| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2 |
| 2 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 4 |
| 3 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 8 |
| 4 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 13 |
| 5 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 21 |
| 6 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 30 |
| 7 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 34 |
| 8 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 40 |
| 9 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
| 10 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 68 |
| 11 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 69 |
| 12 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 72 |
| 13 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 79 |
| 14 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 102 |
| 15 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 103 |
| 16 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | 106 |
| 17 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | 112 |
| 18 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 124 |
| 19 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 127 |
| 20 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | 139 |
| 21 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 141 |
| 22 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 162 |
| 23 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 176 |
| 24 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 177 |
| 25 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | 187 |
| 26 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park | 190 |
| 27 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 195 |
| 28 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 218 |
| 29 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 227 |
| 30 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 246 |
| 31 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | 251 |
| 32 | The Wicker Man | 1973 | Robin Hardy | 255 |
| 33 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 264 |
| 34 | Laura | 1944 | Otto Preminger | 279 |
| 35 | The Blair Witch Project | 1999 | Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez | 281 |
| 36 | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 282 |
| 37 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 299 |
| 38 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 305 |
| 39 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 324 |
| 40 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 | Robert Aldrich | 335 |
| 41 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | 354 |
| 42 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 355 |
| 43 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray | 361 |
| 44 | Ghost in the Shell | 1995 | Mamoru Oshii | 374 |
| 45 | Le Samouraď | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 375 |
| 46 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | 384 |
| 47 | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 392 |
| 48 | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Ari Folman | 400 |
| 49 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar-Wai Wong | 403 |
| 50 | Hidden | 2005 | Michael Haneke | 409 |
| 51 | Great Expectations | 1946 | David Lean | 415 |
| 52 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 421 |
| 53 | The Thin Blue Line | 1988 | Errol Morris | 438 |
| 54 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 440 |
| 55 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 449 |
| 56 | In the Heat of the Night | 1967 | Norman Jewison | 464 |
| 57 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | 480 |
| 58 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | 484 |
| 59 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 508 |
| 60 | Audition | 1999 | Takashi Miike | 511 |
| 61 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 513 |
| 62 | Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 516 |
| 63 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 517 |
| 64 | The Lady Vanishes | 1938 | Alfred Hitchcock | 523 |
| 65 | Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven | 527 |
| 66 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | 555 |
| 67 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | Steve Box and Nick Park | 563 |
| 68 | The Thin Man | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke | 568 |
| 69 | Hot Fuzz | 2007 | Edgar Wright | 608 |
| 70 | Celine & Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette | 631 |
| 71 | Talk to Her | 2002 | Pedro Almodóvar | 634 |
| 72 | The Long Good Friday | 1980 | John Mackenzie | 642 |
| 73 | Moon | 2009 | Duncan Jones | 660 |
| 74 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 662 |
| 75 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | 669 |
| 76 | The Fugitive | 1993 | Andrew Davis | 677 |
| 77 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai-keung Lau and Alan Mak | 685 |
| 78 | The Killers | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 686 |
| 79 | Eyes Wide Shut | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick | 699 |
| 80 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 710 |
| 81 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid | 713 |
| 82 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | Peter Weir | 718 |
| 83 | The Bourne Supremacy | 2004 | Paul Greengrass | 737 |
| 84 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood | 759 |
| 85 | Atonement | 2007 | Joe Wright | 771 |
| 86 | Lost Highway | 1997 | David Lynch | 793 |
| 87 | The Vanishing | 1988 | George Sluizer | 795 |
| 88 | Basic Instinct | 1992 | Paul Verhoeven | 796 |
| 89 | Pi | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky | 800 |
| 90 | Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich | 809 |
| 91 | Dark City | 1998 | Alex Proyas | 814 |
| 92 | Lone Star | 1996 | John Sayles | 821 |
| 93 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 827 |
| 94 | Night and the City | 1950 | Jules Dassin | 834 |
| 95 | Memories of Murder | 2003 | Bong Joon Ho | 852 |
| 96 | The Bourne Identity | 2002 | Doug Liman | 854 |
| 97 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | 865 |
| 98 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 880 |
| 99 | Carnival of Souls | 1962 | Herk Harvey | 887 |
| 100 | Ring | 1998 | Hideo Nakata | 889 |
| 101 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 2000 | Béla Tarr | 890 |
| 102 | The Others | 2001 | Alejandro Amenábar | 902 |
| 103 | Les Vampires | 1915 | Louis Feuillade | 903 |
| 104 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | 914 |
| 105 | Brick | 2005 | Rian Johnson | 919 |
| 106 | The White Ribbon | 2009 | Michael Haneke | 946 |
| 107 | The Abyss | 1989 | James Cameron | 952 |
| 108 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett | 954 |
| 109 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | 1922 | Fritz Lang | 957 |
| 110 | Winter's Bone | 2010 | Debra Granik | 1000 |
| 111 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1004 |
| 112 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 1007 |
| 113 | High Plains Drifter | 1973 | Clint Eastwood | 1017 |
| 114 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2007 | David Yates | 1030 |
| 115 | Blow Out | 1981 | Brian De Palma | 1035 |
| 116 | Zodiac | 2007 | David Fincher | 1037 |
| 117 | Zootopia | 2016 | Byron Howard and Rich Moore | 1039 |
| 118 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | 1040 |
| 119 | Deep Red | 1975 | Dario Argento | 1049 |
| 120 | Shock Corridor | 1963 | Samuel Fuller | 1060 |
| 121 | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele | 1061 |
| 122 | Shutter Island | 2010 | Martin Scorsese | 1083 |
| 123 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 1086 |
| 124 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates | 1087 |
| 125 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 2005 | Shane Black | 1101 |
| 126 | The Draughtsman's Contract | 1982 | Peter Greenaway | 1116 |
| 127 | Hugo | 2011 | Martin Scorsese | 1120 |
| 128 | The Orphanage | 2007 | J.A. Bayona | 1131 |
| 129 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 1151 |
| 130 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | David Yates | 1153 |
| 131 | Saw | 2004 | James Wan | 1158 |
| 132 | Paprika | 2006 | Satoshi Kon | 1168 |
| 133 | The Game | 1997 | David Fincher | 1173 |
| 134 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | 1992 | David Lynch | 1189 |
| 135 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis | 1222 |
| 136 | Arrival | 2016 | Denis Villeneuve | 1223 |
| 137 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | 1234 |
| 138 | The Trial | 1962 | Orson Welles | 1244 |
| 139 | Lost Horizon | 1937 | Frank Capra | 1248 |
| 140 | Friday the 13th | 1980 | Sean S. Cunningham | 1267 |
| 141 | Jacob's Ladder | 1990 | Adrian Lyne | 1271 |
| 142 | Perfect Blue | 1997 | Satoshi Kon | 1317 |
| 143 | Russian Ark | 2002 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1325 |
| 144 | Irréversible | 2002 | Gaspar Noé | 1348 |
| 145 | Watchmen | 2009 | Zack Snyder | 1355 |
| 146 | Inland Empire | 2006 | David Lynch | 1361 |
| 147 | Manhunter | 1986 | Michael Mann | 1377 |
| 148 | Three Days of the Condor | 1975 | Sydney Pollack | 1378 |
| 149 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 1380 |
| 150 | A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | Richard Linklater | 1389 |
| 151 | Marnie | 1964 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1401 |
| 152 | Murder, My Sweet | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | 1413 |
| 153 | Sleuth | 1972 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1430 |
| 154 | [Rec] | 2007 | Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza | 1444 |
| 155 | The Secret in Their Eyes | 2009 | Juan José Campanella | 1455 |
| 156 | Open Your Eyes | 1997 | Alejandro Amenábar | 1466 |
| 157 | Angel Heart | 1987 | Alan Parker | 1468 |
| 158 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | 1933 | Fritz Lang | 1521 |
| 159 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 1947 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1528 |
| 160 | The Lodger | 1927 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1532 |
| 161 | Dressed to Kill | 1980 | Brian De Palma | 1538 |
| 162 | Gone Girl | 2014 | David Fincher | 1542 |
| 163 | A Shot in the Dark | 1964 | Blake Edwards | 1544 |
| 164 | Cruising | 1980 | William Friedkin | 1549 |
| 165 | Primal Fear | 1996 | Gregory Hoblit | 1558 |
| 166 | A Canterbury Tale | 1944 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 1559 |
| 167 | Prisoners | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve | 1562 |
| 168 | Le Corbeau | 1943 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1582 |
| 169 | The Barbarian Invasions | 2003 | Denys Arcand | 1590 |
| 170 | D.O.A. | 1949 | Rudolph Maté | 1604 |
| 171 | The Fallen Idol | 1948 | Carol Reed | 1639 |
| 172 | The Woman in the Window | 1944 | Fritz Lang | 1643 |
| 173 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve | 1647 |
| 174 | Quatermass and the Pit | 1967 | Roy Ward Baker | 1650 |
| 175 | Night Moves | 1975 | Arthur Penn | 1666 |
| 176 | Wild Things | 1998 | John McNaughton | 1687 |
| 177 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders | 1688 |
| 178 | 3 Women | 1977 | Robert Altman | 1706 |
| 179 | The Hateful Eight | 2015 | Quentin Tarantino | 1707 |
| 180 | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills | 1996 | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | 1712 |
| 181 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan | 1735 |
| 182 | The Naked City | 1948 | Jules Dassin | 1749 |
| 183 | Gosford Park | 2001 | Robert Altman | 1753 |
| 184 | To Catch a Thief | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1756 |
| 185 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton | 1764 |
| 186 | Edvard Munch | 1974 | Peter Watkins | 1787 |
| 187 | The Fountain | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky | 1801 |
| 188 | Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | William Dieterle | 1802 |
| 189 | The Limey | 1999 | Steven Soderbergh | 1822 |
| 190 | Incendies | 2010 | Denis Villeneuve | 1829 |
| 191 | Mississippi Burning | 1988 | Alan Parker | 1833 |
| 192 | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 1844 |
| 193 | Changeling | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | 1848 |
| 194 | The Son | 2002 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 1852 |
| 195 | Teorema | 1968 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1855 |
| 196 | A Very Long Engagement | 2004 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 1885 |
| 197 | A Tale of Two Sisters | 2003 | Jee-woon Kim | 1933 |
| 198 | Devil in a Blue Dress | 1995 | Carl Franklin | 1938 |
| 199 | The Witches | 1990 | Nicolas Roeg | 1949 |
| 200 | Insomnia | 2002 | Christopher Nolan | 1962 |
| 201 | The Constant Gardner | 2005 | Fernando Meirelles | 1963 |
| 202 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2011 | David Fincher | 1964 |
| 203 | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa | 1965 |
| 204 | Black Christmas | 1974 | Bob Clark | 1968 |
| 205 | Gone Baby Gone | 2007 | Ben Affleck | 1977 |
| 206 | Ex Machina | 2014 | Alex Garland | 1983 |
| 207 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1987 |
| 208 | Lucky Number Slevin | 2006 | Paul McGuigan | 1992 |
| 209 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan | 2007 |
| 210 | Michael Clayton | 2007 | Tony Gilroy | 2027 |
| 211 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | 2006 | Mamoru Hosoda | 2053 |
| 212 | Salvatore Giuliano | 1962 | Francesco Rosi | 2068 |
| 213 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | 1993 | Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm | 2094 |
| 214 | Inside Man | 2006 | Spike Lee | 2119 |
| 215 | Cube | 1997 | Vincenzo Natali | 2123 |
| 216 | La Cérémonie | 1995 | Claude Chabrol | 2129 |
| 217 | The Long Kiss Goodnight | 1996 | Renny Harlin | 2130 |
| 218 | Solaris | 2002 | Steven Soderbergh | 2161 |
| 219 | It Follows | 2014 | David Robert Mitchell | 2221 |
| 220 | World on a Wire | 1973 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 2240 |
| 221 | Kill, Baby...Kill! | 1966 | Mario Bava | 2250 |
| 222 | Bubba Ho-Tep | 2002 | Don Coscarelli | 2253 |
| 223 | Paranormal Activity | 2007 | Oren Peli | 2279 |
| 224 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2009 | Niels Arden Oplev | 2292 |
| 225 | Missing | 1982 | Costa-Gavras | 2295 |
| 226 | Ménilmontant | 1926 | Dimitri Kirsanoff | 2297 |
| 227 | The Letter | 1940 | William Wyler | 2299 |
| 228 | Twin Peaks Pilot | 1990 | David Lynch | 2301 |
| 229 | Suspicion | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2312 |
| 230 | Session 9 | 2001 | Brad Anderson | 2319 |
| 231 | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | 2005 | Tommy Lee Jones | 2325 |
| 232 | Doubt | 2008 | John Patrick Shanley | 2327 |
| 233 | Out 1 | 1971 | Jacques Rivette | 2336 |
| 234 | The Devil's Advocate | 1997 | Taylor Hackford | 2337 |
| 235 | Body Double | 1984 | Brian De Palma | 2346 |
| 236 | The Seventh Victim | 1943 | Mark Robson | 2351 |
| 237 | Following | 1998 | Christopher Nolan | 2370 |
| 238 | The Barefoot Contessa | 1954 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2375 |
| 239 | Brother's Keeper | 1992 | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | 2420 |
| 240 | The Spiral Staircase | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 2425 |
| 241 | Cutter's Way | 1981 | Ivan Passer | 2436 |
| 242 | We Need to Talk about Kevin | 2011 | Lynne Ramsay | 2471 |
| 243 | This Island Earth | 1955 | Joseph M. Newman | 2513 |
| 244 | Sherlock Holmes | 2009 | Guy Ritchie | 2528 |
| 245 | Anastasia | 1997 | Don Bluth and Gary Goldman | 2530 |
| 246 | Blood and Black Lace | 1964 | Mario Bava | 2531 |
| 247 | Reversal of Fortune | 1990 | Barbet Schroeder | 2538 |
| 248 | Tenebrae | 1982 | Dario Argento | 2542 |
| 249 | Annihilation | 2018 | Alex Garland | 2570 |
| 250 | The Trouble with Harry | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2578 |
| 251 | Sisters | 1972 | Brian De Palma | 2587 |
| 252 | Pulse | 2001 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 2593 |
| 253 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | 2597 |
| 254 | Bad Timing | 1980 | Nicolas Roeg | 2636 |
| 255 | Ministry of Fear | 1944 | Fritz Lang | 2653 |
| 256 | The Conjuring | 2013 | James Wan | 2661 |
| 257 | Hereditary | 2018 | Ari Aster | 2667 |
| 258 | Birth | 2004 | Jonathan Glazer | 2672 |
| 259 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1934 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2674 |
| 260 | The Curse of the Cat People | 1944 | Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch | 2693 |
| 261 | The Lovers of the Arctic Circle | 1998 | Julio Medem | 2719 |
| 262 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | 2011 | Tomas Alfredson | 2733 |
| 263 | Crossfire | 1947 | Edward Dmytryk | 2736 |
| 264 | Vanilla Sky | 2001 | Cameron Crowe | 2767 |
| 265 | The Illusionist | 2006 | Neil Burger | 2771 |
| 266 | The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | 1970 | Dario Argento | 2783 |
| 267 | Fletch | 1985 | Michael Ritchie | 2795 |
| 268 | Femme Fatale | 2002 | Brian De Palma | 2801 |
| 269 | The Kingdom | 1994 | Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier | 2810 |