| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 401 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park | 811 |
| 402 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 530 |
| 403 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | 598 |
| 404 | Happiness | 1998 | Todd Solondz | 764 |
| 405 | Ride the High Country | 1962 | Sam Peckinpah | 749 |
| 406 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 156 |
| 407 | That Obscure Object of Desire | 1977 | Luis Buñuel | 1077 |
| 408 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 11 |
| 409 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 1215 |
| 410 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 507 |
| 411 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1174 |
| 412 | La Terra Trema | 1948 | Luchino Visconti | 1121 |
| 413 | Love Me Tonight | 1932 | Rouben Mamoulian | 585 |
| 414 | The Big Carnival | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 733 |
| 415 | El | 1953 | Luis Buñuel | 1284 |
| 416 | The Servant | 1963 | Joseph Losey | 737 |
| 417 | The River | 1951 | Jean Renoir | 1172 |
| 418 | F for Fake | 1973 | Orson Welles | 912 |
| 419 | Jean de Florette | 1986 | Claude Berri | 424 |
| 420 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 19 |
| 421 | Walkabout | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg | 805 |
| 422 | Pink Flamingos | 1972 | John Waters | 551 |
| 423 | The Awful Truth | 1937 | Leo McCarey | 462 |
| 424 | Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 309 |
| 425 | Safe | 1995 | Todd Haynes | 742 |
| 426 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | 1988 | Terence Davies | 1004 |
| 427 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 768 |
| 428 | My Life as a Dog | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | 694 |
| 429 | Amores perros | 2000 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | 728 |
| 430 | The Public Enemy | 1931 | William A. Wellman | 386 |
| 431 | On the Town | 1949 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 537 |
| 432 | Kes | 1970 | Ken Loach | 475 |
| 433 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 114 |
| 434 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1968 | Sergei Parajanov | 1076 |
| 435 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 445 |
| 436 | Scenes from a Marriage | 1973 | Ingmar Bergman | 875 |
| 437 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | 736 |
| 438 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker | 191 |
| 439 | Senso | 1954 | Luchino Visconti | 1303 |
| 440 | Lone Star | 1996 | John Sayles | 671 |
| 441 | Y tu mamá también | 2001 | Alfonso Cuarón | 511 |
| 442 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 80 |
| 443 | Claire's Knee | 1970 | Eric Rohmer | 1154 |
| 444 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | 91 |
| 445 | The Crying Game | 1992 | Neil Jordan | 575 |
| 446 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | 1967 | Jacques Demy | 1220 |
| 447 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda | 1069 |
| 448 | An Autumn Afternoon | 1962 | Yasujiro Ozu | 1418 |
| 449 | Topsy-Turvy | 1999 | Mike Leigh | 719 |
| 450 | The Big Parade | 1925 | King Vidor | 461 |
| 451 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 88 |
| 452 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 325 |
| 453 | Masculine Feminine | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1385 |
| 454 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | 468 |
| 455 | Ju Dou | 1990 | Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang | 849 |
| 456 | The Killers | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 569 |
| 457 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | Mike Nichols | 452 |
| 458 | Get Carter | 1971 | Mike Hodges | 422 |
| 459 | La Ronde | 1950 | Max Ophüls | 1127 |
| 460 | Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | 1965 | Russ Meyer | 933 |
| 461 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid | 972 |
| 462 | Central Station | 1998 | Walter Salles | 691 |
| 463 | Gimme Shelter | 1970 | Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin | 769 |
| 464 | The Producers | 1968 | Mel Brooks | 192 |
| 465 | Pickup on South Street | 1953 | Samuel Fuller | 614 |
| 466 | The Virgin Spring | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman | 1031 |
| 467 | Salò | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1577 |
| 468 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | 126 |
| 469 | Lolita | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick | 816 |
| 470 | Limelight | 1952 | Charles Chaplin | 1181 |
| 471 | Evil Dead II | 1987 | Sam Raimi | 385 |
| 472 | Foolish Wives | 1922 | Erich von Stroheim | 1094 |
| 473 | The Right Stuff | 1983 | Philip Kaufman | 345 |
| 474 | Fires Were Started | 1943 | Humphrey Jennings | 1325 |
| 475 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 415 |
| 476 | Lola | 1961 | Jacques Demy | 1486 |
| 477 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 327 |
| 478 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 923 |
| 479 | The Bank Dick | 1940 | Edward F. Cline | 418 |
| 480 | A Touch of Zen | 1969 | King Hu | 1214 |
| 481 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 94 |
| 482 | The Rise of Louis XIV | 1966 | Roberto Rossellini | 1600 |
| 483 | Le Million | 1931 | René Clair | 1247 |
| 484 | Sátántangó | 1994 | Béla Tarr | 1109 |
| 485 | Loves of a Blonde | 1965 | Milos Forman | 1348 |
| 486 | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 1253 |
| 487 | Eyes Wide Shut | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick | 839 |
| 488 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | 289 |
| 489 | I Am Cuba | 1964 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 1192 |
| 490 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 12 |
| 491 | Tabu | 1931 | F.W. Murnau | 1522 |
| 492 | A Room with a View | 1985 | James Ivory | 479 |
| 493 | Wavelength | 1967 | Michael Snow | 1364 |
| 494 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 1568 |
| 495 | Mephisto | 1981 | István Szabó | 1188 |
| 496 | A Canterbury Tale | 1944 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 1559 |
| 497 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 617 |
| 498 | Diva | 1981 | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 725 |
| 499 | Delicatessen | 1991 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 577 |
| 500 | Bigger Than Life | 1956 | Nicholas Ray | 1411 |
