| position | Titre | Classement | Réalisateur | Année | Box office | Pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | 1 | Chantal Akerman | 1975 | $23,490 | Belgique/france |
| 2 | Vertigo | 2 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 | $3,294,394 | USA |
| 3 | Citizen Kane | 3 | Orson Welles | 1941 | $1,009,042 | USA |
| 4 | Tokyo Story | 4 | Yasujirō Ozu | 1953 | $74,200 | Japon |
| 5 | In the Mood for Love | 5 | Wong Kar Wai | 2000 | $13,823,646 | HongKong/France |
| 6 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 6 | Stanley Kubrick | 1968 | $71,800,974 | USA/UK |
| 7 | Beau travail | 7 | Claire Denis | 1998 | $270,419 | France |
| 8 | Mulholland Drive | 8 | David Lynch | 2001 | $20,780,568 | USA/France |
| 9 | Man with a Movie Camera | 9 | Dziga Vertov | 1929 | $3,959 | URSS |
| 10 | Singin' in the Rain | 10 | Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen | 1951 | $7,241,009 | USA |
| 11 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 11 | F.W. Murnau | 1927 | ??? | USA |
| 12 | The Godfather | 12 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1972 | $270,007,394 | USA |
| 13 | La Règle du jeu | 13 | Jean Renoir | 1939 | $272,256 | France |
| 14 | Cléo from 5 to 7 | 14 | Agnès Varda | 1962 | $1,889 | France/Italie |
| 15 | The Searchers | 15 | John Ford | 1956 | $6,608 | USA |
| 16 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 16 | Maya Deren, Alexander Hackenschmied | 1943 | ??? | USA |
| 17 | Close-up | 17 | Abbas Kiarostami | 1989 | $2,670 | Iran |
| 18 | Persona | 18 | Ingmar Bergman | 1966 | $150,545 | Suède |
| 19 | Apocalypse Now | 19 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1979 | $85,959,710 | USA |
| 20 | Seven Samurai | 20 | Akira Kurosawa | 1954 | $303,251 | Japon |
| 21 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | =21 | Carl Th. Dreyer | 1927 | $21,877 | France |
| 22 | Late Spring | =21 | Yasujirō Ozu | 1949 | $16,996 | Japon |
| 23 | Playtime | 23 | Jacques Tati | 1967 | $2,306 | France |
| 24 | Do the Right Thing | 24 | Spike Lee | 1989 | $26,051,502 | USA |
| 25 | Au hasard Balthazar | =25 | Robert Bresson | 1966 | $39,388 | France/Suède |
| 26 | The Night of the Hunter | =25 | Charles Laughton | 1955 | $1,082 | USA |
| 27 | Shoah | 27 | Claude Lanzmann | 1985 | $20,175 | France |
| 28 | Daisies | 28 | Věra Chytilová | 1966 | $13,692 | Czechoslovakie |
| 29 | Taxi Driver | 29 | Martin Scorsese | 1976 | $28,448,654 | USA |
| 30 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 30 | Céline Sciamma | 2019 | $11,917,143 | France |
| 31 | Mirror | =31 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1975 | $100,378 | URSS |
| 32 | Psycho | =31 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1960 | $32,002,177 | USA |
| 33 | 8½ | =31 | Federico Fellini | 1963 | $143,596 | Italie/France |
| 34 | L'Atalante | 34 | Jean Vigo | 1934 | $24,084 | France |
| 35 | Pather Panchali | 35 | Satyajit Ray | 1955 | $402,723 | Inde |
| 36 | City Lights | =36 | Charles Chaplin | 1931 | $60,731 | USA |
| 37 | M | =36 | Fritz Lang | 1931 | $35,566 | Allemagne |
| 38 | Some Like It Hot | =38 | Billy Wilder | 1959 | $25,038,874 | USA |
| 39 | À bout de souffle | =38 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1960 | $590,112 | France |
| 40 | Rear Window | =38 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1954 | $27,592,789 | USA |
| 41 | Bicycle Thieves | =41 | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 | $428 978 | Italie |
| 42 | Rashomon | =41 | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 | $131,056 | Japon |
| 43 | Killer of Sheep | =43 | Charles Burnett | 1977 | $404,508 | USA |
| 44 | Stalker | =43 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979 | $313,974 | URSS |
| 45 | The Battle of Algiers | =45 | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1966 | $966,071 | Italie/Algérie |
| 46 | North by Northwest | =45 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1959 | $13,372,845 | USA |
| 47 | Barry Lyndon | =45 | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 | $20,210,386 | USA/UK |
| 48 | Wanda | =48 | Barbara Loden | 1970 | $65,883 | USA |
| 49 | Ordet | =48 | Carl Th. Dreyer | 1955 | ??? | Danemark |
| 50 | The 400 Blows | =50 | François Truffaut | 1959 | $51,688 | France |
| 51 | The Piano | =50 | Jane Campion | 1992 | $40,212,480 | Australie/France |
| 52 | Fear Eats the Soul | =52 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1974 | $16,243 | Allemagne |
| 53 | News from Home | =52 | Chantal Akerman | 1976 | ??? | France/Belgique |
| 54 | Blade Runner | =54 | Ridley Scott | 1982 | $39,581,774 | USA/HongKong |
| 55 | Battleship Potemkin | =54 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1925 | $51,198 | URSS |
| 56 | Le Mépris | =54 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1963 | $940,522 | France/Italie |
| 57 | Sherlock Jr. | =54 | Buster Keaton | 1924 | $448 337 | USA |
| 58 | The Apartment | =54 | Billy Wilder | 1960 | $24,599,998 | USA |
| 59 | Sans Soleil | 59 | Chris Marker | 1982 | $30,878 | France |
| 60 | Moonlight | =60 | Barry Jenkins | 2016 | $64,895,106 | USA |
| 61 | La dolce vita | =60 | Federico Fellini | 1960 | $19,670,304 | Italie/France |
| 62 | Daughters of the Dust | =60 | Julie Dash | 1991 | $1,707,874 | USA |
| 63 | Casablanca | =63 | Michael Curtiz | 1942 | $10,565,232 | USA |
| 64 | GoodFellas | =63 | Martin Scorsese | 1990 | $47,103,483 | USA |
| 65 | The Third Man | =63 | Carol Reed | 1949 | $1,490,498 | UK |
| 66 | Touki Bouki | 66 | Djibril Diop Mambéty | 1973 | ??? | Senegal |
| 67 | The Gleaners and I | =67 | Agnès Varda | 2000 | $150,292 | France |
| 68 | La Jetée | =67 | Chris Marker | 1962 | ??? | France |
| 69 | Andrei Rublev | =67 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1966 | $172,676 | URSS |
| 70 | Metropolis | =67 | Fritz Lang | 1927 | $1,206,834 | Allemagne |
| 71 | The Red Shoes | =67 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1948 | $157,827 | UK |
| 72 | My Neighbour Totoro | =72 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1988 | $41,000,000 | Japon |
| 73 | Journey to Italy | =72 | Roberto Rossellini | 1954 | $19,987 | Italie/France |
| 74 | L'avventura | =72 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1960 | $5,098 | Italie/France |
| 75 | Imitation of Life | =75 | Douglas Sirk | 1959 | $14,000,365 | USA |
| 76 | Sansho the Bailiff | =75 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1954 | $5,267 | Japon |
| 77 | Spirited Away | =75 | Hayao Miyazaki | 2001 | 395,800,000 | Japon |
| 78 | Sátántangó | =78 | Béla Tarr | 1994 | ??? | Hongrie/Allemagne |
| 79 | A Brighter Summer Day | =78 | Edward Yang | 1991 | $111,673 | Taiwan |
| 80 | Céline and Julie Go Boating | =78 | Jacques Rivette | 1974 | $31,452 | France |
| 81 | Sunset Boulevard | =78 | Billy Wilder | 1950 | $300,073 | USA |
| 82 | Modern Times | =78 | Charles Chaplin | 1936 | $229,549 | USA |
| 83 | A Matter of Life and Death | =78 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1946 | $144,676 | UK |
| 84 | Histoire(s) du Cinéma | =78 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1988 | ??? | France/Suisse |
| 85 | Pierrot le fou | =85 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1965 | $74,221 | France/Italie |
| 86 | The Spirit of the Beehive | =85 | Víctor Erice | 1973 | $17,333 | Espagne |
| 87 | Blue Velvet | =85 | David Lynch | 1986 | $8,663,300 | USA |
| 88 | CHUNGKING EXPRESS | =88 | Wong Kar Wai | 1994 | $1,252,287 | Hong-Kong |
| 89 | The Shining | =88 | Stanley Kubrick | 1980 | $46,212,581 | USA/UK |
| 90 | Madame de... | =90 | Max Ophuls | 1953 | $141,847 | France/Italie |
| 91 | The Leopard | =90 | Luchino Visconti | 1963 | $590,827 | Italie/France |
| 92 | Ugetsu Monogatari | =90 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1953 | $24,941 | Japon |
| 93 | Yi Yi | =90 | Edward Yang | 1999 | $1,208,123 | Taiwan/France |
| 94 | Parasite | =90 | Bong Joon-ho | 2019 | $253,370,908 | Corée du sud |
| 95 | Get Out | =95 | Jordan Peele | 2017 | $252,297,405 | USA/Japon |
| 96 | Tropical Malady | =95 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2004 | $46,750 | France/Thaïlande/Allemagne/Italie/Suisse |
| 97 | Black Girl | =95 | Ousmane Sembène | 1965 | ??? | Sénégal/France |
| 98 | The General | =95 | Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman | 1926 | $1,263,082 | USA |
| 99 | A man Escaped | =95 | Robert Bresson | 1956 | ??? | France |
| 100 | Once upon a Time in the West | =95 | Sergio Leone | 1968 | $5,380,604 | Italie/USA |