| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 5 |
| 2 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 8 |
| 3 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 16 |
| 4 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 23 |
| 5 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 47 |
| 6 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 60 |
| 7 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 64 |
| 8 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 77 |
| 9 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 80 |
| 10 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand | 89 |
| 11 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 96 |
| 12 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 105 |
| 13 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 119 |
| 14 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 123 |
| 15 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 130 |
| 16 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 132 |
| 17 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 158 |
| 18 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 165 |
| 19 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 174 |
| 20 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 178 |
| 21 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | 179 |
| 22 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 182 |
| 23 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 195 |
| 24 | Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield | 199 |
| 25 | Pinocchio | 1940 | Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen | 217 |
| 26 | Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | 245 |
| 27 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 246 |
| 28 | Mary Poppins | 1964 | Robert Stevenson | 252 |
| 29 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 261 |
| 30 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 265 |
| 31 | Toy Story 2 | 1999 | John Lasseter | 268 |
| 32 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 276 |
| 33 | Eraserhead | 1976 | David Lynch | 280 |
| 34 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 284 |
| 35 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 287 |
| 36 | Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 302 |
| 37 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 312 |
| 38 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman | 314 |
| 39 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 319 |
| 40 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento | 327 |
| 41 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart | 348 |
| 42 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 353 |
| 43 | Evil Dead II | 1987 | Sam Raimi | 359 |
| 44 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 367 |
| 45 | Babe | 1995 | Chris Noonan | 372 |
| 46 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | 379 |
| 47 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 385 |
| 48 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | 399 |
| 49 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 410 |
| 50 | Ghost | 1990 | Jerry Zucker | 416 |
| 51 | The Nightmare Before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick | 419 |
| 52 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 455 |
| 53 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi | 501 |
| 54 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 509 |
| 55 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 517 |
| 56 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | 537 |
| 57 | Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 | George Seaton | 540 |
| 58 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | 554 |
| 59 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 560 |
| 60 | Orpheus | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 561 |
| 61 | Delicatessen | 1991 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 563 |
| 62 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse | 577 |
| 63 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 607 |
| 64 | Big | 1988 | Penny Marshall | 608 |
| 65 | Harvey | 1950 | Henry Koster | 633 |
| 66 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 692 |
| 67 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1924 | Raoul Walsh | 694 |
| 68 | Ghost in the Shell | 1995 | Mamoru Oshii | 697 |
| 69 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | 709 |
| 70 | Heavenly Creatures | 1994 | Peter Jackson | 710 |
| 71 | Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | Don Chaffey | 715 |
| 72 | Celine & Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette | 727 |
| 73 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 732 |
| 74 | Barbarella | 1968 | Roger Vadim | 734 |
| 75 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel | 735 |
| 76 | Aladdin | 1992 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 750 |
| 77 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | 1954 | Richard Fleischer | 753 |
| 78 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi | 765 |
| 79 | Beetlejuice | 1988 | Tim Burton | 784 |
| 80 | Death in Venice | 1971 | Luchino Visconti | 821 |
| 81 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1985 | Woody Allen | 837 |
| 82 | The Mummy | 1932 | Karl Freund | 852 |
| 83 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas | 876 |
| 84 | The City of Lost Children | 1995 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 901 |
| 85 | Yellow Submarine | 1968 | George Dunning | 903 |
| 86 | The Little Mermaid | 1989 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 928 |
| 87 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 929 |
| 88 | Cinderella | 1950 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 941 |
| 89 | The Devil's Backbone | 2001 | Guillermo del Toro | 952 |
| 90 | Waking Life | 2001 | Richard Linklater | 954 |
| 91 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | 2002 | George Lucas | 959 |
| 92 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | 962 |
| 93 | The Crow | 1994 | Alex Proyas | 968 |
| 94 | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 999 |
| 95 | El Topo | 1970 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1005 |
| 96 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid | 1020 |
| 97 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1035 |
| 98 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 1047 |
| 99 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter | 1065 |
| 100 | Hellraiser | 1987 | Clive Barker | 1070 |
