| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 501 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young | 524 |
| 502 | Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1054 |
| 503 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati | 378 |
| 504 | 'I Know Where I'm Going!' | 1945 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 830 |
| 505 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 835 |
| 506 | A Face in the Crowd | 1957 | Elia Kazan | 972 |
| 507 | A Room with a View | 1985 | James Ivory | 526 |
| 508 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | 355 |
| 509 | Secrets & Lies | 1996 | Mike Leigh | 389 |
| 510 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | 117 |
| 511 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 207 |
| 512 | Magnolia | 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 202 |
| 513 | A Woman under the Influence | 1974 | John Cassavetes | 557 |
| 514 | Winchester '73 | 1950 | Anthony Mann | 943 |
| 515 | Sounder | 1972 | Martin Ritt | 1107 |
| 516 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 1988 | Pedro Almodóvar | 539 |
| 517 | Destry Rides Again | 1939 | George Marshall | 947 |
| 518 | Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller | 1049 |
| 519 | Mr. Hulot's Holiday | 1953 | Jacques Tati | 311 |
| 520 | Safety Last! | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor | 672 |
| 521 | Killer of Sheep | 1981 | Charles Burnett | 667 |
| 522 | Pygmalion | 1938 | Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard | 1168 |
| 523 | Knife in the Water | 1962 | Roman Polanski | 689 |
| 524 | Hoop Dreams | 1994 | Steve James | 292 |
| 525 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | 291 |
| 526 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 621 |
| 527 | The Godfather: Part III | 1990 | Francis Ford Coppola | 432 |
| 528 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | 1989 | Steven Soderbergh | 520 |
| 529 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 272 |
| 530 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | 643 |
| 531 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1226 |
| 532 | Room at the Top | 1959 | Jack Clayton | 877 |
| 533 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 731 |
| 534 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | 421 |
| 535 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | 254 |
| 536 | Say Anything… | 1989 | Cameron Crowe | 448 |
| 537 | Woman in the Dunes | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 914 |
| 538 | Fatal Attraction | 1987 | Adrian Lyne | 530 |
| 539 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | 340 |
| 540 | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson | 400 |
| 541 | Imitation of Life | 1959 | Douglas Sirk | 531 |
| 542 | The Untouchables | 1987 | Brian De Palma | 408 |
| 543 | Lady and the Tramp | 1955 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 832 |
| 544 | Talk to Her | 2002 | Pedro Almodóvar | 668 |
| 545 | Days of Wine and Roses | 1962 | Blake Edwards | 1731 |
| 546 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1939 | William Dieterle | 1102 |
| 547 | The Bad and the Beautiful | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli | 1190 |
| 548 | Celine & Julie Go Boating | 1974 | Jacques Rivette | 727 |
| 549 | Howards End | 1992 | James Ivory | 933 |
| 550 | Ŕ Nous la Liberté | 1931 | René Clair | 937 |
| 551 | Jezebel | 1938 | William Wyler | 1172 |
| 552 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | 568 |
| 553 | The Verdict | 1982 | Sidney Lumet | 831 |
| 554 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 725 |
| 555 | Long Day's Journey into Night | 1962 | Sidney Lumet | 1167 |
| 556 | Stranger than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch | 597 |
| 557 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 182 |
| 558 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 509 |
| 559 | Lost Horizon | 1937 | Frank Capra | 1128 |
| 560 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee | 405 |
| 561 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 470 |
| 562 | The Killing Fields | 1984 | Roland Joffé | 620 |
| 563 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1028 |
| 564 | Dead of Night | 1945 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer | 640 |
| 565 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 178 |
| 566 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | 434 |
| 567 | Fiddler on the Roof | 1971 | Norman Jewison | 881 |
| 568 | Chimes at Midnight | 1965 | Orson Welles | 1016 |
| 569 | The Insider | 1999 | Michael Mann | 647 |
| 570 | The Dead | 1987 | John Huston | 841 |
| 571 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1187 |
| 572 | The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | 783 |
| 573 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 589 |
| 574 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian | 627 |
| 575 | National Velvet | 1944 | Clarence Brown | 657 |
| 576 | They Were Expendable | 1945 | John Ford | 1405 |
| 577 | Breaking the Waves | 1996 | Lars von Trier | 456 |
| 578 | Detour | 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 702 |
| 579 | Romeo and Juliet | 1968 | Franco Zeffirelli | 948 |
| 580 | Orpheus | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 561 |
| 581 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 581 |
| 582 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 239 |
| 583 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 473 |
| 584 | The Informer | 1935 | John Ford | 1441 |
| 585 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 423 |
| 586 | Holiday | 1938 | George Cukor | 1034 |
| 587 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 1945 | Elia Kazan | 1384 |
| 588 | The River | 1951 | Jean Renoir | 1229 |
| 589 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | 904 |
| 590 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 173 |
| 591 | Fury | 1936 | Fritz Lang | 1115 |
| 592 | All about My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar | 402 |
| 593 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | 644 |
| 594 | The Fugitive | 1993 | Andrew Davis | 496 |
| 595 | Week End | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 613 |
| 596 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 150 |
| 597 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | 407 |
| 598 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | 682 |
| 599 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 315 |
| 600 | The Big Carnival | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 728 |
