| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 201 | The School of Rock | 2003 | Richard Linklater | 1256 |
| 202 | American Splendor | 2003 | Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini | 1258 |
| 203 | Billy Elliot | 2000 | Stephen Daldry | 1264 |
| 204 | Dawn of the Dead | 2004 | Zack Snyder | 1280 |
| 205 | Shrek 2 | 2004 | Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon | 1287 |
| 206 | Dead Man's Shoes | 2004 | Shane Meadows | 1295 |
| 207 | Enchanted | 2007 | Kevin Lima | 1296 |
| 208 | The Host | 2006 | Bong Joon Ho | 1298 |
| 209 | When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | 2006 | Spike Lee | 1300 |
| 210 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1304 |
| 211 | Fish Tank | 2009 | Andrea Arnold | 1306 |
| 212 | In the Loop | 2009 | Armando Iannucci | 1311 |
| 213 | Finding Neverland | 2004 | Marc Forster | 1313 |
| 214 | The Return | 2003 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | 1320 |
| 215 | Hunger | 2008 | Steve McQueen | 1321 |
| 216 | Russian Ark | 2002 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1325 |
| 217 | Kung Fu Panda | 2008 | Mark Osborne and John Stevenson | 1327 |
| 218 | 49 Up | 2005 | Michael Apted | 1329 |
| 219 | The Hours | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | 1334 |
| 220 | Irréversible | 2002 | Gaspar Noé | 1348 |
| 221 | Spellbound | 2002 | Jeffrey Blitz | 1351 |
| 222 | Watchmen | 2009 | Zack Snyder | 1355 |
| 223 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | 2004 | Rawson Marshall Thurber | 1356 |
| 224 | Inland Empire | 2006 | David Lynch | 1361 |
| 225 | Wet Hot American Summer | 2001 | David Wain | 1381 |
| 226 | Capote | 2005 | Bennett Miller | 1386 |
| 227 | A Serious Man | 2009 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 1387 |
| 228 | A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | Richard Linklater | 1389 |
| 229 | Cast Away | 2000 | Robert Zemeckis | 1395 |
| 230 | Whale Rider | 2002 | Niki Caro | 1404 |
| 231 | The Butterfly Effect | 2004 | Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber | 1405 |
| 232 | The Passion of the Christ | 2004 | Mel Gibson | 1407 |
| 233 | Old School | 2003 | Todd Phillips | 1408 |
| 234 | Lilja 4-ever | 2002 | Lukas Moodysson | 1414 |
| 235 | Babel | 2006 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1420 |
| 236 | Mysterious Skin | 2004 | Gregg Araki | 1422 |
| 237 | Secretary | 2002 | Steven Shainberg | 1424 |
| 238 | 21 Grams | 2003 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1426 |
| 239 | Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India | 2001 | Ashutosh Gowariker | 1436 |
| 240 | Sunshine | 2007 | Danny Boyle | 1438 |
| 241 | [Rec] | 2007 | Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza | 1444 |
| 242 | The Piano Teacher | 2001 | Michael Haneke | 1445 |
| 243 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 1452 |
| 244 | The Secret in Their Eyes | 2009 | Juan José Campanella | 1455 |
| 245 | Eastern Promises | 2007 | David Cronenberg | 1459 |
| 246 | Black Book | 2006 | Paul Verhoeven | 1473 |
| 247 | Seabiscuit | 2003 | Gary Ross | 1474 |
| 248 | Knocked Up | 2007 | Judd Apatow | 1488 |
| 249 | Hachiko: A Dog's Story | 2009 | Lasse Hallström | 1490 |
| 250 | House of Flying Daggers | 2004 | Yimou Zhang | 1493 |
| 251 | The New World | 2005 | Terrence Malick | 1494 |
| 252 | The Queen | 2006 | Stephen Frears | 1498 |
| 253 | Open Range | 2003 | Kevin Costner | 1504 |
| 254 | The Death of Mister Lazarescu | 2005 | Cristi Puiu | 1509 |
| 255 | Head-On | 2004 | Fatih Akin | 1543 |
| 256 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | 2005 | Jacques Audiard | 1563 |
| 257 | Love & Basketball | 2000 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | 1564 |
| 258 | Bad Education | 2004 | Pedro Almodóvar | 1577 |
| 259 | Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach | 1588 |
| 260 | The Barbarian Invasions | 2003 | Denys Arcand | 1590 |
| 261 | George Washington | 2000 | David Gordon Green | 1592 |
| 262 | Ip Man | 2008 | Wilson Yip | 1594 |
| 263 | Good Bye Lenin! | 2003 | Wolfgang Becker | 1596 |
| 264 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | 1605 |
| 265 | Ponyo | 2008 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1608 |
| 266 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | 2004 | Michael Moore | 1615 |
| 267 | Munich | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1624 |
| 268 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 2005 | Andrew Adamson | 1625 |
| 269 | Hairspray | 2007 | Adam Shankman | 1637 |
| 270 | Collateral | 2004 | Michael Mann | 1645 |
| 271 | Where the Wild Things Are | 2009 | Spike Jonze | 1655 |
| 272 | 24 Hour Party People | 2002 | Michael Winterbottom | 1661 |
| 273 | To Be and to Have | 2002 | Nicolas Philibert | 1674 |
| 274 | The Blind Side | 2009 | John Lee Hancock | 1681 |
| 275 | War of the Worlds | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1684 |
| 276 | American Gangster | 2007 | Ridley Scott | 1692 |
| 277 | The Squid and the Whale | 2005 | Noah Baumbach | 1696 |
| 278 | About a Boy | 2002 | Chris and Paul Weitz | 1713 |
| 279 | The Pursuit of Happyness | 2006 | Gabriele Muccino | 1716 |
| 280 | Little Children | 2006 | Todd Field | 1724 |
| 281 | The Motorcycle Diaries | 2004 | Walter Salles | 1733 |
| 282 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan | 1735 |
| 283 | 3 Idiots | 2009 | Rajkumar Hirani | 1750 |
| 284 | Gosford Park | 2001 | Robert Altman | 1753 |
| 285 | Blood Diamond | 2006 | Edward Zwick | 1771 |
| 286 | The King of Kong | 2007 | Seth Gordon | 1772 |
| 287 | Gangs of New York | 2002 | Martin Scorsese | 1774 |
| 288 | Control | 2007 | Anton Corbijn | 1775 |
| 289 | Platform | 2000 | Zhangke Jia | 1780 |
| 290 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | 2006 | Adam McKay | 1794 |
| 291 | The Cove | 2009 | Louie Psihoyos | 1798 |
| 292 | The Fountain | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky | 1801 |
| 293 | Dogtown and Z-Boys | 2001 | Stacy Peralta | 1806 |
| 294 | Man on Fire | 2004 | Tony Scott | 1813 |
| 295 | Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior | 2003 | Prachya Pinkaew | 1815 |
| 296 | The Station Agent | 2003 | Tom McCarthy | 1825 |
| 297 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 2004 | Wes Anderson | 1826 |
| 298 | Super Size Me | 2004 | Morgan Spurlock | 1827 |
| 299 | Match Point | 2005 | Woody Allen | 1831 |
| 300 | An Education | 2009 | Lone Scherfig | 1843 |
| 301 | Moolaadé | 2004 | Ousmane Sembene | 1845 |
| 302 | Changeling | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | 1848 |
| 303 | The Son | 2002 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 1852 |
| 304 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | 2005 | George Clooney | 1854 |
| 305 | Crank | 2006 | Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor | 1863 |
| 306 | Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle | 2004 | Danny Leiner | 1865 |
| 307 | Tokyo Godfathers | 2003 | Satoshi Kon | 1869 |
| 308 | The Proposition | 2005 | John Hillcoat | 1878 |
| 309 | Apocalypto | 2006 | Mel Gibson | 1879 |
| 310 | The Fall | 2006 | Tarsem Singh | 1883 |
| 311 | A Very Long Engagement | 2004 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 1885 |
| 312 | The Rookie | 2002 | John Lee Hancock | 1898 |
| 313 | The Dreamers | 2003 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1899 |
| 314 | The Matrix Reloaded | 2003 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 1901 |
| 315 | Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks | 2002 | Bing Wang | 1908 |
| 316 | Anvil! The Story of Anvil | 2008 | Sacha Gervasi | 1912 |
| 317 | Martyrs | 2008 | Pascal Laugier | 1916 |
| 318 | The Last Samurai | 2003 | Edward Zwick | 1922 |
| 319 | Bad Santa | 2003 | Terry Zwigoff | 1925 |
| 320 | A Tale of Two Sisters | 2003 | Jee-woon Kim | 1933 |
| 321 | Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire | 2009 | Lee Daniels | 1934 |
| 322 | The Chorus | 2004 | Christophe Barratier | 1941 |
| 323 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | Gore Verbinski | 1948 |
| 324 | The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) | 2001 | Zacharias Kunuk | 1951 |
| 325 | Idiocracy | 2006 | Mike Judge | 1953 |
| 326 | The World's Fastest Indian | 2005 | Roger Donaldson | 1957 |
| 327 | Insomnia | 2002 | Christopher Nolan | 1962 |
| 328 | The Constant Gardner | 2005 | Fernando Meirelles | 1963 |
| 329 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | 2008 | Guillermo del Toro | 1966 |
| 330 | Fat Girl | 2001 | Catherine Breillat | 1967 |
| 331 | 3-Iron | 2004 | Ki-duk Kim | 1969 |
| 332 | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | 2008 | Mark Herman | 1971 |
| 333 | An Inconvenient Truth | 2006 | Davis Guggenheim | 1975 |
| 334 | Gone Baby Gone | 2007 | Ben Affleck | 1977 |
| 335 | Songs from the Second Floor | 2000 | Roy Andersson | 1982 |
| 336 | Corpse Bride | 2005 | Tim Burton and Mike Johnson | 1989 |
| 337 | Shaolin Soccer | 2001 | Stephen Chow | 1990 |
| 338 | Lucky Number Slevin | 2006 | Paul McGuigan | 1992 |
| 339 | Monsoon Wedding | 2001 | Mira Nair | 1993 |
| 340 | Lilo & Stitch | 2002 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders | 1994 |
| 341 | The Secret of Kells | 2009 | Tomm Moore | 1999 |
| 342 | The Mist | 2007 | Frank Darabont | 2002 |
| 343 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan | 2007 |
| 344 | I'm Not There. | 2007 | Todd Haynes | 2008 |
| 345 | Tropical Malady | 2004 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2009 |
| 346 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 2002 | Joel Zwick | 2025 |
| 347 | Michael Clayton | 2007 | Tony Gilroy | 2027 |
| 348 | Frida | 2002 | Julie Taymor | 2031 |
| 349 | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | 2008 | Nicholas Stoller | 2049 |
| 350 | 35 Shots of Rum | 2008 | Claire Denis | 2050 |
| 351 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | 2006 | Mamoru Hosoda | 2053 |
| 352 | The Reader | 2008 | Stephen Daldry | 2056 |
| 353 | Taxi to the Dark Side | 2007 | Alex Gibney | 2063 |
| 354 | Nobody Knows | 2004 | Hirokazu Koreeda | 2073 |
| 355 | Chocolat | 2000 | Lasse Hallström | 2077 |
| 356 | A Single Man | 2009 | Tom Ford | 2087 |
| 357 | Equilibrium | 2002 | Kurt Wimmer | 2091 |
| 358 | Ginger Snaps | 2000 | John Fawcett | 2106 |
| 359 | Antichrist | 2009 | Lars von Trier | 2110 |
| 360 | Enter the Void | 2009 | Gaspar Noé | 2115 |
| 361 | Inside Man | 2006 | Spike Lee | 2119 |
| 362 | Stardust | 2007 | Matthew Vaughn | 2126 |
| 363 | The Last King of Scotland | 2006 | Kevin Macdonald | 2128 |
| 364 | Wendy and Lucy | 2008 | Kelly Reichardt | 2131 |
| 365 | Millennium Actress | 2001 | Satoshi Kon | 2133 |
| 366 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | 2005 | Alex Gibney | 2145 |
| 367 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | 2005 | Doug Liman | 2146 |
| 368 | Flags of Our Fathers | 2006 | Clint Eastwood | 2149 |
| 369 | Up in the Air | 2009 | Jason Reitman | 2160 |
| 370 | Solaris | 2002 | Steven Soderbergh | 2161 |
| 371 | Los Angeles Plays Itself | 2003 | Thom Andersen | 2163 |
| 372 | The Princess and the Frog | 2009 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 2175 |
| 373 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005 | Tim Burton | 2179 |
| 374 | A Walk to Remember | 2002 | Adam Shankman | 2187 |
| 375 | Blade II | 2002 | Guillermo del Toro | 2190 |
| 376 | Happy Feet | 2006 | George Miller | 2192 |
| 377 | Hellboy | 2004 | Guillermo del Toro | 2196 |
| 378 | Cloverfield | 2008 | Matt Reeves | 2214 |
| 379 | Invictus | 2009 | Clint Eastwood | 2215 |
| 380 | Zombieland | 2009 | Ruben Fleischer | 2217 |
| 381 | Lust, Caution | 2007 | Ang Lee | 2218 |
| 382 | Freaky Friday | 2003 | Mark Waters | 2220 |
| 383 | Lady Vengeance | 2005 | Chan-wook Park | 2227 |
| 384 | Lord of War | 2005 | Andrew Niccol | 2239 |
| 385 | The Damned United | 2009 | Tom Hooper | 2245 |
| 386 | Bubba Ho-Tep | 2002 | Don Coscarelli | 2253 |
| 387 | Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids | 2004 | Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman | 2255 |
| 388 | Gomorrah | 2008 | Matteo Garrone | 2256 |
| 389 | Food Inc. | 2008 | Robert Kenner | 2260 |
| 390 | Thank You for Smoking | 2005 | Jason Reitman | 2264 |
| 391 | Girlfight | 2000 | Karyn Kusama | 2270 |
| 392 | In the Shadow of the Moon | 2007 | David Sington | 2271 |
| 393 | The Man Who Wasn't There | 2001 | Joel Coen | 2272 |
| 394 | The Magdalene Sisters | 2002 | Peter Mullan | 2275 |
| 395 | Paranormal Activity | 2007 | Oren Peli | 2279 |
| 396 | Step Brothers | 2008 | Adam McKay | 2290 |
| 397 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2009 | Niels Arden Oplev | 2292 |
| 398 | A Christmas Tale | 2008 | Arnaud Desplechin | 2294 |
| 399 | Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | 2004 | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | 2302 |
| 400 | No Man's Land | 2001 | Danis Tanovic | 2304 |
