This list includes films that the Internet Movie Database labels as being remakes of the specific film(s). Some of the films below are rather loose remakes of the original films. Unless otherwise indicated, the original film does not appear on the Master List.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Original Film(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | Fanfares of Love (1951) | 11 |
| 2 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand | Snow White (1916) | 81 |
| 3 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | Firelight (1964) | 98 |
| 4 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | The Three Outlaws (1956) | 107 |
| 5 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | Robin Hood (1922) | 155 |
| 6 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | L.A. Takedown (1989) | 171 |
| 7 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | A Star Is Born1 (1937) | 245 |
| 8 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | Scarface1 (1932) | 248 |
| 9 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | The Seven Samurai2 (1954) | 325 |
| 10 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | La Jetée1 (1962) | 338 |
| 11 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | The Ten Commandments (1923) | 357 |
| 12 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | The Dirk Diggler Story (1988) | 367 |
| 13 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | The Fly1 (1958) | 399 |
| 14 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 1948 | Max Ophüls | Narkose (1929) | 402 |
| 15 | The Killer | 1989 | John Woo | Magnificent Obsession (1954) | 403 |
| 16 | The Evil Dead | 1981 | Sam Raimi | Within the Woods (1978) | 454 |
| 17 | Imitation of Life | 1959 | Douglas Sirk | Imitation of Life1 (1934) | 538 |
| 18 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Leo McCarey | Love Affair1 (1939) | 540 |
| 19 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | Zero for Conduct1 (1933) | 546 |
| 20 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | Infernal Affairs1 (2002), Infernal Affairs II (2003), and Infernal Affairs: End Inferno 3 (2003) | 564 |
| 21 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | All That Heaven Allows1 (1955) | 646 |
| 22 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | The Thief of Bagdad2 (1924) | 649 |
| 23 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | Yojimbo2 (1961) | 680 |
| 24 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Traffik (1989) | 696 |
| 25 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Cyrano de Bergerac (1945) | 736 |
| 26 | Sons of the Desert | 1933 | William A. Seiter | Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914) and We Faw Down (1928) | 795 |
| 27 | Office Space | 1999 | Mike Judge | Office Space (1991) | 829 |
| 28 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | Invasion of the Body Snatchers2 (1956) | 841 |
| 29 | Assault on Precinct 13 | 1976 | John Carpenter | Rio Bravo2 (1959) | 974 |
| 30 | Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach | Meet the Parents (1992) | 999 |
| 31 | Gold Diggers of 1933 | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | The Gold Diggers (1923) and Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) | 1122 |
| 32 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | King Kong2 (1933) | 1165 |
| 33 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Berlin - Alexanderplatz (1931) | 1174 |
| 34 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | Nosferatu2 (1922) | 1182 |
| 35 | Bottle Rocket | 1996 | Wes Anderson | Bottle Rocket (1994) | 1183 |
| 36 | Victor/Victoria | 1982 | Blake Edwards | Viktor and Viktoria (1933 and 1957) and First a Girl (1935) | 1277 |
| 37 | THX-1138 | 1971 | George Lucas | Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (1967) | 1282 |
| 38 | The Mummy | 1999 | Stephen Sommers | The Mummy2 (1932) and The Mummy's Hand (1940) | 1290 |
| 39 | Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shohei Imamura | Ballad of Narayama (1958) | 1302 |
| 40 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters | The Philadelphia Story2 (1940) | 1350 |
| 41 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | Ocean's Eleven (1960) | 1363 |
| 42 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Cleopatra (1917 and 1934) | 1372 |
| 43 | You've Got Mail | 1998 | Nora Ephron | The Shop Around the Corner2 (1940) | 1375 |
| 44 | The Informer | 1935 | John Ford | The Informer (1929) | 1394 |
| 45 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | Ring2 (1998) | 1475 |
| 46 | Pennies from Heaven | 1981 | Herbert Ross | Pennies from Heaven (1978) | 1585 |
| 47 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth | Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) | 1591 |
| 48 | Shadowlands | 1993 | Richard Attenborough | Shadowlands (1985) | 1661 |
| 49 | The Golem | 1920 | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener | Der Golem (1915) | 1741 |
| 50 | Freaky Friday | 2003 | Mark Waters | Freaky Friday (1976) | 1766 |
| 51 | Little Shop of Horrors | 1986 | Frank Oz | The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) | 1768 |
| 52 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | Cape Fear2 (1962) | 1769 |
| 53 | Dawn of the Dead | 2004 | Zack Snyder | Dawn of the Dead2 (1978) | 1790 |
| 54 | Scarlet Street | 1945 | Fritz Lang | La Chienne2 (1931) | 1793 |
| 55 | The Music Box | 1932 | James Parrott | Hats Off (1927) | 1835 |
| 56 | Solaris | 2002 | Steven Soderbergh | Solaris2 (1972) | 1864 |
| 57 | The Last House on the Left | 1972 | Wes Craven | The Virgin Spring2 (1960) | 1929 |
| 58 | True Lies | 1994 | James Cameron | The Jackpot! (1991) | 1953 |
| 59 | Scent of a Woman | 1992 | Martin Brest | Scent of a Woman (1974) | 1957 |
| 60 | City of Angels | 1998 | Brad Silberling | Wings of Desire2 (1987) | 1979 |
| 61 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz | Captain Blood (1924) | 1994 |
| 62 | Victory | 1981 | John Huston | Two Half-Times in Hell (1962) | 2042 |
| 63 | Seven Chances | 1925 | Buster Keaton | Meet Me at the Fountain (1904), Personal (1904), and How a French Nobleman Got a Wife … (1904) | 2044 |
| 64 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) | 2082 |
| 65 | The Sure Thing | 1985 | Rob Reiner | It Happened One Night2 (1934) | 2111 |
| 66 | Insomnia | 2002 | Christopher Nolan | Insomnia (1997) | 2178 |
| 67 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | 1988 | Frank Oz | Bedtime Story (1964) | 2202 |
| 68 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1981 | Bob Rafelson | The Postman Always Rings Twice2 (1946) | 2260 |
| 69 | El Dorado | 1966 | Howard Hawks | Rio Bravo2 (1959) | 2264 |
1 Indicates that the original film is ranked on the Master List, but lower than the remake.
2 Indicates that the original film is ranked on the Master List higher than the remake.