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) | 10 |
| 2 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand | Snow White (1916) | 89 |
| 3 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | Firelight (1964) | 103 |
| 4 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | The Three Outlaws (1956) | 114 |
| 5 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | L.A. Takedown (1989) | 150 |
| 6 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | Robin Hood (1922) | 153 |
| 7 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | Scarface1 (1932) | 239 |
| 8 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | A Star Is Born1 (1937) | 250 |
| 9 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | The Seven Samurai2 (1954) | 318 |
| 10 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | La Jetée1 (1962) | 341 |
| 11 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | The Fly1 (1958) | 349 |
| 12 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | The Dirk Diggler Story (1988) | 373 |
| 13 | The Killer | 1989 | John Woo | Magnificent Obsession (1954) | 398 |
| 14 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | The Ten Commandments1 (1923) | 403 |
| 15 | The Evil Dead | 1981 | Sam Raimi | Within the Woods (1978) | 404 |
| 16 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 1948 | Max Ophüls | Narkose (1929) | 477 |
| 17 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Leo McCarey | Love Affair1 (1939) | 514 |
| 18 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | Infernal Affairs1 (2002), Infernal Affairs II (2003), and Infernal Affairs: End Inferno 3 (2003) | 522 |
| 19 | Imitation of Life | 1959 | Douglas Sirk | Imitation of Life1 (1934) | 531 |
| 20 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | Zero for Conduct1 (1933) | 559 |
| 21 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | All That Heaven Allows1 (1955) | 572 |
| 22 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | Yojimbo2 (1961) | 653 |
| 23 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | The Thief of Bagdad2 (1924) | 709 |
| 24 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Traffik (1989) | 713 |
| 25 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Cyrano de Bergerac (1945) | 729 |
| 26 | Office Space | 1999 | Mike Judge | Office Space (1991) | 774 |
| 27 | Sons of the Desert | 1933 | William A. Seiter | Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914) and We Faw Down (1928) | 844 |
| 28 | Assault on Precinct 13 | 1976 | John Carpenter | Rio Bravo2 (1959) | 862 |
| 29 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | Invasion of the Body Snatchers2 (1956) | 889 |
| 30 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | Nosferatu2 (1922) | 1047 |
| 31 | Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach | Meet the Parents (1992) | 1066 |
| 32 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | King Kong2 (1933) | 1075 |
| 33 | Gold Diggers of 1933 | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | The Gold Diggers (1923) and Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) | 1095 |
| 34 | THX-1138 | 1971 | George Lucas | Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (1967) | 1182 |
| 35 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Berlin - Alexanderplatz (1931) | 1233 |
| 36 | The Mummy | 1999 | Stephen Sommers | The Mummy2 (1932) and The Mummy's Hand (1940) | 1246 |
| 37 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters | The Philadelphia Story2 (1940) | 1263 |
| 38 | Bottle Rocket | 1996 | Wes Anderson | Bottle Rocket (1994) | 1286 |
| 39 | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shohei Imamura | Ballad of Narayama (1958) | 1344 |
| 40 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | Ocean's Eleven (1960) | 1352 |
| 41 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Cleopatra (1917 and 1934) | 1397 |
| 42 | True Lies | 1994 | James Cameron | The Jackpot! (1991) | 1411 |
| 43 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | Ring2 (1998) | 1422 |
| 44 | Victor/Victoria | 1982 | Blake Edwards | Viktor and Viktoria (1933 and 1957) and First a Girl (1935) | 1433 |
| 45 | The Informer | 1935 | John Ford | The Informer (1929) | 1441 |
| 46 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) | 1557 |
| 47 | You've Got Mail | 1998 | Nora Ephron | The Shop Around the Corner2 (1940) | 1567 |
| 48 | Dawn of the Dead | 2004 | Zack Snyder | Dawn of the Dead2 (1978) | 1587 |
| 49 | The Last House on the Left | 1972 | Wes Craven | The Virgin Spring2 (1960) | 1591 |
| 50 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | Cape Fear2 (1962) | 1646 |
| 51 | Little Shop of Horrors | 1986 | Frank Oz | The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) | 1668 |
| 52 | The Music Box | 1932 | James Parrott | Hats Off (1927) | 1678 |
| 53 | Solaris | 2002 | Steven Soderbergh | Solaris2 (1972) | 1689 |
| 54 | Shadowlands | 1993 | Richard Attenborough | Shadowlands (1985) | 1744 |
| 55 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth | Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) | 1746 |
| 56 | Scent of a Woman | 1992 | Martin Brest | Scent of a Woman (1974) | 1753 |
| 57 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz | Captain Blood (1924) | 1800 |
| 58 | Scarlet Street | 1945 | Fritz Lang | La Chienne2 (1931) | 1870 |
| 59 | Pennies from Heaven | 1981 | Herbert Ross | Pennies from Heaven (1978) | 1875 |
| 60 | Insomnia | 2002 | Christopher Nolan | Insomnia (1997) | 1892 |
| 61 | Victory | 1981 | John Huston | Two Half-Times in Hell (1962) | 1896 |
| 62 | Freaky Friday | 2003 | Mark Waters | Freaky Friday (1976) | 1919 |
| 63 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1981 | Bob Rafelson | The Postman Always Rings Twice2 (1946) | 1951 |
| 64 | The Golem | 1920 | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener | Der Golem (1915) | 2051 |
| 65 | City of Angels | 1998 | Brad Silberling | Wings of Desire2 (1987) | 2066 |
| 66 | District 9 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | Alive in Joburg (2006) | 2070 |
| 67 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1999 | John McTiernan | The Thomas Crown Affair2 (1968) | 2093 |
| 68 | The Nutty Professor | 1996 | Tom Shadyac | The Nutty Professor2 (1963) | 2120 |
| 69 | Seven Chances | 1925 | Buster Keaton | Meet Me at the Fountain (1904), Personal (1904), and How a French Nobleman Got a Wife … (1904) | 2125 |
| 70 | The Sure Thing | 1985 | Rob Reiner | It Happened One Night2 (1934) | 2177 |
| 71 | Mother India | 1957 | Mehboob Khan | Aurat (1940) | 2238 |
| 72 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | 2005 | Jacques Audiard | Fingers (1978) | 2257 |
| 73 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | 1988 | Frank Oz | Bedtime Story (1964) | 2305 |
| 74 | The Birdcage | 1996 | Mike Nichols | La cage aux folles2 (1978) | 2308 |
| 75 | Vanilla Sky | 2001 | Cameron Crowe | Open Your Eyes2 (1997) | 2317 |
| 76 | El Dorado | 1966 | Howard Hawks | Rio Bravo2 (1959) | 2365 |
| 77 | Bad Education | 2004 | Pedro Almodóvar | Law of Desire (1987) | 2390 |
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.