| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
In colaboration with |
| 1 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 48 | Spain, West Germany, United States |
| 2 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | 69 | |
| 3 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 76 | United States |
| 4 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 100 | France |
| 5 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 124 | France |
| 6 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 157 | United States |
| 7 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 158 | Algeria |
| 8 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 160 | United Kingdom |
| 9 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento | 228 | |
| 10 | Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero | 242 | United States |
| 11 | Life Is Beautiful | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | 258 | |
| 12 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 269 | France |
| 13 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 275 | France |
| 14 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 287 | France, West Germany |
| 15 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 299 | France |
| 16 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati | 328 | France |
| 17 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 340 | France |
| 18 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 346 | United Kingdom |
| 19 | Rome, Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | 360 | |
| 20 | Call Me by Your Name | 2017 | Luca Guadagnino | 361 | Brazil, France, United States |
| 21 | La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini | 366 | |
| 22 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 368 | France, Spain |
| 23 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 378 | France |
| 24 | Eyes without a Face | 1960 | Georges Franju | 381 | France |
| 25 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda | 383 | France |
| 26 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 393 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 27 | Army in the Shadows | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 424 | France |
| 28 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 429 | Spain, West Germany |
| 29 | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 433 | France |
| 30 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 455 | France |
| 31 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | 476 | Spain, West Germany |
| 32 | Umberto D. | 1952 | Vittorio De Sica | 491 | |
| 33 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 496 | France |
| 34 | Hidden | 2005 | Michael Haneke | 501 | France, Austria, Germany |
| 35 | Beau travail | 1999 | Claire Denis | 512 | France, Belarus, Belgium, Cyprus |
| 36 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 526 | Germany, Austria |
| 37 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | 554 | France |
| 38 | Le Cercle rouge | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 577 | France |
| 39 | Breaking the Waves | 1996 | Lars von Trier | 580 | Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, United Kingdom, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, United States |
| 40 | Last Tango in Paris | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 607 | France |
| 41 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 632 | Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway |
| 42 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 636 | France |
| 43 | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut | 662 | France |
| 44 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 671 | France |
| 45 | A Prophet | 2009 | Jacques Audiard | 692 | France |
| 46 | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 693 | France |
| 47 | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 779 | People's Republic of China, United Kingdom, France |
| 48 | Deep Red | 1975 | Dario Argento | 784 | |
| 49 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George | 794 | United States, United Kingdom, South Africa |
| 50 | The Earrings of Madame De… | 1953 | Max Ophüls | 801 | France |
| 51 | L'Eclisse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 806 | France |
| 52 | Au Revoir, les Enfants | 1987 | Louis Malle | 819 | France, West Germany |
| 53 | Mon Oncle | 1958 | Jacques Tati | 822 | France |
| 54 | Serpico | 1973 | Sidney Lumet | 825 | United States |
| 55 | Voyage in Italy | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini | 833 | France |
| 56 | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti | 838 | France |
| 57 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 845 | France |
| 58 | The Train | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 860 | France, Italy, United States |
| 59 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 869 | Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Finland |
| 60 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 2000 | Béla Tarr | 874 | Hungary, Germany, France |
| 61 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas | 887 | United States, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom |
| 62 | Orlando | 1992 | Sally Potter | 926 | United Kingdom, Russia, France, Netherlands |
| 63 | The White Ribbon | 2009 | Michael Haneke | 928 | Germany, Austria, France, Canada |
| 64 | Death in Venice | 1971 | Luchino Visconti | 944 | France |
| 65 | The Best of Youth | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana | 1024 | |
| 66 | The Passenger | 1975 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1060 | Spain, France |
| 67 | Paisan | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini | 1120 | |
| 68 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1142 | Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, France, Germany, Netherlands |
| 69 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | 1989 | Stephen Herek | 1155 | United States, Canada |
| 70 | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava | 1224 | |
| 71 | The Trial | 1962 | Orson Welles | 1244 | France, West Germany |
| 72 | Salò | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1247 | France |
| 73 | The Great Silence | 1968 | Sergio Corbucci | 1366 | France |
| 74 | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1454 | France |
| 75 | Nostalgia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1478 | USSR |
| 76 | The Sea Inside | 2004 | Alejandro Amenábar | 1488 | Spain, France |
| 77 | Barbarella | 1968 | Roger Vadim | 1491 | France |
| 78 | Jean de Florette | 1986 | Claude Berri | 1504 | Switzerland, France |
| 79 | Flash Gordon | 1980 | Mike Hodges | 1508 | United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands |
| 80 | The Great Beauty | 2013 | Paolo Sorrentino | 1521 | France |
| 81 | Antichrist | 2009 | Lars von Trier | 1527 | Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Poland |
| 82 | Gangs of New York | 2002 | Martin Scorsese | 1532 | United States |
| 83 | Week End | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1563 | France |
| 84 | King of New York | 1990 | Abel Ferrara | 1568 | United States |
| 85 | The Red Desert | 1964 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1583 | France |
| 86 | Monsoon Wedding | 2001 | Mira Nair | 1588 | India, United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom |
| 87 | Black Orpheus | 1959 | Marcel Camus | 1591 | Brazil, France |
| 88 | The Tree of Wooden Clogs | 1978 | Ermanno Olmi | 1620 | |
| 89 | Dune: Part Two | 2024 | Denis Villeneuve | 1629 | United States, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Hungary, New Zealand, Jordan, Gambia |
| 90 | Django | 1966 | Sergio Corbucci | 1666 | Spain |
| 91 | Tropical Malady | 2004 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 1670 | Thailand, France, Germany |
| 92 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1684 | West Germany |
| 93 | Senso | 1954 | Luchino Visconti | 1700 | |
| 94 | Le Trou | 1960 | Jacques Becker | 1706 | France |
| 95 | Ossessione | 1943 | Luchino Visconti | 1731 | |
| 96 | Le Boucher | 1970 | Claude Chabrol | 1753 | France |
| 97 | La Femme Nikita | 1990 | Luc Besson | 1760 | France |
| 98 | Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller | 1805 | |
| 99 | A Special Day | 1977 | Ettore Scola | 1814 | Canada |
| 100 | The Dreamers | 2003 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1817 | United Kingdom, France, United States |
| 101 | Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion | 1970 | Elio Petri | 1829 | |
| 102 | Gosford Park | 2001 | Robert Altman | 1835 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 103 | Gomorrah | 2008 | Matteo Garrone | 1840 | Belgium |
| 104 | Romeo and Juliet | 1968 | Franco Zeffirelli | 1861 | United Kingdom |
| 105 | I Vitelloni | 1953 | Federico Fellini | 1863 | France |
| 106 | Manon of the Spring | 1986 | Claude Berri | 1874 | France, Switzerland |
| 107 | Cannibal Holocaust | 1980 | Ruggero Deodato | 1888 | |
| 108 | Victory | 1981 | John Huston | 1901 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 109 | Germany, Year Zero | 1948 | Roberto Rossellini | 1912 | France, Germany |
| 110 | Enter the Void | 2009 | Gaspar Noé | 1953 | France, Germany, Canada, Japan |
| 111 | La Terra Trema | 1948 | Luchino Visconti | 1961 | |
| 112 | Blood and Black Lace | 1964 | Mario Bava | 1973 | France, West Germany |
| 113 | Landscape in the Mist | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1985 | Greece, France |
| 114 | Time of the Gypsies | 1988 | Emir Kusturica | 1989 | United Kingdom, Yugoslavia |
| 115 | Open Your Eyes | 1997 | Alejandro Amenábar | 2008 | Spain, France |
| 116 | Othello | 1951 | Orson Welles | 2031 | United States |
| 117 | Tristana | 1970 | Luis Buñuel | 2040 | Spain, France |
| 118 | The Beyond | 1981 | Lucio Fulci | 2046 | |
| 119 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 2059 | France, West Germany |
| 120 | Black Sabbath | 1963 | Mario Bava | 2061 | France |
| 121 | The Idiots | 1998 | Lars von Trier | 2072 | Denmark, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden |
| 122 | Accattone | 1961 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 2091 | |
| 123 | Shoeshine | 1946 | Vittorio De Sica | 2120 | |
| 124 | The Firemen's Ball | 1967 | Milos Forman | 2123 | Czechoslovakia |
| 125 | Big Deal on Madonna Street | 1958 | Mario Monicelli | 2143 | |
| 126 | Juliet of the Spirits | 1965 | Federico Fellini | 2161 | France |
| 127 | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2180 | West Germany, France |
| 128 | Kill, Baby...Kill! | 1966 | Mario Bava | 2213 | |
| 129 | Fat Girl | 2001 | Catherine Breillat | 2226 | France |
| 130 | Il Sorpasso | 1962 | Dino Risi | 2228 | |
| 131 | Duck, You Sucker | 1971 | Sergio Leone | 2234 | |
| 132 | The Flowers of St. Francis | 1950 | Roberto Rossellini | 2275 | |
| 133 | Teorema | 1968 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 2292 | |
| 134 | Fellini Satyricon | 1969 | Federico Fellini | 2310 | France |
| 135 | Lacombe Lucien | 1974 | Louis Malle | 2348 | France, West Germany |
| 136 | Salvatore Giuliano | 1962 | Francesco Rosi | 2361 | |
| 137 | Touchez pas au grisbi | 1954 | Jacques Becker | 2380 | France |
| 138 | John Wick: Chapter 2 | 2017 | Chad Stahelski | 2386 | United States, Hong Kong, Canada |
| 139 | Il Postino | 1994 | Michael Radford | 2419 | France, Belgium |
| 140 | Spider-Man: Far from Home | 2019 | Jon Watts | 2433 | United States, Czechia, Australia, Canada |
| 141 | Purple Noon | 1960 | René Clément | 2435 | France |
| 142 | Le Doulos | 1962 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 2466 | France |
| 143 | Santa Sangre | 1989 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 2469 | Mexico |
| 144 | No Man's Land | 2001 | Danis Tanovic | 2473 | France, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Switzerland |
| 145 | The Queen | 2006 | Stephen Frears | 2485 | United Kingdom, United States, France |
| 146 | The Circle | 2000 | Jafar Panahi | 2492 | Iran, Switzerland |
| 147 | Mission: Impossible III | 2006 | J.J. Abrams | 2521 | United States, Germany, People's Republic of China |
| 148 | The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | 1970 | Dario Argento | 2531 | West Germany |
| 149 | Il Posto | 1961 | Ermanno Olmi | 2551 | |
| 150 | Stromboli | 1950 | Roberto Rossellini | 2563 | United States |
| 151 | The Phantom of Liberty | 1974 | Luis Buñuel | 2571 | France |
| 152 | Quo Vadis, Aida? | 2020 | Jasmila Zbanic | 2573 | Bosnia & Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Turkey, Norway, Croatia, Sweden, Montenegro |
| 153 | 8 Women | 2002 | François Ozon | 2586 | France |
| 154 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 1970 | Vittorio De Sica | 2593 | West Germany |
| 155 | Europa '51 | 1952 | Roberto Rossellini | 2666 | |
| 156 | Divorce - Italian Style | 1961 | Pietro Germi | 2687 | |
| 157 | Cabiria | 1914 | Giovanni Pastrone | 2692 | |
| 158 | The Damned | 1969 | Luchino Visconti | 2704 | West Germany, Switzerland |
| 159 | The Italian Job | 2003 | F. Gary Gray | 2715 | United States, France, United Kingdom |
| 160 | The Headless Woman | 2008 | Lucrecia Martel | 2746 | Argentina, France, Spain |
| 161 | We All Loved Each Other So Much | 1974 | Ettore Scola | 2753 | |
| 162 | Mamma Roma | 1962 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 2756 | |
| 163 | Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica | 2790 | |
| 164 | Eternity and a Day | 1998 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2828 | France, Greece, Germany |
| 165 | El Cid | 1961 | Anthony Mann | 2872 | United States |
| 166 | Silence | 2016 | Martin Scorsese | 2874 | United States, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Mexico, Japan |
| 167 | Summertime | 1955 | David Lean | 2878 | United Kingdom, United States |
| 168 | Ladyhawke | 1985 | Richard Donner | 2906 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 169 | Land and Freedom | 1995 | Ken Loach | 2924 | United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France |
| 170 | Death Wish | 1974 | Michael Winner | 2926 | United States, United Kingdom |
| 171 | French Cancan | 1955 | Jean Renoir | 2930 | France |
| 172 | Two Women | 1960 | Vittorio De Sica | 2950 | France |
| 173 | Not on Your Life | 1963 | Luis García Berlanga | 2952 | Spain |
| 174 | A Bay of Blood | 1971 | Mario Bava | 2964 | |
| 175 | Cold Mountain | 2003 | Anthony Minghella | 3014 | United States, Romania |