| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 7 |
| 2 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 10 |
| 3 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 13 |
| 4 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 22 |
| 5 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 25 |
| 6 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 34 |
| 7 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 37 |
| 8 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 40 |
| 9 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 54 |
| 10 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 55 |
| 11 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 56 |
| 12 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 60 |
| 13 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 64 |
| 14 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu | 70 |
| 15 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 72 |
| 16 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 73 |
| 17 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 93 |
| 18 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 94 |
| 19 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | 114 |
| 20 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 130 |
| 21 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 148 |
| 22 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 159 |
| 23 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 170 |
| 24 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 171 |
| 25 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 173 |
| 26 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 175 |
| 27 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel | 186 |
| 28 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 196 |
| 29 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 210 |
| 30 | Roman Holiday | 1953 | William Wyler | 213 |
| 31 | Ugetsu | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 241 |
| 32 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise | 245 |
| 33 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | 256 |
| 34 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 263 |
| 35 | La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini | 276 |
| 36 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 286 |
| 37 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 305 |
| 38 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 326 |
| 39 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 | Robert Aldrich | 335 |
| 40 | Shane | 1953 | George Stevens | 341 |
| 41 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | 351 |
| 42 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray | 361 |
| 43 | Ordet | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 366 |
| 44 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 372 |
| 45 | Sansho the Bailiff | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 376 |
| 46 | Los Olvidados | 1950 | Luis Buñuel | 387 |
| 47 | Night and Fog | 1956 | Alain Resnais | 390 |
| 48 | An American in Paris | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli | 391 |
| 49 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | 396 |
| 50 | The World of Apu | 1959 | Satyajit Ray | 402 |
| 51 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 419 |
| 52 | Rififi | 1955 | Jules Dassin | 420 |
| 53 | Ace in the Hole | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 423 |
| 54 | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson | 427 |
| 55 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang | 429 |
| 56 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson | 443 |
| 57 | Umberto D. | 1952 | Vittorio De Sica | 445 |
| 58 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | 447 |
| 59 | Mr. Hulot's Holiday | 1953 | Jacques Tati | 453 |
| 60 | Shadows | 1958 | John Cassavetes | 460 |
| 61 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | 480 |
| 62 | The Earrings of Madame De… | 1953 | Max Ophüls | 490 |
| 63 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 493 |
| 64 | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 496 |
| 65 | Gun Crazy | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis | 505 |
| 66 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 507 |
| 67 | The Ladykillers | 1955 | Alexander Mackendrick | 512 |
| 68 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 513 |
| 69 | Imitation of Life | 1959 | Douglas Sirk | 519 |
| 70 | Pickup on South Street | 1953 | Samuel Fuller | 542 |
| 71 | Diary of a Country Priest | 1951 | Robert Bresson | 545 |
| 72 | Ashes and Diamonds | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda | 547 |
| 73 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 562 |
| 74 | Aparajito | 1956 | Satyajit Ray | 575 |
| 75 | Godzilla | 1954 | Ishirô Honda | 580 |
| 76 | The Band Wagon | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli | 585 |
| 77 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 1953 | Howard Hawks | 595 |
| 78 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | John Ford | 619 |
| 79 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder | 633 |
| 80 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 641 |
| 81 | Winchester '73 | 1950 | Anthony Mann | 668 |
| 82 | Mon Oncle | 1958 | Jacques Tati | 682 |
| 83 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 710 |
| 84 | All That Heaven Allows | 1955 | Douglas Sirk | 744 |
| 85 | The Thing from Another World | 1951 | Christian Nyby | 762 |
| 86 | East of Eden | 1955 | Elia Kazan | 766 |
| 87 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | 1957 | Jack Arnold | 783 |
| 88 | Orpheus | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 785 |
| 89 | A Place in the Sun | 1951 | George Stevens | 786 |
| 90 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Leo McCarey | 794 |
| 91 | Lady and the Tramp | 1955 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 811 |
| 92 | Elevator to the Gallows | 1958 | Louis Malle | 820 |
| 93 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 826 |
| 94 | Night and the City | 1950 | Jules Dassin | 834 |
| 95 | Cinderella | 1950 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 847 |
| 96 | The Naked Spur | 1953 | Anthony Mann | 867 |
| 97 | The War of the Worlds | 1953 | Byron Haskin | 871 |
| 98 | Horror of Dracula | 1958 | Terence Fisher | 875 |
| 99 | Funny Face | 1957 | Stanley Donen | 899 |
| 100 | Harvey | 1950 | Henry Koster | 907 |
| 101 | The Red Balloon | 1956 | Albert Lamorisse | 921 |
| 102 | The Cranes are Flying | 1957 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 931 |
| 103 | Oklahoma! | 1955 | Fred Zinnemann | 933 |
| 104 | Voyage in Italy | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini | 937 |
| 105 | Sleeping Beauty | 1959 | Clyde Geronimi | 974 |
| 106 | Written on the Wind | 1956 | Douglas Sirk | 978 |
| 107 | The Life of Oharu | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 986 |
| 108 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang | 997 |
| 109 | A Face in the Crowd | 1957 | Elia Kazan | 1013 |
| 110 | Gigi | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 1031 |
| 111 | The Big Country | 1958 | William Wyler | 1050 |
| 112 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 1086 |
| 113 | Forbidden Games | 1952 | René Clément | 1089 |
| 114 | The Gunfighter | 1950 | Henry King | 1104 |
| 115 | Smiles of a Summer Night | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman | 1108 |
| 116 | The Court Jester | 1955 | Melvin Frank and Norman Panama | 1115 |
| 117 | Kanal | 1957 | Andrzej Wajda | 1148 |
| 118 | Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann | 1150 |
| 119 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | 1954 | Richard Fleischer | 1159 |
| 120 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | 1954 | Stanley Donen | 1169 |
| 121 | Lola Montès | 1955 | Max Ophüls | 1181 |
| 122 | Them! | 1954 | Gordon Douglas | 1188 |
| 123 | Seven Men from Now | 1956 | Budd Boetticher | 1201 |
| 124 | The River | 1951 | Jean Renoir | 1216 |
| 125 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | 1238 |
| 126 | Bob le Flambeur | 1956 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1247 |
| 127 | Ivan the Terrible, Part II | 1958 | Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova | 1251 |
| 128 | Born Yesterday | 1950 | George Cukor | 1276 |
| 129 | Bigger than Life | 1956 | Nicholas Ray | 1282 |
| 130 | The Music Room | 1958 | Satyajit Ray | 1288 |
| 131 | The Bad and the Beautiful | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli | 1292 |
| 132 | Alice in Wonderland | 1951 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1310 |
| 133 | I Vitelloni | 1953 | Federico Fellini | 1343 |
| 134 | Casque d'Or | 1952 | Jacques Becker | 1360 |
| 135 | Senso | 1954 | Luchino Visconti | 1364 |
| 136 | Ballad of a Soldier | 1959 | Grigoriy Chukhray | 1371 |
| 137 | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger | 1383 |
| 138 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1394 |
| 139 | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1396 |
| 140 | The Seven Year Itch | 1955 | Billy Wilder | 1425 |
| 141 | Old Yeller | 1957 | Robert Stevenson | 1450 |
| 142 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1463 |
| 143 | Duck Amuck | 1953 | Chuck Jones | 1469 |
| 144 | Guys and Dolls | 1955 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1470 |
| 145 | Forty Guns | 1957 | Samuel Fuller | 1471 |
| 146 | The Fly | 1958 | Kurt Neumann | 1482 |
| 147 | Limelight | 1952 | Charles Chaplin | 1485 |
| 148 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | 1508 |
| 149 | 3:10 to Yuma | 1957 | Delmer Daves | 1519 |
| 150 | Early Summer | 1951 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1536 |
| 151 | Damn Yankees! | 1958 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen | 1539 |
| 152 | The Lavender Hill Mob | 1951 | Charles Crichton | 1552 |
| 153 | The Man in the White Suit | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick | 1614 |
| 154 | Blackboard Jungle | 1955 | Richard Brooks | 1623 |
| 155 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy | 1627 |
| 156 | Floating Weeds | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1630 |
| 157 | Carmen Jones | 1954 | Otto Preminger | 1698 |
| 158 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth | 1711 |
| 159 | The Big Combo | 1955 | Joseph H. Lewis | 1729 |
| 160 | The Burmese Harp | 1956 | Kon Ichikawa | 1732 |
| 161 | The Dam Busters | 1955 | Michael Anderson | 1736 |
| 162 | Good Morning | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1752 |
| 163 | To Catch a Thief | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1756 |
| 164 | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | 1958 | Nathan Juran | 1785 |
| 165 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann | 1788 |
| 166 | Rio Grande | 1950 | John Ford | 1791 |
| 167 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters | 1795 |
| 168 | La Ronde | 1950 | Max Ophüls | 1803 |
| 169 | The Girl Can't Help It | 1956 | Frank Tashlin | 1812 |
| 170 | The Steel Helmet | 1951 | Samuel Fuller | 1819 |
| 171 | Man of the West | 1958 | Anthony Mann | 1823 |
| 172 | Big Deal on Madonna Street | 1958 | Mario Monicelli | 1836 |
| 173 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 | Jack Arnold | 1849 |
| 174 | Le Plaisir | 1952 | Max Ophüls | 1851 |
| 175 | The Tall T | 1957 | Budd Boetticher | 1853 |
| 176 | White Christmas | 1954 | Michael Curtiz | 1873 |
| 177 | Room at the Top | 1959 | Jack Clayton | 1874 |
| 178 | The Cruel Sea | 1953 | Charles Frend | 1887 |
| 179 | Wagon Master | 1950 | John Ford | 1890 |
| 180 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 1891 |
| 181 | Plan 9 from Outer Space | 1959 | Edward D. Wood Jr. | 1893 |
| 182 | Ice-Cold in Alex | 1958 | J. Lee Thompson | 1904 |
| 183 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | 1914 |
| 184 | Othello | 1951 | Orson Welles | 1917 |
| 185 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks | 1926 |
| 186 | Calamity Jane | 1953 | David Butler | 1947 |
| 187 | Baby Doll | 1956 | Elia Kazan | 1978 |
| 188 | Invaders from Mars | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies | 2000 |
| 189 | The Defiant Ones | 1958 | Stanley Kramer | 2010 |
| 190 | Pillow Talk | 1959 | Michael Gordon | 2014 |
| 191 | The Crucified Lovers | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 2021 |
| 192 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | 2026 |
| 193 | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | 2032 |
| 194 | Kiss Me Kate | 1953 | George Sidney | 2047 |
| 195 | The Robe | 1953 | Henry Koster | 2065 |
| 196 | Un chant d'amour | 1950 | Jean Genet | 2075 |
| 197 | Around the World in Eighty Days | 1956 | Michael Anderson | 2078 |
| 198 | Stromboli | 1950 | Roberto Rossellini | 2132 |
| 199 | South Pacific | 1958 | Joshua Logan | 2143 |
| 200 | Rancho Notorious | 1952 | Fritz Lang | 2156 |
| 201 | El | 1953 | Luis Buñuel | 2159 |
| 202 | The Wrong Man | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2165 |
| 203 | Nazarín | 1959 | Luis Buñuel | 2169 |
| 204 | Lust for Life | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli | 2182 |
| 205 | Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica | 2189 |
| 206 | Ride Lonesome | 1959 | Budd Boetticher | 2197 |
| 207 | Floating Clouds | 1955 | Mikio Naruse | 2200 |
| 208 | The Blob | 1958 | Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | 2206 |
| 209 | The Narrow Margin | 1952 | Richard Fleischer | 2216 |
| 210 | Black Orpheus | 1959 | Marcel Camus | 2238 |
| 211 | Fires on the Plain | 1959 | Kon Ichikawa | 2243 |
| 212 | Love in the Afternoon | 1957 | Billy Wilder | 2252 |
| 213 | When Worlds Collide | 1951 | Rudolph Maté | 2254 |
| 214 | It Came from Outer Space | 1953 | Jack Arnold | 2313 |
| 215 | Auntie Mame | 1958 | Morton DaCosta | 2331 |
| 216 | Destination Moon | 1950 | Irving Pichel | 2359 |
| 217 | The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | 2367 |
| 218 | The Barefoot Contessa | 1954 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2375 |
| 219 | The Wild One | 1953 | László Benedek | 2382 |
| 220 | The Curse of Frankenstein | 1957 | Terence Fisher | 2395 |
| 221 | Touchez pas au grisbi | 1954 | Jacques Becker | 2414 |
| 222 | The Hitch-Hiker | 1953 | Ida Lupino | 2415 |
| 223 | Bend of the River | 1952 | Anthony Mann | 2464 |
| 224 | Broken Arrow | 1950 | Delmer Daves | 2475 |
| 225 | The Bridge | 1959 | Bernhard Wicki | 2478 |
| 226 | Les Maîtres fous | 1957 | Jean Rouch | 2486 |
| 227 | Attack! | 1956 | Robert Aldrich | 2491 |
| 228 | This Island Earth | 1955 | Joseph M. Newman | 2513 |
| 229 | Jailhouse Rock | 1957 | Richard Thorpe | 2516 |
| 230 | The Pajama Game | 1957 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen | 2520 |
| 231 | Salt of the Earth | 1954 | Herbert J. Biberman | 2572 |
| 232 | The Trouble with Harry | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2578 |
| 233 | It's Always Fair Weather | 1955 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 2579 |
| 234 | Europa '51 | 1952 | Roberto Rossellini | 2582 |
| 235 | Pyaasa | 1957 | Guru Dutt | 2603 |
| 236 | French Cancan | 1955 | Jean Renoir | 2612 |
| 237 | A Movie | 1958 | Bruce Conner | 2618 |
| 238 | Pat and Mike | 1952 | George Cukor | 2646 |
| 239 | Carousel | 1956 | Henry King | 2651 |
| 240 | Mother India | 1957 | Mehboob Khan | 2662 |
| 241 | The Lusty Men | 1952 | Nicholas Ray | 2668 |
| 242 | A Night to Remember | 1958 | Roy Ward Baker | 2697 |
| 243 | The Bad Seed | 1956 | Mervyn LeRoy | 2701 |
| 244 | Crime Wave | 1953 | André De Toth | 2707 |
| 245 | It Happened in Broad Daylight | 1958 | Ladislao Vajda | 2708 |
| 246 | Father of the Bride | 1950 | Vincente Minnelli | 2715 |
| 247 | How to Marry a Millionaire | 1953 | Jean Negulesco | 2716 |
| 248 | While the City Sleeps | 1956 | Fritz Lang | 2743 |
| 249 | What's Opera, Doc? | 1957 | Chuck Jones | 2744 |
| 250 | The Great War | 1959 | Mario Monicelli | 2752 |
| 251 | Run Silent Run Deep | 1958 | Robert Wise | 2760 |
| 252 | Jazz on a Summer's Day | 1959 | Aram Avakian and Bert Stern | 2804 |