| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Atlantic City1 2 | 1980 | Louis Malle | 374 |
| 2 | The Thin Red Line1 | 1998 | Terrence Malick | 490 |
| 3 | The Fly1 3 | 1986 | David Cronenberg | 524 |
| 4 | The Sweet Hereafter | 1997 | Atom Egoyan | 576 |
| 5 | A Christmas Story1 | 1983 | Bob Clark | 625 |
| 6 | Dead Ringers1 | 1988 | David Cronenberg | 679 |
| 7 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 723 |
| 8 | Crash3 | 1996 | David Cronenberg | 793 |
| 9 | Bowling for Columbine1 4 | 2002 | Michael Moore | 933 |
| 10 | The Barbarian Invasions2 | 2003 | Denys Arcand | 1045 |
| 11 | The Triplets of Belleville2 3 5 | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet | 1138 |
| 12 | Wavelength1 | 1967 | Michael Snow | 1168 |
| 13 | Naked Lunch3 6 | 1991 | David Cronenberg | 1224 |
| 14 | Exotica | 1994 | Atom Egoyan | 1271 |
| 15 | The People vs. Larry Flynt1 | 1996 | Milos Forman | 1329 |
| 16 | In the Company of Men1 | 1997 | Neil LaBute | 1363 |
| 17 | The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) | 2001 | Zacharias Kunuk | 1408 |
| 18 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding1 | 2002 | Joel Zwick | 1464 |
| 19 | Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould7 | 1993 | François Girard | 1488 |
| 20 | The Dead Zone1 | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 1499 |
| 21 | Black Christmas | 1974 | Bob Clark | 1644 |
| 22 | Jesus of Montreal2 | 1989 | Denys Arcand | 1748 |
| 23 | Pump Up the Volume1 | 1990 | Allan Moyle | 1806 |
| 24 | The Accused1 | 1988 | Jonathan Kaplan | 1847 |
| 25 | Léolo2 | 1992 | Jean-Claude Lauzon | 1855 |
| 26 | Angel Heart1 3 | 1987 | Alan Parker | 1876 |
| 27 | American Psycho1 | 2000 | Mary Harron | 1986 |
| 28 | Smoke Signals1 | 1998 | Chris Eyre | 2027 |
| 29 | Black Robe8 | 1991 | Bruce Beresford | 2076 |
| 30 | Cube | 1997 | Vincenzo Natali | 2148 |
| 31 | I've Heard the Mermaids Singing | 1987 | Patricia Rozema | 2166 |
| 32 | Monster’s Ball1 | 2001 | Marc Forster | 2193 |
| 33 | Shivers | 1975 | David Cronenberg | 2268 |
| 34 | Frida1 9 | 2002 | Julie Taymor | 2304 |
| 35 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | 1974 | Ted Kotcheff | 2317 |
| 36 | Capote1 | 2005 | Bennett Miller | 2367 |
| 37 | Jesus' Son1 | 1999 | Alison Maclean | 2382 |
| 38 | The Boondock Saints1 | 1999 | Troy Duffy | 2416 |
| 39 | The Incredible Journey1 | 1963 | Fletcher Markle | 2441 |
| 40 | The Decline of the American Empire | 1986 | Denys Arcand | 2490 |
| 41 | Archangel | 1990 | Guy Maddin | 2500 |
1 Joint production with the United States.
2 Joint production with France.
3 Joint production with the United Kingdom.
4 Joint production with Germany.
5 Joint production with Belgium.
6 Joint production with Japan.
7 Joint production with Finland, the Netherlands, and Portugal.
8 Joint production with Australia.
9 Joint production with Mexico.