| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 501 | Broken Blossoms | 1919 | D.W. Griffith |
| 502 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls |
| 503 | The Crying Game | 1992 | Neil Jordan |
| 504 | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 505 | The Scarlet Empress | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 506 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman |
| 507 | Dumbo | 1941 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 508 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder |
| 509 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston |
| 510 | Kes | 1969 | Ken Loach |
| 511 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Kar Wai Wong |
| 512 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | 1979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 513 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 514 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg |
| 515 | My Man Godfrey | 1936 | Gregory La Cava |
| 516 | Funny Girl | 1968 | William Wyler |
| 517 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger |
| 518 | Zero for Conduct | 1933 | Jean Vigo |
| 519 | Diary of a Country Priest | 1951 | Robert Bresson |
| 520 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton |
| 521 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 522 | The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin |
| 523 | Y tu mamá también | 2001 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 524 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg |
| 525 | The Thin Blue Line | 1988 | Errol Morris |
| 526 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 527 | Goodbye Mr. Chips | 1939 | Sam Wood |
| 528 | The Jazz Singer | 1927 | Alan Crosland |
| 529 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 530 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1936 | Frank Capra |
| 531 | Hud | 1963 | Martin Ritt |
| 532 | Witness | 1985 | Peter Weir |
| 533 | If.… | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson |
| 534 | All about My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 535 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 536 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki |
| 537 | Stranger than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 538 | The Haunting | 1963 | Robert Wise |
| 539 | Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | Nora Ephron |
| 540 | A Woman under the Influence | 1974 | John Cassavetes |
| 541 | Born Yesterday | 1950 | George Cukor |
| 542 | Three Colors: White | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski |
| 543 | Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller |
| 544 | The Killing Fields | 1984 | Roland Joffé |
| 545 | The Jungle Book | 1967 | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 546 | Love Me Tonight | 1932 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 547 | The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Martin Scorsese |
| 548 | Farewell My Concubine | 1993 | Kaige Chen |
| 549 | Caddyshack | 1980 | Harold Ramis |
| 550 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 551 | Malcolm X | 1992 | Spike Lee |
| 552 | Week End | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 553 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 554 | As Good as It Gets | 1997 | James L. Brooks |
| 555 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | 1954 | Stanley Donen |
| 556 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | Peter Weir |
| 557 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston |
| 558 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang |
| 559 | Oliver! | 1968 | Carol Reed |
| 560 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese |
| 561 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff |
| 562 | Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson |
| 563 | Big | 1988 | Penny Marshall |
| 564 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 1967 | Stanley Kramer |
| 565 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson |
| 566 | Woman of the Year | 1942 | George Stevens |
| 567 | The Nightmare Before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick |
| 568 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont |
| 569 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen |
| 570 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov |
| 571 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1924 | Raoul Walsh |
| 572 | Manon of the Spring | 1986 | Claude Berri |
| 573 | Dangerous Liaisons | 1988 | Stephen Frears |
| 574 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi |
| 575 | The Big Red One | 1980 | Samuel Fuller |
| 576 | The Sweet Hereafter | 1997 | Atom Egoyan |
| 577 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 578 | Dodsworth | 1936 | William Wyler |
| 579 | The Fifth Element | 1997 | Luc Besson |
| 580 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Peter Docter |
| 581 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 582 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen |
| 583 | Enter the Dragon | 1973 | Robert Clouse |
| 584 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 1988 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 585 | An American Werewolf in London | 1981 | John Landis |
| 586 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski |
| 587 | On Golden Pond | 1981 | Mark Rydell |
| 588 | Starship Troopers | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 589 | RoboCop | 1987 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 590 | Gallipoli | 1981 | Peter Weir |
| 591 | The Remains of the Day | 1993 | James Ivory |
| 592 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 593 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar Wai Wong |
| 594 | Short Cuts | 1993 | Robert Altman |
| 595 | Little Caesar | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 596 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut |
| 597 | Forbidden Games | 1952 | René Clément |
| 598 | The Iron Giant | 1999 | Brad Bird |
| 599 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 600 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder |