| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1801 | The Set-Up | 1949 | Robert Wise |
| 1802 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 2004 | Wes Anderson |
| 1803 | 13th | 2016 | Ava DuVernay |
| 1804 | Once upon a Time in Anatolia | 2011 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| 1805 | Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller |
| 1806 | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | 1963 | Stanley Kramer |
| 1807 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth |
| 1808 | Brave | 2012 | Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman |
| 1809 | 13 Going on 30 | 2004 | Gary Winick |
| 1810 | Doctor Strange | 2016 | Scott Derrickson |
| 1811 | My Girl | 1991 | Howard Zieff |
| 1812 | The Burmese Harp | 1956 | Kon Ichikawa |
| 1813 | Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1814 | A Special Day | 1977 | Ettore Scola |
| 1815 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov |
| 1816 | The Masque of the Red Death | 1964 | Roger Corman |
| 1817 | The Dreamers | 2003 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 1818 | Kings of the Road | 1976 | Wim Wenders |
| 1819 | Flags of Our Fathers | 2006 | Clint Eastwood |
| 1820 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | 2021 | Questlove |
| 1821 | Born Yesterday | 1950 | George Cukor |
| 1822 | Henry V | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 1823 | The Edge of Seventeen | 2016 | Kelly Fremon Craig |
| 1824 | Fried Green Tomatoes | 1991 | Jon Avnet |
| 1825 | Pale Rider | 1985 | Clint Eastwood |
| 1826 | Training Day | 2001 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 1827 | Shanghai Express | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 1828 | From Dusk Till Dawn | 1996 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 1829 | Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion | 1970 | Elio Petri |
| 1830 | Bright Star | 2009 | Jane Campion |
| 1831 | The Blood of a Poet | 1932 | Jean Cocteau |
| 1832 | Step Brothers | 2008 | Adam McKay |
| 1833 | October Sky | 1999 | Joe Johnston |
| 1834 | Bottle Rocket | 1996 | Wes Anderson |
| 1835 | Gosford Park | 2001 | Robert Altman |
| 1836 | Gates of Heaven | 1978 | Errol Morris |
| 1837 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty |
| 1838 | Bananas | 1971 | Woody Allen |
| 1839 | A Single Man | 2009 | Tom Ford |
| 1840 | Gomorrah | 2008 | Matteo Garrone |
| 1841 | A Bug's Life | 1998 | John Lasseter |
| 1842 | A Tale of Two Sisters | 2003 | Kim Jee-woon |
| 1843 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | 1943 | Preston Sturges |
| 1844 | Nightmare Alley | 1947 | Edmund Goulding |
| 1845 | Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1846 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1939 | William Dieterle |
| 1847 | Bob le Flambeur | 1956 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 1848 | That Obscure Object of Desire | 1977 | Luis Buñuel |
| 1849 | Match Point | 2005 | Woody Allen |
| 1850 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | Peter Jackson |
| 1851 | Bad Boys | 1995 | Michael Bay |
| 1852 | Morocco | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 1853 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 1968 | Ken Hughes |
| 1854 | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills | 1996 | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky |
| 1855 | Murder, My Sweet | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 1856 | Ulzana's Raid | 1972 | Robert Aldrich |
| 1857 | Gangs of Wasseypur | 2012 | Anurag Kashyap |
| 1858 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann |
| 1859 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 | Jack Arnold |
| 1860 | Cross of Iron | 1977 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 1861 | Romeo and Juliet | 1968 | Franco Zeffirelli |
| 1862 | Still Walking | 2008 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| 1863 | I Vitelloni | 1953 | Federico Fellini |
| 1864 | Pride | 2014 | Matthew Warchus |
| 1865 | One, Two, Three | 1961 | Billy Wilder |
| 1866 | Burden of Dreams | 1982 | Les Blank |
| 1867 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | Gore Verbinski |
| 1868 | The Joy Luck Club | 1993 | Wayne Wang |
| 1869 | Lilo & Stitch | 2002 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders |
| 1870 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch |
| 1871 | Captain Marvel | 2019 | Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck |
| 1872 | Gertrud | 1964 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 1873 | The Boys in the Band | 1970 | William Friedkin |
| 1874 | Manon of the Spring | 1986 | Claude Berri |
| 1875 | Betty Blue | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Beineix |
| 1876 | The Lodger | 1927 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1877 | Good Bye Lenin! | 2003 | Wolfgang Becker |
| 1878 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman |
| 1879 | Within Our Gates | 1920 | Oscar Micheaux |
| 1880 | Where the Wild Things Are | 2009 | Spike Jonze |
| 1881 | Silverado | 1985 | Lawrence Kasdan |
| 1882 | The Railway Children | 1970 | Lionel Jeffries |
| 1883 | Munich | 2005 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1884 | Tabu | 1931 | F.W. Murnau |
| 1885 | The Batman | 2022 | Matt Reeves |
| 1886 | Grosse Pointe Blank | 1997 | George Armitage |
| 1887 | The Shooting | 1966 | Monte Hellman |
| 1888 | Cannibal Holocaust | 1980 | Ruggero Deodato |
| 1889 | The Cove | 2009 | Louie Psihoyos |
| 1890 | The Witches | 1990 | Nicolas Roeg |
| 1891 | Drag Me to Hell | 2009 | Sam Raimi |
| 1892 | The Florida Project | 2017 | Sean Baker |
| 1893 | Stolen Kisses | 1968 | François Truffaut |
| 1894 | Angel Heart | 1987 | Alan Parker |
| 1895 | Went the Day Well? | 1942 | Alberto Cavalcanti |
| 1896 | The Parent Trap | 1961 | David Swift |
| 1897 | Sounder | 1972 | Martin Ritt |
| 1898 | Dead Man Walking | 1995 | Tim Robbins |
| 1899 | Romancing the Stone | 1984 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1900 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1901 | Victory | 1981 | John Huston |
| 1902 | Porco Rosso | 1992 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1903 | Armageddon | 1998 | Michael Bay |
| 1904 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 1905 | Bridge to Terabithia | 2007 | Gabor Csupo |
| 1906 | Kill List | 2011 | Ben Wheatley |
| 1907 | Risky Business | 1983 | Paul Brickman |
| 1908 | Dreamgirls | 2006 | Bill Condon |
| 1909 | The Steel Helmet | 1951 | Samuel Fuller |
| 1910 | Muriel's Wedding | 1994 | P.J. Hogan |
| 1911 | Tarzan | 1999 | Chris Buck and Kevin Lima |
| 1912 | Germany, Year Zero | 1948 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 1913 | The Return of the Living Dead | 1985 | Dan O'Bannon |
| 1914 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | 2011 | Tomas Alfredson |
| 1915 | Chelsea Girls | 1966 | Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol |
| 1916 | Rio Grande | 1950 | John Ford |
| 1917 | World on a Wire | 1973 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 1918 | Commando | 1985 | Mark L. Lester |
| 1919 | The Rookie | 2002 | John Lee Hancock |
| 1920 | Green Book | 2018 | Peter Farrelly |
| 1921 | The House Is Black | 1963 | Forugh Farrokhzad |
| 1922 | Palm Springs | 2020 | Max Barbakow |
| 1923 | A Better Tomorrow | 1986 | John Woo |
| 1924 | Quadrophenia | 1979 | Franc Roddam |
| 1925 | Maedchen in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan |
| 1926 | Battleground | 1949 | William A. Wellman |
| 1927 | Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks | 2002 | Wang Bing |
| 1928 | The Invitation | 2015 | Karyn Kusama |
| 1929 | Ray | 2004 | Taylor Hackford |
| 1930 | The Black Cat | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| 1931 | The Devil Rides Out | 1968 | Terence Fisher |
| 1932 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders |
| 1933 | The Muppet Christmas Carol | 1992 | Brian Henson |
| 1934 | Iron Man 3 | 2013 | Shane Black |
| 1935 | Annie | 1982 | John Huston |
| 1936 | Pillow Talk | 1959 | Michael Gordon |
| 1937 | Hair | 1979 | Milos Forman |
| 1938 | The Secret Garden | 1993 | Agnieszka Holland |
| 1939 | October | 1928 | Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein |
| 1940 | Casualties of War | 1989 | Brian De Palma |
| 1941 | The Boondock Saints | 1999 | Troy Duffy |
| 1942 | Blackboard Jungle | 1955 | Richard Brooks |
| 1943 | Alice in the Cities | 1974 | Wim Wenders |
| 1944 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | 1933 | Fritz Lang |
| 1945 | Shaolin Soccer | 2001 | Stephen Chow |
| 1946 | The Favourite | 2018 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 1947 | Ernest & Celestine | 2012 | Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner |
| 1948 | Masculine Feminine | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 1949 | The Last Samurai | 2003 | Edward Zwick |
| 1950 | Gone Baby Gone | 2007 | Ben Affleck |
| 1951 | West Side Story | 2021 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1952 | Spring in a Small Town | 1948 | Mu Fei |
| 1953 | Enter the Void | 2009 | Gaspar Noé |
| 1954 | Leave Her to Heaven | 1945 | John M. Stahl |
| 1955 | James and the Giant Peach | 1996 | Henry Selick |
| 1956 | Quiz Show | 1994 | Robert Redford |
| 1957 | A Short Film about Killing | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieslowski |
| 1958 | BPM (Beats Per Minute) | 2017 | Robin Campillo |
| 1959 | Le Corbeau | 1943 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 1960 | Ball of Fire | 1941 | Howard Hawks |
| 1961 | La Terra Trema | 1948 | Luchino Visconti |
| 1962 | Portrait of Jason | 1967 | Shirley Clarke |
| 1963 | A Very Long Engagement | 2004 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 1964 | Rango | 2011 | Gore Verbinski |
| 1965 | Finding Neverland | 2004 | Marc Forster |
| 1966 | Loves of a Blonde | 1965 | Milos Forman |
| 1967 | To Live and Die in L.A. | 1985 | William Friedkin |
| 1968 | War for the Planet of the Apes | 2017 | Matt Reeves |
| 1969 | Hallelujah! | 1929 | King Vidor |
| 1970 | Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 1971 | The Look of Silence | 2014 | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| 1972 | The Battle of Chile: Part 1 | 1975 | Patricio Guzmán |
| 1973 | Blood and Black Lace | 1964 | Mario Bava |
| 1974 | Menace II Society | 1993 | Albert and Allen Hughes |
| 1975 | Sorry to Bother You | 2018 | Boots Riley |
| 1976 | Songs from the Second Floor | 2000 | Roy Andersson |
| 1977 | The Hurricane | 1999 | Norman Jewison |
| 1978 | Female Trouble | 1974 | John Waters |
| 1979 | Shame | 2011 | Steve McQueen |
| 1980 | The Shop on Main Street | 1965 | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos |
| 1981 | Secretary | 2002 | Steven Shainberg |
| 1982 | Personal Best | 1982 | Robert Towne |
| 1983 | Transformers | 2007 | Michael Bay |
| 1984 | Dogtown and Z-Boys | 2001 | Stacy Peralta |
| 1985 | Landscape in the Mist | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos |
| 1986 | Straight Outta Compton | 2015 | F. Gary Gray |
| 1987 | Branded to Kill | 1967 | Seijun Suzuki |
| 1988 | Summer | 1986 | Éric Rohmer |
| 1989 | Time of the Gypsies | 1988 | Emir Kusturica |
| 1990 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg |
| 1991 | The Muppets | 2011 | James Bobin |
| 1992 | 21 Jump Street | 2012 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller |
| 1993 | The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | 1976 | John Cassavetes |
| 1994 | The Fault in Our Stars | 2014 | Josh Boone |
| 1995 | You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Frank Capra |
| 1996 | The Fall | 2006 | Tarsem Singh |
| 1997 | News from Home | 1976 | Chantal Akerman |
| 1998 | The Heartbreak Kid | 1972 | Elaine May |
| 1999 | High School | 1968 | Frederick Wiseman |
| 2000 | Gettysburg | 1993 | Ron Maxwell |
