| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 74 |
| 2 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 236 |
| 3 | The Man with the Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 296 |
| 4 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 377 |
| 5 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | 407 |
| 6 | Ivan the Terrible | 1944 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 453 |
| 7 | Stalker1 | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 509 |
| 8 | Alexander Nevsky | 1938 | Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev | 523 |
| 9 | Earth | 1930 | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 552 |
| 10 | October | 1928 | Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein | 839 |
| 11 | The Mirror | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 887 |
| 12 | Ivan the Terrible, Part II | 1958 | Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova | 930 |
| 13 | Ballad of a Soldier | 1959 | Grigori Chukhraj | 997 |
| 14 | War and Peace | 1967 | Sergei Bondarchuk | 1019 |
| 15 | Strike | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1086 |
| 16 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1968 | Sergei Parajanov | 1121 |
| 17 | I Am Cuba2 | 1968 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 1159 |
| 18 | Dersu Uzala3 | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa | 1194 |
| 19 | Burnt by the Sun4 | 1994 | Nikita Mikhalkov | 1244 |
| 20 | Mother and Son1 | 1997 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1471 |
| 21 | The Cranes are Flying | 1957 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 1476 |
| 22 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | 1965 | Sergei Parajanov | 1551 |
| 23 | Russian Ark1 | 2002 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1566 |
| 24 | Nostalgia5 | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1675 |
| 25 | Orlando4 5 6 | 1992 | Sally Potter | 1748 |
| 26 | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1873 |
| 27 | The Red and the White7 | 1968 | Miklós Jancsó | 1933 |
| 28 | Storm over Asia | 1928 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1992 |
| 29 | Mother | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 2133 |
| 30 | The Return | 2003 | Andrei Zvyagintsev | 2234 |
1 Joint production with (West) Germany.
2 Joint production with Cuba.
3 Joint production with Japan.
4 Joint production with France.
5 Joint production with Italy.
6 Joint production with the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
7 Joint production with Hungary.