This list includes films from TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, and Screen Gems Television.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 12 |
| 2 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 14 |
| 3 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 19 |
| 4 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 64 |
| 5 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 87 |
| 6 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 92 |
| 7 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 94 |
| 8 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 98 |
| 9 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 120 |
| 10 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman | 169 |
| 11 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 181 |
| 12 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon1 | 2000 | Ang Lee | 191 |
| 13 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 287 |
| 14 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | 303 |
| 15 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 320 |
| 16 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 325 |
| 17 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray | 361 |
| 18 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 372 |
| 19 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | Richard Linklater | 373 |
| 20 | Jerry Maguire2 | 1996 | Cameron Crowe | 382 |
| 21 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang | 429 |
| 22 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 431 |
| 23 | Persepolis1 | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 472 |
| 24 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | 482 |
| 25 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse | 486 |
| 26 | Total Recall2 | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven | 487 |
| 27 | The Social Network | 2010 | David Fincher | 514 |
| 28 | District 92 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | 518 |
| 29 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 531 |
| 30 | Starship Troopers2 | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven | 549 |
| 31 | Django Unchained | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino | 579 |
| 32 | Five Easy Pieces | 1970 | Bob Rafelson | 581 |
| 33 | A League of Their Own | 1992 | Penny Marshall | 591 |
| 34 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee | 602 |
| 35 | Glory2 | 1989 | Edward Zwick | 625 |
| 36 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | 649 |
| 37 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi | 652 |
| 38 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi | 655 |
| 39 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie | 673 |
| 40 | The Karate Kid | 1984 | John G. Avildsen | 678 |
| 41 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 711 |
| 42 | Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | Robert Benton | 714 |
| 43 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | 719 |
| 44 | Sleepless in Seattle2 | 1993 | Nora Ephron | 738 |
| 45 | The Awful Truth | 1937 | Leo McCarey | 758 |
| 46 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston | 764 |
| 47 | Superbad | 2007 | Greg Mottola | 777 |
| 48 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | 782 |
| 49 | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 787 |
| 50 | As Good as It Gets2 | 1997 | James L. Brooks | 791 |
| 51 | Lone Star | 1996 | John Sayles | 821 |
| 52 | Philadelphia2 | 1993 | Jonathan Demme | 828 |
| 53 | The Natural2 | 1984 | Barry Levinson | 832 |
| 54 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | 865 |
| 55 | Labyrinth2 | 1986 | Jim Henson | 876 |
| 56 | Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | Don Chaffey | 877 |
| 57 | Donnie Brasco2 | 1997 | Mike Newell | 878 |
| 58 | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara1 | 2003 | Errol Morris | 929 |
| 59 | The Remains of the Day | 1993 | James Ivory | 956 |
| 60 | Fat City | 1972 | John Huston | 964 |
| 61 | Waiting for Guffman1 | 1996 | Christopher Guest | 999 |
| 62 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 1086 |
| 63 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse3 | 2018 | Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman | 1118 |
| 64 | Funny Girl | 1968 | William Wyler | 1137 |
| 65 | Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | Howard Hawks | 1142 |
| 66 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1936 | Frank Capra | 1191 |
| 67 | Rudy2 | 1993 | David Anspaugh | 1194 |
| 68 | Ali | 2001 | Michael Mann | 1199 |
| 69 | The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Martin Scorsese | 1235 |
| 70 | Lost Horizon | 1937 | Frank Capra | 1248 |
| 71 | In Cold Blood | 1967 | Richard Brooks | 1250 |
| 72 | Holiday | 1938 | George Cukor | 1270 |
| 73 | Born Yesterday | 1950 | George Cukor | 1276 |
| 74 | The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | 1303 |
| 75 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1304 |
| 76 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1335 |
| 77 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1350 |
| 78 | Zero Dark Thirty | 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | 1419 |
| 79 | Hope and Glory | 1987 | John Boorman | 1423 |
| 80 | The Big Chill | 1983 | Lawrence Kasdan | 1429 |
| 81 | Legends of the Fall2 | 1994 | Edward Zwick | 1478 |
| 82 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks | 1480 |
| 83 | The Way We Were | 1973 | Sydney Pollack | 1502 |
| 84 | Bottle Rocket | 1996 | Wes Anderson | 1511 |
| 85 | 3:10 to Yuma | 1957 | Delmer Daves | 1519 |
| 86 | Fail-Safe | 1964 | Sidney Lumet | 1520 |
| 87 | The Last Detail | 1973 | Hal Ashby | 1553 |
| 88 | Roxanne | 1987 | Fred Schepisi | 1610 |
| 89 | Desperado | 1995 | Robert Rodriguez | 1613 |
| 90 | You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Frank Capra | 1644 |
| 91 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve | 1647 |
| 92 | Moneyball | 2011 | Bennett Miller | 1657 |
| 93 | El Mariachi | 1992 | Robert Rodriguez | 1685 |
| 94 | Brian's Song4 | 1971 | Buzz Kulik | 1693 |
| 95 | Twentieth Century | 1934 | Howard Hawks | 1709 |
| 96 | The Pursuit of Happyness | 2006 | Gabriele Muccino | 1716 |
| 97 | Inside Job1 | 2010 | Charles Ferguson | 1739 |
| 98 | Girl, Interrupted | 1999 | James Mangold | 1781 |
| 99 | Little Women | 1994 | Gillian Armstrong | 1786 |
| 100 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann | 1788 |
| 101 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | 2006 | Adam McKay | 1794 |
| 102 | Cat Ballou | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein | 1837 |
| 103 | Silverado | 1985 | Lawrence Kasdan | 1839 |
| 104 | Attack the Block5 | 2011 | Joe Cornish | 1857 |
| 105 | Shampoo | 1975 | Hal Ashby | 1871 |
| 106 | All the King's Men | 1949 | Robert Rossen | 1900 |
| 107 | Awakenings | 1990 | Penny Marshall | 1902 |
| 108 | Easy A5 | 2010 | Will Gluck | 1903 |
| 109 | Bad Santa | 2003 | Terry Zwigoff | 1925 |
| 110 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | 1988 | Terry Gilliam | 1937 |
| 111 | Devil in a Blue Dress2 | 1995 | Carl Franklin | 1938 |
| 112 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2011 | David Fincher | 1964 |
| 113 | Matilda2 | 1996 | Danny DeVito | 1970 |
| 114 | The Reckless Moment | 1949 | Max Ophüls | 2001 |
| 115 | Stripes | 1981 | Ivan Reitman | 2003 |
| 116 | To Die For | 1995 | Gus Van Sant | 2024 |
| 117 | My Best Friend's Wedding2 | 1997 | P.J. Hogan | 2040 |
| 118 | Starman | 1984 | John Carpenter | 2074 |
| 119 | Annie | 1982 | John Huston | 2097 |
| 120 | Cruel Intentions | 1999 | Roger Kumble | 2103 |
| 121 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 1967 | Stanley Kramer | 2113 |
| 122 | Ride Lonesome | 1959 | Budd Boetticher | 2197 |
| 123 | Zombieland | 2009 | Ruben Fleischer | 2217 |
| 124 | The Swimmer | 1968 | Frank Perry | 2219 |
| 125 | The Damned United | 2009 | Tom Hooper | 2245 |
| 126 | The Celluloid Closet1 | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2284 |
| 127 | Step Brothers | 2008 | Adam McKay | 2290 |
| 128 | A Raisin in the Sun | 1961 | Daniel Petrie | 2335 |
| 129 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs3 | 2009 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 2343 |
| 130 | Body Double | 1984 | Brian De Palma | 2346 |
| 131 | Air Force One | 1997 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2347 |
| 132 | In the Line of Fire | 1993 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2350 |
| 133 | Husbands and Wives2 | 1992 | Woody Allen | 2408 |
| 134 | The Damned | 1962 | Joseph Losey | 2430 |
| 135 | Arlington Road5 | 1999 | Mark Pellington | 2449 |
| 136 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | 1996 | Milos Forman | 2459 |
| 137 | Marie Antoinette | 2006 | Sofia Coppola | 2479 |
| 138 | 21 Jump Street | 2012 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 2483 |
| 139 | Heavy Metal | 1981 | Gerald Potterton | 2492 |
| 140 | Baby Driver2 | 2017 | Edgar Wright | 2495 |
| 141 | The Fisher King | 1991 | Terry Gilliam | 2497 |
| 142 | Layer Cake1 | 2004 | Matthew Vaughn | 2546 |
| 143 | The Patriot | 2000 | Roland Emmerich | 2557 |
| 144 | Gloria | 1980 | John Cassavetes | 2560 |
| 145 | Casualties of War | 1989 | Brian De Palma | 2600 |
| 146 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 2607 |
| 147 | Stir Crazy | 1980 | Sidney Poitier | 2629 |
| 148 | Fright Night | 1985 | Tom Holland | 2695 |
| 149 | Fury | 2014 | David Ayer | 2811 |
1 Produced by Sony Pictures Classics.
2 Produced by TriStar Pictures.
3 Produced by Sony Pictures Animation.
4 Produced by Screen Gems Television.
5 Produced by Screen Gems.