| 1. Tokyo Story | Yasujirō Ozu | 1953 |
| 2. The Searchers | John Ford | 1956 |
| 3. Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 |
| 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 Human Condition I and II | Masaki Kobayashi | 1959 |
| 11. The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | 1959 |
| 12. Lola Montès | Max Ophüls | 1955 |
| 13. Early Summer | Yasujirō Ozu | 1951 |
| 14. Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | 1957 |
| 15. Umberto D. | Vittorio de Sica | 1952 |
| 16. The Earrings of Madame de… | Max Ophüls | 1953 |
| 17. The Cranes Are Flying | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1957 |
| 18. Hiroshima Mon Amour | Alain Resnais | 1959 |
| 19. Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | 1950 |
| 20. Le Plaisir | Max Ophüls | 1952 |
| 21. Sweet Smell of Success | Alexander Mackendrick | 1957 |
| 22. Sansho the Bailiff | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1954 |
| 23. All That Heaven Allows | Douglas Sirk | 1955 |
| 24. North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | 1959 |
| 25. Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | 1956 |
| 26. The Music Room | Satyajit Ray | 1958 |
| 27. The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | 1957 |
| 28. La Strada | Federico Fellini | 1954 |
| 29. The Ballad of Narayama | Keisuke Kinoshita | 1958 |
| 30. Johnny Guitar | Nicholas Ray | 1954 |
| 31. Pather Panchali | Satyajit Ray | 1955 |
| 32. Singin’ in the Rain | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | 1952 |
| 33. Imitation of Life | Douglas Sirk | 1959 |
| 34. Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | 1959 |
| 35. The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
| 36. Mon Oncle | Jacques Tati | 1958 |
| 37. Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | 1951 |
| 38. Wild Strawberries | Ingmar Bergman | 1957 |
| 39. Pyaasa | Guru Dutt | 1957 |
| 40. Floating Weeds | Yasujirō Ozu | 1959 |
| 41. Ordet | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1955 |
| 42. Diaboliques | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1955 |
| 43. I Vitelloni | Federico Fellini | 1953 |
| 44. Man of the West | Anthony Mann | 1958 |
| 45. High Noon | Fred Zinnemann | 1952 |
| 46. Rio Bravo | Howard Hawks | 1959 |
| 47. The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | 1953 |
| 48. Senso | Luchino Visconti | 1954 |
| 49. The Band Wagon | Vincente Minnelli | 1953 |
| 50. Elevator to the Gallows | Louis Malle | 1958 |
| 51. Anatomy of a Murder | Otto Preminger | 1959 |
| 52. On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | 1954 |
| 53. Kaagaz Ke Phool | Guru Dutt | 1959 |
| 54. A Star is Born | George Cukor | 1954 |
| 55. 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | 1957 |
| 56. A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan | 1951 |
| 57. Detective Story | William Wyler | 1951 |
| 58. Track of the Cat | William A. Wellman | 1954 |
| 59. The Quiet Man | John Ford | 1952 |
| 60. Journey to Italy | Roberto Rossellini | 1954 |
| 61. Ben-Hur | William Wyler | 1959 |
| 62. Shane | George Stevens | 1953 |
| 63. The Man With the Golden Arm | Otto Preminger | 1955 |
| 64. Aparajito | Satyajit Ray | 1956 |
| 65. Apur Sansa | Satyajit Ray | 1959 |
| 66. Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | 1953 |
| 67. Rebel Without a Cause | Nicholas Ray | 1955 |
| 68. Nights of Cabiria | Federico Fellini | 1957 |
| 69. Tea and Sympathy | Vincente Minnelli | 1956 |
| 70. Night and the City | Jules Dassin | 1950 |
| 71. In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | 1950 |
| 72. Forty Guns | Samuel Fuller | 1957 |
| 73. The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | 1950 |
| 74. All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1950 |
| 75. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday | Jacques Tati | 1953 |
| 76. Gun Crazy | Joseph H. Lewis | 1950 |
| 77. Bob le Flambeur | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1956 |
| 78. To Catch a Thief | Alfred Hitchcock | 1955 |
| 79. Some Like it Hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 |
| 80. Throne of Blood | Akira Kurosawa | 1957 |
| 81. Sawdust and Tinsel | Ingmar Bergman | 1953 |
| 82. A Place in the Sun | George Stevens | 1951 |
| 83. An American in Paris | Vincente Minnelli | 1951 |
| 84. Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | 1953 |
| 85. The Naked Spur | Anthony Mann | 1953 |
| 86. Bad Day at Black Rock | John Sturges | 1955 |
| 87. Summer with Monika | Ingmar Bergman | 1953 |
| 88. Diary of a Country Priest | Robert Bresson | 1951 |
| 89. The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | 1956 |
| 90. Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | 1951 |
| 91. Aar Paar | Guru Dutt | 1954 |
| 92. Smiles of a Summer Night | Ingmar Bergman | 1955 |
| 93. Tokyo Twilight | Yasujirō Ozu | 1957 |
| 94. Funny Face | Stanley Donen | 1957 |
| 95. Dreams | Ingmar Bergman | 1955 |
| 96. The Bad and the Beautiful | Vincente Minnelli | 1952 |
| 97. Cairo Station | Youssef Chahine | 1958 |
| 98. The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice | Yasujirō Ozu | 1952 |
| 99. Magnificent Obsession | Douglas Sirk | 1954 |
| 100. Early Spring | Yasujirō Ozu | 1956 |
