Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2 |
2 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 11 |
3 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 13 |
4 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 21 |
5 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 23 |
6 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 30 |
7 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 31 |
8 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 34 |
9 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 40 |
10 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
11 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 47 |
12 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 54 |
13 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 55 |
14 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 61 |
15 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 64 |
16 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 69 |
17 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 75 |
18 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 80 |
19 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | 83 |
20 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 90 |
21 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 102 |
22 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 103 |
23 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 105 |
24 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | 112 |
25 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 124 |
26 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 126 |
27 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 127 |
28 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 130 |
29 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 132 |
30 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | 139 |
31 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 141 |
32 | Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter | 150 |
33 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 157 |
34 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 158 |
35 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 162 |
36 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 165 |
37 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | 172 |
38 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 176 |
39 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 177 |
40 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | 187 |
41 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 189 |
42 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park | 190 |
43 | Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 204 |
44 | Dirty Harry | 1971 | Don Siegel | 206 |
45 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | 208 |
46 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 210 |
47 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | 214 |
48 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 218 |
49 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell | 232 |
50 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 234 |
51 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 238 |
52 | Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 239 |
53 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 244 |
54 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 246 |
55 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | 247 |
56 | Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese | 249 |
57 | The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 253 |
58 | The Wicker Man | 1973 | Robin Hardy | 255 |
59 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | 258 |
60 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 263 |
61 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino | 274 |
62 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 289 |
63 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 290 |
64 | The Road Warrior | 1981 | George Miller | 295 |
65 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 299 |
66 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 305 |
67 | Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero | 307 |
68 | RoboCop | 1987 | Paul Verhoeven | 308 |
69 | Greed | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim | 321 |
70 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 328 |
71 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 | Robert Aldrich | 335 |
72 | Predator | 1987 | John McTiernan | 347 |
73 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 349 |
74 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | 351 |
75 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | 354 |
76 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 355 |
77 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski | 358 |
78 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray | 361 |
79 | Ghost in the Shell | 1995 | Mamoru Oshii | 374 |
80 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 375 |
81 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | George Miller | 377 |
82 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | 384 |
83 | The Hurt Locker | 2008 | Kathryn Bigelow | 399 |
84 | Deliverance | 1972 | John Boorman | 404 |
85 | Hidden | 2005 | Michael Haneke | 409 |
86 | Rififi | 1955 | Jules Dassin | 420 |
87 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang | 429 |
88 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 431 |
89 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock | 432 |
90 | The Killer | 1989 | John Woo | 437 |
91 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Quentin Tarantino | 439 |
92 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | 447 |
93 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | 452 |
94 | Amores perros | 2000 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 457 |
95 | In the Heat of the Night | 1967 | Norman Jewison | 464 |
96 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 466 |
97 | The Untouchables | 1987 | Brian De Palma | 471 |
98 | Speed | 1994 | Jan de Bont | 473 |
99 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | 480 |
100 | Enter the Dragon | 1973 | Robert Clouse | 481 |
101 | Total Recall | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven | 487 |
102 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | 488 |
103 | Point Blank | 1967 | John Boorman | 489 |
104 | Gun Crazy | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis | 505 |
105 | Blood Simple | 1984 | Joel Coen | 506 |
106 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 508 |
107 | A History of Violence | 2005 | David Cronenberg | 509 |
108 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 513 |
109 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 515 |
110 | Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 516 |
111 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 517 |
112 | District 9 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | 518 |
113 | The Lady Vanishes | 1938 | Alfred Hitchcock | 523 |
114 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 529 |
115 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra | 533 |
116 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 534 |
117 | Pickup on South Street | 1953 | Samuel Fuller | 542 |
118 | Starship Troopers | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven | 549 |
119 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 551 |
120 | 28 Days Later… | 2002 | Danny Boyle | 553 |
121 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | 555 |
122 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper | 560 |
123 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 562 |
124 | Get Carter | 1971 | Mike Hodges | 564 |
125 | Hard Boiled | 1992 | John Woo | 567 |
126 | Godzilla | 1954 | Ishirô Honda | 580 |
127 | Z | 1969 | Costa-Gavras | 584 |
128 | Run Lola Run | 1998 | Tom Tykwer | 594 |
129 | Battle Royale | 2000 | Kinji Fukasaku | 600 |
130 | The King of Comedy | 1982 | Martin Scorsese | 604 |
131 | Hot Fuzz | 2007 | Edgar Wright | 608 |
132 | Bullitt | 1968 | Peter Yates | 627 |
133 | The Long Good Friday | 1980 | John Mackenzie | 642 |
134 | Gravity | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | 645 |
135 | Le Cercle rouge | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 656 |
136 | Repo Man | 1984 | Alex Cox | 657 |
137 | Safety Last! | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 658 |
138 | Point Break | 1991 | Kathryn Bigelow | 661 |
139 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 662 |
140 | Woman in the Dunes | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 667 |
141 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | 669 |
142 | Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller | 671 |
143 | Dead Ringers | 1988 | David Cronenberg | 674 |
144 | Black Swan | 2010 | Darren Aronofsky | 676 |
145 | The Fugitive | 1993 | Andrew Davis | 677 |
146 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 683 |
147 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai-keung Lau and Alan Mak | 685 |
148 | Eyes Wide Shut | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick | 699 |
149 | Body Heat | 1981 | Lawrence Kasdan | 702 |
150 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | 705 |
151 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 710 |
152 | Coraline | 2009 | Henry Selick | 717 |
153 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | 719 |
154 | The Warriors | 1979 | Walter Hill | 720 |
155 | Face/Off | 1997 | John Woo | 721 |
156 | Jackie Brown | 1997 | Quentin Tarantino | 722 |
157 | Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | 1971 | Melvin Van Peebles | 730 |
158 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 733 |
159 | X2 | 2003 | Bryan Singer | 736 |
160 | The Bourne Supremacy | 2004 | Paul Greengrass | 737 |
161 | Ghost | 1990 | Jerry Zucker | 740 |
162 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young | 742 |
163 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | 745 |
164 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood | 759 |
165 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1974 | Joseph Sargent | 761 |
166 | Lethal Weapon | 1987 | Richard Donner | 763 |
167 | Serpico | 1973 | Sidney Lumet | 767 |
168 | True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott | 768 |
169 | Midnight Run | 1988 | Martin Brest | 773 |
170 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | 782 |
171 | Lost Highway | 1997 | David Lynch | 793 |
172 | The Vanishing | 1988 | George Sluizer | 795 |
173 | Basic Instinct | 1992 | Paul Verhoeven | 796 |
174 | Knife in the Water | 1962 | Roman Polanski | 799 |
175 | Pi | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky | 800 |
176 | Carlito's Way | 1993 | Brian De Palma | 804 |
177 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 807 |
178 | Dark City | 1998 | Alex Proyas | 814 |
179 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | 817 |
180 | Elevator to the Gallows | 1958 | Louis Malle | 820 |
181 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 826 |
182 | Punch-Drunk Love | 2002 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 829 |
183 | Gimme Shelter | 1970 | Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin | 830 |
184 | Heavenly Creatures | 1994 | Peter Jackson | 831 |
185 | The Passenger | 1975 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 833 |
186 | Night and the City | 1950 | Jules Dassin | 834 |
187 | Bound | 1996 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 839 |
188 | In Bruges | 2008 | Martin McDonagh | 846 |
189 | Memories of Murder | 2003 | Bong Joon Ho | 852 |
190 | The Bourne Identity | 2002 | Doug Liman | 854 |
191 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 856 |
192 | Witness | 1985 | Peter Weir | 857 |
193 | Out of Sight | 1998 | Steven Soderbergh | 860 |
194 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | 865 |
195 | The Naked Spur | 1953 | Anthony Mann | 867 |
196 | The War of the Worlds | 1953 | Byron Haskin | 871 |
197 | Fatal Attraction | 1987 | Adrian Lyne | 879 |
198 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 880 |
199 | Serenity | 2005 | Joss Whedon | 891 |
200 | The Others | 2001 | Alejandro Amenábar | 902 |