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 | 15 |
| 3 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 32 |
| 4 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 40 |
| 5 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 131 |
| 6 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 159 |
| 7 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 182 |
| 8 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | 235 |
| 9 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | 283 |
| 10 | The Producers | 1967 | Mel Brooks | 309 |
| 11 | Greed1 | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim | 321 |
| 12 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood | 340 |
| 13 | The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | 345 |
| 14 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | 351 |
| 15 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 379 |
| 16 | Ninotchka | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch | 401 |
| 17 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 425 |
| 18 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 431 |
| 19 | A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | Charles Crichton | 446 |
| 20 | Point Blank | 1967 | John Boorman | 489 |
| 21 | A Christmas Story | 1983 | Bob Clark | 548 |
| 22 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper | 560 |
| 23 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 562 |
| 24 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 566 |
| 25 | The Thin Man | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke | 568 |
| 26 | The Crowd | 1928 | King Vidor | 572 |
| 27 | The Band Wagon | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli | 585 |
| 28 | The Wind | 1928 | Victor Sjöström | 605 |
| 29 | Ride the High Country | 1962 | Sam Peckinpah | 684 |
| 30 | On the Town | 1949 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 706 |
| 31 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 710 |
| 32 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | 1973 | Sam Peckinpah | 712 |
| 33 | Moonstruck | 1987 | Norman Jewison | 770 |
| 34 | The Naked Spur | 1953 | Anthony Mann | 867 |
| 35 | Westworld | 1973 | Michael Crichton | 909 |
| 36 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett | 954 |
| 37 | Shaft | 1971 | Gordon Parks | 993 |
| 38 | National Velvet | 1944 | Clarence Brown | 1019 |
| 39 | Gigi | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 1031 |
| 40 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | 1040 |
| 41 | The Cameraman | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick | 1041 |
| 42 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 1074 |
| 43 | The Big Parade | 1925 | King Vidor | 1076 |
| 44 | Diner | 1982 | Barry Levinson | 1084 |
| 45 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | 1954 | Stanley Donen | 1169 |
| 46 | The Secret of NIMH | 1982 | Don Bluth | 1203 |
| 47 | Grand Hotel | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | 1274 |
| 48 | The Time Machine | 1960 | George Pal | 1281 |
| 49 | The Bad and the Beautiful | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli | 1292 |
| 50 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 1294 |
| 51 | Kingpin | 1996 | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | 1339 |
| 52 | Victor/Victoria | 1982 | Blake Edwards | 1354 |
| 53 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 1380 |
| 54 | Fury | 1936 | Fritz Lang | 1385 |
| 55 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian | 1462 |
| 56 | Easter Parade | 1948 | Charles Walters | 1472 |
| 57 | Mrs. Miniver | 1942 | William Wyler | 1496 |
| 58 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1530 |
| 59 | Logan's Run | 1976 | Michael Anderson | 1580 |
| 60 | Blackboard Jungle | 1955 | Richard Brooks | 1623 |
| 61 | 9 1/2 Weeks | 1986 | Adrian Lyne | 1633 |
| 62 | Pink Floyd the Wall | 1982 | Alan Parker | 1663 |
| 63 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1673 |
| 64 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | Peter Jackson | 1679 |
| 65 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters | 1795 |
| 66 | The Hunger | 1983 | Tony Scott | 1805 |
| 67 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 1891 |
| 68 | They Were Expendable | 1945 | John Ford | 1911 |
| 69 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks | 1926 |
| 70 | Hallelujah! | 1929 | King Vidor | 1930 |
| 71 | Spaceballs | 1987 | Mel Brooks | 1931 |
| 72 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2011 | David Fincher | 1964 |
| 73 | The Unknown | 1927 | Tod Browning | 1979 |
| 74 | Camille | 1936 | George Cukor | 2006 |
| 75 | Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | Vincente Minnelli | 2013 |
| 76 | The Merry Widow | 1934 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2030 |
| 77 | Rocky IV | 1985 | Sylvester Stallone | 2044 |
| 78 | The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | Peter Weir | 2045 |
| 79 | Kiss Me Kate | 1953 | George Sidney | 2047 |
| 80 | Captains Courageous | 1937 | Victor Fleming | 2092 |
| 81 | Kelly's Heroes | 1970 | Brian G. Hutton | 2135 |
| 82 | Battleground | 1949 | William A. Wellman | 2137 |
| 83 | Fame | 1980 | Alan Parker | 2174 |
| 84 | Lust for Life | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli | 2182 |
| 85 | The Cabin in the Woods | 2011 | Drew Goddard | 2184 |
| 86 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | Peter Jackson | 2198 |
| 87 | Get Shorty | 1995 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 2209 |
| 88 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse2 | 1921 | Rex Ingram | 2222 |
| 89 | Dinner at Eight | 1933 | George Cukor | 2226 |
| 90 | Creed | 2015 | Ryan Coogler | 2231 |
| 91 | Clash of the Titans | 1981 | Desmond Davis | 2277 |
| 92 | The Goodbye Girl | 1977 | Herbert Ross | 2426 |
| 93 | My Favorite Year | 1982 | Richard Benjamin | 2453 |
| 94 | Lars and the Real Girl | 2007 | Craig Gillespie | 2461 |
| 95 | 21 Jump Street | 2012 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 2483 |
| 96 | Show People | 1928 | King Vidor | 2500 |
| 97 | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor | 2568 |
| 98 | It's Always Fair Weather | 1955 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 2579 |
| 99 | The Broadway Melody | 1929 | Harry Beaumont | 2590 |
| 100 | Zabriskie Point | 1970 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 2624 |
| 101 | Pat and Mike | 1952 | George Cukor | 2646 |
| 102 | Anchors Aweigh | 1945 | George Sidney | 2670 |
| 103 | A Day at the Races | 1937 | Sam Wood | 2681 |
| 104 | Legally Blonde | 2001 | Robert Luketic | 2686 |
| 105 | The Good Earth | 1937 | Sidney Franklin | 2689 |
| 106 | The Harvey Girls | 1946 | George Sidney | 2691 |
| 107 | Father of the Bride | 1950 | Vincente Minnelli | 2715 |
| 108 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1999 | John McTiernan | 2769 |
1 Produced by Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.
2 Produced by Metro Pictures Corporation.