For these tables, older voters are those born before 1960. Younger voters were born in 1960 or later.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director | Total votes | % of ballots |
| 1 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 39 | 20.1% |
| 2 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 30 | 15.5% |
| 3 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Ozu Yasujirô | 26 | 13.4% |
| 4 | Règle du jeu, La | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 24 | 12.4% |
| 5 | Sunrise | 1927 | F. W. Murnau | 22 | 11.3% |
| 6 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 18 | 9.3% |
| = | Searchers, The | 1956 | John Ford | 18 | 9.3% |
| = | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 18 | 9.3% |
| 9 | 8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 17 | 8.8% |
| 10 | Passion of Joan of Arc | 1927 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 16 | 8.2% |
| = | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 16 | 8.2% |
| 12 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 15 | 7.7% |
| = | Bicycle Thieves, The | 1948 | Vittorio de Sica | 15 | 7.7% |
| 14 | Au Hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 14 | 7.2% |
| = | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 14 | 7.2% |
| 16 | Atalante, L' | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 13 | 6.7% |
| = | Mirror | 1974 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 13 | 6.7% |
| = | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 13 | 6.7% |
| 19 | Avventura, L' | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 12 | 6.2% |
| = | dolce vita, La | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 12 | 6.2% |
| = | Godfather: Part I, The | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 12 | 6.2% |
| = | grande illusion, La | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 12 | 6.2% |
| 23 | Fanny and Alexander | 1984 | Ingmar Bergman | 11 | 5.7% |
| = | Godfather: Part II, The | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 11 | 5.7% |
| = | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 11 | 5.7% |
| = | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | 11 | 5.7% |
| = | Seventh Seal, The | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 11 | 5.7% |
| = | strada, La | 1954 | Federico Fellini | 11 | 5.7% |
| = | Ugetsu Monogatari | 1953 | Mizoguchi Kenji | 11 | 5.7% |
| 30 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 10 | 5.2% |
| = | Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M Eisenstein | 10 | 5.2% |
| = | Man with a Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 10 | 5.2% |
| = | Ordet | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 10 | 5.2% |
| = | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 10 | 5.2% |
| = | Rashomon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 10 | 5.2% |
| = | Singin' in the Rain | 1951 | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | 10 | 5.2% |
| = | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 10 | 5.2% |
| 38 | Battle of Algiers, The | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 9 | 4.6% |
| = | General, The | 1926 | Buster Keaton | 9 | 4.6% |
| = | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 9 | 4.6% |
| = | mépris, Le | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 9 | 4.6% |
| = | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 9 | 4.6% |
| = | Viridiana | 1961 | Luis Buñuel | 9 | 4.6% |
| 44 | 400 Blows, The | 1959 | François Truffaut | 8 | 4.1% |
| = | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 8 | 4.1% |
| = | eclisse, L' | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 8 | 4.1% |
| = | Gertrud | 1964 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 8 | 4.1% |
| = | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 8 | 4.1% |
| = | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 8 | 4.1% |
| = | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 8 | 4.1% |
| = | Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann | 8 | 4.1% |
| 52 | Hour of the Wolf | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 7 | 3.6% |
| = | Mouchette | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 7 | 3.6% |
| = | Night of the Hunter, The | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 7 | 3.6% |
| = | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati | 7 | 3.6% |
| = | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 7 | 3.6% |
| = | Wild Bunch, The | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 7 | 3.6% |
| 58 | Amarcord | 1972 | Federico Fellini | 6 | 3.1% |
| = | Conformist, The | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 6 | 3.1% |
| = | Gospel According to St Matthew, The | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 6 | 3.1% |
| = | Hiroshima Mon Amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 6 | 3.1% |
| = | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | 6 | 3.1% |
| = | Journey to Italy | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini | 6 | 3.1% |
| = | Late Spring | 1949 | Ozu Yasujirô | 6 | 3.1% |
| = | Leopard, The | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 6 | 3.1% |
| = | Magnificent Ambersons, The | 1942 | Orson Welles | 6 | 3.1% |
| = | Man Escaped, A | 1956 | Robert Bresson | 6 | 3.1% |
| = | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson | 6 | 3.1% |
| = | Sansho Dayu | 1954 | Mizoguchi Kenji | 6 | 3.1% |
| = | Third Man, The | 1949 | Carol Reed | 6 | 3.1% |
| 71 | Aguirre, Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Dr. Strangelove | 1963 | Stanley Kubrick | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | enfants du paradis, Les | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Germany Year Zero | 1948 | Roberto Rossellini | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Gold Rush, The | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | In The Mood For Love | 2000 | Wong Kar Wai | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Intolerance | 1916 | D.W. Griffith | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Jules et Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Letter From an Unknown Woman | 1948 | Max Ophüls | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Travelling Players, The | 1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Tree of Life, The | 2010 | Terrence Malick | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Two or Three Things I Know About Her… | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 5 | 2.6% |
| = | Vivre Sa Vie | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 5 | 2.6% |
| 88 | Age d'Or, L' | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Ashes and Diamonds | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Celine and Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Chimes at Midnight | 1966 | Orson Welles | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Day of Wrath | 1943 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Imitation of Life | 1959 | Douglas Sirk | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Ivan the Terrible | 1945 | Sergei M Eisenstein | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Kes | 1969 | Ken Loach | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Madame de… | 1953 | Max Ophüls | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Mulholland Dr | 2003 | David Lynch | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | olvidados, Los | 1950 | Luis Buñuel | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Orphée | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Pandora's Box | 1928 | G W Pabst | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | River, The | 1951 | Jean Renoir | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Rome Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Shop Around the Corner, The | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Trouble in Paradise | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Turin Horse, The | 2011 | Béla Tarr | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Umberto D | 1952 | Vittorio de Sica | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Wavelength | 1967 | Michael Snow | 4 | 2.1% |
| = | Zero de Conduite | 1933 | Jean Vigo | 4 | 2.1% |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director | Total votes | % of ballots |
| 1 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Ozu Yasujirô | 28 | 14.1% |
| 2 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 27 | 13.6% |
| 3 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 25 | 12.6% |
| 4 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 22 | 11.1% |
| 5 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 21 | 10.6% |
| 6 | 8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 19 | 9.6% |
| = | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 19 | 9.6% |
| 8 | Mirror | 1974 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 17 | 8.6% |
| 9 | Godfather: Part I, The | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 16 | 8.1% |
| 10 | Bicycle Thieves, The | 1948 | Vittorio de Sica | 15 | 7.6% |
| = | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 15 | 7.6% |
| = | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | 15 | 7.6% |
| 13 | 400 Blows, The | 1959 | François Truffaut | 13 | 6.6% |
| = | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 13 | 6.6% |
| 15 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 12 | 6.1% |
| 16 | Apartment, The | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 11 | 5.6% |
| = | Au Hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 11 | 5.6% |
| = | mépris, Le | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 11 | 5.6% |
| = | Règle du jeu, La | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 11 | 5.6% |
| 20 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 10 | 5.1% |
| = | Come And See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | 10 | 5.1% |
| = | Fanny and Alexander | 1984 | Ingmar Bergman | 10 | 5.1% |
| = | Godfather: Part II, The | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 10 | 5.1% |
| = | Man Escaped, A | 1956 | Robert Bresson | 10 | 5.1% |
| = | Rashomon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 10 | 5.1% |
| = | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 10 | 5.1% |
| 27 | Aguirre, Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 9 | 4.5% |
| = | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 9 | 4.5% |
| = | Close-Up | 1989 | Abbas Kiarostami | 9 | 4.5% |
| = | Ordet | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 9 | 4.5% |
| 31 | Atalante, L' | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 8 | 4.0% |
| = | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 8 | 4.0% |
| = | Sunrise | 1927 | F. W. Murnau | 8 | 4.0% |
| 34 | Avventura, L' | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 7 | 3.5% |
| = | Battle of Algiers, The | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 7 | 3.5% |
| = | Beau Travail | 1998 | Claire Denis | 7 | 3.5% |
| = | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 7 | 3.5% |
| = | dolce vita, La | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 7 | 3.5% |
| = | Maman et la putain, La | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 7 | 3.5% |
| = | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 7 | 3.5% |
| = | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 7 | 3.5% |
| = | Sátántangó | 1994 | Béla Tarr | 7 | 3.5% |
| = | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 7 | 3.5% |
| = | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 7 | 3.5% |
| 45 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 6 | 3.0% |
| = | Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M Eisenstein | 6 | 3.0% |
| = | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 6 | 3.0% |
| = | Faces | 1968 | John Cassavetes | 6 | 3.0% |
| = | Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 6 | 3.0% |
| = | Gospel According to St Matthew, The | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 6 | 3.0% |
| = | Husbands | 1970 | John Cassavetes | 6 | 3.0% |
| = | olvidados, Los | 1950 | Luis Buñuel | 6 | 3.0% |
| = | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | 6 | 3.0% |
| = | Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann | 6 | 3.0% |
| = | To Be or Not To Be | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch | 6 | 3.0% |
| = | Vivre Sa Vie | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 6 | 3.0% |
| = | Woman Under the Influence, A | 1974 | John Cassavetes | 6 | 3.0% |
| 58 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Conformist, The | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Deer Hunter, The | 1977 | Michael Cimino | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | E.T. | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | eclisse, L' | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | In The Mood For Love | 2000 | Wong Kar Wai | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Journey to Italy | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The | 1976 | John Cassavetes | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Last Year At Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Night of the Hunter, The | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Passion of Joan of Arc | 1927 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | strada, La | 1954 | Federico Fellini | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Third Man, The | 1949 | Carol Reed | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 5 | 2.5% |
| = | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 5 | 2.5% |
| 81 | Amarcord | 1972 | Federico Fellini | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | argent, L' | 1928 | Marcel L'Herbier | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Big Lebowski, The | 1998 | Joel & Ethan Coen | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Breaking the Waves | 1996 | Lars von Trier | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Clockwork Orange, A | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Eraserhead | 1976 | David Lynch | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Graduate, The | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Hidden | 2004 | Michael Haneke | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Hour of the Wolf | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | I am Cuba | 1964 | Mikhail Kalatozov | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | It's a Wonderful Life | 1947 | Frank Capra | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1975 | Chantal Akerman | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Jetée, La | 1962 | Chris Marker | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Kes | 1969 | Ken Loach | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Last Picture Show, The | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Late Spring | 1949 | Ozu Yasujirô | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The | 1962 | John Ford | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Mulholland Dr | 2003 | David Lynch | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | My Neighbour Totoro | 1988 | Miyazaki Hayao | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Napoleon | 1927 | Abel Gance | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | notte, La | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Once Upon a Time in America | 1983 | Sergio Leone | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Opening Night | 1977 | John Cassavetes | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Sans Soleil | 1982 | Chris Marker | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Searchers, The | 1956 | John Ford | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Singin' in the Rain | 1951 | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Spirit of the Beehive, The | 1973 | Víctor Erice | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Thin Blue Line, The | 1989 | Errol Morris | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Tropical Malady | 2004 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Underground | 1995 | Emir Kusturica | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Veronika Voss | 1982 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 4 | 2.0% |
| = | Woman of the Dunes | 1964 | Teshigahara Hiroshi | 4 | 2.0% |