| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 2001 | All the King's Men | 1949 | Robert Rossen |
| 2002 | Footlight Parade | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon |
| 2003 | 21 Grams | 2003 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 2004 | The Last Detail | 1973 | Hal Ashby |
| 2005 | In Which We Serve | 1942 | Noël Coward and David Lean |
| 2006 | Wanda | 1970 | Barbara Loden |
| 2007 | Sholay | 1975 | Ramesh Sippy |
| 2008 | Open Your Eyes | 1997 | Alejandro Amenábar |
| 2009 | Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone |
| 2010 | Roxanne | 1987 | Fred Schepisi |
| 2011 | Twentieth Century | 1934 | Howard Hawks |
| 2012 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | 2005 | George Clooney |
| 2013 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas |
| 2014 | Beasts of No Nation | 2015 | Cary Joji Fukunaga |
| 2015 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | 1969 | Peter R. Hunt |
| 2016 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz |
| 2017 | Ride Lonesome | 1959 | Budd Boetticher |
| 2018 | A Little Princess | 1995 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2019 | The Emperor's New Groove | 2000 | Mark Dindal |
| 2020 | 3-Iron | 2004 | Kim Ki-duk |
| 2021 | The World's End | 2013 | Edgar Wright |
| 2022 | Stella Dallas | 1937 | King Vidor |
| 2023 | Freaky Friday | 2003 | Mark Waters |
| 2024 | Scanners | 1981 | David Cronenberg |
| 2025 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 2026 | Easter Parade | 1948 | Charles Walters |
| 2027 | The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | 1977 | John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 2028 | Bigger than Life | 1956 | Nicholas Ray |
| 2029 | Fury | 2014 | David Ayer |
| 2030 | My Life as a Zucchini | 2016 | Claude Barras |
| 2031 | Othello | 1951 | Orson Welles |
| 2032 | Four Lions | 2010 | Christopher Morris |
| 2033 | Damn Yankees! | 1958 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen |
| 2034 | Elizabeth | 1998 | Shekhar Kapur |
| 2035 | Wolfwalkers | 2020 | Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart |
| 2036 | Wavelength | 1967 | Michael Snow |
| 2037 | Cría Cuervos | 1976 | Carlos Saura |
| 2038 | Lifeboat | 1944 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2039 | Ip Man | 2008 | Wilson Yip |
| 2040 | Tristana | 1970 | Luis Buñuel |
| 2041 | Cruel Intentions | 1999 | Roger Kumble |
| 2042 | The Curse of Frankenstein | 1957 | Terence Fisher |
| 2043 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| 2044 | High Sierra | 1940 | Raoul Walsh |
| 2045 | Capernaum | 2018 | Nadine Labaki |
| 2046 | The Beyond | 1981 | Lucio Fulci |
| 2047 | Sisters | 1972 | Brian De Palma |
| 2048 | Brighton Rock | 1948 | John Boulting |
| 2049 | Up in the Air | 2009 | Jason Reitman |
| 2050 | The Proposition | 2005 | John Hillcoat |
| 2051 | L.A. Story | 1991 | Mick Jackson |
| 2052 | The Grifters | 1990 | Stephen Frears |
| 2053 | Funeral Parade of Roses | 1969 | Toshio Matsumoto |
| 2054 | Go Fish | 1994 | Rose Troche |
| 2055 | Sands of Iwo Jima | 1949 | Allan Dwan |
| 2056 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | 2005 | Jacques Audiard |
| 2057 | Ruggles of Red Gap | 1935 | Leo McCarey |
| 2058 | House Party | 1990 | Reginald Hudlin |
| 2059 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 2060 | The Mission | 1986 | Roland Joffé |
| 2061 | Black Sabbath | 1963 | Mario Bava |
| 2062 | Man on Fire | 2004 | Tony Scott |
| 2063 | The House of the Devil | 2009 | Ti West |
| 2064 | Altered States | 1980 | Ken Russell |
| 2065 | Blackfish | 2013 | Gabriela Cowperthwaite |
| 2066 | The Dead | 1987 | John Huston |
| 2067 | The Brave Heart Will Take the Bride | 1995 | Aditya Chopra |
| 2068 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | 1986 | Leonard Nimoy |
| 2069 | Rocky II | 1979 | Sylvester Stallone |
| 2070 | Tokyo Godfathers | 2003 | Shôgo Furuya and Satoshi Kon |
| 2071 | Invaders from Mars | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies |
| 2072 | The Idiots | 1998 | Lars von Trier |
| 2073 | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | 2003 | Donald Petrie |
| 2074 | The Barbarian Invasions | 2003 | Denys Arcand |
| 2075 | The Andromeda Strain | 1971 | Robert Wise |
| 2076 | Stormy Weather | 1943 | Andrew L. Stone |
| 2077 | Babel | 2006 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 2078 | High Art | 1998 | Lisa Cholodenko |
| 2079 | Goodbye Mr. Chips | 1939 | Sam Wood |
| 2080 | To Be and to Have | 2002 | Nicolas Philibert |
| 2081 | Pink Floyd the Wall | 1982 | Alan Parker |
| 2082 | The Worst Person in the World | 2021 | Joachim Trier |
| 2083 | Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton |
| 2084 | Sing Street | 2016 | John Carney |
| 2085 | Good Morning | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu |
| 2086 | Hour of the Wolf | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 2087 | The Hour of the Furnaces | 1968 | Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas |
| 2088 | Eighth Grade | 2018 | Bo Burnham |
| 2089 | Changeling | 2008 | Clint Eastwood |
| 2090 | Fantastic Voyage | 1966 | Richard Fleischer |
| 2091 | Accattone | 1961 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 2092 | A Fantastic Woman | 2017 | Sebastián Lelio |
| 2093 | The Suicide Squad | 2021 | James Gunn |
| 2094 | How to Survive a Plague | 2012 | David France |
| 2095 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks |
| 2096 | Wadjda | 2012 | Haifaa Al-Mansour |
| 2097 | Spellbound | 2002 | Jeffrey Blitz |
| 2098 | Return to Oz | 1985 | Walter Murch |
| 2099 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2100 | The Dark Crystal | 1982 | Jim Henson and Frank Oz |
| 2101 | Hope and Glory | 1987 | John Boorman |
| 2102 | Encanto | 2021 | Jared Bush and Byron Howard |
| 2103 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | 2015 | Joss Whedon |
| 2104 | Cat Ballou | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein |
| 2105 | Love Streams | 1984 | John Cassavetes |
| 2106 | Head-On | 2004 | Fatih Akin |
| 2107 | The Tall T | 1957 | Budd Boetticher |
| 2108 | Cloverfield | 2008 | Matt Reeves |
| 2109 | Love Exposure | 2008 | Sion Sono |
| 2110 | Kingsman: The Secret Service | 2014 | Matthew Vaughn |
| 2111 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | 1927 | Walter Ruttmann |
| 2112 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols |
| 2113 | Control | 2007 | Anton Corbijn |
| 2114 | The Merry Widow | 1934 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 2115 | The Hunger | 1983 | Tony Scott |
| 2116 | Girlfight | 2000 | Karyn Kusama |
| 2117 | Footloose | 1984 | Herbert Ross |
| 2118 | The Road | 2009 | John Hillcoat |
| 2119 | Woman of the Year | 1942 | George Stevens |
| 2120 | Shoeshine | 1946 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 2121 | Ju-on: The Grudge | 2002 | Takashi Shimizu |
| 2122 | Alfie | 1966 | Lewis Gilbert |
| 2123 | The Firemen's Ball | 1967 | Milos Forman |
| 2124 | The Return | 2003 | Andrey Zvyagintsev |
| 2125 | Man of Steel | 2013 | Zack Snyder |
| 2126 | The Hitch-Hiker | 1953 | Ida Lupino |
| 2127 | Man of the West | 1958 | Anthony Mann |
| 2128 | The Reader | 2008 | Stephen Daldry |
| 2129 | Xala | 1975 | Ousmane Sembene |
| 2130 | The Brother from Another Planet | 1984 | John Sayles |
| 2131 | Man Bites Dog | 1992 | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde |
| 2132 | Buffalo '66 | 1998 | Vincent Gallo |
| 2133 | Dog Star Man | 1964 | Stan Brakhage |
| 2134 | The Golem | 1920 | Paul Wegener |
| 2135 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | 2018 | Marielle Heller |
| 2136 | The Land before Time | 1988 | Don Bluth |
| 2137 | For Sama | 2019 | Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts |
| 2138 | The Nutty Professor | 1963 | Jerry Lewis |
| 2139 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | 1932 | Jean Renoir |
| 2140 | Cooley High | 1975 | Michael Schultz |
| 2141 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough |
| 2142 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | 1970 | Russ Meyer |
| 2143 | Big Deal on Madonna Street | 1958 | Mario Monicelli |
| 2144 | Mystery Men | 1999 | Kinka Usher |
| 2145 | Lessons of Darkness | 1992 | Werner Herzog |
| 2146 | Hamlet | 1948 | Laurence Olivier |
| 2147 | Jojo Rabbit | 2019 | Taika Waititi |
| 2148 | A Short Film about Love | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieslowski |
| 2149 | Free Solo | 2018 | Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi |
| 2150 | One False Move | 1991 | Carl Franklin |
| 2151 | The Wild Child | 1970 | François Truffaut |
| 2152 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols |
| 2153 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1996 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise |
| 2154 | Spaceballs | 1987 | Mel Brooks |
| 2155 | The Fountain | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2156 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 2007 | Gore Verbinski |
| 2157 | Super Size Me | 2004 | Morgan Spurlock |
| 2158 | Baraka | 1992 | Ron Fricke |
| 2159 | Vera Cruz | 1954 | Robert Aldrich |
| 2160 | Nostalgia for the Light | 2010 | Patricio Guzmán |
| 2161 | Juliet of the Spirits | 1965 | Federico Fellini |
| 2162 | Cronos | 1992 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 2163 | Heimat | 1984 | Edgar Reitz |
| 2164 | Winter Sleep | 2014 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| 2165 | Twilight | 2008 | Catherine Hardwicke |
| 2166 | Paddington | 2014 | Paul King |
| 2167 | Diva | 1981 | Jean-Jacques Beineix |
| 2168 | Yentl | 1983 | Barbra Streisand |
| 2169 | Ceddo | 1977 | Ousmane Sembene |
| 2170 | The Strangers | 2008 | Bryan Bertino |
| 2171 | Midnight Express | 1978 | Alan Parker |
| 2172 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | 2018 | Morgan Neville |
| 2173 | Un chant d'amour | 1950 | Jean Genet |
| 2174 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | 1984 | W.D. Richter |
| 2175 | About a Boy | 2002 | Chris and Paul Weitz |
| 2176 | Doubt | 2008 | John Patrick Shanley |
| 2177 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 2011 | Rupert Wyatt |
| 2178 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst |
| 2179 | The Defiant Ones | 1958 | Stanley Kramer |
| 2180 | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| 2181 | Thunderball | 1965 | Terence Young |
| 2182 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese |
| 2183 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | 2004 | Michael Moore |
| 2184 | Horse Feathers | 1932 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 2185 | Fallen Angels | 1995 | Kar-Wai Wong |
| 2186 | Dinner at Eight | 1933 | George Cukor |
| 2187 | Girlhood | 2014 | Céline Sciamma |
| 2188 | Public Enemies | 2009 | Michael Mann |
| 2189 | Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle | 2004 | Danny Leiner |
| 2190 | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shôhei Imamura |
| 2191 | The Howling | 1981 | Joe Dante |
| 2192 | My Dinner with Andre | 1981 | Louis Malle |
| 2193 | The Station Agent | 2003 | Tom McCarthy |
| 2194 | Death Proof | 2007 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2195 | And Life Goes on | 1992 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 2196 | 50 First Dates | 2004 | Peter Segal |
| 2197 | Calamity Jane | 1953 | David Butler |
| 2198 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | 2015 | Mark Burton and Richard Starzak |
| 2199 | Hamilton | 2020 | Thomas Kail |
| 2200 | Ice-Cold in Alex | 1958 | J. Lee Thompson |
