| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 163 |
| 2 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 383 |
| 3 | Written on the Wind | 1956 | Douglas Sirk | 484 |
| 4 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 1130 |
| 5 | Key Largo | 1948 | John Huston | 1148 |
| 6 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | 1202 |
| 7 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1479 |
| 8 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel | 1512 |
| 9 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | 2105 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 581 |
| 2 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 592 |
| 3 | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg | 843 |
| 4 | Little Women | 1994 | Gillian Armstrong | 894 |
| 5 | Henry V | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh | 984 |
| 6 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1479 |
| 7 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | 1688 |
| 8 | American Psycho | 2000 | Mary Harron | 2240 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 7 |
| 2 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 40 |
| 3 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 154 |
| 4 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 203 |
| 5 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 277 |
| 6 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | 742 |
| 7 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols | 1109 |
| 8 | Cape Fear | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson | 1160 |
| 9 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1974 | Joseph Sargent | 1186 |
| 10 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | 1646 |
| 11 | Seven Days in May | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 1717 |
| 12 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | 1970 | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda | 1760 |
| 13 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | 2105 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 39 |
| 2 | Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 224 |
| 3 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | 421 |
| 4 | The Miracle Worker | 1962 | Arthur Penn | 1174 |
| 5 | Antz | 1998 | Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson | 1994 |
| 6 | Home for the Holidays | 1995 | Jodie Foster | 2201 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 159 |
| 2 | Aparajito | 1956 | Satyajit Ray | 442 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 23 |
| 2 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 212 |
| 3 | Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven | 324 |
| 4 | Ever After: A Cinderella Story | 1998 | Andy Tennant | 1505 |
| 5 | Everyone Says I Love You | 1996 | Woody Allen | 1518 |
| 6 | Altered States | 1980 | Ken Russell | 1644 |
| 7 | The Wedding Singer | 1998 | Frank Coraci | 1779 |
| 8 | Never Been Kissed | 1999 | Raja Gosnell | 2246 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 37 |
| 2 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 318 |
| 3 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 403 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 48 |
| 2 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman | 290 |
| 3 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | 588 |
| 4 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan | 769 |
| 5 | The Parallax View | 1974 | Alan J. Pakula | 953 |
| 6 | Heaven Can Wait | 1978 | Warren Beatty and Buck Henry | 1129 |
| 7 | Shampoo | 1975 | Hal Ashby | 1200 |
| 8 | Bulworth | 1998 | Warren Beatty | 1727 |
| 9 | Bugsy | 1991 | Barry Levinson | 1770 |
| 10 | Dick Tracy | 1990 | Warren Beatty | 2098 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 81 |
| 2 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 551 |
| 3 | Two Women | 1960 | Vittorio De Sica | 1262 |
| 4 | Les Misérables | 1995 | Claude Lelouch | 1985 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | 293 |
| 2 | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 299 |
| 3 | 1941 | 1979 | Steven Spielberg | 1973 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 111 |
| 2 | The Grifters | 1990 | Stephen Frears | 790 |
| 3 | Richard III | 1995 | Richard Loncraine | 1175 |
| 4 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 1674 |
| 5 | Bugsy | 1991 | Barry Levinson | 1770 |
| 6 | Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton | 2065 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 122 |
| 2 | Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Oliver Stone | 781 |
| 3 | The Big Chill | 1983 | Lawrence Kasdan | 1029 |
| 4 | Gettysburg | 1993 | Ronald F. Maxwell | 1548 |
| 5 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 1654 |
| 6 | Major League | 1989 | David S. Ward | 1925 |
| 7 | Training Day | 2001 | Antoine Fuqua | 2144 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 3 |
| 2 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 104 |
| 3 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 923 |
| 4 | Voyage in Italy | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini | 992 |
| 5 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1289 |
| 6 | Autumn Sonata | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman | 1911 |
| 7 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1943 | Sam Wood | 1946 |
| 8 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | 2105 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 98 |
| 2 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 150 |
| 3 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 485 |
| 4 | Safe | 1995 | Todd Haynes | 754 |
| 5 | The Grifters | 1990 | Stephen Frears | 790 |
| 6 | Leaving Las Vegas | 1995 | Mike Figgis | 793 |
| 7 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | 950 |
| 8 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay | 1058 |
| 9 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1183 |
| 10 | Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox | 1196 |
| 11 | Candyman | 1992 | Bernard Rose | 1240 |
| 12 | The Fabulous Baker Boys | 1989 | Steven Kloves | 1396 |
| 13 | Air Force One | 1997 | Wolfgang Petersen | 1488 |
| 14 | Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry | 2036 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 88 |
| 2 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 614 |
| 3 | The Diary of Anne Frank | 1959 | George Stevens | 1427 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 65 |
| 2 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 95 |
| 3 | Grease | 1978 | Randal Kleiser | 187 |
| 4 | The Abyss | 1989 | James Cameron | 661 |
| 5 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay | 1058 |
| 6 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos | 1573 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The English Patient | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | 231 |
| 2 | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 232 |
| 3 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 278 |
| 4 | Three Colors: White | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 493 |
| 5 | Hidden | 2005 | Michael Haneke | 836 |
| 6 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman | 958 |
| 7 | Chocolat | 2000 | Lasse Hallström | 1114 |
| 8 | The Lovers on the Bridge | 1991 | Leos Carax | 1758 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 86 |
| 2 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | Wes Craven | 345 |
| 3 | The Driver | 1978 | Walter Hill | 2298 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 3 |
| 2 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 44 |
| 3 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 92 |
| 4 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 120 |
| 5 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 163 |
| 6 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | 250 |
| 7 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 383 |
| 8 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray | 486 |
| 9 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | 884 |
| 10 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1059 |
| 11 | Dark Victory | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | 1113 |
| 12 | Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | Michael Curtiz | 1145 |
| 13 | Key Largo | 1948 | John Huston | 1148 |
| 14 | The Roaring Twenties | 1939 | Raoul Walsh | 1184 |
| 15 | The Barefoot Contessa | 1954 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1612 |
| 16 | High Sierra | 1941 | Raoul Walsh | 1666 |
| 17 | Beat the Devil | 1953 | John Huston | 1767 |
| 18 | The Harder They Fall | 1956 | Mark Robson | 1926 |
| 19 | Dead End | 1937 | William Wyler | 1990 |
| 20 | The Petrified Forest | 1936 | Archie Mayo | 2181 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 5 |
| 2 | The Great Ziegfeld | 1936 | Robert Z. Leonard | 1562 |
| 3 | Annie | 1982 | John Huston | 2110 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 16 |
| 2 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 17 |
| 3 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 28 |
| 4 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 44 |
| 5 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 52 |
| 6 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 69 |
| 7 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 102 |
| 8 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 263 |
| 9 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 279 |
| 10 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | John Ford | 307 |
| 11 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 590 |
| 12 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 725 |
| 13 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy | 863 |
| 14 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 919 |
| 15 | Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford | 1341 |
| 16 | You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Frank Capra | 1389 |
| 17 | They Were Expendable | 1945 | John Ford | 1405 |
| 18 | Gentleman Jim | 1942 | Raoul Walsh | 1916 |
| 19 | Dead End | 1937 | William Wyler | 1990 |
| 20 | Son of Frankenstein | 1939 | Rowland V. Lee | 2172 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 51 |
| 2 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 220 |
| 3 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 518 |
| 4 | Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann | 555 |
| 5 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 590 |
| 6 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 639 |
| 7 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | 950 |
| 8 | Escape from New York | 1981 | John Carpenter | 974 |
| 9 | The Poseidon Adventure | 1972 | Ronald Neame | 1038 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1 |
| 2 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 13 |
| 3 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 40 |
| 4 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 145 |
| 5 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 272 |
| 6 | Last Tango in Paris | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 397 |
| 7 | Guys and Dolls | 1955 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1076 |
| 8 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1178 |
| 9 | One-Eyed Jacks | 1961 | Marlon Brando | 1513 |
| 10 | The Wild One | 1953 | László Benedek | 1941 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 121 |
| 2 | Red River | 1948 | Howard Hawks | 234 |
| 3 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 263 |
| 4 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 279 |
| 5 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 383 |
| 6 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 639 |
| 7 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood | 671 |
| 8 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 731 |
| 9 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 919 |
| 10 | Fury | 1936 | Fritz Lang | 1115 |
| 11 | Meet John Doe | 1941 | Frank Capra | 1231 |
| 12 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1625 |
| 13 | Baby Face | 1933 | Alfred E. Green | 2107 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 173 |
| 2 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 325 |
| 3 | Tron | 1982 | Steven Lisberger | 703 |
| 4 | Fat City | 1972 | John Huston | 761 |
| 5 | The Fabulous Baker Boys | 1989 | Steven Kloves | 1396 |
| 6 | Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Michael Cimino | 1410 |
| 7 | The Fisher King | 1991 | Terry Gilliam | 1455 |
| 8 | Seabiscuit | 2003 | Gary Ross | 1610 |
| 9 | Cutter's Way | 1981 | Ivan Passer | 1621 |
| 10 | Fearless | 1993 | Peter Weir | 1899 |
| 11 | Iron Man | 2008 | Jon Favreau | 1934 |
| 12 | Starman | 1984 | John Carpenter | 2121 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 270 |
| 2 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 1986 | John Hughes | 295 |
| 3 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | 395 |
| 4 | Election | 1999 | Alexander Payne | 545 |
| 5 | You Can Count on Me | 2000 | Ken Lonergan | 1407 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 19 |
| 2 | Terms of Endearment | 1983 | James L. Brooks | 330 |
| 3 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton | 374 |
| 4 | Broadcast News | 1987 | James L. Brooks | 564 |
| 5 | Out of Sight | 1998 | Steven Soderbergh | 625 |
| 6 | Lost in America | 1985 | Albert Brooks | 1083 |
| 7 | Private Benjamin | 1980 | Howard Zieff | 1796 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 318 |
| 2 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 403 |
| 3 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang | 519 |
| 4 | Westworld | 1973 | Michael Crichton | 1568 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | 76 |
| 2 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 325 |
| 3 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | 434 |
| 4 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese | 1268 |
| 5 | Providence | 1977 | Alain Resnais | 2005 |
| 6 | The Fountain | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky | 2278 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | Mike Nichols | 476 |
| 2 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield | 491 |
| 3 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 614 |
| 4 | Where Eagles Dare | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton | 1037 |
| 5 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1397 |
| 6 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | 1965 | Martin Ritt | 1497 |
| 7 | The Robe | 1953 | Henry Koster | 1645 |
| 8 | Becket | 1964 | Peter Glenville | 2224 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 15 |
| 2 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 49 |
| 3 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 66 |
| 4 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 173 |
| 5 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 460 |
| 6 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 607 |
| 7 | Armageddon | 1998 | Michael Bay | 733 |
| 8 | Ghost World | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | 815 |
| 9 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 907 |
| 10 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 1258 |
| 11 | King of New York | 1990 | Abel Ferrara | 1333 |
| 12 | Con Air | 1997 | Simon West | 1406 |
| 13 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 1435 |
| 14 | Desperado | 1995 | Robert Rodriguez | 1459 |
| 15 | Living in Oblivion | 1995 | Tom DiCillo | 1735 |
| 16 | The Wedding Singer | 1998 | Frank Coraci | 1779 |
| 17 | Mystery Train | 1989 | Jim Jarmusch | 2034 |
| 18 | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | 2001 | Hironobu Sakaguchi | 2358 |