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 | 16 |
| 2 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
| 3 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 25 |
| 4 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 79 |
| 5 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 91 |
| 6 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 93 |
| 7 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 98 |
| 8 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 99 |
| 9 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 110 |
| 10 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon1 | 2000 | Ang Lee | 140 |
| 11 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman | 151 |
| 12 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman | 189 |
| 13 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | Richard Linklater | 263 |
| 14 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 294 |
| 15 | The Social Network | 2010 | David Fincher | 301 |
| 16 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 307 |
| 17 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 323 |
| 18 | District 93 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | 329 |
| 19 | Persepolis1 | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 334 |
| 20 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 357 |
| 21 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 358 |
| 22 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 359 |
| 23 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | 362 |
| 24 | Django Unchained | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino | 411 |
| 25 | A League of Their Own | 1992 | Penny Marshall | 417 |
| 26 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi | 459 |
| 27 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve | 472 |
| 28 | Jerry Maguire3 | 1996 | Cameron Crowe | 487 |
| 29 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 494 |
| 30 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | 497 |
| 31 | Total Recall3 | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven | 511 |
| 32 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi | 516 |
| 33 | The Karate Kid | 1984 | John G. Avildsen | 521 |
| 34 | Zero Dark Thirty | 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | 549 |
| 35 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse | 558 |
| 36 | Glory3 | 1989 | Edward Zwick | 562 |
| 37 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray | 568 |
| 38 | Sleepless in Seattle3 | 1993 | Nora Ephron | 586 |
| 39 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang | 594 |
| 40 | Starship Troopers3 | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven | 596 |
| 41 | Superbad | 2007 | Greg Mottola | 610 |
| 42 | Labyrinth3 | 1986 | Jim Henson | 611 |
| 43 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | 623 |
| 44 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | 626 |
| 45 | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 637 |
| 46 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie | 645 |
| 47 | Little Women | 2019 | Greta Gerwig | 661 |
| 48 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee | 668 |
| 49 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 694 |
| 50 | Philadelphia3 | 1993 | Jonathan Demme | 792 |
| 51 | The Awful Truth | 1937 | Leo McCarey | 827 |
| 52 | Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | Robert Benton | 884 |
| 53 | The Natural3 | 1984 | Barry Levinson | 920 |
| 54 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston | 921 |
| 55 | Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | Don Chaffey | 931 |
| 56 | Funny Girl | 1968 | William Wyler | 955 |
| 57 | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara1 | 2003 | Errol Morris | 959 |
| 58 | Five Easy Pieces | 1970 | Bob Rafelson | 982 |
| 59 | The Remains of the Day | 1993 | James Ivory | 999 |
| 60 | In Cold Blood | 1967 | Richard Brooks | 1020 |
| 61 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 1063 |
| 62 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | 1074 |
| 63 | Waiting for Guffman1 | 1996 | Christopher Guest | 1081 |
| 64 | Rudy3 | 1993 | David Anspaugh | 1096 |
| 65 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | 1139 |
| 66 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1142 |
| 67 | Baby Driver3 | 2017 | Edgar Wright | 1146 |
| 68 | As Good as It Gets3 | 1997 | James L. Brooks | 1150 |
| 69 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | 2017 | Jon Watts | 1159 |
| 70 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1165 |
| 71 | Donnie Brasco3 | 1997 | Mike Newell | 1173 |
| 72 | Lone Star | 1996 | John Sayles | 1179 |
| 73 | The Way We Were | 1973 | Sydney Pollack | 1180 |
| 74 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse2 | 2023 | Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson | 1292 |
| 75 | Ali | 2001 | Michael Mann | 1316 |
| 76 | Moneyball | 2011 | Bennett Miller | 1319 |
| 77 | My Best Friend's Wedding3 | 1997 | P.J. Hogan | 1345 |
| 78 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | 2006 | Adam McKay | 1368 |
| 79 | The Pursuit of Happyness | 2006 | Gabriele Muccino | 1374 |
| 80 | Little Women | 1994 | Gillian Armstrong | 1377 |
| 81 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2011 | David Fincher | 1390 |
| 82 | The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | 1399 |
| 83 | The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Martin Scorsese | 1411 |
| 84 | Easy A4 | 2010 | Will Gluck | 1412 |
| 85 | Fat City | 1972 | John Huston | 1413 |
| 86 | Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood | 2019 | Quentin Tarantino | 1456 |
| 87 | 3:10 to Yuma | 1957 | Delmer Daves | 1460 |
| 88 | Something's Gotta Give | 2003 | Nancy Meyers | 1470 |
| 89 | Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | Howard Hawks | 1482 |
| 90 | Inside Job1 | 2010 | Charles Ferguson | 1489 |
| 91 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | 2021 | Jon Watts | 1494 |
| 92 | Matilda3 | 1996 | Danny DeVito | 1495 |
| 93 | Lost Horizon | 1937 | Frank Capra | 1500 |
| 94 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks | 1501 |
| 95 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 1967 | Stanley Kramer | 1517 |
| 96 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1558 |
| 97 | Jumanji3 | 1995 | Joe Johnston | 1567 |
| 98 | A Raisin in the Sun | 1961 | Daniel Petrie | 1579 |
| 99 | Legends of the Fall3 | 1994 | Edward Zwick | 1607 |
| 100 | Fail-Safe | 1964 | Sidney Lumet | 1618 |
| 101 | Attack the Block4 | 2011 | Joe Cornish | 1628 |
| 102 | The Big Chill | 1983 | Lawrence Kasdan | 1656 |
| 103 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1936 | Frank Capra | 1673 |
| 104 | Holiday | 1938 | George Cukor | 1702 |
| 105 | The Damned United | 2009 | Tom Hooper | 1724 |
| 106 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | 1988 | Terry Gilliam | 1726 |
| 107 | Devil in a Blue Dress3 | 1995 | Carl Franklin | 1740 |
| 108 | El Mariachi | 1992 | Robert Rodriguez | 1779 |
| 109 | Zombieland | 2009 | Ruben Fleischer | 1780 |
| 110 | Marie Antoinette | 2006 | Sofia Coppola | 1793 |
| 111 | The Mitchells vs. the Machines2 | 2021 | Michael Rianda | 1794 |
| 112 | My Girl | 1991 | Howard Zieff | 1811 |
| 113 | Born Yesterday | 1950 | George Cukor | 1821 |
| 114 | Step Brothers | 2008 | Adam McKay | 1832 |
| 115 | Bottle Rocket | 1996 | Wes Anderson | 1834 |
| 116 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann | 1858 |
| 117 | Silverado | 1985 | Lawrence Kasdan | 1881 |
| 118 | Annie | 1982 | John Huston | 1935 |
| 119 | Casualties of War | 1989 | Brian De Palma | 1940 |
| 120 | 21 Jump Street | 2012 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 1992 |
| 121 | You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Frank Capra | 1995 |
| 122 | All the King's Men | 1949 | Robert Rossen | 2001 |
| 123 | The Last Detail | 1973 | Hal Ashby | 2004 |
| 124 | Roxanne | 1987 | Fred Schepisi | 2010 |
| 125 | Twentieth Century | 1934 | Howard Hawks | 2011 |
| 126 | Ride Lonesome | 1959 | Budd Boetticher | 2017 |
| 127 | Fury | 2014 | David Ayer | 2029 |
| 128 | Cruel Intentions | 1999 | Roger Kumble | 2041 |
| 129 | Hope and Glory | 1987 | John Boorman | 2101 |
| 130 | Cat Ballou | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein | 2104 |
| 131 | 50 First Dates | 2004 | Peter Segal | 2196 |
| 132 | Desperado | 1995 | Robert Rodriguez | 2235 |
| 133 | The Holiday | 2006 | Nancy Meyers | 2238 |
| 134 | The Celluloid Closet1 | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2240 |
| 135 | Brian's Song5 | 1971 | Buzz Kulik | 2249 |
| 136 | The Craft | 1996 | Andrew Fleming | 2256 |
| 137 | Girl, Interrupted | 1999 | James Mangold | 2288 |
| 138 | Awakenings | 1990 | Penny Marshall | 2297 |
| 139 | The Swimmer | 1968 | Frank Perry | 2318 |
| 140 | Body Double | 1984 | Brian De Palma | 2339 |
| 141 | Starman | 1984 | John Carpenter | 2373 |
| 142 | American Hustle | 2013 | David O. Russell | 2382 |
| 143 | In the Cut4 | 2003 | Jane Campion | 2425 |
| 144 | Spider-Man: Far from Home | 2019 | Jon Watts | 2433 |
| 145 | In the Line of Fire | 1993 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2442 |
| 146 | The Patriot | 2000 | Roland Emmerich | 2496 |
| 147 | Fright Night | 1985 | Tom Holland | 2510 |
| 148 | Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist4 | 2008 | Peter Sollett | 2594 |
| 149 | To Die For | 1995 | Gus Van Sant | 2610 |
| 150 | Stripes | 1981 | Ivan Reitman | 2614 |
| 151 | Bad Santa | 2003 | Terry Zwigoff | 2633 |
| 152 | The Fisher King | 1991 | Terry Gilliam | 2638 |
| 153 | Heavy Metal | 1981 | Gerald Potterton | 2647 |
| 154 | Gloria | 1980 | John Cassavetes | 2662 |
| 155 | Shampoo | 1975 | Hal Ashby | 2676 |
| 156 | To Sir, with Love | 1967 | James Clavell | 2685 |
| 157 | Hook3 | 1991 | Steven Spielberg | 2708 |
| 158 | The Mask of Zorro3 | 1998 | Martin Campbell | 2710 |
| 159 | Metropolis6 | 2001 | Rintarô | 2721 |
| 160 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 2729 |
| 161 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | 1996 | Milos Forman | 2732 |
| 162 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs2 | 2009 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 2775 |
| 163 | Suddenly, Last Summer | 1959 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2792 |
| 164 | Stepmom3 | 1998 | Chris Columbus | 2794 |
| 165 | Seven Pounds | 2008 | Gabriele Muccino | 2812 |
| 166 | Layer Cake1 | 2004 | Matthew Vaughn | 2819 |
| 167 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | 2017 | Jake Kasdan | 2841 |
| 168 | The Damned | 1962 | Joseph Losey | 2860 |
| 169 | Picnic | 1955 | Joshua Logan | 2879 |
| 170 | The Amazing Spider-Man | 2012 | Marc Webb | 2885 |
| 171 | Happiest Season3 | 2020 | Clea DuVall | 2953 |
| 172 | The Last Dragon3 | 1985 | Michael Schultz | 3007 |
| 173 | Foxcatcher1 | 2014 | Bennett Miller | 3033 |
1 Produced by Sony Pictures Classics.
2 Produced by Sony Pictures Animation.
3 Produced by TriStar Pictures.
4 Produced by Screen Gems.
5 Produced by Screen Gems Television.
6 Produced by Sony Pictures Television (Japan).