**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Schindler's List** | Steven Spielberg | 34 |
2 | Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | 98 |
3 | Jurassic Park | Steven Spielberg | 143 |
4 | Three Colors: Blue | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 294 |
5 | The Nightmare before Christmas | Henry Selick | 349 |
6 | The Piano* | Jane Campion | 358 |
7 | Dazed and Confused | Richard Linklater | 377 |
8 | Naked | Mike Leigh | 488 |
9 | Short Cuts | Robert Altman | 537 |
10 | Farewell My Concubine | Kaige Chen | 625 |
11 | The Remains of the Day* | James Ivory | 649 |
12 | True Romance | Tony Scott | 671 |
13 | Sleepless in Seattle | Nora Ephron | 792 |
14 | The Age of Innocence | Martin Scorsese | 800 |
15 | The Fugitive* | Andrew Davis | 816 |
16 | Philadelphia | Jonathan Demme | 973 |
17 | Rudy | David Anspaugh | 1125 |
18 | Cool Runnings | Jon Turteltaub | 1173 |
19 | Sonatine | Takeshi Kitano | 1252 |
20 | Carlito's Way | Brian De Palma | 1290 |
21 | Tombstone | George P. Cosmatos | 1330 |
22 | The Sandlot | David M. Evans | 1435 |
23 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Chris Columbus | 1497 |
24 | In the Name of the Father* | Jim Sheridan | 1502 |
25 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Lasse Hallström | 1518 |
26 | The Joy Luck Club | Wayne Wang | 1556 |
27 | Menace II Society | Albert and Allen Hughes | 1558 |
28 | A Bronx Tale | Robert De Niro | 1568 |
29 | The Wrong Trousers | Nick Park | 1614 |
30 | The Puppet Master | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 1658 |
31 | In the Line of Fire | Wolfgang Petersen | 1803 |
32 | The Wedding Banquet | Ang Lee | 1811 |
33 | Gettysburg | Ronald F. Maxwell | 1859 |
34 | The Secret Garden | Agnieszka Holland | 1894 |
35 | Blue | Derek Jarman | 1900 |
36 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Steven Zaillian | 1905 |
37 | What's Love Got to Do with It | Brian Gibson | 1906 |
38 | Dave | Ivan Reitman | 2087 |
39 | Caro Diario | Nanni Moretti | 2180 |
40 | Stalingrad | Joseph Vilsmaier | 2218 |
41 | Six Degrees of Separation | Fred Schepisi | 2294 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Pulp Fiction* | Quentin Tarantino | 11 |
2 | The Shawshank Redemption* | Frank Darabont | 58 |
3 | Forrest Gump** | Robert Zemeckis | 120 |
4 | The Lion King | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 194 |
5 | Hoop Dreams | Steve James | 242 |
6 | Three Colors: Red | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 246 |
7 | The Professional | Luc Besson | 324 |
8 | Clerks. | Kevin Smith | 343 |
9 | Four Weddings and a Funeral* | Mike Newell | 365 |
10 | Ed Wood | Tim Burton | 438 |
11 | Speed | Jan de Bont | 460 |
12 | Chungking Express | Kar-Wai Wong | 464 |
13 | Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | 499 |
14 | Three Colors: White | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 548 |
15 | Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson | 737 |
16 | Sátántangó | Béla Tarr | 780 |
17 | Dumb & Dumber | Peter Farrelly | 1012 |
18 | Muriel's Wedding | P.J. Hogan | 1041 |
19 | The Last Seduction | John Dahl | 1080 |
20 | Natural Born Killers | Oliver Stone | 1118 |
21 | True Lies | James Cameron | 1136 |
22 | Eat Drink Man Woman | Ang Lee | 1319 |
23 | The Crow | Alex Proyas | 1363 |
24 | Little Women | Gillian Armstrong | 1371 |
25 | Through the Olive Trees | Abbas Kiarostami | 1381 |
26 | Quiz Show* | Robert Redford | 1512 |
27 | Shallow Grave | Danny Boyle | 1585 |
28 | Before the Rain | Milcho Manchevski | 1586 |
29 | The Mask | Chuck Russell | 1608 |
30 | Once Were Warriors | Lee Tamahori | 1648 |
31 | Burnt by the Sun | Nikita Mikhalkov | 1665 |
32 | To Live | Yimou Zhang | 1671 |
33 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | Tom Shadyac | 1704 |
34 | Exotica | Atom Egoyan | 1730 |
35 | Il Postino* | Michael Radford | 1745 |
36 | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles | Neil Jordan | 1786 |
37 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Stephan Elliott | 1791 |
38 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Joel Coen | 1943 |
39 | Vanya on 42nd Street | Louis Malle | 2006 |
40 | Bullets over Broadway | Woody Allen | 2094 |
41 | Clear and Present Danger | Phillip Noyce | 2111 |
42 | Drunken Master II | Chia-Liang Liu | 2152 |
43 | Blue Chips | William Friedkin | 2326 |
44 | Legends of the Fall | Edward Zwick | 2418 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Toy Story | John Lasseter | 47 |
2 | The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | 94 |
3 | Seven | David Fincher | 114 |
4 | Heat | Michael Mann | 152 |
5 | Braveheart** | Mel Gibson | 204 |
6 | Twelve Monkeys | Terry Gilliam | 337 |
7 | Before Sunrise | Richard Linklater | 380 |
8 | Clueless | Amy Heckerling | 416 |
9 | Casino | Martin Scorsese | 443 |
10 | Sense and Sensibility* | Ang Lee | 458 |
11 | Ghost in the Shell | Mamoru Oshii | 475 |
12 | Babe* | Chris Noonan | 491 |
13 | Hate | Mathieu Kassovitz | 535 |
14 | Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch | 633 |
15 | Apollo 13* | Ron Howard | 791 |
16 | Safe | Todd Haynes | 844 |
17 | The City of Lost Children | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 865 |
18 | Underground | Emir Kusturica | 871 |
19 | Kids | Larry Clark | 1074 |
20 | The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood | 1092 |
21 | Dead Man Walking | Tim Robbins | 1178 |
22 | Leaving Las Vegas | Mike Figgis | 1210 |
23 | Get Shorty | Barry Sonnenfeld | 1328 |
24 | Showgirls | Paul Verhoeven | 1335 |
25 | Welcome to the Dollhouse | Todd Solondz | 1487 |
26 | To Die For | Gus Van Sant | 1491 |
27 | Richard III | Richard Loncraine | 1612 |
28 | Nixon | Oliver Stone | 1630 |
29 | Desperado | Robert Rodriguez | 1654 |
30 | Die Hard with a Vengeance | John McTiernan | 1679 |
31 | Land and Freedom | Ken Loach | 1694 |
32 | Living in Oblivion | Tom DiCillo | 1706 |
33 | Antonia's Line | Marleen Gorris | 1766 |
34 | GoldenEye | Martin Campbell | 1777 |
35 | The American President | Rob Reiner | 1790 |
36 | Smoke | Wayne Wang | 1818 |
37 | Strange Days | Kathryn Bigelow | 1964 |
38 | A Little Princess | Alfonso Cuarón | 2013 |
39 | Whisper of the Heart | Yoshifumi Kondo | 2052 |
40 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | 2054 |
41 | Friday | F. Gary Gray | 2117 |
42 | While You Were Sleeping | Jon Turteltaub | 2136 |
43 | Fallen Angels | Kar-Wai Wong | 2219 |
44 | A Close Shave | Nick Park | 2335 |
45 | Bad Boys | Michael Bay | 2413 |
46 | Billy Madison | Tamra Davis | 2421 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.