| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1801 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | 1970 | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda |
| 1802 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | 1981 | Karel Reisz |
| 1803 | A Better Tomorrow | 1986 | John Woo |
| 1804 | Quo Vadis | 1951 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 1805 | The Cruel Sea | 1953 | Charles Frend |
| 1806 | The Party | 1968 | Blake Edwards |
| 1807 | Female Trouble | 1974 | John Waters |
| 1808 | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 1809 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Ki-duk Kim |
| 1810 | Play Misty for Me | 1971 | Clint Eastwood |
| 1811 | Island of Lost Souls | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton |
| 1812 | A Walk in the Sun | 1945 | Lewis Milestone |
| 1813 | Batman Returns | 1992 | Tim Burton |
| 1814 | Requiem for a Heavyweight | 1962 | Ralph Nelson |
| 1815 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders |
| 1816 | The Piano Teacher | 2001 | Michael Haneke |
| 1817 | Purple Rain | 1984 | Albert Magnoli |
| 1818 | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | 1979 | Robert Wise |
| 1819 | Hell in the Pacific | 1968 | John Boorman |
| 1820 | The Blue Kite | 1993 | Zhuangzhuang Tian |
| 1821 | George Washington | 2000 | David Gordon Green |
| 1822 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 1994 | Stephan Elliott |
| 1823 | Wild at Heart | 1990 | David Lynch |
| 1824 | In a Year of 13 Moons | 1978 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 1825 | Parenthood | 1989 | Ron Howard |
| 1826 | Gates of Heaven | 1978 | Errol Morris |
| 1827 | Fearless | 1993 | Peter Weir |
| 1828 | War of the Worlds | 2005 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1829 | Caro Diario | 1993 | Nanni Moretti |
| 1830 | La Cage aux Folles | 1978 | Edouard Molinaro |
| 1831 | Antz | 1998 | Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson |
| 1832 | Lantana | 2001 | Ray Lawrence |
| 1833 | Ulee's Gold | 1997 | Victor Nunez |
| 1834 | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | 1972 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 1835 | The Music Box | 1932 | James Parrott |
| 1836 | Burden of Dreams | 1982 | Les Blank |
| 1837 | The Last Samurai | 2003 | Edward Zwick |
| 1838 | Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilová |
| 1839 | Living in Oblivion | 1995 | Tom DiCillo |
| 1840 | Summer | 1986 | Eric Rohmer |
| 1841 | Mallrats | 1995 | Kevin Smith |
| 1842 | Fantomas | 1913 | Louis Feuillade |
| 1843 | Smile | 1975 | Michael Ritchie |
| 1844 | Calamity Jane | 1953 | David Butler |
| 1845 | The Americanization of Emily | 1964 | Arthur Hiller |
| 1846 | Shall We Dance | 1937 | Mark Sandrich |
| 1847 | Indochine | 1992 | Régis Wargnier |
| 1848 | Before Night Falls | 2000 | Julian Schnabel |
| 1849 | Naked Lunch | 1991 | David Cronenberg |
| 1850 | The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | 1976 | John Badham |
| 1851 | The Red and the White | 1967 | Miklós Jancsó |
| 1852 | A Boy and His Dog | 1975 | L.Q. Jones |
| 1853 | The Wedding March | 1928 | Erich von Stroheim |
| 1854 | The War of the Roses | 1989 | Danny DeVito |
| 1855 | Any Given Sunday | 1999 | Oliver Stone |
| 1856 | About a Boy | 2002 | Chris and Paul Weitz |
| 1857 | Band of Brothers | 2001 | David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To |
| 1858 | Nowhere in Africa | 2001 | Caroline Link |
| 1859 | Blue Collar | 1978 | Paul Schrader |
| 1860 | A Sunday in the Country | 1984 | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 1861 | Histoire(s) du cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| 1862 | My Cousin Vinny | 1992 | Jonathan Lynn |
| 1863 | Smoke | 1995 | Wayne Wang |
| 1864 | Solaris | 2002 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1865 | Germany, Year Zero | 1948 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 1866 | Battleground | 1949 | William A. Wellman |
| 1867 | Enemy of the State | 1998 | Tony Scott |
| 1868 | Welcome to Sarajevo | 1997 | Michael Winterbottom |
| 1869 | Invaders from Mars | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies |
| 1870 | Ratcatcher | 1999 | Lynne Ramsay |
| 1871 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1943 | Sam Wood |
| 1872 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | Julian Schnabel |
| 1873 | The Fly | 1958 | Kurt Neumann |
| 1874 | Hair | 1979 | Milos Forman |
| 1875 | The Trial | 1962 | Orson Welles |
| 1876 | While You Were Sleeping | 1995 | Jon Turteltaub |
| 1877 | Runaway Train | 1985 | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| 1878 | Léolo | 1992 | Jean-Claude Lauzon |
| 1879 | Bedazzled | 1967 | Stanley Donen |
| 1880 | A River Runs Through It | 1992 | Robert Redford |
| 1881 | Mr. Holland's Opus | 1995 | Stephen Herek |
| 1882 | Babel | 2006 | Alejandro González Ińárritu |
| 1883 | Brassed Off | 1996 | Mark Herman |
| 1884 | Hearts and Minds | 1974 | Peter Davis |
| 1885 | Damn Yankees! | 1958 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen |
| 1886 | The Cheat | 1915 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 1887 | The Matrix Revolutions | 2003 | Andy and Larry Wachowski |
| 1888 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | 1989 | Stephen Herek |
| 1889 | 28 Up | 1985 | Michael Apted |
| 1890 | The Front Page | 1931 | Lewis Milestone |
| 1891 | Stepmom | 1998 | Chris Columbus |
| 1892 | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | 1987 | Todd Haynes |
| 1893 | Shall We Dance? | 1996 | Masayuki Suo |
| 1894 | James and the Giant Peach | 1996 | Henry Selick |
| 1895 | High School | 1968 | Frederick Wiseman |
| 1896 | Picnic | 1955 | Joshua Logan |
| 1897 | Trust | 1990 | Hal Hartley |
| 1898 | Stalingrad | 1993 | Joseph Vilsmaier |
| 1899 | Girl, Interrupted | 1999 | James Mangold |
| 1900 | Cube | 1997 | Vincenzo Natali |
