| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 501 | Cabaret | 1972 | Bob Fosse | 144 |
| 502 | Salvatore Giuliano | 1962 | Francesco Rosi | 1737 |
| 503 | Roger & Me | 1989 | Michael Moore | 900 |
| 504 | Winter Light | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | 1266 |
| 505 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | 275 |
| 506 | À nos amours | 1983 | Maurice Pialat | 1611 |
| 507 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | 289 |
| 508 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero | 139 |
| 509 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 37 |
| 510 | The Official Story | 1985 | Luis Puenzo | 1371 |
| 511 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | 542 |
| 512 | Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller | 1049 |
| 513 | Harlan County, U.S.A. | 1976 | Barbara Kopple | 989 |
| 514 | Howards End | 1992 | James Ivory | 933 |
| 515 | Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | 1971 | Melvin Van Peebles | 1092 |
| 516 | The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | 1976 | John Cassavetes | 1413 |
| 517 | Limelight | 1952 | Charles Chaplin | 1117 |
| 518 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 528 |
| 519 | Listen to Britain | 1942 | Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister | 1559 |
| 520 | Sexy Beast | 2000 | Jonathan Glazer | 920 |
| 521 | The Draughtsman's Contract | 1982 | Peter Greenaway | 1198 |
| 522 | The Barefoot Contessa | 1954 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1612 |
| 523 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 725 |
| 524 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | 537 |
| 525 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | 1944 | Preston Sturges | 487 |
| 526 | Teorema | 1968 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1801 |
| 527 | Cutter's Way | 1981 | Ivan Passer | 1621 |
| 528 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | 1965 | Sergei Parajanov | 1551 |
| 529 | Strictly Ballroom | 1992 | Baz Luhrmann | 864 |
| 530 | Fireworks | 1997 | Takeshi Kitano | 1281 |
| 531 | Antonia's Line | 1995 | Marleen Gorris | 1204 |
| 532 | Le Million | 1931 | René Clair | 1514 |
| 533 | An Autumn Afternoon | 1962 | Yasujiro Ozu | 1638 |
| 534 | Gregory's Girl | 1981 | Bill Forsyth | 626 |
| 535 | The Wild Child | 1970 | François Truffaut | 1636 |
| 536 | The Time to Live and the Time to Die | 1986 | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 1797 |
| 537 | Black Orpheus | 1959 | Marcel Camus | 1103 |
| 538 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 1640 |
| 539 | A Short Film about Killing | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1506 |
| 540 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai-keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak | 1290 |
| 541 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch | 1931 |
| 542 | Mouchette | 1967 | Robert Bresson | 1837 |
| 543 | Tabu | 1931 | F.W. Murnau | 1588 |
| 544 | Heathers | 1988 | Michael Lehmann | 717 |
| 545 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 592 |
| 546 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | 1989 | Peter Greenaway | 1171 |
| 547 | Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | 1927 | Walter Ruttmann | 1552 |
| 548 | An Actor's Revenge | 1963 | Kon Ichikawa | 1722 |
| 549 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper | 233 |
| 550 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 575 |
| 551 | Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller | 606 |
| 552 | Antonio das Mortes | 1969 | Glauber Rocha | 2115 |
| 553 | The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) | 2001 | Zacharias Kunuk | 1215 |
| 554 | And Life Goes on | 1992 | Abbas Kiarostami | 1828 |
| 555 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | 1973 | Sam Peckinpah | 885 |
| 556 | Brighton Rock | 1947 | John Boulting | 925 |
| 557 | Like Water for Chocolate | 1992 | Alfonso Arau | 705 |
| 558 | Barren Lives | 1964 | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | 1860 |
| 559 | Dersu Uzala | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa | 1194 |
| 560 | Le Plaisir | 1952 | Max Ophüls | 1831 |
| 561 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 929 |
| 562 | The Man in the White Suit | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick | 1071 |
| 563 | César | 1936 | Marcel Pagnol | 1712 |
| 564 | The Story of a Cheat | 1936 | Sacha Guitry | 1592 |
| 565 | Faust | 1926 | F.W. Murnau | 1375 |
| 566 | The Idiots | 1998 | Lars von Trier | 1825 |
| 567 | Le Corbeau | 1943 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1815 |
| 568 | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shohei Imamura | 1344 |
| 569 | Billy Elliot | 2000 | Stephen Daldry | 749 |
| 570 | Buffalo '66 | 1998 | Vincent Gallo | 1291 |
| 571 | Time Out | 2001 | Laurent Cantet | 1481 |
| 572 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 522 |
| 573 | The Lovers on the Bridge | 1991 | Leos Carax | 1758 |
| 574 | La Femme Nikita | 1990 | Luc Besson | 810 |
| 575 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 780 |
| 576 | Shame | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 1585 |
| 577 | Pépé Le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier | 1256 |
| 578 | Ossessione | 1943 | Luchino Visconti | 1248 |
| 579 | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | 1974 | Sam Peckinpah | 1367 |
| 580 | 'I Know Where I'm Going!' | 1945 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 830 |
| 581 | Wild Reeds | 1994 | André Téchiné | 1847 |
| 582 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 589 |
| 583 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 556 |
| 584 | Nostalgia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1675 |
| 585 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 581 |
| 586 | Orlando | 1992 | Sally Potter | 1748 |
| 587 | Fanny | 1932 | Marc Allégret | 1810 |
| 588 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | 1932 | Jean Renoir | 1507 |
| 589 | In a Year of 13 Moons | 1978 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1898 |
| 590 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 1130 |
| 591 | Tight Little Island | 1949 | Alexander Mackendrick | 1100 |
| 592 | O Lucky Man! | 1973 | Lindsay Anderson | 1354 |
| 593 | Mother India | 1957 | Mehboob Khan | 2238 |
| 594 | Scorpio Rising | 1964 | Kenneth Anger | 1791 |
| 595 | The Gleaners & I | 2000 | Agnès Varda | 1598 |
| 596 | House of Flying Daggers | 2004 | Yimou Zhang | 1683 |
| 597 | The Ice Storm | 1997 | Ang Lee | 1072 |
| 598 | Eyes without a Face | 1960 | Georges Franju | 662 |
| 599 | Alice in the Cities | 1974 | Wim Wenders | 1732 |
| 600 | Lancelot of the Lake | 1974 | Robert Bresson | 1607 |
