| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 7 |
| 2 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 8 |
| 3 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 14 |
| 4 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 22 |
| 5 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 45 |
| 6 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 60 |
| 7 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 62 |
| 8 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 69 |
| 9 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand | 81 |
| 10 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 84 |
| 11 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 86 |
| 12 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 113 |
| 13 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 117 |
| 14 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 139 |
| 15 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 143 |
| 16 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 149 |
| 17 | Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield | 180 |
| 18 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | 184 |
| 19 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 185 |
| 20 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 188 |
| 21 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 198 |
| 22 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 206 |
| 23 | Pinocchio | 1940 | Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen | 212 |
| 24 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 238 |
| 25 | Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | 242 |
| 26 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 257 |
| 27 | Mary Poppins | 1964 | Robert Stevenson | 258 |
| 28 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 260 |
| 29 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 281 |
| 30 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 287 |
| 31 | Toy Story 2 | 1999 | John Lasseter | 290 |
| 32 | Eraserhead | 1976 | David Lynch | 291 |
| 33 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 308 |
| 34 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 326 |
| 35 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 327 |
| 36 | Performance | 1970 | Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg | 341 |
| 37 | Babe | 1995 | Chris Noonan | 358 |
| 38 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | 368 |
| 39 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | 369 |
| 40 | Evil Dead II | 1987 | Sam Raimi | 385 |
| 41 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | 392 |
| 42 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart | 397 |
| 43 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 411 |
| 44 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 414 |
| 45 | Ghost | 1990 | Jerry Zucker | 434 |
| 46 | L'Âge d'or | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | 438 |
| 47 | Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 | George Seaton | 464 |
| 48 | The Nightmare Before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick | 482 |
| 49 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 500 |
| 50 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi | 503 |
| 51 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 505 |
| 52 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 510 |
| 53 | Orpheus | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 523 |
| 54 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 533 |
| 55 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 557 |
| 56 | Big | 1988 | Penny Marshall | 571 |
| 57 | Delicatessen | 1991 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 577 |
| 58 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 582 |
| 59 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse | 605 |
| 60 | Harvey | 1950 | Henry Koster | 611 |
| 61 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1924 | Raoul Walsh | 612 |
| 62 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | 622 |
| 63 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | 626 |
| 64 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 629 |
| 65 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | 649 |
| 66 | Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | Don Chaffey | 679 |
| 67 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 692 |
| 68 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel | 697 |
| 69 | Celine & Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette | 700 |
| 70 | Aladdin | 1992 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 718 |
| 71 | Beetlejuice | 1988 | Tim Burton | 753 |
| 72 | Ghost in the Shell | 1995 | Mamoru Oshii | 757 |
| 73 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 768 |
| 74 | The Mummy | 1932 | Karl Freund | 785 |
| 75 | Les Vampires | 1915 | Louis Feuillade | 787 |
| 76 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi | 790 |
| 77 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | 818 |
| 78 | Barbarella | 1968 | Roger Vadim | 822 |
| 79 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas | 837 |
| 80 | Death in Venice | 1971 | Luchino Visconti | 862 |
| 81 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1985 | Woody Allen | 879 |
| 82 | Cinderella | 1950 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 880 |
| 83 | Lost Horizon | 1937 | Frank Capra | 891 |
| 84 | Waking Life | 2001 | Richard Linklater | 898 |
| 85 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | 2002 | George Lucas | 899 |
| 86 | The Little Mermaid | 1989 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 901 |
| 87 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 919 |
| 88 | Yellow Submarine | 1968 | George Dunning | 920 |
| 89 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 965 |
| 90 | The Crow | 1994 | Alex Proyas | 967 |
| 91 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid | 972 |
| 92 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 973 |
| 93 | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 986 |
| 94 | The Wolf Man | 1941 | George Waggner | 1012 |
| 95 | Braindead | 1992 | Peter Jackson | 1014 |
| 96 | El Topo | 1970 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1040 |
| 97 | Around the World in Eighty Days | 1956 | Michael Anderson | 1083 |
| 98 | Gremlins | 1984 | Joe Dante | 1096 |
| 99 | The Devil's Backbone | 2001 | Guillermo del Toro | 1100 |
| 100 | The City of Lost Children | 1995 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 1124 |
