| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1001 | The Vanishing | 1988 | George Sluizer |
| 1002 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | 1988 | Terence Davies |
| 1003 | Gremlins | 1984 | Joe Dante |
| 1004 | Pixote | 1981 | Hector Babenco |
| 1005 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan |
| 1006 | Black Hawk Down | 2001 | Ridley Scott |
| 1007 | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1008 | Twentieth Century | 1934 | Howard Hawks |
| 1009 | Risky Business | 1983 | Paul Brickman |
| 1010 | From Dusk Till Dawn | 1996 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 1011 | The Wrong Trousers | 1993 | Nick Park |
| 1012 | Medium Cool | 1969 | Haskell Wexler |
| 1013 | Good Morning, Vietnam | 1987 | Barry Levinson |
| 1014 | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava |
| 1015 | A Brighter Summer Day | 1991 | Edward Yang |
| 1016 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder |
| 1017 | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache |
| 1018 | Shine | 1996 | Scott Hicks |
| 1019 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 1020 | Carnival of Souls | 1962 | Herk Harvey |
| 1021 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier |
| 1022 | Killer of Sheep | 1977 | Charles Burnett |
| 1023 | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Eric Rohmer |
| 1024 | Pat and Mike | 1952 | George Cukor |
| 1025 | Boys Don't Cry | 1999 | Kimberly Peirce |
| 1026 | The Wolf Man | 1941 | George Waggner |
| 1027 | Louisiana Story | 1948 | Robert J. Flaherty |
| 1028 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George |
| 1029 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | 1970 | Russ Meyer |
| 1030 | Splash | 1984 | Ron Howard |
| 1031 | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske |
| 1032 | Happy Together | 1997 | Kar Wai Wong |
| 1033 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner |
| 1034 | Friday the 13th | 1980 | Sean S. Cunningham |
| 1035 | Flirting with Disaster | 1996 | David O. Russell |
| 1036 | Total Recall | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 1037 | Office Space | 1999 | Mike Judge |
| 1038 | To Live | 1994 | Yimou Zhang |
| 1039 | Elizabeth | 1998 | Shekhar Kapur |
| 1040 | An Officer and a Gentleman | 1982 | Taylor Hackford |
| 1041 | Voyage in Italy | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 1042 | Repo Man | 1984 | Alex Cox |
| 1043 | Norma Rae | 1979 | Martin Ritt |
| 1044 | The Hours | 2002 | Stephen Daldry |
| 1045 | The Barbarian Invasions | 2003 | Denys Arcand |
| 1046 | Sands of Iwo Jima | 1949 | Allan Dwan |
| 1047 | Beau travail | 1999 | Claire Denis |
| 1048 | After Life | 1998 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| 1049 | Woodstock | 1970 | Michael Wadleigh |
| 1050 | El Norte | 1983 | Gregory Nava |
| 1051 | The Railway Children | 1970 | Lionel Jeffries |
| 1052 | Holiday | 1938 | George Cukor |
| 1053 | Tampopo | 1985 | Juzo Itami |
| 1054 | Footlight Parade | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon |
| 1055 | The Mask | 1994 | Chuck Russell |
| 1056 | What's Up, Doc? | 1972 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 1057 | Waiting for Guffman | 1996 | Christopher Guest |
| 1058 | The Commitments | 1991 | Alan Parker |
| 1059 | Midnight | 1939 | Mitchell Leisen |
| 1060 | Hero | 2002 | Yimou Zhang |
| 1061 | The Harder They Come | 1972 | Perry Henzell |
| 1062 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1063 | Burnt by the Sun | 1994 | Nikita Mikhalkov |
| 1064 | Hate | 1995 | Mathieu Kassovitz |
| 1065 | Jailhouse Rock | 1957 | Richard Thorpe |
| 1066 | Night and Fog | 1955 | Alain Resnais |
| 1067 | Billy Liar | 1963 | John Schlesinger |
| 1068 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer |
| 1069 | Vagabond | 1985 | Agnès Varda |
| 1070 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda |
| 1071 | Alien³ | 1992 | David Fincher |
| 1072 | Dark City | 1998 | Alex Proyas |
| 1073 | Meet John Doe | 1941 | Frank Capra |
| 1074 | Legally Blonde | 2001 | Robert Luketic |
| 1075 | Carousel | 1956 | Henry King |
| 1076 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1077 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1968 | Sergei Parajanov |
| 1078 | Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August | 1974 | Lina Wertmüller |
| 1079 | Senso | 1954 | Luchino Visconti |
| 1080 | Beverly Hills Cop | 1984 | Martin Brest |
| 1081 | Gentleman's Agreement | 1947 | Elia Kazan |
| 1082 | A Raisin in the Sun | 1961 | Daniel Petrie |
| 1083 | The Ice Storm | 1997 | Ang Lee |
| 1084 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | John McNaughton |
| 1085 | Carmen Jones | 1954 | Otto Preminger |
| 1086 | Lust for Life | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 1087 | Waking Life | 2001 | Richard Linklater |
| 1088 | Koyaanisqatsi | 1982 | Godfrey Reggio |
| 1089 | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1090 | To Catch a Thief | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1091 | Rollerball | 1975 | Norman Jewison |
| 1092 | Dersu Uzala | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1093 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 1094 | Inherit the Wind | 1960 | Stanley Kramer |
| 1095 | Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach |
| 1096 | Father of the Bride | 1950 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 1097 | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker |
| 1098 | Alfie | 1966 | Lewis Gilbert |
| 1099 | Donnie Brasco | 1997 | Mike Newell |
| 1100 | Our Hospitality | 1923 | John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton |
