| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 501 | The Rise to Power of Louis XIV | 1966 | Roberto Rossellini | 1379 |
| 502 | Stolen Kisses | 1968 | François Truffaut | 964 |
| 503 | Memories of Underdevelopment | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1132 |
| 504 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston | 509 |
| 505 | Hamlet | 1948 | Laurence Olivier | 708 |
| 506 | Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann | 462 |
| 507 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 199 |
| 508 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 300 |
| 509 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | 454 |
| 510 | Dumbo | 1941 | Ben Sharpsteen | 507 |
| 511 | The Right Stuff | 1983 | Philip Kaufman | 364 |
| 512 | Lone Star | 1996 | John Sayles | 667 |
| 513 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 79 |
| 514 | My Life as a Dog | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | 646 |
| 515 | In the Heat of the Night | 1967 | Norman Jewison | 319 |
| 516 | La Chienne | 1931 | Jean Renoir | 1313 |
| 517 | Heimat | 1984 | Edgar Reitz | 1350 |
| 518 | A Touch of Zen | 1969 | King Hu | 1282 |
| 519 | 'I Know Where I'm Going!' | 1945 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 829 |
| 520 | The Awful Truth | 1937 | Leo McCarey | 393 |
| 521 | The Lavender Hill Mob | 1951 | Charles Crichton | 653 |
| 522 | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 1120 |
| 523 | The Virgin Spring | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman | 901 |
| 524 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen | 107 |
| 525 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 388 |
| 526 | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Eric Rohmer | 1023 |
| 527 | The Night of the Shooting Stars | 1982 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | 1429 |
| 528 | Safety Last! | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 606 |
| 529 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | Mike Newell | 241 |
| 530 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 186 |
| 531 | Chariots of Fire | 1981 | Hugh Hudson | 297 |
| 532 | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 1017 |
| 533 | Now, Voyager | 1942 | Irving Rapper | 328 |
| 534 | Gun Crazy | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis | 434 |
| 535 | All the King's Men | 1949 | Robert Rossen | 721 |
| 536 | Naked | 1993 | Mike Leigh | 658 |
| 537 | Howards End | 1992 | James Ivory | 835 |
| 538 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker | 206 |
| 539 | Lola | 1961 | Jacques Demy | 1215 |
| 540 | Black God and White Devil | 1964 | Glauber Rocha | 1885 |
| 541 | Room at the Top | 1959 | Jack Clayton | 819 |
| 542 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 422 |
| 543 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 137 |
| 544 | When Harry Met Sally… | 1989 | Rob Reiner | 172 |
| 545 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | 124 |
| 546 | Limelight | 1952 | Charles Chaplin | 1227 |
| 547 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 110 |
| 548 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 187 |
| 549 | Lolita | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick | 695 |
| 550 | Faces | 1968 | John Cassavetes | 706 |
| 551 | Oliver Twist | 1948 | David Lean | 784 |
| 552 | César | 1936 | Marcel Pagnol | 1671 |
| 553 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 175 |
| 554 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 208 |
| 555 | Ju Dou | 1990 | Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang | 918 |
| 556 | Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica | 2041 |
| 557 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | 75 |
| 558 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 478 |
| 559 | Shoeshine | 1946 | Vittorio De Sica | 1158 |
| 560 | Faust | 1926 | F.W. Murnau | 1249 |
| 561 | Lancelot of the Lake | 1974 | Robert Bresson | 1335 |
| 562 | Port of Shadows | 1938 | Marcel Carné | 1403 |
| 563 | An Autumn Afternoon | 1962 | Yasujiro Ozu | 1525 |
| 564 | The Great Train Robbery | 1903 | Edwin S. Porter | 1191 |
| 565 | Dead of Night | 1945 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer | 638 |
| 566 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 88 |
| 567 | Fires Were Started | 1943 | Humphrey Jennings | 1480 |
| 568 | Time of the Gypsies | 1988 | Emir Kusturica | 1686 |
| 569 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick | 490 |
| 570 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | 614 |
| 571 | The Man in the White Suit | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick | 908 |
| 572 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 517 |
| 573 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders | 1279 |
| 574 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 167 |
| 575 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 275 |
| 576 | Through the Olive Trees | 1994 | Abbas Kiarostami | 1490 |
| 577 | Our Hospitality | 1923 | John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton | 1100 |
| 578 | Landscape in the Mist | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1639 |
| 579 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 205 |
| 580 | Henry V | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh | 822 |
| 581 | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | 1972 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1598 |
| 582 | That Obscure Object of Desire | 1977 | Luis Buñuel | 1153 |
| 583 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1936 | Frank Capra | 530 |
| 584 | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor | 778 |
| 585 | An Italian Straw Hat | 1928 | René Clair | 1678 |
| 586 | Richard III | 1955 | Laurence Olivier | 1137 |
| 587 | Kanal | 1957 | Andrzej Wajda | 1768 |
| 588 | To Live | 1994 | Yimou Zhang | 1038 |
| 589 | Happiness | 1998 | Todd Solondz | 747 |
| 590 | Central Station | 1998 | Walter Salles | 745 |
| 591 | Xala | 1975 | Ousmane Sembene | 1214 |
| 592 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 252 |
| 593 | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa | 1007 |
| 594 | The Big Carnival | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 830 |
| 595 | Tabu | 1931 | F.W. Murnau | 1241 |
| 596 | The Draughtsman's Contract | 1982 | Peter Greenaway | 1245 |
| 597 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda | 1070 |
| 598 | Red Sorghum | 1987 | Yimou Zhang | 1178 |
| 599 | Gigi | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 426 |
| 600 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 331 |