| 1 | The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | Drama | 9.2 | |
| 2 | Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | War | 9.0 | |
| 3 | Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | Thriller | 8.8 | |
| 4 | North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | Thriller | 8.8 | |
| 5 | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorcese | Drama | 8.6 | |
| 6 | Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly | Other | 8.5 | |
| 7 | The Great Escape | John Sturges | War | 8.5 | |
| 8 | Tora Tora Tora | R. Fleischer K. Fukasaku T. Masuda | War | 8.2 | |
| 9 | Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | Thriller | 8.1 | |
| 10 | War and Peace | King Vidor | War | 8.0 | |
| 11 | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | Drama | 8.0 | |
| 12 | Platoon | Oliver Stone | War | 8.0 | |
| 13 | Where Eagles Dare | Brian G. Hutton | War | 8.0 | |
| 14 | Aliens | James Cameron | Science Fiction | 8.0 | |
| 15 | Blow Out | Brian De Palma | Thriller | 8.0 | |
| 16 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F. W. Murnau | Other | 7.9 | |
| 17 | Objective Burma | Raoul Walsh | War | 7.9 | |
| 18 | Downfall | Oliver Hirschbiegel | War | 7.8 | |
| 19 | Shallow Grave | Danny Boyle | Thriller | 7.7 | |
| 20 | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | Drama | 7.5 | |
| 21 | Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | Thriller | 7.5 | |
| 22 | The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | Drama | 7.5 | |
| 23 | Gone With the Wind | Victor Fleming | Drama | 7.5 | |
| 24 | Escape From Sobibor | Jack Gold | War | 7.5 | |
| 25 | Operation Crossbow | Michael Anderson | War | 7.5 | |
| 26 | In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | Thriller | 7.4 | |
| 27 | Ice Cold In Alex | J. Lee Thompson | War | 7.4 | |
| 28 | Rio Bravo | Howard Hawks | Other | 7.2 | |
| 29 | The Wild Bunch | Sam Peckinpah | Other | 7.0 | |
| 30 | The Thing | John Carpenter | Science Fiction | 7.0 | |
| 31 | Shattered 2007 | Mike Barker | Thriller | 7.0 | |
| 32 | Edge of Darkness | Lewis Milestone | War | 7.0 | |
| 33 | Red Rock West | John Dahl | Thriller | 6.8 | |
| 34 | The Bedroom Window | Curtis Hanson | Thriller | 6.7 | |
| 35 | Dark Passage | Delmer Daves | Thriller | 6.7 | |
| 36 | Bitter Victory | Nicholas Ray | War | 6.6 | |
| 37 | Went the Day Well | Alberto Cavalcanti | War | 6.6 | |
| 38 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | Science Fiction | 6.5 | |
| 39 | They Were Expendable | John Ford | War | 6.4 | |
| 40 | Arbitrage | Nicholas Jarecki | Thriller | 6.4 | |
| 41 | Shattered 1991 | Wolfgang Petersen | Thriller | 6.4 | |
| 42 | The One That Got Away | Roy Ward Baker | War | 6.4 | |
| 43 | The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | Thriller | 6.2 | |
| 44 | Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence | Nagisa Ōshima | War | 6.2 | |
| 45 | They Who Dare | Lewis Milestone | War | 6.2 | |
| 46 | The Silent Enemy | William Fairchild | War | 6.1 | |
| 47 | Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | Drama | 6.0 | |
| 48 | Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | Other | 6.0 | |
| 49 | Letter From An Unknown Woman | Max Ophuls | Drama | 6.0 | |
| 50 | The Naked and the Dead | Raoul Walsh | War | 6.0 | |
| 51 | MASH | Robert Altman | War | 6.0 | |
| 52 | Hell and High Water | Samuel Fuller | Other | 6.0 | |
| 53 | Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy | Drama | 6.0 | |
| 54 | The Mean Season | Phillip Borsos | Thriller | 6.0 | |
| 55 | Attack Force Z | Tim Burstall | War | 6.0 | |
| 56 | Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | Drama | 5.8 | |
| 57 | The Beguiled | Donald Siegel | Drama | 5.8 | |
| 58 | They Died With Their Boots On | Raoul Walsh | History | 5.8 | |
| 59 | Blowup | Michelangelo Antonioni | Other | 5.7 | |
| 60 | The Searchers | John Ford | Other | 5.5 | |
| 61 | La Grande Illusion | Jean Renoir | War | 5.5 | |
| 62 | Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | War | 5.2 | |
| 63 | The General | Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton | Other | 5.0 | |
| 64 | Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | Science Fiction | 5.0 | |
| 65 | Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | War | 5.0 | |
| 66 | Funny Farm | George Roy Hill | Comedy | 5.0 | |
| 67 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Drama | 5.0 | |
| 68 | Hell Is For Heroes | Donald Siegel | War | 5.0 | |
| 69 | The Place Beyond the Pines | Derek Cianfrance | Thriller | 5.0 | |
| 70 | The 400 Blows | Francois Truffaut | Drama | 4.5 | |
| 71 | The Rules of the Game | Jean Renoir | Other | 4.5 | |
| 72 | Forbidden Games | Rene Clemont | War | 4.5 | |
| 73 | 8 1/2 | Federico Fellini | Drama | 4.0 | |
| 74 | The Big Parade | King Vidor | War | 4.0 | |
| 75 | The Shop on Main Street | Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos | Drama | 4.0 | |
| 76 | Freeway | Matthew Bright | Thriller | 4.0 | |
| 77 | The Vanishing 1988 | George Sluizer | Thriller | 4.0 | |
| 78 | Tokyo Story | Yasujiro Ozu | Drama | 3.7 | |
| 79 | In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-Wai | Other | 3.5 | |
| 80 | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | Other | 3.5 | |
| 81 | Anatahan | Josef von Sternberg | War | 3.5 | |
| 82 | Signs of Life | Werner Herzog | War | 3.5 | |
| 83 | Two Women | Vittorio De Sica | War | 3.4 | |
| 84 | The Night Porter | Liliana Cavani | Drama | 3.2 | |
| 85 | Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | Drama | 3.1 | |
| 86 | Ordet | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Drama | 3.0 | |
| 87 | Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | Crime | 3.0 | |
| 88 | L'Atalante | Jean Vigo | Drama | 3.0 | |
| 89 | Paisan | Roberto Rossellini | War | 3.0 | |
| 90 | Kanal | Andrzej Wajda | War | 3.0 | |
| 91 | if…. | Lindsay Anderson | Drama | 3.0 | |
| 92 | Persona | Ingmar Bergman | Drama | 2.9 | |
| 93 | Jeanne Dielman | Chantal Akerman | Drama | 2.5 | |
| 94 | Man With a Movie Camera | Dziga Vertov | Other | 2.0 | |
