| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 2001 | Elephant | 2003 | Gus Van Sant |
| 2002 | Deep Throat | 1972 | Gerard Damiano |
| 2003 | A Close Shave | 1995 | Nick Park |
| 2004 | El Cid | 1961 | Anthony Mann |
| 2005 | Providence | 1977 | Alain Resnais |
| 2006 | Million Dollar Legs | 1932 | Edward F. Cline |
| 2007 | Von Ryan's Express | 1965 | Mark Robson |
| 2008 | The Ruling Class | 1972 | Peter Medak |
| 2009 | Strange Days | 1995 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2010 | And God Created Woman | 1956 | Roger Vadim |
| 2011 | La Roue | 1923 | Abel Gance |
| 2012 | Volver | 2006 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 2013 | Land without Bread | 1933 | Luis Buñuel |
| 2014 | The Silence | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 2015 | The Talk of the Town | 1942 | George Stevens |
| 2016 | Swiss Family Robinson | 1960 | Ken Annakin |
| 2017 | Emma | 1996 | Douglas McGrath |
| 2018 | Ten | 2002 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 2019 | Shivers | 1975 | David Cronenberg |
| 2020 | Cabiria | 1914 | Giovanni Pastrone |
| 2021 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks |
| 2022 | Bloody Sunday | 2002 | Paul Greengrass |
| 2023 | A Passage to India | 1984 | David Lean |
| 2024 | Platform | 2000 | Zhang Ke Jia |
| 2025 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks |
| 2026 | The Narrow Margin | 1952 | Richard Fleischer |
| 2027 | The Pirate | 1948 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 2028 | Avanti! | 1972 | Billy Wilder |
| 2029 | Pearl Harbor | 2001 | Michael Bay |
| 2030 | Ceddo | 1977 | Ousmane Sembene |
| 2031 | The Hurt Locker | 2008 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2032 | Un coeur en hiver | 1992 | Claude Sautet |
| 2033 | The Sheik | 1921 | George Melford |
| 2034 | Mystery Train | 1989 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 2035 | Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 2036 | Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry |
| 2037 | Silver Streak | 1976 | Arthur Hiller |
| 2038 | Enemy of the State | 1998 | Tony Scott |
| 2039 | The Dream of Light | 1992 | Víctor Erice |
| 2040 | Days of Being Wild | 1990 | Kar Wai Wong |
| 2041 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | 1969 | Peter R. Hunt |
| 2042 | Entre Nous | 1983 | Diane Kurys |
| 2043 | Run Silent Run Deep | 1958 | Robert Wise |
| 2044 | Elmer Gantry | 1960 | Richard Brooks |
| 2045 | Phantom of the Paradise | 1974 | Brian De Palma |
| 2046 | A Grand Day Out | 1989 | Nick Park |
| 2047 | The Fog | 1980 | John Carpenter |
| 2048 | Phantasm | 1979 | Don Coscarelli |
| 2049 | The Southerner | 1945 | Jean Renoir |
| 2050 | The Secret Garden | 1993 | Agnieszka Holland |
| 2051 | The Golem | 1920 | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener |
| 2052 | Show Me Love | 1998 | Lukas Moodysson |
| 2053 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | 1989 | Joe Johnston |
| 2054 | Collateral | 2004 | Michael Mann |
| 2055 | The Horse Thief | 1988 | Zhuangzhuang Tian |
| 2056 | A Walk in the Sun | 1945 | Lewis Milestone |
| 2057 | Personal Best | 1982 | Robert Towne |
| 2058 | Bedazzled | 1967 | Stanley Donen |
| 2059 | Dogma | 1999 | Kevin Smith |
| 2060 | Porgy and Bess | 1959 | Otto Preminger |
| 2061 | Animal Crackers | 1930 | Victor Heerman |
| 2062 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams |
| 2063 | Cloverfield | 2008 | Matt Reeves |
| 2064 | Clash of the Titans | 1981 | Desmond Davis |
| 2065 | Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton |
| 2066 | City of Angels | 1998 | Brad Silberling |
| 2067 | Dune | 1984 | David Lynch |
| 2068 | Better Off Dead… | 1985 | Savage Steve Holland |
| 2069 | Henry & June | 1990 | Philip Kaufman |
| 2070 | District 9 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp |
| 2071 | A Bronx Tale | 1993 | Robert De Niro |
| 2072 | Chaplin | 1992 | Richard Attenborough |
| 2073 | Stepmom | 1998 | Chris Columbus |
| 2074 | Read My Lips | 2001 | Jacques Audiard |
| 2075 | James and the Giant Peach | 1996 | Henry Selick |
| 2076 | Drunken Master II | 1994 | Chia-Liang Liu |
| 2077 | Enemy at the Gates | 2001 | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| 2078 | The Big Easy | 1986 | Jim McBride |
| 2079 | Belle Epoque | 1992 | Fernando Trueba |
| 2080 | The Americanization of Emily | 1964 | Arthur Hiller |
| 2081 | State of the Union | 1948 | Frank Capra |
| 2082 | Jamón, jamón | 1992 | J.J. Bigas Luna |
| 2083 | High Tension | 2003 | Alexandre Aja |
| 2084 | Grace of My Heart | 1996 | Allison Anders |
| 2085 | David Holzman's Diary | 1967 | Jim McBride |
| 2086 | India song | 1975 | Marguerite Duras |
| 2087 | Addams Family Values | 1993 | Barry Sonnenfeld |
| 2088 | Moonlighting | 1982 | Jerzy Skolimowski |
| 2089 | The Naked Kiss | 1964 | Samuel Fuller |
| 2090 | Once Upon a Time in China | 1991 | Hark Tsui |
| 2091 | Song of the South | 1946 | Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson |
| 2092 | Legends of the Fall | 1994 | Edward Zwick |
| 2093 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1999 | John McTiernan |
| 2094 | La Cérémonie | 1995 | Claude Chabrol |
| 2095 | Queen Margot | 1994 | Patrice Chéreau |
| 2096 | The Love Bug | 1968 | Robert Stevenson |
| 2097 | Random Harvest | 1942 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 2098 | Dick Tracy | 1990 | Warren Beatty |
| 2099 | While You Were Sleeping | 1995 | Jon Turteltaub |
| 2100 | Big Deal on Madonna Street | 1958 | Mario Monicelli |
