| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 6 |
| 2 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 15 |
| 3 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 33 |
| 4 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 36 |
| 5 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 43 |
| 6 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 48 |
| 7 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 50 |
| 8 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 67 |
| 9 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 79 |
| 10 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 84 |
| 11 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 93 |
| 12 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 96 |
| 13 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 98 |
| 14 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand | 104 |
| 15 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 111 |
| 16 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 141 |
| 17 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 146 |
| 18 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 154 |
| 19 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman | 169 |
| 20 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 191 |
| 21 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 203 |
| 22 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 211 |
| 23 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | 230 |
| 24 | Pinocchio | 1940 | Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen | 233 |
| 25 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 236 |
| 26 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | 237 |
| 27 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 240 |
| 28 | Ugetsu | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 241 |
| 29 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich | 261 |
| 30 | Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron | 262 |
| 31 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 264 |
| 32 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | 265 |
| 33 | Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield | 266 |
| 34 | Mary Poppins | 1964 | Robert Stevenson | 267 |
| 35 | The Nightmare before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick | 297 |
| 36 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 304 |
| 37 | Toy Story 2 | 1999 | John Lasseter | 310 |
| 38 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 337 |
| 39 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | 344 |
| 40 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 346 |
| 41 | The Spirit of the Beehive | 1973 | Víctor Erice | 352 |
| 42 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 353 |
| 43 | Ordet | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 366 |
| 44 | Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | 385 |
| 45 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 397 |
| 46 | South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Trey Parker | 407 |
| 47 | Ratatouille | 2007 | Brad Bird | 412 |
| 48 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart | 416 |
| 49 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 421 |
| 50 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 449 |
| 51 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | 452 |
| 52 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | 484 |
| 53 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter | 494 |
| 54 | Big | 1988 | Penny Marshall | 501 |
| 55 | How to Train Your Dragon | 2010 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders | 502 |
| 56 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 503 |
| 57 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | 530 |
| 58 | Aladdin | 1992 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 535 |
| 59 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 541 |
| 60 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | Steve Box and Nick Park | 563 |
| 61 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki | 573 |
| 62 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 611 |
| 63 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel | 613 |
| 64 | Celine & Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette | 631 |
| 65 | The Little Mermaid | 1989 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 653 |
| 66 | Batman Returns | 1992 | Tim Burton | 698 |
| 67 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 711 |
| 68 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid | 713 |
| 69 | Coraline | 2009 | Henry Selick | 717 |
| 70 | Yellow Submarine | 1968 | George Dunning | 731 |
| 71 | Ghost | 1990 | Jerry Zucker | 740 |
| 72 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki | 750 |
| 73 | Orpheus | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 785 |
| 74 | Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich | 809 |
| 75 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1924 | Raoul Walsh | 813 |
| 76 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 827 |
| 77 | Faust | 1926 | F.W. Murnau | 835 |
| 78 | Cinderella | 1950 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 847 |
| 79 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1985 | Woody Allen | 848 |
| 80 | Time Bandits | 1981 | Terry Gilliam | 851 |
| 81 | I Walked with a Zombie | 1943 | Jacques Tourneur | 864 |
| 82 | Labyrinth | 1986 | Jim Henson | 876 |
| 83 | Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | Don Chaffey | 877 |
| 84 | Harvey | 1950 | Henry Koster | 907 |
| 85 | The Lego Movie | 2014 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 918 |
| 86 | The Red Balloon | 1956 | Albert Lamorisse | 921 |
| 87 | Frozen | 2013 | Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee | 940 |
| 88 | Orlando | 1992 | Sally Potter | 955 |
| 89 | Waking Life | 2001 | Richard Linklater | 970 |
| 90 | Sleeping Beauty | 1959 | Clyde Geronimi | 974 |
| 91 | The City of Lost Children | 1995 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 990 |
| 92 | Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen | 994 |
| 93 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1004 |
| 94 | The Crow | 1994 | Alex Proyas | 1005 |
| 95 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | David Fincher | 1029 |
| 96 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2007 | David Yates | 1030 |
| 97 | Laputa: Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1058 |
| 98 | Kung Fu Hustle | 2004 | Stephen Chow | 1070 |
| 99 | Beetlejuice | 1988 | Tim Burton | 1072 |
| 100 | Barbarella | 1968 | Roger Vadim | 1078 |
| 101 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 1086 |
| 102 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates | 1087 |
| 103 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | 1090 |
| 104 | Life of Pi | 2012 | Ang Lee | 1111 |
| 105 | Hugo | 2011 | Martin Scorsese | 1120 |
| 106 | Tangled | 2010 | Nathan Greno and Byron Howard | 1129 |
| 107 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas | 1139 |
| 108 | Gremlins | 1984 | Joe Dante | 1146 |
| 109 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 1151 |
| 110 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | David Yates | 1153 |
| 111 | Elf | 2003 | Jon Favreau | 1154 |
| 112 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | 1954 | Richard Fleischer | 1159 |
| 113 | Kwaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1161 |
| 114 | Ice Age | 2002 | Chris Wedge | 1163 |
| 115 | Paprika | 2006 | Satoshi Kon | 1168 |
| 116 | Mulan | 1998 | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook | 1190 |
| 117 | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1195 |
| 118 | The Holy Mountain | 1973 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1202 |
| 119 | The Secret of NIMH | 1982 | Don Bluth | 1203 |
| 120 | The NeverEnding Story | 1984 | Wolfgang Petersen | 1231 |
| 121 | Pleasantville | 1998 | Gary Ross | 1245 |
| 122 | Lost Horizon | 1937 | Frank Capra | 1248 |
| 123 | Heaven Can Wait | 1978 | Warren Beatty and Buck Henry | 1262 |
| 124 | The Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick | 1275 |
| 125 | Shrek 2 | 2004 | Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon | 1287 |
| 126 | Enchanted | 2007 | Kevin Lima | 1296 |
| 127 | Kiki’s Delivery Service | 1989 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1305 |
| 128 | Time of the Gypsies | 1988 | Emir Kusturica | 1307 |
| 129 | Alice in Wonderland | 1951 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1310 |
| 130 | Despicable Me | 2010 | Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud | 1324 |
| 131 | Russian Ark | 2002 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1325 |
| 132 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | 2010 | Edgar Wright | 1330 |
| 133 | Yeelen | 1987 | Souleymane Cissé | 1342 |
| 134 | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1396 |
| 135 | Conan the Barbarian | 1982 | John Milius | 1433 |
| 136 | Wonder Woman | 2017 | Patty Jenkins | 1453 |
| 137 | The Phantom Chariot | 1921 | Victor Sjöström | 1464 |
| 138 | Duck Amuck | 1953 | Chuck Jones | 1469 |
| 139 | The Mummy | 1932 | Karl Freund | 1527 |
| 140 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 1947 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1528 |
| 141 | Alice | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer | 1561 |
| 142 | Phantom of the Paradise | 1974 | Brian De Palma | 1565 |
| 143 | Your Name | 2016 | Makoto Shinkai | 1571 |
| 144 | Kriemhild's Revenge | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1574 |
| 145 | Wreck-It Ralph | 2012 | Rich Moore | 1576 |
| 146 | The Mask | 1994 | Chuck Russell | 1585 |
| 147 | End of Evangelion | 1997 | Hideaki Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki | 1591 |
| 148 | Midnight in Paris | 2011 | Woody Allen | 1599 |
| 149 | Ponyo | 2008 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1608 |
| 150 | L.A. Story | 1991 | Mick Jackson | 1618 |
| 151 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 1968 | Ken Hughes | 1622 |
| 152 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 2005 | Andrew Adamson | 1625 |
| 153 | Where the Wild Things Are | 2009 | Spike Jonze | 1655 |
| 154 | The Blood of a Poet | 1932 | Jean Cocteau | 1659 |
| 155 | Pink Floyd the Wall | 1982 | Alan Parker | 1663 |
| 156 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | Peter Jackson | 1679 |
| 157 | Big Trouble in Little China | 1986 | John Carpenter | 1699 |
| 158 | Highlander | 1986 | Russell Mulcahy | 1714 |
| 159 | The Golem | 1920 | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener | 1728 |
| 160 | Porco Rosso | 1992 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1737 |
| 161 | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | 1948 | Charles Barton | 1751 |
| 162 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton | 1764 |
| 163 | It's Such a Beautiful Day | 2012 | Don Hertzfeldt | 1783 |
| 164 | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | 1958 | Nathan Juran | 1785 |
| 165 | Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | William Dieterle | 1802 |
| 166 | Moana | 2016 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 1804 |
| 167 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed | 1926 | Lotte Reiniger | 1821 |
| 168 | Thor | 2011 | Kenneth Branagh | 1864 |
| 169 | James and the Giant Peach | 1996 | Henry Selick | 1867 |
| 170 | The Fall | 2006 | Tarsem Singh | 1883 |
| 171 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | 1914 |
| 172 | Excalibur | 1981 | John Boorman | 1923 |
| 173 | A Little Princess | 1995 | Alfonso Cuarón | 1935 |
| 174 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | 1988 | Terry Gilliam | 1937 |
| 175 | O Lucky Man! | 1973 | Lindsay Anderson | 1942 |
| 176 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | Gore Verbinski | 1948 |
| 177 | The Witches | 1990 | Nicolas Roeg | 1949 |
| 178 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | 2008 | Guillermo del Toro | 1966 |
| 179 | Matilda | 1996 | Danny DeVito | 1970 |
| 180 | Thor: Ragnarok | 2017 | Taika Waititi | 1972 |
| 181 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | 2014 | Dean DeBlois | 1988 |
| 182 | Corpse Bride | 2005 | Tim Burton and Mike Johnson | 1989 |
| 183 | Shaolin Soccer | 2001 | Stephen Chow | 1990 |
| 184 | Lilo & Stitch | 2002 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders | 1994 |
| 185 | Kubo and the Two Strings | 2016 | Travis Knight | 1995 |
| 186 | The Secret of Kells | 2009 | Tomm Moore | 1999 |
| 187 | Tropical Malady | 2004 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2009 |
| 188 | Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | Vincente Minnelli | 2013 |
| 189 | Fellini Satyricon | 1969 | Federico Fellini | 2023 |
| 190 | The Shape of Water | 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | 2064 |
| 191 | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi | 2017 | Rian Johnson | 2072 |
| 192 | Un chant d'amour | 1950 | Jean Genet | 2075 |
| 193 | Ginger Snaps | 2000 | John Fawcett | 2106 |
| 194 | Juliet of the Spirits | 1965 | Federico Fellini | 2109 |
| 195 | Holy Motors | 2012 | Leos Carax | 2112 |
| 196 | Enter the Void | 2009 | Gaspar Noé | 2115 |
| 197 | Stardust | 2007 | Matthew Vaughn | 2126 |
| 198 | Millennium Actress | 2001 | Satoshi Kon | 2133 |
| 199 | India song | 1975 | Marguerite Duras | 2151 |
| 200 | Heaven Can Wait | 1943 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2168 |
| 201 | The Princess and the Frog | 2009 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 2175 |
| 202 | The Tale of Princess Kaguya | 2013 | Isao Takahata | 2178 |
| 203 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005 | Tim Burton | 2179 |
| 204 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | 2012 | Benh Zeitlin | 2183 |
| 205 | Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica | 2189 |
| 206 | Hellboy | 2004 | Guillermo del Toro | 2196 |
| 207 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | Peter Jackson | 2198 |
| 208 | After Life | 1998 | Hirokazu Koreeda | 2199 |
| 209 | Paddington 2 | 2017 | Paul King | 2202 |
| 210 | The Dark Crystal | 1982 | Jim Henson and Frank Oz | 2212 |
| 211 | Freaky Friday | 2003 | Mark Waters | 2220 |
| 212 | W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism | 1971 | Dusan Makavejev | 2236 |
| 213 | The Secret Garden | 1993 | Agnieszka Holland | 2237 |
| 214 | Black Orpheus | 1959 | Marcel Camus | 2238 |
| 215 | Bubba Ho-Tep | 2002 | Don Coscarelli | 2253 |
| 216 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas | 2263 |
| 217 | Clash of the Titans | 1981 | Desmond Davis | 2277 |
| 218 | The Lost World | 1925 | Harry O. Hoyt | 2280 |
| 219 | Ninja Scroll | 1993 | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | 2283 |
| 220 | Akira Kurosawa's Dreams | 1990 | Akira Kurosawa | 2285 |
| 221 | The Saragossa Manuscript | 1965 | Wojciech Has | 2291 |
| 222 | Head | 1968 | Bob Rafelson | 2317 |
| 223 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | 2009 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 2343 |
| 224 | Song of the Sea | 2014 | Tomm Moore | 2345 |
| 225 | The Illusionist | 2010 | Sylvain Chomet | 2356 |
| 226 | The Emperor's New Groove | 2000 | Mark Dindal | 2369 |
| 227 | Dogma | 1999 | Kevin Smith | 2371 |
| 228 | The Mummy | 1999 | Stephen Sommers | 2388 |
| 229 | Bedazzled | 1967 | Stanley Donen | 2403 |
| 230 | The Damned | 1962 | Joseph Losey | 2430 |
| 231 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 2007 | Gore Verbinski | 2455 |
| 232 | Brave | 2012 | Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman | 2463 |
| 233 | The Impossible Voyage | 1904 | Georges Méliès | 2473 |
| 234 | Splash | 1984 | Ron Howard | 2476 |
| 235 | Heavy Metal | 1981 | Gerald Potterton | 2492 |
| 236 | The Fisher King | 1991 | Terry Gilliam | 2497 |
| 237 | Mystery Men | 1999 | Kinka Usher | 2514 |
| 238 | Twilight | 2008 | Catherine Hardwicke | 2521 |
| 239 | Space Jam | 1996 | Joe Pytka | 2525 |
| 240 | The Muppet Christmas Carol | 1992 | Brian Henson | 2527 |
| 241 | Anastasia | 1997 | Don Bluth and Gary Goldman | 2530 |
| 242 | A Chinese Ghost Story | 1987 | Siu-Tung Ching | 2532 |
| 243 | Defending Your Life | 1991 | Albert Brooks | 2539 |
| 244 | Hercules | 1997 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 2549 |
| 245 | The Castle of Cagliostro | 1979 | Hayao Miyazaki | 2576 |
| 246 | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | 2010 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2577 |
| 247 | The Rescuers | 1977 | John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Art Stevens | 2586 |
| 248 | Santa Sangre | 1989 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 2596 |
| 249 | The Lord of the Rings | 1978 | Ralph Bakshi | 2599 |
| 250 | Across the Universe | 2007 | Julie Taymor | 2604 |
| 251 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 2605 |
| 252 | Ladyhawke | 1985 | Richard Donner | 2614 |
| 253 | Le Roman de Renard | 1937 | Irene and Wladyslaw Starewicz | 2628 |
| 254 | The Jungle Book | 2016 | Jon Favreau | 2631 |
| 255 | Carousel | 1956 | Henry King | 2651 |
| 256 | Bridge to Terabithia | 2007 | Gabor Csupo | 2669 |
| 257 | Anchors Aweigh | 1945 | George Sidney | 2670 |
| 258 | Birth | 2004 | Jonathan Glazer | 2672 |
| 259 | Sita Sings the Blues | 2008 | Nina Paley | 2676 |
| 260 | The Brave Little Toaster | 1987 | Jerry Rees | 2685 |
| 261 | What Dreams May Come | 1998 | Vincent Ward | 2690 |
| 262 | About Time | 2013 | Richard Curtis | 2718 |
| 263 | Isle of Dogs | 2018 | Wes Anderson | 2757 |
| 264 | Vanilla Sky | 2001 | Cameron Crowe | 2767 |
| 265 | The Illusionist | 2006 | Neil Burger | 2771 |
| 266 | Gertie the Dinosaur | 1914 | Winsor McCay | 2776 |
| 267 | The Ten Commandments | 1923 | Cecil B. DeMille | 2796 |
| 268 | The Kingdom | 1994 | Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier | 2810 |