| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1801 | Teorema | 1968 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 1802 | Top Secret! | 1984 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker |
| 1803 | Early Summer | 1951 | Yasujiro Ozu |
| 1804 | Purple Rain | 1984 | Albert Magnoli |
| 1805 | Rocky II | 1979 | Sylvester Stallone |
| 1806 | Irma Vep | 1996 | Olivier Assayas |
| 1807 | Trust | 1990 | Hal Hartley |
| 1808 | Bagdad Café | 1987 | Percy Adlon |
| 1809 | Man on Wire | 2008 | James Marsh |
| 1810 | Fanny | 1932 | Marc Allégret |
| 1811 | Hellzapoppin' | 1941 | H.C. Potter |
| 1812 | Parenthood | 1989 | Ron Howard |
| 1813 | Cube | 1997 | Vincenzo Natali |
| 1814 | The Secret of Roan Inish | 1994 | John Sayles |
| 1815 | Le Corbeau | 1943 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 1816 | Lenny | 1974 | Bob Fosse |
| 1817 | Dave | 1993 | Ivan Reitman |
| 1818 | Paris Is Burning | 1990 | Jennie Livingston |
| 1819 | Die Hard 2 | 1990 | Renny Harlin |
| 1820 | A Walk on the Moon | 1999 | Tony Goldwyn |
| 1821 | Nowhere in Africa | 2001 | Caroline Link |
| 1822 | Suspicion | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1823 | Victim | 1961 | Basil Dearden |
| 1824 | Melvin and Howard | 1980 | Jonathan Demme |
| 1825 | The Idiots | 1998 | Lars von Trier |
| 1826 | Martin | 1977 | George A. Romero |
| 1827 | A Boy and His Dog | 1975 | L.Q. Jones |
| 1828 | And Life Goes on | 1992 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 1829 | The Cruel Sea | 1953 | Charles Frend |
| 1830 | 42: Forty Two Up | 1999 | Michael Apted |
| 1831 | Le Plaisir | 1952 | Max Ophüls |
| 1832 | Devil in a Blue Dress | 1995 | Carl Franklin |
| 1833 | On the Beach | 1959 | Stanley Kramer |
| 1834 | Irréversible | 2002 | Gaspar Noé |
| 1835 | 28 Up | 1985 | Michael Apted |
| 1836 | City of Hope | 1991 | John Sayles |
| 1837 | Mouchette | 1967 | Robert Bresson |
| 1838 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | 1971 | John Schlesinger |
| 1839 | Auntie Mame | 1958 | Morton DaCosta |
| 1840 | Fright Night | 1985 | Tom Holland |
| 1841 | The Great McGinty | 1940 | Preston Sturges |
| 1842 | Mississippi Masala | 1991 | Mira Nair |
| 1843 | The Go-Between | 1970 | Joseph Losey |
| 1844 | The Front Page | 1931 | Lewis Milestone |
| 1845 | The Party | 1968 | Blake Edwards |
| 1846 | Die Hard with a Vengeance | 1995 | John McTiernan |
| 1847 | Wild Reeds | 1994 | André Téchiné |
| 1848 | The Wrong Man | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1849 | The Kid Brother | 1927 | Ted Wilde |
| 1850 | Fletch | 1985 | Michael Ritchie |
| 1851 | Black Book | 2006 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 1852 | Frenzy | 1972 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1853 | Branded to Kill | 1967 | Seijun Suzuki |
| 1854 | San Francisco | 1936 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 1855 | Wedding Crashers | 2005 | David Dobkin |
| 1856 | Milk | 2008 | Gus Van Sant |
| 1857 | Cannibal Holocaust | 1980 | Ruggero Deodato |
| 1858 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 1859 | The Secret of NIMH | 1982 | Don Bluth |
| 1860 | Barren Lives | 1964 | Nelson Pereira dos Santos |
| 1861 | La Promesse | 1996 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 1862 | The Son's Room | 2001 | Nanni Moretti |
| 1863 | A Chinese Ghost Story | 1987 | Siu-Tung Ching |
| 1864 | Shall We Dance? | 1996 | Masayuki Suo |
| 1865 | National Lampoon's Vacation | 1983 | Harold Ramis |
| 1866 | A Better Tomorrow | 1986 | John Woo |
| 1867 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | 1981 | Karel Reisz |
| 1868 | Pump Up the Volume | 1990 | Allan Moyle |
| 1869 | Radio Days | 1987 | Woody Allen |
| 1870 | Scarlet Street | 1945 | Fritz Lang |
| 1871 | Quo Vadis | 1951 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 1872 | Romancing the Stone | 1984 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1873 | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 1874 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | Gore Verbinski |
| 1875 | Pennies from Heaven | 1981 | Herbert Ross |
| 1876 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik |
| 1877 | Island of Lost Souls | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton |
| 1878 | Wonder Boys | 2000 | Curtis Hanson |
| 1879 | Logan's Run | 1976 | Michael Anderson |
| 1880 | Nothing Sacred | 1937 | William A. Wellman |
| 1881 | Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 1882 | Lola | 1961 | Jacques Demy |
| 1883 | A Night to Remember | 1958 | Roy Ward Baker |
| 1884 | Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India | 2001 | Ashutosh Gowariker |
| 1885 | Fellini Satyricon | 1969 | Federico Fellini |
| 1886 | Kelly's Heroes | 1970 | Brian G. Hutton |
| 1887 | Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen |
| 1888 | The Piano Teacher | 2001 | Michael Haneke |
| 1889 | El Mariachi | 1992 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 1890 | Hell in the Pacific | 1968 | John Boorman |
| 1891 | The Blue Kite | 1993 | Zhuangzhuang Tian |
| 1892 | Insomnia | 2002 | Christopher Nolan |
| 1893 | The Tall T | 1957 | Budd Boetticher |
| 1894 | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | 1979 | Robert Wise |
| 1895 | Marius | 1931 | Alexander Korda, and Marcel Pagnol |
| 1896 | Victory | 1981 | John Huston |
| 1897 | Gates of Heaven | 1978 | Errol Morris |
| 1898 | In a Year of 13 Moons | 1978 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 1899 | Fearless | 1993 | Peter Weir |
| 1900 | La Cage aux Folles | 1978 | Edouard Molinaro |
