| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1001 | Odd Man Out | 1947 | Carol Reed |
| 1002 | Twelve O'Clock High | 1949 | Henry King |
| 1003 | The Karate Kid | 1984 | John G. Avildsen |
| 1004 | The Bourne Identity | 2002 | Doug Liman |
| 1005 | El Topo | 1970 | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| 1006 | Brian's Song | 1971 | Buzz Kulik |
| 1007 | Ray | 2004 | Taylor Hackford |
| 1008 | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti |
| 1009 | The Defiant Ones | 1958 | Stanley Kramer |
| 1010 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | John McNaughton |
| 1011 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | 1970 | Russ Meyer |
| 1012 | Quiz Show | 1994 | Robert Redford |
| 1013 | The Railway Children | 1970 | Lionel Jeffries |
| 1014 | Koyaanisqatsi | 1982 | Godfrey Reggio |
| 1015 | Napoleon Dynamite | 2004 | Jared Hess |
| 1016 | Chimes at Midnight | 1965 | Orson Welles |
| 1017 | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | 1987 | John Hughes |
| 1018 | The Bourne Supremacy | 2004 | Paul Greengrass |
| 1019 | War and Peace | 1967 | Sergei Bondarchuk |
| 1020 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid |
| 1021 | Midnight Run | 1988 | Martin Brest |
| 1022 | Shine | 1996 | Scott Hicks |
| 1023 | Shallow Grave | 1994 | Danny Boyle |
| 1024 | Love Actually | 2003 | Richard Curtis |
| 1025 | The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | 1974 | Werner Herzog |
| 1026 | The Commitments | 1991 | Alan Parker |
| 1027 | The Life of Emile Zola | 1937 | William Dieterle |
| 1028 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 1029 | The Big Chill | 1983 | Lawrence Kasdan |
| 1030 | Le Boucher | 1970 | Claude Chabrol |
| 1031 | Kingpin | 1996 | Bobby and Peter Farrelly |
| 1032 | Women in Love | 1969 | Ken Russell |
| 1033 | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker |
| 1034 | Holiday | 1938 | George Cukor |
| 1035 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski |
| 1036 | The Goonies | 1985 | Richard Donner |
| 1037 | Where Eagles Dare | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton |
| 1038 | The Poseidon Adventure | 1972 | Ronald Neame |
| 1039 | Garden State | 2004 | Zach Braff |
| 1040 | Good Morning, Vietnam | 1987 | Barry Levinson |
| 1041 | Prizzi's Honor | 1985 | John Huston |
| 1042 | Bob le Flambeur | 1956 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 1043 | The Train | 1964 | John Frankenheimer |
| 1044 | The Life of Oharu | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 1045 | The Heiress | 1949 | William Wyler |
| 1046 | The Black Cat | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| 1047 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog |
| 1048 | Zoolander | 2001 | Ben Stiller |
| 1049 | Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller |
| 1050 | La Belle noiseuse | 1991 | Jacques Rivette |
| 1051 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols |
| 1052 | Boys Don't Cry | 1999 | Kimberly Peirce |
| 1053 | Little Women | 1933 | George Cukor |
| 1054 | Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1055 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1056 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Peter Weir |
| 1057 | Serpico | 1973 | Sidney Lumet |
| 1058 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay |
| 1059 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder |
| 1060 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George |
| 1061 | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1062 | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor |
| 1063 | The Passenger | 1975 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 1064 | Gentleman's Agreement | 1947 | Elia Kazan |
| 1065 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter |
| 1066 | Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach |
| 1067 | Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1068 | Hairspray | 1988 | John Waters |
| 1069 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | Clint Eastwood |
| 1070 | Hellraiser | 1987 | Clive Barker |
| 1071 | The Man in the White Suit | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 1072 | The Ice Storm | 1997 | Ang Lee |
| 1073 | Beverly Hills Cop | 1984 | Martin Brest |
| 1074 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1075 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson |
| 1076 | Guys and Dolls | 1955 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 1077 | Point Break | 1991 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 1078 | Crash | 2004 | Paul Haggis |
| 1079 | Sonatine | 1993 | Takeshi Kitano |
| 1080 | That Obscure Object of Desire | 1977 | Luis Buñuel |
| 1081 | Time Bandits | 1981 | Terry Gilliam |
| 1082 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 1970 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 1083 | Lost in America | 1985 | Albert Brooks |
| 1084 | Darling | 1965 | John Schlesinger |
| 1085 | The Hours | 2002 | Stephen Daldry |
| 1086 | Strike | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
| 1087 | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache |
| 1088 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie |
| 1089 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | 1961 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 1090 | Alien: Resurrection | 1997 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 1091 | Wings | 1927 | William A. Wellman |
| 1092 | Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | 1971 | Melvin Van Peebles |
| 1093 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | 1985 | Tim Burton |
| 1094 | Battle Royale | 2000 | Kinji Fukasaku |
| 1095 | Gold Diggers of 1933 | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 1096 | My Brilliant Career | 1979 | Gillian Armstrong |
| 1097 | Morocco | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 1098 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | 1949 | John Ford |
| 1099 | The Joy Luck Club | 1993 | Wayne Wang |
| 1100 | Tight Little Island | 1949 | Alexander Mackendrick |
