| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 2001 | Fires on the Plain | 1959 | Kon Ichikawa |
| 2002 | The Blob | 1958 | Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. |
| 2003 | Hamlet | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 2004 | Tarnation | 2003 | Jonathan Caouette |
| 2005 | Blue Collar | 1978 | Paul Schrader |
| 2006 | Vanya on 42nd Street | 1994 | Louis Malle |
| 2007 | Reversal of Fortune | 1990 | Barbet Schroeder |
| 2008 | The Lodger | 1927 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2009 | Tropical Malady | 2004 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
| 2010 | India song | 1975 | Marguerite Duras |
| 2011 | The Boondock Saints | 1999 | Troy Duffy |
| 2012 | The Wrong Man | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2013 | A Little Princess | 1995 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2014 | Star Trek: The Motion Picture | 1979 | Robert Wise |
| 2015 | Pride and Prejudice | 1940 | Robert Z. Leonard |
| 2016 | The Hunt for Red October | 1990 | John McTiernan |
| 2017 | Collateral | 2004 | Michael Mann |
| 2018 | Julia | 1977 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 2019 | Husbands and Wives | 1992 | Woody Allen |
| 2020 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones |
| 2021 | Personal Best | 1982 | Robert Towne |
| 2022 | [Rec] | 2007 | Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza |
| 2023 | Around the World in Eighty Days | 1956 | Michael Anderson |
| 2024 | Taken | 2008 | Pierre Morel |
| 2025 | Bubba Ho-Tep | 2002 | Don Coscarelli |
| 2026 | Porco Rosso | 1992 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 2027 | Fantomas | 1913 | Louis Feuillade |
| 2028 | The Butterfly Effect | 2004 | Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber |
| 2029 | Once Upon a Time in China | 1991 | Hark Tsui |
| 2030 | Blue Is the Warmest Color | 2013 | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| 2031 | When Worlds Collide | 1951 | Rudolph Maté |
| 2032 | Stardust Memories | 1980 | Woody Allen |
| 2033 | Ice-Cold in Alex | 1958 | J. Lee Thompson |
| 2034 | Something Wild | 1986 | Jonathan Demme |
| 2035 | La Vie en rose | 2007 | Olivier Dahan |
| 2036 | La Promesse | 1996 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 2037 | American Gigolo | 1980 | Paul Schrader |
| 2038 | Yol | 1982 | Serif Gören and Yilmaz Güney |
| 2039 | Invaders from Mars | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies |
| 2040 | Quadrophenia | 1979 | Franc Roddam |
| 2041 | Wild Things | 1998 | John McNaughton |
| 2042 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough |
| 2043 | Michael Clayton | 2007 | Tony Gilroy |
| 2044 | Rocky III | 1982 | Sylvester Stallone |
| 2045 | Going My Way | 1944 | Leo McCarey |
| 2046 | Madonna: Truth or Dare | 1991 | Alex Keshishian |
| 2047 | The Human Condition: A Soldier's Prayer | 1961 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 2048 | Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry |
| 2049 | Kung Fu Panda | 2008 | Mark Osborne and John Stevenson |
| 2050 | Destination Moon | 1950 | Irving Pichel |
| 2051 | The Lost Boys | 1987 | Joel Schumacher |
| 2052 | Whisper of the Heart | 1995 | Yoshifumi Kondo |
| 2053 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1933 | Alexander Korda |
| 2054 | Devil in a Blue Dress | 1995 | Carl Franklin |
| 2055 | Session 9 | 2001 | Brad Anderson |
| 2056 | Big Wednesday | 1978 | John Milius |
| 2057 | Imitation of Life | 1934 | John M. Stahl |
| 2058 | Los Angeles Plays Itself | 2003 | Thom Andersen |
| 2059 | Frida | 2002 | Julie Taymor |
| 2060 | Passport to Pimlico | 1949 | Henry Cornelius |
| 2061 | South Pacific | 1958 | Joshua Logan |
| 2062 | Sisters | 1973 | Brian De Palma |
| 2063 | The Lost World | 1925 | Harry O. Hoyt |
| 2064 | The Dreamers | 2003 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 2065 | Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 2066 | Radio Days | 1987 | Woody Allen |
| 2067 | Lancelot of the Lake | 1974 | Robert Bresson |
| 2068 | The New World | 2005 | Terrence Malick |
| 2069 | Time Out | 2001 | Laurent Cantet |
| 2070 | End of Evangelion | 1997 | Hideaki Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki |
| 2071 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | 2006 | Adam McKay |
| 2072 | White Christmas | 1954 | Michael Curtiz |
| 2073 | The Man without a Past | 2002 | Aki Kaurismäki |
| 2074 | Before Midnight | 2013 | Richard Linklater |
| 2075 | Un chant d'amour | 1950 | Jean Genet |
| 2076 | Winged Migration | 2001 | Jacques Perrin |
| 2077 | Return of the Secaucus Seven | 1979 | John Sayles |
| 2078 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | George Miller |
| 2079 | Stand and Deliver | 1988 | Ramón Menéndez |
| 2080 | The Great Ziegfeld | 1936 | Robert Z. Leonard |
| 2081 | Wonder Boys | 2000 | Curtis Hanson |
| 2082 | The Wild Child | 1970 | François Truffaut |
| 2083 | The Getaway | 1972 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 2084 | Sholay | 1975 | Ramesh Sippy |
| 2085 | Taxi to the Dark Side | 2007 | Alex Gibney |
| 2086 | Enchanted | 2007 | Kevin Lima |
| 2087 | Dave | 1993 | Ivan Reitman |
| 2088 | No Direction Home: Bob Dylan | 2005 | Martin Scorsese |
| 2089 | A Raisin in the Sun | 1961 | Daniel Petrie |
| 2090 | Rio Grande | 1950 | John Ford |
| 2091 | Hell in the Pacific | 1968 | John Boorman |
| 2092 | In the Bedroom | 2001 | Todd Field |
| 2093 | Before Night Falls | 2000 | Julian Schnabel |
| 2094 | Bullets over Broadway | 1994 | Woody Allen |
| 2095 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | Gore Verbinski |
| 2096 | Moneyball | 2011 | Bennett Miller |
| 2097 | We All Loved Each Other So Much | 1974 | Ettore Scola |
| 2098 | Duck, You Sucker | 1971 | Sergio Leone |
| 2099 | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | 1999 | Jay Roach |
| 2100 | Django | 1966 | Sergio Corbucci |
