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 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand | Snow White (1916) | 87 |
| 2 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | The Three Outlaws (1956) | 100 |
| 3 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | Firelight (1964) | 103 |
| 4 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | Robin Hood (1922) | 155 |
| 5 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | L.A. Takedown (1989) | 208 |
| 6 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | A Star Is Born1 (1937) | 224 |
| 7 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | Scarface1 (1932) | 260 |
| 8 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | The Ten Commandments1 (1923) | 323 |
| 9 | The Killer | 1989 | John Woo | Magnificent Obsession1 (1954) and Le Samouraï1 (1967) | 355 |
| 10 | The Awful Truth | 1937 | Leo McCarey | The Awful Truth (1925 and 1929) | 393 |
| 11 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | La Jetée1 (1962) | 394 |
| 12 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 1948 | Max Ophüls | Narkose (1929) | 403 |
| 13 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | The Seven Samurai2 (1954) | 404 |
| 14 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | The Dirk Diggler Story (1988) | 430 |
| 15 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Leo McCarey | Love Affair1 (1939) | 455 |
| 16 | The Evil Dead | 1981 | Sam Raimi | Within the Woods (1978) | 466 |
| 17 | Imitation of Life | 1959 | Douglas Sirk | Imitation of Life1 (1934) | 487 |
| 18 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | The Fly1 (1958) | 524 |
| 19 | If.… | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | Zero for Conduct2 (1933) | 533 |
| 20 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Traffik (1989) | 599 |
| 21 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | The Thief of Bagdad2 (1924) | 627 |
| 22 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | All That Heaven Allows2 (1955) | 675 |
| 23 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Cyrano de Bergerac (1945) | 696 |
| 24 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | Yojimbo2 (1961) | 702 |
| 25 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | Infernal Affairs1 (2002), Infernal Affairs II (2003), and Infernal Affairs: End Inferno 3 (2003) | 802 |
| 26 | Sons of the Desert | 1933 | William A. Seiter | Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914) and We Faw Down (1928) | 806 |
| 27 | Gold Diggers of 1933 | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | The Gold Diggers (1923) and Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) | 859 |
| 28 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | Invasion of the Body Snatchers2 (1956) | 932 |
| 29 | Office Space | 1999 | Mike Judge | Office Space (1991) | 1037 |
| 30 | Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach | Meet the Parents (1992) | 1095 |
| 31 | Victor/Victoria | 1982 | Blake Edwards | Viktor and Viktoria (1933 and 1957) and First a Girl (1935) | 1104 |
| 32 | The Mummy | 1999 | Stephen Sommers | The Mummy2 (1932) and The Mummy's Hand (1940) | 1118 |
| 33 | Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shohei Imamura | Ballad of Narayama (1958) | 1127 |
| 34 | The Informer | 1935 | John Ford | The Informer (1929) | 1133 |
| 35 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Cleopatra (1917 and 1934) | 1169 |
| 36 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Berlin - Alexanderplatz (1931) | 1204 |
| 37 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | Nosferatu2 (1922) | 1222 |
| 38 | Bottle Rocket | 1996 | Wes Anderson | Bottle Rocket (1994) | 1236 |
| 39 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters | The Philadelphia Story2 (1940) | 1296 |
| 40 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz | Captain Blood (1924) | 1324 |
| 41 | Assault on Precinct 13 | 1976 | John Carpenter | Rio Bravo2 (1959) | 1353 |
| 42 | Pennies from Heaven | 1981 | Herbert Ross | Pennies from Heaven (1978) | 1355 |
| 43 | You've Got Mail | 1998 | Nora Ephron | The Shop Around the Corner2 (1940) | 1358 |
| 44 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | King Kong2 (1933) | 1364 |
| 45 | The Night of the Shooting Stars | 1982 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | San Miniato, luglio '44 (1954) | 1429 |
| 46 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | Ocean's Eleven1 (1960) | 1432 |
| 47 | Little Shop of Horrors | 1986 | Frank Oz | The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) | 1524 |
| 48 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) | 1585 |
| 49 | True Lies | 1994 | James Cameron | The Jackpot! (1991) | 1701 |
| 50 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth | Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) | 1710 |
| 51 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | Cape Fear1 (1962) | 1723 |
| 52 | Shadowlands | 1993 | Richard Attenborough | Shadowlands (1985) | 1733 |
| 53 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | Ring2 (1998) | 1757 |
| 54 | Scarlet Street | 1945 | Fritz Lang | La Chienne2 (1931) | 1781 |
| 55 | Floating Weeds | 1959 | Yasujiro Ozu | A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) | 1809 |
| 56 | THX-1138 | 1971 | George Lucas | Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (1967) | 1844 |
| 57 | Scent of a Woman | 1992 | Martin Brest | Scent of a Woman (1974) | 1871 |
| 58 | The Music Box | 1932 | James Parrott | Hats Off (1927) | 1882 |
| 59 | City of Angels | 1998 | Brad Silberling | Wings of Desire2 (1987) | 1895 |
| 60 | The Last House on the Left | 1972 | Wes Craven | The Virgin Spring2 (1960) | 1977 |
| 61 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1950 | Michael Gordon | Cyrano de Bergerac (1925 and 1945) | 2118 |
| 62 | Freaky Friday | 2003 | Mark Waters | Freaky Friday (1976) | 2138 |
| 63 | Sweet Charity | 1969 | Bob Fosse | Nights of Cabiria2 (1957) | 2147 |
| 64 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1999 | John McTiernan | The Thomas Crown Affair2 (1968) | 2170 |
| 65 | The Golem | 1920 | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener | Der Golem (1915) | 2184 |
| 66 | Mother India | 1957 | Mehboob Khan | Aurat (1940) | 2213 |
| 67 | Planet of the Apes | 2001 | Tim Burton | Planet of the Apes1 (1968) | 2225 |
| 68 | Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | 1990 | Pedro Almodóvar | The Collector (1965) | 2248 |
| 69 | The Nutty Professor | 1996 | Tom Shadyac | The Nutty Professor2 (1963) | 2281 |
| 70 | Father of the Bride | 1991 | Charles Shyer | Father of the Bride2 (1950) | 2303 |
| 71 | Orphans of the Storm | 1921 | D.W. Griffith | The Two Orphans (1911 and 1915) | 2323 |
| 72 | The Birdcage | 1996 | Mike Nichols | La Cage aux folles2 (1978) | 2373 |
| 73 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | 1986 | Paul Mazursky | Boudu Saved from Drowning2 (1932) | 2380 |
| 74 | Silk Stockings | 1957 | Rouben Mamoulian | Ninotchka2 (1939) | 2413 |
| 75 | Pale Rider | 1985 | Clint Eastwood | Shane2 (1953) | 2511 |
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.