1. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
2. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)

3. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)

4. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
5. The Boys From Fengkuei (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1983)
6. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993)

7. La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)
8. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
9. The Goddess (Wu Yonggang, 1934)

10. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)

11. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
12. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983)

13. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)

14. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)
15. 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
16. Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1987)

17. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
18. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
19. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
20. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
21. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

22. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
23. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)

24. Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang, 1982)
25. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

26. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)

27. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)

28. Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)

29. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974)

30. Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922)
31. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)

32. Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
33. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

34. Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955)
35. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

36. The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang, 1986)
37. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
38. The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
39. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
40. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)

41. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou, 1992)

42. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)

43.The World (Jia Zhangke, 2005)

44. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, 1958)

45. Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Svankmajer, 1982)

46. Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
47. Ali (Michael Mann, 2001)

48. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)

49. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

50. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)