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| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 7 |
| 2 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 12 |
| 3 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 20 |
| 4 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 24 |
| 5 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 25 |
| 6 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 53 |
| 7 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 56 |
| 8 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 59 |
| 9 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | 71 |
| 10 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 74 |
| 11 | WALL•E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | 82 |
| 12 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 85 |
| 13 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 86 |
| 14 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 87 |
| 15 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | 89 |
| 16 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 103 |
| 17 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 108 |
| 18 | This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner | 109 |
| 19 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 111 |
| 20 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 115 |
| 21 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 117 |
| 22 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 121 |
| 23 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 142 |
| 24 | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 156 |
| 25 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | 161 |
| 26 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker | 164 |
| 27 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 166 |
| 28 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 181 |
| 29 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 182 |
| 30 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | 183 |
| 31 | Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 192 |
| 32 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 198 |
| 33 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 203 |
| 34 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 205 |
| 35 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1949 | Robert Hamer | 207 |
| 36 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | 242 |
| 37 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 248 |
| 38 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 252 |
| 39 | Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright | 260 |
| 40 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 264 |
| 41 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | 272 |
| 42 | To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch | 280 |
| 43 | Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero | 307 |
| 44 | RoboCop | 1987 | Paul Verhoeven | 308 |
| 45 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 316 |
| 46 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 317 |
| 47 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 327 |
| 48 | Viridiana | 1961 | Luis Buñuel | 332 |
| 49 | Clueless | 1995 | Amy Heckerling | 333 |
| 50 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 337 |
| 51 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 346 |
| 52 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 353 |
| 53 | Moulin Rouge! | 2001 | Baz Luhrmann | 357 |
| 54 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 359 |
| 55 | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 360 |
| 56 | Clerks. | 1994 | Kevin Smith | 364 |
| 57 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | 367 |
| 58 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 371 |
| 59 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 397 |
| 60 | Ninotchka | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch | 401 |
| 61 | South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Trey Parker | 407 |
| 62 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 422 |
| 63 | Ace in the Hole | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 423 |
| 64 | An American Werewolf in London | 1981 | John Landis | 436 |
| 65 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | 2006 | Larry Charles | 458 |
| 66 | Batman | 1989 | Tim Burton | 462 |
| 67 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 476 |
| 68 | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | 2004 | Adam McKay | 491 |
| 69 | Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen | 499 |
| 70 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | Mike Newell | 504 |
| 71 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 517 |
| 72 | Pink Flamingos | 1972 | John Waters | 520 |
| 73 | The Celebration | 1998 | Thomas Vinterberg | 525 |
| 74 | Election | 1999 | Alexander Payne | 546 |
| 75 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 551 |
| 76 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | 554 |
| 77 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | 559 |
| 78 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | 1988 | David Zucker | 565 |
| 79 | Office Space | 1999 | Mike Judge | 570 |
| 80 | Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | John Madden | 592 |
| 81 | The Fifth Element | 1997 | Luc Besson | 599 |
| 82 | The Triplets of Belleville | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet | 601 |
| 83 | Sideways | 2004 | Alexander Payne | 606 |
| 84 | Little Miss Sunshine | 2006 | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris | 607 |
| 85 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel | 613 |
| 86 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | 617 |
| 87 | Crumb | 1994 | Terry Zwigoff | 621 |
| 88 | Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | Michael Moore | 630 |
| 89 | Trading Places | 1983 | John Landis | 632 |
| 90 | Love Actually | 2003 | Richard Curtis | 636 |
| 91 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen | 647 |
| 92 | Delicatessen | 1991 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 654 |
| 93 | Heathers | 1989 | Michael Lehmann | 663 |
| 94 | L'Âge d'or | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | 665 |
| 95 | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jirí Menzel | 680 |
| 96 | Mon Oncle | 1958 | Jacques Tati | 682 |
| 97 | Napoleon Dynamite | 2004 | Jared Hess | 690 |
| 98 | Batman Returns | 1992 | Tim Burton | 698 |
| 99 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | 705 |
| 100 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston | 764 |
| 101 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | 1976 | Nicolas Roeg | 765 |
| 102 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell | 779 |
| 103 | El Topo | 1970 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 780 |
| 104 | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 787 |
| 105 | Slap Shot | 1977 | George Roy Hill | 801 |
| 106 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 806 |
| 107 | Galaxy Quest | 1999 | Dean Parisot | 810 |
| 108 | Mean Girls | 2004 | Mark Waters | 815 |
| 109 | Lolita | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick | 823 |
| 110 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1985 | Woody Allen | 848 |
| 111 | Time Bandits | 1981 | Terry Gilliam | 851 |
| 112 | American Psycho | 2000 | Mary Harron | 855 |
| 113 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | 1943 | Preston Sturges | 884 |
| 114 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze | 888 |
| 115 | Serenity | 2005 | Joss Whedon | 891 |
| 116 | Dark Star | 1974 | John Carpenter | 897 |
| 117 | Salò | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 928 |
| 118 | Team America: World Police | 2004 | Trey Parker | 936 |
| 119 | Three Kings | 1999 | David O. Russell | 967 |
| 120 | Happiness | 1998 | Todd Solondz | 969 |
| 121 | Waking Life | 2001 | Richard Linklater | 970 |
| 122 | Broadcast News | 1987 | James L. Brooks | 972 |
| 123 | Waiting for Guffman | 1996 | Christopher Guest | 999 |
| 124 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | Tim Burton | 1006 |
| 125 | Underground | 1995 | Emir Kusturica | 1010 |
| 126 | A Face in the Crowd | 1957 | Elia Kazan | 1013 |
| 127 | Coming to America | 1988 | John Landis | 1042 |
| 128 | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele | 1061 |
| 129 | Zero for Conduct | 1933 | Jean Vigo | 1071 |
| 130 | The Devils | 1971 | Ken Russell | 1082 |
| 131 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 2005 | Shane Black | 1101 |
| 132 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | 1989 | Peter Greenaway | 1102 |
| 133 | The Draughtsman's Contract | 1982 | Peter Greenaway | 1116 |
| 134 | Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilová | 1138 |
| 135 | Wild at Heart | 1990 | David Lynch | 1157 |
| 136 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Martin Scorsese | 1160 |
| 137 | They Live | 1988 | John Carpenter | 1164 |
| 138 | Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | François Truffaut | 1178 |
| 139 | The Holy Mountain | 1973 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1202 |
| 140 | Slacker | 1990 | Richard Linklater | 1207 |
| 141 | Hairspray | 1988 | John Waters | 1210 |
| 142 | Natural Born Killers | 1994 | Oliver Stone | 1226 |
| 143 | The Trial | 1962 | Orson Welles | 1244 |
| 144 | The Nutty Professor | 1963 | Jerry Lewis | 1269 |
| 145 | That Obscure Object of Desire | 1977 | Luis Buñuel | 1273 |
| 146 | Born Yesterday | 1950 | George Cukor | 1276 |
| 147 | Shrek 2 | 2004 | Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon | 1287 |
| 148 | The Host | 2006 | Bong Joon Ho | 1298 |
| 149 | In the Loop | 2009 | Armando Iannucci | 1311 |
| 150 | Day of the Dead | 1985 | George A. Romero | 1314 |
| 151 | Zelig | 1983 | Woody Allen | 1328 |
| 152 | Man Bites Dog | 1992 | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde | 1353 |
| 153 | Watchmen | 2009 | Zack Snyder | 1355 |
| 154 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | 2004 | Rawson Marshall Thurber | 1356 |
| 155 | Lost in America | 1985 | Albert Brooks | 1365 |
| 156 | Week End | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1366 |
| 157 | Wet Hot American Summer | 2001 | David Wain | 1381 |
| 158 | Grosse Pointe Blank | 1997 | George Armitage | 1434 |
| 159 | Bananas | 1971 | Woody Allen | 1477 |
| 160 | Hail the Conquering Hero | 1944 | Preston Sturges | 1497 |
| 161 | Xala | 1975 | Ousmane Sembene | 1514 |
| 162 | Horse Feathers | 1932 | Norman Z. McLeod | 1533 |
| 163 | The Brother from Another Planet | 1984 | John Sayles | 1548 |
| 164 | Alice | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer | 1561 |
| 165 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | 2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1567 |
| 166 | North Dallas Forty | 1979 | Ted Kotcheff | 1570 |
| 167 | The Barbarian Invasions | 2003 | Denys Arcand | 1590 |
| 168 | Good Bye Lenin! | 2003 | Wolfgang Becker | 1596 |
| 169 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | 2004 | Michael Moore | 1615 |
| 170 | L.A. Story | 1991 | Mick Jackson | 1618 |
| 171 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | 1932 | Jean Renoir | 1628 |
| 172 | He Got Game | 1998 | Spike Lee | 1675 |
| 173 | Deadpool | 2016 | Tim Miller | 1700 |
| 174 | The Man with Two Brains | 1983 | Carl Reiner | 1702 |
| 175 | 3 Women | 1977 | Robert Altman | 1706 |
| 176 | Exit through the Gift Shop | 2010 | Banksy | 1723 |
| 177 | Little Children | 2006 | Todd Field | 1724 |
| 178 | Nine to Five | 1980 | Colin Higgins | 1731 |
| 179 | 3 Idiots | 2009 | Rajkumar Hirani | 1750 |
| 180 | Good Morning | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1752 |
| 181 | Female Trouble | 1974 | John Waters | 1759 |
| 182 | Fritz the Cat | 1972 | Ralph Bakshi | 1782 |
| 183 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols | 1796 |
| 184 | The Phantom of Liberty | 1974 | Luis Buñuel | 1799 |
| 185 | Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton | 1807 |
| 186 | Nightcrawler | 2014 | Dan Gilroy | 1811 |
| 187 | The Firemen's Ball | 1967 | Milos Forman | 1862 |
| 188 | Easy A | 2010 | Will Gluck | 1903 |
| 189 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa | 1921 |
| 190 | Welcome to the Dollhouse | 1995 | Todd Solondz | 1927 |
| 191 | Spaceballs | 1987 | Mel Brooks | 1931 |
| 192 | O Lucky Man! | 1973 | Lindsay Anderson | 1942 |
| 193 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | 2013 | Francis Lawrence | 1950 |
| 194 | But I'm a Cheerleader | 1999 | Jamie Babbit | 1952 |
| 195 | Idiocracy | 2006 | Mike Judge | 1953 |
| 196 | Baby Doll | 1956 | Elia Kazan | 1978 |
| 197 | Stripes | 1981 | Ivan Reitman | 2003 |
| 198 | I'm Not There. | 2007 | Todd Haynes | 2008 |
| 199 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 2019 |
| 200 | Fellini Satyricon | 1969 | Federico Fellini | 2023 |
| 201 | To Die For | 1995 | Gus Van Sant | 2024 |
| 202 | 1984 | 1984 | Michael Radford | 2028 |
| 203 | Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion | 1970 | Elio Petri | 2048 |
| 204 | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | 2008 | Nicholas Stoller | 2049 |
| 205 | Dredd | 2012 | Pete Travis | 2054 |
| 206 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | 1970 | Russ Meyer | 2055 |
| 207 | Ginger Snaps | 2000 | John Fawcett | 2106 |
| 208 | La Cage aux Folles | 1978 | Edouard Molinaro | 2111 |
| 209 | À Nous la Liberté | 1931 | René Clair | 2136 |
| 210 | Il Posto | 1961 | Ermanno Olmi | 2153 |
| 211 | Antz | 1998 | Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson | 2155 |
| 212 | The Great Beauty | 2013 | Paolo Sorrentino | 2157 |
| 213 | The Cabin in the Woods | 2011 | Drew Goddard | 2184 |
| 214 | Get Shorty | 1995 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 2209 |
| 215 | Not on Your Life | 1963 | Luis García Berlanga | 2210 |
| 216 | Dinner at Eight | 1933 | George Cukor | 2226 |
| 217 | W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism | 1971 | Dusan Makavejev | 2236 |
| 218 | Lord of War | 2005 | Andrew Niccol | 2239 |
| 219 | Thank You for Smoking | 2005 | Jason Reitman | 2264 |
| 220 | Stardust Memories | 1980 | Woody Allen | 2269 |
| 221 | No Man's Land | 2001 | Danis Tanovic | 2304 |
| 222 | Tropic Thunder | 2008 | Ben Stiller | 2321 |
| 223 | The Devil's Advocate | 1997 | Taylor Hackford | 2337 |
| 224 | Dogma | 1999 | Kevin Smith | 2371 |
| 225 | Snowpiercer | 2013 | Bong Joon Ho | 2380 |
| 226 | Flirting with Disaster | 1996 | David O. Russell | 2398 |
| 227 | Bedazzled | 1967 | Stanley Donen | 2403 |
| 228 | Husbands and Wives | 1992 | Woody Allen | 2408 |
| 229 | David Holzman's Diary | 1967 | Jim McBride | 2416 |
| 230 | The Damned | 1962 | Joseph Losey | 2430 |
| 231 | Irma Vep | 1996 | Olivier Assayas | 2437 |
| 232 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1933 | Alexander Korda | 2445 |
| 233 | Darling | 1965 | John Schlesinger | 2458 |
| 234 | The Great McGinty | 1940 | Preston Sturges | 2462 |
| 235 | The Dinner Game | 1998 | Francis Veber | 2484 |
| 236 | Heavy Metal | 1981 | Gerald Potterton | 2492 |
| 237 | Show People | 1928 | King Vidor | 2500 |
| 238 | The Toxic Avenger | 1984 | Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman | 2501 |
| 239 | Devils on the Doorstep | 2000 | Wen Jiang | 2534 |
| 240 | Baby Face | 1933 | Alfred E. Green | 2551 |
| 241 | Living in Oblivion | 1995 | Tom DiCillo | 2571 |
| 242 | The Rescuers | 1977 | John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Art Stevens | 2586 |
| 243 | Sisters | 1972 | Brian De Palma | 2587 |
| 244 | The Heartbreak Kid | 1972 | Elaine May | 2592 |
| 245 | Parasite | 2019 | Bong Joon Ho | 2601 |
| 246 | Across the Universe | 2007 | Julie Taymor | 2604 |
| 247 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 2605 |
| 248 | ¡Three Amigos! | 1986 | John Landis | 2616 |
| 249 | Le Roman de Renard | 1937 | Irene and Wladyslaw Starewicz | 2628 |
| 250 | Saved! | 2004 | Brian Dannelly | 2644 |
| 251 | Citizen Ruth | 1996 | Alexander Payne | 2664 |
| 252 | The Devil Wears Prada | 2006 | David Frankel | 2675 |
| 253 | The Brave Little Toaster | 1987 | Jerry Rees | 2685 |
| 254 | What We Do in the Shadows | 2014 | Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi | 2688 |
| 255 | The Simpsons Movie | 2007 | David Silverman | 2711 |
| 256 | A Boy and His Dog | 1975 | L.Q. Jones | 2722 |
| 257 | The Kingdom | 1994 | Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier | 2810 |