This list includes films from Metro Pictures Corporation and Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
| 2 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 9 |
| 3 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 31 |
| 4 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 49 |
| 5 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 126 |
| 6 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 188 |
| 7 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 192 |
| 8 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | 247 |
| 9 | The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | 260 |
| 10 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | 284 |
| 11 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 358 |
| 12 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 393 |
| 13 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper | 398 |
| 14 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | 401 |
| 15 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 402 |
| 16 | The Producers | 1967 | Mel Brooks | 420 |
| 17 | Greed1 | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim | 473 |
| 18 | Moonstruck | 1987 | Norman Jewison | 498 |
| 19 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood | 500 |
| 20 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 537 |
| 21 | The Band Wagon | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli | 542 |
| 22 | Ninotchka | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch | 573 |
| 23 | A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | Charles Crichton | 598 |
| 24 | A Christmas Story | 1983 | Bob Clark | 624 |
| 25 | The Thin Man | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke | 630 |
| 26 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 641 |
| 27 | Ride the High Country | 1962 | Sam Peckinpah | 683 |
| 28 | Point Blank | 1967 | John Boorman | 727 |
| 29 | The Crowd | 1928 | King Vidor | 775 |
| 30 | The Wind | 1928 | Victor Sjöström | 861 |
| 31 | Shaft | 1971 | Gordon Parks | 866 |
| 32 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 883 |
| 33 | Westworld | 1973 | Michael Crichton | 971 |
| 34 | Creed | 2015 | Ryan Coogler | 985 |
| 35 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | 1973 | Sam Peckinpah | 988 |
| 36 | On the Town | 1949 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 1023 |
| 37 | The Naked Spur | 1953 | Anthony Mann | 1042 |
| 38 | The Cabin in the Woods | 2011 | Drew Goddard | 1052 |
| 39 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | 1061 |
| 40 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett | 1112 |
| 41 | The Secret of NIMH | 1982 | Don Bluth | 1156 |
| 42 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 1211 |
| 43 | Gigi | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 1218 |
| 44 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 1280 |
| 45 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | Peter Jackson | 1281 |
| 46 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 1294 |
| 47 | The Bad and the Beautiful | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli | 1310 |
| 48 | A Star Is Born | 2018 | Bradley Cooper | 1364 |
| 49 | The Time Machine | 1960 | George Pal | 1375 |
| 50 | The Big Parade | 1925 | King Vidor | 1382 |
| 51 | National Velvet | 1944 | Clarence Brown | 1388 |
| 52 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2011 | David Fincher | 1390 |
| 53 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | 1954 | Stanley Donen | 1392 |
| 54 | The Cameraman | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick | 1409 |
| 55 | Logan's Run | 1976 | Michael Anderson | 1468 |
| 56 | Legally Blonde | 2001 | Robert Luketic | 1479 |
| 57 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1519 |
| 58 | Mrs. Miniver | 1942 | William Wyler | 1546 |
| 59 | Victor/Victoria | 1982 | Blake Edwards | 1636 |
| 60 | Fame | 1980 | Alan Parker | 1641 |
| 61 | They Were Expendable | 1945 | John Ford | 1642 |
| 62 | Grand Hotel | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | 1662 |
| 63 | Diner | 1982 | Barry Levinson | 1677 |
| 64 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian | 1701 |
| 65 | Fury | 1936 | Fritz Lang | 1708 |
| 66 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1798 |
| 67 | Captains Courageous | 1937 | Victor Fleming | 1799 |
| 68 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | Peter Jackson | 1850 |
| 69 | Battleground | 1949 | William A. Wellman | 1926 |
| 70 | Blackboard Jungle | 1955 | Richard Brooks | 1942 |
| 71 | Hallelujah! | 1929 | King Vidor | 1969 |
| 72 | Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | Vincente Minnelli | 1970 |
| 73 | 21 Jump Street | 2012 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 1992 |
| 74 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 2025 |
| 75 | Easter Parade | 1948 | Charles Walters | 2026 |
| 76 | Pink Floyd the Wall | 1982 | Alan Parker | 2081 |
| 77 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks | 2095 |
| 78 | The Merry Widow | 1934 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2114 |
| 79 | The Hunger | 1983 | Tony Scott | 2115 |
| 80 | Spaceballs | 1987 | Mel Brooks | 2154 |
| 81 | Dinner at Eight | 1933 | George Cukor | 2186 |
| 82 | Kingpin | 1996 | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | 2243 |
| 83 | Camille | 1936 | George Cukor | 2264 |
| 84 | 9 1/2 Weeks | 1986 | Adrian Lyne | 2321 |
| 85 | Kelly's Heroes | 1970 | Brian G. Hutton | 2396 |
| 86 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters | 2439 |
| 87 | Thirty Seconds over Tokyo | 1944 | Mervyn LeRoy | 2458 |
| 88 | The Unknown | 1927 | Tod Browning | 2461 |
| 89 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | 1945 | Albert Lewin | 2507 |
| 90 | Rescue Dawn | 2006 | Werner Herzog | 2514 |
| 91 | Show People | 1928 | King Vidor | 2532 |
| 92 | Get Shorty | 1995 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 2550 |
| 93 | Willow | 1988 | Ron Howard | 2555 |
| 94 | The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | Peter Weir | 2591 |
| 95 | Kiss Me Kate | 1953 | George Sidney | 2605 |
| 96 | It's Always Fair Weather | 1955 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 2645 |
| 97 | Licorice Pizza | 2021 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2648 |
| 98 | Anchors Aweigh | 1945 | George Sidney | 2651 |
| 99 | Rocky IV | 1985 | Sylvester Stallone | 2657 |
| 100 | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor | 2664 |
| 101 | The Broadway Melody | 1929 | Harry Beaumont | 2682 |
| 102 | Clash of the Titans | 1981 | Desmond Davis | 2695 |
| 103 | My Favorite Year | 1982 | Richard Benjamin | 2767 |
| 104 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1999 | John McTiernan | 2774 |
| 105 | Lust for Life | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli | 2818 |
| 106 | Overboard | 1987 | Garry Marshall | 2887 |
| 107 | Viva Las Vegas | 1964 | George Sidney | 2935 |
| 108 | Quo Vadis | 1951 | Mervyn LeRoy | 2936 |
| 109 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | 2014 | Peter Jackson | 2961 |
| 110 | The Good Earth | 1937 | Sidney Franklin | 2992 |
| 111 | The Goodbye Girl | 1977 | Herbert Ross | 2994 |
| 112 | San Francisco | 1936 | W.S. Van Dyke | 3018 |
1 Produced by Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.