This list includes films from Warner Brothers/Seven Arts, Castle Rock Entertainment, Seven Arts Productions (Pictures), First National Pictures, and Warner Independent Pictures.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
| 2 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
| 3 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 24 |
| 4 | The Matrix | 1999 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 35 |
| 5 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 37 |
| 6 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 41 |
| 7 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 47 |
| 8 | The Shawshank Redemption1 | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 52 |
| 9 | The Wild Bunch2 | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 63 |
| 10 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 68 |
| 11 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 95 |
| 12 | Bonnie and Clyde2 | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 97 |
| 13 | West Side Story3 | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 118 |
| 14 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 127 |
| 15 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 133 |
| 16 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 134 |
| 17 | When Harry Met Sally…1 | 1989 | Rob Reiner | 149 |
| 18 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 157 |
| 19 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 158 |
| 20 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 171 |
| 21 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 177 |
| 22 | Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 192 |
| 23 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 196 |
| 24 | Dirty Harry | 1971 | Don Siegel | 206 |
| 25 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 212 |
| 26 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | 226 |
| 27 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 238 |
| 28 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 263 |
| 29 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman | 288 |
| 30 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 290 |
| 31 | The Iron Giant5 | 1999 | Brad Bird | 296 |
| 32 | Before Sunset1 4 | 2004 | Richard Linklater | 315 |
| 33 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | George Cukor | 322 |
| 34 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | 331 |
| 35 | White Heat | 1949 | Raoul Walsh | 336 |
| 36 | Before Sunrise1 | 1995 | Richard Linklater | 373 |
| 37 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle | 394 |
| 38 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | 396 |
| 39 | Deliverance | 1972 | John Boorman | 404 |
| 40 | South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Trey Parker | 407 |
| 41 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 414 |
| 42 | The Green Mile1 | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 421 |
| 43 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 440 |
| 44 | The Goonies | 1985 | Richard Donner | 444 |
| 45 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | Mike Nichols | 448 |
| 46 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 449 |
| 47 | Batman | 1989 | Tim Burton | 462 |
| 48 | Enter the Dragon | 1973 | Robert Clouse | 481 |
| 49 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | 484 |
| 50 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?3 | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | 488 |
| 51 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 503 |
| 52 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 529 |
| 53 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra | 533 |
| 54 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | 555 |
| 55 | The Dirty Dozen3 | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 566 |
| 56 | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | 577 |
| 57 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg | 593 |
| 58 | Now, Voyager | 1942 | Irving Rapper | 612 |
| 59 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | Christopher Nolan | 614 |
| 60 | Bullitt2 | 1968 | Peter Yates | 627 |
| 61 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | 638 |
| 62 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 641 |
| 63 | Gravity | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | 645 |
| 64 | 42nd Street | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | 664 |
| 65 | 300 | 2006 | Zack Snyder | 666 |
| 66 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | 669 |
| 67 | The Fugitive | 1993 | Andrew Davis | 677 |
| 68 | The Jazz Singer | 1927 | Alan Crosland | 679 |
| 69 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | 681 |
| 70 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 683 |
| 71 | Yankee Doodle Dandy6 | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 687 |
| 72 | Batman Returns | 1992 | Tim Burton | 698 |
| 73 | Eyes Wide Shut | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick | 699 |
| 74 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | 705 |
| 75 | Misery1 | 1990 | Rob Reiner | 745 |
| 76 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | Clint Eastwood | 748 |
| 77 | The Public Enemy | 1931 | William A. Wellman | 753 |
| 78 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood | 759 |
| 79 | Lethal Weapon | 1987 | Richard Donner | 763 |
| 80 | East of Eden | 1955 | Elia Kazan | 766 |
| 81 | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg | 812 |
| 82 | Lone Star1 | 1996 | John Sayles | 821 |
| 83 | Lolita3 | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick | 823 |
| 84 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 826 |
| 85 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 827 |
| 86 | The Hangover | 2009 | Todd Phillips | 844 |
| 87 | Best in Show1 | 2000 | Christopher Guest | 849 |
| 88 | Roger & Me | 1989 | Michael Moore | 861 |
| 89 | The Color Purple | 1985 | Steven Spielberg | 862 |
| 90 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | 1985 | Tim Burton | 873 |
| 91 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 880 |
| 92 | The Lego Movie | 2014 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 918 |
| 93 | THX-1138 | 1971 | George Lucas | 944 |
| 94 | Three Kings | 1999 | David O. Russell | 967 |
| 95 | Superman II | 1980 | Richard Lester | 971 |
| 96 | Gold Diggers of 1933 | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | 981 |
| 97 | Little Caesar6 | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy | 983 |
| 98 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | 984 |
| 99 | Waiting for Guffman1 | 1996 | Christopher Guest | 999 |
| 100 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | Tim Burton | 1006 |
| 101 | Dangerous Liaisons | 1988 | Stephen Frears | 1008 |
| 102 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | David Fincher | 1029 |
| 103 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2007 | David Yates | 1030 |
| 104 | Zodiac | 2007 | David Fincher | 1037 |
| 105 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates | 1087 |
| 106 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | 1100 |
| 107 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 2005 | Shane Black | 1101 |
| 108 | The Music Man | 1962 | Morton DaCosta | 1114 |
| 109 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 1133 |
| 110 | Gremlins | 1984 | Joe Dante | 1146 |
| 111 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 1151 |
| 112 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | David Yates | 1153 |
| 113 | Jeremiah Johnson | 1972 | Sydney Pollack | 1155 |
| 114 | You've Got Mail | 1998 | Nora Ephron | 1175 |
| 115 | Them! | 1954 | Gordon Douglas | 1188 |
| 116 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis | 1222 |
| 117 | Natural Born Killers | 1994 | Oliver Stone | 1226 |
| 118 | The NeverEnding Story | 1984 | Wolfgang Petersen | 1231 |
| 119 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan | 1233 |
| 120 | March of the Penguins4 | 2005 | Luc Jacquet | 1252 |
| 121 | The Misfits3 | 1961 | John Huston | 1286 |
| 122 | A Few Good Men1 | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1335 |
| 123 | Before Midnight1 | 2013 | Richard Linklater | 1336 |
| 124 | Key Largo | 1948 | John Huston | 1337 |
| 125 | The Bridges of Madison County | 1995 | Clint Eastwood | 1347 |
| 126 | Watchmen | 2009 | Zack Snyder | 1355 |
| 127 | Tin Cup | 1996 | Ron Shelton | 1359 |
| 128 | Angels with Dirty Faces6 | 1938 | Michael Curtiz | 1382 |
| 129 | A Scanner Darkly4 | 2006 | Richard Linklater | 1389 |
| 130 | Edge of Tomorrow | 2014 | Doug Liman | 1421 |
| 131 | Dunkirk | 2017 | Christopher Nolan | 1439 |
| 132 | Any Given Sunday | 1999 | Oliver Stone | 1440 |
| 133 | The Mission | 1986 | Roland Joffé | 1451 |
| 134 | Wonder Woman | 2017 | Patty Jenkins | 1453 |
| 135 | The Roaring Twenties | 1939 | Raoul Walsh | 1456 |
| 136 | Duck Amuck | 1953 | Chuck Jones | 1469 |
| 137 | National Lampoon's Vacation | 1983 | Harold Ramis | 1516 |
| 138 | Damn Yankees! | 1958 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen | 1539 |
| 139 | Footlight Parade | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | 1584 |
| 140 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | 1605 |
| 141 | Altered States | 1980 | Ken Russell | 1626 |
| 142 | Where the Wild Things Are | 2009 | Spike Jonze | 1655 |
| 143 | Argo | 2012 | Ben Affleck | 1660 |
| 144 | Night Moves | 1975 | Arthur Penn | 1666 |
| 145 | The Man with Two Brains | 1983 | Carl Reiner | 1702 |
| 146 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth | 1711 |
| 147 | The Lost Boys | 1987 | Joel Schumacher | 1734 |
| 148 | Blood Diamond | 2006 | Edward Zwick | 1771 |
| 149 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese | 1792 |
| 150 | The Fountain | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky | 1801 |
| 151 | Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton | 1807 |
| 152 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | 1994 | Tom Shadyac | 1817 |
| 153 | Jezebel | 1938 | William Wyler | 1824 |
| 154 | Super Fly | 1972 | Gordon Parks Jr. | 1830 |
| 155 | Purple Rain | 1984 | Albert Magnoli | 1834 |
| 156 | Good Night, and Good Luck.4 | 2005 | George Clooney | 1854 |
| 157 | A Very Long Engagement | 2004 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 1885 |
| 158 | High Sierra6 | 1941 | Raoul Walsh | 1888 |
| 159 | The Matrix Reloaded | 2003 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 1901 |
| 160 | The Last Samurai | 2003 | Edward Zwick | 1922 |
| 161 | Lethal Weapon 2 | 1989 | Richard Donner | 1932 |
| 162 | A Little Princess | 1995 | Alfonso Cuarón | 1935 |
| 163 | The Life of Emile Zola | 1937 | William Dieterle | 1936 |
| 164 | Calamity Jane | 1953 | David Butler | 1947 |
| 165 | Corpse Bride | 2005 | Tim Burton and Mike Johnson | 1989 |
| 166 | Seven Days in May3 | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 2018 |
| 167 | Michael Clayton1 | 2007 | Tony Gilroy | 2027 |
| 168 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm5 | 1993 | Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm | 2094 |
| 169 | Dark Victory6 | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | 2100 |
| 170 | Flags of Our Fathers | 2006 | Clint Eastwood | 2149 |
| 171 | The Wrong Man | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2165 |
| 172 | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | 1989 | Jeremiah S. Chechik | 2170 |
| 173 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz | 2176 |
| 174 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005 | Tim Burton | 2179 |
| 175 | A Walk to Remember | 2002 | Adam Shankman | 2187 |
| 176 | Happy Feet | 2006 | George Miller | 2192 |
| 177 | Invictus | 2009 | Clint Eastwood | 2215 |
| 178 | Creed | 2015 | Ryan Coogler | 2231 |
| 179 | The Secret Garden | 1993 | Agnieszka Holland | 2237 |
| 180 | The Lost World6 | 1925 | Harry O. Hoyt | 2280 |
| 181 | American Sniper | 2014 | Clint Eastwood | 2281 |
| 182 | Akira Kurosawa's Dreams | 1990 | Akira Kurosawa | 2285 |
| 183 | The Letter | 1940 | William Wyler | 2299 |
| 184 | The Towering Inferno | 1974 | John Guillermin and Irwin Allen | 2306 |
| 185 | Auntie Mame | 1958 | Morton DaCosta | 2331 |
| 186 | The Devil's Advocate | 1997 | Taylor Hackford | 2337 |
| 187 | Under Siege | 1992 | Andrew Davis | 2341 |
| 188 | In the Line of Fire1 | 1993 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2350 |
| 189 | I Am Legend | 2007 | Francis Lawrence | 2385 |
| 190 | The World According to Garp | 1982 | George Roy Hill | 2411 |
| 191 | America, America | 1963 | Elia Kazan | 2421 |
| 192 | The Goodbye Girl | 1977 | Herbert Ross | 2426 |
| 193 | The Last Boy Scout | 1991 | Tony Scott | 2466 |
| 194 | They Died with Their Boots on | 1941 | Raoul Walsh | 2487 |
| 195 | A Time to Kill | 1996 | Joel Schumacher | 2488 |
| 196 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | Michael Curtiz | 2493 |
| 197 | The Matrix Revolutions | 2003 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 2507 |
| 198 | Falling Down | 1993 | Joel Schumacher | 2511 |
| 199 | The Pajama Game | 1957 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen | 2520 |
| 200 | Space Jam5 | 1996 | Joe Pytka | 2525 |
| 201 | Wait until Dark | 1967 | Terence Young | 2526 |
| 202 | Sherlock Holmes | 2009 | Guy Ritchie | 2528 |
| 203 | Sleepers | 1996 | Barry Levinson | 2533 |
| 204 | Dodge City | 1939 | Michael Curtiz | 2540 |
| 205 | Baby Face | 1933 | Alfred E. Green | 2551 |
| 206 | The In-Laws | 1979 | Arthur Hiller | 2584 |
| 207 | Man of Steel | 2013 | Zack Snyder | 2589 |
| 208 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 2605 |
| 209 | The American President1 | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 2607 |
| 210 | Ladyhawke | 1985 | Richard Donner | 2614 |
| 211 | Knute Rockne, All American | 1940 | Lloyd Bacon | 2630 |
| 212 | Hamlet1 | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 2652 |
| 213 | Crazy Rich Asians | 2018 | Jon M. Chu | 2678 |
| 214 | The Bad Seed | 1956 | Mervyn LeRoy | 2701 |
| 215 | Crime Wave | 1953 | André De Toth | 2707 |
| 216 | Training Day | 2001 | Antoine Fuqua | 2728 |
| 217 | What's Opera, Doc? | 1957 | Chuck Jones | 2744 |
| 218 | The Devil Rides Out3 | 1968 | Terence Fisher | 2753 |
| 219 | The Petrified Forest | 1936 | Archie Mayo | 2765 |
| 220 | The Sea Hawk | 1940 | Michael Curtiz | 2778 |
1 Produced or co-produced by Castle Rock Entertainment
2 Produced or co-produced by Warner Brothers/Seven Arts.
3 Produced or co-produced by Seven Arts Productions (Pictures).
4 Produced or co-produced by Warner Independent Pictures.
5 Produced or co-produced by Warner Bros. Animation.
6 Produced or co-produced by First National Pictures.