| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
| 2 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 6 |
| 3 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 11 |
| 4 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 16 |
| 5 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 24 |
| 6 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
| 7 | The Matrix | 1999 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 35 |
| 8 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 36 |
| 9 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 39 |
| 10 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 45 |
| 11 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 51 |
| 12 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 61 |
| 13 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 66 |
| 14 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 76 |
| 15 | WALL•E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | 82 |
| 16 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 101 |
| 17 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | 106 |
| 18 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 115 |
| 19 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 120 |
| 20 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 132 |
| 21 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | 152 |
| 22 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 155 |
| 23 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 158 |
| 24 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 166 |
| 25 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 176 |
| 26 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel | 186 |
| 27 | Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 204 |
| 28 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 222 |
| 29 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | 223 |
| 30 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 227 |
| 31 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 236 |
| 32 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | 242 |
| 33 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise | 245 |
| 34 | Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron | 262 |
| 35 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 275 |
| 36 | The Road Warrior | 1981 | George Miller | 295 |
| 37 | The Iron Giant | 1999 | Brad Bird | 296 |
| 38 | RoboCop | 1987 | Paul Verhoeven | 308 |
| 39 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 | Robert Aldrich | 335 |
| 40 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 337 |
| 41 | Predator | 1987 | John McTiernan | 347 |
| 42 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 349 |
| 43 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 350 |
| 44 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | 351 |
| 45 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | 354 |
| 46 | Ghost in the Shell | 1995 | Mamoru Oshii | 374 |
| 47 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | George Miller | 377 |
| 48 | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | 1982 | Nicholas Meyer | 393 |
| 49 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | 483 |
| 50 | Total Recall | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven | 487 |
| 51 | Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen | 499 |
| 52 | Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 516 |
| 53 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 517 |
| 54 | District 9 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | 518 |
| 55 | Iron Man | 2008 | Jon Favreau | 537 |
| 56 | The Avengers | 2012 | Joss Whedon | 540 |
| 57 | Starship Troopers | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven | 549 |
| 58 | 28 Days Later… | 2002 | Danny Boyle | 553 |
| 59 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | 555 |
| 60 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | Steve Box and Nick Park | 563 |
| 61 | Godzilla | 1954 | Ishirô Honda | 580 |
| 62 | Independence Day | 1996 | Roland Emmerich | 588 |
| 63 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg | 593 |
| 64 | The Fifth Element | 1997 | Luc Besson | 599 |
| 65 | Battle Royale | 2000 | Kinji Fukasaku | 600 |
| 66 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams | 623 |
| 67 | Escape from New York | 1981 | John Carpenter | 624 |
| 68 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | 638 |
| 69 | Gravity | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | 645 |
| 70 | Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | James Gunn | 648 |
| 71 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi | 652 |
| 72 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi | 655 |
| 73 | Repo Man | 1984 | Alex Cox | 657 |
| 74 | Moon | 2009 | Duncan Jones | 660 |
| 75 | Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller | 671 |
| 76 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | 705 |
| 77 | Face/Off | 1997 | John Woo | 721 |
| 78 | Fantastic Planet | 1973 | René Laloux | 728 |
| 79 | X2 | 2003 | Bryan Singer | 736 |
| 80 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 743 |
| 81 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki | 750 |
| 82 | The Thing from Another World | 1951 | Christian Nyby | 762 |
| 83 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | 1976 | Nicolas Roeg | 765 |
| 84 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | 782 |
| 85 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | 1957 | Jack Arnold | 783 |
| 86 | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 787 |
| 87 | Pi | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky | 800 |
| 88 | Galaxy Quest | 1999 | Dean Parisot | 810 |
| 89 | Dark City | 1998 | Alex Proyas | 814 |
| 90 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | 817 |
| 91 | Her | 2013 | Spike Jonze | 840 |
| 92 | Re-Animator | 1985 | Stuart Gordon | 843 |
| 93 | Time Bandits | 1981 | Terry Gilliam | 851 |
| 94 | The War of the Worlds | 1953 | Byron Haskin | 871 |
| 95 | Tron | 1982 | Steven Lisberger | 874 |
| 96 | Serenity | 2005 | Joss Whedon | 891 |
| 97 | Dark Star | 1974 | John Carpenter | 897 |
| 98 | Westworld | 1973 | Michael Crichton | 909 |
| 99 | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | 2015 | J.J. Abrams | 925 |
| 100 | THX-1138 | 1971 | George Lucas | 944 |
| 101 | The Abyss | 1989 | James Cameron | 952 |
| 102 | Superman II | 1980 | Richard Lester | 971 |
| 103 | The City of Lost Children | 1995 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 990 |
| 104 | Primer | 2004 | Shane Carruth | 1011 |
| 105 | Things to Come | 1936 | William Cameron Menzies | 1022 |
| 106 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | 1040 |
| 107 | Silent Running | 1972 | Douglas Trumbull | 1056 |
| 108 | Laputa: Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1058 |
| 109 | Barbarella | 1968 | Roger Vadim | 1078 |
| 110 | Rollerball | 1975 | Norman Jewison | 1079 |
| 111 | Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis | 1095 |
| 112 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman | 1118 |
| 113 | The Brood | 1979 | David Cronenberg | 1132 |
| 114 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian | 1134 |
| 115 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas | 1139 |
| 116 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | 1954 | Richard Fleischer | 1159 |
| 117 | They Live | 1988 | John Carpenter | 1164 |
| 118 | X-Men | 2000 | Bryan Singer | 1167 |
| 119 | Paprika | 2006 | Satoshi Kon | 1168 |
| 120 | Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | François Truffaut | 1178 |
| 121 | Them! | 1954 | Gordon Douglas | 1188 |
| 122 | The Secret of NIMH | 1982 | Don Bluth | 1203 |
| 123 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis | 1222 |
| 124 | Arrival | 2016 | Denis Villeneuve | 1223 |
| 125 | Village of the Damned | 1960 | Wolf Rilla | 1268 |
| 126 | The Nutty Professor | 1963 | Jerry Lewis | 1269 |
| 127 | The Time Machine | 1960 | George Pal | 1281 |
| 128 | Captain America: Civil War | 2016 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1289 |
| 129 | The Host | 2006 | Bong Joon Ho | 1298 |
| 130 | Flash Gordon | 1980 | Mike Hodges | 1302 |
| 131 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1304 |
| 132 | Big Hero 6 | 2014 | Don Hall and Chris Williams | 1315 |
| 133 | Under the Skin | 2013 | Jonathan Glazer | 1338 |
| 134 | Watchmen | 2009 | Zack Snyder | 1355 |
| 135 | Black Panther | 2018 | Ryan Coogler | 1372 |
| 136 | Avengers: Infinity War | 2018 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1384 |
| 137 | A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | Richard Linklater | 1389 |
| 138 | The Butterfly Effect | 2004 | Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber | 1405 |
| 139 | Little Shop of Horrors | 1986 | Frank Oz | 1410 |
| 140 | Strange Days | 1995 | Kathryn Bigelow | 1417 |
| 141 | Edge of Tomorrow | 2014 | Doug Liman | 1421 |
| 142 | Sunshine | 2007 | Danny Boyle | 1438 |
| 143 | X-Men: First Class | 2011 | Matthew Vaughn | 1449 |
| 144 | Wonder Woman | 2017 | Patty Jenkins | 1453 |
| 145 | Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1454 |
| 146 | Open Your Eyes | 1997 | Alejandro Amenábar | 1466 |
| 147 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | 2014 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1475 |
| 148 | The Fly | 1958 | Kurt Neumann | 1482 |
| 149 | Blade | 1998 | Stephen Norrington | 1484 |
| 150 | Fantastic Voyage | 1966 | Richard Fleischer | 1500 |
| 151 | Logan | 2017 | James Mangold | 1505 |
| 152 | The Brother from Another Planet | 1984 | John Sayles | 1548 |
| 153 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | 2014 | Bryan Singer | 1575 |
| 154 | Logan's Run | 1976 | Michael Anderson | 1580 |
| 155 | The Hunger Games | 2012 | Gary Ross | 1581 |
| 156 | End of Evangelion | 1997 | Hideaki Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki | 1591 |
| 157 | Looper | 2012 | Rian Johnson | 1603 |
| 158 | The Man in the White Suit | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick | 1614 |
| 159 | Altered States | 1980 | Ken Russell | 1626 |
| 160 | Island of Lost Souls | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton | 1638 |
| 161 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve | 1647 |
| 162 | Quatermass and the Pit | 1967 | Roy Ward Baker | 1650 |
| 163 | Star Trek: First Contact | 1996 | Jonathan Frakes | 1672 |
| 164 | War of the Worlds | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1684 |
| 165 | Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | Robert Zemeckis | 1697 |
| 166 | Deadpool | 2016 | Tim Miller | 1700 |
| 167 | The Man with Two Brains | 1983 | Carl Reiner | 1702 |
| 168 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan | 1735 |
| 169 | Armageddon | 1998 | Michael Bay | 1748 |
| 170 | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | 1948 | Charles Barton | 1751 |
| 171 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | 1984 | W.D. Richter | 1790 |
| 172 | The Fountain | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky | 1801 |
| 173 | Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton | 1807 |
| 174 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 1816 |
| 175 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 | Jack Arnold | 1849 |
| 176 | Attack the Block | 2011 | Joe Cornish | 1857 |
| 177 | Plan 9 from Outer Space | 1959 | Edward D. Wood Jr. | 1893 |
| 178 | The Matrix Reloaded | 2003 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 1901 |
| 179 | Spaceballs | 1987 | Mel Brooks | 1931 |
| 180 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | 2013 | Francis Lawrence | 1950 |
| 181 | Idiocracy | 2006 | Mike Judge | 1953 |
| 182 | The Wrong Trousers | 1993 | Nick Park | 1954 |
| 183 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | 2008 | Guillermo del Toro | 1966 |
| 184 | Thor: Ragnarok | 2017 | Taika Waititi | 1972 |
| 185 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | 1986 | Leonard Nimoy | 1973 |
| 186 | Ex Machina | 2014 | Alex Garland | 1983 |
| 187 | Lilo & Stitch | 2002 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders | 1994 |
| 188 | Invaders from Mars | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies | 2000 |
| 189 | The Mist | 2007 | Frank Darabont | 2002 |
| 190 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan | 2007 |
| 191 | The Andromeda Strain | 1971 | Robert Wise | 2011 |
| 192 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | 1989 | Stephen Herek | 2016 |
| 193 | 1984 | 1984 | Michael Radford | 2028 |
| 194 | Dune | 1984 | David Lynch | 2034 |
| 195 | Phantasm | 1979 | Don Coscarelli | 2039 |
| 196 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | 2006 | Mamoru Hosoda | 2053 |
| 197 | Dredd | 2012 | Pete Travis | 2054 |
| 198 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 2016 | Gareth Edwards | 2060 |
| 199 | Born in Flames | 1983 | Lizzie Borden | 2070 |
| 200 | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi | 2017 | Rian Johnson | 2072 |
| 201 | Starman | 1984 | John Carpenter | 2074 |
| 202 | Poison | 1991 | Todd Haynes | 2076 |
| 203 | Melancholia | 2011 | Lars von Trier | 2088 |
| 204 | Star Trek into Darkness | 2013 | J.J. Abrams | 2089 |
| 205 | Equilibrium | 2002 | Kurt Wimmer | 2091 |
| 206 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | 1993 | Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm | 2094 |
| 207 | Scanners | 1981 | David Cronenberg | 2121 |
| 208 | Cube | 1997 | Vincenzo Natali | 2123 |
| 209 | Solaris | 2002 | Steven Soderbergh | 2161 |
| 210 | Blade II | 2002 | Guillermo del Toro | 2190 |
| 211 | Hellboy | 2004 | Guillermo del Toro | 2196 |
| 212 | The Blob | 1958 | Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | 2206 |
| 213 | The Return of the Living Dead | 1985 | Dan O'Bannon | 2213 |
| 214 | Cloverfield | 2008 | Matt Reeves | 2214 |
| 215 | Zombieland | 2009 | Ruben Fleischer | 2217 |
| 216 | World on a Wire | 1973 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 2240 |
| 217 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | 2015 | Joss Whedon | 2249 |
| 218 | When Worlds Collide | 1951 | Rudolph Maté | 2254 |
| 219 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas | 2263 |
| 220 | Slaughterhouse-Five | 1972 | George Roy Hill | 2286 |
| 221 | The Rocketeer | 1991 | Joe Johnston | 2298 |
| 222 | Transformers | 2007 | Michael Bay | 2309 |
| 223 | It Came from Outer Space | 1953 | Jack Arnold | 2313 |
| 224 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 2011 | Rupert Wyatt | 2334 |
| 225 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | 2009 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 2343 |
| 226 | A Quiet Place | 2018 | John Krasinski | 2344 |
| 227 | Destination Moon | 1950 | Irving Pichel | 2359 |
| 228 | The Crazy Ray | 1924 | René Clair | 2362 |
| 229 | Shivers | 1975 | David Cronenberg | 2366 |
| 230 | Snowpiercer | 2013 | Bong Joon Ho | 2380 |
| 231 | I Am Legend | 2007 | Francis Lawrence | 2385 |
| 232 | eXistenZ | 1999 | David Cronenberg | 2391 |
| 233 | The Curse of Frankenstein | 1957 | Terence Fisher | 2395 |
| 234 | The Face of Another | 1966 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 2397 |
| 235 | Cocoon | 1985 | Ron Howard | 2400 |
| 236 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | 2014 | Matt Reeves | 2429 |
| 237 | The Damned | 1962 | Joseph Losey | 2430 |
| 238 | The Hidden | 1987 | Jack Sholder | 2447 |
| 239 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | 1991 | Nicholas Meyer | 2468 |
| 240 | The Impossible Voyage | 1904 | Georges Méliès | 2473 |
| 241 | Pitch Black | 2000 | David Twohy | 2490 |
| 242 | Heavy Metal | 1981 | Gerald Potterton | 2492 |
| 243 | The Toxic Avenger | 1984 | Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman | 2501 |
| 244 | Richard III | 1995 | Richard Loncraine | 2503 |
| 245 | Incredibles 2 | 2018 | Brad Bird | 2505 |
| 246 | The Matrix Revolutions | 2003 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 2507 |
| 247 | This Island Earth | 1955 | Joseph M. Newman | 2513 |
| 248 | Mystery Men | 1999 | Kinka Usher | 2514 |
| 249 | Space Jam | 1996 | Joe Pytka | 2525 |
| 250 | The Last Starfighter | 1984 | Nick Castle | 2552 |
| 251 | Annihilation | 2018 | Alex Garland | 2570 |
| 252 | Ant-Man | 2015 | Peyton Reed | 2581 |
| 253 | Iron Man 3 | 2013 | Shane Black | 2583 |
| 254 | Man of Steel | 2013 | Zack Snyder | 2589 |
| 255 | Pulse | 2001 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 2593 |
| 256 | Captain America: The First Avenger | 2011 | Joe Johnston | 2620 |
| 257 | Enemy Mine | 1985 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2648 |
| 258 | Outland | 1981 | Peter Hyams | 2687 |
| 259 | About Time | 2013 | Richard Curtis | 2718 |
| 260 | Event Horizon | 1997 | Paul W.S. Anderson | 2720 |
| 261 | A Boy and His Dog | 1975 | L.Q. Jones | 2722 |
| 262 | Liquid Sky | 1982 | Slava Tsukerman | 2725 |
| 263 | Stargate | 1994 | Roland Emmerich | 2739 |
| 264 | Tetsuo: The Iron Man | 1989 | Shinya Tsukamoto | 2748 |
| 265 | Isle of Dogs | 2018 | Wes Anderson | 2757 |
| 266 | Vanilla Sky | 2001 | Cameron Crowe | 2767 |
| 267 | 28 Weeks Later | 2007 | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | 2788 |