| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1801 | Gloria | 1980 | John Cassavetes |
| 1802 | Seven Chances | 1925 | Buster Keaton |
| 1803 | In the Line of Fire | 1993 | Wolfgang Petersen |
| 1804 | Scanners | 1981 | David Cronenberg |
| 1805 | Fat Girl | 2001 | Catherine Breillat |
| 1806 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | 1989 | Stephen Herek |
| 1807 | Nine to Five | 1980 | Colin Higgins |
| 1808 | Fish Tank | 2009 | Andrea Arnold |
| 1809 | The Wild One | 1953 | László Benedek |
| 1810 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel |
| 1811 | The Wedding Banquet | 1993 | Ang Lee |
| 1812 | Wag the Dog | 1997 | Barry Levinson |
| 1813 | Footlight Parade | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon |
| 1814 | Black Christmas | 1974 | Bob Clark |
| 1815 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | 1971 | John Schlesinger |
| 1816 | Argo | 2012 | Ben Affleck |
| 1817 | Jeremiah Johnson | 1972 | Sydney Pollack |
| 1818 | Smoke | 1995 | Wayne Wang |
| 1819 | Elf | 2003 | Jon Favreau |
| 1820 | Tristana | 1970 | Luis Buñuel |
| 1821 | Ponyo | 2008 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1822 | The Merry Widow | 1934 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 1823 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann |
| 1824 | Cabiria | 1914 | Giovanni Pastrone |
| 1825 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 2005 | Andrew Adamson |
| 1826 | Shivers | 1975 | David Cronenberg |
| 1827 | Flashdance | 1983 | Adrian Lyne |
| 1828 | Girlfight | 2000 | Karyn Kusama |
| 1829 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth |
| 1830 | Two Women | 1960 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 1831 | The Queen | 2006 | Stephen Frears |
| 1832 | Le Doulos | 1962 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 1833 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 1834 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates |
| 1835 | High Sierra | 1941 | Raoul Walsh |
| 1836 | Mysterious Skin | 2004 | Gregg Araki |
| 1837 | Velvet Goldmine | 1998 | Todd Haynes |
| 1838 | Leave Her to Heaven | 1945 | John M. Stahl |
| 1839 | Man of Marble | 1977 | Andrzej Wajda |
| 1840 | Silver Linings Playbook | 2012 | David O. Russell |
| 1841 | Monkey Business | 1931 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 1842 | Tarzan | 1999 | Kevin Lima and Chris Buck |
| 1843 | The Stunt Man | 1980 | Richard Rush |
| 1844 | Unfaithfully Yours | 1948 | Preston Sturges |
| 1845 | Sunshine | 2007 | Danny Boyle |
| 1846 | Ten | 2002 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 1847 | Wanda | 1970 | Barbara Loden |
| 1848 | Fox and His Friends | 1975 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 1849 | Man of the West | 1958 | Anthony Mann |
| 1850 | A Tale of Two Sisters | 2003 | Jee-woon Kim |
| 1851 | Heaven Can Wait | 1943 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 1852 | Little Shop of Horrors | 1986 | Frank Oz |
| 1853 | The Secret in Their Eyes | 2009 | Juan José Campanella |
| 1854 | The Steel Helmet | 1951 | Samuel Fuller |
| 1855 | A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | Richard Linklater |
| 1856 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | 2005 | George Clooney |
| 1857 | El Norte | 1983 | Gregory Nava |
| 1858 | Con Air | 1997 | Simon West |
| 1859 | Gettysburg | 1993 | Ronald F. Maxwell |
| 1860 | The China Syndrome | 1979 | James Bridges |
| 1861 | Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 1862 | Tokyo Godfathers | 2003 | Satoshi Kon |
| 1863 | Tender Mercies | 1983 | Bruce Beresford |
| 1864 | Le Million | 1931 | René Clair |
| 1865 | Kick-Ass | 2010 | Matthew Vaughn |
| 1866 | Rocky IV | 1985 | Sylvester Stallone |
| 1867 | Slaughterhouse-Five | 1972 | George Roy Hill |
| 1868 | The Masque of the Red Death | 1964 | Roger Corman |
| 1869 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter |
| 1870 | Tangled | 2010 | Nathan Greno and Byron Howard |
| 1871 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks |
| 1872 | The Robe | 1953 | Henry Koster |
| 1873 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | David Yates |
| 1874 | Il Posto | 1961 | Ermanno Olmi |
| 1875 | The Great Silence | 1968 | Sergio Corbucci |
| 1876 | The Docks of New York | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 1877 | Beaches | 1988 | Garry Marshall |
| 1878 | Blade | 1998 | Stephen Norrington |
| 1879 | Knute Rockne, All American | 1940 | Lloyd Bacon |
| 1880 | The Official Story | 1985 | Luis Puenzo |
| 1881 | O Lucky Man! | 1973 | Lindsay Anderson |
| 1882 | Mulan | 1998 | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook |
| 1883 | The Time to Live and the Time to Die | 1985 | Hsiao-hsien Hou |
| 1884 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1885 | Good Morning | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu |
| 1886 | Wagon Master | 1950 | John Ford |
| 1887 | About Schmidt | 2002 | Alexander Payne |
| 1888 | Dune | 1984 | David Lynch |
| 1889 | 3:10 to Yuma | 1957 | Delmer Daves |
| 1890 | Days of Being Wild | 1990 | Kar-Wai Wong |
| 1891 | Winter's Bone | 2010 | Debra Granik |
| 1892 | The King of Kong | 2007 | Seth Gordon |
| 1893 | The Death of Mister Lazarescu | 2005 | Cristi Puiu |
| 1894 | The Secret Garden | 1993 | Agnieszka Holland |
| 1895 | Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks | 2002 | Bing Wang |
| 1896 | A Page of Madness | 1926 | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
| 1897 | Insomnia | 2002 | Christopher Nolan |
| 1898 | La Cage aux Folles | 1978 | Edouard Molinaro |
| 1899 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 1945 | Elia Kazan |
| 1900 | Blue | 1993 | Derek Jarman |
