**—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 | 96 |
| 2 | Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | 211 |
| 3 | Full Metal Jacket | Stanley Kubrick | 226 |
| 4 | RoboCop | Paul Verhoeven | 308 |
| 5 | Withnail & I | Bruce Robinson | 313 |
| 6 | Predator | John McTiernan | 347 |
| 7 | Evil Dead II | Sam Raimi | 369 |
| 8 | The Untouchables | Brian De Palma | 471 |
| 9 | Raising Arizona | Joel Coen | 476 |
| 10 | Dirty Dancing | Emile Ardolino | 477 |
| 11 | The Last Emperor** | Bernardo Bertolucci | 651 |
| 12 | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | John Hughes | 726 |
| 13 | Lethal Weapon | Richard Donner | 763 |
| 14 | Moonstruck* | Norman Jewison | 770 |
| 15 | Au Revoir, les Enfants | Louis Malle | 792 |
| 16 | Empire of the Sun | Steven Spielberg | 812 |
| 17 | Wall Street | Oliver Stone | 868 |
| 18 | Fatal Attraction* | Adrian Lyne | 879 |
| 19 | Broadcast News* | James L. Brooks | 972 |
| 20 | Near Dark | Kathryn Bigelow | 998 |
| 21 | Babette's Feast | Gabriel Axel | 1065 |
| 22 | Hellraiser | Clive Barker | 1198 |
| 23 | Where is the Friend's Home? | Abbas Kiarostami | 1297 |
| 24 | Yeelen | Souleymane Cissé | 1342 |
| 25 | The Dead | John Huston | 1406 |
| 26 | Hope and Glory* | John Boorman | 1423 |
| 27 | Angel Heart | Alan Parker | 1468 |
| 28 | Roxanne | Fred Schepisi | 1610 |
| 29 | Good Morning, Vietnam | Barry Levinson | 1629 |
| 30 | The Lost Boys | Joel Schumacher | 1734 |
| 31 | Law of Desire | Pedro Almodóvar | 1758 |
| 32 | Matewan | John Sayles | 1768 |
| 33 | Maurice | James Ivory | 1894 |
| 34 | Spaceballs | Mel Brooks | 1931 |
| 35 | The Emperor's Naked Army Marches on | Kazuo Hara | 2085 |
| 36 | House of Games | David Mamet | 2207 |
| 37 | Pelle the Conqueror | Bille August | 2363 |
| 38 | Radio Days | Woody Allen | 2396 |
| 39 | The Hidden | Jack Sholder | 2447 |
| 40 | A Chinese Ghost Story | Siu-Tung Ching | 2532 |
| 41 | The Brave Little Toaster | Jerry Rees | 2685 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Die Hard | John McTiernan | 83 |
| 2 | Akira | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 204 |
| 3 | Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | 217 |
| 4 | My Neighbor Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki | 230 |
| 5 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis | 264 |
| 6 | Grave of the Fireflies | Isao Takahata | 329 |
| 7 | The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris | 438 |
| 8 | Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | 441 |
| 9 | A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton | 446 |
| 10 | Rain Man** | Barry Levinson | 479 |
| 11 | Big | Penny Marshall | 501 |
| 12 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | David Zucker | 565 |
| 13 | Dead Ringers | David Cronenberg | 674 |
| 14 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar | 739 |
| 15 | Midnight Run | Martin Brest | 773 |
| 16 | The Vanishing | George Sluizer | 795 |
| 17 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence Davies | 973 |
| 18 | Dangerous Liaisons* | Stephen Frears | 1008 |
| 19 | Eight Men Out | John Sayles | 1032 |
| 20 | Coming to America | John Landis | 1042 |
| 21 | The Last Temptation of Christ | Martin Scorsese | 1067 |
| 22 | Beetlejuice | Tim Burton | 1072 |
| 23 | They Live | John Carpenter | 1164 |
| 24 | Hairspray | John Waters | 1210 |
| 25 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Frank Oz | 1227 |
| 26 | Time of the Gypsies | Emir Kusturica | 1307 |
| 27 | Working Girl* | Mike Nichols | 1515 |
| 28 | A Short Film about Killing | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1522 |
| 29 | Alice | Jan Svankmajer | 1561 |
| 30 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | 1601 |
| 31 | Landscape in the Mist | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1744 |
| 32 | Mississippi Burning* | Alan Parker | 1833 |
| 33 | Salaam Bombay! | Mira Nair | 1842 |
| 34 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam | 1937 |
| 35 | A Short Film about Love | Teresa Violetta Buhl, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Pawel Rzepkowski | 2046 |
| 36 | The Land before Time | Don Bluth | 2120 |
| 37 | Bloodsport | Newt Arnold | 2228 |
| 38 | Red Sorghum | Yimou Zhang | 2323 |
| 39 | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | Todd Haynes | 2374 |
| 40 | Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | Marcel Ophüls | 2610 |
| 41 | Torch Song Trilogy | Paul Bogart | 2665 |
| 42 | The Accused | Jonathan Kaplan | 2721 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 89 |
| 2 | When Harry Met Sally… | Rob Reiner | 149 |
| 3 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Steven Spielberg | 380 |
| 4 | Field of Dreams* | Phil Alden Robinson | 385 |
| 5 | The Decalogue | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 413 |
| 6 | Dead Poets Society* | Peter Weir | 433 |
| 7 | The Killer | John Woo | 437 |
| 8 | Batman | Tim Burton | 462 |
| 9 | Say Anything… | Cameron Crowe | 526 |
| 10 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Steven Soderbergh | 582 |
| 11 | Glory | Edward Zwick | 625 |
| 12 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | 647 |
| 13 | The Little Mermaid | Ron Clements and John Musker | 653 |
| 14 | Heathers | Michael Lehmann | 663 |
| 15 | Roger & Me | Michael Moore | 861 |
| 16 | The Abyss | James Cameron | 952 |
| 17 | Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | 1095 |
| 18 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | Peter Greenaway | 1102 |
| 19 | My Left Foot* | Jim Sheridan | 1145 |
| 20 | Drugstore Cowboy | Gus Van Sant | 1291 |
| 21 | Kiki’s Delivery Service | Hayao Miyazaki | 1305 |
| 22 | Tongues Untied | Marlon Riggs | 1374 |
| 23 | A City of Sadness | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 1388 |
| 24 | Henry V | Kenneth Branagh | 1397 |
| 25 | Born on the Fourth of July* | Oliver Stone | 1467 |
| 26 | Major League | David S. Ward | 1566 |
| 27 | Steel Magnolias | Herbert Ross | 1658 |
| 28 | Lethal Weapon 2 | Richard Donner | 1932 |
| 29 | Driving Miss Daisy** | Bruce Beresford | 1945 |
| 30 | Mystery Train | Jim Jarmusch | 1997 |
| 31 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | 2016 |
| 32 | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Jeremiah S. Chechik | 2170 |
| 33 | The Fabulous Baker Boys | Steven Kloves | 2177 |
| 34 | Longtime Companion | Norman René | 2223 |
| 35 | Dead Calm | Phillip Noyce | 2303 |
| 36 | Parenthood | Ron Howard | 2428 |
| 37 | Santa Sangre | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 2596 |
| 38 | Casualties of War | Brian De Palma | 2600 |
| 39 | Lonesome Dove | Simon Wincer | 2658 |
| 40 | Tetsuo: The Iron Man | Shinya Tsukamoto | 2748 |
| 41 | Jesus of Montreal | Denys Arcand | 2755 |
| 42 | Society | Brian Yuzna | 2798 |
| 43 | Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | Pedro Almodóvar | 2803 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
