 99 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | 193 |
| 201 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 216 |
| 22 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 34 |
| 400 | A Christmas Story | 1983 | Bob Clark | 624 |
| 139 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar-Wai Wong | 372 |
| 164 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 275 |
| 7 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 11 |
| 56 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 40 |
| 74 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 103 |
| 361 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda | 383 |
| 541 | Clerks. | 1994 | Kevin Smith | 399 |
| 16 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 36 |
| 193 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 110 |
| 530 | Close-Up | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami | 531 |
| 638 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov | 1815 |
| 446 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | 255 |
| 353 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 287 |
| 564 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis | 1262 |
| 374 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 496 |
| 103 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 207 |
| 392 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | 1989 | Peter Greenaway | 1102 |
| 211 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 308 |
| 548 | The Cranes are Flying | 1957 | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1030 |
| 411 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | 695 |
| 299 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen | 904 |
| 276 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 140 |
| 568 | The Crowd | 1928 | King Vidor | 775 |
| 647 | Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilová | 859 |
| 599 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 632 |
| 287 | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Kevin Costner | 356 |
| 378 | Dark City | 1998 | Alex Proyas | 839 |
| 367 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | Christopher Nolan | 438 |
| 48 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 18 |
| 262 | Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero | 242 |
| 483 | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut | 662 |
| 614 | Day of Wrath | 1943 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 799 |
| 580 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise | 298 |
| 68 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 243 |
| 294 | Dazed and Confused | 1993 | Richard Linklater | 379 |
| 436 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 679 |
| 569 | Dead Man Walking | 1995 | Tim Robbins | 1898 |
| 358 | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir | 291 |
| 498 | The Decalogue | 1989 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 508 |
| 119 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 121 |
| 534 | Deliverance | 1972 | John Boorman | 556 |
| 92 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 153 |
| 324 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 295 |
| 386 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1101 |
| 45 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | 85 |
| 464 | Dirty Harry | 1971 | Don Siegel | 300 |
| 501 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 368 |
| 650 | District 9 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | 329 |
| 370 | Django Unchained | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino | 411 |
| 63 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | 75 |
| 656 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 393 |
| 141 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | 227 |
| 354 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 869 |
| 129 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 124 |
| 225 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 136 |
| 342 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 160 |
| 49 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 51 |
| 184 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 964 |
| 371 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 526 |
| 9 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 16 |
| 270 | Drive | 2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn | 469 |
| 198 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 129 |
| 591 | Duel | 1971 | Steven Spielberg | 1384 |
| 642 | Dumb & Dumber | 1994 | Peter Farrelly | 1014 |
| 135 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
| 579 | The Earrings of Madame De… | 1953 | Max Ophüls | 801 |
| 430 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 323 |
| 559 | L'Eclisse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 806 |
| 210 | Ed Wood | 1994 | Tim Burton | 674 |
| 338 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 199 |
| 348 | Elephant | 2003 | Gus Van Sant | 1457 |
| 286 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | 385 |
| 19 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 29 |
| 226 | Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch | 249 |
| 33 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 56 |
| 362 | Evil Dead II | 1987 | Sam Raimi | 288 |
| 381 | The Evil Dead | 1981 | Sam Raimi | 397 |
| 64 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | 62 |
| 409 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel | 896 |
| 179 | Eyes Wide Shut | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick | 595 |
