| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 2001 | Mississippi Masala | 1991 | Mira Nair |
| 2002 | The Great White Hope | 1970 | Martin Ritt |
| 2003 | Without Limits | 1998 | Robert Towne |
| 2004 | The Outsiders | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 2005 | The Circus | 1928 | Charles Chaplin |
| 2006 | Flirting | 1991 | John Duigan |
| 2007 | Tarzan the Ape Man | 1932 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 2008 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 2009 | Julius Caesar | 1953 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 2010 | Somebody Up There Likes Me | 1956 | Robert Wise |
| 2011 | Go | 1999 | Doug Liman |
| 2012 | The Big Country | 1958 | William Wyler |
| 2013 | The Wild One | 1953 | László Benedek |
| 2014 | Paris is Burning | 1990 | Jennie Livingston |
| 2015 | Runaway Train | 1985 | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| 2016 | Went the Day Well? | 1942 | Alberto Cavalcanti |
| 2017 | Ali | 2001 | Michael Mann |
| 2018 | Lean on Me | 1989 | John G. Avildsen |
| 2019 | Soldier of Orange | 1977 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 2020 | Martin | 1977 | George A. Romero |
| 2021 | In the Name of the Father | 1993 | Jim Sheridan |
| 2022 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 2000 | Béla Tarr |
| 2023 | Big Wednesday | 1978 | John Milius |
| 2024 | The Iron Horse | 1924 | John Ford |
| 2025 | The Americanization of Emily | 1964 | Arthur Hiller |
| 2026 | Requiem for a Heavyweight | 1962 | Ralph Nelson |
| 2027 | Smoke Signals | 1998 | Chris Eyre |
| 2028 | Casualties of War | 1989 | Brian De Palma |
| 2029 | The Bellboy | 1960 | Jerry Lewis |
| 2030 | Calamity Jane | 1953 | David Butler |
| 2031 | The Winslow Boy | 1999 | David Mamet |
| 2032 | Annie | 1982 | John Huston |
| 2033 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | 1933 | Fritz Lang |
| 2034 | Dick Tracy | 1990 | Warren Beatty |
| 2035 | House of Sand and Fog | 2003 | Vadim Perelman |
| 2036 | King of Kings | 1961 | Nicholas Ray |
| 2037 | Girlfight | 2000 | Karyn Kusama |
| 2038 | The Flowers of St. Francis | 1950 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 2039 | What Dreams May Come | 1998 | Vincent Ward |
| 2040 | Fritz the Cat | 1972 | Ralph Bakshi |
| 2041 | Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 2042 | The Secret of NIMH | 1982 | Don Bluth |
| 2043 | Ma Vie en Rose | 1997 | Alain Berliner |
| 2044 | Never on Sunday | 1960 | Jules Dassin |
| 2045 | The Butcher Boy | 1997 | Neil Jordan |
| 2046 | 42: Forty Two Up | 1998 | Michael Apted |
| 2047 | Winter Light | 1962 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 2048 | The Quiet American | 2002 | Phillip Noyce |
| 2049 | Remember the Titans | 2000 | Boaz Yakin |
| 2050 | The Brother from Another Planet | 1984 | John Sayles |
| 2051 | Troy | 2004 | Wolfgang Petersen |
| 2052 | Brother's Keeper | 1992 | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky |
| 2053 | Lovely & Amazing | 2001 | Nicole Holofcener |
| 2054 | The Descent | 2005 | Neil Marshall |
| 2055 | The Ascent | 1977 | Larissa Shepitko |
| 2056 | Maedchen in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan |
| 2057 | Newsfront | 1978 | Phillip Noyce |
| 2058 | Applause | 1929 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 2059 | Pride and Prejudice | 1995 | Simon Langton |
| 2060 | That's Entertainment! | 1974 | Jack Haley Jr. |
| 2061 | Happy Gilmore | 1996 | Dennis Dugan |
| 2062 | Lilo & Stitch | 2002 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders |
| 2063 | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | 1956 | Fritz Lang |
| 2064 | Million Dollar Legs | 1932 | Edward F. Cline |
| 2065 | The Reckless Moment | 1949 | Max Ophüls |
| 2066 | To Sleep with Anger | 1990 | Charles Burnett |
| 2067 | Desperado | 1995 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 2068 | King of New York | 1990 | Abel Ferrara |
| 2069 | Elevator to the Gallows | 1958 | Louis Malle |
| 2070 | The Curse of the Cat People | 1944 | Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise |
| 2071 | A Tale of Two Cities | 1935 | Jack Conway |
| 2072 | The Accidental Tourist | 1988 | Lawrence Kasdan |
| 2073 | Something's Gotta Give | 2003 | Nancy Meyers |
| 2074 | Intruder in the Dust | 1949 | Clarence Brown |
| 2075 | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion | 1997 | David Mirkin |
| 2076 | Black Robe | 1991 | Bruce Beresford |
| 2077 | What about Bob? | 1991 | Frank Oz |
| 2078 | Hallelujah, I'm a Bum | 1933 | Lewis Milestone |
| 2079 | Damn Yankees! | 1958 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen |
| 2080 | Peggy Sue Got Married | 1986 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 2081 | Becket | 1964 | Peter Glenville |
| 2082 | The Fog | 1980 | John Carpenter |
| 2083 | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | 1985 | George Miller and George Ogilvie |
| 2084 | Night on Earth | 1991 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 2085 | The Candidate | 1972 | Michael Ritchie |
| 2086 | Les Misérables | 1995 | Claude Lelouch |
| 2087 | Awakenings | 1990 | Penny Marshall |
| 2088 | The White Balloon | 1995 | Jafar Panahi |
| 2089 | Take the Money and Run | 1969 | Woody Allen |
| 2090 | Silver Streak | 1976 | Arthur Hiller |
| 2091 | Yellow Earth | 1984 | Kaige Chen |
| 2092 | Amistad | 1997 | Steven Spielberg |
| 2093 | American Movie | 1999 | Chris Smith |
| 2094 | Drunken Master II | 1994 | Chia-Liang Liu |
| 2095 | The Long Voyage Home | 1940 | John Ford |
| 2096 | Baraka | 1992 | Ron Fricke |
| 2097 | The Party | 1968 | Blake Edwards |
| 2098 | Kelly's Heroes | 1970 | Brian G. Hutton |
| 2099 | Laurel Canyon | 2002 | Lisa Cholodenko |
| 2100 | Bird | 1988 | Clint Eastwood |
