| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) |
| 1601 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman |
| 1602 | Land without Bread | 1933 | Luis Buñuel |
| 1603 | Looper | 2012 | Rian Johnson |
| 1604 | D.O.A. | 1949 | Rudolph Maté |
| 1605 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1606 | Cross of Iron | 1977 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 1607 | À nos amours | 1983 | Maurice Pialat |
| 1608 | Ponyo | 2008 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1609 | Cannibal Holocaust | 1980 | Ruggero Deodato |
| 1610 | Roxanne | 1987 | Fred Schepisi |
| 1611 | October Sky | 1999 | Joe Johnston |
| 1612 | White Men Can't Jump | 1992 | Ron Shelton |
| 1613 | Desperado | 1995 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 1614 | The Man in the White Suit | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 1615 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | 2004 | Michael Moore |
| 1616 | To Live | 1994 | Yimou Zhang |
| 1617 | Pumping Iron | 1977 | George Butler and Robert Fiore |
| 1618 | L.A. Story | 1991 | Mick Jackson |
| 1619 | The Kids Are All Right | 2010 | Lisa Cholodenko |
| 1620 | Howards End | 1992 | James Ivory |
| 1621 | Goodbye Mr. Chips | 1939 | Sam Wood |
| 1622 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 1968 | Ken Hughes |
| 1623 | Blackboard Jungle | 1955 | Richard Brooks |
| 1624 | Munich | 2005 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1625 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 2005 | Andrew Adamson |
| 1626 | Altered States | 1980 | Ken Russell |
| 1627 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy |
| 1628 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | 1932 | Jean Renoir |
| 1629 | Good Morning, Vietnam | 1987 | Barry Levinson |
| 1630 | Floating Weeds | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu |
| 1631 | Accattone | 1961 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 1632 | The Handmaiden | 2016 | Chan-wook Park |
| 1633 | 9 1/2 Weeks | 1986 | Adrian Lyne |
| 1634 | Showgirls | 1995 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 1635 | A Bronx Tale | 1993 | Robert De Niro |
| 1636 | The Boondock Saints | 1999 | Troy Duffy |
| 1637 | Hairspray | 2007 | Adam Shankman |
| 1638 | Island of Lost Souls | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton |
| 1639 | The Fallen Idol | 1948 | Carol Reed |
| 1640 | Muriel's Wedding | 1994 | P.J. Hogan |
| 1641 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| 1642 | Morocco | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 1643 | The Woman in the Window | 1944 | Fritz Lang |
| 1644 | You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Frank Capra |
| 1645 | Collateral | 2004 | Michael Mann |
| 1646 | The Hurricane | 1999 | Norman Jewison |
| 1647 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 1648 | From Dusk Till Dawn | 1996 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 1649 | Bugsy Malone | 1976 | Alan Parker |
| 1650 | Quatermass and the Pit | 1967 | Roy Ward Baker |
| 1651 | Ruggles of Red Gap | 1935 | Leo McCarey |
| 1652 | Mother and Son | 1997 | Aleksandr Sokurov |
| 1653 | In Which We Serve | 1942 | Noel Coward and David Lean |
| 1654 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 1655 | Where the Wild Things Are | 2009 | Spike Jonze |
| 1656 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1939 | William Dieterle |
| 1657 | Moneyball | 2011 | Bennett Miller |
| 1658 | Steel Magnolias | 1989 | Herbert Ross |
| 1659 | The Blood of a Poet | 1932 | Jean Cocteau |
| 1660 | Argo | 2012 | Ben Affleck |
| 1661 | 24 Hour Party People | 2002 | Michael Winterbottom |
| 1662 | Dallas Buyers Club | 2013 | Jean-Marc Vallée |
| 1663 | Pink Floyd the Wall | 1982 | Alan Parker |
| 1664 | An Officer and a Gentleman | 1982 | Taylor Hackford |
| 1665 | The Puppet Master | 1993 | Hsiao-hsien Hou |
| 1666 | Night Moves | 1975 | Arthur Penn |
| 1667 | Tabu | 1931 | F.W. Murnau |
| 1668 | The Imitation Game | 2014 | Morten Tyldum |
| 1669 | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer | 1961 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 1670 | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shôhei Imamura |
| 1671 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | 1965 | Sergei Parajanov |
| 1672 | Star Trek: First Contact | 1996 | Jonathan Frakes |
| 1673 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo |
| 1674 | To Be and to Have | 2002 | Nicolas Philibert |
| 1675 | He Got Game | 1998 | Spike Lee |
| 1676 | Duck, You Sucker | 1971 | Sergio Leone |
| 1677 | The Idiots | 1998 | Lars von Trier |
| 1678 | Billy Liar | 1963 | John Schlesinger |
| 1679 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | Peter Jackson |
| 1680 | An Angel at My Table | 1990 | Jane Campion |
| 1681 | The Blind Side | 2009 | John Lee Hancock |
| 1682 | The Babadook | 2014 | Jennifer Kent |
| 1683 | 13 Assassins | 2010 | Takashi Miike |
| 1684 | War of the Worlds | 2005 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1685 | El Mariachi | 1992 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 1686 | Rocky II | 1979 | Sylvester Stallone |
| 1687 | Wild Things | 1998 | John McNaughton |
| 1688 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders |
| 1689 | A Bug's Life | 1998 | John Lasseter |
| 1690 | Arthur | 1981 | Steve Gordon |
| 1691 | The Music Box | 1932 | James Parrott |
| 1692 | American Gangster | 2007 | Ridley Scott |
| 1693 | Brian's Song | 1971 | Buzz Kulik |
| 1694 | Beautiful Thing | 1996 | Hettie MacDonald |
| 1695 | Purple Noon | 1960 | René Clément |
| 1696 | The Squid and the Whale | 2005 | Noah Baumbach |
| 1697 | Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1698 | Carmen Jones | 1954 | Otto Preminger |
| 1699 | Big Trouble in Little China | 1986 | John Carpenter |
| 1700 | Deadpool | 2016 | Tim Miller |
| 1701 | The Long Day Closes | 1992 | Terence Davies |
| 1702 | The Man with Two Brains | 1983 | Carl Reiner |
| 1703 | Midnight Express | 1978 | Alan Parker |
| 1704 | Lonely Are the Brave | 1962 | David Miller |
| 1705 | Candyman | 1992 | Bernard Rose |
| 1706 | 3 Women | 1977 | Robert Altman |
| 1707 | The Hateful Eight | 2015 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 1708 | Europa Europa | 1990 | Agnieszka Holland |
| 1709 | Twentieth Century | 1934 | Howard Hawks |
| 1710 | Cría Cuervos | 1976 | Carlos Saura |
| 1711 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth |
| 1712 | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills | 1996 | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky |
| 1713 | About a Boy | 2002 | Chris and Paul Weitz |
| 1714 | Highlander | 1986 | Russell Mulcahy |
| 1715 | Shoeshine | 1946 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 1716 | The Pursuit of Happyness | 2006 | Gabriele Muccino |
| 1717 | Chelsea Girls | 1966 | Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol |
| 1718 | Tight Little Island | 1949 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 1719 | Possession | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski |
| 1720 | Baraka | 1992 | Ron Fricke |
| 1721 | Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller |
| 1722 | Stories We Tell | 2012 | Sarah Polley |
| 1723 | Exit through the Gift Shop | 2010 | Banksy |
| 1724 | Little Children | 2006 | Todd Field |
| 1725 | The Time to Live and the Time to Die | 1985 | Hsiao-hsien Hou |
| 1726 | Sonatine | 1993 | Takeshi Kitano |
| 1727 | Hacksaw Ridge | 2016 | Mel Gibson |
| 1728 | The Golem | 1920 | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener |
| 1729 | The Big Combo | 1955 | Joseph H. Lewis |
| 1730 | High School | 1968 | Frederick Wiseman |
| 1731 | Nine to Five | 1980 | Colin Higgins |
| 1732 | The Burmese Harp | 1956 | Kon Ichikawa |
| 1733 | The Motorcycle Diaries | 2004 | Walter Salles |
| 1734 | The Lost Boys | 1987 | Joel Schumacher |
| 1735 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 1736 | The Dam Busters | 1955 | Michael Anderson |
| 1737 | Porco Rosso | 1992 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 1738 | 127 Hours | 2010 | Danny Boyle |
| 1739 | Inside Job | 2010 | Charles Ferguson |
| 1740 | Manchester by the Sea | 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 1741 | Shanghai Express | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 1742 | The Dream of Light | 1992 | Víctor Erice |
| 1743 | Burnt by the Sun | 1994 | Nikita Mikhalkov |
| 1744 | Landscape in the Mist | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos |
| 1745 | Desperately Seeking Susan | 1985 | Susan Seidelman |
| 1746 | Hair | 1979 | Milos Forman |
| 1747 | Sorcerer | 1977 | William Friedkin |
| 1748 | Armageddon | 1998 | Michael Bay |
| 1749 | The Naked City | 1948 | Jules Dassin |
| 1750 | 3 Idiots | 2009 | Rajkumar Hirani |
| 1751 | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | 1948 | Charles Barton |
| 1752 | Good Morning | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu |
| 1753 | Gosford Park | 2001 | Robert Altman |
| 1754 | Play It Again, Sam | 1972 | Herbert Ross |
| 1755 | The Little Foxes | 1941 | William Wyler |
| 1756 | To Catch a Thief | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1757 | Zentropa | 1991 | Lars von Trier |
| 1758 | Law of Desire | 1987 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 1759 | Female Trouble | 1974 | John Waters |
| 1760 | Ulzana's Raid | 1972 | Robert Aldrich |
| 1761 | Drunken Master II | 1994 | Chia-Liang Liu |
| 1762 | The Hour of the Furnaces | 1968 | Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez |
| 1763 | The Black Stallion | 1979 | Carroll Ballard |
| 1764 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton |
| 1765 | The Endless Summer | 1965 | Bruce Brown |
| 1766 | The Crime of Mr. Lange | 1936 | Jean Renoir |
| 1767 | La Bête Humaine | 1938 | Jean Renoir |
| 1768 | Matewan | 1987 | John Sayles |
| 1769 | Branded to Kill | 1967 | Seijun Suzuki |
| 1770 | Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1771 | Blood Diamond | 2006 | Edward Zwick |
| 1772 | The King of Kong | 2007 | Seth Gordon |
| 1773 | On Golden Pond | 1981 | Mark Rydell |
| 1774 | Gangs of New York | 2002 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1775 | Control | 2007 | Anton Corbijn |
| 1776 | War and Peace | 1966 | Sergey Bondarchuk |
| 1777 | To Live and Die in L.A. | 1985 | William Friedkin |
| 1778 | Summer | 1986 | Eric Rohmer |
| 1779 | Bad Boys | 1995 | Michael Bay |
| 1780 | Platform | 2000 | Zhangke Jia |
| 1781 | Girl, Interrupted | 1999 | James Mangold |
| 1782 | Fritz the Cat | 1972 | Ralph Bakshi |
| 1783 | It's Such a Beautiful Day | 2012 | Don Hertzfeldt |
| 1784 | Ronin | 1998 | John Frankenheimer |
| 1785 | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | 1958 | Nathan Juran |
| 1786 | Little Women | 1994 | Gillian Armstrong |
| 1787 | Edvard Munch | 1974 | Peter Watkins |
| 1788 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann |
| 1789 | Thief | 1981 | Michael Mann |
| 1790 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | 1984 | W.D. Richter |
| 1791 | Rio Grande | 1950 | John Ford |
| 1792 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1793 | Pixote | 1981 | Hector Babenco |
| 1794 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | 2006 | Adam McKay |
| 1795 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters |
| 1796 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols |
| 1797 | The Old Dark House | 1932 | James Whale |
| 1798 | The Cove | 2009 | Louie Psihoyos |
| 1799 | The Phantom of Liberty | 1974 | Luis Buñuel |
| 1800 | Mephisto | 1981 | István Szabó |
