| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 401 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 470 |
| 402 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick | 357 |
| 403 | Wavelength | 1967 | Michael Snow | 1303 |
| 404 | Naked | 1993 | Mike Leigh | 632 |
| 405 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | 554 |
| 406 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | 421 |
| 407 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 228 |
| 408 | East of Eden | 1955 | Elia Kazan | 527 |
| 409 | Forbidden Games | 1952 | René Clément | 766 |
| 410 | The Bank Dick | 1940 | Edward F. Cline | 429 |
| 411 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 178 |
| 412 | Hoop Dreams | 1994 | Steve James | 292 |
| 413 | The Producers | 1968 | Mel Brooks | 184 |
| 414 | Jean de Florette | 1986 | Claude Berri | 386 |
| 415 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 211 |
| 416 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 383 |
| 417 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | 83 |
| 418 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento | 327 |
| 419 | Through the Olive Trees | 1994 | Abbas Kiarostami | 1527 |
| 420 | The Passenger | 1975 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1063 |
| 421 | La Belle noiseuse | 1991 | Jacques Rivette | 1050 |
| 422 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | 289 |
| 423 | À Nous la Liberté | 1931 | René Clair | 937 |
| 424 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 98 |
| 425 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 122 |
| 426 | Rififi | 1955 | Jules Dassin | 521 |
| 427 | Le Jour se lève | 1939 | Marcel Carné | 965 |
| 428 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 197 |
| 429 | Heimat | 1984 | Edgar Reitz | 1404 |
| 430 | The Red Desert | 1964 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1101 |
| 431 | Casque d'Or | 1952 | Jacques Becker | 1432 |
| 432 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen | 101 |
| 433 | Love Me Tonight | 1932 | Rouben Mamoulian | 622 |
| 434 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 191 |
| 435 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 328 |
| 436 | A Touch of Zen | 1971 | King Hu | 1206 |
| 437 | The Killer | 1989 | John Woo | 398 |
| 438 | Tom Jones | 1963 | Tony Richardson | 435 |
| 439 | The Rise of Louis XIV | 1970 | Roberto Rossellini | 1679 |
| 440 | Young Frankenstein | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 260 |
| 441 | A Taste of Cherry | 1997 | Abbas Kiarostami | 875 |
| 442 | Crumb | 1994 | Terry Zwigoff | 550 |
| 443 | Au Revoir, les Enfants | 1987 | Louis Malle | 534 |
| 444 | L'Argent | 1983 | Robert Bresson | 1141 |
| 445 | The Crying Game | 1992 | Neil Jordan | 547 |
| 446 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 455 |
| 447 | How Green Was My Valley | 1941 | John Ford | 417 |
| 448 | Imitation of Life | 1959 | Douglas Sirk | 531 |
| 449 | War and Peace | 1967 | Sergei Bondarchuk | 1019 |
| 450 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 241 |
| 451 | The Thin Blue Line | 1988 | Errol Morris | 478 |
| 452 | Knife in the Water | 1962 | Roman Polanski | 689 |
| 453 | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker | 1033 |
| 454 | The Lost Weekend | 1945 | Billy Wilder | 380 |
| 455 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 212 |
| 456 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock | 382 |
| 457 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls | 599 |
| 458 | Talk to Her | 2002 | Pedro Almodóvar | 668 |
| 459 | The Long Day Closes | 1992 | Terence Davies | 1250 |
| 460 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 721 |
| 461 | Central Station | 1998 | Walter Salles | 695 |
| 462 | The Wind Will Carry Us | 1999 | Abbas Kiarostami | 1161 |
| 463 | Senso | 1954 | Luchino Visconti | 1346 |
| 464 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1968 | Sergei Parajanov | 1121 |
| 465 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 970 |
| 466 | Tabu | 1931 | F.W. Murnau | 1588 |
| 467 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 929 |
| 468 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 423 |
| 469 | La Ronde | 1950 | Max Ophüls | 1193 |
| 470 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 533 |
| 471 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | 644 |
| 472 | Faces | 1968 | John Cassavetes | 758 |
| 473 | Walkabout | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg | 770 |
| 474 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 556 |
| 475 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 600 |
| 476 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | 275 |
| 477 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | 459 |
| 478 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | 709 |
| 479 | In the Realm of the Senses | 1976 | Nagisa Oshima | 615 |
| 480 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 460 |
| 481 | Le Million | 1931 | René Clair | 1514 |
| 482 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | 482 |
| 483 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 319 |
| 484 | A Room with a View | 1985 | James Ivory | 526 |
| 485 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 558 |
| 486 | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 1300 |
| 487 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda | 1136 |
| 488 | Gun Crazy | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis | 425 |
| 489 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 373 |
| 490 | My Life as a Dog | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | 700 |
| 491 | In the Heat of the Night | 1967 | Norman Jewison | 343 |
| 492 | Limelight | 1952 | Charles Chaplin | 1117 |
| 493 | Man of Aran | 1934 | Robert J. Flaherty | 1772 |
| 494 | Detour | 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 702 |
| 495 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 140 |
| 496 | Dont Look Back | 1967 | D.A. Pennebaker | 737 |
| 497 | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | 1972 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1650 |
| 498 | An Autumn Afternoon | 1962 | Yasujiro Ozu | 1638 |
| 499 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 725 |
| 500 | Stranger than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch | 597 |