| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 2 |
| 2 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 5 |
| 3 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 10 |
| 4 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 11 |
| 5 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 12 |
| 6 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 13 |
| 7 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 24 |
| 8 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 29 |
| 9 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 38 |
| 10 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 41 |
| 11 | The General | 1927 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 42 |
| 12 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 44 |
| 13 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 53 |
| 14 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 55 |
| 15 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 60 |
| 16 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 61 |
| 17 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 66 |
| 18 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 71 |
| 19 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | 75 |
| 20 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 76 |
| 21 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 77 |
| 22 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 79 |
| 23 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 81 |
| 24 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 84 |
| 25 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 85 |
| 26 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 86 |
| 27 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 92 |
| 28 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 95 |
| 29 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 96 |
| 30 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen | 107 |
| 31 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 108 |
| 32 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | 112 |
| 33 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 113 |
| 34 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 116 |
| 35 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 121 |
| 36 | The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 125 |
| 37 | Top Hat | 1935 | Mark Sandrich | 132 |
| 38 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 135 |
| 39 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 145 |
| 40 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 147 |
| 41 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | George Cukor | 150 |
| 42 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 152 |
| 43 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 154 |
| 44 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 155 |
| 45 | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean | 159 |
| 46 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 163 |
| 47 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 167 |
| 48 | An American in Paris | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli | 169 |
| 49 | When Harry Met Sally… | 1989 | Rob Reiner | 172 |
| 50 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | 174 |
| 51 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | 179 |
| 52 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 186 |
| 53 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 187 |
| 54 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 189 |
| 55 | Ninotchka | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch | 190 |
| 56 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 193 |
| 57 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 195 |
| 58 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 198 |
| 59 | Grease | 1978 | Randal Kleiser | 201 |
| 60 | The Piano | 1993 | Jane Campion | 203 |
| 61 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | 204 |
| 62 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker | 206 |
| 63 | Laura | 1944 | Otto Preminger | 207 |
| 64 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 212 |
| 65 | The English Patient | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | 214 |
| 66 | The Hustler | 1961 | Robert Rossen | 216 |
| 67 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 218 |
| 68 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 225 |
| 69 | Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | John Madden | 229 |
| 70 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 230 |
| 71 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood | 232 |
| 72 | Moulin Rouge! | 2001 | Baz Luhrmann | 235 |
| 73 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | John Ford | 236 |
| 74 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | Mike Newell | 241 |
| 75 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 242 |
| 76 | Life Is Beautiful | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | 248 |
| 77 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 252 |
| 78 | Harold and Maude | 1971 | Hal Ashby | 256 |
| 79 | Trouble in Paradise | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch | 262 |
| 80 | Terms of Endearment | 1983 | James L. Brooks | 268 |
| 81 | Adam's Rib | 1949 | George Cukor | 270 |
| 82 | Last Tango in Paris | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 271 |
| 83 | Pretty Woman | 1990 | Garry Marshall | 272 |
| 84 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 275 |
| 85 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 278 |
| 86 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 280 |
| 87 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 281 |
| 88 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 289 |
| 89 | 42nd Street | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | 290 |
| 90 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | 299 |
| 91 | L'Âge d'or | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | 301 |
| 92 | Swing Time | 1936 | George Stevens | 307 |
| 93 | Jerry Maguire | 1996 | Cameron Crowe | 308 |
| 94 | A Place in the Sun | 1951 | George Stevens | 313 |
| 95 | Now, Voyager | 1942 | Irving Rapper | 328 |
| 96 | Roman Holiday | 1953 | William Wyler | 330 |
| 97 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 332 |
| 98 | The Band Wagon | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli | 335 |
| 99 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | 338 |
| 100 | The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | 344 |