**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Goodfellas* | Martin Scorsese | 26 |
| 2 | Dances with Wolves** | Kevin Costner | 213 |
| 3 | Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | 287 |
| 4 | Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | 298 |
| 5 | Ghost* | Jerry Zucker | 416 |
| 6 | The Godfather: Part III* | Francis Ford Coppola | 432 |
| 7 | Miller's Crossing | Joel Coen | 460 |
| 8 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | 729 |
| 9 | Close Up | Abbas Kiarostami | 762 |
| 10 | The Grifters | Stephen Frears | 790 |
| 11 | La Femme Nikita | Luc Besson | 810 |
| 12 | Total Recall | Paul Verhoeven | 846 |
| 13 | Jacob's Ladder | Adrian Lyne | 924 |
| 14 | Ju Dou | Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang | 946 |
| 15 | Home Alone | Chris Columbus | 1158 |
| 16 | Back to the Future Part III | Robert Zemeckis | 1192 |
| 17 | Misery | Rob Reiner | 1202 |
| 18 | An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion | 1265 |
| 19 | King of New York | Abel Ferrara | 1333 |
| 20 | Metropolitan | Whit Stillman | 1423 |
| 21 | The Hunt for Red October | John McTiernan | 1468 |
| 22 | Europa Europa | Agnieszka Holland | 1572 |
| 23 | The Nasty Girl | Michael Verhoeven | 1602 |
| 24 | Truly, Madly, Deeply | Anthony Minghella | 1608 |
| 25 | Wild at Heart | David Lynch | 1665 |
| 26 | Life Is Sweet | Mike Leigh | 1669 |
| 27 | Reversal of Fortune | Barbet Schroeder | 1762 |
| 28 | Trust | Hal Hartley | 1807 |
| 29 | Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston | 1818 |
| 30 | Die Hard 2 | Renny Harlin | 1819 |
| 31 | Pump Up the Volume | Allan Moyle | 1868 |
| 32 | Days of Being Wild | Kar Wai Wong | 2040 |
| 33 | Henry & June | Philip Kaufman | 2069 |
| 34 | Dick Tracy | Warren Beatty | 2098 |
| 35 | American Dream | Barbara Kopple | 2132 |
| 36 | To Sleep with Anger | Charles Burnett | 2203 |
| 37 | Awakenings* | Penny Marshall | 2232 |
| 38 | Tremors | Ron Underwood | 2309 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Silence of the Lambs** | Jonathan Demme | 30 |
| 2 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | James Cameron | 98 |
| 3 | Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott | 228 |
| 4 | Beauty and the Beast* | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 246 |
| 5 | Raise the Red Lantern | Yimou Zhang | 363 |
| 6 | JFK* | Oliver Stone | 423 |
| 7 | Delicatessen | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 563 |
| 8 | Boyz N the Hood | John Singleton | 568 |
| 9 | Barton Fink | Joel Coen | 907 |
| 10 | My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant | 991 |
| 11 | The Commitments | Alan Parker | 1026 |
| 12 | The Double Life of Veronique | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1035 |
| 13 | La Belle noiseuse | Jacques Rivette | 1050 |
| 14 | Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow | 1077 |
| 15 | A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang | 1108 |
| 16 | Slacker | Richard Linklater | 1142 |
| 17 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1178 |
| 18 | Fried Green Tomatoes | Jon Avnet | 1245 |
| 19 | The Fisher King | Terry Gilliam | 1455 |
| 20 | City Slickers | Ron Underwood | 1614 |
| 21 | Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | 1618 |
| 22 | Cape Fear | Martin Scorsese | 1646 |
| 23 | Zentropa | Lars von Trier | 1716 |
| 24 | The Lovers on the Bridge | Leos Carax | 1758 |
| 25 | Bugsy* | Barry Levinson | 1770 |
| 26 | L.A. Story | Mick Jackson | 1786 |
| 27 | City of Hope | John Sayles | 1836 |
| 28 | Mississippi Masala | Mira Nair | 1842 |
| 29 | Once Upon a Time in China | Hark Tsui | 2090 |
| 30 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Nicholas Meyer | 2158 |
| 31 | The Doors | Oliver Stone | 2164 |
| 32 | Dead Again | Kenneth Branagh | 2220 |
| 33 | Proof | Jocelyn Moorhouse | 2273 |
| 34 | The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear | David Zucker | 2279 |
| 35 | Edward II | Derek Jarman | 2283 |
| 36 | Van Gogh | Maurice Pialat | 2345 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | 66 |
| 2 | Unforgiven** | Clint Eastwood | 73 |
| 3 | The Last of the Mohicans | Michael Mann | 468 |
| 4 | The Player | Robert Altman | 492 |
| 5 | The Crying Game* | Neil Jordan | 547 |
| 6 | Malcolm X | Spike Lee | 582 |
| 7 | Glengarry Glen Ross | James Foley | 612 |
| 8 | Basic Instinct | Paul Verhoeven | 636 |
| 9 | A League of Their Own | Penny Marshall | 641 |
| 10 | Hard Boiled | John Woo | 693 |
| 11 | Like Water for Chocolate | Alfonso Arau | 705 |
| 12 | Aladdin | Ron Clements and John Musker | 750 |
| 13 | Strictly Ballroom | Baz Luhrmann | 864 |
| 14 | Howards End* | James Ivory | 933 |
| 15 | Braindead | Peter Jackson | 969 |
| 16 | Alien³ | David Fincher | 1164 |
| 17 | Wayne's World | Penelope Spheeris | 1180 |
| 18 | A Few Good Men* | Rob Reiner | 1183 |
| 19 | Man Bites Dog | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde | 1201 |
| 20 | Bad Lieutenant | Abel Ferrara | 1238 |
| 21 | Candyman | Bernard Rose | 1240 |
| 22 | The Long Day Closes | Terence Davies | 1250 |
| 23 | Batman Returns | Tim Burton | 1296 |
| 24 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch | 1297 |
| 25 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Francis Ford Coppola | 1320 |
| 26 | One False Move | Carl Franklin | 1334 |
| 27 | Army of Darkness | Sam Raimi | 1360 |
| 28 | White Men Can't Jump | Ron Shelton | 1421 |
| 29 | A Midnight Clear | Keith Gordon | 1454 |
| 30 | The Story of Qiu Ju | Yimou Zhang | 1565 |
| 31 | Husbands and Wives | Woody Allen | 1581 |
| 32 | Orlando | Sally Potter | 1748 |
| 33 | Scent of a Woman* | Martin Brest | 1753 |
| 34 | And Life Goes on | Abbas Kiarostami | 1828 |
| 35 | El Mariachi | Robert Rodriguez | 1889 |
| 36 | Indochine | Régis Wargnier | 1921 |
| 37 | Bob Roberts | Tim Robbins | 1922 |
| 38 | My Cousin Vinny | Jonathan Lynn | 1940 |
| 39 | Léolo | Jean-Claude Lauzon | 1953 |
| 40 | A River Runs Through It | Robert Redford | 1954 |
| 41 | Un coeur en hiver | Claude Sautet | 2032 |
| 42 | The Dream of Light | Víctor Erice | 2039 |
| 43 | Chaplin | Richard Attenborough | 2072 |
| 44 | Belle Epoque | Fernando Trueba | 2079 |
| 45 | Jamón, jamón | J.J. Bigas Luna | 2082 |
| 46 | Enchanted April | Mike Newell | 2176 |
| 47 | Lorenzo's Oil | George Miller | 2200 |
| 48 | Baraka | Ron Fricke | 2213 |
| 49 | Gas Food Lodging | Allison Anders | 2342 |
| 50 | Singles | Cameron Crowe | 2372 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
