Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1 |
2 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 9 |
3 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 14 |
4 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
5 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 18 |
6 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 24 |
7 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 31 |
8 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
9 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 47 |
10 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 54 |
11 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 55 |
12 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 60 |
13 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 64 |
14 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 65 |
15 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 69 |
16 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 72 |
17 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 75 |
18 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 80 |
19 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 97 |
20 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 100 |
21 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 102 |
22 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 108 |
23 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | 112 |
24 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 118 |
25 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 127 |
26 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 128 |
27 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 133 |
28 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 136 |
29 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 157 |
30 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | 172 |
31 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 177 |
32 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 189 |
33 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 202 |
34 | Dirty Harry | 1971 | Don Siegel | 206 |
35 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1949 | Robert Hamer | 207 |
36 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | 208 |
37 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 228 |
38 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 238 |
39 | Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese | 249 |
40 | The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 253 |
41 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 263 |
42 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 264 |
43 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino | 274 |
44 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 285 |
45 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 289 |
46 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | 294 |
47 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 305 |
48 | RoboCop | 1987 | Paul Verhoeven | 308 |
49 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 | Robert Aldrich | 335 |
50 | White Heat | 1949 | Raoul Walsh | 336 |
51 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | 343 |
52 | Ghost in the Shell | 1995 | Mamoru Oshii | 374 |
53 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 375 |
54 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 379 |
55 | Trouble in Paradise | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch | 381 |
56 | Los Olvidados | 1950 | Luis Buñuel | 387 |
57 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 398 |
58 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar-Wai Wong | 403 |
59 | Rififi | 1955 | Jules Dassin | 420 |
60 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 421 |
61 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 422 |
62 | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson | 427 |
63 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang | 429 |
64 | The Killer | 1989 | John Woo | 437 |
65 | The Thin Blue Line | 1988 | Errol Morris | 438 |
66 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Quentin Tarantino | 439 |
67 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 440 |
68 | A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | Charles Crichton | 446 |
69 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | 447 |
70 | In the Heat of the Night | 1967 | Norman Jewison | 464 |
71 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 466 |
72 | Close-Up | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami | 469 |
73 | The Untouchables | 1987 | Brian De Palma | 471 |
74 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 476 |
75 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | 480 |
76 | Enter the Dragon | 1973 | Robert Clouse | 481 |
77 | Hate | 1995 | Mathieu Kassovitz | 485 |
78 | Point Blank | 1967 | John Boorman | 489 |
79 | Gun Crazy | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis | 505 |
80 | Blood Simple | 1984 | Joel Coen | 506 |
81 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 508 |
82 | The Ladykillers | 1955 | Alexander Mackendrick | 512 |
83 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 513 |
84 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 515 |
85 | Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 516 |
86 | Pink Flamingos | 1972 | John Waters | 520 |
87 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 532 |
88 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra | 533 |
89 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 534 |
90 | Pickup on South Street | 1953 | Samuel Fuller | 542 |
91 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 551 |
92 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | 1998 | Guy Ritchie | 556 |
93 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | 559 |
94 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 562 |
95 | Get Carter | 1971 | Mike Hodges | 564 |
96 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | 1988 | David Zucker | 565 |
97 | Hard Boiled | 1992 | John Woo | 567 |
98 | The Thin Man | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke | 568 |
99 | Performance | 1970 | Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg | 576 |
100 | Z | 1969 | Costa-Gavras | 584 |
101 | Run Lola Run | 1998 | Tom Tykwer | 594 |
102 | The King of Comedy | 1982 | Martin Scorsese | 604 |
103 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | 617 |
104 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 626 |
105 | Bullitt | 1968 | Peter Yates | 627 |
106 | Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | Michael Moore | 630 |
107 | The Long Good Friday | 1980 | John Mackenzie | 642 |
108 | Pandora's Box | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 644 |
109 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | 649 |
110 | Delicatessen | 1991 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 654 |
111 | Le Cercle rouge | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 656 |
112 | Repo Man | 1984 | Alex Cox | 657 |
113 | Drive | 2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn | 659 |
114 | Point Break | 1991 | Kathryn Bigelow | 661 |
115 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 662 |
116 | Heathers | 1989 | Michael Lehmann | 663 |
117 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | 669 |
118 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie | 673 |
119 | The Fugitive | 1993 | Andrew Davis | 677 |
120 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | 681 |
121 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai-keung Lau and Alan Mak | 685 |
122 | The Killers | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 686 |
123 | The Great Train Robbery | 1903 | Edwin S. Porter | 688 |
124 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Wes Anderson | 694 |
125 | Batman Returns | 1992 | Tim Burton | 698 |
126 | Body Heat | 1981 | Lawrence Kasdan | 702 |
127 | Down by Law | 1986 | Jim Jarmusch | 703 |
128 | Detour | 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 707 |
129 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 710 |
130 | The Warriors | 1979 | Walter Hill | 720 |
131 | Face/Off | 1997 | John Woo | 721 |
132 | Jackie Brown | 1997 | Quentin Tarantino | 722 |
133 | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti | 727 |
134 | A Brighter Summer Day | 1991 | Edward Yang | 729 |
135 | Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | 1971 | Melvin Van Peebles | 730 |
136 | The Public Enemy | 1931 | William A. Wellman | 753 |
137 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood | 759 |
138 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1974 | Joseph Sargent | 761 |
139 | Lethal Weapon | 1987 | Richard Donner | 763 |
140 | Serpico | 1973 | Sidney Lumet | 767 |
141 | True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott | 768 |
142 | Midnight Run | 1988 | Martin Brest | 773 |
143 | The Godfather: Part III | 1990 | Francis Ford Coppola | 774 |
144 | Atlantic City | 1980 | Louis Malle | 784 |
145 | Carlito's Way | 1993 | Brian De Palma | 804 |
146 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 806 |
147 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 807 |
148 | Elevator to the Gallows | 1958 | Louis Malle | 820 |
149 | Lolita | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick | 823 |
150 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 826 |
151 | Heavenly Creatures | 1994 | Peter Jackson | 831 |
152 | Night and the City | 1950 | Jules Dassin | 834 |
153 | Bound | 1996 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 839 |
154 | A Prophet | 2009 | Jacques Audiard | 842 |
155 | In Bruges | 2008 | Martin McDonagh | 846 |
156 | Force of Evil | 1948 | Abraham Polonsky | 850 |
157 | Memories of Murder | 2003 | Bong Joon Ho | 852 |
158 | American Psycho | 2000 | Mary Harron | 855 |
159 | Witness | 1985 | Peter Weir | 857 |
160 | Boys Don't Cry | 1999 | Kimberly Peirce | 859 |
161 | Out of Sight | 1998 | Steven Soderbergh | 860 |
162 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | 865 |
163 | Wall Street | 1987 | Oliver Stone | 868 |
164 | Donnie Brasco | 1997 | Mike Newell | 878 |
165 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 880 |
166 | Les Vampires | 1915 | Louis Feuillade | 903 |
167 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | 914 |
168 | Straw Dogs | 1971 | Sam Peckinpah | 915 |
169 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson | 917 |
170 | Brick | 2005 | Rian Johnson | 919 |
171 | Sexy Beast | 2000 | Jonathan Glazer | 941 |
172 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 948 |
173 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett | 954 |
174 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | 1922 | Fritz Lang | 957 |
175 | The Crying Game | 1992 | Neil Jordan | 958 |
176 | Bad Lieutenant | 1992 | Abel Ferrara | 961 |
177 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | 1999 | Anthony Minghella | 979 |
178 | Little Caesar | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy | 983 |
179 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | 984 |
180 | Band of Outsiders | 1964 | Jean-Luc Godard | 985 |
181 | Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 988 |
182 | Assault on Precinct 13 | 1976 | John Carpenter | 989 |
183 | They Live by Night | 1948 | Nicholas Ray | 991 |
184 | After Hours | 1985 | Martin Scorsese | 992 |
185 | Shaft | 1971 | Gordon Parks | 993 |
186 | Near Dark | 1987 | Kathryn Bigelow | 998 |
187 | Zodiac | 2007 | David Fincher | 1037 |
188 | Zootopia | 2016 | Byron Howard and Rich Moore | 1039 |
189 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | 1040 |
190 | Risky Business | 1983 | Paul Brickman | 1044 |
191 | The Last Seduction | 1994 | John Dahl | 1047 |
192 | Crash | 2004 | Paul Haggis | 1054 |
193 | 3:10 to Yuma | 2007 | James Mangold | 1059 |
194 | Fireworks | 1997 | Takeshi Kitano | 1069 |
195 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | John McNaughton | 1073 |
196 | Funny Games | 1997 | Michael Haneke | 1080 |
197 | Monsieur Verdoux | 1947 | Charles Chaplin | 1092 |
198 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | 1999 | Jim Jarmusch | 1093 |
199 | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | 1974 | Sam Peckinpah | 1097 |
200 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | 1100 |