| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 7 |
| 2 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 15 |
| 3 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 19 |
| 4 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 24 |
| 5 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 37 |
| 6 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 41 |
| 7 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 49 |
| 8 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 53 |
| 9 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 57 |
| 10 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 64 |
| 11 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 65 |
| 12 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 66 |
| 13 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 70 |
| 14 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu | 78 |
| 15 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 79 |
| 16 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 87 |
| 17 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 91 |
| 18 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 118 |
| 19 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | 127 |
| 20 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 155 |
| 21 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 188 |
| 22 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 202 |
| 23 | Roman Holiday | 1953 | William Wyler | 203 |
| 24 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 206 |
| 25 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 209 |
| 26 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel | 212 |
| 27 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | 223 |
| 28 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 237 |
| 29 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 245 |
| 30 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 252 |
| 31 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 269 |
| 32 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 286 |
| 33 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 295 |
| 34 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise | 298 |
| 35 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 306 |
| 36 | Ugetsu | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 352 |
| 37 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 357 |
| 38 | La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini | 366 |
| 39 | Godzilla | 1954 | Ishirô Honda | 400 |
| 40 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | 401 |
| 41 | An American in Paris | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli | 405 |
| 42 | Shane | 1953 | George Stevens | 410 |
| 43 | Sansho the Bailiff | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 414 |
| 44 | Rififi | 1955 | Jules Dassin | 419 |
| 45 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 432 |
| 46 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | 453 |
| 47 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 464 |
| 48 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 477 |
| 49 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 | Robert Aldrich | 480 |
| 50 | Night and Fog | 1956 | Alain Resnais | 490 |
| 51 | Umberto D. | 1952 | Vittorio De Sica | 491 |
| 52 | The World of Apu | 1959 | Satyajit Ray | 492 |
| 53 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | 502 |
| 54 | Ace in the Hole | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 510 |
| 55 | Ordet | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 514 |
| 56 | Mr. Hulot's Holiday | 1953 | Jacques Tati | 525 |
| 57 | The Band Wagon | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli | 542 |
| 58 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder | 544 |
| 59 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray | 568 |
| 60 | Los Olvidados | 1950 | Luis Buñuel | 570 |
| 61 | Imitation of Life | 1959 | Douglas Sirk | 571 |
| 62 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 592 |
| 63 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang | 594 |
| 64 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 603 |
| 65 | The Ladykillers | 1955 | Alexander Mackendrick | 616 |
| 66 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson | 617 |
| 67 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 641 |
| 68 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | 648 |
| 69 | Aparajito | 1956 | Satyajit Ray | 651 |
| 70 | Shadows | 1958 | John Cassavetes | 669 |
| 71 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 1953 | Howard Hawks | 673 |
| 72 | Ashes and Diamonds | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda | 680 |
| 73 | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 693 |
| 74 | Elevator to the Gallows | 1958 | Louis Malle | 706 |
| 75 | Diary of a Country Priest | 1951 | Robert Bresson | 715 |
| 76 | Pickpocket | 1959 | Robert Bresson | 752 |
| 77 | All That Heaven Allows | 1955 | Douglas Sirk | 782 |
| 78 | Winchester '73 | 1950 | Anthony Mann | 786 |
| 79 | Orpheus | 1950 | Jean Cocteau | 797 |
| 80 | The Earrings of Madame De… | 1953 | Max Ophüls | 801 |
| 81 | Horror of Dracula | 1958 | Terence Fisher | 813 |
| 82 | Cinderella | 1950 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 817 |
| 83 | Mon Oncle | 1958 | Jacques Tati | 822 |
| 84 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 829 |
| 85 | East of Eden | 1955 | Elia Kazan | 830 |
| 86 | Voyage in Italy | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini | 833 |
| 87 | Lady and the Tramp | 1955 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 836 |
| 88 | The Thing from Another World | 1951 | Christian Nyby | 843 |
| 89 | Sleeping Beauty | 1959 | Clyde Geronimi | 847 |
| 90 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | John Ford | 848 |
| 91 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 883 |
| 92 | Funny Face | 1957 | Stanley Donen | 898 |
| 93 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Leo McCarey | 900 |
| 94 | Pickup on South Street | 1953 | Samuel Fuller | 939 |
| 95 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | 1954 | Richard Fleischer | 950 |
| 96 | A Face in the Crowd | 1957 | Elia Kazan | 1006 |
| 97 | The Cranes are Flying | 1957 | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1030 |
| 98 | The Naked Spur | 1953 | Anthony Mann | 1042 |
| 99 | The War of the Worlds | 1953 | Byron Haskin | 1053 |
| 100 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 1063 |
| 101 | The Big Country | 1958 | William Wyler | 1098 |
| 102 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1101 |
| 103 | Night and the City | 1950 | Jules Dassin | 1106 |
| 104 | Alice in Wonderland | 1951 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1127 |
| 105 | Gun Crazy | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis | 1141 |
| 106 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | 1957 | Jack Arnold | 1145 |
| 107 | Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann | 1161 |
| 108 | Lola Montès | 1955 | Max Ophüls | 1169 |
| 109 | The Red Balloon | 1956 | Albert Lamorisse | 1172 |
| 110 | The Gunfighter | 1950 | Henry King | 1178 |
| 111 | Oklahoma! | 1955 | Fred Zinnemann | 1191 |
| 112 | Them! | 1954 | Gordon Douglas | 1217 |
| 113 | Gigi | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 1218 |
| 114 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1240 |
| 115 | A Place in the Sun | 1951 | George Stevens | 1258 |
| 116 | Written on the Wind | 1956 | Douglas Sirk | 1278 |
| 117 | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1290 |
| 118 | The Life of Oharu | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1299 |
| 119 | The Bad and the Beautiful | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli | 1310 |
| 120 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang | 1315 |
| 121 | The Seven Year Itch | 1955 | Billy Wilder | 1317 |
| 122 | The Court Jester | 1955 | Melvin Frank and Norman Panama | 1333 |
| 123 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | 1342 |
| 124 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | 1954 | Stanley Donen | 1392 |
| 125 | Kanal | 1957 | Andrzej Wajda | 1396 |
| 126 | The Music Room | 1958 | Satyajit Ray | 1417 |
| 127 | Carmen Jones | 1954 | Otto Preminger | 1438 |
| 128 | Old Yeller | 1957 | Robert Stevenson | 1450 |
| 129 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | 1451 |
| 130 | 3:10 to Yuma | 1957 | Delmer Daves | 1460 |
| 131 | Seven Men from Now | 1956 | Budd Boetticher | 1462 |
| 132 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1465 |
| 133 | Floating Weeds | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1483 |
| 134 | Plan 9 from Outer Space | 1957 | Edward D. Wood Jr. | 1484 |
| 135 | The Fly | 1958 | Kurt Neumann | 1515 |
| 136 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy | 1551 |
| 137 | Ivan the Terrible, Part II | 1958 | Sergei Eisenstein | 1555 |
| 138 | Guys and Dolls | 1955 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1560 |
| 139 | Forty Guns | 1957 | Samuel Fuller | 1561 |
| 140 | The Blob | 1958 | Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | 1580 |
| 141 | The River | 1951 | Jean Renoir | 1589 |
| 142 | Black Orpheus | 1959 | Marcel Camus | 1591 |
| 143 | Forbidden Games | 1952 | René Clément | 1599 |
| 144 | White Christmas | 1954 | Michael Curtiz | 1610 |
| 145 | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger | 1653 |
| 146 | Smiles of a Summer Night | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman | 1663 |
| 147 | Harvey | 1950 | Henry Koster | 1672 |
| 148 | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1689 |
| 149 | Senso | 1954 | Luchino Visconti | 1700 |
| 150 | Early Summer | 1951 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1723 |
| 151 | To Catch a Thief | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1743 |
| 152 | Limelight | 1952 | Charles Chaplin | 1773 |
| 153 | Duck Amuck | 1953 | Chuck Jones | 1783 |
| 154 | Ballad of a Soldier | 1959 | Grigoriy Chukhray | 1788 |
| 155 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth | 1807 |
| 156 | The Burmese Harp | 1956 | Kon Ichikawa | 1812 |
| 157 | Born Yesterday | 1950 | George Cukor | 1821 |
| 158 | Bob le Flambeur | 1956 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1847 |
| 159 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann | 1858 |
| 160 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 | Jack Arnold | 1859 |
| 161 | I Vitelloni | 1953 | Federico Fellini | 1863 |
| 162 | The Steel Helmet | 1951 | Samuel Fuller | 1909 |
| 163 | Rio Grande | 1950 | John Ford | 1916 |
| 164 | Pillow Talk | 1959 | Michael Gordon | 1936 |
| 165 | Blackboard Jungle | 1955 | Richard Brooks | 1942 |
| 166 | Ride Lonesome | 1959 | Budd Boetticher | 2017 |
| 167 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 2025 |
| 168 | Bigger than Life | 1956 | Nicholas Ray | 2028 |
| 169 | Othello | 1951 | Orson Welles | 2031 |
| 170 | Damn Yankees! | 1958 | George Abbott and Stanley Donen | 2033 |
| 171 | The Curse of Frankenstein | 1957 | Terence Fisher | 2042 |
| 172 | Invaders from Mars | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies | 2071 |
| 173 | Good Morning | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu | 2085 |
| 174 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks | 2095 |
| 175 | The Tall T | 1957 | Budd Boetticher | 2107 |
| 176 | The Hitch-Hiker | 1953 | Ida Lupino | 2126 |
| 177 | Man of the West | 1958 | Anthony Mann | 2127 |
| 178 | Big Deal on Madonna Street | 1958 | Mario Monicelli | 2143 |
| 179 | Vera Cruz | 1954 | Robert Aldrich | 2159 |
| 180 | Un chant d'amour | 1950 | Jean Genet | 2173 |
| 181 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | 2178 |
| 182 | The Defiant Ones | 1958 | Stanley Kramer | 2179 |
| 183 | Calamity Jane | 1953 | David Butler | 2197 |
| 184 | Ice-Cold in Alex | 1958 | J. Lee Thompson | 2200 |
| 185 | The Dam Busters | 1955 | Michael Anderson | 2244 |
| 186 | Wagon Master | 1950 | John Ford | 2265 |
| 187 | Pyaasa | 1957 | Guru Dutt | 2267 |
| 188 | The Flowers of St. Francis | 1950 | Roberto Rossellini | 2275 |
| 189 | House on Haunted Hill | 1959 | William Castle | 2298 |
| 190 | The Lavender Hill Mob | 1951 | Charles Crichton | 2325 |
| 191 | Floating Clouds | 1955 | Mikio Naruse | 2330 |
| 192 | The Cruel Sea | 1953 | Charles Frend | 2350 |
| 193 | Casque d'Or | 1952 | Jacques Becker | 2367 |
| 194 | Attack! | 1956 | Robert Aldrich | 2374 |
| 195 | Touchez pas au grisbi | 1954 | Jacques Becker | 2380 |
| 196 | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | 1958 | Nathan Juran | 2397 |
| 197 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | 2403 |
| 198 | The Trouble with Harry | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2426 |
| 199 | The Man in the White Suit | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick | 2427 |
| 200 | Rancho Notorious | 1952 | Fritz Lang | 2428 |
| 201 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters | 2439 |
| 202 | Fires on the Plain | 1959 | Kon Ichikawa | 2454 |
| 203 | Auntie Mame | 1958 | Morton DaCosta | 2463 |
| 204 | Moby Dick | 1956 | John Huston | 2474 |
| 205 | Bend of the River | 1952 | Anthony Mann | 2494 |
| 206 | Nazarín | 1959 | Luis Buñuel | 2508 |
| 207 | La Ronde | 1950 | Max Ophüls | 2515 |
| 208 | Baby Doll | 1956 | Elia Kazan | 2517 |
| 209 | Run Silent Run Deep | 1958 | Robert Wise | 2536 |
| 210 | The Girl Can't Help It | 1956 | Frank Tashlin | 2562 |
| 211 | Stromboli | 1950 | Roberto Rossellini | 2563 |
| 212 | The Bridge | 1959 | Bernhard Wicki | 2592 |
| 213 | Kiss Me Kate | 1953 | George Sidney | 2605 |
| 214 | When Worlds Collide | 1951 | Rudolph Maté | 2613 |
| 215 | Jailhouse Rock | 1957 | Richard Thorpe | 2637 |
| 216 | The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity | 1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | 2640 |
| 217 | It's Always Fair Weather | 1955 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 2645 |
| 218 | Europa '51 | 1952 | Roberto Rossellini | 2666 |
| 219 | Le Plaisir | 1952 | Max Ophüls | 2688 |
| 220 | Little Fugitive | 1953 | Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, and Ruth Orkin | 2691 |
| 221 | Mother India | 1957 | Mehboob Khan | 2700 |
| 222 | The Wild One | 1953 | Laslo Benedek | 2702 |
| 223 | The Wrong Man | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2707 |
| 224 | Jazz on a Summer's Day | 1959 | Bert Stern | 2718 |
| 225 | A Bucket of Blood | 1959 | Roger Corman | 2734 |
| 226 | The Big Combo | 1955 | Joseph H. Lewis | 2740 |
| 227 | A Night to Remember | 1958 | Roy Ward Baker | 2742 |
| 228 | The Crucified Lovers | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 2758 |
| 229 | Murder by Contract | 1958 | Irving Lerner | 2768 |
| 230 | Miracle in Milan | 1951 | Vittorio De Sica | 2790 |
| 231 | Suddenly, Last Summer | 1959 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2792 |
| 232 | Love in the Afternoon | 1957 | Billy Wilder | 2798 |
| 233 | Broken Arrow | 1950 | Delmer Daves | 2807 |
| 234 | The Lusty Men | 1952 | Nicholas Ray | 2809 |
| 235 | The Robe | 1953 | Henry Koster | 2811 |
| 236 | Lust for Life | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli | 2818 |
| 237 | What's Opera, Doc? | 1957 | Chuck Jones | 2825 |
| 238 | The Tales of Hoffmann | 1951 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 2830 |
| 239 | On the Beach | 1959 | Stanley Kramer | 2833 |
| 240 | It Came from Outer Space | 1953 | Jack Arnold | 2861 |
| 241 | The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | 1953 | Eugène Lourié | 2869 |
| 242 | Summertime | 1955 | David Lean | 2878 |
| 243 | Picnic | 1955 | Joshua Logan | 2879 |
| 244 | Outrage | 1950 | Ida Lupino | 2882 |
| 245 | Destination Moon | 1950 | Irving Pichel | 2889 |
| 246 | Cairo Station | 1958 | Youssef Chahine | 2892 |
| 247 | This Island Earth | 1955 | Joseph M. Newman | 2899 |
| 248 | French Cancan | 1955 | Jean Renoir | 2930 |
| 249 | Quo Vadis | 1951 | Mervyn LeRoy | 2936 |
| 250 | How to Marry a Millionaire | 1953 | Jean Negulesco | 2937 |
| 251 | The Narrow Margin | 1952 | Richard Fleischer | 3013 |
| 252 | Monika | 1953 | Ingmar Bergman | 3048 |