| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 501 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 910 |
| 502 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 582 |
| 503 | Breaking Away | 1979 | Peter Yates | 412 |
| 504 | In Cold Blood | 1967 | Richard Brooks | 874 |
| 505 | Days of Wine and Roses | 1962 | Blake Edwards | 1545 |
| 506 | The Diary of Anne Frank | 1959 | George Stevens | 1208 |
| 507 | Local Hero | 1983 | Bill Forsyth | 447 |
| 508 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan | 712 |
| 509 | Coming Home | 1978 | Hal Ashby | 1244 |
| 510 | A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | Charles Crichton | 344 |
| 511 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | 379 |
| 512 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 343 |
| 513 | Winchester '73 | 1950 | Anthony Mann | 900 |
| 514 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1058 |
| 515 | Scenes from a Marriage | 1973 | Ingmar Bergman | 875 |
| 516 | You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Frank Capra | 1288 |
| 517 | The Music Man | 1962 | Morton DaCosta | 792 |
| 518 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 210 |
| 519 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | 631 |
| 520 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett | 777 |
| 521 | Little Women | 1933 | George Cukor | 1022 |
| 522 | Elmer Gantry | 1960 | Richard Brooks | 1581 |
| 523 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | 532 |
| 524 | Love Story | 1970 | Arthur Hiller | 703 |
| 525 | Medium Cool | 1969 | Haskell Wexler | 1224 |
| 526 | Forbidden Games | 1952 | René Clément | 704 |
| 527 | Enter the Dragon | 1973 | Robert Clouse | 544 |
| 528 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 | Robert Aldrich | 384 |
| 529 | Secrets & Lies | 1996 | Mike Leigh | 388 |
| 530 | Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 552 |
| 531 | The Broadway Melody | 1929 | Harry Beaumont | 1751 |
| 532 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 701 |
| 533 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | 304 |
| 534 | The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin | 514 |
| 535 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 1988 | Pedro Almodóvar | 601 |
| 536 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee | 420 |
| 537 | Force of Evil | 1948 | Abraham Polonsky | 775 |
| 538 | Ghost | 1990 | Jerry Zucker | 434 |
| 539 | Stranger than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch | 534 |
| 540 | Sophie's Choice | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula | 782 |
| 541 | Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | Nora Ephron | 630 |
| 542 | Lady and the Tramp | 1955 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 877 |
| 543 | Moulin Rouge! | 2001 | Baz Luhrmann | 237 |
| 544 | Late Spring | 1949 | Yasujiro Ozu | 889 |
| 545 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 696 |
| 546 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | 818 |
| 547 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra | 738 |
| 548 | Armageddon | 1998 | Michael Bay | 722 |
| 549 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | 1976 | Clint Eastwood | 636 |
| 550 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 248 |
| 551 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 411 |
| 552 | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 501 |
| 553 | Carmen Jones | 1954 | Otto Preminger | 1189 |
| 554 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood | 663 |
| 555 | Love Me Tonight | 1932 | Rouben Mamoulian | 585 |
| 556 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 1975 | Jim Sharman | 323 |
| 557 | Cabin in the Sky | 1943 | Vincente Minnelli | 2045 |
| 558 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 529 |
| 559 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | 368 |
| 560 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 264 |
| 561 | Independence Day | 1996 | Roland Emmerich | 393 |
| 562 | A Woman under the Influence | 1974 | John Cassavetes | 573 |
| 563 | The Pink Panther | 1963 | Blake Edwards | 751 |
| 564 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | Peter Weir | 565 |
| 565 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | 649 |
| 566 | A Face in the Crowd | 1957 | Elia Kazan | 966 |
| 567 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 766 |
| 568 | Bullitt | 1968 | Peter Yates | 597 |
| 569 | Zero for Conduct | 1933 | Jean Vigo | 549 |
| 570 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield | 504 |
| 571 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 281 |
| 572 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | 641 |
| 573 | The Verdict | 1982 | Sidney Lumet | 813 |
| 574 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 628 |
| 575 | Oklahoma! | 1955 | Fred Zinnemann | 748 |
| 576 | Harvey | 1950 | Henry Koster | 611 |
| 577 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 457 |
| 578 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1092 |
| 579 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 632 |
| 580 | Sansho the Bailiff | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 455 |
| 581 | Born Yesterday | 1950 | George Cukor | 654 |
| 582 | Ordet | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 436 |
| 583 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 496 |
| 584 | Dirty Dancing | 1987 | Emile Ardolino | 374 |
| 585 | The Jungle Book | 1967 | Wolfgang Reitherman | 429 |
| 586 | Cavalcade | 1933 | Frank Lloyd | 2119 |
| 587 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 428 |
| 588 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | 707 |
| 589 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Jacques Demy | 406 |
| 590 | Jezebel | 1938 | William Wyler | 995 |
| 591 | Destry Rides Again | 1939 | George Marshall | 888 |
| 592 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1149 |
| 593 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 382 |
| 594 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 668 |
| 595 | Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen | 578 |
| 596 | Ed Wood | 1994 | Tim Burton | 515 |
| 597 | Sling Blade | 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton | 864 |
| 598 | The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | 803 |
| 599 | The Remains of the Day | 1993 | James Ivory | 594 |
| 600 | L'Âge d'or | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | 438 |