| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 18 |
| 2 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 32 |
| 3 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 35 |
| 4 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 52 |
| 5 | WALL•E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | 55 |
| 6 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 56 |
| 7 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 58 |
| 8 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 82 |
| 9 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 89 |
| 10 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Kar-Wai Wong | 94 |
| 11 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 101 |
| 12 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 103 |
| 13 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Ang Lee | 111 |
| 14 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter | 112 |
| 15 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 119 |
| 16 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 125 |
| 17 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 136 |
| 18 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 137 |
| 19 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 140 |
| 20 | Oldboy | 2003 | Park Chan-wook | 141 |
| 21 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | 145 |
| 22 | Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron | 149 |
| 23 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 153 |
| 24 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton | 163 |
| 25 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | 164 |
| 26 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 166 |
| 27 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | 172 |
| 28 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 184 |
| 29 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | 193 |
| 30 | Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright | 214 |
| 31 | The Hurt Locker | 2008 | Kathryn Bigelow | 221 |
| 32 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 244 |
| 33 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino | 262 |
| 34 | Ratatouille | 2007 | Brad Bird | 285 |
| 35 | Let the Right One in | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | 290 |
| 36 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | 293 |
| 37 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 305 |
| 38 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater | 314 |
| 39 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | 315 |
| 40 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 327 |
| 41 | District 9 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | 329 |
| 42 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 333 |
| 43 | Persepolis | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 334 |
| 44 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 338 |
| 45 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | 341 |
| 46 | Moulin Rouge! | 2001 | Baz Luhrmann | 350 |
| 47 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 358 |
| 48 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | 363 |
| 49 | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Ari Folman | 367 |
| 50 | Iron Man | 2008 | Jon Favreau | 376 |
| 51 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 384 |
| 52 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | 392 |
| 53 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle | 403 |
| 54 | 28 Days Later… | 2002 | Danny Boyle | 409 |
| 55 | Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 413 |
| 56 | The Notebook | 2004 | Nick Cassavetes | 439 |
| 57 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Quentin Tarantino | 445 |
| 58 | Yi yi: A One and a Two... | 2000 | Edward Yang | 457 |
| 59 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi | 459 |
| 60 | Y tu mamá también | 2001 | Alfonso Cuarón | 462 |
| 61 | Juno | 2007 | Jason Reitman | 468 |
| 62 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | Clint Eastwood | 475 |
| 63 | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | 2004 | Adam McKay | 479 |
| 64 | The Wrestler | 2008 | Darren Aronofsky | 483 |
| 65 | American Psycho | 2000 | Mary Harron | 493 |
| 66 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 494 |
| 67 | Moon | 2009 | Duncan Jones | 495 |
| 68 | Mean Girls | 2004 | Mark Waters | 499 |
| 69 | Hidden | 2005 | Michael Haneke | 501 |
| 70 | Love Actually | 2003 | Richard Curtis | 503 |
| 71 | Zodiac | 2007 | David Fincher | 507 |
| 72 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi | 516 |
| 73 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams | 522 |
| 74 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | 524 |
| 75 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 526 |
| 76 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 534 |
| 77 | Napoleon Dynamite | 2004 | Jared Hess | 535 |
| 78 | The Royal Tenenbaums | 2001 | Wes Anderson | 546 |
| 79 | Coraline | 2009 | Henry Selick | 552 |
| 80 | Hot Fuzz | 2007 | Edgar Wright | 561 |
| 81 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Wes Anderson | 564 |
| 82 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 572 |
| 83 | Little Miss Sunshine | 2006 | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris | 579 |
| 84 | Atonement | 2007 | Joe Wright | 588 |
| 85 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki | 599 |
| 86 | Love & Basketball | 2000 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | 602 |
| 87 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell | 605 |
| 88 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | 2006 | Larry Charles | 606 |
| 89 | Superbad | 2007 | Greg Mottola | 610 |
| 90 | Amores perros | 2000 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 612 |
| 91 | In Bruges | 2008 | Martin McDonagh | 631 |
| 92 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 632 |
| 93 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | Steve Box and Nick Park | 634 |
| 94 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2007 | David Yates | 635 |
| 95 | The Others | 2001 | Alejandro Amenábar | 639 |
| 96 | Man on Wire | 2008 | James Marsh | 644 |
| 97 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie | 645 |
| 98 | The Triplets of Belleville | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet | 646 |
| 99 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | David Yates | 653 |
| 100 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg | 655 |
| 101 | Memories of Murder | 2003 | Bong Joon Ho | 657 |
| 102 | Battle Royale | 2000 | Kinji Fukasaku | 664 |
| 103 | X2 | 2003 | Bryan Singer | 675 |
| 104 | Bend It Like Beckham | 2002 | Gurinder Chadha | 676 |
| 105 | Grizzly Man | 2005 | Werner Herzog | 682 |
| 106 | Punch-Drunk Love | 2002 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 689 |
| 107 | A Prophet | 2009 | Jacques Audiard | 692 |
| 108 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 694 |
| 109 | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | 699 |
| 110 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood | 707 |
| 111 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai Keung Lau and Alan Mak | 711 |
| 112 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | 713 |
| 113 | Talk to Her | 2002 | Pedro Almodóvar | 714 |
| 114 | 300 | 2006 | Zack Snyder | 726 |
| 115 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 731 |
| 116 | Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 733 |
| 117 | Bridget Jones's Diary | 2001 | Sharon Maguire | 736 |
| 118 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 737 |
| 119 | Sideways | 2004 | Alexander Payne | 742 |
| 120 | The Descent | 2005 | Neil Marshall | 746 |
| 121 | The Host | 2006 | Bong Joon Ho | 747 |
| 122 | Into the Wild | 2007 | Sean Penn | 749 |
| 123 | Serenity | 2005 | Joss Whedon | 755 |
| 124 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | 763 |
| 125 | The 40 Year Old Virgin | 2005 | Judd Apatow | 767 |
| 126 | A History of Violence | 2005 | David Cronenberg | 769 |
| 127 | The Hangover | 2009 | Todd Phillips | 774 |
| 128 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 2007 | Cristian Mungiu | 778 |
| 129 | The Bourne Identity | 2002 | Doug Liman | 790 |
| 130 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George | 794 |
| 131 | Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | Michael Moore | 795 |
| 132 | The Orphanage | 2007 | J.A. Bayona | 803 |
| 133 | Hero | 2002 | Yimou Zhang | 808 |
| 134 | Milk | 2008 | Gus Van Sant | 811 |
| 135 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | David Fincher | 824 |
| 136 | Saw | 2004 | James Wan | 828 |
| 137 | Black Hawk Down | 2001 | Ridley Scott | 837 |
| 138 | (500) Days of Summer | 2009 | Marc Webb | 842 |
| 139 | Remember the Titans | 2000 | Boaz Yakin | 846 |
| 140 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 869 |
| 141 | The Devil's Backbone | 2001 | Guillermo del Toro | 873 |
| 142 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 2000 | Béla Tarr | 874 |
| 143 | The Bourne Supremacy | 2004 | Paul Greengrass | 878 |
| 144 | Once | 2006 | John Carney | 886 |
| 145 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas | 887 |
| 146 | Kung Fu Hustle | 2004 | Stephen Chow | 897 |
| 147 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | Julian Schnabel | 902 |
| 148 | The Gleaners & I | 2000 | Agnès Varda | 927 |
| 149 | The White Ribbon | 2009 | Michael Haneke | 928 |
| 150 | Paprika | 2006 | Satoshi Kon | 933 |
| 151 | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara | 2003 | Errol Morris | 959 |
| 152 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | 962 |
| 153 | Pride & Prejudice | 2005 | Joe Wright | 968 |
| 154 | Ghost World | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | 970 |
| 155 | Murderball | 2005 | Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro | 973 |
| 156 | Elf | 2003 | Jon Favreau | 975 |
| 157 | The School of Rock | 2003 | Richard Linklater | 977 |
| 158 | [Rec] | 2007 | Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza | 994 |
| 159 | Chicken Run | 2000 | Peter Lord and Nick Park | 995 |
| 160 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | Tim Burton | 998 |
| 161 | Mary and Max | 2009 | Adam Elliot | 1019 |
| 162 | The Best of Youth | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana | 1024 |
| 163 | High Fidelity | 2000 | Stephen Frears | 1027 |
| 164 | Capturing the Friedmans | 2003 | Andrew Jarecki | 1031 |
| 165 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | 1038 |
| 166 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | 1046 |
| 167 | Taken | 2008 | Pierre Morel | 1048 |
| 168 | Enchanted | 2007 | Kevin Lima | 1049 |
| 169 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze | 1050 |
| 170 | 25th Hour | 2002 | Spike Lee | 1051 |
| 171 | Watchmen | 2009 | Zack Snyder | 1054 |
| 172 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Kim Ki-duk | 1064 |
| 173 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan | 1065 |
| 174 | Synecdoche, New York | 2008 | Charlie Kaufman | 1078 |
| 175 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 1090 |
| 176 | Ponyo | 2008 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1092 |
| 177 | Best in Show | 2000 | Christopher Guest | 1095 |
| 178 | Shrek 2 | 2004 | Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon | 1114 |
| 179 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Peter Weir | 1129 |
| 180 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1142 |
| 181 | Sexy Beast | 2000 | Jonathan Glazer | 1147 |
| 182 | Fish Tank | 2009 | Andrea Arnold | 1158 |
| 183 | Garden State | 2004 | Zach Braff | 1164 |
| 184 | X-Men | 2000 | Bryan Singer | 1183 |
| 185 | Erin Brockovich | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 1187 |
| 186 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 1188 |
| 187 | Miracle | 2004 | Gavin O'Connor | 1193 |
| 188 | 3:10 to Yuma | 2007 | James Mangold | 1195 |
| 189 | A Serious Man | 2009 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 1203 |
| 190 | 49 Up | 2005 | Michael Apted | 1209 |
| 191 | Wet Hot American Summer | 2001 | David Wain | 1214 |
| 192 | Billy Elliot | 2000 | Stephen Daldry | 1215 |
| 193 | Primer | 2004 | Shane Carruth | 1222 |
| 194 | This Is England | 2006 | Shane Meadows | 1225 |
| 195 | Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India | 2001 | Ashutosh Gowariker | 1228 |
| 196 | Mamma Mia! | 2008 | Phyllida Lloyd | 1229 |
| 197 | Brick | 2005 | Rian Johnson | 1230 |
| 198 | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | 2008 | Nicholas Stoller | 1236 |
| 199 | Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire | 2009 | Lee Daniels | 1251 |
| 200 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 2005 | Shane Black | 1254 |
