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) | 19 |
| 2 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | Firelight (1964) | 110 |
| 3 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand | Snow White (1916) | 115 |
| 4 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | The Fly1 (1958) | 147 |
| 5 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | Infernal Affairs1 (2002), Infernal Affairs II (2003), and Infernal Affairs: End Inferno 3 (2003) | 153 |
| 6 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | The Three Outlaws (1956) | 162 |
| 7 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | L.A. Takedown (1989) | 182 |
| 8 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | Scarface1 (1932) | 220 |
| 9 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | Robin Hood (1922) | 265 |
| 10 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | The Dirk Diggler Story (1988) | 318 |
| 11 | District 9 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | Alive in Joburg (2006) | 329 |
| 12 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | La Jetée1 (1962) | 331 |
| 13 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | Invasion of the Body Snatchers2 (1956) | 349 |
| 14 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | The Seven Samurai2 (1954) | 388 |
| 15 | Whiplash | 2014 | Damien Chazelle | Whiplash (2013) | 391 |
| 16 | The Evil Dead | 1981 | Sam Raimi | Within the Woods (1978) | 397 |
| 17 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | Yojimbo2 (1961) | 429 |
| 18 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | A Star Is Born (1937) | 453 |
| 19 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | All That Heaven Allows1 (1955) | 471 |
| 20 | The Killer | 1989 | John Woo | Magnificent Obsession (1954) | 569 |
| 21 | Imitation of Life | 1959 | Douglas Sirk | Imitation of Life (1934) | 571 |
| 22 | The Babadook | 2014 | Jennifer Kent | Monster (2005) | 581 |
| 23 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | The Ten Commandments1 (1923) | 603 |
| 24 | Office Space | 1999 | Mike Judge | Office Space (1991) | 620 |
| 25 | You've Got Mail | 1998 | Nora Ephron | The Shop around the Corner2 (1940) | 768 |
| 26 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 1948 | Max Ophüls | Narkose (1929) | 793 |
| 27 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | Zero for Conduct1 (1933) | 850 |
| 28 | THX-1138 | 1971 | George Lucas | Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (1967) | 854 |
| 29 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Leo McCarey | Love Affair1 (1939) | 900 |
| 30 | The Birdcage | 1996 | Mike Nichols | La cage aux folles (1978) | 941 |
| 31 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | Ocean's Eleven (1960) | 962 |
| 32 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | Nosferatu2 (1922) | 992 |
| 33 | True Lies | 1994 | James Cameron | The Jackpot! (1991) | 1016 |
| 34 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | King Kong2 (1933) | 1038 |
| 35 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | Ring2 (1998) | 1046 |
| 36 | Assault on Precinct 13 | 1976 | John Carpenter | Rio Bravo2 (1959) | 1057 |
| 37 | Little Shop of Horrors | 1986 | Frank Oz | The Little Shop of Horrors1 (1960) | 1076 |
| 38 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | Cape Fear1 (1962) | 1160 |
| 39 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Traffik (1989) | 1188 |
| 40 | Pariah | 2011 | Dee Rees | Pariah (2007) | 1194 |
| 41 | 3:10 to Yuma | 2007 | James Mangold | 3:10 to Yuma1 (1957) | 1195 |
| 42 | It | 2017 | Andy Muschietti | It (1990) | 1264 |
| 43 | Gold Diggers of 1933 | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | The Gold Diggers (1923) and Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) | 1351 |
| 44 | What We Do in the Shadows | 2014 | Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi | What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires (2005) | 1356 |
| 45 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | The Thief of Bagdad2 (1924) | 1359 |
| 46 | A Star Is Born | 2018 | Bradley Cooper | What Price Hollywood? (1932) and A Star Is Born (1937, 19542, and 1976) | 1364 |
| 47 | The Last House on the Left | 1972 | Wes Craven | The Virgin Spring2 (1960) | 1408 |
| 48 | Hairspray | 2007 | Adam Shankman | Hairspray2 (1988) | 1429 |
| 49 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) | 1465 |
| 50 | Floating Weeds | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu | A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) | 1483 |
| 51 | Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach | Meet the Parents (1992) | 1513 |
| 52 | The Mummy | 1999 | Stephen Sommers | The Mummy2 (1932) and The Mummy's Hand (1940) | 1529 |
| 53 | Sorcerer | 1977 | William Friedkin | The Wages of Fear2 (1953) | 1550 |
| 54 | Scent of a Woman | 1992 | Martin Brest | Scent of a Woman (1974) | 1572 |
| 55 | Victor/Victoria | 1982 | Blake Edwards | Viktor and Viktoria (1933 and 1957) and First a Girl (1935) | 1636 |
| 56 | Dawn of the Dead | 2004 | Zack Snyder | Dawn of the Dead2 (1978) | 1640 |
| 57 | Sons of the Desert | 1933 | William A. Seiter | Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914) and We Faw Down (1928) | 1645 |
| 58 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Berlin - Alexanderplatz (1931) | 1684 |
| 59 | 13 Assassins | 2010 | Takashi Miike | 13 Assassins (1963) | 1685 |
| 60 | Bad Education | 2004 | Pedro Almodóvar | Law of Desire1 (1987) | 1699 |
| 61 | The Parent Trap | 1998 | Nancy Meyers | Das doppelte Lottchen (1950) and The Parent Trap1 (1961) | 1715 |
| 62 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | 1988 | Frank Oz | Bedtime Story (1964) | 1770 |
| 63 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth | Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) | 1807 |
| 64 | Bottle Rocket | 1996 | Wes Anderson | Bottle Rocket (1994) | 1834 |
| 65 | The Parent Trap | 1961 | David Swift | Das doppelte Lottchen (1950) | 1896 |
| 66 | Victory | 1981 | John Huston | Two Half-Times in Hell (1962) | 1901 |
| 67 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Cleopatra (1917 and 1934) | 1904 |
| 68 | A Better Tomorrow | 1986 | John Woo | The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (1967) | 1923 |
| 69 | The Fall | 2006 | Tarsem Singh | Yo ho ho (1981) | 1996 |
| 70 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz | Captain Blood (1924) | 2016 |
| 71 | Freaky Friday | 2003 | Mark Waters | Freaky Friday (1976) | 2023 |
| 72 | The Curse of Frankenstein | 1957 | Terence Fisher | Frankenstein2 (1931) | 2042 |
| 73 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Cyrano de Bergerac (1945) | 2043 |
| 74 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | 2005 | Jacques Audiard | Fingers (1978) | 2056 |
| 75 | House Party | 1990 | Reginald Hudlin | House Party (1983) | 2058 |
| 76 | Ju-on: The Grudge | 2002 | Takashi Shimizu | Ju-on: The Curse (2000) | 2121 |
| 77 | The Golem | 1920 | Paul Wegener | Der Golem (1915) | 2134 |
| 78 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 2011 | Rupert Wyatt | Planet of the Apes2 (1968) and Planet of the Apes (2001) | 2177 |
| 79 | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shôhei Imamura | Ballad of Narayama (1958) | 2190 |
| 80 | Insomnia | 2002 | Christopher Nolan | Insomnia (1997) | 2286 |
| 81 | The Informer | 1935 | John Ford | The Informer (1929) | 2294 |
| 82 | Tetsuo: The Iron Man | 1989 | Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Futsû saizu no kaijin (1986) | 2302 |
| 83 | The Music Box | 1932 | James Parrott | Hats Off (1927) | 2315 |
| 84 | The Father | 2020 | Florian Zeller | Florida (2015) | 2378 |
| 85 | The Jungle Book | 2016 | Jon Favreau | The Jungle Book2 (1967) | 2379 |
| 86 | Scarlet Street | 1945 | Fritz Lang | La Chienne2 (1931) | 2398 |
| 87 | Diary of a Lost Girl | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | The Diary of a Lost Woman (1918) | 2400 |
| 88 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters | The Philadelphia Story2 (1940) | 2439 |
| 89 | Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey | 1993 | Duwayne Dunham | The Incredible Journey (1963) | 2612 |
| 90 | El Dorado | 1966 | Howard Hawks | Rio Bravo (1959) | 2643 |
| 91 | Short Term 12 | 2013 | Destin Daniel Cretton | Short Term 12 (2008) | 2667 |
| 92 | The Chorus | 2004 | Christophe Barratier | A Cage of Nightingales (1945) | 2680 |
| 93 | Crank | 2006 | Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor | D.O.A.1 (1949) | 2689 |
| 94 | Mother India | 1957 | Mehboob Khan | Aurat (1940) | 2700 |
| 95 | Seven Chances | 1925 | Buster Keaton | Meet Me at the Fountain (1904), Personal (1904), and How a French Nobleman Got a Wife … (1904) | 2712 |
| 96 | The Italian Job | 2003 | F. Gary Gray | The Italian Job2 (1969) | 2715 |
| 97 | Frankenweenie | 2012 | Tim Burton | Frankenweenie (1984) | 2760 |
| 98 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1999 | John McTiernan | The Thomas Crown Affair2 (1968) | 2774 |
| 99 | Shiva Baby | 2020 | Emma Seligman | Shiva Baby (2018) | 2815 |
| 100 | Let Me in | 2010 | Matt Reeves | Let the Right One In2 (2008) | 2846 |
| 101 | Fist of Legend | 1994 | Gordon Chan | Fist of Fury (1972) | 2995 |
| 102 | The Five Obstructions | 2003 | Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier | The Perfect Human (1968) | 2998 |
| 103 | Never Been Kissed | 1999 | Raja Gosnell | The Major and the Minor (1942) | 3000 |
| 104 | One Hour with You | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch | So This Is Paris (1926) | 3046 |
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.