| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1901 | Warrior | 2011 | Gavin O'Connor |
| 1902 | The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | 1976 | John Badham |
| 1903 | Cocoon | 1985 | Ron Howard |
| 1904 | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| 1905 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | Steven Zaillian |
| 1906 | What's Love Got to Do with It | 1993 | Brian Gibson |
| 1907 | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor |
| 1908 | La Chienne | 1931 | Jean Renoir |
| 1909 | Jesus of Montreal | 1989 | Denys Arcand |
| 1910 | High Tension | 2003 | Alexandre Aja |
| 1911 | The Matrix Revolutions | 2003 | Lana and Lily Wachowski |
| 1912 | The Fog | 1980 | John Carpenter |
| 1913 | Splash | 1984 | Ron Howard |
| 1914 | Freaky Friday | 2003 | Mark Waters |
| 1915 | Ride Lonesome | 1959 | Budd Boetticher |
| 1916 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 2002 | Joel Zwick |
| 1917 | Fellini Satyricon | 1969 | Federico Fellini |
| 1918 | The Damned | 1963 | Joseph Losey |
| 1919 | Mystery Train | 1989 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 1920 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg |
| 1921 | The Beyond | 1981 | Lucio Fulci |
| 1922 | Downhill Racer | 1969 | Michael Ritchie |
| 1923 | A Simple Plan | 1998 | Sam Raimi |
| 1924 | Akira Kurosawa's Dreams | 1990 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1925 | Blood Feast | 1963 | Herschell Gordon Lewis |
| 1926 | Employees Leaving the Lumičre Factory | 1895 | Louis Lumičre |
| 1927 | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 | Lowell Sherman |
| 1928 | Boyhood | 2014 | Richard Linklater |
| 1929 | The Opposite of Sex | 1998 | Don Roos |
| 1930 | Yentl | 1983 | Barbra Streisand |
| 1931 | 8 Mile | 2002 | Curtis Hanson |
| 1932 | Open Range | 2003 | Kevin Costner |
| 1933 | The Curse of the Cat People | 1944 | Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch |
| 1934 | Her | 2013 | Spike Jonze |
| 1935 | The Golem | 1920 | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener |
| 1936 | Paprika | 2006 | Satoshi Kon |
| 1937 | The Barefoot Contessa | 1954 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 1938 | Kolya | 1996 | Jan Sverák |
| 1939 | Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | James Gunn |
| 1940 | The Act of Killing | 2012 | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| 1941 | Landscape in the Mist | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos |
| 1942 | Antonio das Mortes | 1969 | Glauber Rocha |
| 1943 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen |
| 1944 | The Intouchables | 2011 | Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano |
| 1945 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway |
| 1946 | Stromboli | 1950 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 1947 | He Got Game | 1998 | Spike Lee |
| 1948 | The Battle of Chile: Part 2 | 1976 | Patricio Guzmán |
| 1949 | The Ten Commandments | 1923 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 1950 | The Great McGinty | 1940 | Preston Sturges |
| 1951 | Female Trouble | 1974 | John Waters |
| 1952 | Girl, Interrupted | 1999 | James Mangold |
| 1953 | Highlander | 1986 | Russell Mulcahy |
| 1954 | The Battle of Chile: Part 1 | 1975 | Patricio Guzmán |
| 1955 | The Battle of Chile: Part 3 | 1979 | Patricio Guzmán |
| 1956 | Léolo | 1992 | Jean-Claude Lauzon |
| 1957 | Road to Morocco | 1942 | David Butler |
| 1958 | The Phantom of Liberty | 1974 | Luis Buńuel |
| 1959 | Children of Heaven | 1997 | Majid Majidi |
| 1960 | Play It Again, Sam | 1972 | Herbert Ross |
| 1961 | Baraka | 1992 | Ron Fricke |
| 1962 | Advise & Consent | 1962 | Otto Preminger |
| 1963 | Seven Days in May | 1964 | John Frankenheimer |
| 1964 | Strange Days | 1995 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 1965 | Ceddo | 1977 | Ousmane Sembene |
| 1966 | Not on Your Life | 1963 | Luis García Berlanga |
| 1967 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut |
| 1968 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | 1988 | Terry Gilliam |
| 1969 | Thunderball | 1965 | Terence Young |
| 1970 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders |
| 1971 | Bus 174 | 2002 | José Padilha |
| 1972 | Love & Basketball | 2000 | Gina Prince-Bythewood |
| 1973 | Mother | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 1974 | The Girl Can't Help It | 1956 | Frank Tashlin |
| 1975 | Long Day's Journey into Night | 1962 | Sidney Lumet |
| 1976 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | 1985 | Paul Schrader |
| 1977 | Little Children | 2006 | Todd Field |
| 1978 | The Man with Two Brains | 1983 | Carl Reiner |
| 1979 | Salaam Bombay! | 1988 | Mira Nair |
| 1980 | Tokyo Olympiad | 1965 | Kon Ichikawa |
| 1981 | Champion | 1949 | Mark Robson |
| 1982 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | 2012 | Stephen Chbosky |
| 1983 | Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton |
| 1984 | Battle of Britain | 1969 | Guy Hamilton |
| 1985 | The Cruel Sea | 1953 | Charles Frend |
| 1986 | Martin | 1977 | George A. Romero |
| 1987 | And Life Goes on | 1992 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 1988 | Exit through the Gift Shop | 2010 | Banksy |
| 1989 | 1984 | 1984 | Michael Radford |
| 1990 | The Changeling | 1980 | Peter Medak |
| 1991 | Carousel | 1956 | Henry King |
| 1992 | Barren Lives | 1963 | Nelson Pereira dos Santos |
| 1993 | El Cid | 1961 | Anthony Mann |
| 1994 | Cloverfield | 2008 | Matt Reeves |
| 1995 | The Cloud-Capped Star | 1960 | Ritwik Ghatak |
| 1996 | Stroszek | 1977 | Werner Herzog |
| 1997 | Darling | 1965 | John Schlesinger |
| 1998 | Clash of the Titans | 1981 | Desmond Davis |
| 1999 | The Man Who Wasn't There | 2001 | Joel Coen |
| 2000 | The Seventh Victim | 1943 | Mark Robson |
