| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1201 | 48 Hrs. | 1982 | Walter Hill |
| 1202 | Flashdance | 1983 | Adrian Lyne |
| 1203 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park |
| 1204 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 1205 | Darling | 1965 | John Schlesinger |
| 1206 | Betty Blue | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Beineix |
| 1207 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel |
| 1208 | The Music Room | 1958 | Satyajit Ray |
| 1209 | Gangs of New York | 2002 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1210 | Blow Out | 1981 | Brian De Palma |
| 1211 | A Day at the Races | 1937 | Sam Wood |
| 1212 | Hellraiser | 1987 | Clive Barker |
| 1213 | And Then There Were None | 1945 | René Clair |
| 1214 | Xala | 1975 | Ousmane Sembene |
| 1215 | Lola | 1961 | Jacques Demy |
| 1216 | The Time Machine | 1960 | George Pal |
| 1217 | Wag the Dog | 1997 | Barry Levinson |
| 1218 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner |
| 1219 | The Sea Hawk | 1940 | Michael Curtiz |
| 1220 | The Opposite of Sex | 1998 | Don Roos |
| 1221 | Steel Magnolias | 1989 | Herbert Ross |
| 1222 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog |
| 1223 | Notting Hill | 1999 | Roger Michell |
| 1224 | Naked Lunch | 1991 | David Cronenberg |
| 1225 | Champion | 1949 | Mark Robson |
| 1226 | W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism | 1971 | Dusan Makavejev |
| 1227 | Limelight | 1952 | Charles Chaplin |
| 1228 | Salt of the Earth | 1954 | Herbert J. Biberman |
| 1229 | A Little Princess | 1995 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 1230 | Ray | 2004 | Taylor Hackford |
| 1231 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner |
| 1232 | Things to Come | 1936 | William Cameron Menzies |
| 1233 | The Audition | 1999 | Takashi Miike |
| 1234 | Village of the Damned | 1960 | Wolf Rilla |
| 1235 | Ballad of a Soldier | 1959 | Grigori Chukhraj |
| 1236 | Bottle Rocket | 1996 | Wes Anderson |
| 1237 | Napoleon Dynamite | 2004 | Jared Hess |
| 1238 | The River | 1951 | Jean Renoir |
| 1239 | Sonatine | 1993 | Takeshi Kitano |
| 1240 | 25th Hour | 2002 | Spike Lee |
| 1241 | Tabu | 1931 | F.W. Murnau |
| 1242 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | 1964 | Sergei Parajanov |
| 1243 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 1244 | Zoolander | 2001 | Ben Stiller |
| 1245 | The Draughtsman's Contract | 1982 | Peter Greenaway |
| 1246 | Yeelen | 1987 | Souleymane Cissé |
| 1247 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1968 | Norman Jewison |
| 1248 | Two-Lane Blacktop | 1971 | Monte Hellman |
| 1249 | Faust | 1926 | F.W. Murnau |
| 1250 | The Last Seduction | 1994 | John Dahl |
| 1251 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1252 | Ever After: A Cinderella Story | 1998 | Andy Tennant |
| 1253 | The Prisoner of Zenda | 1937 | John Cromwell |
| 1254 | Targets | 1968 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 1255 | The Color of Money | 1986 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1256 | Pépé Le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier |
| 1257 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1258 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen |
| 1259 | Jacob's Ladder | 1990 | Adrian Lyne |
| 1260 | Garden State | 2004 | Zach Braff |
| 1261 | Fireworks | 1997 | Takeshi Kitano |
| 1262 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 1968 | Ken Hughes |
| 1263 | Kolya | 1996 | Jan Sverák |
| 1264 | The Pawnbroker | 1964 | Sidney Lumet |
| 1265 | The Towering Inferno | 1974 | John Guillermin and Irwin Allen |
| 1266 | Beaches | 1988 | Garry Marshall |
| 1267 | Europa Europa | 1990 | Agnieszka Holland |
| 1268 | Claire's Knee | 1970 | Eric Rohmer |
| 1269 | Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Michael Cimino |
| 1270 | The City of Lost Children | 1995 | Marc Caro and Jean-Marie Jeunet |
| 1271 | Exotica | 1994 | Atom Egoyan |
| 1272 | Secretary | 2002 | Steven Shainberg |
| 1273 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| 1274 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols |
| 1275 | Bring It On | 2000 | Peyton Reed |
| 1276 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | 1997 | Errol Morris |
| 1277 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | 1927 | Walter Ruttmann |
| 1278 | Onibaba | 1964 | Kaneto Shindô |
| 1279 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders |
| 1280 | Wayne's World | 1992 | Penelope Spheeris |
| 1281 | Dogtown and Z-Boys | 2001 | Stacy Peralta |
| 1282 | A Touch of Zen | 1969 | King Hu |
| 1283 | In the Line of Fire | 1993 | Wolfgang Petersen |
| 1284 | The Red Badge of Courage | 1951 | John Huston |
| 1285 | Truly, Madly, Deeply | 1990 | Anthony Minghella |
| 1286 | Marathon Man | 1976 | John Schlesinger |
| 1287 | Julia | 1977 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 1288 | Manhunter | 1986 | Michael Mann |
| 1289 | Fried Green Tomatoes | 1991 | Jon Avnet |
| 1290 | Evita | 1996 | Alan Parker |
| 1291 | Husbands and Wives | 1992 | Woody Allen |
| 1292 | The Passion of the Christ | 2004 | Mel Gibson |
| 1293 | Mouchette | 1967 | Robert Bresson |
| 1294 | Way Down East | 1920 | D.W. Griffith |
| 1295 | The In-Laws | 1979 | Arthur Hiller |
| 1296 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters |
| 1297 | Tender Mercies | 1983 | Bruce Beresford |
| 1298 | Mission: Impossible | 1996 | Brian De Palma |
| 1299 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer |
| 1300 | Bananas | 1971 | Woody Allen |
