| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
In colaboration with |
| 1 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 43 | |
| 2 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 48 | Italy, Spain, United States |
| 3 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | 71 | United States |
| 4 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 84 | |
| 5 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 107 | |
| 6 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 119 | France |
| 7 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | 134 | United States |
| 8 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | 164 | United States |
| 9 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 166 | France, Poland, United Kingdom, United States |
| 10 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 174 | |
| 11 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 178 | Mexico |
| 12 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | 217 | |
| 13 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 244 | France |
| 14 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 253 | Sweden, France |
| 15 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 277 | France |
| 16 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 287 | Italy, France |
| 17 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Jacques Demy | 292 | France |
| 18 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | 315 | United States, France, Spain |
| 19 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 353 | France, United Kingdom |
| 20 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 358 | United Kingdom, Czechia, United States, Bahamas |
| 21 | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Ari Folman | 367 | Israel, France, United States, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia |
| 22 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 429 | Italy, Spain |
| 23 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson | 467 | United States |
| 24 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 471 | |
| 25 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | 476 | Italy, Spain |
| 26 | Hidden | 2005 | Michael Haneke | 501 | France, Austria, Italy |
| 27 | The Decalogue | 1989 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 508 | Poland |
| 28 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams | 522 | United States |
| 29 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | 524 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 30 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 526 | Austria, Italy |
| 31 | Amour | 2012 | Michael Haneke | 551 | France, Austria |
| 32 | Breaking the Waves | 1996 | Lars von Trier | 580 | Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, United Kingdom, Finland, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, United States |
| 33 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 632 | Denmark, Netherlands, Italy, United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway |
| 34 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 652 | France |
| 35 | The NeverEnding Story | 1984 | Wolfgang Petersen | 672 | United States |
| 36 | Bend It Like Beckham | 2002 | Gurinder Chadha | 676 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 37 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 679 | United States, Japan |
| 38 | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | 699 | United States |
| 39 | Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | Werner Herzog | 712 | West Germany |
| 40 | Run Lola Run | 1998 | Tom Tykwer | 750 | |
| 41 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | 763 | United States |
| 42 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls | 766 | Switzerland |
| 43 | A History of Violence | 2005 | David Cronenberg | 769 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom |
| 44 | The Hangover | 2009 | Todd Phillips | 774 | United States |
| 45 | Sátántangó | 1994 | Béla Tarr | 776 | Hungary, Switzerland |
| 46 | Pandora's Box | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 788 | |
| 47 | The Bourne Identity | 2002 | Doug Liman | 790 | United States, Czechia |
| 48 | Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | Michael Moore | 795 | Canada, United States |
| 49 | Stranger than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch | 809 | United States |
| 50 | Daughters of the Dust | 1991 | Julie Dash | 814 | United States |
| 51 | Au Revoir, les Enfants | 1987 | Louis Malle | 819 | France, Italy |
| 52 | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 835 | |
| 53 | Captain America: Civil War | 2016 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 867 | United States, Puerto Rico |
| 54 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 869 | Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Italy |
| 55 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 2000 | Béla Tarr | 874 | Hungary, Italy, France |
| 56 | Triumph of the Will | 1935 | Leni Riefenstahl | 877 | |
| 57 | The Bourne Supremacy | 2004 | Paul Greengrass | 878 | United States, India, Russia |
| 58 | The White Ribbon | 2009 | Michael Haneke | 928 | Austria, France, Italy, Canada |
| 59 | The Blue Angel | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | 937 | |
| 60 | F for Fake | 1973 | Orson Welles | 951 | France, Iran |
| 61 | Down by Law | 1986 | Jim Jarmusch | 961 | United States |
| 62 | Ghost World | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | 970 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 63 | The School of Rock | 2003 | Richard Linklater | 977 | United States |
| 64 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 992 | France |
| 65 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | 1979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1007 | |
| 66 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | 1997 | Jay Roach | 1008 | United States |
| 67 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | 1038 | New Zealand, United States |
| 68 | The City of Lost Children | 1995 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 1041 | France, Spain, Belgium |
| 69 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Kim Ki-duk | 1064 | South Korea |
| 70 | Heavenly Creatures | 1994 | Peter Jackson | 1086 | New Zealand |
| 71 | Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 1097 | |
| 72 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1142 | Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, France, Italy, Netherlands |
| 73 | Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 1154 | |
| 74 | Lola Montčs | 1955 | Max Ophüls | 1169 | France |
| 75 | Possession | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski | 1176 | France |
| 76 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 1188 | United States |
| 77 | Faust | 1926 | F.W. Murnau | 1221 | |
| 78 | Mamma Mia! | 2008 | Phyllida Lloyd | 1229 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 79 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | 1999 | Jim Jarmusch | 1241 | France, United States, Japan |
| 80 | The Trial | 1962 | Orson Welles | 1244 | France, Italy |
| 81 | Cruising | 1980 | William Friedkin | 1270 | United States |
| 82 | Team America: World Police | 2004 | Trey Parker | 1288 | United States |
| 83 | Russian Ark | 2002 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1300 | Russia, Japan, Canada, Finland, Denmark |
| 84 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 2002 | Joel Zwick | 1304 | Canada, United States |
| 85 | Zoolander | 2001 | Ben Stiller | 1305 | United States, Australia |
| 86 | Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler | 1922 | Fritz Lang | 1307 | |
| 87 | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | 1972 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1314 | |
| 88 | Friday Night Lights | 2004 | Peter Berg | 1350 | United States |
| 89 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | 2008 | Guillermo del Toro | 1361 | United States, Hungary |
| 90 | Underground | 1995 | Emir Kusturica | 1365 | Yugoslavia, France, Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary |
| 91 | Blade II | 2002 | Guillermo del Toro | 1372 | United States |
| 92 | Monster | 2003 | Patty Jenkins | 1379 | United States |
| 93 | Autumn Sonata | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman | 1400 | United Kingdom |
| 94 | Walk the Line | 2005 | James Mangold | 1416 | United States |
| 95 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton | 1441 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 96 | Crash | 2004 | Paul Haggis | 1474 | United States |
| 97 | Antichrist | 2009 | Lars von Trier | 1527 | Denmark, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland |
| 98 | Europa Europa | 1990 | Agnieszka Holland | 1528 | France, Poland |
| 99 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | 1535 | France, Poland |
| 100 | Toni Erdmann | 2016 | Maren Ade | 1541 | Austria, Monaco, Romania, France, Switzerland, Belgium |
| 101 | Buena Vista Social Club | 1999 | Wim Wenders | 1554 | United States, United Kingdom, France, Cuba |
| 102 | Whale Rider | 2002 | Niki Caro | 1565 | New Zealand |
| 103 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | 1988 | Terence Davies | 1571 | United Kingdom |
| 104 | Monsoon Wedding | 2001 | Mira Nair | 1588 | India, United States, Italy, France, United Kingdom |
| 105 | Black Book | 2006 | Paul Verhoeven | 1602 | Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium |
| 106 | The Constant Gardner | 2005 | Fernando Meirelles | 1605 | United Kingdom, Kenya, France, United States, Switzerland |
| 107 | 35 Shots of Rum | 2008 | Claire Denis | 1611 | France |
| 108 | Melancholia | 2011 | Lars von Trier | 1616 | Denmark, Sweden, France |
| 109 | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 1622 | |
| 110 | Holy Motors | 2012 | Leos Carax | 1652 | France, Belgium |
| 111 | Blood Diamond | 2006 | Edward Zwick | 1657 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 112 | Tropical Malady | 2004 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 1670 | Thailand, France, Italy |
| 113 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1684 | Italy |
| 114 | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | 2010 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 1686 | Thaliand, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Netherlands |
| 115 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | 2004 | Rawson Marshall Thurber | 1690 | United States |
| 116 | Yeelen | 1987 | Souleymane Cissé | 1692 | Mali, France, Burkina Faso |
| 117 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed | 1926 | Lotte Reiniger | 1696 | |
| 118 | The Piano Teacher | 2001 | Michael Haneke | 1697 | Austria, France |
| 119 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | 1704 | United States |
| 120 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | 1988 | Terry Gilliam | 1726 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 121 | Isle of Dogs | 2018 | Wes Anderson | 1742 | United Kingdom, Japan, United States |
| 122 | The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | 1974 | Werner Herzog | 1763 | |
| 123 | Kings of the Road | 1976 | Wim Wenders | 1818 | |
| 124 | Cross of Iron | 1977 | Sam Peckinpah | 1860 | United Kingdom |
| 125 | Burden of Dreams | 1982 | Les Blank | 1866 | United States |
| 126 | Good Bye Lenin! | 2003 | Wolfgang Becker | 1877 | |
| 127 | Where the Wild Things Are | 2009 | Spike Jonze | 1880 | Australia, United States |
| 128 | The Cove | 2009 | Louie Psihoyos | 1889 | United States, Japan, Chile, Canada, United Kingdom |
| 129 | Kill List | 2011 | Ben Wheatley | 1906 | United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia |
| 130 | Germany, Year Zero | 1948 | Roberto Rossellini | 1912 | Italy, France |
| 131 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | 2011 | Tomas Alfredson | 1914 | United Kingdom, France, United States |
| 132 | World on a Wire | 1973 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1917 | |
| 133 | Maedchen in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan | 1925 | |
| 134 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders | 1932 | France |
| 135 | Hair | 1979 | Milos Forman | 1937 | United States |
| 136 | Alice in the Cities | 1974 | Wim Wenders | 1943 | |
| 137 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | 1933 | Fritz Lang | 1944 | France |
| 138 | Enter the Void | 2009 | Gaspar Noé | 1953 | France, Italy, Canada, Japan |
| 139 | The Look of Silence | 2014 | Joshua Oppenheimer | 1971 | Denmark, Indonesia, Finland, Norway, United Kingdom, Israel, France, United States, Netherlands |
| 140 | Blood and Black Lace | 1964 | Mario Bava | 1973 | Italy, France |
| 141 | Songs from the Second Floor | 2000 | Roy Andersson | 1976 | Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France |
| 142 | News from Home | 1976 | Chantal Akerman | 1997 | Belgium, France |
| 143 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 2059 | Italy, France |
| 144 | The Idiots | 1998 | Lars von Trier | 2072 | Denmark, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy |
| 145 | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | 2003 | Donald Petrie | 2073 | United States |
| 146 | A Fantastic Woman | 2017 | Sebastián Lelio | 2092 | Chile, Spain, United States |
| 147 | Wadjda | 2012 | Haifaa Al-Mansour | 2096 | Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, United States |
| 148 | Head-On | 2004 | Fatih Akin | 2106 | Turkey |
| 149 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | 1927 | Walter Ruttmann | 2111 | |
| 150 | The Reader | 2008 | Stephen Daldry | 2128 | United States |
| 151 | The Golem | 1920 | Paul Wegener | 2134 | |
| 152 | Lessons of Darkness | 1992 | Werner Herzog | 2145 | France, Spain, United Kingdom |
| 153 | Jojo Rabbit | 2019 | Taika Waititi | 2147 | Czechia, New Zealand, United States |
| 154 | Nostalgia for the Light | 2010 | Patricio Guzmán | 2160 | France, Chile, Spain |
| 155 | Heimat | 1984 | Edgar Reitz | 2163 | |
| 156 | Winter Sleep | 2014 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 2164 | Turkey, France, Japan |
| 157 | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2180 | Italy, France |
| 158 | Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle | 2004 | Danny Leiner | 2189 | United States, Canada |
| 159 | Kriemhild's Revenge | 1924 | Fritz Lang | 2201 | |
| 160 | Bridge of Spies | 2015 | Steven Spielberg | 2216 | United States, India |
| 161 | The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2240 | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| 162 | 1984 | 1984 | Michael Radford | 2260 | United Kingdom, Netherlands |
| 163 | Lucky Number Slevin | 2006 | Paul McGuigan | 2271 | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| 164 | I'm Not There. | 2007 | Todd Haynes | 2282 | United Kingdom, France, Canada, United States |
| 165 | Girl, Interrupted | 1999 | James Mangold | 2288 | United States |
| 166 | High Life | 2018 | Claire Denis | 2295 | France, United Kingdom, Poland, United States |
| 167 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2009 | Niels Arden Oplev | 2317 | Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain |
| 168 | Fox and His Friends | 1975 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 2319 | |
| 169 | Tropic Thunder | 2008 | Ben Stiller | 2324 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 170 | Elle | 2016 | Paul Verhoeven | 2342 | France, Belgium |
| 171 | Citizenfour | 2014 | Laura Poitras | 2343 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 172 | Trouble Every Day | 2001 | Claire Denis | 2346 | France, Japan, Luxembourg |
| 173 | Lacombe Lucien | 1974 | Louis Malle | 2348 | France, Italy |
| 174 | The Turin Horse | 2011 | Béla Tarr | 2356 | Hungary, France, Switzerland, United States |
| 175 | Only Lovers Left Alive | 2013 | Jim Jarmusch | 2357 | United Kingdom, Greece, France |
| 176 | 8 Mile | 2002 | Curtis Hanson | 2362 | United States |
| 177 | Lord of War | 2005 | Andrew Niccol | 2365 | United States, France |
| 178 | Alice | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer | 2368 | Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, United Kingdom |
| 179 | Enemy at the Gates | 2001 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2392 | United States, France, United Kingdom, Ireland |
| 180 | Stroszek | 1977 | Werner Herzog | 2393 | |
| 181 | Diary of a Lost Girl | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 2400 | |
| 182 | The Fast and the Furious | 2001 | Rob Cohen | 2408 | United States |
| 183 | La Cérémonie | 1995 | Claude Chabrol | 2437 | France |
| 184 | Zentropa | 1991 | Lars von Trier | 2440 | Denmark, Sweden, France, Switzerland |
| 185 | The Patriot | 2000 | Roland Emmerich | 2496 | United States |
| 186 | Source Code | 2011 | Duncan Jones | 2499 | United States, Canada, France |
| 187 | Carlos | 2010 | Olivier Assayas | 2518 | France |
| 188 | Mission: Impossible III | 2006 | J.J. Abrams | 2521 | United States, People's Republic of China, Italy |
| 189 | The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | 1970 | Dario Argento | 2531 | Italy |
| 190 | Quo Vadis, Aida? | 2020 | Jasmila Zbanic | 2573 | Bosnia & Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Poland, France, Turkey, Norway, Croatia, Sweden, Montenegro, Italy |
| 191 | Mother and Son | 1997 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 2584 | Russia |
| 192 | A Simple Plan | 1998 | Sam Raimi | 2587 | France, United Kingdom, United States, Japan |
| 193 | The Bridge | 1959 | Bernhard Wicki | 2592 | |
| 194 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 1970 | Vittorio De Sica | 2593 | Italy |
| 195 | Little Dieter Needs to Fly | 1997 | Werner Herzog | 2621 | United Kingdom, France |
| 196 | The Tale | 2018 | Jennifer Fox | 2628 | United States |
| 197 | Bad Santa | 2003 | Terry Zwigoff | 2633 | United States |
| 198 | The Motorcycle Diaries | 2004 | Walter Salles | 2646 | France, United Kingdom, United States, Argentina, Peru, Chile |
| 199 | Querelle | 1982 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 2659 | France |
| 200 | The Chorus | 2004 | Christophe Barratier | 2680 | France, Switzerland |
| 201 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 2694 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 202 | The Damned | 1969 | Luchino Visconti | 2704 | Italy, Switzerland |
| 203 | The Mask of Zorro | 1998 | Martin Campbell | 2710 | United States, Mexico |
| 204 | The Italian Job | 2003 | F. Gary Gray | 2715 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom, France |
| 205 | In a Year of 13 Moons | 1978 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 2727 | |
| 206 | Pina | 2011 | Wim Wenders | 2743 | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| 207 | Antonio das Mortes | 1969 | Glauber Rocha | 2754 | France, Brazil |
| 208 | Mustang | 2015 | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | 2764 | France, Turkey, Qatar |
| 209 | Eternity and a Day | 1998 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2828 | France, Italy, Greece |
| 210 | Constantine | 2005 | Francis Lawrence | 2853 | United States |
| 211 | The Quiet American | 2002 | Phillip Noyce | 2857 | United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, France |
| 212 | W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism | 1971 | Dusan Makavejev | 2880 | Yugoslavia |
| 213 | Mephisto | 1981 | István Szabó | 2886 | Hungary, Austria |
| 214 | Cloud Atlas | 2012 | Tom Tykwer and Lana & Lilly Wachowski | 2894 | United States, Hong Kong, Singapore, People's Republic of China, United Kingdom, Spain |
| 215 | Night on Earth | 1991 | Jim Jarmusch | 2914 | United Kingdom, France, Japan, United States |
| 216 | Chocolat | 1988 | Claire Denis | 2919 | France, Cameroon |
| 217 | Land and Freedom | 1995 | Ken Loach | 2924 | United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France |
| 218 | Smoke | 1995 | Wayne Wang | 2947 | Japan, United States |
| 219 | Paterson | 2016 | Jim Jarmusch | 2962 | France, United States |
| 220 | Stalingrad | 1993 | Joseph Vilsmaier | 2988 | |
| 221 | Sherlock Holmes | 2009 | Guy Ritchie | 3012 | United States |
| 222 | The Man without a Past | 2002 | Aki Kaurismäki | 3020 | Finland, France |
| 223 | Mr. Turner | 2014 | Mike Leigh | 3031 | United Kingdom, France, United States, Belgium |
| 224 | The Last King of Scotland | 2006 | Kevin Macdonald | 3040 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 225 | Jarhead | 2005 | Sam Mendes | 3058 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 226 | Man on the Moon | 1999 | Milos Forman | 3060 | United Kingdom, Japan, United States |