| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1 |
| 2 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
| 3 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 16 |
| 4 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 25 |
| 5 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 48 |
| 6 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 59 |
| 7 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 73 |
| 8 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 76 |
| 9 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 77 |
| 10 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 88 |
| 11 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 97 |
| 12 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 100 |
| 13 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero | 102 |
| 14 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 109 |
| 15 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 116 |
| 16 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 122 |
| 17 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 124 |
| 18 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise | 135 |
| 19 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 146 |
| 20 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 154 |
| 21 | The Battle of Algiers | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 158 |
| 22 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 162 |
| 23 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 181 |
| 24 | Mary Poppins | 1964 | Robert Stevenson | 204 |
| 25 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | 226 |
| 26 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 230 |
| 27 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 241 |
| 28 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 246 |
| 29 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | 261 |
| 30 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 264 |
| 31 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell | 274 |
| 32 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger | 280 |
| 33 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Jacques Demy | 292 |
| 34 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 299 |
| 35 | A Hard Day's Night | 1964 | Richard Lester | 303 |
| 36 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 308 |
| 37 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 323 |
| 38 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 326 |
| 39 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati | 328 |
| 40 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 336 |
| 41 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 340 |
| 42 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 346 |
| 43 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | George Cukor | 348 |
| 44 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 354 |
| 45 | Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 365 |
| 46 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 378 |
| 47 | Eyes without a Face | 1960 | Georges Franju | 381 |
| 48 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda | 383 |
| 49 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 388 |
| 50 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 393 |
| 51 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski | 396 |
| 52 | The Producers | 1967 | Mel Brooks | 420 |
| 53 | Army in the Shadows | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 424 |
| 54 | The Hustler | 1961 | Robert Rossen | 426 |
| 55 | The Haunting | 1963 | Robert Wise | 428 |
| 56 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 429 |
| 57 | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 433 |
| 58 | In the Heat of the Night | 1967 | Norman Jewison | 437 |
| 59 | The Innocents | 1961 | Jack Clayton | 444 |
| 60 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 455 |
| 61 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 474 |
| 62 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | 476 |
| 63 | Viridiana | 1961 | Luis Buñuel | 485 |
| 64 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 496 |
| 65 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | 530 |
| 66 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 537 |
| 67 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | Mike Nichols | 559 |
| 68 | The Jungle Book | 1967 | Wolfgang Reitherman | 566 |
| 69 | Kes | 1969 | Ken Loach | 576 |
| 70 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 636 |
| 71 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 642 |
| 72 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 671 |
| 73 | Ride the High Country | 1962 | Sam Peckinpah | 683 |
| 74 | Carnival of Souls | 1962 | Herk Harvey | 716 |
| 75 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 724 |
| 76 | Point Blank | 1967 | John Boorman | 727 |
| 77 | Chimes at Midnight | 1965 | Orson Welles | 739 |
| 78 | Bullitt | 1968 | Peter Yates | 741 |
| 79 | Harakiri | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi | 753 |
| 80 | The Sorrow and the Pity | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls | 766 |
| 81 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young | 781 |
| 82 | Woman in the Dunes | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 805 |
| 83 | L'Eclisse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 806 |
| 84 | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti | 838 |
| 85 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 845 |
| 86 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | 850 |
| 87 | Kwaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | 852 |
| 88 | Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilová | 859 |
| 89 | The Train | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 860 |
| 90 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 864 |
| 91 | Yellow Submarine | 1968 | George Dunning | 870 |
| 92 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | 1961 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman | 885 |
| 93 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 889 |
| 94 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel | 896 |
| 95 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | 901 |
| 96 | Dont Look Back | 1967 | D.A. Pennebaker | 910 |
| 97 | Z | 1969 | Costa-Gavras | 929 |
| 98 | Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | Don Chaffey | 931 |
| 99 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | 936 |
| 100 | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jirí Menzel | 947 |
| 101 | Band of Outsiders | 1964 | Jean-Luc Godard | 953 |
| 102 | Funny Girl | 1968 | William Wyler | 955 |
| 103 | Knife in the Water | 1962 | Roman Polanski | 983 |
| 104 | The Servant | 1963 | Joseph Losey | 1000 |
| 105 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 1009 |
| 106 | In Cold Blood | 1967 | Richard Brooks | 1020 |
| 107 | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1025 |
| 108 | Oliver! | 1968 | Carol Reed | 1029 |
| 109 | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Éric Rohmer | 1034 |
| 110 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield | 1036 |
| 111 | Hud | 1963 | Martin Ritt | 1037 |
| 112 | Titicut Follies | 1967 | Frederick Wiseman | 1066 |
| 113 | I Am Cuba | 1964 | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1072 |
| 114 | The Virgin Spring | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman | 1084 |
| 115 | Village of the Damned | 1960 | Wolf Rilla | 1085 |
| 116 | Lolita | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick | 1089 |
| 117 | The Odd Couple | 1968 | Gene Saks | 1091 |
| 118 | Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | François Truffaut | 1108 |
| 119 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | 1967 | Jacques Demy | 1111 |
| 120 | Where Eagles Dare | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton | 1113 |
| 121 | Black Girl | 1966 | Ousmane Sembene | 1181 |
| 122 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan | 1189 |
| 123 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | 1960 | Karel Reisz | 1190 |
| 124 | The Pink Panther | 1963 | Blake Edwards | 1206 |
| 125 | Cape Fear | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson | 1219 |
| 126 | This Sporting Life | 1963 | Lindsay Anderson | 1223 |
| 127 | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava | 1224 |
| 128 | Seven Up! | 1964 | Paul Almond | 1227 |
| 129 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | 1237 |
| 130 | The Trial | 1962 | Orson Welles | 1244 |
| 131 | Salesman | 1969 | Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin | 1250 |
| 132 | Onibaba | 1964 | Kaneto Shindô | 1252 |
| 133 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | François Truffaut | 1291 |
| 134 | An Autumn Afternoon | 1962 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1306 |
| 135 | The Misfits | 1961 | John Huston | 1311 |
| 136 | Scorpio Rising | 1963 | Kenneth Anger | 1331 |
| 137 | The Ipcress File | 1965 | Sidney J. Furie | 1336 |
| 138 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1343 |
| 139 | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | 1962 | Tony Richardson | 1363 |
| 140 | The Great Silence | 1968 | Sergio Corbucci | 1366 |
| 141 | The Time Machine | 1960 | George Pal | 1375 |
| 142 | Mouchette | 1967 | Robert Bresson | 1393 |
| 143 | Black God and White Devil | 1964 | Glauber Rocha | 1397 |
| 144 | The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | 1399 |
| 145 | The Party | 1968 | Blake Edwards | 1414 |
| 146 | Charulata | 1964 | Satyajit Ray | 1425 |
| 147 | Inherit the Wind | 1960 | Stanley Kramer | 1430 |
| 148 | Red Beard | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa | 1437 |
| 149 | The Music Man | 1962 | Morton DaCosta | 1440 |
| 150 | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1454 |
| 151 | Memories of Underdevelopment | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1463 |
| 152 | Winter Light | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | 1464 |
| 153 | Barbarella | 1968 | Roger Vadim | 1491 |
| 154 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks | 1501 |
| 155 | One-Eyed Jacks | 1961 | Marlon Brando | 1507 |
| 156 | Faces | 1968 | John Cassavetes | 1510 |
| 157 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 1967 | Stanley Kramer | 1517 |
| 158 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1519 |
| 159 | A Shot in the Dark | 1964 | Blake Edwards | 1525 |
| 160 | Tom Jones | 1963 | Tony Richardson | 1531 |
| 161 | Week End | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1563 |
| 162 | A Raisin in the Sun | 1961 | Daniel Petrie | 1579 |
| 163 | The Red Desert | 1964 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1583 |
| 164 | The Endless Summer | 1966 | Bruce Brown | 1595 |
| 165 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Anthony Harvey | 1596 |
| 166 | The Miracle Worker | 1962 | Arthur Penn | 1597 |
| 167 | Fail-Safe | 1964 | Sidney Lumet | 1618 |
| 168 | Shock Corridor | 1963 | Samuel Fuller | 1624 |
| 169 | Django | 1966 | Sergio Corbucci | 1666 |
| 170 | The Italian Job | 1969 | Peter Collinson | 1679 |
| 171 | Le Trou | 1960 | Jacques Becker | 1706 |
| 172 | The Silence | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | 1718 |
| 173 | Wait until Dark | 1967 | Terence Young | 1737 |
| 174 | The War Game | 1966 | Peter Watkins | 1749 |
| 175 | Quatermass and the Pit | 1967 | Roy Ward Baker | 1754 |
| 176 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | 1965 | Sergei Parajanov | 1762 |
| 177 | Samurai Rebellion | 1967 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1764 |
| 178 | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer | 1961 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1766 |
| 179 | Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | 1965 | Russ Meyer | 1774 |
| 180 | Marnie | 1964 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1785 |
| 181 | War and Peace | 1965 | Sergey Bondarchuk | 1787 |
| 182 | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | 1963 | Stanley Kramer | 1806 |
| 183 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov | 1815 |
| 184 | The Masque of the Red Death | 1964 | Roger Corman | 1816 |
| 185 | Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman | 1845 |
| 186 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 1968 | Ken Hughes | 1853 |
| 187 | Romeo and Juliet | 1968 | Franco Zeffirelli | 1861 |
| 188 | One, Two, Three | 1961 | Billy Wilder | 1865 |
| 189 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch | 1870 |
| 190 | Gertrud | 1964 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1872 |
| 191 | The Shooting | 1966 | Monte Hellman | 1887 |
| 192 | Stolen Kisses | 1968 | François Truffaut | 1893 |
| 193 | The Parent Trap | 1961 | David Swift | 1896 |
| 194 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa | 1900 |
| 195 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1904 |
| 196 | Chelsea Girls | 1966 | Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol | 1915 |
| 197 | The House Is Black | 1963 | Forugh Farrokhzad | 1921 |
| 198 | The Devil Rides Out | 1968 | Terence Fisher | 1931 |
| 199 | Masculine Feminine | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1948 |
| 200 | Portrait of Jason | 1967 | Shirley Clarke | 1962 |
| 201 | Loves of a Blonde | 1965 | Milos Forman | 1966 |
| 202 | Blood and Black Lace | 1964 | Mario Bava | 1973 |
| 203 | The Shop on Main Street | 1965 | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | 1980 |
| 204 | Branded to Kill | 1967 | Seijun Suzuki | 1987 |
| 205 | High School | 1968 | Frederick Wiseman | 1999 |
| 206 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | 1969 | Peter R. Hunt | 2015 |
| 207 | Wavelength | 1967 | Michael Snow | 2036 |
| 208 | Funeral Parade of Roses | 1969 | Toshio Matsumoto | 2053 |
| 209 | Black Sabbath | 1963 | Mario Bava | 2061 |
| 210 | Hour of the Wolf | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 2086 |
| 211 | The Hour of the Furnaces | 1968 | Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas | 2087 |
| 212 | Fantastic Voyage | 1966 | Richard Fleischer | 2090 |
| 213 | Accattone | 1961 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 2091 |
| 214 | Cat Ballou | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein | 2104 |
| 215 | Alfie | 1966 | Lewis Gilbert | 2122 |
| 216 | The Firemen's Ball | 1967 | Milos Forman | 2123 |
| 217 | Dog Star Man | 1964 | Stan Brakhage | 2133 |
| 218 | The Nutty Professor | 1963 | Jerry Lewis | 2138 |
| 219 | Juliet of the Spirits | 1965 | Federico Fellini | 2161 |
| 220 | Thunderball | 1965 | Terence Young | 2181 |
| 221 | Victim | 1961 | Basil Dearden | 2207 |
| 222 | Kill, Baby...Kill! | 1966 | Mario Bava | 2213 |
| 223 | Monterey Pop | 1968 | D.A. Pennebaker | 2225 |
| 224 | Il Sorpasso | 1962 | Dino Risi | 2228 |
| 225 | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | 1960 | Mikio Naruse | 2251 |
| 226 | A Man and a Woman | 1966 | Claude Lelouch | 2266 |
| 227 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 2283 |
| 228 | Teorema | 1968 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 2292 |
| 229 | Tokyo Olympiad | 1965 | Kon Ichikawa | 2293 |
| 230 | Fellini Satyricon | 1969 | Federico Fellini | 2310 |
| 231 | Batman | 1966 | Leslie H. Martinson | 2311 |
| 232 | The Swimmer | 1968 | Frank Perry | 2318 |
| 233 | Advise & Consent | 1962 | Otto Preminger | 2323 |
| 234 | The Red and the White | 1967 | Miklós Jancsó | 2352 |
| 235 | Salvatore Giuliano | 1962 | Francesco Rosi | 2361 |
| 236 | The Pawnbroker | 1964 | Sidney Lumet | 2369 |
| 237 | Witchfinder General | 1968 | Michael Reeves | 2383 |
| 238 | Marketa Lazarová | 1967 | Frantisek Vlácil | 2388 |
| 239 | Take the Money and Run | 1969 | Woody Allen | 2391 |
| 240 | Le Bonheur | 1965 | Agnès Varda | 2411 |
| 241 | Terra em Transe | 1967 | Glauber Rocha | 2420 |
| 242 | Purple Noon | 1960 | René Clément | 2435 |
| 243 | Nothing but a Man | 1964 | Michael Roemer | 2449 |
| 244 | The Little Shop of Horrors | 1960 | Roger Corman | 2457 |
| 245 | The Saragossa Manuscript | 1965 | Wojciech Has | 2459 |
| 246 | Le Doulos | 1962 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 2466 |
| 247 | Lilies of the Field | 1963 | Ralph Nelson | 2476 |
| 248 | Shame | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 2480 |
| 249 | The Cloud-Capped Star | 1960 | Ritwik Ghatak | 2482 |
| 250 | Lonely Are the Brave | 1962 | David Miller | 2491 |
| 251 | Days of Wine and Roses | 1962 | Blake Edwards | 2493 |
| 252 | Billy Liar | 1963 | John Schlesinger | 2503 |
| 253 | America, America | 1963 | Elia Kazan | 2546 |
| 254 | Il Posto | 1961 | Ermanno Olmi | 2551 |
| 255 | The Learning Tree | 1969 | Gordon Parks | 2560 |
| 256 | Le Petit soldat | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | 2577 |
| 257 | Hombre | 1967 | Martin Ritt | 2609 |
| 258 | Elmer Gantry | 1960 | Richard Brooks | 2616 |
| 259 | The Housemaid | 1960 | Kim Ki-young | 2623 |
| 260 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | 1965 | Martin Ritt | 2624 |
| 261 | The Sword in the Stone | 1963 | Wolfgang Reitherman | 2634 |
| 262 | El Dorado | 1966 | Howard Hawks | 2643 |
| 263 | The Fire within | 1963 | Louis Malle | 2649 |
| 264 | Downhill Racer | 1969 | Michael Ritchie | 2653 |
| 265 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | 1969 | Sydney Pollack | 2663 |
| 266 | The Naked Kiss | 1964 | Samuel Fuller | 2673 |
| 267 | To Sir, with Love | 1967 | James Clavell | 2685 |
| 268 | Divorce - Italian Style | 1961 | Pietro Germi | 2687 |
| 269 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1968 | Norman Jewison | 2699 |
| 270 | The Damned | 1969 | Luchino Visconti | 2704 |
| 271 | Tokyo Drifter | 1966 | Seijun Suzuki | 2705 |
| 272 | Wild River | 1960 | Elia Kazan | 2719 |
| 273 | Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One | 1968 | William Greaves | 2724 |
| 274 | Hell in the Pacific | 1968 | John Boorman | 2737 |
| 275 | The Face of Another | 1966 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 2751 |
| 276 | Antonio das Mortes | 1969 | Glauber Rocha | 2754 |
| 277 | Mamma Roma | 1962 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 2756 |
| 278 | Barefoot in the Park | 1967 | Gene Saks | 2772 |
| 279 | Seven Days in May | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 2776 |
| 280 | Blood Feast | 1963 | Herschell Gordon Lewis | 2782 |
| 281 | The Sand Pebbles | 1966 | Robert Wise | 2795 |
| 282 | Flaming Creatures | 1963 | Jack Smith | 2799 |
| 283 | Becket | 1964 | Peter Glenville | 2820 |
| 284 | Second Breath | 1966 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 2836 |
| 285 | The Round-up | 1966 | Miklós Jancsó | 2849 |
| 286 | The Damned | 1962 | Joseph Losey | 2860 |
| 287 | The Pit and the Pendulum | 1961 | Roger Corman | 2864 |
| 288 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | 1966 | Chuck Jones | 2870 |
| 289 | El Cid | 1961 | Anthony Mann | 2872 |
| 290 | The Children's Hour | 1961 | William Wyler | 2888 |
| 291 | The Rise of Louis XIV | 1966 | Roberto Rossellini | 2917 |
| 292 | Battle of Britain | 1969 | Guy Hamilton | 2918 |
| 293 | Von Ryan's Express | 1965 | Mark Robson | 2927 |
| 294 | The Americanization of Emily | 1964 | Arthur Hiller | 2933 |
| 295 | Viva Las Vegas | 1964 | George Sidney | 2935 |
| 296 | Two Women | 1960 | Vittorio De Sica | 2950 |
| 297 | Not on Your Life | 1963 | Luis García Berlanga | 2952 |
| 298 | A Taste of Honey | 1961 | Tony Richardson | 3008 |
| 299 | The Fall of the House of Usher | 1960 | Roger Corman | 3017 |