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| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 4 |
| 2 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 24 |
| 3 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 59 |
| 4 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 60 |
| 5 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 128 |
| 6 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 129 |
| 7 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 138 |
| 8 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 142 |
| 9 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 148 |
| 10 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 171 |
| 11 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 176 |
| 12 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 191 |
| 13 | Harold and Maude | 1971 | Hal Ashby | 199 |
| 14 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 203 |
| 15 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 217 |
| 16 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 275 |
| 17 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 278 |
| 18 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 287 |
| 19 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento | 302 |
| 20 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 319 |
| 21 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | George Cukor | 322 |
| 22 | Rushmore | 1998 | Wes Anderson | 323 |
| 23 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 325 |
| 24 | Clueless | 1995 | Amy Heckerling | 333 |
| 25 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 1986 | John Hughes | 334 |
| 26 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | 362 |
| 27 | Grease | 1978 | Randal Kleiser | 365 |
| 28 | Dazed and Confused | 1993 | Richard Linklater | 389 |
| 29 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle | 394 |
| 30 | Let the Right One in | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | 395 |
| 31 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 414 |
| 32 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart | 416 |
| 33 | Y tu mamá también | 2001 | Alfonso Cuarón | 426 |
| 34 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock | 432 |
| 35 | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir | 433 |
| 36 | The Breakfast Club | 1985 | John Hughes | 456 |
| 37 | Persepolis | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 472 |
| 38 | Dirty Dancing | 1987 | Emile Ardolino | 477 |
| 39 | Kes | 1969 | Ken Loach | 478 |
| 40 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | 484 |
| 41 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter | 494 |
| 42 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | 495 |
| 43 | The Mirror | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 498 |
| 44 | Big | 1988 | Penny Marshall | 501 |
| 45 | How to Train Your Dragon | 2010 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders | 502 |
| 46 | Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven | 527 |
| 47 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 531 |
| 48 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | 1982 | Amy Heckerling | 536 |
| 49 | Election | 1999 | Alexander Payne | 546 |
| 50 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | 559 |
| 51 | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | 577 |
| 52 | Late Spring | 1949 | Yasujirô Ozu | 586 |
| 53 | Saturday Night Fever | 1977 | John Badham | 587 |
| 54 | Breaking Away | 1979 | Peter Yates | 622 |
| 55 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | 649 |
| 56 | Heathers | 1989 | Michael Lehmann | 663 |
| 57 | The Karate Kid | 1984 | John G. Avildsen | 678 |
| 58 | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jirí Menzel | 680 |
| 59 | Ride the High Country | 1962 | Sam Peckinpah | 684 |
| 60 | The Jerk | 1979 | Carl Reiner | 704 |
| 61 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | Peter Weir | 718 |
| 62 | Moonlight | 2016 | Barry Jenkins | 741 |
| 63 | A Separation | 2011 | Asghar Farhadi | 747 |
| 64 | Boyhood | 2014 | Richard Linklater | 751 |
| 65 | My Own Private Idaho | 1991 | Gus Van Sant | 769 |
| 66 | Superbad | 2007 | Greg Mottola | 777 |
| 67 | Ghost World | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | 797 |
| 68 | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg | 812 |
| 69 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 827 |
| 70 | Heavenly Creatures | 1994 | Peter Jackson | 831 |
| 71 | A Prophet | 2009 | Jacques Audiard | 842 |
| 72 | Walkabout | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg | 853 |
| 73 | Into the Wild | 2007 | Sean Penn | 870 |
| 74 | Labyrinth | 1986 | Jim Henson | 876 |
| 75 | Call Me by Your Name | 2017 | Luca Guadagnino | 892 |
| 76 | Gregory's Girl | 1980 | Bill Forsyth | 904 |
| 77 | Kids | 1995 | Larry Clark | 922 |
| 78 | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | 2015 | J.J. Abrams | 925 |
| 79 | True Grit | 2010 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 934 |
| 80 | Blue Is the Warmest Color | 2013 | Abdellatif Kechiche | 935 |
| 81 | The Devil's Backbone | 2001 | Guillermo del Toro | 945 |
| 82 | Ordinary People | 1980 | Robert Redford | 959 |
| 83 | Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | Wes Anderson | 963 |
| 84 | Near Dark | 1987 | Kathryn Bigelow | 998 |
| 85 | American Pie | 1999 | Paul Weitz | 1026 |
| 86 | Gigi | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 1031 |
| 87 | Sixteen Candles | 1984 | John Hughes | 1057 |
| 88 | The Virgin Suicides | 1999 | Sofia Coppola | 1094 |
| 89 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Ki-duk Kim | 1098 |
| 90 | Garden State | 2004 | Zach Braff | 1112 |
| 91 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman | 1118 |
| 92 | Pretty in Pink | 1986 | Howard Deutch | 1128 |
| 93 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | 1179 |
| 94 | The Ice Storm | 1997 | Ang Lee | 1182 |
| 95 | Mulan | 1998 | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook | 1190 |
| 96 | This Is England | 2006 | Shane Meadows | 1205 |
| 97 | The Sandlot | 1993 | David M. Evans | 1206 |
| 98 | Hairspray | 1988 | John Waters | 1210 |
| 99 | Bend It Like Beckham | 2002 | Gurinder Chadha | 1211 |
| 100 | The River | 1951 | Jean Renoir | 1216 |
| 101 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan | 1233 |
| 102 | Pleasantville | 1998 | Gary Ross | 1245 |
| 103 | Billy Elliot | 2000 | Stephen Daldry | 1264 |
| 104 | The Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick | 1275 |
| 105 | Captain America: Civil War | 2016 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1289 |
| 106 | 21 Up | 1977 | Michael Apted | 1290 |
| 107 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | 1993 | Lasse Hallström | 1299 |
| 108 | Kiki’s Delivery Service | 1989 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1305 |
| 109 | Fish Tank | 2009 | Andrea Arnold | 1306 |
| 110 | La Femme Nikita | 1990 | Luc Besson | 1309 |
| 111 | The Return | 2003 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | 1320 |
| 112 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | 2010 | Edgar Wright | 1330 |
| 113 | I Vitelloni | 1953 | Federico Fellini | 1343 |
| 114 | My Life as a Dog | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | 1345 |
| 115 | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1396 |
| 116 | Alfie | 1966 | Lewis Gilbert | 1418 |
| 117 | Mysterious Skin | 2004 | Gregg Araki | 1422 |
| 118 | Old Yeller | 1957 | Robert Stevenson | 1450 |
| 119 | Wonder Woman | 2017 | Patty Jenkins | 1453 |
| 120 | Rumble Fish | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1529 |
| 121 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | 2012 | Stephen Chbosky | 1541 |
| 122 | Love & Basketball | 2000 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | 1564 |
| 123 | Bad Education | 2004 | Pedro Almodóvar | 1577 |
| 124 | Menace II Society | 1993 | Albert and Allen Hughes | 1586 |
| 125 | George Washington | 2000 | David Gordon Green | 1592 |
| 126 | Good Bye Lenin! | 2003 | Wolfgang Becker | 1596 |
| 127 | À nos amours | 1983 | Maurice Pialat | 1607 |
| 128 | To Live | 1994 | Yimou Zhang | 1616 |
| 129 | The Kids Are All Right | 2010 | Lisa Cholodenko | 1619 |
| 130 | A Bronx Tale | 1993 | Robert De Niro | 1635 |
| 131 | Beautiful Thing | 1996 | Hettie MacDonald | 1694 |
| 132 | The Long Day Closes | 1992 | Terence Davies | 1701 |
| 133 | About a Boy | 2002 | Chris and Paul Weitz | 1713 |
| 134 | The Time to Live and the Time to Die | 1985 | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 1725 |
| 135 | The Lost Boys | 1987 | Joel Schumacher | 1734 |
| 136 | 3 Idiots | 2009 | Rajkumar Hirani | 1750 |
| 137 | War and Peace | 1966 | Sergey Bondarchuk | 1776 |
| 138 | Girl, Interrupted | 1999 | James Mangold | 1781 |
| 139 | Little Women | 1994 | Gillian Armstrong | 1786 |
| 140 | Jezebel | 1938 | William Wyler | 1824 |
| 141 | Salaam Bombay! | 1988 | Mira Nair | 1842 |
| 142 | An Education | 2009 | Lone Scherfig | 1843 |
| 143 | Thor | 2011 | Kenneth Branagh | 1864 |
| 144 | The Outsiders | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1892 |
| 145 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | 1914 |
| 146 | Welcome to the Dollhouse | 1995 | Todd Solondz | 1927 |
| 147 | Lady Bird | 2017 | Greta Gerwig | 1929 |
| 148 | Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire | 2009 | Lee Daniels | 1934 |
| 149 | Fat Girl | 2001 | Catherine Breillat | 1967 |
| 150 | Whisper of the Heart | 1995 | Yoshifumi Kondo | 2004 |
| 151 | I'm Not There. | 2007 | Todd Haynes | 2008 |
| 152 | The Reader | 2008 | Stephen Daldry | 2056 |
| 153 | Captains Courageous | 1937 | Victor Fleming | 2092 |
| 154 | Animal Kingdom | 2010 | David Michôd | 2093 |
| 155 | Little Women | 1933 | George Cukor | 2096 |
| 156 | Ginger Snaps | 2000 | John Fawcett | 2106 |
| 157 | Stardust | 2007 | Matthew Vaughn | 2126 |
| 158 | Kolya | 1996 | Jan Sverák | 2142 |
| 159 | Raw | 2016 | Julia Ducournau | 2152 |
| 160 | Il Posto | 1961 | Ermanno Olmi | 2153 |
| 161 | Sounder | 1972 | Martin Ritt | 2154 |
| 162 | Fame | 1980 | Alan Parker | 2174 |
| 163 | The Tale of Princess Kaguya | 2013 | Isao Takahata | 2178 |
| 164 | A Walk to Remember | 2002 | Adam Shankman | 2187 |
| 165 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | Peter Jackson | 2198 |
| 166 | Bloodsport | 1988 | Newt Arnold | 2228 |
| 167 | Creed | 2015 | Ryan Coogler | 2231 |
| 168 | Deep End | 1970 | Jerzy Skolimowski | 2247 |
| 169 | Tarzan | 1999 | Kevin Lima and Chris Buck | 2288 |
| 170 | Sugar | 2008 | Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | 2316 |
| 171 | Red Sorghum | 1988 | Yimou Zhang | 2323 |
| 172 | Pelle the Conqueror | 1987 | Bille August | 2363 |
| 173 | The Emperor's New Groove | 2000 | Mark Dindal | 2369 |
| 174 | Pariah | 2011 | Dee Rees | 2383 |
| 175 | Radio Days | 1987 | Woody Allen | 2396 |
| 176 | C.R.A.Z.Y. | 2005 | Jean-Marc Vallée | 2404 |
| 177 | The World According to Garp | 1982 | George Roy Hill | 2411 |
| 178 | America, America | 1963 | Elia Kazan | 2421 |
| 179 | Carnal Knowledge | 1971 | Mike Nichols | 2423 |
| 180 | My Summer of Love | 2004 | Pawel Pawlikowski | 2434 |
| 181 | Together | 2000 | Lukas Moodysson | 2441 |
| 182 | Lars and the Real Girl | 2007 | Craig Gillespie | 2461 |
| 183 | Brave | 2012 | Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman | 2463 |
| 184 | Varsity Blues | 1999 | Brian Robbins | 2480 |
| 185 | 21 Jump Street | 2012 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 2483 |
| 186 | Baby Driver | 2017 | Edgar Wright | 2495 |
| 187 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 1945 | Elia Kazan | 2517 |
| 188 | Léolo | 1992 | Jean-Claude Lauzon | 2559 |
| 189 | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor | 2568 |
| 190 | Man of Steel | 2013 | Zack Snyder | 2589 |
| 191 | God's Own Country | 2017 | Francis Lee | 2602 |
| 192 | Bridge to Terabithia | 2007 | Gabor Csupo | 2669 |
| 193 | The Devil Wears Prada | 2006 | David Frankel | 2675 |
| 194 | About Time | 2013 | Richard Curtis | 2718 |
| 195 | The Lovers of the Arctic Circle | 1998 | Julio Medem | 2719 |
| 196 | A Taste of Honey | 1961 | Tony Richardson | 2726 |
| 197 | A River Runs Through It | 1992 | Robert Redford | 2773 |
| 198 | Murmur of the Heart | 1971 | Louis Malle | 2777 |
| 199 | Society | 1989 | Brian Yuzna | 2798 |
| 200 | Love, Simon | 2018 | Greg Berlanti | 2807 |
| 201 | Adventureland | 2009 | Greg Mottola | 2808 |
| 202 | Fury | 2014 | David Ayer | 2811 |