| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 501 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | 1982 | Amy Heckerling | 442 |
| 502 | The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 312 |
| 503 | A Face in the Crowd | 1957 | Elia Kazan | 843 |
| 504 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1108 |
| 505 | Harvey | 1950 | Henry Koster | 602 |
| 506 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 185 |
| 507 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 923 |
| 508 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | 484 |
| 509 | The World of Apu | 1959 | Satyajit Ray | 288 |
| 510 | Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | Nora Ephron | 539 |
| 511 | Lady and the Tramp | 1955 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 803 |
| 512 | In Cold Blood | 1967 | Richard Brooks | 781 |
| 513 | Dangerous Liaisons | 1988 | Stephen Frears | 573 |
| 514 | Cavalcade | 1933 | Frank Lloyd | 1896 |
| 515 | Winchester '73 | 1950 | Anthony Mann | 939 |
| 516 | The Insider | 1999 | Michael Mann | 636 |
| 517 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | 457 |
| 518 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 659 |
| 519 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 | Robert Aldrich | 418 |
| 520 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood | 665 |
| 521 | Born Yesterday | 1950 | George Cukor | 541 |
| 522 | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 180 |
| 523 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 599 |
| 524 | War and Peace | 1967 | Sergei Bondarchuk | 734 |
| 525 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton | 485 |
| 526 | Fury | 1936 | Fritz Lang | 823 |
| 527 | Dead Man Walking | 1995 | Tim Robbins | 751 |
| 528 | Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann | 479 |
| 529 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | 520 |
| 530 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 431 |
| 531 | Three Colors: White | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 542 |
| 532 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | 427 |
| 533 | The War of the Worlds | 1953 | Byron Haskin | 682 |
| 534 | Henry V | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh | 822 |
| 535 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | 474 |
| 536 | Scenes from a Marriage | 1973 | Ingmar Bergman | 799 |
| 537 | Rififi | 1955 | Jules Dassin | 623 |
| 538 | Magnolia | 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 267 |
| 539 | Pandora's Box | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 367 |
| 540 | The Full Monty | 1997 | Peter Cattaneo | 391 |
| 541 | Places in the Heart | 1984 | Robert Benton | 1193 |
| 542 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 420 |
| 543 | Big | 1988 | Penny Marshall | 563 |
| 544 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George | 1028 |
| 545 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart | 415 |
| 546 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 369 |
| 547 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 208 |
| 548 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 560 |
| 549 | Forbidden Games | 1952 | René Clément | 597 |
| 550 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 205 |
| 551 | The Great Train Robbery | 1903 | Edwin S. Porter | 1191 |
| 552 | Love Story | 1970 | Arthur Hiller | 755 |
| 553 | Ball of Fire | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 890 |
| 554 | Hail the Conquering Hero | 1944 | Preston Sturges | 938 |
| 555 | Alexander Nevsky | 1938 | Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev | 383 |
| 556 | The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin | 522 |
| 557 | Ashes and Diamonds | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda | 416 |
| 558 | The Pink Panther | 1963 | Blake Edwards | 838 |
| 559 | The Great Ziegfeld | 1936 | Robert Z. Leonard | 1631 |
| 560 | The Thief of Bagdad | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan | 627 |
| 561 | Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | Werner Herzog | 684 |
| 562 | Pickup on South Street | 1953 | Samuel Fuller | 656 |
| 563 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | Mike Newell | 241 |
| 564 | Philadelphia | 1993 | Jonathan Demme | 777 |
| 565 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 233 |
| 566 | Dark Victory | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | 824 |
| 567 | Stranger than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch | 537 |
| 568 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 289 |
| 569 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | 680 |
| 570 | The King of Comedy | 1983 | Martin Scorsese | 480 |
| 571 | Zero for Conduct | 1933 | Jean Vigo | 518 |
| 572 | The Grifters | 1990 | Stephen Frears | 771 |
| 573 | Babette's Feast | 1987 | Gabriel Axel | 498 |
| 574 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman | 429 |
| 575 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 260 |
| 576 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg | 514 |
| 577 | Show Boat | 1936 | James Whale | 981 |
| 578 | Missing | 1982 | Costa-Gavras | 1394 |
| 579 | Lone Star | 1996 | John Sayles | 667 |
| 580 | A Letter to Three Wives | 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1352 |
| 581 | Quiz Show | 1994 | Robert Redford | 961 |
| 582 | Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen | 641 |
| 583 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 1970 | Vittorio De Sica | 942 |
| 584 | National Velvet | 1944 | Clarence Brown | 629 |
| 585 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | 868 |
| 586 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1033 |
| 587 | In Which We Serve | 1942 | Noel Coward and David Lean | 764 |
| 588 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1985 | Woody Allen | 804 |
| 589 | The Goodbye Girl | 1977 | Herbert Ross | 1185 |
| 590 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 644 |
| 591 | Morocco | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | 828 |
| 592 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 246 |
| 593 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | 674 |
| 594 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 408 |
| 595 | 'Breaker' Morant | 1980 | Bruce Beresford | 815 |
| 596 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | 699 |
| 597 | Oliver Twist | 1948 | David Lean | 784 |
| 598 | Pixote | 1981 | Hector Babenco | 1004 |
| 599 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 668 |
| 600 | The Verdict | 1982 | Sidney Lumet | 968 |
| 601 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 1986 | John Hughes | 347 |
| 602 | Short Cuts | 1993 | Robert Altman | 594 |
