**--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 | 132 |
| 2 | Withnail & I | Bruce Robinson | 183 |
| 3 | Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | 195 |
| 4 | Full Metal Jacket | Stanley Kubrick | 275 |
| 5 | Evil Dead II | Sam Raimi | 359 |
| 6 | Dirty Dancing | Emile Ardolino | 362 |
| 7 | The Untouchables | Brian De Palma | 408 |
| 8 | Moonstruck* | Norman Jewison | 445 |
| 9 | RoboCop | Paul Verhoeven | 495 |
| 10 | Raising Arizona | Joel Coen | 528 |
| 11 | Fatal Attraction* | Adrian Lyne | 530 |
| 12 | Au Revoir, les Enfants | Louis Malle | 534 |
| 13 | The Last Emperor** | Bernardo Bertolucci | 546 |
| 14 | Broadcast News* | James L. Brooks | 564 |
| 15 | Babette's Feast | Gabriel Axel | 576 |
| 16 | Hope and Glory* | John Boorman | 786 |
| 17 | Lethal Weapon | Richard Donner | 794 |
| 18 | Predator | John McTiernan | 814 |
| 19 | Near Dark | Kathryn Bigelow | 834 |
| 20 | The Dead | John Huston | 841 |
| 21 | Empire of the Sun | Steven Spielberg | 843 |
| 22 | Roxanne | Fred Schepisi | 993 |
| 23 | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | John Hughes | 1017 |
| 24 | Good Morning, Vietnam | Barry Levinson | 1040 |
| 25 | Hellraiser | Clive Barker | 1070 |
| 26 | Pelle the Conqueror | Bille August | 1104 |
| 27 | Wall Street | Oliver Stone | 1120 |
| 28 | House of Games | David Mamet | 1218 |
| 29 | Yeelen | Souleymane Cissé | 1328 |
| 30 | Angel Heart | Alan Parker | 1353 |
| 31 | Where is the Friend's Home? | Abbas Kiarostami | 1419 |
| 32 | Matewan | John Sayles | 1420 |
| 33 | The Lost Boys | Joel Schumacher | 1663 |
| 34 | Bagdad Café | Percy Adlon | 1808 |
| 35 | A Chinese Ghost Story | Siu-Tung Ching | 1863 |
| 36 | Radio Days | Woody Allen | 1869 |
| 37 | The Hidden | Jack Sholder | 2268 |
| 38 | The Stepfather | Joseph Ruben | 2339 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Die Hard | John McTiernan | 94 |
| 2 | Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | 192 |
| 3 | Akira | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 302 |
| 4 | A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton | 334 |
| 5 | Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | 344 |
| 6 | Rain Man** | Barry Levinson | 347 |
| 7 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis | 367 |
| 8 | The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris | 478 |
| 9 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar | 539 |
| 10 | My Neighbor Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki | 554 |
| 11 | Big | Penny Marshall | 608 |
| 12 | Dangerous Liaisons* | Stephen Frears | 618 |
| 13 | Eight Men Out | John Sayles | 674 |
| 14 | Dead Ringers | David Cronenberg | 707 |
| 15 | Heathers | Michael Lehmann | 717 |
| 16 | Grave of the Fireflies | Isao Takahata | 771 |
| 17 | Beetlejuice | Tim Burton | 784 |
| 18 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | David Zucker | 787 |
| 19 | Working Girl* | Mike Nichols | 789 |
| 20 | The Vanishing | George Sluizer | 818 |
| 21 | The Last Temptation of Christ | Martin Scorsese | 865 |
| 22 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence Davies | 899 |
| 23 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | 958 |
| 24 | Midnight Run | Martin Brest | 1021 |
| 25 | Hairspray | John Waters | 1068 |
| 26 | Alice | Jan Svankmajer | 1213 |
| 27 | Beaches | Garry Marshall | 1284 |
| 28 | Red Sorghum | Yimou Zhang | 1362 |
| 29 | Stand and Deliver | Ramón Menéndez | 1436 |
| 30 | A Short Film about Killing | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1506 |
| 31 | Time of the Gypsies | Emir Kusturica | 1637 |
| 32 | Salaam Bombay! | Mira Nair | 1719 |
| 33 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam | 1927 |
| 34 | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | Todd Haynes | 1965 |
| 35 | The Horse Thief | Zhuangzhuang Tian | 2055 |
| 36 | They Live | John Carpenter | 2189 |
| 37 | The Accused | Jonathan Kaplan | 2254 |
| 38 | Landscape in the Mist | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2262 |
| 39 | Bird | Clint Eastwood | 2263 |
| 40 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Frank Oz | 2305 |
| 41 | Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey | Michael Apted | 2364 |
| 42 | Mississippi Burning* | Alan Parker | 2368 |
| 43 | The Accidental Tourist* | Lawrence Kasdan | 2376 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 100 |
| 2 | When Harry Met Sally… | Rob Reiner | 167 |
| 3 | Field of Dreams* | Phil Alden Robinson | 245 |
| 4 | Dead Poets Society* | Peter Weir | 384 |
| 5 | Glory | Edward Zwick | 395 |
| 6 | The Decalogue | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 396 |
| 7 | The Killer | John Woo | 398 |
| 8 | Say Anything… | Cameron Crowe | 448 |
| 9 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Steven Spielberg | 450 |
| 10 | Batman | Tim Burton | 451 |
| 11 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | 503 |
| 12 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Steven Soderbergh | 520 |
| 13 | The Abyss | James Cameron | 661 |
| 14 | My Left Foot* | Jim Sheridan | 683 |
| 15 | Born on the Fourth of July* | Oliver Stone | 781 |
| 16 | Roger & Me | Michael Moore | 900 |
| 17 | Drugstore Cowboy | Gus Van Sant | 902 |
| 18 | The Little Mermaid | Ron Clements and John Musker | 928 |
| 19 | Driving Miss Daisy** | Bruce Beresford | 955 |
| 20 | Henry V | Kenneth Branagh | 984 |
| 21 | Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | 1067 |
| 22 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | Peter Greenaway | 1171 |
| 23 | Steel Magnolias | Herbert Ross | 1239 |
| 24 | The Fabulous Baker Boys | Steven Kloves | 1396 |
| 25 | A City of Sadness | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 1761 |
| 26 | Enemies, A Love Story | Paul Mazursky | 1773 |
| 27 | The War of the Roses | Danny DeVito | 1784 |
| 28 | Parenthood | Ron Howard | 1812 |
| 29 | Jesus of Montreal | Denys Arcand | 1924 |
| 30 | Major League | David S. Ward | 1925 |
| 31 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | 1958 |
| 32 | Mystery Train | Jim Jarmusch | 2034 |
| 33 | A Grand Day Out | Nick Park | 2046 |
| 34 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Joe Johnston | 2053 |
| 35 | Kiki’s Delivery Service | Hayao Miyazaki | 2111 |
| 36 | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Jeremiah S. Chechik | 2114 |
| 37 | Sweetie | Jane Campion | 2163 |
| 38 | Casualties of War | Brian De Palma | 2300 |
| 39 | Lethal Weapon 2 | Richard Donner | 2355 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
