| 1. Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 |
| 2. Tokyo Story | Yasujirō Ozu | 1953 |
| 3. The Searchers | John Ford | 1956 |
| 4. Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 1954 |
| 5. Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 |
| 6. The Seventh Seal | Ingmar Bergman | 1957 |
| 7. Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | 1958 |
| 8. Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa | 1952 |
| 9. Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | 1954 |
| 10. The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | 1959 |
| 11. The Human Condition | Masaki Kobayashi | 1959-61 |
| 12. Early Summer | Yasujirō Ozu | 1951 |
| 13. Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | 1957 |
| 14. Lola Montès | Max Ophüls | 1955 |
| 15. Umberto D. | Vittorio de Sica | 1952 |
| 16. Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | 1950 |
| 17. North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | 1959 |
| 18. Hiroshima Mon Amour | Alain Resnais | 1959 |
| 19. Singin’ in the Rain | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | 1952 |
| 20. Le Plaisir | Max Ophüls | 1952 |
| 21. Sweet Smell of Success | Alexander Mackendrick | 1957 |
| 22. Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | 1956 |
| 23. All That Heaven Allows | Douglas Sirk | 1955 |
| 24. The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | 1957 |
| 25. Johnny Guitar | Nicholas Ray | 1954 |
| 26. Imitation of Life | Douglas Sirk | 1959 |
| 27. Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | 1959 |
| 28. The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
| 29. Mon Oncle | Jacques Tati | 1958 |
| 30. The Band Wagon | Vincente Minnelli | 1953 |
| 31. Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | 1951 |
| 32. Ordet | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1955 |
| 33. High Noon | Fred Zinnemann | 1952 |
| 34. Rio Bravo | Howard Hawks | 1959 |
| 35. Wild Strawberries | Ingmar Bergman | 1957 |
| 36. Pyaasa | Guru Dutt | 1957 |
| 37. Man of the West | Anthony Mann | 1958 |
| 38. Shane | George Stevens | 1953 |
| 39. Anatomy of a Murder | Otto Preminger | 1959 |
| 40. On the Waterfront | Eliza Kazan | 1954 |
| 41. Some Like it Hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 |
| 42. Ben-Hur | William Wyler | 1959 |
| 43. A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan | 1951 |
| 44. In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | 1950 |
| 45. 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | 1957 |
| 46. Detective Story | William Wyler | 1951 |
| 47. Track of the Cat | William A. Wellman | 1954 |
| 48. Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | 1953 |
| 49. Nights of Cabiria | Federico Fellini | 1957 |
| 50. The Man With the Golden Arm | Otto Preminger | 1955 |
| 51. A Star is Born | A Star is Born | 1954 |
| 52. Night and the City | Jules Dassin | 1950 |
| 53. The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | 1950 |
| 54. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday | Jacques Tati | 1953 |
| 55. Gun Crazy | Joseph H. Lewis | 1950 |
| 56. Rebel Without a Cause | Nicholas Ray | 1955 |
| 57. Bob le Flambeur | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1956 |
| 58. Kaagaz Ke Phool | Guru Dutt | 1959 |
| 59. All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1950 |
| 60. Forty Guns | Samuel Fuller | 1957 |
| 61. Sawdust and Tinsel | Ingmar Bergman | 1953 |
| 62. A Place in the Sun | George Stevens | 1951 |
| 63. Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | 1953 |
| 64. Throne of Blood | Akira Kurosawa | 1957 |
| 65. The Naked Spur | Anthony Mann | 1953 |
| 66. Bad Day at Black Rock | John Sturges | 1955 |
| 67. Summer with Monika | Ingmar Bergman | 1953 |
| 68. An American in Paris | Vincente Minnelli | 1951 |
| 69. Smiles of a Summer Night | Ingmar Bergman | 1955 |
| 70. The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | 1956 |
| 71. Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | 1951 |
| 72. Magnificent Obsession | Douglas Sirk | 1954 |
| 73. The African Queen | John Huston | 1951 |
| 74. Dreams | Ingmar Bergman | 1955 |
| 75. Aar Paar | Guru Dutt | 1954 |
| 76. Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Don Siegel | 1956 |
| 77. The Man From Laramie | Anthony Mann | 1955 |
| 78. Sabrina | Billy Wilder | 1954 |
| 79. Roman Holiday | William Wyler | 1953 |
| 80. From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | 1953 |