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 | 1 |
| 2 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 7 |
| 3 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 21 |
| 4 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 36 |
| 5 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 131 |
| 6 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 157 |
| 7 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 221 |
| 8 | The Producers | 1967 | Mel Brooks | 225 |
| 9 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | 233 |
| 10 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | 270 |
| 11 | Greed1 | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim | 285 |
| 12 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 288 |
| 13 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood | 299 |
| 14 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 334 |
| 15 | Ninotchka | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch | 345 |
| 16 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | 368 |
| 17 | The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | 394 |
| 18 | The Crowd | 1928 | King Vidor | 426 |
| 19 | A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | Charles Crichton | 447 |
| 20 | Point Blank | 1967 | John Boorman | 507 |
| 21 | The Band Wagon | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli | 541 |
| 22 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 556 |
| 23 | The Wind | 1928 | Victor Sjöström | 566 |
| 24 | A Christmas Story | 1983 | Bob Clark | 579 |
| 25 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper | 584 |
| 26 | The Thin Man | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke | 588 |
| 27 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 599 |
| 28 | Moonstruck | 1987 | Norman Jewison | 614 |
| 29 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 660 |
| 30 | On the Town | 1949 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 675 |
| 31 | The Big Parade | 1925 | King Vidor | 746 |
| 32 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | 1973 | Sam Peckinpah | 761 |
| 33 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 777 |
| 34 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 787 |
| 35 | Gigi | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 836 |
| 36 | Diner | 1982 | Barry Levinson | 868 |
| 37 | Ride the High Country | 1962 | Sam Peckinpah | 881 |
| 38 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | 1954 | Stanley Donen | 890 |
| 39 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 914 |
| 40 | The Cameraman | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick | 967 |
| 41 | National Velvet | 1944 | Clarence Brown | 970 |
| 42 | Kingpin | 1996 | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | 994 |
| 43 | The Time Machine | 1960 | George Pal | 1008 |
| 44 | Grand Hotel | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | 1061 |
| 45 | The Naked Spur | 1953 | Anthony Mann | 1119 |
| 46 | Camille | 1936 | George Cukor | 1134 |
| 47 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | 1142 |
| 48 | Fury | 1936 | Fritz Lang | 1161 |
| 49 | The Bad and the Beautiful | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli | 1184 |
| 50 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian | 1192 |
| 51 | Shaft | 1971 | Gordon Parks | 1209 |
| 52 | Mrs. Miniver | 1942 | William Wyler | 1251 |
| 53 | Victor/Victoria | 1982 | Blake Edwards | 1264 |
| 54 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 1271 |
| 55 | Pink Floyd the Wall | 1982 | Alan Parker | 1325 |
| 56 | Get Shorty | 1995 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 1328 |
| 57 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett | 1337 |
| 58 | Westworld | 1973 | Michael Crichton | 1357 |
| 59 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters | 1374 |
| 60 | The Secret of NIMH | 1982 | Don Bluth | 1405 |
| 61 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1422 |
| 62 | 9 1/2 Weeks | 1986 | Adrian Lyne | 1467 |
| 63 | The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | Peter Weir | 1513 |
| 64 | Dinner at Eight | 1933 | George Cukor | 1535 |
| 65 | Easter Parade | 1948 | Charles Walters | 1590 |
| 66 | A Day at the Races | 1937 | Sam Wood | 1610 |
| 67 | They Were Expendable | 1945 | John Ford | 1632 |
| 68 | Logan's Run | 1976 | Michael Anderson | 1655 |
| 69 | The Hunger | 1983 | Tony Scott | 1675 |
| 70 | Blackboard Jungle | 1955 | Richard Brooks | 1678 |
| 71 | My Favorite Year | 1982 | Richard Benjamin | 1682 |
| 72 | Legally Blonde | 2001 | Robert Luketic | 1696 |
| 73 | Captains Courageous | 1937 | Victor Fleming | 1700 |
| 74 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 1721 |
| 75 | Fame | 1980 | Alan Parker | 1756 |
| 76 | Pat and Mike | 1952 | George Cukor | 1757 |
| 77 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1765 |
| 78 | The Merry Widow | 1934 | Ernst Lubitsch | 1822 |
| 79 | Rocky IV | 1985 | Sylvester Stallone | 1866 |
| 80 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks | 1871 |
| 81 | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor | 1907 |
| 82 | Clash of the Titans | 1981 | Desmond Davis | 1998 |
| 83 | Pride and Prejudice | 1940 | Robert Z. Leonard | 2015 |
| 84 | Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | Vincente Minnelli | 2065 |
| 85 | The Great Ziegfeld | 1936 | Robert Z. Leonard | 2080 |
| 86 | Anna Karenina | 1935 | Clarence Brown | 2105 |
| 87 | Lust for Life | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli | 2112 |
| 88 | Zabriskie Point | 1970 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 2120 |
| 89 | Battleground | 1949 | William A. Wellman | 2126 |
| 90 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse2 | 1921 | Rex Ingram | 2140 |
| 91 | Spaceballs | 1987 | Mel Brooks | 2198 |
| 92 | The Unknown | 1927 | Tod Browning | 2206 |
| 93 | Somebody Up There Likes Me | 1956 | Robert Wise | 2233 |
| 94 | Kelly's Heroes | 1970 | Brian G. Hutton | 2271 |
| 95 | Kiss Me Kate | 1953 | George Sidney | 2276 |
| 96 | Hallelujah! | 1929 | King Vidor | 2285 |
| 97 | The Red Badge of Courage | 1951 | John Huston | 2286 |
| 98 | Six Degrees of Separation | 1993 | Fred Schepisi | 2294 |
| 99 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | Peter Jackson | 2312 |
| 100 | San Francisco | 1936 | W.S. Van Dyke | 2390 |
| 101 | The Broadway Melody | 1929 | Harry Beaumont | 2404 |
1 Produced by Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.
2 Produced by Metro Pictures Corporation.