| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 201 | Thief | 1981 | Michael Mann | 1506 |
| 202 | Flash Gordon | 1980 | Mike Hodges | 1508 |
| 203 | National Lampoon's Vacation | 1983 | Harold Ramis | 1509 |
| 204 | Desperately Seeking Susan | 1985 | Susan Seidelman | 1526 |
| 205 | Vagabond | 1985 | Agnčs Varda | 1545 |
| 206 | Coal Miner's Daughter | 1980 | Michael Apted | 1552 |
| 207 | Police Story | 1985 | Jackie Chan | 1553 |
| 208 | Nine to Five | 1980 | Colin Higgins | 1559 |
| 209 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | 1988 | Terence Davies | 1571 |
| 210 | Atlantic City | 1980 | Louis Malle | 1574 |
| 211 | Good Morning, Vietnam | 1987 | Barry Levinson | 1594 |
| 212 | The Last Temptation of Christ | 1988 | Martin Scorsese | 1609 |
| 213 | Manhunter | 1986 | Michael Mann | 1626 |
| 214 | Victor/Victoria | 1982 | Blake Edwards | 1636 |
| 215 | Fame | 1980 | Alan Parker | 1641 |
| 216 | Sherman's March | 1985 | Ross McElwee | 1644 |
| 217 | My Life as a Dog | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | 1651 |
| 218 | The Big Chill | 1983 | Lawrence Kasdan | 1656 |
| 219 | Highlander | 1986 | Russell Mulcahy | 1671 |
| 220 | Lost in America | 1985 | Albert Brooks | 1675 |
| 221 | Mississippi Burning | 1988 | Alan Parker | 1676 |
| 222 | Diner | 1982 | Barry Levinson | 1677 |
| 223 | The Changeling | 1980 | Peter Medak | 1681 |
| 224 | Salaam Bombay! | 1988 | Mira Nair | 1683 |
| 225 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1684 |
| 226 | Drugstore Cowboy | 1989 | Gus Van Sant | 1691 |
| 227 | Yeelen | 1987 | Souleymane Cissé | 1692 |
| 228 | The Draughtsman's Contract | 1982 | Peter Greenaway | 1707 |
| 229 | Metropolitan | 1989 | Whit Stillman | 1709 |
| 230 | An Officer and a Gentleman | 1982 | Taylor Hackford | 1721 |
| 231 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | 1988 | Terry Gilliam | 1726 |
| 232 | Excalibur | 1981 | John Boorman | 1736 |
| 233 | Child's Play | 1988 | Tom Holland | 1738 |
| 234 | Big Trouble in Little China | 1986 | John Carpenter | 1748 |
| 235 | Matewan | 1987 | John Sayles | 1757 |
| 236 | Born in Flames | 1983 | Lizzie Borden | 1759 |
| 237 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | 1988 | Frank Oz | 1770 |
| 238 | Clue | 1985 | Jonathan Lynn | 1778 |
| 239 | Rumble Fish | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1784 |
| 240 | The Emperor's Naked Army Marches on | 1987 | Kazuo Hara | 1792 |
| 241 | Henry V | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh | 1822 |
| 242 | Pale Rider | 1985 | Clint Eastwood | 1825 |
| 243 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | 1837 |
| 244 | Burden of Dreams | 1982 | Les Blank | 1866 |
| 245 | Manon of the Spring | 1986 | Claude Berri | 1874 |
| 246 | Betty Blue | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 1875 |
| 247 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman | 1878 |
| 248 | Silverado | 1985 | Lawrence Kasdan | 1881 |
| 249 | Cannibal Holocaust | 1980 | Ruggero Deodato | 1888 |
| 250 | Angel Heart | 1987 | Alan Parker | 1894 |
| 251 | Romancing the Stone | 1984 | Robert Zemeckis | 1899 |
| 252 | Victory | 1981 | John Huston | 1901 |
| 253 | Risky Business | 1983 | Paul Brickman | 1907 |
| 254 | The Return of the Living Dead | 1985 | Dan O'Bannon | 1913 |
| 255 | Commando | 1985 | Mark L. Lester | 1918 |
| 256 | A Better Tomorrow | 1986 | John Woo | 1923 |
| 257 | Annie | 1982 | John Huston | 1935 |
| 258 | Casualties of War | 1989 | Brian De Palma | 1940 |
| 259 | A Short Film about Killing | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1957 |
| 260 | To Live and Die in L.A. | 1985 | William Friedkin | 1967 |
| 261 | Personal Best | 1982 | Robert Towne | 1982 |
| 262 | Landscape in the Mist | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1985 |
| 263 | Summer | 1986 | Éric Rohmer | 1988 |
| 264 | Time of the Gypsies | 1988 | Emir Kusturica | 1989 |
| 265 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 1990 |
| 266 | Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 2009 |
| 267 | Roxanne | 1987 | Fred Schepisi | 2010 |
| 268 | Scanners | 1981 | David Cronenberg | 2024 |
| 269 | The Beyond | 1981 | Lucio Fulci | 2046 |
| 270 | The Mission | 1986 | Roland Joffé | 2060 |
| 271 | Altered States | 1980 | Ken Russell | 2064 |
| 272 | The Dead | 1987 | John Huston | 2066 |
| 273 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | 1986 | Leonard Nimoy | 2068 |
| 274 | Pink Floyd the Wall | 1982 | Alan Parker | 2081 |
| 275 | Return to Oz | 1985 | Walter Murch | 2098 |
| 276 | The Dark Crystal | 1982 | Jim Henson and Frank Oz | 2100 |
| 277 | Hope and Glory | 1987 | John Boorman | 2101 |
| 278 | Love Streams | 1984 | John Cassavetes | 2105 |
| 279 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols | 2112 |
| 280 | The Hunger | 1983 | Tony Scott | 2115 |
| 281 | Footloose | 1984 | Herbert Ross | 2117 |
| 282 | The Brother from Another Planet | 1984 | John Sayles | 2130 |
| 283 | The Land before Time | 1988 | Don Bluth | 2136 |
| 284 | A Short Film about Love | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 2148 |
| 285 | Spaceballs | 1987 | Mel Brooks | 2154 |
| 286 | Heimat | 1984 | Edgar Reitz | 2163 |
| 287 | Diva | 1981 | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 2167 |
| 288 | Yentl | 1983 | Barbra Streisand | 2168 |
| 289 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | 1984 | W.D. Richter | 2174 |
| 290 | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2180 |
| 291 | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shôhei Imamura | 2190 |
| 292 | The Howling | 1981 | Joe Dante | 2191 |
| 293 | My Dinner with Andre | 1981 | Louis Malle | 2192 |
| 294 | Splash | 1983 | Ron Howard | 2208 |
| 295 | Ŕ nos amours | 1983 | Maurice Pialat | 2210 |
| 296 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | 1985 | George P. Cosmatos | 2230 |
| 297 | Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox | 2241 |
| 298 | Mystery Train | 1989 | Jim Jarmusch | 2257 |
| 299 | Lethal Weapon 2 | 1989 | Richard Donner | 2258 |
| 300 | 1984 | 1984 | Michael Radford | 2260 |
| 301 | Beaches | 1988 | Garry Marshall | 2278 |
| 302 | Tetsuo: The Iron Man | 1989 | Shin'ya Tsukamoto | 2302 |
| 303 | 9 1/2 Weeks | 1986 | Adrian Lyne | 2321 |
| 304 | Pixote | 1980 | Hector Babenco | 2329 |
| 305 | Parting Glances | 1986 | Bill Sherwood | 2333 |
| 306 | Body Double | 1984 | Brian De Palma | 2339 |
| 307 | Dune | 1984 | David Lynch | 2345 |
| 308 | Alice | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer | 2368 |
| 309 | Starman | 1984 | John Carpenter | 2373 |
| 310 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Jones | 2375 |
| 311 | Maurice | 1987 | James Ivory | 2377 |
| 312 | Broadway Danny Rose | 1984 | Woody Allen | 2395 |
| 313 | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | 1989 | Jeremiah S. Chechik | 2404 |
| 314 | Bloodsport | 1988 | Newt Arnold | 2421 |
| 315 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 2452 |
| 316 | The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years | 1988 | Penelope Spheeris | 2460 |
| 317 | Runaway Train | 1985 | Andrey Konchalovskiy | 2462 |
| 318 | Something Wild | 1986 | Jonathan Demme | 2465 |
| 319 | Santa Sangre | 1989 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 2469 |
| 320 | Better Off Dead… | 1985 | Savage Steve Holland | 2470 |
| 321 | Missing | 1982 | Costa-Gavras | 2477 |
| 322 | An American Tail | 1986 | Don Bluth | 2478 |
| 323 | Pet Sematary | 1989 | Mary Lambert | 2495 |
| 324 | 'Breaker' Morant | 1980 | Bruce Beresford | 2497 |
| 325 | The Toxic Avenger | 1984 | Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman | 2509 |
| 326 | Fright Night | 1985 | Tom Holland | 2510 |
| 327 | UHF | 1989 | Jay Levey | 2512 |
| 328 | Driving Miss Daisy | 1989 | Bruce Beresford | 2527 |
| 329 | Law of Desire | 1987 | Pedro Almodóvar | 2534 |
| 330 | Yellow Earth | 1984 | Kaige Chen | 2535 |
| 331 | Losing Ground | 1982 | Kathleen Collins | 2541 |
| 332 | Willow | 1988 | Ron Howard | 2555 |
| 333 | The World According to Garp | 1982 | George Roy Hill | 2559 |
| 334 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | 1989 | Joe Johnston | 2568 |
| 335 | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | 1983 | Nagisa Ôshima | 2588 |
| 336 | The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | Peter Weir | 2591 |
| 337 | The Time to Live and the Time to Die | 1985 | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 2597 |
| 338 | The Official Story | 1985 | Luis Puenzo | 2598 |
| 339 | Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains | 1982 | Lou Adler | 2606 |
| 340 | Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry | 2608 |
| 341 | Rocky III | 1982 | Sylvester Stallone | 2611 |
| 342 | Stripes | 1981 | Ivan Reitman | 2614 |
| 343 | Red Sorghum | 1988 | Yimou Zhang | 2620 |
| 344 | The King and the Mockingbird | 1980 | Paul Grimault | 2625 |
| 345 | The Great Mouse Detective | 1986 | Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, David Michener, and John Musker | 2626 |
| 346 | Longtime Companion | 1989 | Norman René | 2644 |
| 347 | Heavy Metal | 1981 | Gerald Potterton | 2647 |
| 348 | Rocky IV | 1985 | Sylvester Stallone | 2657 |
| 349 | Querelle | 1982 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 2659 |
| 350 | Wild Style | 1982 | Charlie Ahearn | 2661 |
| 351 | Gloria | 1980 | John Cassavetes | 2662 |
| 352 | Torch Song Trilogy | 1988 | Paul Bogart | 2665 |
| 353 | Yol | 1982 | Serif Gören and Yilmaz Güney | 2669 |
| 354 | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 2675 |
| 355 | Creepshow | 1982 | George A. Romero | 2683 |
| 356 | Clash of the Titans | 1981 | Desmond Davis | 2695 |
| 357 | The Company of Wolves | 1984 | Neil Jordan | 2698 |
| 358 | A Passage to India | 1984 | David Lean | 2717 |
| 359 | The Long Riders | 1980 | Walter Hill | 2722 |
| 360 | Liquid Sky | 1982 | Slava Tsukerman | 2725 |
| 361 | My Favorite Year | 1982 | Richard Benjamin | 2767 |
| 362 | The Last Starfighter | 1984 | Nick Castle | 2783 |
| 363 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | 1985 | Hector Babenco | 2789 |
| 364 | 48 Hrs. | 1982 | Walter Hill | 2821 |
| 365 | The Stunt Man | 1980 | Richard Rush | 2829 |
| 366 | Ms. 45 | 1981 | Abel Ferrara | 2838 |
| 367 | When the Wind Blows | 1986 | Jimmy T. Murakami | 2845 |
| 368 | Mystic Pizza | 1988 | Donald Petrie | 2855 |
| 369 | Prizzi's Honor | 1985 | John Huston | 2863 |
| 370 | The Man with Two Brains | 1983 | Carl Reiner | 2873 |
| 371 | Mephisto | 1981 | István Szabó | 2886 |
| 372 | Overboard | 1987 | Garry Marshall | 2887 |
| 373 | Ladyhawke | 1985 | Richard Donner | 2906 |
| 374 | Legend | 1985 | Ridley Scott | 2909 |
| 375 | Looking for Langston | 1989 | Isaac Julien | 2913 |
| 376 | Society | 1989 | Brian Yuzna | 2915 |
| 377 | Chocolat | 1988 | Claire Denis | 2919 |
| 378 | Crossing Delancey | 1988 | Joan Micklin Silver | 2928 |
| 379 | The Fourth Man | 1983 | Paul Verhoeven | 2946 |
| 380 | Mask | 1985 | Peter Bogdanovich | 2949 |
| 381 | Radio Days | 1987 | Woody Allen | 2957 |
| 382 | Polyester | 1981 | John Waters | 2966 |
| 383 | The Brave Little Toaster | 1987 | Jerry Rees | 2978 |
| 384 | El Sur | 1983 | Víctor Erice | 2980 |
| 385 | The Last Unicorn | 1982 | Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr. | 2990 |
| 386 | Cocoon | 1985 | Ron Howard | 2996 |
| 387 | The Last Dragon | 1985 | Michael Schultz | 3007 |
| 388 | Pelle the Conqueror | 1987 | Bille August | 3019 |
| 389 | Arthur | 1981 | Steve Gordon | 3025 |
| 390 | The Fox and the Hound | 1981 | Ted Berman, Richard Rich, and Art Stevens | 3026 |
| 391 | Road House | 1989 | Rowdy Herrington | 3043 |
| 392 | On the Silver Globe | 1988 | Andrzej Zulawski | 3047 |
| 393 | Sleepaway Camp | 1983 | Robert Hiltzik | 3049 |
| 394 | Bad Taste | 1987 | Peter Jackson | 3051 |
| 395 | Bad Timing | 1980 | Nicolas Roeg | 3053 |
| 396 | Threads | 1984 | Mick Jackson | 3054 |
| 397 | Outland | 1981 | Peter Hyams | 3059 |
