| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 2001: A Space Odyssey1 | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
| 2 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1 | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 12 |
| 3 | Alien1 | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 16 |
| 4 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 19 |
| 5 | A Clockwork Orange1 | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 24 |
| 6 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 30 |
| 7 | The Shining1 | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 41 |
| 8 | The Dark Knight1 | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 47 |
| 9 | Fargo1 | 1996 | Joel Coen | 75 |
| 10 | The Bridge on the River Kwai1 | 1957 | David Lean | 94 |
| 11 | The Terminator1 | 1984 | James Cameron | 101 |
| 12 | The Big Lebowski1 | 1998 | Joel Coen | 108 |
| 13 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 111 |
| 14 | Brazil1 | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 115 |
| 15 | Gladiator1 2 | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 137 |
| 16 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 143 |
| 17 | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 156 |
| 18 | Inception1 | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 158 |
| 19 | Don't Look Now3 | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 165 |
| 20 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | 167 |
| 21 | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean | 174 |
| 22 | Platoon1 | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 200 |
| 23 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1949 | Robert Hamer | 207 |
| 24 | The Fly1 4 | 1986 | David Cronenberg | 223 |
| 25 | Full Metal Jacket1 | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | 226 |
| 26 | Barry Lyndon1 | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 231 |
| 27 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell | 232 |
| 28 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 240 |
| 29 | Shoah5 | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann | 243 |
| 30 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 244 |
| 31 | Blow-Up3 | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 246 |
| 32 | The Wicker Man | 1973 | Robin Hardy | 255 |
| 33 | Children of Men1 6 | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | 258 |
| 34 | Shaun of the Dead5 | 2004 | Edgar Wright | 260 |
| 35 | The Pianist5 7 8 | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 269 |
| 36 | A Hard Day's Night | 1964 | Richard Lester | 270 |
| 37 | Superman1 5 9 | 1978 | Richard Donner | 275 |
| 38 | The African Queen1 | 1951 | John Huston | 286 |
| 39 | Withnail & I | 1987 | Bruce Robinson | 313 |
| 40 | Dances with Wolves1 | 1990 | Kevin Costner | 318 |
| 41 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 327 |
| 42 | Paris, Texas5 7 | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 339 |
| 43 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 355 |
| 44 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski | 358 |
| 45 | The Elephant Man1 | 1980 | David Lynch | 368 |
| 46 | Ghost in the Shell6 | 1995 | Mamoru Oshii | 374 |
| 47 | Thelma & Louise1 5 | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 379 |
| 48 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show1 | 1975 | Jim Sharman | 386 |
| 49 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle | 394 |
| 50 | Black Narcissus | 1947 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 410 |
| 51 | Batman Begins1 | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 414 |
| 52 | Great Expectations | 1946 | David Lean | 415 |
| 53 | Breaking the Waves5 10 11 12 13 14 15 | 1996 | Lars von Trier | 418 |
| 54 | Casino Royale1 7 16 17 | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 431 |
| 55 | An American Werewolf in London1 | 1981 | John Landis | 436 |
| 56 | The Innocents | 1961 | Jack Clayton | 442 |
| 57 | A Fish Called Wanda1 | 1988 | Charles Crichton | 446 |
| 58 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban1 | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 449 |
| 59 | Chariots of Fire | 1981 | Hugh Hudson | 450 |
| 60 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan1 | 2006 | Larry Charles | 458 |
| 61 | Batman1 | 1989 | Tim Burton | 462 |
| 62 | Secrets & Lies5 | 1996 | Mike Leigh | 470 |
| 63 | Kes | 1969 | Ken Loach | 478 |
| 64 | Gandhi18 | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | 482 |
| 65 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 21 | 2011 | David Yates | 484 |
| 66 | The Haunting | 1963 | Robert Wise | 497 |
| 67 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone1 | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 503 |
| 68 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | Mike Newell | 504 |
| 69 | The English Patient1 | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | 510 |
| 70 | The Ladykillers | 1955 | Alexander Mackendrick | 512 |
| 71 | The Lady Vanishes | 1938 | Alfred Hitchcock | 523 |
| 72 | Dancer in the Dark1 3 5 7 10 11 12 13 14 19 20 21 22 | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 532 |
| 73 | 12 Years a Slave1 | 2013 | Steve McQueen | 543 |
| 74 | 28 Days Later…15 | 2002 | Danny Boyle | 553 |
| 75 | The Prestige1 | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | 555 |
| 76 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | 1998 | Guy Ritchie | 556 |
| 77 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | 559 |
| 78 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit1 | 2005 | Steve Box and Nick Park | 563 |
| 79 | Get Carter | 1971 | Mike Hodges | 564 |
| 80 | The Dirty Dozen1 | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 566 |
| 81 | Performance | 1970 | Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg | 576 |
| 82 | Shakespeare in Love1 | 1998 | John Madden | 592 |
| 83 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence1 | 2001 | Steven Spielberg | 593 |
| 84 | The Fifth Element1 5 | 1997 | Luc Besson | 599 |
| 85 | The Triplets of Belleville1 4 5 19 23 | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet | 601 |
| 86 | Sense and Sensibility1 | 1995 | Ang Lee | 602 |
| 87 | Hot Fuzz5 | 2007 | Edgar Wright | 608 |
| 88 | The Dark Knight Rises1 | 2012 | Christopher Nolan | 614 |
| 89 | Dogville3 5 7 10 11 12 13 22 | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 626 |
| 90 | Love Actually1 5 | 2003 | Richard Curtis | 636 |
| 91 | The Omen1 | 1976 | Richard Donner | 637 |
| 92 | Interstellar1 4 | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | 638 |
| 93 | Naked | 1993 | Mike Leigh | 639 |
| 94 | The Long Good Friday | 1980 | John Mackenzie | 642 |
| 95 | Gravity1 | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | 645 |
| 96 | The Last Emperor3 5 24 | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 651 |
| 97 | Moon1 | 2009 | Duncan Jones | 660 |
| 98 | 'I Know Where I'm Going!' | 1945 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 672 |
| 99 | Snatch.1 | 2000 | Guy Ritchie | 673 |
| 100 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford1 4 | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | 681 |
| 101 | Man on Wire1 | 2008 | James Marsh | 689 |
| 102 | Fantastic Mr. Fox1 | 2009 | Wes Anderson | 694 |
| 103 | The King's Speech1 25 | 2010 | Tom Hooper | 696 |
| 104 | Batman Returns1 | 1992 | Tim Burton | 698 |
| 105 | Eyes Wide Shut1 | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick | 699 |
| 106 | Hoosiers1 | 1986 | David Anspaugh | 701 |
| 107 | V for Vendetta1 7 | 2005 | James McTeigue | 705 |
| 108 | The Muppet Movie1 | 1979 | James Frawley | 723 |
| 109 | Yellow Submarine1 | 1968 | George Dunning | 731 |
| 110 | Barton Fink1 | 1991 | Joel Coen | 733 |
| 111 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young | 742 |
| 112 | Oliver! | 1968 | Carol Reed | 757 |
| 113 | The Man Who Would be King1 | 1975 | John Huston | 764 |
| 114 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | 1976 | Nicolas Roeg | 765 |
| 115 | Atonement1 5 | 2007 | Joe Wright | 771 |
| 116 | Hotel Rwanda3 26 | 2004 | Terry George | 789 |
| 117 | Basic Instinct1 5 | 1992 | Paul Verhoeven | 796 |
| 118 | Ghost World1 7 | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | 797 |
| 119 | O Brother, Where Art Thou?1 5 | 2000 | Joel Coen | 806 |
| 120 | Lolita1 | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick | 823 |
| 121 | The Servant | 1963 | Joseph Losey | 824 |
| 122 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield | 825 |
| 123 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire1 | 2005 | Mike Newell | 827 |
| 124 | Night and the City1 | 1950 | Jules Dassin | 834 |
| 125 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | 838 |
| 126 | In Bruges1 | 2008 | Martin McDonagh | 846 |
| 127 | Time Bandits | 1981 | Terry Gilliam | 851 |
| 128 | Walkabout25 | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg | 853 |
| 129 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 856 |
| 130 | A Room with a View | 1985 | James Ivory | 863 |
| 131 | My Beautiful Laundrette | 1985 | Stephen Frears | 869 |
| 132 | Horror of Dracula | 1958 | Terence Fisher | 875 |
| 133 | Labyrinth1 | 1986 | Jim Henson | 876 |
| 134 | Jason and the Argonauts1 | 1963 | Don Chaffey | 877 |
| 135 | Dead of Night | 1945 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer | 882 |
| 136 | Local Hero | 1983 | Bill Forsyth | 894 |
| 137 | Gregory's Girl | 1980 | Bill Forsyth | 904 |
| 138 | The Ipcress File | 1965 | Sidney J. Furie | 912 |
| 139 | Straw Dogs1 | 1971 | Sam Peckinpah | 915 |
| 140 | The Straight Story1 5 | 1999 | David Lynch | 916 |
| 141 | Out of Africa1 | 1985 | Sydney Pollack | 930 |
| 142 | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | 1962 | Tony Richardson | 932 |
| 143 | Sexy Beast15 | 2000 | Jonathan Glazer | 941 |
| 144 | Black Hawk Down1 | 2001 | Ridley Scott | 947 |
| 145 | Orlando3 5 10 27 | 1992 | Sally Potter | 955 |
| 146 | The Remains of the Day1 | 1993 | James Ivory | 956 |
| 147 | The Crying Game1 6 | 1992 | Neil Jordan | 958 |
| 148 | Henry V | 1944 | Laurence Olivier | 960 |
| 149 | Chicken Run1 5 | 2000 | Peter Lord and Nick Park | 962 |
| 150 | Superman II1 4 | 1980 | Richard Lester | 971 |
| 151 | Distant Voices, Still Lives7 | 1988 | Terence Davies | 973 |
| 152 | This Sporting Life | 1963 | Lindsay Anderson | 977 |
| 153 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | 1960 | Karel Reisz | 982 |
| 154 | The Sacrifice5 11 | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 987 |
| 155 | The Full Monty1 | 1997 | Peter Cattaneo | 995 |
| 156 | Notting Hill1 | 1999 | Roger Michell | 996 |
| 157 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street1 | 2007 | Tim Burton | 1006 |
| 158 | Dangerous Liaisons1 | 1988 | Stephen Frears | 1008 |
| 159 | Underground1 5 7 16 28 29 30 | 1995 | Emir Kusturica | 1010 |
| 160 | United 931 5 | 2006 | Paul Greengrass | 1012 |
| 161 | Safe1 | 1995 | Todd Haynes | 1021 |
| 162 | Things to Come | 1936 | William Cameron Menzies | 1022 |
| 163 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix1 | 2007 | David Yates | 1030 |
| 164 | Where Eagles Dare1 | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton | 1033 |
| 165 | Tom Jones | 1963 | Tony Richardson | 1043 |
| 166 | The Last Seduction1 | 1994 | John Dahl | 1047 |
| 167 | Topsy-Turvy1 | 1999 | Mike Leigh | 1048 |
| 168 | High Fidelity1 | 2000 | Stephen Frears | 1052 |
| 169 | Rollerball1 4 | 1975 | Norman Jewison | 1079 |
| 170 | 28 Up | 1984 | Michael Apted | 1081 |
| 171 | The Devils | 1971 | Ken Russell | 1082 |
| 172 | The Killing Fields | 1984 | Roland Joffé | 1085 |
| 173 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 1086 |
| 174 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 11 | 2010 | David Yates | 1087 |
| 175 | The Thief of Bagdad1 | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | 1090 |
| 176 | Bridget Jones's Diary1 5 | 2001 | Sharon Maguire | 1091 |
| 177 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover5 10 | 1989 | Peter Greenaway | 1102 |
| 178 | Life of Pi1 4 20 | 2012 | Ang Lee | 1111 |
| 179 | The Draughtsman's Contract | 1982 | Peter Greenaway | 1116 |
| 180 | Hugo1 5 | 2011 | Martin Scorsese | 1120 |
| 181 | Senna1 5 | 2010 | Asif Kapadia | 1127 |
| 182 | 42 Up | 1998 | Michael Apted | 1144 |
| 183 | My Left Foot31 | 1989 | Jim Sheridan | 1145 |
| 184 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets1 7 | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 1151 |
| 185 | Sophie's Choice1 | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula | 1152 |
| 186 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince1 | 2009 | David Yates | 1153 |
| 187 | Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | François Truffaut | 1178 |
| 188 | Touching the Void1 | 2003 | Kevin Macdonald | 1180 |
| 189 | Seven Up! | 1964 | Paul Almond | 1196 |
| 190 | Hellraiser | 1987 | Clive Barker | 1198 |
| 191 | This Is England | 2006 | Shane Meadows | 1205 |
| 192 | Pride & Prejudice1 5 | 2005 | Joe Wright | 1208 |
| 193 | Bend It Like Beckham1 7 | 2002 | Gurinder Chadha | 1211 |
| 194 | La Vie en rose5 16 | 2007 | Olivier Dahan | 1215 |
| 195 | The River1 5 18 | 1951 | Jean Renoir | 1216 |
| 196 | The Descent | 2005 | Neil Marshall | 1228 |
| 197 | Odd Man Out | 1947 | Carol Reed | 1230 |
| 198 | Elizabeth | 1998 | Shekhar Kapur | 1240 |
| 199 | Skyfall1 | 2012 | Sam Mendes | 1259 |
| 200 | Billy Elliot5 | 2000 | Stephen Daldry | 1264 |
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