| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1801 | The Fountain | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 1802 | Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | William Dieterle |
| 1803 | La Ronde | 1950 | Max Ophüls |
| 1804 | Moana | 2016 | Ron Clements and John Musker |
| 1805 | The Hunger | 1983 | Tony Scott |
| 1806 | Dogtown and Z-Boys | 2001 | Stacy Peralta |
| 1807 | Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton |
| 1808 | The Battle of Chile: Part 1 | 1975 | Patricio Guzmán |
| 1809 | Victory | 1981 | John Huston |
| 1810 | The Lovers on the Bridge | 1991 | Leos Carax |
| 1811 | Nightcrawler | 2014 | Dan Gilroy |
| 1812 | The Girl Can't Help It | 1956 | Frank Tashlin |
| 1813 | Man on Fire | 2004 | Tony Scott |
| 1814 | Lincoln | 2012 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1815 | Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior | 2003 | Prachya Pinkaew |
| 1816 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg |
| 1817 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | 1994 | Tom Shadyac |
| 1818 | Marketa Lazarová | 1967 | Frantisek Vlácil |
| 1819 | The Steel Helmet | 1951 | Samuel Fuller |
| 1820 | Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone |
| 1821 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed | 1926 | Lotte Reiniger |
| 1822 | The Limey | 1999 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1823 | Man of the West | 1958 | Anthony Mann |
| 1824 | Jezebel | 1938 | William Wyler |
| 1825 | The Station Agent | 2003 | Tom McCarthy |
| 1826 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 2004 | Wes Anderson |
| 1827 | Super Size Me | 2004 | Morgan Spurlock |
| 1828 | Gummo | 1997 | Harmony Korine |
| 1829 | Incendies | 2010 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 1830 | Super Fly | 1972 | Gordon Parks Jr. |
| 1831 | Match Point | 2005 | Woody Allen |
| 1832 | Midnight | 1939 | Mitchell Leisen |
| 1833 | Mississippi Burning | 1988 | Alan Parker |
| 1834 | Purple Rain | 1984 | Albert Magnoli |
| 1835 | A Special Day | 1977 | Ettore Scola |
| 1836 | Big Deal on Madonna Street | 1958 | Mario Monicelli |
| 1837 | Cat Ballou | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein |
| 1838 | Shine | 1996 | Scott Hicks |
| 1839 | Silverado | 1985 | Lawrence Kasdan |
| 1840 | Seven Chances | 1925 | Buster Keaton |
| 1841 | Port of Shadows | 1938 | Marcel Carné |
| 1842 | Salaam Bombay! | 1988 | Mira Nair |
| 1843 | An Education | 2009 | Lone Scherfig |
| 1844 | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| 1845 | Moolaadé | 2004 | Ousmane Sembene |
| 1846 | Victim | 1961 | Basil Dearden |
| 1847 | The Naked Kiss | 1964 | Samuel Fuller |
| 1848 | Changeling | 2008 | Clint Eastwood |
| 1849 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 | Jack Arnold |
| 1850 | Commando | 1985 | Mark L. Lester |
| 1851 | Le Plaisir | 1952 | Max Ophüls |
| 1852 | The Son | 2002 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 1853 | The Tall T | 1957 | Budd Boetticher |
| 1854 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | 2005 | George Clooney |
| 1855 | Teorema | 1968 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 1856 | Four Lions | 2010 | Christopher Morris |
| 1857 | Attack the Block | 2011 | Joe Cornish |
| 1858 | Woman of the Year | 1942 | George Stevens |
| 1859 | Inherit the Wind | 1960 | Stanley Kramer |
| 1860 | Stolen Kisses | 1968 | François Truffaut |
| 1861 | Samurai Rebellion | 1967 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 1862 | The Firemen's Ball | 1967 | Milos Forman |
| 1863 | Crank | 2006 | Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor |
| 1864 | Thor | 2011 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 1865 | Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle | 2004 | Danny Leiner |
| 1866 | Ceddo | 1977 | Ousmane Sembene |
| 1867 | James and the Giant Peach | 1996 | Henry Selick |
| 1868 | The Informer | 1935 | John Ford |
| 1869 | Tokyo Godfathers | 2003 | Satoshi Kon |
| 1870 | The House Is Black | 1963 | Forugh Farrokhzad |
| 1871 | Shampoo | 1975 | Hal Ashby |
| 1872 | Ju Dou | 1990 | Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang |
| 1873 | White Christmas | 1954 | Michael Curtiz |
| 1874 | Room at the Top | 1959 | Jack Clayton |
| 1875 | Naked Lunch | 1991 | David Cronenberg |
| 1876 | Going My Way | 1944 | Leo McCarey |
| 1877 | Pale Rider | 1985 | Clint Eastwood |
| 1878 | The Proposition | 2005 | John Hillcoat |
| 1879 | Apocalypto | 2006 | Mel Gibson |
| 1880 | Flaming Creatures | 1963 | Jack Smith |
| 1881 | Wanda | 1970 | Barbara Loden |
| 1882 | Fast Five | 2011 | Justin Lin |
| 1883 | The Fall | 2006 | Tarsem Singh |
| 1884 | The Battle of Chile: Part 2 | 1976 | Patricio Guzmán |
| 1885 | A Very Long Engagement | 2004 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 1886 | The Navigator | 1924 | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton |
| 1887 | The Cruel Sea | 1953 | Charles Frend |
| 1888 | High Sierra | 1941 | Raoul Walsh |
| 1889 | Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox |
| 1890 | Wagon Master | 1950 | John Ford |
| 1891 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 1892 | The Outsiders | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1893 | Plan 9 from Outer Space | 1959 | Edward D. Wood Jr. |
| 1894 | Maurice | 1987 | James Ivory |
| 1895 | Heimat | 1984 | Edgar Reitz |
| 1896 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut |
| 1897 | Foolish Wives | 1922 | Erich von Stroheim |
| 1898 | The Rookie | 2002 | John Lee Hancock |
| 1899 | The Dreamers | 2003 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 1900 | All the King's Men | 1949 | Robert Rossen |
| 1901 | The Matrix Reloaded | 2003 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski |
| 1902 | Awakenings | 1990 | Penny Marshall |
| 1903 | Easy A | 2010 | Will Gluck |
| 1904 | Ice-Cold in Alex | 1958 | J. Lee Thompson |
| 1905 | Searching for Sugar Man | 2012 | Malik Mendjelloul |
| 1906 | Once Were Warriors | 1994 | Lee Tamahori |
| 1907 | Quadrophenia | 1979 | Franc Roddam |
| 1908 | Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks | 2002 | Bing Wang |
| 1909 | Blue Valentine | 2010 | Derek Cianfrance |
| 1910 | Witchfinder General | 1968 | Michael Reeves |
| 1911 | They Were Expendable | 1945 | John Ford |
| 1912 | Anvil! The Story of Anvil | 2008 | Sacha Gervasi |
| 1913 | Stella Dallas | 1937 | King Vidor |
| 1914 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst |
| 1915 | The Fire within | 1963 | Louis Malle |
| 1916 | Martyrs | 2008 | Pascal Laugier |
| 1917 | Othello | 1951 | Orson Welles |
| 1918 | Kill List | 2011 | Ben Wheatley |
| 1919 | 48 Hrs. | 1982 | Walter Hill |
| 1920 | The Getaway | 1972 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 1921 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1922 | The Last Samurai | 2003 | Edward Zwick |
| 1923 | Excalibur | 1981 | John Boorman |
| 1924 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols |
| 1925 | Bad Santa | 2003 | Terry Zwigoff |
| 1926 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks |
| 1927 | Welcome to the Dollhouse | 1995 | Todd Solondz |
| 1928 | Seventh Heaven | 1927 | Frank Borzage |
| 1929 | Lady Bird | 2017 | Greta Gerwig |
| 1930 | Hallelujah! | 1929 | King Vidor |
| 1931 | Spaceballs | 1987 | Mel Brooks |
| 1932 | Lethal Weapon 2 | 1989 | Richard Donner |
| 1933 | A Tale of Two Sisters | 2003 | Jee-woon Kim |
| 1934 | Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire | 2009 | Lee Daniels |
| 1935 | A Little Princess | 1995 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 1936 | The Life of Emile Zola | 1937 | William Dieterle |
| 1937 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | 1988 | Terry Gilliam |
| 1938 | Devil in a Blue Dress | 1995 | Carl Franklin |
| 1939 | The Red and the White | 1967 | Miklós Jancsó |
| 1940 | Pygmalion | 1938 | Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard |
| 1941 | The Chorus | 2004 | Christophe Barratier |
| 1942 | O Lucky Man! | 1973 | Lindsay Anderson |
| 1943 | And Life Goes on | 1992 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 1944 | The Long Riders | 1980 | Walter Hill |
| 1945 | Driving Miss Daisy | 1989 | Bruce Beresford |
| 1946 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone |
| 1947 | Calamity Jane | 1953 | David Butler |
| 1948 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | Gore Verbinski |
| 1949 | The Witches | 1990 | Nicolas Roeg |
| 1950 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | 2013 | Francis Lawrence |
| 1951 | The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) | 2001 | Zacharias Kunuk |
| 1952 | But I'm a Cheerleader | 1999 | Jamie Babbit |
| 1953 | Idiocracy | 2006 | Mike Judge |
| 1954 | The Wrong Trousers | 1993 | Nick Park |
| 1955 | A Man and a Woman | 1966 | Claude Lelouch |
| 1956 | The Iron Horse | 1924 | John Ford |
| 1957 | The World's Fastest Indian | 2005 | Roger Donaldson |
| 1958 | The Shooting | 1966 | Monte Hellman |
| 1959 | The Driver | 1978 | Walter Hill |
| 1960 | Better Off Dead… | 1985 | Savage Steve Holland |
| 1961 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | 1997 | Errol Morris |
| 1962 | Insomnia | 2002 | Christopher Nolan |
| 1963 | The Constant Gardner | 2005 | Fernando Meirelles |
| 1964 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2011 | David Fincher |
| 1965 | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1966 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | 2008 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 1967 | Fat Girl | 2001 | Catherine Breillat |
| 1968 | Black Christmas | 1974 | Bob Clark |
| 1969 | 3-Iron | 2004 | Ki-duk Kim |
| 1970 | Matilda | 1996 | Danny DeVito |
| 1971 | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | 2008 | Mark Herman |
| 1972 | Thor: Ragnarok | 2017 | Taika Waititi |
| 1973 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | 1986 | Leonard Nimoy |
| 1974 | Cabiria | 1914 | Giovanni Pastrone |
| 1975 | An Inconvenient Truth | 2006 | Davis Guggenheim |
| 1976 | The Damned | 1969 | Luchino Visconti |
| 1977 | Gone Baby Gone | 2007 | Ben Affleck |
| 1978 | Baby Doll | 1956 | Elia Kazan |
| 1979 | The Unknown | 1927 | Tod Browning |
| 1980 | Man of Aran | 1934 | Robert J. Flaherty |
| 1981 | Advise & Consent | 1962 | Otto Preminger |
| 1982 | Songs from the Second Floor | 2000 | Roy Andersson |
| 1983 | Ex Machina | 2014 | Alex Garland |
| 1984 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | 1965 | Martin Ritt |
| 1985 | We All Loved Each Other So Much | 1974 | Ettore Scola |
| 1986 | Two Women | 1960 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 1987 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1988 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | 2014 | Dean DeBlois |
| 1989 | Corpse Bride | 2005 | Tim Burton and Mike Johnson |
| 1990 | Shaolin Soccer | 2001 | Stephen Chow |
| 1991 | Death Wish | 1974 | Michael Winner |
| 1992 | Lucky Number Slevin | 2006 | Paul McGuigan |
| 1993 | Monsoon Wedding | 2001 | Mira Nair |
| 1994 | Lilo & Stitch | 2002 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders |
| 1995 | Kubo and the Two Strings | 2016 | Travis Knight |
| 1996 | My Dinner with Andre | 1981 | Louis Malle |
| 1997 | Mystery Train | 1989 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 1998 | Days of Wine and Roses | 1962 | Blake Edwards |
| 1999 | The Secret of Kells | 2009 | Tomm Moore |
| 2000 | Invaders from Mars | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies |
