| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
In colaboration with |
| 1 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 54 | United States |
| 2 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 70 | |
| 3 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 89 | United States |
| 4 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Kar-Wai Wong | 94 | Hong Kong |
| 5 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 97 | |
| 6 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 100 | Italy |
| 7 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 103 | Brazil |
| 8 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 119 | Germany |
| 9 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 124 | Italy |
| 10 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 138 | |
| 11 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 152 | |
| 12 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 166 | Poland, Germany, United Kingdom, United States |
| 13 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 180 | |
| 14 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | 186 | Japan |
| 15 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | 190 | United States |
| 16 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | 201 | |
| 17 | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 208 | Poland, Switzerland |
| 18 | Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright | 214 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 19 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 216 | |
| 20 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 241 | |
| 21 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 244 | Germany |
| 22 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 253 | Sweden, West Germany |
| 23 | Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann | 254 | |
| 24 | Léon: The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 259 | United States |
| 25 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 269 | Italy |
| 26 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 275 | Italy |
| 27 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 277 | West Germany |
| 28 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 287 | Italy, West Germany |
| 29 | Let the Right One in | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | 290 | Sweden, Norway |
| 30 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Jacques Demy | 292 | West Germany |
| 31 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 295 | |
| 32 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 299 | Italy |
| 33 | The Piano | 1993 | Jane Campion | 309 | New Zealand, Australia |
| 34 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater | 314 | United States |
| 35 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | 315 | United States, Germany, Spain |
| 36 | All about My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar | 320 | Spain |
| 37 | Jeanne Dielman | 1975 | Chantal Akerman | 321 | Belgium |
| 38 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 322 | Poland, Switzerland |
| 39 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati | 328 | Italy |
| 40 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 332 | |
| 41 | Persepolis | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 334 | United States |
| 42 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 340 | Italy |
| 43 | How to Train Your Dragon | 2010 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders | 347 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 44 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 353 | West Germany, United Kingdom |
| 45 | Call Me by Your Name | 2017 | Luca Guadagnino | 361 | Brazil, Italy, United States |
| 46 | Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 365 | Sweden |
| 47 | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Ari Folman | 367 | Israel, Germany, United States, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia |
| 48 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 368 | Italy, Spain |
| 49 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 377 | |
| 50 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 378 | Italy |
| 51 | Eyes without a Face | 1960 | Georges Franju | 381 | Italy |
| 52 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 382 | |
| 53 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda | 383 | Italy |
| 54 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 402 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 55 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle | 403 | United Kingdom, United States, India |
| 56 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 404 | United States |
| 57 | Rififi | 1955 | Jules Dassin | 419 | |
| 58 | Army in the Shadows | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 424 | Italy |
| 59 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 432 | France |
| 60 | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 433 | Italy |
| 61 | Hate | 1995 | Mathieu Kassovitz | 442 | |
| 62 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 2019 | Céline Sciamma | 452 | |
| 63 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 455 | Italy |
| 64 | Dunkirk | 2017 | Christopher Nolan | 460 | United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States |
| 65 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 474 | |
| 66 | The Wrestler | 2008 | Darren Aronofsky | 483 | United States |
| 67 | Night and Fog | 1956 | Alain Resnais | 490 | |
| 68 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 496 | Italy |
| 69 | Hidden | 2005 | Michael Haneke | 501 | Austria, Germany, Italy |
| 70 | Love Actually | 2003 | Richard Curtis | 503 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 71 | Beau travail | 1999 | Claire Denis | 512 | Belarus, Belgium, Cyprus, Italy |
| 72 | Mr. Hulot's Holiday | 1953 | Jacques Tati | 525 | |
| 73 | The Fifth Element | 1997 | Luc Besson | 529 | United Kingdom |
| 74 | Carol | 2015 | Todd Haynes | 545 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States |
| 75 | A Separation | 2011 | Asghar Farhadi | 548 | Iran, Australia |
| 76 | Amour | 2012 | Michael Haneke | 551 | Germany, Austria |
| 77 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | 554 | Italy |
| 78 | Hot Fuzz | 2007 | Edgar Wright | 561 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 79 | Le Cercle rouge | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 577 | Italy |
| 80 | Breaking the Waves | 1996 | Lars von Trier | 580 | Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, United Kingdom, Finland, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, United States |
| 81 | Nanook of the North | 1922 | Robert J. Flaherty | 587 | United States |
| 82 | Atonement | 2007 | Joe Wright | 588 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 83 | Three Colors: White | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 600 | Poland, Switzerland |
| 84 | Last Tango in Paris | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 607 | Italy |
| 85 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson | 617 | |
| 86 | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | 621 | |
| 87 | Secrets & Lies | 1996 | Mike Leigh | 629 | United Kingdom |
| 88 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 632 | Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway |
| 89 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 636 | Italy |
| 90 | The Others | 2001 | Alejandro Amenábar | 639 | Spain, United States |
| 91 | The Triplets of Belleville | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet | 646 | Belgium, Canada, United Kingdom, Latvia, South Korea |
| 92 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 652 | Germany |
| 93 | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut | 662 | Italy |
| 94 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 671 | Italy |
| 95 | A Prophet | 2009 | Jacques Audiard | 692 | Italy |
| 96 | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 693 | Italy |
| 97 | Fantastic Planet | 1973 | René Laloux | 696 | France |
| 98 | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker | 700 | |
| 99 | Elevator to the Gallows | 1958 | Louis Malle | 706 | |
| 100 | Blue Is the Warmest Color | 2013 | Abdellatif Kechiche | 708 | Belgium, Spain |
| 101 | Diary of a Country Priest | 1951 | Robert Bresson | 715 | |
| 102 | Basic Instinct | 1992 | Paul Verhoeven | 717 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 103 | Superman II | 1980 | Richard Lester | 723 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada |
| 104 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 724 | |
| 105 | Delicatessen | 1991 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 730 | |
| 106 | Bridget Jones's Diary | 2001 | Sharon Maguire | 736 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland |
| 107 | Chimes at Midnight | 1965 | Orson Welles | 739 | Spain, Switzerland |
| 108 | The Vanishing | 1988 | George Sluizer | 743 | Netherlands |
| 109 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 745 | United States |
| 110 | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson | 752 | |
| 111 | In the Realm of the Senses | 1976 | Nagisa Ôshima | 758 | Japan |
| 112 | Celine & Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette | 764 | |
| 113 | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 779 | People's Republic of China, United Kingdom, Italy |
| 114 | Paddington 2 | 2017 | Paul King | 785 | United Kingdom |
| 115 | Selma | 2014 | Ava DuVernay | 796 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 116 | Orpheus | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 797 | |
| 117 | The Earrings of Madame De… | 1953 | Max Ophüls | 801 | Italy |
| 118 | The Orphanage | 2007 | J.A. Bayona | 803 | Spain, Mexico, Belgium |
| 119 | L'Eclisse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 806 | Italy |
| 120 | The Straight Story | 1999 | David Lynch | 812 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 121 | Au Revoir, les Enfants | 1987 | Louis Malle | 819 | West Germany, Italy |
| 122 | Mon Oncle | 1958 | Jacques Tati | 822 | Italy |
| 123 | Voyage in Italy | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini | 833 | Italy |
| 124 | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti | 838 | Italy |
| 125 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 845 | Italy |
| 126 | The Intouchables | 2011 | Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano | 853 | |
| 127 | The Train | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 860 | France, Italy, United States |
| 128 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 869 | Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Italy |
| 129 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 2000 | Béla Tarr | 874 | Hungary, Italy, Germany |
| 130 | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | 2018 | Christopher McQuarrie | 882 | United States, People's Republic of China, Norway |
| 131 | A Taste of Cherry | 1997 | Abbas Kiarostami | 891 | Iran |
| 132 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | Julian Schnabel | 902 | United States |
| 133 | The Artist | 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius | 911 | Belgium, United States |
| 134 | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 922 | |
| 135 | True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott | 925 | United States |
| 136 | Orlando | 1992 | Sally Potter | 926 | United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Netherlands |
| 137 | The Gleaners & I | 2000 | Agnès Varda | 927 | |
| 138 | The White Ribbon | 2009 | Michael Haneke | 928 | Germany, Austria, Italy, Canada |
| 139 | Z | 1969 | Costa-Gavras | 929 | Algeria |
| 140 | Life of Pi | 2012 | Ang Lee | 934 | United States, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Canada, India |
| 141 | Lost Highway | 1997 | David Lynch | 940 | United States |
| 142 | Death in Venice | 1971 | Luchino Visconti | 944 | Italy |
| 143 | Senna | 2010 | Asif Kapadia | 949 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 144 | F for Fake | 1973 | Orson Welles | 951 | Iran, West Germany |
| 145 | Band of Outsiders | 1964 | Jean-Luc Godard | 953 | |
| 146 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | 1992 | David Lynch | 963 | United States |
| 147 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 964 | Poland, Norway |
| 148 | The Raid: Redemption | 2011 | Gareth Evans | 965 | Indonesia, United States |
| 149 | Pride & Prejudice | 2005 | Joe Wright | 968 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 150 | L'Âge d'or | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | 989 | |
| 151 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 992 | West Germany |
| 152 | Chicken Run | 2000 | Peter Lord and Nick Park | 995 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 153 | Pépé Le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier | 1033 | |
| 154 | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Éric Rohmer | 1034 | |
| 155 | The City of Lost Children | 1995 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 1041 | Germany, Spain, Belgium |
| 156 | The Hunt | 2012 | Thomas Vinterberg | 1044 | Denmark, Sweden, Belgium |
| 157 | Taken | 2008 | Pierre Morel | 1048 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 158 | The Passenger | 1975 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1060 | Italy, Spain |
| 159 | Les Vampires | 1915 | Louis Feuillade | 1069 | |
| 160 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 1090 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 161 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | 1989 | Peter Greenaway | 1102 | Netherlands, United Kingdom |
| 162 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | 1967 | Jacques Demy | 1111 | |
| 163 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1142 | Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, Italy, Germany, Netherlands |
| 164 | Central Station | 1998 | Walter Salles | 1151 | Brazil |
| 165 | Lola Montès | 1955 | Max Ophüls | 1169 | West Germany |
| 166 | The Red Balloon | 1956 | Albert Lamorisse | 1172 | |
| 167 | Possession | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski | 1176 | West Germany |
| 168 | Black Girl | 1966 | Ousmane Sembene | 1181 | Senegal |
| 169 | Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 1184 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 170 | The Kids Are All Right | 2010 | Lisa Cholodenko | 1201 | United States |
| 171 | The Sacrifice | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1202 | Sweden, United Kingdom |
| 172 | A Serious Man | 2009 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 1203 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 173 | Billy Elliot | 2000 | Stephen Daldry | 1215 | United Kingdom |
| 174 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | 1999 | Jim Jarmusch | 1241 | Germany, United States, Japan |
| 175 | The Trial | 1962 | Orson Welles | 1244 | West Germany, Italy |
| 176 | Salò | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1247 | Italy |
| 177 | The Outsiders | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1255 | United States |
| 178 | L'Argent | 1983 | Robert Bresson | 1257 | Switzerland |
| 179 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 1261 | United States |
| 180 | Through the Olive Trees | 1994 | Abbas Kiarostami | 1267 | Iran |
| 181 | The Ice Storm | 1997 | Ang Lee | 1272 | United States |
| 182 | Inland Empire | 2006 | David Lynch | 1273 | Poland, United States |
| 183 | Despicable Me | 2010 | Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud | 1285 | United States |
| 184 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 1291 | |
| 185 | I Am Not Your Negro | 2016 | Raoul Peck | 1308 | United States, Belgium, Switzerland |
| 186 | Son of Saul | 2015 | László Nemes | 1320 | Hungary |
| 187 | Raw | 2016 | Julia Ducournau | 1323 | Belgium |
| 188 | Histoire(s) du cinéma | 1989 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1340 | Switzerland |
| 189 | Underground | 1995 | Emir Kusturica | 1365 | Yugoslavia, Germany, Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary |
| 190 | The Great Silence | 1968 | Sergio Corbucci | 1366 | Italy |
| 191 | Showgirls | 1995 | Paul Verhoeven | 1378 | United States |
| 192 | United 93 | 2006 | Paul Greengrass | 1380 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 193 | March of the Penguins | 2005 | Luc Jacquet | 1385 | United States |
| 194 | Mouchette | 1967 | Robert Bresson | 1393 | |
| 195 | Stranger by the Lake | 2013 | Alain Guiraudie | 1404 | |
| 196 | The Tenant | 1976 | Roman Polanski | 1421 | |
| 197 | Fall of the House of Usher | 1928 | Jean Epstein | 1424 | |
| 198 | Midnight in Paris | 2011 | Woody Allen | 1452 | Spain, United States |
| 199 | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1454 | Italy |
| 200 | The Sea Inside | 2004 | Alejandro Amenábar | 1488 | Spain, Italy |
