| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 201 | La Bête Humaine | 1938 | Jean Renoir | 1574 |
| 202 | Dawn of the Dead2 4 19 | 2004 | Zack Snyder | 1587 |
| 203 | The Story of a Cheat | 1936 | Sacha Guitry | 1592 |
| 204 | Open Your Eyes1 12 | 1997 | Alejandro Amenábar | 1597 |
| 205 | The Gleaners & I | 2000 | Agnès Varda | 1598 |
| 206 | Lancelot of the Lake1 | 1974 | Robert Bresson | 1607 |
| 207 | À nos amours | 1983 | Maurice Pialat | 1611 |
| 208 | Before the Rain13 36 | 1994 | Milcho Manchevski | 1615 |
| 209 | La Femme Infidèle1 | 1969 | Claude Chabrol | 1628 |
| 210 | No Man's Land1 13 24 37 | 2001 | Danis Tanovic | 1630 |
| 211 | The Wild Child | 1970 | François Truffaut | 1636 |
| 212 | The Queen1 13 | 2006 | Stephen Frears | 1639 |
| 213 | Fantastic Planet31 | 1973 | René Laloux | 1641 |
| 214 | Persepolis2 | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 1651 |
| 215 | The American Friend3 | 1977 | Wim Wenders | 1653 |
| 216 | Atonement13 | 2007 | Joe Wright | 1655 |
| 217 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai2 3 4 | 1999 | Jim Jarmusch | 1662 |
| 218 | The Dreamlife of Angels | 1998 | Erick Zonca | 1671 |
| 219 | The Rise of Louis XIV | 1970 | Roberto Rossellini | 1679 |
| 220 | Le Trou1 | 1960 | Jacques Becker | 1680 |
| 221 | Ratcatcher13 | 1999 | Lynne Ramsay | 1684 |
| 222 | Port of Shadows | 1938 | Marcel Carné | 1708 |
| 223 | Primary Colors2 3 4 13 | 1998 | Mike Nichols | 1711 |
| 224 | César | 1936 | Marcel Pagnol | 1712 |
| 225 | Zentropa3 6 11 12 16 | 1991 | Lars von Trier | 1716 |
| 226 | Salaam Bombay!13 29 | 1988 | Mira Nair | 1719 |
| 227 | King of Hearts1 | 1966 | Phillippe de Broca | 1723 |
| 228 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 1739 |
| 229 | Orlando1 13 14 30 | 1992 | Sally Potter | 1748 |
| 230 | Pride & Prejudice13 | 2005 | Joe Wright | 1751 |
| 231 | La Chienne | 1931 | Jean Renoir | 1755 |
| 232 | Summer | 1986 | Eric Rohmer | 1757 |
| 233 | The Lovers on the Bridge | 1991 | Leos Carax | 1758 |
| 234 | Lamerica1 6 | 1994 | Gianni Amelio | 1771 |
| 235 | Rosetta24 | 1999 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 1776 |
| 236 | Othello1 2 38 | 1952 | Orson Welles | 1790 |
| 237 | The Trial1 3 | 1962 | Orson Welles | 1794 |
| 238 | Irma Vep | 1996 | Olivier Assayas | 1806 |
| 239 | Fanny | 1932 | Marc Allégret | 1810 |
| 240 | Le Corbeau | 1943 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1815 |
| 241 | The Idiots1 11 12 14 16 | 1998 | Lars von Trier | 1825 |
| 242 | Le Plaisir | 1952 | Max Ophüls | 1831 |
| 243 | Irréversible | 2002 | Gaspar Noé | 1834 |
| 244 | Mouchette | 1967 | Robert Bresson | 1837 |
| 245 | Wild Reeds | 1994 | André Téchiné | 1847 |
| 246 | La Promesse23 24 | 1996 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 1861 |
| 247 | The Son's Room1 | 2001 | Nanni Moretti | 1862 |
| 248 | Lola1 | 1961 | Jacques Demy | 1882 |
| 249 | The Piano Teacher3 28 | 2001 | Michael Haneke | 1888 |
| 250 | Marius | 1931 | Alexander Korda, and Marcel Pagnol | 1895 |
| 251 | La Cage aux Folles1 | 1978 | Edouard Molinaro | 1900 |
| 252 | Good Night, and Good Luck. 2 4 13 | 2005 | George Clooney | 1901 |
| 253 | Autumn Sonata3 11 | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman | 1911 |
| 254 | Indochine | 1992 | Régis Wargnier | 1921 |
| 255 | Munich2 19 | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1923 |
| 256 | Jesus of Montreal19 | 1989 | Denys Arcand | 1924 |
| 257 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch | 1931 |
| 258 | Histoire(s) du cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | 1935 | |
| 259 | A Sunday in the Country | 1984 | Bertrand Tavernier | 1938 |
| 260 | Léolo19 | 1992 | Jean-Claude Lauzon | 1953 |
| 261 | Babel2 39 | 2006 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | 1957 |
| 262 | The Kingdom3 11 16 | 1994 | Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier | 1960 |
| 263 | Waltz with Bashir2 3 6 8 24 25 40 | 2008 | Ari Folman | 1981 |
| 264 | Les Misérables | 1995 | Claude Lelouch | 1985 |
| 265 | About a Boy2 3 13 | 2002 | Chris and Paul Weitz | 1986 |
| 266 | The Baker's Wife | 1938 | Marcel Pagnol | 1989 |
| 267 | The Golden Coach1 | 1952 | Jean Renoir | 1997 |
| 268 | Purple Noon1 | 1960 | René Clément | 1998 |
| 269 | Providence6 | 1977 | Alain Resnais | 2005 |
| 270 | And God Created Woman1 | 1956 | Roger Vadim | 2010 |
| 271 | La Roue | 1923 | Abel Gance | 2011 |
| 272 | Ten2 27 | 2002 | Abbas Kiarostami | 2018 |
| 273 | Platform4 10 20 | 2000 | Zhang Ke Jia | 2024 |
| 274 | Un coeur en hiver | 1992 | Claude Sautet | 2032 |
| 275 | Entre Nous | 1983 | Diane Kurys | 2042 |
| 276 | Chaplin1 2 4 | 1992 | Richard Attenborough | 2072 |
| 277 | Read My Lips | 2001 | Jacques Audiard | 2074 |
| 278 | Belle Epoque1 12 41 | 1992 | Fernando Trueba | 2079 |
| 279 | High Tension | 2003 | Alexandre Aja | 2083 |
| 280 | India song | 1975 | Marguerite Duras | 2086 |
| 281 | La Cérémonie3 | 1995 | Claude Chabrol | 2094 |
| 282 | Queen Margot | 1994 | Patrice Chéreau | 2095 |
| 283 | Antonio das Mortes3 5 | 1969 | Glauber Rocha | 2115 |
| 284 | Yol6 42 | 1982 | Serif Gören and Yilmaz Güney | 2137 |
| 285 | Days of Glory18 24 38 | 2006 | Rachid Bouchareb | 2143 |
| 286 | The Phantom of Liberty1 | 1974 | Luis Buñuel | 2145 |
| 287 | The Ladies of the Bois De Boulogne | 1945 | Robert Bresson | 2151 |
| 288 | Caro Diario1 | 1993 | Nanni Moretti | 2152 |
| 289 | Fantomas | 1913 | Louis Feuillade | 2162 |
| 290 | Jour de Fête | 1949 | Jacques Tati | 2167 |
| 291 | The Name of the Rose1 3 | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2184 |
| 292 | La Vie en rose13 31 | 2007 | Olivier Dahan | 2195 |
| 293 | Black Girl43 | 1969 | Ousmane Sembene | 2207 |
| 294 | Fat Girl1 | 2001 | Catherine Breillat | 2210 |
| 295 | Murmur of the Heart1 3 | 1971 | Louis Malle | 2215 |
| 296 | Love on the Run | 1979 | François Truffaut | 2229 |
| 297 | 20461 3 10 20 | 2004 | Kar Wai Wong | 2244 |
| 298 | Ma Vie en Rose13 24 | 1997 | Alain Berliner | 2253 |
| 299 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | 2005 | Jacques Audiard | 2257 |
| 300 | Landscape in the Mist1 44 | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2262 |
| 301 | Croupier3 13 22 | 1998 | Mike Hodges | 2275 |
| 302 | Winged Migration1 3 6 12 | 2001 | Jacques Perrin | 2302 |
| 303 | Two English Girls | 1971 | François Truffaut | 2306 |
| 304 | Autumn Tale | 1998 | Eric Rohmer | 2323 |
| 305 | Danton3 7 | 1983 | Andrzej Wajda | 2326 |
| 306 | The Man Without a Past3 25 | 2002 | Aki Kaurismäki | 2329 |
| 307 | The Pillow Book13 14 23 | 1996 | Peter Greenaway | 2334 |
| 308 | Van Gogh | 1991 | Maurice Pialat | 2345 |
| 309 | La Collectionneuse | 1967 | Eric Rohmer | 2348 |
| 310 | Vera Drake13 | 2004 | Mike Leigh | 2356 |
| 311 | The Story of Adele H. | 1975 | François Truffaut | 2362 |
| 312 | The Fire within | 1963 | Louis Malle | 2373 |
| 313 | Un chant d'amour | 1950 | Jean Genet | 2381 |
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