| Fans' Rank |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 2 |
| 2 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 8 |
| 3 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
| 4 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
| 5 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
| 6 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 23 |
| 7 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 11 |
| 8 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 37 |
| 9 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 16 |
| 10 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 24 |
| 11 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1 |
| 12 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 15 |
| 13 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 14 |
| 14 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 10 |
| 15 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 48 |
| 16 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 36 |
| 17 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 6 |
| 18 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 21 |
| 19 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 29 |
| 20 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 13 |
| 21 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 22 |
| 22 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 34 |
| 23 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 45 |
| 24 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 76 |
| 25 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | 28 |
| 26 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 67 |
| 27 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 7 |
| 28 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 4 |
| 29 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | 39 |
| 30 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 89 |
| 31 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 41 |
| 32 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 12 |
| 33 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 56 |
| 34 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 20 |
| 35 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 33 |
| 36 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 104 |
| 37 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 101 |
| 38 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 42 |
| 39 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 125 |
| 40 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 49 |
| 41 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 66 |
| 42 | The Matrix | 1999 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 26 |
| 43 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | 44 |
| 44 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 46 |
| 45 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | 85 |
| 46 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | 71 |
| 47 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 25 |
| 48 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 18 |
| 49 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 51 |
| 50 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 35 |
| 51 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 118 |
| 52 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 59 |
| 53 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 9 |
| 54 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 30 |
| 55 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 50 |
| 56 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 40 |
| 57 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 73 |
| 58 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 95 |
| 59 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | 145 |
| 60 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 32 |
| 61 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 100 |
| 62 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 84 |
| 63 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | 75 |
| 64 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | 62 |
| 65 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | 164 |
| 66 | Magnolia | 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 387 |
| 67 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 65 |
| 68 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 243 |
| 69 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 57 |
| 70 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | 190 |
| 71 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 54 |
| 72 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 70 |
| 73 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 218 |
| 74 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 103 |
| 75 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 120 |
| 76 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu | 78 |
| 77 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Kar-Wai Wong | 94 |
| 78 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 90 |
| 79 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 80 |
| 80 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 122 |
| 81 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 69 |
| 82 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 114 |
| 83 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 52 |
| 84 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 82 |
| 85 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 64 |
| 86 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 119 |
| 87 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | 60 |
| 88 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 43 |
| 89 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 93 |
| 90 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 53 |
| 91 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 31 |
| 92 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 153 |
| 93 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 19 |
| 94 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | 63 |
| 95 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 105 |
| 96 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 133 |
| 97 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | 223 |
| 98 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 152 |
| 99 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | 193 |
| 100 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 74 |
| 101 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | 127 |
| 102 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | 198 |
| 103 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 207 |
| 104 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | 72 |
| 105 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 38 |
| 106 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 79 |
| 107 | Oldboy | 2003 | Park Chan-wook | 141 |
| 108 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 87 |
| 109 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 192 |
| 110 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 86 |
| 111 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 117 |
| 112 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 58 |
| 113 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 138 |
| 114 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 139 |
| 115 | Léon: The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 259 |
| 116 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | 172 |
| 117 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 245 |
| 118 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 182 |
| 119 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 121 |
| 120 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 91 |
| 121 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 150 |
| 122 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | 392 |
| 123 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | 293 |
| 124 | The Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick | 773 |
| 125 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | 134 |
| 126 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 318 |
| 127 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 61 |
| 128 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 81 |
| 129 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 124 |
| 130 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 178 |
| 131 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 322 |
| 132 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | 186 |
| 133 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | Richard Linklater | 263 |
| 134 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 191 |
| 135 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
| 136 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 98 |
| 137 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 353 |
| 138 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 157 |
| 139 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar-Wai Wong | 372 |
| 140 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 286 |
| 141 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | 227 |
| 142 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 148 |
| 143 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | 167 |
| 144 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 200 |
| 145 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 47 |
| 146 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | 144 |
| 147 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 97 |
| 148 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 451 |
| 149 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 180 |
| 150 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 77 |
| 151 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 162 |
| 152 | Let the Right One in | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | 290 |
| 153 | WALL•E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | 55 |
| 154 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 137 |
| 155 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | 205 |
| 156 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick | 380 |
| 157 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | 458 |
| 158 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 161 |
| 159 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 230 |
| 160 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 277 |
| 161 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 116 |
| 162 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 109 |
| 163 | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 208 |
| 164 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 275 |
| 165 | The Social Network | 2010 | David Fincher | 301 |
| 166 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 264 |
| 167 | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 194 |
| 168 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 299 |
| 169 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | 362 |
| 170 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 195 |
| 171 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 83 |
| 172 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater | 314 |
| 173 | This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner | 143 |
| 174 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 272 |
| 175 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | 236 |
| 176 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen | 108 |
| 177 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 142 |
| 178 | Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter | 132 |
| 179 | Eyes Wide Shut | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick | 595 |
| 180 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 170 |
| 181 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 253 |
| 182 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 282 |
| 183 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 354 |
| 184 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 964 |
| 185 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 642 |
| 186 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | 197 |
| 187 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 553 |
| 188 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker | 196 |
| 189 | Grave of the Fireflies | 1988 | Isao Takahata | 210 |
| 190 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | 1205 |
| 191 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | 217 |
| 192 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper | 179 |
| 193 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 110 |
| 194 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 219 |
| 195 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 209 |
| 196 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 237 |
| 197 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | 339 |
| 198 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 129 |
| 199 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 269 |
| 200 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero | 102 |