| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
| 2 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz |
| 3 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 4 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 5 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly |
| 6 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming |
| 7 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas |
| 8 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean |
| 9 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 10 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 11 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming |
| 12 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder |
| 13 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra |
| 14 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 15 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 16 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese |
| 17 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 18 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese |
| 19 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski |
| 20 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 21 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg |
| 22 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg |
| 23 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford |
| 24 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen |
| 25 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott |
| 26 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed |
| 27 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg |
| 28 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 29 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan |
| 30 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 31 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese |
| 32 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg |
| 33 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston |
| 34 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder |
| 35 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 36 | The Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 37 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman |
| 38 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols |
| 39 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme |
| 40 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder |
| 41 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn |
| 42 | The General | 1927 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton |
| 43 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 44 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks |
| 45 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 46 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner |
| 47 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack |
| 48 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont |
| 49 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles |
| 50 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen |
| 51 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 52 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean |
| 53 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra |
| 54 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott |
| 55 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin |
| 56 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey |
| 57 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan |
| 58 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir |
| 59 | The Matrix | 1999 | Andy and Larry Wachowski |
| 60 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin |
| 61 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch |
| 62 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise |
| 63 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 64 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer |
| 65 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
| 66 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang |
| 67 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg |
| 68 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford |
| 69 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston |
| 70 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman |
| 71 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston |
| 72 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino |
| 73 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton |
| 74 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
| 75 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 76 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford |
| 77 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 78 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut |
| 79 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron |
| 80 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood |
| 81 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor |
| 82 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini |
| 83 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter |
| 84 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise |
| 85 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray |
| 86 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks |
| 87 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand |
| 88 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron |
| 89 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir |
| 90 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 91 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 92 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin |
| 93 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer |
| 94 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson |
| 95 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| 96 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler |
| 97 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam |
| 98 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 99 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan |
| 100 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill |
