| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 501 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi |
| 502 | The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin |
| 503 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen |
| 504 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 505 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| 506 | On the Town | 1949 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly |
| 507 | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | 1982 | Nicholas Meyer |
| 508 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater |
| 509 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 510 | Witness | 1985 | Peter Weir |
| 511 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson |
| 512 | The Sweet Hereafter | 1997 | Atom Egoyan |
| 513 | The Thing from Another World | 1951 | Christian Nyby |
| 514 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Leo McCarey |
| 515 | It's a Gift | 1934 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 516 | The Royal Tenenbaums | 2001 | Wes Anderson |
| 517 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès |
| 518 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich |
| 519 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang |
| 520 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | 1989 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 521 | Rififi | 1955 | Jules Dassin |
| 522 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese |
| 523 | Alexander Nevsky | 1938 | Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev |
| 524 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young |
| 525 | The Ox-Bow Incident | 1943 | William A. Wellman |
| 526 | A Room with a View | 1985 | James Ivory |
| 527 | East of Eden | 1955 | Elia Kazan |
| 528 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen |
| 529 | Atlantic City | 1980 | Louis Malle |
| 530 | Fatal Attraction | 1987 | Adrian Lyne |
| 531 | Imitation of Life | 1959 | Douglas Sirk |
| 532 | Gigi | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 533 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 534 | Au Revoir, les Enfants | 1987 | Louis Malle |
| 535 | Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | Robert Benton |
| 536 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood |
| 537 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 538 | My Man Godfrey | 1936 | Gregory La Cava |
| 539 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 1988 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 540 | Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 | George Seaton |
| 541 | Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | Werner Herzog |
| 542 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 543 | The Spirit of the Beehive | 1973 | Víctor Erice |
| 544 | Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson |
| 545 | Election | 1999 | Alexander Payne |
| 546 | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 547 | The Crying Game | 1992 | Neil Jordan |
| 548 | When We Were Kings | 1996 | Leon Gast |
| 549 | The Fifth Element | 1997 | Luc Besson |
| 550 | Crumb | 1994 | Terry Zwigoff |
| 551 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 552 | Earth | 1930 | Aleksandr Dovzhenko |
| 553 | Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen |
| 554 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 555 | Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann |
| 556 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger |
| 557 | A Woman under the Influence | 1974 | John Cassavetes |
| 558 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston |
| 559 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson |
| 560 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont |
| 561 | Orpheus | 1950 | Jean Cocteau |
| 562 | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld |
| 563 | Delicatessen | 1991 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 564 | Broadcast News | 1987 | James L. Brooks |
| 565 | Dumbo | 1941 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 566 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang |
| 567 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | Peter Weir |
| 568 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton |
| 569 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder |
| 570 | The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Martin Scorsese |
| 571 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe |
| 572 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 573 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder |
| 574 | The Killers | 1946 | Robert Siodmak |
| 575 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez |
| 576 | Babette's Feast | 1987 | Gabriel Axel |
| 577 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse |
| 578 | Point Blank | 1967 | John Boorman |
| 579 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar Wai Wong |
| 580 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | 1954 | Stanley Donen |
| 581 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan |
| 582 | Malcolm X | 1992 | Spike Lee |
| 583 | The Innocents | 1961 | Jack Clayton |
| 584 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg |
| 585 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | 1979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 586 | The Italian Job | 1969 | Peter Collinson |
| 587 | Bullitt | 1968 | Peter Yates |
| 588 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty |
| 589 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen |
| 590 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray |
| 591 | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau |
| 592 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan |
| 593 | Day of Wrath | 1943 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 594 | The Remains of the Day | 1993 | James Ivory |
| 595 | Zero for Conduct | 1933 | Jean Vigo |
| 596 | Olympia | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl |
| 597 | Stranger than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 598 | Gallipoli | 1981 | Peter Weir |
| 599 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls |
| 600 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel |
