Note that films from Australia, Belgium, Canada, (The People's Repuplic of) China, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, (West) Germany, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, The Soviet Union and Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (Republic of China), The United Kingdom, and The United States are on separate pages.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Battle of Algiers1 | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 292 |
| 2 | Z2 | 1969 | Costa-Gavras | 483 |
1 Joint production with Italy.
2 Joint production with France.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Official Story | 1985 | Luis Puenzo | 974 |
| 2 | The Motorcycle Diaries1 | 2004 | Walter Salles | 1536 |
| 3 | The Hour of the Furnaces | 1968 | Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez | 1685 |
1 Joint production with the United States.
2 Joint production with the Chile, Cuba, France, Germany, Mexico, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
See separate page for Australia.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Last Year at Marienbad1 2 3 | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 382 |
| 2 | Before Sunrise4 | 1995 | Richard Linklater | 796 |
| 3 | Mephisto1 5 | 1981 | István Szabó | 1145 |
| 4 | Downfall1 2 | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 1576 |
| 5 | Funny Games | 1997 | Michael Haneke | 1708 |
| 6 | The Piano Teacher1 3 6 | 2001 | Michael Haneke | 1892 |
| 7 | Hidden1 2 3 | 2005 | Michael Haneke | 1906 |
| 8 | Ecstasy1 7 | 1933 | Gustav Machatý | 2247 |
1 Joint production with (West) Germany.
2 Joint production with Italy.
3 Joint production with France.
4 Joint production with Switzerland and the United States.
5 Joint production with Hungary.
6 Joint production with Poland.
7 Joint production with Czechoslovakia.
See separate page for Belgium.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | No Man's Land1 | 2001 | Danis Tanovic | 1729 |
1 Joint production with Belgium, France, Italy, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Gods Must Be Crazy | 1980 | Jamie Uys | 1390 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | City of God1 | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 331 |
| 2 | Central Station1 | 1998 | Walter Salles | 745 |
| 3 | Black Orpheus1 2 | 1959 | Marcel Camus | 891 |
| 4 | Pixote | 1981 | Hector Babenco | 1004 |
| 5 | Barren Lives | 1963 | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | 1380 |
| 6 | Black God and White Devil | 1964 | Glauber Rocha | 1885 |
| 7 | Antonio das Mortes1 3 | 1969 | Glauber Rocha | 1918 |
| 8 | Kiss of the Spider Woman4 | 1985 | Hector Babenco | 1983 |
1 Joint production with France.
2 Joint production with Italy.
3 Joint production with West Germany.
4 Joint production with the United States.
See separate pages for the United Kingdom.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Yeelen1 | 1987 | Souleymane Cissé | 1246 |
1 Joint production with France, Mali, and West Germany.
See separate page for Canada.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Motorcycle Diaries1 | 2004 | Walter Salles | 1536 |
1 Joint production with Argentina, Cuba, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
See separate page for China (People's Republic of).
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Memories of Underdevelopment | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1132 |
| 2 | The Motorcycle Diaries1 2 | 2004 | Walter Salles | 1536 |
| 3 | I Am Cuba1 3 | 1964 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 1548 |
| 4 | Buena Vista Social Club1 | 1999 | Wim Wenders | 1784 |
| 5 | Lucía | 1968 | Humberto Solás | 2344 |
2 Joint production with France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
1 Joint production with the Soviet Union.
3 Joint production with Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru.
See separate pages for the Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.
See separate pages for the Denmark.
See separate pages for the United Kingdom.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Dancer in the Dark1 2 3 4 | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 1021 |
| 2 | Dogville1 2 3 | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 1378 |
| 3 | Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould1 5 | 1993 | François Girard | 1488 |
| 4 | The Man Without a Past2 | 2002 | Aki Kaurismäki | 1967 |
1 Joint production with the Netherlands.
2 Joint production with France and Germany.
3 Joint production with Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
4 Joint production with Iceland, Italy, and the United States.
5 Joint production with Canada and Portugal.
See separate pages for France.
See separate page for (West) Germany.
See separate pages for the United Kingdom.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Travelling Players | 1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 768 |
| 2 | Zorba the Greek1 2 | 1964 | Michael Cacoyannis | 1422 |
| 3 | Landscape in the Mist3 | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1639 |
| 4 | Never on Sunday1 | 1960 | Jules Dassin | 2044 |
| 5 | Eternity and a Day1 4 | 1998 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2501 |
1 Joint production with the United States.
2 Joint production with the United Kingdom.
3 Joint production with France and Italy.
4 Joint production with Germany.
See separate page for The Netherlands.
See separate page for Hong Kong.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Underground1 2 3 | 1995 | Emir Kusturica | 950 |
| 2 | Sátántangó1 4 | 1994 | Béla Tarr | 1110 |
| 3 | Mephisto1 5 | 1981 | István Szabó | 1145 |
| 4 | The Red and the White6 | 1967 | Miklós Jancsó | 1491 |
| 5 | The Round-up | 1966 | Miklós Jancsó | 1661 |
| 6 | Werckmeister Harmonies1 2 7 | 2000 | Béla Tarr | 2022 |
1 Joint production with (West) Germany.
2 Joint production with France.
3 Joint production with Yugoslavia.
4 Joint production with Switzerland.
5 Joint production with Austria.
6 Joint production with the Soviet Union.
7 Joint production with Italy.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Breaking the Waves1 | 1996 | Lars von Trier | 472 |
| 2 | Dancer in the Dark1 2 | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 1021 |
1 Joint production with Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden.
2 Joint production with Finland, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
See separate page for India.
See separate page for Iran.
See separate page for Ireland.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Runaway Train1 | 1985 | Andrei Konchalovsky | 2015 |
1 Joint production with the United States.
see separate page for Italy.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Harder They Come | 1972 | Perry Henzell | 1061 |
See separate page for Japan
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | La Promesse1 2 | 1996 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 1801 |
| 2 | The Pillow Book1 3 | 1996 | Peter Greenaway | 2285 |
1 Joint production with France.
2 Joint production with Belgium.
3 Joint production with the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Before the Rain1 | 1994 | Milcho Manchevski | 1659 |
1 Joint production with France, and the United Kingdom.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Yeelen1 | 1987 | Souleymane Cissé | 1246 |
1 Joint production with Burkina Faso, France, and West Germany.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Troy1 | 2004 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2051 |
1 Joint production with the United Kingdom and the United States.
See separate page for Mexico.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | For a Few Dollars More1 | 1965 | Sergio Leone | 1637 |
1 Joint production with Italy, Spain, and West Germany.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Othello1 | 1952 | Orson Welles | 1500 |
1 Joint production with France, Italy, and the United States.
See separate page for The Netherlands.
See separate page for New Zealand.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Breaking the Waves1 2 3 | 1996 | Lars von Trier | 472 |
| 2 | The Double Life of Veronique1 4 | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 952 |
| 3 | Dancer in the Dark1 2 3 5 6 | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 1021 |
| 4 | Dogville1 2 3 5 | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 1378 |
1 Joint production with France.
2 Joint production with Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands.
3 Joint production with Iceland.
4 Joint production with Poland.
5 Joint production with Finland, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
6 Joint production with Italy and the United States.
See separate page for China (People's Republic of).
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God1 2 | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 181 |
| 2 | Fitzcarraldo1 | 1982 | Werner Herzog | 684 |
| 3 | The Motorcycle Diaries1 2 3 | 2004 | Walter Salles | 1536 |
1 Joint production with (West) Germany.
1 Joint production with Mexico.
2 Joint production with Argentina, Chile, Cuba, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
See separate page for Poland.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould1 | 1993 | François Girard | 1488 |
| 2 | Belle Epoque1 | 1992 | Fernando Trueba | 1858 |
1 Joint production with Canada, Finland, and the Netherlands.
2 Joint production with France and Spain.
See separate page for Soviet Union and Russia.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Xala | 1975 | Ousmane Sembene | 1214 |
| 2 | Ceddo | 1977 | Ousmane Sembene | 1830 |
| 3 | Black Girl1 | 1966 | Ousmane Sembene | 2210 |
1 Joint production with France.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | No Man's Land1 | 2001 | Danis Tanovic | 1729 |
1 Joint production with Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Hotel Rwanda1 | 2004 | Terry George | 1028 |
1 Joint production with Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park | 1203 |
| 2 | The Audition1 | 1999 | Takashi Miike | 1233 |
| 3 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring1 | 2003 | Ki-duk Kim | 2246 |
| 4 | My Sassy Girl | 2001 | Jae-young Kwak | 2389 |
1 Joint production with Japan.
2 Joint production with Germany.
See separate page for the Soviet Union and Russia.
See separate page for Spain.
See separate page for Sweden.
See separate page for Switzerland.
See separate page for Taiwan (Republic of China).
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Yol1 | 1982 | Serif Gören and Yilmaz Güney | 1831 |
1 Joint production with France, West Germany, and Switzerland.
see separate pages for the United Kingdom.
see separate pages for the United States.
see separate page for the Soviet Union and Russia.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Cyclo1 | 1995 | Anh Hung Tran | 2297 |
1 Joint production with France and Hong Kong.
see separate page for (West) Germany.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Tin Drum1 2 3 | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | 561 |
| 2 | Underground1 3 4 | 1995 | Emir Kusturica | 950 |
| 3 | W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism1 | 1971 | Dusan Makavejev | 1226 |
| 4 | Time of the Gypsies5 6 | 1988 | Emir Kusturica | 1686 |
| 5 | Kelly's Heroes7 | 1970 | Brian G. Hutton | 2098 |
| 6 | The Trial1 2 5 | 1962 | Orson Welles | 2160 |
1 Joint production with (West) Germany.
2 Joint production with France.
3 Joint production with Poland.
4 Joint production with Hungary.
5 Joint production with Italy.
6 Joint production with the United Kingdom.
7 Joint production with the United States.