**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | 143 |
| 2 | Withnail & I | Bruce Robinson | 205 |
| 3 | Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | 206 |
| 4 | Full Metal Jacket | Stanley Kubrick | 289 |
| 5 | Dirty Dancing | Emile Ardolino | 374 |
| 6 | Moonstruck* | Norman Jewison | 376 |
| 7 | Evil Dead II | Sam Raimi | 385 |
| 8 | The Untouchables | Brian De Palma | 395 |
| 9 | Fatal Attraction* | Adrian Lyne | 489 |
| 10 | Raising Arizona | Joel Coen | 496 |
| 11 | RoboCop | Paul Verhoeven | 497 |
| 12 | Au Revoir, les Enfants | Louis Malle | 519 |
| 13 | The Last Emperor** | Bernardo Bertolucci | 524 |
| 14 | Broadcast News* | James L. Brooks | 541 |
| 15 | Babette's Feast | Gabriel Axel | 555 |
| 16 | Lethal Weapon | Richard Donner | 780 |
| 17 | Predator | John McTiernan | 784 |
| 18 | The Dead | John Huston | 798 |
| 19 | Hope and Glory* | John Boorman | 848 |
| 20 | Near Dark | Kathryn Bigelow | 885 |
| 21 | Empire of the Sun | Steven Spielberg | 909 |
| 22 | Good Morning, Vietnam | Barry Levinson | 1000 |
| 23 | Hellraiser | Clive Barker | 1009 |
| 24 | Roxanne | Fred Schepisi | 1018 |
| 25 | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | John Hughes | 1059 |
| 26 | Pelle the Conqueror | Bille August | 1061 |
| 27 | Wall Street | Oliver Stone | 1075 |
| 28 | House of Games | David Mamet | 1221 |
| 29 | Red Sorghum | Yimou Zhang | 1322 |
| 30 | Where is the Friend's Home? | Abbas Kiarostami | 1360 |
| 31 | Yeelen | Souleymane Cissé | 1382 |
| 32 | Angel Heart | Alan Parker | 1392 |
| 33 | Matewan | John Sayles | 1469 |
| 34 | The Lost Boys | Joel Schumacher | 1711 |
| 35 | Bagdad Café | Percy Adlon | 1743 |
| 36 | A Chinese Ghost Story | Siu-Tung Ching | 1797 |
| 37 | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | Todd Haynes | 1892 |
| 38 | Radio Days | Woody Allen | 1960 |
| 39 | The Hidden | Jack Sholder | 2169 |
| 40 | The Stepfather | Joseph Ruben | 2234 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Die Hard | John McTiernan | 100 |
| 2 | Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | 207 |
| 3 | Rain Man** | Barry Levinson | 307 |
| 4 | Akira | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 309 |
| 5 | A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton | 344 |
| 6 | Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | 408 |
| 7 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis | 411 |
| 8 | The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris | 488 |
| 9 | Big | Penny Marshall | 571 |
| 10 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar | 601 |
| 11 | My Neighbor Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki | 626 |
| 12 | Dangerous Liaisons* | Stephen Frears | 627 |
| 13 | Dead Ringers | David Cronenberg | 661 |
| 14 | Grave of the Fireflies | Isao Takahata | 739 |
| 15 | Beetlejuice | Tim Burton | 753 |
| 16 | Heathers | Michael Lehmann | 778 |
| 17 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | David Zucker | 788 |
| 18 | Eight Men Out | John Sayles | 791 |
| 19 | Working Girl* | Mike Nichols | 802 |
| 20 | The Vanishing | George Sluizer | 843 |
| 21 | The Last Temptation of Christ | Martin Scorsese | 913 |
| 22 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | 989 |
| 23 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence Davies | 1004 |
| 24 | Midnight Run | Martin Brest | 1066 |
| 25 | Hairspray | John Waters | 1225 |
| 26 | Beaches | Garry Marshall | 1238 |
| 27 | A Short Film about Killing | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1306 |
| 28 | Stand and Deliver | Ramón Menéndez | 1341 |
| 29 | Alice | Jan Svankmajer | 1377 |
| 30 | Salaam Bombay! | Mira Nair | 1478 |
| 31 | Time of the Gypsies | Emir Kusturica | 1546 |
| 32 | Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey | Michael Apted | 2136 |
| 33 | The Accidental Tourist* | Lawrence Kasdan | 2146 |
| 34 | The Accused | Jonathan Kaplan | 2176 |
| 35 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Frank Oz | 2202 |
| 36 | Mississippi Burning* | Alan Parker | 2270 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 103 |
| 2 | When Harry Met Sally… | Rob Reiner | 178 |
| 3 | Field of Dreams* | Phil Alden Robinson | 242 |
| 4 | Dead Poets Society* | Peter Weir | 318 |
| 5 | Glory | Edward Zwick | 359 |
| 6 | The Killer | John Woo | 403 |
| 7 | The Decalogue | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 432 |
| 8 | Say Anything… | Cameron Crowe | 453 |
| 9 | Batman | Tim Burton | 459 |
| 10 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Steven Spielberg | 460 |
| 11 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Steven Soderbergh | 483 |
| 12 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | 493 |
| 13 | The Abyss | James Cameron | 623 |
| 14 | My Left Foot* | Jim Sheridan | 688 |
| 15 | Born on the Fourth of July* | Oliver Stone | 761 |
| 16 | Driving Miss Daisy** | Bruce Beresford | 825 |
| 17 | The Little Mermaid | Ron Clements and John Musker | 901 |
| 18 | Drugstore Cowboy | Gus Van Sant | 903 |
| 19 | Roger & Me | Michael Moore | 993 |
| 20 | Henry V | Kenneth Branagh | 996 |
| 21 | Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | 1035 |
| 22 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | Peter Greenaway | 1114 |
| 23 | Steel Magnolias | Herbert Ross | 1191 |
| 24 | The Fabulous Baker Boys | Steven Kloves | 1367 |
| 25 | A City of Sadness | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 1667 |
| 26 | Enemies, A Love Story | Paul Mazursky | 1683 |
| 27 | Parenthood | Ron Howard | 1825 |
| 28 | The War of the Roses | Danny DeVito | 1854 |
| 29 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | 1888 |
| 30 | Jesus of Montreal | Denys Arcand | 1966 |
| 31 | A Grand Day Out | Nick Park | 1977 |
| 32 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Joe Johnston | 1987 |
| 33 | Major League | David S. Ward | 2080 |
| 34 | Sweetie | Jane Campion | 2092 |
| 35 | Kiki’s Delivery Service | Hayao Miyazaki | 2222 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
