| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
In colaboration with |
| 1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1 | |
| 2 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 2 | |
| 3 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 | United Kingdom |
| 4 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 4 | |
| 5 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 | |
| 6 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 6 | United Kingdom |
| 7 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 7 | |
| 8 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 8 | |
| 9 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 9 | |
| 10 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 10 | |
| 11 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 11 | |
| 12 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 12 | United Kingdom |
| 13 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 13 | |
| 14 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 14 | |
| 15 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 15 | |
| 16 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 16 | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 17 | |
| 18 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 18 | United Kingdom |
| 19 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 19 | |
| 20 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 20 | |
| 21 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 21 | |
| 22 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 22 | United Kingdom |
| 23 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 23 | |
| 24 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 25 | United Kingdom |
| 25 | The Matrix | 1999 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 26 | Australia |
| 26 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 27 | |
| 27 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | 28 | |
| 28 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 29 | |
| 29 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 30 | |
| 30 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 31 | |
| 31 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 32 | Japan |
| 32 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 33 | |
| 33 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 34 | |
| 34 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 35 | New Zealand, United Kingdom |
| 35 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 36 | United Kingdom |
| 36 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 37 | |
| 37 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 38 | |
| 38 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | 39 | |
| 39 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 40 | |
| 40 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 41 | |
| 41 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | 44 | |
| 42 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 45 | |
| 43 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 46 | |
| 44 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 47 | |
| 45 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 48 | Italy, Spain, West Germany |
| 46 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 49 | |
| 47 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 50 | United Kingdom |
| 48 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 51 | |
| 49 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 52 | New Zealand |
| 50 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 53 | |
| 51 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 54 | France |
| 52 | WALL•E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | 55 | Japan |
| 53 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 56 | |
| 54 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 57 | |
| 55 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 58 | New Zealand |
| 56 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 59 | |
| 57 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | 60 | |
| 58 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 61 | |
| 59 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | 62 | |
| 60 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | 63 | Canada |
| 61 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 64 | |
| 62 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 66 | |
| 63 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 67 | United Kingdom |
| 64 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 68 | |
| 65 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | 71 | Germany |
| 66 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | 72 | |
| 67 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 73 | |
| 68 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 74 | United Kingdom |
| 69 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | 75 | |
| 70 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 76 | Italy |
| 71 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 77 | |
| 72 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 79 | |
| 73 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 80 | United Kingdom |
| 74 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 81 | |
| 75 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 83 | |
| 76 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | 85 | |
| 77 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 86 | |
| 78 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 87 | |
| 79 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 88 | |
| 80 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 89 | France |
| 81 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 90 | |
| 82 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 91 | United Kingdom |
| 83 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 92 | |
| 84 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 93 | |
| 85 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 95 | |
| 86 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 96 | |
| 87 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 98 | |
| 88 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 99 | |
| 89 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 101 | |
| 90 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero | 102 | |
| 91 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 104 | United Kingdom |
| 92 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 106 | Japan |
| 93 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen | 108 | |
| 94 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 109 | |
| 95 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 110 | United Kingdom |
| 96 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Ang Lee | 111 | Canada |
| 97 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter | 112 | |
| 98 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | George Miller | 113 | Australia |
| 99 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 114 | United Kingdom |
| 100 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand | 115 | |
| 101 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 116 | |
| 102 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau | 117 | |
| 103 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 120 | |
| 104 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 121 | United Kingdom |
| 105 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 123 | |
| 106 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 125 | |
| 107 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 126 | |
| 108 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | 127 | |
| 109 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 128 | |
| 110 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 129 | |
| 111 | When Harry Met Sally… | 1989 | Rob Reiner | 130 | |
| 112 | Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter | 132 | |
| 113 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 133 | |
| 114 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | 134 | Germany |
| 115 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise | 135 | |
| 116 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 136 | |
| 117 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 137 | United Kingdom, Malta Morocco |
| 118 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 139 | |
| 119 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 140 | Taiwan, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China |
| 120 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 142 | |
| 121 | This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner | 143 | |
| 122 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | 145 | |
| 123 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 146 | |
| 124 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | 147 | Canada |
| 125 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 148 | |
| 126 | Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron | 149 | United Kingdom |
| 127 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman | 151 | |
| 128 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 153 | Hong Kong |
| 129 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 154 | |
| 130 | Clueless | 1995 | Amy Heckerling | 156 | |
| 131 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 157 | Italy |
| 132 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 159 | |
| 133 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 161 | |
| 134 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 162 | Mexico |
| 135 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton | 163 | Japan |
| 136 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | 164 | Germany |
| 137 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 166 | France, Poland, Germany, United Kingdom |
| 138 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | 167 | |
| 139 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | 168 | |
| 140 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich | 169 | |
| 141 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 171 | |
| 142 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | 172 | Japan |
| 143 | The Iron Giant | 1999 | Brad Bird | 173 | Czechia, United Kingdom |
| 144 | Moonlight | 2016 | Barry Jenkins | 176 | |
| 145 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | 177 | |
| 146 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper | 179 | |
| 147 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 181 | |
| 148 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 182 | |
| 149 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 183 | |
| 150 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 184 | |
| 151 | Harold and Maude | 1971 | Hal Ashby | 185 | |
| 152 | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele | 187 | Japan |
| 153 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 188 | |
| 154 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman | 189 | Canada |
| 155 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | 190 | France |
| 156 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 191 | |
| 157 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 192 | |
| 158 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | 193 | United Kingdom, Japan |
| 159 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker | 196 | |
| 160 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | 197 | United Kingdom |
| 161 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | 198 | United Kingdom |
| 162 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 199 | |
| 163 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 200 | |
| 164 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 202 | |
| 165 | Roman Holiday | 1953 | William Wyler | 203 | |
| 166 | Mary Poppins | 1964 | Robert Stevenson | 204 | |
| 167 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 206 | |
| 168 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 207 | |
| 169 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 209 | |
| 170 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel | 212 | |
| 171 | RoboCop | 1987 | Paul Verhoeven | 213 | |
| 172 | Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright | 214 | France, United Kingdom |
| 173 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 215 | |
| 174 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 218 | |
| 175 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 219 | |
| 176 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 220 | |
| 177 | The Hurt Locker | 2008 | Kathryn Bigelow | 221 | Luxembourg, Canada |
| 178 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | 222 | |
| 179 | Pinocchio | 1940 | Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen | 224 | |
| 180 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 225 | |
| 181 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | 226 | |
| 182 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | 227 | |
| 183 | Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, and Ben Sharpsteen | 229 | |
| 184 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 230 | |
| 185 | The Nightmare before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick | 231 | |
| 186 | Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 232 | |
| 187 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 233 | United Kingdom |
| 188 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | 234 | |
| 189 | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Steve McQueen | 235 | United Kingdom |
| 190 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | 236 | |
| 191 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 237 | |
| 192 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 238 | United Kingdom, Switzerland, Panama |
| 193 | The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 239 | |
| 194 | Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero | 242 | Italy |
| 195 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 243 | |
| 196 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 246 | |
| 197 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | 247 | |
| 198 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | Wes Craven | 248 | |
| 199 | Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch | 249 | |
| 200 | Hoop Dreams | 1994 | Steve James | 250 |
