| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 2 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 3 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 4 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles |
| 5 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz |
| 6 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas |
| 7 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly |
| 8 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 9 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 10 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder |
| 11 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott |
| 12 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 13 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 14 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese |
| 15 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming |
| 16 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott |
| 17 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese |
| 18 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 19 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean |
| 20 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen |
| 21 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski |
| 22 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 23 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg |
| 24 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 25 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder |
| 26 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg |
| 27 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg |
| 28 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg |
| 29 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese |
| 30 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed |
| 31 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme |
| 32 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming |
| 33 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra |
| 34 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 35 | The Matrix | 1999 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski |
| 36 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner |
| 37 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford |
| 38 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman |
| 39 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang |
| 40 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 41 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 42 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder |
| 43 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson |
| 44 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone |
| 45 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 46 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin |
| 47 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan |
| 48 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson |
| 49 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton |
| 50 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter |
| 51 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack |
| 52 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont |
| 53 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin |
| 54 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton |
| 55 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles |
| 56 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 57 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 58 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone |
| 59 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols |
| 60 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut |
| 61 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron |
| 62 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder |
| 63 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 64 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan |
| 65 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 66 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron |
| 67 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson |
| 68 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston |
| 69 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
| 70 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu |
| 71 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher |
| 72 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 73 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet |
| 74 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini |
| 75 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen |
| 76 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry |
| 77 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg |
| 78 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski |
| 79 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 80 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 81 | Sunrise | 1927 | F.W. Murnau |
| 82 | WALL•E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton |
| 83 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan |
| 84 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau |
| 85 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey |
| 86 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini |
| 87 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks |
| 88 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin |
| 89 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee |
| 90 | The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
| 91 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks |
| 92 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra |
| 93 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 94 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean |
| 95 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood |
| 96 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner |
| 97 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn |
| 98 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis |
| 99 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir |
| 100 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan |
| 101 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron |
| 102 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher |
| 103 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch |
| 104 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand |
| 105 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 106 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter |
| 107 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 108 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen |
| 109 | This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner |
| 110 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino |
| 111 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones |
| 112 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer |
| 113 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero |
| 114 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 115 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam |
| 116 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin |
| 117 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen |
| 118 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise |
| 119 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 120 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg |
| 121 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman |
| 122 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir |
| 123 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 124 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch |
| 125 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen |
| 126 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 127 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson |
| 128 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles |
| 129 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron |
| 130 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 131 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor |
| 132 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg |
| 133 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone |
| 134 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston |
| 135 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Kar-Wai Wong |
| 136 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill |
| 137 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott |
| 138 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff |
| 139 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan |
| 140 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford |
| 141 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene |
| 142 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes |
| 143 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
| 144 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise |
| 145 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| 146 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 147 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 148 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray |
| 149 | When Harry Met Sally… | 1989 | Rob Reiner |
| 150 | Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter |
| 151 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog |
| 152 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale |
| 153 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Ang Lee |
| 154 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise |
| 155 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale |
| 156 | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones |
| 157 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann |
| 158 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan |
| 159 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler |
| 160 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 161 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola |
| 162 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 163 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman |
| 164 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker |
| 165 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg |
| 166 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 167 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle |
| 168 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton |
| 169 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman |
| 170 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 171 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray |
| 172 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin |
| 173 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 174 | Brief Encounter | 1945 | David Lean |
| 175 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks |
| 176 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly |
| 177 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks |
| 178 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford |
| 179 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné |
| 180 | The Man with the Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov |
| 181 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper |
| 182 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet |
| 183 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin |
| 184 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler |
| 185 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson |
| 186 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel |
| 187 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 188 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter |
| 189 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen |
| 190 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park |
| 191 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee |
| 192 | Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks |
| 193 | The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges |
| 194 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger |
| 195 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 196 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan |
| 197 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 198 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton |
| 199 | Harold and Maude | 1971 | Hal Ashby |
| 200 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone |
