**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Goodfellas* | Martin Scorsese | 27 |
| 2 | Dances with Wolves** | Kevin Costner | 183 |
| 3 | Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | 279 |
| 4 | Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | 308 |
| 5 | The Godfather: Part III* | Francis Ford Coppola | 419 |
| 6 | Ghost* | Jerry Zucker | 434 |
| 7 | Miller's Crossing | Joel Coen | 449 |
| 8 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | 736 |
| 9 | Close Up | Abbas Kiarostami | 776 |
| 10 | The Grifters | Stephen Frears | 783 |
| 11 | Total Recall | Paul Verhoeven | 840 |
| 12 | Ju Dou | Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang | 849 |
| 13 | Jacob's Ladder | Adrian Lyne | 883 |
| 14 | La Femme Nikita | Luc Besson | 927 |
| 15 | Home Alone | Chris Columbus | 1073 |
| 16 | Misery | Rob Reiner | 1118 |
| 17 | Back to the Future Part III | Robert Zemeckis | 1144 |
| 18 | King of New York | Abel Ferrara | 1358 |
| 19 | An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion | 1369 |
| 20 | Truly, Madly, Deeply | Anthony Minghella | 1453 |
| 21 | Metropolitan | Whit Stillman | 1468 |
| 22 | Europa Europa | Agnieszka Holland | 1512 |
| 23 | Life Is Sweet | Mike Leigh | 1588 |
| 24 | The Hunt for Red October | John McTiernan | 1654 |
| 25 | The Nasty Girl | Michael Verhoeven | 1675 |
| 26 | Pump Up the Volume | Allan Moyle | 1710 |
| 27 | Die Hard 2 | Renny Harlin | 1753 |
| 28 | Reversal of Fortune | Barbet Schroeder | 1795 |
| 29 | Wild at Heart | David Lynch | 1823 |
| 30 | Trust | Hal Hartley | 1897 |
| 31 | Days of Being Wild | Kar Wai Wong | 1972 |
| 32 | Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston | 2021 |
| 33 | Dick Tracy | Warren Beatty | 2029 |
| 34 | Akira Kurosawa's Dreams | Akira Kurosawa | 2030 |
| 35 | American Dream | Barbara Kopple | 2062 |
| 36 | Henry & June | Philip Kaufman | 2226 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Silence of the Lambs** | Jonathan Demme | 31 |
| 2 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | James Cameron | 110 |
| 3 | Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott | 216 |
| 4 | Beauty and the Beast* | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 238 |
| 5 | Raise the Red Lantern | Yimou Zhang | 354 |
| 6 | JFK* | Oliver Stone | 445 |
| 7 | Boyz N the Hood | John Singleton | 566 |
| 8 | Delicatessen | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 577 |
| 9 | Barton Fink | Joel Coen | 923 |
| 10 | La Belle noiseuse | Jacques Rivette | 941 |
| 11 | The Double Life of Veronique | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 965 |
| 12 | My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant | 1024 |
| 13 | A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang | 1064 |
| 14 | Slacker | Richard Linklater | 1098 |
| 15 | The Commitments | Alan Parker | 1139 |
| 16 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1343 |
| 17 | The Fisher King | Terry Gilliam | 1351 |
| 18 | Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow | 1380 |
| 19 | Fried Green Tomatoes | Jon Avnet | 1387 |
| 20 | City Slickers | Ron Underwood | 1482 |
| 21 | Bugsy* | Barry Levinson | 1609 |
| 22 | L.A. Story | Mick Jackson | 1625 |
| 23 | The Lovers on the Bridge | Leos Carax | 1666 |
| 24 | And Life Goes on | Abbas Kiarostami | 1759 |
| 25 | Cape Fear | Martin Scorsese | 1769 |
| 26 | City of Hope | John Sayles | 1772 |
| 27 | Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | 1849 |
| 28 | Mississippi Masala | Mira Nair | 1901 |
| 29 | Zentropa | Lars von Trier | 2022 |
| 30 | Proof | Jocelyn Moorhouse | 2184 |
| 31 | Once Upon a Time in China | Hark Tsui | 2221 |
| 32 | Van Gogh | Maurice Pialat | 2240 |
| 33 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Nicholas Meyer | 2268 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Unforgiven** | Clint Eastwood | 67 |
| 2 | Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | 70 |
| 3 | The Last of the Mohicans | Michael Mann | 470 |
| 4 | The Player | Robert Altman | 495 |
| 5 | The Crying Game* | Neil Jordan | 575 |
| 6 | Glengarry Glen Ross | James Foley | 609 |
| 7 | Malcolm X | Spike Lee | 621 |
| 8 | A League of Their Own | Penny Marshall | 648 |
| 9 | Like Water for Chocolate | Alfonso Arau | 670 |
| 10 | Basic Instinct | Paul Verhoeven | 675 |
| 11 | Aladdin | Ron Clements and John Musker | 718 |
| 12 | Strictly Ballroom | Baz Luhrmann | 815 |
| 13 | Hard Boiled | John Woo | 847 |
| 14 | Howards End* | James Ivory | 904 |
| 15 | Braindead | Peter Jackson | 1014 |
| 16 | A Few Good Men* | Rob Reiner | 1092 |
| 17 | Alien³ | David Fincher | 1128 |
| 18 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Francis Ford Coppola | 1167 |
| 19 | The Long Day Closes | Terence Davies | 1207 |
| 20 | Candyman | Bernard Rose | 1210 |
| 21 | Bad Lieutenant | Abel Ferrara | 1272 |
| 22 | Wayne's World | Penelope Spheeris | 1273 |
| 23 | Man Bites Dog | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde | 1275 |
| 24 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch | 1318 |
| 25 | One False Move | Carl Franklin | 1368 |
| 26 | Army of Darkness | Sam Raimi | 1441 |
| 27 | Husbands and Wives | Woody Allen | 1445 |
| 28 | A Midnight Clear | Keith Gordon | 1481 |
| 29 | The Story of Qiu Ju | Yimou Zhang | 1505 |
| 30 | White Men Can't Jump | Ron Shelton | 1528 |
| 31 | Orlando | Sally Potter | 1662 |
| 32 | Un coeur en hiver | Claude Sautet | 1716 |
| 33 | Batman Returns | Tim Burton | 1813 |
| 34 | Indochine | Régis Wargnier | 1847 |
| 35 | My Cousin Vinny | Jonathan Lynn | 1862 |
| 36 | Léolo | Jean-Claude Lauzon | 1878 |
| 37 | A River Runs Through It | Robert Redford | 1880 |
| 38 | Scent of a Woman* | Martin Brest | 1957 |
| 39 | El Mariachi | Robert Rodriguez | 1997 |
| 40 | Belle Epoque | Fernando Trueba | 2011 |
| 41 | Bob Roberts | Tim Robbins | 2019 |
| 42 | Baraka | Ron Fricke | 2090 |
| 43 | Enchanted April | Mike Newell | 2112 |
| 44 | Jamón, jamón | J.J. Bigas Luna | 2203 |
| 45 | Gas Food Lodging | Allison Anders | 2237 |
| 46 | Singles | Cameron Crowe | 2272 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
