| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 4 |
| 2 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 29 |
| 3 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 30 |
| 4 | The Matrix | 1999 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 26 |
| 5 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 54 |
| 6 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 18 |
| 7 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 6 |
| 8 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 74 |
| 9 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 35 |
| 10 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 8 |
| 11 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 12 |
| 12 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 50 |
| 13 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 45 |
| 14 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 2 |
| 15 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 52 |
| 16 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
| 17 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | 71 |
| 18 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 83 |
| 19 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | 28 |
| 20 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 56 |
| 21 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | 72 |
| 22 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 20 |
| 23 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 58 |
| 24 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 14 |
| 25 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 21 |
| 26 | WALL•E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | 55 |
| 27 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 23 |
| 28 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 90 |
| 29 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 36 |
| 30 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 80 |
| 31 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | 60 |
| 32 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
| 33 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 32 |
| 34 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 22 |
| 35 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | 39 |
| 36 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 10 |
| 37 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | 85 |
| 38 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1 |
| 39 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 137 |
| 40 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 48 |
| 41 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 92 |
| 42 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 219 |
| 43 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
| 44 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | 266 |
| 45 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
| 46 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | 164 |
| 47 | Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron | 149 |
| 48 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 95 |
| 49 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | 134 |
| 50 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | 63 |
| 51 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 13 |
| 52 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 296 |
| 53 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 103 |
| 54 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 66 |
| 55 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 136 |
| 56 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 37 |
| 57 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 153 |
| 58 | Léon: The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 259 |
| 59 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | 236 |
| 60 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 82 |
| 61 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 218 |
| 62 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 38 |
| 63 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 46 |
| 64 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 101 |
| 65 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | 145 |
| 66 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 119 |
| 67 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 182 |
| 68 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 11 |
| 69 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg | 370 |
| 70 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | 278 |
| 71 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman | 151 |
| 72 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino | 262 |
| 73 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | George Miller | 113 |
| 74 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 104 |
| 75 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | 392 |
| 76 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 24 |
| 77 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter | 112 |
| 78 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | 168 |
| 79 | Oldboy | 2003 | Park Chan-wook | 141 |
| 80 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | 193 |
| 81 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | 458 |
| 82 | Life Is Beautiful | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | 258 |
| 83 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 96 |
| 84 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | 363 |
| 85 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 220 |
| 86 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 47 |
| 87 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 166 |
| 88 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 43 |
| 89 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | 197 |
| 90 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | 205 |
| 91 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 15 |
| 92 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton | 163 |
| 93 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | 293 |
| 94 | Django Unchained | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino | 411 |
| 95 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 384 |
| 96 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 25 |
| 97 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 157 |
| 98 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 9 |
| 99 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 67 |
| 100 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 16 |
| 101 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 181 |
| 102 | Full Metal Jacket | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick | 198 |
| 103 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich | 169 |
| 104 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen | 108 |
| 105 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 76 |
| 106 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 31 |
| 107 | Iron Man | 2008 | Jon Favreau | 376 |
| 108 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 125 |
| 109 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 110 |
| 110 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 139 |
| 111 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 105 |
| 112 | The Avengers | 2012 | Joss Whedon | 313 |
| 113 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | 62 |
| 114 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 114 |
| 115 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | 331 |
| 116 | Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 175 |
| 117 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | Christopher Nolan | 438 |
| 118 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | 375 |
| 119 | Whiplash | 2014 | Damien Chazelle | 391 |
| 120 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 49 |
| 121 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | 315 |
| 122 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 7 |
| 123 | My Neighbor Totoro | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki | 144 |
| 124 | RoboCop | 1987 | Paul Verhoeven | 213 |
| 125 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 184 |
| 126 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 199 |
| 127 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | 339 |
| 128 | Predator | 1987 | John McTiernan | 374 |
| 129 | Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | James Gunn | 312 |
| 130 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 305 |
| 131 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 404 |
| 132 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | 147 |
| 133 | Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 413 |
| 134 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 19 |
| 135 | District 9 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | 329 |
| 136 | Parasite | 2019 | Bong Joon Ho | 165 |
| 137 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 34 |
| 138 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie | 645 |
| 139 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | 524 |
| 140 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 327 |
| 141 | The Fifth Element | 1997 | Luc Besson | 529 |
| 142 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 120 |
| 143 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 338 |
| 144 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | 44 |
| 145 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 737 |
| 146 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 93 |
| 147 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 572 |
| 148 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 333 |
| 149 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 89 |
| 150 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 170 |
| 151 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Martin Scorsese | 613 |
| 152 | The Nightmare before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick | 231 |
| 153 | The Intouchables | 2011 | Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano | 853 |
| 154 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 154 |
| 155 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 275 |
| 156 | Shutter Island | 2010 | Martin Scorsese | 638 |
| 157 | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir | 291 |
| 158 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams | 522 |
| 159 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | 190 |
| 160 | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 194 |
| 161 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 188 |
| 162 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 109 |
| 163 | Arrival | 2016 | Denis Villeneuve | 466 |
| 164 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 41 |
| 165 | Her | 2013 | Spike Jonze | 422 |
| 166 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman | 189 |
| 167 | Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright | 214 |
| 168 | Moon | 2009 | Duncan Jones | 495 |
| 169 | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | 699 |
| 170 | The Iron Giant | 1999 | Brad Bird | 173 |
| 171 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | 343 |
| 172 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 307 |
| 173 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | 341 |
| 174 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 358 |
| 175 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 59 |
| 176 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 106 |
| 177 | Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 373 |
| 178 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 244 |
| 179 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Quentin Tarantino | 445 |
| 180 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 61 |
| 181 | The Goonies | 1985 | Richard Donner | 335 |
| 182 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 121 |
| 183 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 195 |
| 184 | Gravity | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | 371 |
| 185 | Drive | 2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn | 469 |
| 186 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 42 |
| 187 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve | 472 |
| 188 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise | 135 |
| 189 | Black Swan | 2010 | Darren Aronofsky | 440 |
| 190 | How to Train Your Dragon | 2010 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders | 347 |
| 191 | Ratatouille | 2007 | Brad Bird | 285 |
| 192 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson | 467 |
| 193 | Ghost in the Shell | 1995 | Mizuho Nishikubo and Mamoru Oshii | 324 |
| 194 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter | 276 |
| 195 | Avengers: Infinity War | 2018 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 436 |
| 196 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 40 |
| 197 | Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 733 |
| 198 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | 172 |
| 199 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise | 298 |
| 200 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | 222 |