| Rank | Film Title | Year | Rating | IMDb Top 250 | IMDb Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Schindler's List | 1993 | 9.9 | * | (site) |
| 2 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | 9.7 | * | (site) |
| 3 | Patton | 1970 | 9.6 | * | (site) |
| 4 | Ran | 1985 | 9.6 | * | (site) |
| 5 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | 9.5 | * | (site) |
| 6 | North by Northwest | 1959 | 9.5 | * | (site) |
| 7 | Casablanca | 1943 | 9.5 | * | (site) |
| 8 | My Neighbour Totoro | 1988 | 9.4 | (site) | |
| 9 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | 9.4 | * | (site) |
| 10 | Rear Window | 1954 | 9.4 | * | (site) |
| 11 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | 9.4 | * | (site) |
| 12 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | 9.4 | * | (site) |
| 13 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 1967 | 9.3 | (site) | |
| 14 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | 9.3 | * | (site) |
| 15 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | 9.3 | * | (site) |
| 16 | Dr. Strangelove | 1964 | 9.3 | * | (site) |
| 17 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | 9.3 | * | (site) |
| 18 | The English Patient | 1996 | 9.3 | (site) | |
| 19 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
| 20 | Open Your Eyes | 1998 | 9.2 | (site) | |
| 21 | All About Eve | 1950 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
| 22 | Sunrise | 1927 | 9.2 | (site) | |
| 23 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
| 24 | L'Appartement | 1996 | 9.2 | (site) | |
| 25 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | 9.2 | (site) | |
| 26 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | 9.2 | (site) | |
| 27 | I Was Born, But... | 1946 | 9.2 | (site) | |
| 28 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
| 29 | Brief Encounter | 1946 | 9.2 | (site) | |
| 30 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
| 31 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
| 32 | Gandhi | 1982 | 9.2 | * | (site) |
| 33 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
| 34 | Annie Hall | 1977 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
| 35 | Pleasantville | 1998 | 9.1 | (site) | |
| 36 | The Counterfeit Traitor | 1962 | 9.1 | (site) | |
| 37 | Charade | 1963 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
| 38 | Vertigo | 1958 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
| 39 | Hilary and Jackie | 1998 | 9.1 | (site) | |
| 40 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
| 41 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
| 42 | To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
| 43 | Gettysburg | 1993 | 9.1 | (site) | |
| 44 | The Apartment | 1960 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
| 45 | My Name Is Joe | 1999 | 9.1 | (site) | |
| 46 | Glory | 1989 | 9.1 | * | (site) |
| 47 | Chicago | 2002 | 9.0 | (site) | |
| 48 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | 1962 | 9.0 | (site) | |
| 49 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | 9.0 | * | (site) |
| 50 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | 1944 | 9.0 | (site) | |
| 51 | The Red Violin | 1999 | 9.0 | (site) | |
| 52 | The Odd Couple | 1968 | 9.0 | (site) | |
| 53 | Malcolm X | 1992 | 9.0 | (site) | |
| 54 | Manhattan | 1979 | 9.0 | * | (site) |
| 55 | Rififi | 1955 | 9.0 | (site) | |
| 56 | The Corporation | 2004 | 9.0 | (site) | |
| 57 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | 9.0 | (site) | |
| 58 | Braveheart | 1995 | 9.0 | * | (site) |
| 59 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | 9.0 | (site) | |
| 60 | Lorenzo's Oil | 1993 | 9.0 | (site) | |
| 61 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | 9.0 | * | (site) |
| 62 | The Godfather | 1972 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 63 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 64 | Kings Row | 1942 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 65 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 66 | Delicatessen | 1991 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 67 | The Day of the Jackal | 1973 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 68 | American History X | 1998 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 69 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 70 | Dances With Wolves | 1990 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 71 | Rashomon | 1950 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 72 | Comrades, Almost a Love Story | 1997 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 73 | To Each His Own | 1946 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 74 | Contact | 1997 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 75 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 1945 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 76 | Memento | 2001 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 77 | A Man and a Woman | 1966 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 78 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 79 | Barry Lyndon | 1975 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 80 | American Beauty | 1999 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 81 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1969 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 82 | A Simple Plan | 1998 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 83 | Psycho | 1960 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 84 | A Short Film About Love | 1988 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 85 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1949 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 86 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 87 | Once Were Warriors | 1994 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| Jean de Florette Part I and II | 1986 | 8.9 | |||
| 88 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 89 | Meet John Doe | 1941 | 8.9 | (site) | |
| 90 | The Killer | 1989 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 91 | Traffic | 2000 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 92 | Chinatown | 1974 | 8.9 | * | (site) |
| 93 | Lantana | 2001 | 8.8 | (site) | |
| 94 | JFK | 1991 | 8.8 | (site) | |
| 95 | Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | 8.8 | ? | (site) |
| 96 | The Horse Whisperer | 1998 | 8.8 | (site) | |
| 97 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | 8.8 | * | (site) |
| 98 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | 8.8 | * | (site) |
| 99 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | 8.8 | (site) | |
| 100 | Castle in the Sky | 1986 | 8.8 | (site) |
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