**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Goodfellas* | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
| 2 | Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | 203 |
| 3 | Dances with Wolves** | Kevin Costner | 318 |
| 4 | Miller's Crossing | Joel Coen | 466 |
| 5 | Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | 469 |
| 6 | Total Recall | Paul Verhoeven | 487 |
| 7 | Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | 521 |
| 8 | Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston | 615 |
| 9 | Ghost* | Jerry Zucker | 740 |
| 10 | Misery | Rob Reiner | 745 |
| 11 | The Godfather: Part III* | Francis Ford Coppola | 774 |
| 12 | Home Alone | Chris Columbus | 822 |
| 13 | Wild at Heart | David Lynch | 1157 |
| 14 | Slacker | Richard Linklater | 1207 |
| 15 | King of New York | Abel Ferrara | 1255 |
| 16 | The Grifters | Stephen Frears | 1261 |
| 17 | Jacob's Ladder | Adrian Lyne | 1271 |
| 18 | La Femme Nikita | Luc Besson | 1309 |
| 19 | Metropolitan | Whit Stillman | 1349 |
| 20 | Days of Being Wild | Kar-Wai Wong | 1597 |
| 21 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | 1641 |
| 22 | An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion | 1680 |
| 23 | Back to the Future Part III | Robert Zemeckis | 1697 |
| 24 | Europa Europa | Agnieszka Holland | 1708 |
| 25 | Ju Dou | Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang | 1872 |
| 26 | Awakenings* | Penny Marshall | 1902 |
| 27 | The Witches | Nicolas Roeg | 1949 |
| 28 | Die Hard 2 | Renny Harlin | 2022 |
| 29 | Trust | Hal Hartley | 2203 |
| 30 | The Hunt for Red October | John McTiernan | 2229 |
| 31 | Tremors | Ron Underwood | 2276 |
| 32 | Akira Kurosawa's Dreams | Akira Kurosawa | 2285 |
| 33 | Twin Peaks Pilot | David Lynch | 2301 |
| 34 | Reversal of Fortune | Barbet Schroeder | 2538 |
| 35 | Life Is Sweet | Mike Leigh | 2633 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Silence of the Lambs** | Jonathan Demme | 31 |
| 2 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | James Cameron | 66 |
| 3 | Beauty and the Beast* | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 154 |
| 4 | Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott | 379 |
| 5 | Raise the Red Lantern | Yimou Zhang | 454 |
| 6 | JFK* | Oliver Stone | 529 |
| 7 | Boyz N the Hood | John Singleton | 649 |
| 8 | Delicatessen | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 654 |
| 9 | Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow | 661 |
| 10 | A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang | 729 |
| 11 | Barton Fink | Joel Coen | 733 |
| 12 | My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant | 769 |
| 13 | The Double Life of Veronique | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1004 |
| 14 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1062 |
| 15 | Cape Fear | Martin Scorsese | 1179 |
| 16 | La Belle noiseuse | Jacques Rivette | 1254 |
| 17 | 35 Up | Michael Apted | 1322 |
| 18 | Daughters of the Dust | Julie Dash | 1442 |
| 19 | Fried Green Tomatoes | Jon Avnet | 1556 |
| 20 | L.A. Story | Mick Jackson | 1618 |
| 21 | Zentropa | Lars von Trier | 1757 |
| 22 | The Lovers on the Bridge | Leos Carax | 1810 |
| 23 | Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | 1875 |
| 24 | Only Yesterday | Isao Takahata | 2051 |
| 25 | Poison | Todd Haynes | 2076 |
| 26 | The Rocketeer | Joe Johnston | 2298 |
| 27 | The Last Boy Scout | Tony Scott | 2466 |
| 28 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Nicholas Meyer | 2468 |
| 29 | The Fisher King | Terry Gilliam | 2497 |
| 30 | Once Upon a Time in China | Hark Tsui | 2524 |
| 31 | Defending Your Life | Albert Brooks | 2539 |
| 32 | Van Gogh | Maurice Pialat | 2619 |
| 33 | The Doors | Oliver Stone | 2805 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | 80 |
| 2 | Unforgiven** | Clint Eastwood | 95 |
| 3 | The Last of the Mohicans | Michael Mann | 463 |
| 4 | Aladdin | Ron Clements and John Musker | 535 |
| 5 | The Player | Robert Altman | 551 |
| 6 | Hard Boiled | John Woo | 567 |
| 7 | A League of Their Own | Penny Marshall | 591 |
| 8 | Batman Returns | Tim Burton | 698 |
| 9 | Malcolm X | Spike Lee | 746 |
| 10 | Basic Instinct | Paul Verhoeven | 796 |
| 11 | Glengarry Glen Ross | James Foley | 914 |
| 12 | Orlando | Sally Potter | 955 |
| 13 | The Crying Game* | Neil Jordan | 958 |
| 14 | Bad Lieutenant | Abel Ferrara | 961 |
| 15 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch | 1189 |
| 16 | Scent of a Woman* | Martin Brest | 1260 |
| 17 | Wayne's World | Penelope Spheeris | 1312 |
| 18 | A Few Good Men* | Rob Reiner | 1335 |
| 19 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Francis Ford Coppola | 1350 |
| 20 | Man Bites Dog | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde | 1353 |
| 21 | Braindead | Peter Jackson | 1358 |
| 22 | Army of Darkness | Sam Raimi | 1399 |
| 23 | One False Move | Carl Franklin | 1535 |
| 24 | My Cousin Vinny | Jonathan Lynn | 1557 |
| 25 | White Men Can't Jump | Ron Shelton | 1612 |
| 26 | Howards End* | James Ivory | 1620 |
| 27 | El Mariachi | Robert Rodriguez | 1685 |
| 28 | The Long Day Closes | Terence Davies | 1701 |
| 29 | Candyman | Bernard Rose | 1705 |
| 30 | Baraka | Ron Fricke | 1720 |
| 31 | Porco Rosso | Hayao Miyazaki | 1737 |
| 32 | The Dream of Light | Víctor Erice | 1742 |
| 33 | And Life Goes on | Abbas Kiarostami | 1943 |
| 34 | Strictly Ballroom | Baz Luhrmann | 2059 |
| 35 | Supercop | Stanley Tong | 2180 |
| 36 | Lessons of Darkness | Werner Herzog | 2287 |
| 37 | Under Siege | Andrew Davis | 2341 |
| 38 | Husbands and Wives | Woody Allen | 2408 |
| 39 | Brother's Keeper | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | 2420 |
| 40 | The Muppet Christmas Carol | Brian Henson | 2527 |
| 41 | Léolo | Jean-Claude Lauzon | 2559 |
| 42 | The Mighty Ducks | Stephen Herek | 2567 |
| 43 | Like Water for Chocolate | Alfonso Arau | 2683 |
| 44 | Chaplin | Richard Attenborough | 2770 |
| 45 | A River Runs Through It | Robert Redford | 2773 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
