| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 122 |
| 2 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 332 |
| 3 | Written on the Wind | 1956 | Douglas Sirk | 405 |
| 4 | Key Largo | 1948 | John Huston | 990 |
| 5 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel | 1207 |
| 6 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | 1231 |
| 7 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 1378 |
| 8 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | 1969 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 9 |
| 2 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 29 |
| 3 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 156 |
| 4 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 163 |
| 5 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 309 |
| 6 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | 699 |
| 7 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols | 1135 |
| 8 | Seven Days in May | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 1419 |
| 9 | Cape Fear | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson | 1549 |
| 10 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | 1723 |
| 11 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | 1970 | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda | 1832 |
| 12 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | 1969 |
| 13 | A Thousand Clowns | 1965 | Fred Coe | 2127 |
| 14 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1974 | Joseph Sargent | 2187 |
| 15 | St. Elmo's Fire | 1985 | Joel Schumacher | 2280 |
| 16 | Hombre | 1967 | Martin Ritt | 2421 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 38 |
| 2 | Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 264 |
| 3 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | 457 |
| 4 | The Miracle Worker | 1962 | Arthur Penn | 1117 |
| 5 | Antz | 1998 | Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson | 1873 |
| 6 | Home for the Holidays | 1995 | Jodie Foster | 2122 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 157 |
| 2 | Aparajito | 1956 | Satyajit Ray | 402 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 108 |
| 2 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 536 |
| 3 | La Ronde | 1950 | Max Ophüls | 955 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 21 |
| 2 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 269 |
| 3 | Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven | 305 |
| 4 | Ever After: A Cinderella Story | 1998 | Andy Tennant | 1252 |
| 5 | Everyone Says I Love You | 1996 | Woody Allen | 1452 |
| 6 | The Wedding Singer | 1998 | Frank Coraci | 1470 |
| 7 | Altered States | 1980 | Ken Russell | 1697 |
| 8 | Never Been Kissed | 1999 | Raja Gosnell | 1914 |
| 9 | Charlie's Angels | 2000 | McG | 2121 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 35 |
| 2 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles | 142 |
| 3 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 323 |
| 4 | I Confess | 1953 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1692 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 41 |
| 2 | McCabe and Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman | 251 |
| 3 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | 452 |
| 4 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan | 640 |
| 5 | Shampoo | 1975 | Hal Ashby | 928 |
| 6 | The Parallax View | 1974 | Alan J. Pakula | 1346 |
| 7 | Heaven Can Wait | 1978 | Warren Beatty | 1439 |
| 8 | Bugsy | 1991 | Barry Levinson | 1614 |
| 9 | Bulworth | 1998 | Warren Beatty | 1755 |
| 10 | Dick Tracy | 1990 | Warren Beatty | 2034 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 77 |
| 2 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 521 |
| 3 | Two Women | 1960 | Vittorio De Sica | 1351 |
| 4 | Les Misérables | 1995 | Claude Lelouch | 2086 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 282 |
| 2 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | 345 |
| 3 | 1941 | 1979 | Steven Spielberg | 1663 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 123 |
| 2 | The Grifters | 1990 | Stephen Frears | 771 |
| 3 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 1218 |
| 4 | Bugsy | 1991 | Barry Levinson | 1614 |
| 5 | Richard III | 1995 | Richard Loncraine | 1704 |
| 6 | Postcards from the Edge | 1990 | Mike Nichols | 2134 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 111 |
| 2 | Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Arthur Penn | 678 |
| 3 | The Big Chill | 1983 | Lawrence Kasdan | 886 |
| 4 | Gettysburg | 1993 | Ronald F. Maxwell | 1658 |
| 5 | Training Day | 2001 | Antoine Fuqua | 1841 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 2 |
| 2 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 121 |
| 3 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 688 |
| 4 | Voyage in Italy | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini | 1041 |
| 5 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1062 |
| 6 | Autumn Sonata | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman | 1561 |
| 7 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1943 | Sam Wood | 1734 |
| 8 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | 1969 |
| 9 | Europa '51 | 1952 | Roberto Rossellini | 2126 |
| 10 | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | 1982 | Carl Reiner | 2460 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 126 |
| 2 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 208 |
| 3 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 375 |
| 4 | Leaving Las Vegas | 1995 | Mike Figgis | 601 |
| 5 | The Grifters | 1990 | Stephen Frears | 771 |
| 6 | Safe | 1995 | Todd Haynes | 772 |
| 7 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay | 943 |
| 8 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1033 |
| 9 | Candyman | 1992 | Bernard Rose | 1157 |
| 10 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | 1180 |
| 11 | Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox | 1414 |
| 12 | The Fabulous Baker Boys | 1989 | Steven Kloves | 1594 |
| 13 | Air Force One | 1997 | Wolfgang Petersen | 1779 |
| 14 | Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry | 1864 |
| 15 | Amistad | 1997 | Steven Spielberg | 2092 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 84 |
| 2 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 536 |
| 3 | The Diary of Anne Frank | 1959 | George Stevens | 912 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 88 |
| 2 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 110 |
| 3 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 126 |
| 4 | Grease | 1978 | Randal Kleiser | 201 |
| 5 | The Abyss | 1989 | James Cameron | 731 |
| 6 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay | 943 |
| 7 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos | 1898 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The English Patient | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | 214 |
| 2 | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 231 |
| 3 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 277 |
| 4 | Three Colors: White | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 542 |
| 5 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman | 845 |
| 6 | Chocolat | 2000 | Lasse Hallström | 937 |
| 7 | Hidden | 2005 | Michael Haneke | 1906 |
| 8 | The Lovers on the Bridge | 1991 | Leos Carax | 1964 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 70 |
| 2 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | Wes Craven | 451 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 2 |
| 2 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 33 |
| 3 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 69 |
| 4 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 71 |
| 5 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 122 |
| 6 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 332 |
| 7 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray | 453 |
| 8 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | 577 |
| 9 | Dark Victory | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | 824 |
| 10 | Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | Michael Curtiz | 898 |
| 11 | Key Largo | 1948 | John Huston | 990 |
| 12 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1016 |
| 13 | The Roaring Twenties | 1939 | Raoul Walsh | 1144 |
| 14 | High Sierra | 1941 | Raoul Walsh | 1387 |
| 15 | The Barefoot Contessa | 1954 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1627 |
| 16 | Beat the Devil | 1953 | John Huston | 1792 |
| 17 | Dead End | 1937 | William Wyler | 1802 |
| 18 | The Petrified Forest | 1936 | Archie Mayo | 1975 |
| 19 | The Harder They Fall | 1956 | Mark Robson | 2308 |
| 20 | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | 1982 | Carl Reiner | 2460 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 6 |
| 2 | The Great Ziegfeld | 1936 | Robert Z. Leonard | 1631 |
| 3 | That's Entertainment! | 1974 | Jack Haley Jr. | 2060 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 11 |
| 2 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 13 |
| 3 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 23 |
| 4 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 33 |
| 5 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 44 |
| 6 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 53 |
| 7 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 68 |
| 8 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 211 |
| 9 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | John Ford | 236 |
| 10 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 280 |
| 11 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 619 |
| 12 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 659 |
| 13 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy | 681 |
| 14 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 923 |
| 15 | They Were Expendable | 1945 | John Ford | 1129 |
| 16 | You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Frank Capra | 1141 |
| 17 | Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford | 1374 |
| 18 | Dead End | 1937 | William Wyler | 1802 |
| 19 | Son of Frankenstein | 1939 | Rowland V. Lee | 1861 |
| 20 | The Long Voyage Home | 1940 | John Ford | 2095 |
| 21 | Topper | 1937 | Norman Z. McLeod | 2179 |
| 22 | Gentleman Jim | 1942 | Raoul Walsh | 2223 |
| 23 | You Only Live Once | 1937 | Fritz Lang | 2309 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 51 |
| 2 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 152 |
| 3 | Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann | 462 |
| 4 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 619 |
| 5 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 632 |
| 6 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 760 |
| 7 | Escape from New York | 1981 | John Carpenter | 944 |
| 8 | The Poseidon Adventure | 1972 | Ronald Neame | 983 |
| 9 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | 1180 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 3 |
| 2 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 17 |
| 3 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 29 |
| 4 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 99 |
| 5 | Last Tango in Paris | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 271 |
| 6 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 314 |
| 7 | Guys and Dolls | 1955 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 971 |
| 8 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1367 |
| 9 | Viva Zapata! | 1952 | Elia Kazan | 1911 |
| 10 | One-Eyed Jacks | 1961 | Marlon Brando | 1952 |
| 11 | Julius Caesar | 1953 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2009 |
| 12 | The Wild One | 1953 | László Benedek | 2013 |
| 13 | The Men | 1950 | Fred Zinnemann | 2338 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 116 |
| 2 | Red River | 1948 | Howard Hawks | 183 |
| 3 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 211 |
| 4 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 280 |
| 5 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 332 |
| 6 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood | 665 |
| 7 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 713 |
| 8 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 760 |
| 9 | Fury | 1936 | Fritz Lang | 823 |
| 10 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 923 |
| 11 | Meet John Doe | 1941 | Frank Capra | 1073 |
| 12 | How the West Was Won | 1933 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1489 |
| 13 | Baby Face | 1933 | Alfred E. Green | 1793 |
| 14 | Northwest Passage | 1940 | King Vidor | 2123 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 239 |
| 2 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 283 |
| 3 | Fat City | 1972 | John Huston | 795 |
| 4 | Tron | 1982 | Steven Lisberger | 846 |
| 5 | The Fisher King | 1991 | Terry Gilliam | 1182 |
| 6 | Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Michael Cimino | 1269 |
| 7 | Cutter's Way | 1981 | Ivan Passer | 1342 |
| 8 | The Fabulous Baker Boys | 1989 | Steven Kloves | 1594 |
| 9 | Seabiscuit | 2003 | Gary Ross | 1684 |
| 10 | Fearless | 1993 | Peter Weir | 1833 |
| 11 | Starman | 1984 | John Carpenter | 1866 |
| 12 | The Contender | 2000 | Rod Lurie | 2426 |
| 13 | Jagged Edge | 1985 | Richard Marquand | 2495 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 259 |
| 2 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 1986 | John Hughes | 347 |
| 3 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | 358 |
| 4 | Election | 1999 | Alexander Payne | 664 |
| 5 | You Can Count on Me | 2000 | Ken Lonergan | 1343 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 323 |
| 2 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 404 |
| 3 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang | 475 |
| 4 | Westworld | 1973 | Michael Crichton | 1643 |
| 5 | The Testament of Orpheus | 1960 | Jean Cocteau | 2447 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | 102 |
| 2 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 239 |
| 3 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | 484 |
| 4 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese | 1076 |
| 5 | Providence | 1977 | Alain Resnais | 1705 |
| 6 | The Hurricane | 1999 | Norman Jewison | 1745 |
| 7 | Harry and Tonto | 1974 | Paul Mazursky | 2406 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 20 |
| 2 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 50 |
| 3 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 90 |
| 4 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 283 |
| 5 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 478 |
| 6 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Peter Docter | 580 |
| 7 | Armageddon | 1998 | Michael Bay | 712 |
| 8 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 953 |
| 9 | Ghost World | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | 967 |
| 10 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 1258 |
| 11 | The Wedding Singer | 1998 | Frank Coraci | 1470 |
| 12 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 1473 |
| 13 | Con Air | 1997 | Simon West | 1664 |
| 14 | Living in Oblivion | 1995 | Tom DiCillo | 1828 |
| 15 | King of New York | 1990 | Abel Ferrara | 2068 |
| 16 | Desperado | 1995 | Robert Rodriguez | 2067 |
| 17 | Parting Glances | 1986 | Bill Sherwood | 2440 |