| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
| 2 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 6 |
| 3 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 15 |
| 4 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 19 |
| 5 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 22 |
| 6 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 23 |
| 7 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | 26 |
| 8 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 36 |
| 9 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 37 |
| 10 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 40 |
| 11 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 43 |
| 12 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 45 |
| 13 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 48 |
| 14 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 49 |
| 15 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 50 |
| 16 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 51 |
| 17 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 61 |
| 18 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 63 |
| 19 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 67 |
| 20 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 79 |
| 21 | WALL•E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | 82 |
| 22 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 94 |
| 23 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 96 |
| 24 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 111 |
| 25 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 116 |
| 26 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 132 |
| 27 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 134 |
| 28 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 137 |
| 29 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 138 |
| 30 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 140 |
| 31 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 151 |
| 32 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 158 |
| 33 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 159 |
| 34 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 166 |
| 35 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton | 168 |
| 36 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 181 |
| 37 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter | 188 |
| 38 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 191 |
| 39 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 205 |
| 40 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 210 |
| 41 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 212 |
| 42 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 231 |
| 43 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 234 |
| 44 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 236 |
| 45 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 244 |
| 46 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | 247 |
| 47 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 252 |
| 48 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 254 |
| 49 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich | 261 |
| 50 | Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron | 262 |
| 51 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 264 |
| 52 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | 265 |
| 53 | Red River | 1948 | Howard Hawks | 271 |
| 54 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | 272 |
| 55 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 273 |
| 56 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 275 |
| 57 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 286 |
| 58 | The Road Warrior | 1981 | George Miller | 295 |
| 59 | The Iron Giant | 1999 | Brad Bird | 296 |
| 60 | Toy Story 2 | 1999 | John Lasseter | 310 |
| 61 | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Kevin Costner | 318 |
| 62 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 325 |
| 63 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 337 |
| 64 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | 343 |
| 65 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | 344 |
| 66 | Predator | 1987 | John McTiernan | 347 |
| 67 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | 351 |
| 68 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 353 |
| 69 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | George Miller | 377 |
| 70 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 379 |
| 71 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg | 380 |
| 72 | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | 1982 | Nicholas Meyer | 393 |
| 73 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 397 |
| 74 | Deliverance | 1972 | John Boorman | 404 |
| 75 | Ratatouille | 2007 | Brad Bird | 412 |
| 76 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 414 |
| 77 | Great Expectations | 1946 | David Lean | 415 |
| 78 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 431 |
| 79 | The Goonies | 1985 | Richard Donner | 444 |
| 80 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 449 |
| 81 | Batman | 1989 | Tim Burton | 462 |
| 82 | The Last of the Mohicans | 1992 | Michael Mann | 463 |
| 83 | Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | Werner Herzog | 465 |
| 84 | Speed | 1994 | Jan de Bont | 473 |
| 85 | The Jungle Book | 1967 | Wolfgang Reitherman | 474 |
| 86 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | 484 |
| 87 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 493 |
| 88 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter | 494 |
| 89 | How to Train Your Dragon | 2010 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders | 502 |
| 90 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 503 |
| 91 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 531 |
| 92 | Aladdin | 1992 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 535 |
| 93 | Iron Man | 2008 | Jon Favreau | 537 |
| 94 | The Avengers | 2012 | Joss Whedon | 540 |
| 95 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 541 |
| 96 | Starship Troopers | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven | 549 |
| 97 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | Steve Box and Nick Park | 563 |
| 98 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 566 |
| 99 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki | 573 |
| 100 | Independence Day | 1996 | Roland Emmerich | 588 |
| 101 | The Fifth Element | 1997 | Luc Besson | 599 |
| 102 | Battle Royale | 2000 | Kinji Fukasaku | 600 |
| 103 | The Right Stuff | 1983 | Philip Kaufman | 603 |
| 104 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | Christopher Nolan | 614 |
| 105 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | 620 |
| 106 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams | 623 |
| 107 | Escape from New York | 1981 | John Carpenter | 624 |
| 108 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | 638 |
| 109 | Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | James Gunn | 648 |
| 110 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi | 652 |
| 111 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi | 655 |
| 112 | Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller | 671 |
| 113 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 683 |
| 114 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Wes Anderson | 694 |
| 115 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | 1984 | Steven Spielberg | 695 |
| 116 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 711 |
| 117 | The Muppet Movie | 1979 | James Frawley | 723 |
| 118 | Yellow Submarine | 1968 | George Dunning | 731 |
| 119 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | 1997 | Jay Roach | 735 |
| 120 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young | 742 |
| 121 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | Clint Eastwood | 748 |
| 122 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki | 750 |
| 123 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | 1961 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman | 755 |
| 124 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston | 764 |
| 125 | First Blood | 1982 | Ted Kotcheff | 775 |
| 126 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 776 |
| 127 | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 787 |
| 128 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 806 |
| 129 | Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich | 809 |
| 130 | Galaxy Quest | 1999 | Dean Parisot | 810 |
| 131 | Lady and the Tramp | 1955 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 811 |
| 132 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1924 | Raoul Walsh | 813 |
| 133 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 827 |
| 134 | Time Bandits | 1981 | Terry Gilliam | 851 |
| 135 | Walkabout | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg | 853 |
| 136 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 856 |
| 137 | Into the Wild | 2007 | Sean Penn | 870 |
| 138 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | 1985 | Tim Burton | 873 |
| 139 | Tron | 1982 | Steven Lisberger | 874 |
| 140 | Labyrinth | 1986 | Jim Henson | 876 |
| 141 | Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | Don Chaffey | 877 |
| 142 | Serenity | 2005 | Joss Whedon | 891 |
| 143 | Hero | 2002 | Yimou Zhang | 898 |
| 144 | Les Vampires | 1915 | Louis Feuillade | 903 |
| 145 | Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Michael Cimino | 910 |
| 146 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson | 917 |
| 147 | The Lego Movie | 2014 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 918 |
| 148 | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | 2015 | J.J. Abrams | 925 |
| 149 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay | 927 |
| 150 | Frozen | 2013 | Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee | 940 |
| 151 | Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford | 951 |
| 152 | The Abyss | 1989 | James Cameron | 952 |
| 153 | Chicken Run | 2000 | Peter Lord and Nick Park | 962 |
| 154 | Three Kings | 1999 | David O. Russell | 967 |
| 155 | Superman II | 1980 | Richard Lester | 971 |
| 156 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | 1027 |
| 157 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2007 | David Yates | 1030 |
| 158 | Where Eagles Dare | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton | 1033 |
| 159 | Zootopia | 2016 | Byron Howard and Rich Moore | 1039 |
| 160 | Tom Jones | 1963 | Tony Richardson | 1043 |
| 161 | Laputa: Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1058 |
| 162 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 1074 |
| 163 | Barbarella | 1968 | Roger Vadim | 1078 |
| 164 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates | 1087 |
| 165 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | 1090 |
| 166 | Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis | 1095 |
| 167 | Life of Pi | 2012 | Ang Lee | 1111 |
| 168 | The Court Jester | 1955 | Melvin Frank and Norman Panama | 1115 |
| 169 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman | 1118 |
| 170 | Tangled | 2010 | Nathan Greno and Byron Howard | 1129 |
| 171 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Peter Weir | 1130 |
| 172 | Gallipoli | 1981 | Peter Weir | 1135 |
| 173 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas | 1139 |
| 174 | Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | Howard Hawks | 1142 |
| 175 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 1151 |
| 176 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | David Yates | 1153 |
| 177 | Jeremiah Johnson | 1972 | Sydney Pollack | 1155 |
| 178 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | 1954 | Richard Fleischer | 1159 |
| 179 | Ice Age | 2002 | Chris Wedge | 1163 |
| 180 | X-Men | 2000 | Bryan Singer | 1167 |
| 181 | Touching the Void | 2003 | Kevin Macdonald | 1180 |
| 182 | Mulan | 1998 | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook | 1190 |
| 183 | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1195 |
| 184 | Black God and White Devil | 1964 | Glauber Rocha | 1197 |
| 185 | The Holy Mountain | 1973 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1202 |
| 186 | The Secret of NIMH | 1982 | Don Bluth | 1203 |
| 187 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 1213 |
| 188 | Dersu Uzala | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa | 1224 |
| 189 | The Descent | 2005 | Neil Marshall | 1228 |
| 190 | The NeverEnding Story | 1984 | Wolfgang Petersen | 1231 |
| 191 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | 1238 |
| 192 | Lost Horizon | 1937 | Frank Capra | 1248 |
| 193 | Skyfall | 2012 | Sam Mendes | 1259 |
| 194 | A Touch of Zen | 1971 | King Hu | 1265 |
| 195 | The Time Machine | 1960 | George Pal | 1281 |
| 196 | Shrek 2 | 2004 | Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon | 1287 |
| 197 | Captain America: Civil War | 2016 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1289 |
| 198 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1293 |
| 199 | Flash Gordon | 1980 | Mike Hodges | 1302 |
| 200 | The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | 1303 |
