**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Goodfellas* | Martin Scorsese | 14 |
| 2 | Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | 199 |
| 3 | Dances with Wolves** | Kevin Costner | 356 |
| 4 | Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston | 412 |
| 5 | Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | 443 |
| 6 | Total Recall | Paul Verhoeven | 511 |
| 7 | Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | 531 |
| 8 | Miller's Crossing | Joel Coen | 553 |
| 9 | Misery | Rob Reiner | 585 |
| 10 | Home Alone | Chris Columbus | 618 |
| 11 | Ghost* | Jerry Zucker | 798 |
| 12 | The Godfather: Part III* | Francis Ford Coppola | 916 |
| 13 | Wild at Heart | David Lynch | 1152 |
| 14 | Jacob's Ladder | Adrian Lyne | 1168 |
| 15 | Days of Being Wild | Kar-Wai Wong | 1329 |
| 16 | Back to the Future Part III | Robert Zemeckis | 1502 |
| 17 | Europa Europa | Agnieszka Holland | 1528 |
| 18 | King of New York | Abel Ferrara | 1568 |
| 19 | Slacker | Richard Linklater | 1577 |
| 20 | An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion | 1593 |
| 21 | The Hunt for Red October | John McTiernan | 1633 |
| 22 | La Femme Nikita | Luc Besson | 1760 |
| 23 | The Witches | Nicolas Roeg | 1890 |
| 24 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | 2043 |
| 25 | The Grifters | Stephen Frears | 2052 |
| 26 | House Party | Reginald Hudlin | 2058 |
| 27 | Awakenings* | Penny Marshall | 2297 |
| 28 | Tremors | Ron Underwood | 2312 |
| 29 | Akira Kurosawa's Dreams | Akira Kurosawa | 2328 |
| 30 | Trust | Hal Hartley | 2372 |
| 31 | Darkman | Sam Raimi | 2464 |
| 32 | Die Hard 2 | Renny Harlin | 2471 |
| 33 | To Sleep with Anger | Charles Burnett | 2504 |
| 34 | Reversal of Fortune | Barbet Schroeder | 2583 |
| 35 | Ju Dou | Yimou Zhang | 2714 |
| 36 | Cry-Baby | John Waters | 2720 |
| 37 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | Joe Dante | 2800 |
| 38 | Dick Tracy | Warren Beatty | 2969 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Silence of the Lambs** | Jonathan Demme | 20 |
| 2 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | James Cameron | 54 |
| 3 | Beauty and the Beast* | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 106 |
| 4 | Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott | 402 |
| 5 | Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow | 470 |
| 6 | Boyz N the Hood | John Singleton | 497 |
| 7 | Raise the Red Lantern | Yimou Zhang | 509 |
| 8 | A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang | 659 |
| 9 | My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant | 728 |
| 10 | Delicatessen | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 730 |
| 11 | JFK* | Oliver Stone | 745 |
| 12 | Daughters of the Dust | Julie Dash | 814 |
| 13 | Barton Fink | Joel Coen | 905 |
| 14 | The Double Life of Veronique | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 964 |
| 15 | 35 Up | Michael Apted | 1153 |
| 16 | Cape Fear | Martin Scorsese | 1160 |
| 17 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1268 |
| 18 | The Rocketeer | Joe Johnston | 1324 |
| 19 | Only Yesterday | Isao Takahata | 1477 |
| 20 | La Belle noiseuse | Jacques Rivette | 1698 |
| 21 | My Girl | Howard Zieff | 1811 |
| 22 | Fried Green Tomatoes | Jon Avnet | 1824 |
| 23 | L.A. Story | Mick Jackson | 2051 |
| 24 | One False Move | Carl Franklin | 2150 |
| 25 | Poison | Todd Haynes | 2217 |
| 26 | Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | 2227 |
| 27 | The Lovers on the Bridge | Leos Carax | 2248 |
| 28 | Zentropa | Lars von Trier | 2440 |
| 29 | The Addams Family | Barry Sonnenfeld | 2631 |
| 30 | The Fisher King | Terry Gilliam | 2638 |
| 31 | Once Upon a Time in China | Hark Tsui | 2650 |
| 32 | Hook | Steven Spielberg | 2708 |
| 33 | The Last Boy Scout | Tony Scott | 2755 |
| 34 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Nicholas Meyer | 2771 |
| 35 | The Commitments | Alan Parker | 2824 |
| 36 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Kevin Reynolds | 2910 |
| 37 | Night on Earth | Jim Jarmusch | 2914 |
| 38 | City Slickers | Ron Underwood | 2948 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | 95 |
| 2 | Unforgiven** | Clint Eastwood | 120 |
| 3 | A League of Their Own | Penny Marshall | 417 |
| 4 | Aladdin | Ron Clements and John Musker | 427 |
| 5 | The Last of the Mohicans | Michael Mann | 541 |
| 6 | Malcolm X | Spike Lee | 555 |
| 7 | Batman Returns | Tim Burton | 560 |
| 8 | Hard Boiled | John Woo | 649 |
| 9 | Basic Instinct | Paul Verhoeven | 717 |
| 10 | The Player | Robert Altman | 770 |
| 11 | The Crying Game* | Neil Jordan | 924 |
| 12 | Orlando | Sally Potter | 926 |
| 13 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch | 963 |
| 14 | Wayne's World | Penelope Spheeris | 1071 |
| 15 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Francis Ford Coppola | 1165 |
| 16 | Candyman | Bernard Rose | 1182 |
| 17 | Glengarry Glen Ross | James Foley | 1205 |
| 18 | Braindead | Peter Jackson | 1235 |
| 19 | Army of Darkness | Sam Raimi | 1318 |
| 20 | Bad Lieutenant | Abel Ferrara | 1418 |
| 21 | White Men Can't Jump | Ron Shelton | 1537 |
| 22 | A Few Good Men* | Rob Reiner | 1558 |
| 23 | Scent of a Woman* | Martin Brest | 1572 |
| 24 | Howards End* | James Ivory | 1608 |
| 25 | My Cousin Vinny | Jonathan Lynn | 1638 |
| 26 | The Mighty Ducks | Stephen Herek | 1710 |
| 27 | El Mariachi | Robert Rodriguez | 1779 |
| 28 | Supercop | Stanley Tong | 1790 |
| 29 | Porco Rosso | Hayao Miyazaki | 1902 |
| 30 | The Muppet Christmas Carol | Brian Henson | 1933 |
| 31 | Man Bites Dog | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde | 2131 |
| 32 | Lessons of Darkness | Werner Herzog | 2145 |
| 33 | Baraka | Ron Fricke | 2158 |
| 34 | Cronos | Guillermo del Toro | 2162 |
| 35 | And Life Goes on | Abbas Kiarostami | 2195 |
| 36 | Brother's Keeper | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | 2456 |
| 37 | The Dream of Light | Víctor Erice | 2502 |
| 38 | A River Runs Through It | Robert Redford | 2519 |
| 39 | Patriot Games | Phillip Noyce | 2544 |
| 40 | The Long Day Closes | Terence Davies | 2547 |
| 41 | Singles | Cameron Crowe | 2618 |
| 42 | Juice | Ernest R. Dickerson | 2639 |
| 43 | Boomerang | Reginald Hudlin | 2938 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
