| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1001 | Out of Sight | 1998 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1002 | Argo | 2012 | Ben Affleck |
| 1003 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian |
| 1004 | Crazy Rich Asians | 2018 | Jon M. Chu |
| 1005 | Pi | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 1006 | A Face in the Crowd | 1957 | Elia Kazan |
| 1007 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | 1979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 1008 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | 1997 | Jay Roach |
| 1009 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen |
| 1010 | The Devils | 1971 | Ken Russell |
| 1011 | First Blood | 1982 | Ted Kotcheff |
| 1012 | Now, Voyager | 1942 | Irving Rapper |
| 1013 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | 1949 | John Ford |
| 1014 | Dumb & Dumber | 1994 | Peter Farrelly |
| 1015 | The Brood | 1979 | David Cronenberg |
| 1016 | True Lies | 1994 | James Cameron |
| 1017 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | 1985 | Tim Burton |
| 1018 | Scenes from a Marriage | 1974 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1019 | Mary and Max | 2009 | Adam Elliot |
| 1020 | In Cold Blood | 1967 | Richard Brooks |
| 1021 | After Hours | 1985 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1022 | The Lighthouse | 2019 | Robert Eggers |
| 1023 | On the Town | 1949 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly |
| 1024 | The Best of Youth | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| 1025 | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 1026 | Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | John Madden |
| 1027 | High Fidelity | 2000 | Stephen Frears |
| 1028 | The Times of Harvey Milk | 1984 | Rob Epstein |
| 1029 | Oliver! | 1968 | Carol Reed |
| 1030 | The Cranes are Flying | 1957 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| 1031 | Capturing the Friedmans | 2003 | Andrew Jarecki |
| 1032 | Short Cuts | 1993 | Robert Altman |
| 1033 | Pépé Le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier |
| 1034 | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Éric Rohmer |
| 1035 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 1036 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield |
| 1037 | Hud | 1963 | Martin Ritt |
| 1038 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson |
| 1039 | Laputa: Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1040 | 28 Up | 1984 | Michael Apted |
| 1041 | The City of Lost Children | 1995 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 1042 | The Naked Spur | 1953 | Anthony Mann |
| 1043 | A Room with a View | 1985 | James Ivory |
| 1044 | The Hunt | 2012 | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 1045 | The Abyss | 1989 | James Cameron |
| 1046 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski |
| 1047 | The Wolf Man | 1941 | George Waggner |
| 1048 | Taken | 2008 | Pierre Morel |
| 1049 | Enchanted | 2007 | Kevin Lima |
| 1050 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze |
| 1051 | 25th Hour | 2002 | Spike Lee |
| 1052 | The Cabin in the Woods | 2011 | Drew Goddard |
| 1053 | The War of the Worlds | 1953 | Byron Haskin |
| 1054 | Watchmen | 2009 | Zack Snyder |
| 1055 | Mission: Impossible | 1996 | Brian De Palma |
| 1056 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks |
| 1057 | Assault on Precinct 13 | 1976 | John Carpenter |
| 1058 | Kubo and the Two Strings | 2016 | Travis Knight |
| 1059 | The Lost Boys | 1987 | Joel Schumacher |
| 1060 | The Passenger | 1975 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 1061 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer |
| 1062 | Dune | 2021 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 1063 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 1064 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Kim Ki-duk |
| 1065 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 1066 | Titicut Follies | 1967 | Frederick Wiseman |
| 1067 | Fiddler on the Roof | 1971 | Norman Jewison |
| 1068 | The Public Enemy | 1931 | William A. Wellman |
| 1069 | Les Vampires | 1915 | Louis Feuillade |
| 1070 | The Act of Killing | 2012 | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| 1071 | Wayne's World | 1992 | Penelope Spheeris |
| 1072 | I Am Cuba | 1964 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| 1073 | Uncut Gems | 2019 | Benny and Josh Safdie |
| 1074 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles |
| 1075 | Sophie's Choice | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 1076 | Little Shop of Horrors | 1986 | Frank Oz |
| 1077 | Funny Games | 1997 | Michael Haneke |
| 1078 | Synecdoche, New York | 2008 | Charlie Kaufman |
| 1079 | Weekend | 2011 | Andrew Haigh |
| 1080 | Kids | 1995 | Larry Clark |
| 1081 | Waiting for Guffman | 1996 | Christopher Guest |
| 1082 | Shoplifters | 2018 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| 1083 | 42 Up | 1998 | Michael Apted |
| 1084 | The Virgin Spring | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1085 | Village of the Damned | 1960 | Wolf Rilla |
| 1086 | Heavenly Creatures | 1994 | Peter Jackson |
| 1087 | She's Gotta Have It | 1986 | Spike Lee |
| 1088 | Local Hero | 1983 | Bill Forsyth |
| 1089 | Lolita | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1090 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen |
| 1091 | The Odd Couple | 1968 | Gene Saks |
| 1092 | Ponyo | 2008 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1093 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | 2022 | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |
| 1094 | Twelve O'Clock High | 1949 | Henry King |
| 1095 | Best in Show | 2000 | Christopher Guest |
| 1096 | Rudy | 1993 | David Anspaugh |
| 1097 | Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl |
| 1098 | The Big Country | 1958 | William Wyler |
| 1099 | The Game | 1997 | David Fincher |
| 1100 | The Shape of Water | 2017 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 1101 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1102 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | 1989 | Peter Greenaway |
| 1103 | The Bridges of Madison County | 1995 | Clint Eastwood |
| 1104 | Happy Gilmore | 1996 | Dennis Dugan |
| 1105 | Destry Rides Again | 1939 | George Marshall |
| 1106 | Night and the City | 1950 | Jules Dassin |
| 1107 | Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Michael Cimino |
| 1108 | Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | François Truffaut |
| 1109 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 2017 | Martin McDonagh |
| 1110 | 1917 | 2019 | Sam Mendes |
| 1111 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | 1967 | Jacques Demy |
| 1112 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett |
| 1113 | Where Eagles Dare | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton |
| 1114 | Shrek 2 | 2004 | Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon |
| 1115 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | John McNaughton |
| 1116 | Alexander Nevsky | 1938 | Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev |
| 1117 | Silent Running | 1972 | Douglas Trumbull |
| 1118 | Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford |
| 1119 | The Palm Beach Story | 1942 | Preston Sturges |
| 1120 | Paisan | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 1121 | The Circus | 1928 | Charles Chaplin |
| 1122 | Lincoln | 2012 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1123 | The Imitation Game | 2014 | Morten Tyldum |
| 1124 | Room | 2015 | Lenny Abrahamson |
| 1125 | Rush | 2013 | Ron Howard |
| 1126 | Warrior | 2011 | Gavin O'Connor |
| 1127 | Alice in Wonderland | 1951 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske |
| 1128 | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | 1974 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 1129 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Peter Weir |
| 1130 | Soul | 2020 | Pete Docter |
| 1131 | Gregory's Girl | 1980 | Bill Forsyth |
| 1132 | The Jazz Singer | 1927 | Alan Crosland |
| 1133 | Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1134 | Tron | 1982 | Steven Lisberger |
| 1135 | Knives Out | 2019 | Rian Johnson |
| 1136 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | 2014 | Bryan Singer |
| 1137 | Gallipoli | 1981 | Peter Weir |
| 1138 | Mrs. Doubtfire | 1993 | Chris Columbus |
| 1139 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor |
| 1140 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | 2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 1141 | Gun Crazy | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis |
| 1142 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong |
| 1143 | Beverly Hills Cop | 1984 | Martin Brest |
| 1144 | Cool Runnings | 1993 | Jon Turteltaub |
| 1145 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | 1957 | Jack Arnold |
| 1146 | Baby Driver | 2017 | Edgar Wright |
| 1147 | Sexy Beast | 2000 | Jonathan Glazer |
| 1148 | The Tale of Princess Kaguya | 2013 | Isao Takahata |
| 1149 | Roger & Me | 1989 | Michael Moore |
| 1150 | As Good as It Gets | 1997 | James L. Brooks |
| 1151 | Central Station | 1998 | Walter Salles |
| 1152 | Wild at Heart | 1990 | David Lynch |
| 1153 | 35 Up | 1991 | Michael Apted |
| 1154 | Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl |
| 1155 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | 1989 | Stephen Herek |
| 1156 | The Secret of NIMH | 1982 | Don Bluth |
| 1157 | Kick-Ass | 2010 | Matthew Vaughn |
| 1158 | Fish Tank | 2009 | Andrea Arnold |
| 1159 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | 2017 | Jon Watts |
| 1160 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1161 | Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann |
| 1162 | Perfect Blue | 1997 | Satoshi Kon |
| 1163 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler |
| 1164 | Garden State | 2004 | Zach Braff |
| 1165 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1166 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 1994 | Stephan Elliott |
| 1167 | John Wick | 2014 | Chad Stahelski |
| 1168 | Jacob's Ladder | 1990 | Adrian Lyne |
| 1169 | Lola Montès | 1955 | Max Ophüls |
| 1170 | Where is the Friend's Home? | 1987 | Abbas Kiarostami |
| 1171 | Manchester by the Sea | 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 1172 | The Red Balloon | 1956 | Albert Lamorisse |
| 1173 | Donnie Brasco | 1997 | Mike Newell |
| 1174 | Dressed to Kill | 1980 | Brian De Palma |
| 1175 | Sling Blade | 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton |
| 1176 | Possession | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski |
| 1177 | Little Caesar | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 1178 | The Gunfighter | 1950 | Henry King |
| 1179 | Lone Star | 1996 | John Sayles |
| 1180 | The Way We Were | 1973 | Sydney Pollack |
| 1181 | Black Girl | 1966 | Ousmane Sembene |
| 1182 | Candyman | 1992 | Bernard Rose |
| 1183 | X-Men | 2000 | Bryan Singer |
| 1184 | Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | Ethan and Joel Coen |
| 1185 | Eight Men Out | 1988 | John Sayles |
| 1186 | Purple Rain | 1984 | Albert Magnoli |
| 1187 | Erin Brockovich | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1188 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1189 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan |
| 1190 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | 1960 | Karel Reisz |
| 1191 | Oklahoma! | 1955 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 1192 | Paper Moon | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 1193 | Miracle | 2004 | Gavin O'Connor |
| 1194 | Pariah | 2011 | Dee Rees |
| 1195 | 3:10 to Yuma | 2007 | James Mangold |
| 1196 | American Pie | 1999 | Paul Weitz |
| 1197 | Day of the Dead | 1985 | George A. Romero |
| 1198 | Prisoners | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 1199 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1924 | Raoul Walsh |
| 1200 | Us | 2019 | Jordan Peele |
