| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1001 | A Day in the Country | 1946 | Jean Renoir |
| 1002 | Memories of Underdevelopment | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea |
| 1003 | The Virgin Spring | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1004 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski |
| 1005 | The Crow | 1994 | Alex Proyas |
| 1006 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | Tim Burton |
| 1007 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen |
| 1008 | Dangerous Liaisons | 1988 | Stephen Frears |
| 1009 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | 1949 | John Ford |
| 1010 | Underground | 1995 | Emir Kusturica |
| 1011 | Primer | 2004 | Shane Carruth |
| 1012 | United 93 | 2006 | Paul Greengrass |
| 1013 | A Face in the Crowd | 1957 | Elia Kazan |
| 1014 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood |
| 1015 | Gertrud | 1964 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 1016 | La La Land | 2016 | Damien Chazelle |
| 1017 | High Plains Drifter | 1973 | Clint Eastwood |
| 1018 | Paisan | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 1019 | National Velvet | 1944 | Clarence Brown |
| 1020 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian |
| 1021 | Safe | 1995 | Todd Haynes |
| 1022 | Things to Come | 1936 | William Cameron Menzies |
| 1023 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos |
| 1024 | The Travelling Players | 1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos |
| 1025 | The Sweet Hereafter | 1997 | Atom Egoyan |
| 1026 | American Pie | 1999 | Paul Weitz |
| 1027 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson |
| 1028 | The Bank Dick | 1940 | Edward F. Cline |
| 1029 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | David Fincher |
| 1030 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2007 | David Yates |
| 1031 | Gigi | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 1032 | Eight Men Out | 1988 | John Sayles |
| 1033 | Where Eagles Dare | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton |
| 1034 | The Tenant | 1976 | Roman Polanski |
| 1035 | Blow Out | 1981 | Brian De Palma |
| 1036 | Mouchette | 1967 | Robert Bresson |
| 1037 | Zodiac | 2007 | David Fincher |
| 1038 | What's Up, Doc? | 1972 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 1039 | Zootopia | 2016 | Byron Howard and Rich Moore |
| 1040 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer |
| 1041 | The Cameraman | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick |
| 1042 | Coming to America | 1988 | John Landis |
| 1043 | Tom Jones | 1963 | Tony Richardson |
| 1044 | Risky Business | 1983 | Paul Brickman |
| 1045 | 10 Things I Hate about You | 1999 | Gil Junger |
| 1046 | Erin Brockovich | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1047 | The Last Seduction | 1994 | John Dahl |
| 1048 | Topsy-Turvy | 1999 | Mike Leigh |
| 1049 | Deep Red | 1975 | Dario Argento |
| 1050 | The Big Country | 1958 | William Wyler |
| 1051 | Murderball | 2005 | Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro |
| 1052 | High Fidelity | 2000 | Stephen Frears |
| 1053 | Remember the Titans | 2000 | Boaz Yakin |
| 1054 | Crash | 2004 | Paul Haggis |
| 1055 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer |
| 1056 | Silent Running | 1972 | Douglas Trumbull |
| 1057 | Sixteen Candles | 1984 | John Hughes |
| 1058 | Laputa: Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1059 | 3:10 to Yuma | 2007 | James Mangold |
| 1060 | Shock Corridor | 1963 | Samuel Fuller |
| 1061 | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele |
| 1062 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper |
| 1063 | The Fighter | 2010 | David O. Russell |
| 1064 | The Train | 1964 | John Frankenheimer |
| 1065 | Babette's Feast | 1987 | Gabriel Axel |
| 1066 | Sons of the Desert | 1933 | William A. Seiter |
| 1067 | The Last Temptation of Christ | 1988 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1068 | It's a Gift | 1934 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 1069 | Fireworks | 1997 | Takeshi Kitano |
| 1070 | Kung Fu Hustle | 2004 | Stephen Chow |
| 1071 | Zero for Conduct | 1933 | Jean Vigo |
| 1072 | Beetlejuice | 1988 | Tim Burton |
| 1073 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | John McNaughton |
| 1074 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd |
| 1075 | The Verdict | 1982 | Sidney Lumet |
| 1076 | The Big Parade | 1925 | King Vidor |
| 1077 | The Hunt | 2012 | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 1078 | Barbarella | 1968 | Roger Vadim |
| 1079 | Rollerball | 1975 | Norman Jewison |
| 1080 | Funny Games | 1997 | Michael Haneke |
| 1081 | 28 Up | 1984 | Michael Apted |
| 1082 | The Devils | 1971 | Ken Russell |
| 1083 | Shutter Island | 2010 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1084 | Diner | 1982 | Barry Levinson |
| 1085 | The Killing Fields | 1984 | Roland Joffé |
| 1086 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 1087 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates |
| 1088 | Love and Death | 1975 | Woody Allen |
| 1089 | Forbidden Games | 1952 | René Clément |
| 1090 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan |
| 1091 | Bridget Jones's Diary | 2001 | Sharon Maguire |
| 1092 | Monsieur Verdoux | 1947 | Charles Chaplin |
| 1093 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | 1999 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 1094 | The Virgin Suicides | 1999 | Sofia Coppola |
| 1095 | Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1096 | The Tree of Wooden Clogs | 1978 | Ermanno Olmi |
| 1097 | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | 1974 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 1098 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Ki-duk Kim |
| 1099 | Far from Heaven | 2002 | Todd Haynes |
| 1100 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 1101 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 2005 | Shane Black |
| 1102 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | 1989 | Peter Greenaway |
| 1103 | Swingers | 1996 | Doug Liman |
| 1104 | The Gunfighter | 1950 | Henry King |
| 1105 | The Insider | 1999 | Michael Mann |
| 1106 | (500) Days of Summer | 2009 | Marc Webb |
| 1107 | True Lies | 1994 | James Cameron |
| 1108 | Smiles of a Summer Night | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1109 | Way Out West | 1937 | James W. Horne |
| 1110 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel |
| 1111 | Life of Pi | 2012 | Ang Lee |
| 1112 | Garden State | 2004 | Zach Braff |
| 1113 | American Movie | 1999 | Chris Smith |
| 1114 | The Music Man | 1962 | Morton DaCosta |
| 1115 | The Court Jester | 1955 | Melvin Frank and Norman Panama |
| 1116 | The Draughtsman's Contract | 1982 | Peter Greenaway |
| 1117 | Our Hospitality | 1923 | John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton |
| 1118 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman |
| 1119 | Beverly Hills Cop | 1984 | Martin Brest |
| 1120 | Hugo | 2011 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1121 | The Shop on Main Street | 1965 | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos |
| 1122 | Scorpio Rising | 1963 | Kenneth Anger |
| 1123 | Synecdoche, New York | 2008 | Charlie Kaufman |
| 1124 | Le Jour se lève | 1939 | Marcel Carné |
| 1125 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov |
| 1126 | Cinderella Man | 2005 | Ron Howard |
| 1127 | Senna | 2010 | Asif Kapadia |
| 1128 | Pretty in Pink | 1986 | Howard Deutch |
| 1129 | Tangled | 2010 | Nathan Greno and Byron Howard |
| 1130 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Peter Weir |
| 1131 | The Orphanage | 2007 | J.A. Bayona |
| 1132 | The Brood | 1979 | David Cronenberg |
| 1133 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks |
| 1134 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 1135 | Gallipoli | 1981 | Peter Weir |
| 1136 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler |
| 1137 | Funny Girl | 1968 | William Wyler |
| 1138 | Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilová |
| 1139 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas |
| 1140 | Charulata | 1964 | Satyajit Ray |
| 1141 | The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | 1974 | Werner Herzog |
| 1142 | Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | Howard Hawks |
| 1143 | The Pink Panther | 1963 | Blake Edwards |
| 1144 | 42 Up | 1998 | Michael Apted |
| 1145 | My Left Foot | 1989 | Jim Sheridan |
| 1146 | Gremlins | 1984 | Joe Dante |
| 1147 | The Best of Youth | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| 1148 | Kanal | 1957 | Andrzej Wajda |
| 1149 | Road to Perdition | 2002 | Sam Mendes |
| 1150 | Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann |
| 1151 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus |
| 1152 | Sophie's Choice | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 1153 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | David Yates |
| 1154 | Elf | 2003 | Jon Favreau |
| 1155 | Jeremiah Johnson | 1972 | Sydney Pollack |
| 1156 | Warrior | 2011 | Gavin O'Connor |
| 1157 | Wild at Heart | 1990 | David Lynch |
| 1158 | Saw | 2004 | James Wan |
| 1159 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | 1954 | Richard Fleischer |
| 1160 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1161 | Kwaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 1162 | The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums | 1939 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 1163 | Ice Age | 2002 | Chris Wedge |
| 1164 | They Live | 1988 | John Carpenter |
| 1165 | Sling Blade | 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton |
| 1166 | Taken | 2008 | Pierre Morel |
| 1167 | X-Men | 2000 | Bryan Singer |
| 1168 | Paprika | 2006 | Satoshi Kon |
| 1169 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | 1954 | Stanley Donen |
| 1170 | Elephant | 2003 | Gus Van Sant |
| 1171 | Walk the Line | 2005 | James Mangold |
| 1172 | Miracle | 2004 | Gavin O'Connor |
| 1173 | The Game | 1997 | David Fincher |
| 1174 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 1175 | You've Got Mail | 1998 | Nora Ephron |
| 1176 | Strike | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
| 1177 | The Help | 2011 | Tate Taylor |
| 1178 | Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | François Truffaut |
| 1179 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1180 | Touching the Void | 2003 | Kevin Macdonald |
| 1181 | Lola Montès | 1955 | Max Ophüls |
| 1182 | The Ice Storm | 1997 | Ang Lee |
| 1183 | Monster | 2003 | Patty Jenkins |
| 1184 | Histoire(s) du cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| 1185 | Twelve O'Clock High | 1949 | Henry King |
| 1186 | Fall of the House of Usher | 1928 | Jean Epstein |
| 1187 | An Autumn Afternoon | 1962 | Yasujirô Ozu |
| 1188 | Them! | 1954 | Gordon Douglas |
| 1189 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | 1992 | David Lynch |
| 1190 | Mulan | 1998 | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook |
| 1191 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1936 | Frank Capra |
| 1192 | The Wolf Man | 1941 | George Waggner |
| 1193 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | 1967 | Jacques Demy |
| 1194 | Rudy | 1993 | David Anspaugh |
| 1195 | Siegfried | 1924 | Fritz Lang |
| 1196 | Seven Up! | 1964 | Paul Almond |
| 1197 | Black God and White Devil | 1964 | Glauber Rocha |
| 1198 | Hellraiser | 1987 | Clive Barker |
| 1199 | Ali | 2001 | Michael Mann |
| 1200 | Paper Moon | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich |
