| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 18 |
| 2 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 384 |
| 3 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | 392 |
| 4 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | Christopher Nolan | 438 |
| 5 | American Psycho | 2000 | Mary Harron | 493 |
| 6 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki | 599 |
| 7 | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg | 876 |
| 8 | The Fighter | 2010 | David O. Russell | 881 |
| 9 | 3:10 to Yuma | 2007 | James Mangold | 1195 |
| 10 | Little Women | 1994 | Gillian Armstrong | 1377 |
| 11 | Ford v Ferrari | 2019 | James Mangold | 1442 |
| 12 | The New World | 2005 | Terrence Malick | 1630 |
| 13 | Henry V | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh | 1822 |
| 14 | Public Enemies | 2009 | Michael Mann | 2188 |
| 15 | I'm Not There. | 2007 | Todd Haynes | 2282 |
| 16 | American Hustle | 2013 | David O. Russell | 2382 |
| 17 | Equilibrium | 2002 | Kurt Wimmer | 2414 |
| 18 | Rescue Dawn | 2006 | Werner Herzog | 2514 |
| 19 | Velvet Goldmine | 1998 | Todd Haynes | 2524 |
| 20 | Pocahontas | 1995 | Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg | 2545 |
| 21 | The Machinist | 2004 | Brad Anderson | 2850 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1 |
| 2 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 66 |
| 3 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 79 |
| 4 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 282 |
| 5 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 326 |
| 6 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | 810 |
| 7 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1974 | Joseph Sargent | 912 |
| 8 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | 1160 |
| 9 | Cape Fear | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson | 1219 |
| 10 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols | 2152 |
| 11 | Hombre | 1967 | Martin Ritt | 2609 |
| 12 | Seven Days in May | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 2776 |
| 13 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | 3003 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
| 2 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 136 |
| 3 | Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven | 310 |
| 4 | The Wedding Singer | 1998 | Frank Coraci | 1303 |
| 5 | Altered States | 1980 | Ken Russell | 2064 |
| 6 | 50 First Dates | 2004 | Peter Segal | 2196 |
| 7 | Never Been Kissed | 1999 | Raja Gosnell | 3000 |
| 8 | Whip It | 2009 | Drew Barrymore | 3021 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 116 |
| 2 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman | 337 |
| 3 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan | 1189 |
| 4 | The Parallax View | 1974 | Alan J. Pakula | 1587 |
| 5 | Heaven Can Wait | 1978 | Warren Beatty and Buck Henry | 1668 |
| 6 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | 1837 |
| 7 | Shampoo | 1975 | Hal Ashby | 2676 |
| 8 | Dick Tracy | 1990 | Warren Beatty | 2969 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 97 |
| 2 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 671 |
| 3 | The Dreamers | 2003 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1817 |
| 4 | Le Doulos | 1962 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 2466 |
| 5 | Two Women | 1960 | Vittorio De Sica | 2950 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
| 2 | When Harry Met Sally… | 1989 | Rob Reiner | 130 |
| 3 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 148 |
| 4 | Voyage in Italy | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini | 833 |
| 5 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 1280 |
| 6 | Autumn Sonata | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman | 1400 |
| 7 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2099 |
| 8 | Play It Again, Sam | 1972 | Herbert Ross | 2490 |
| 9 | Stromboli | 1950 | Roberto Rossellini | 2563 |
| 10 | Europa '51 | 1952 | Roberto Rossellini | 2666 |
| 11 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | 3003 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 54 |
| 2 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 182 |
| 3 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | 623 |
| 4 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 857 |
| 5 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay | 978 |
| 6 | Taken | 2008 | Pierre Morel | 1048 |
| 7 | Kick-Ass | 2010 | Matthew Vaughn | 1157 |
| 8 | Candyman | 1992 | Bernard Rose | 1182 |
| 9 | Leaving Las Vegas | 1995 | Mike Figgis | 1337 |
| 10 | Safe | 1995 | Todd Haynes | 1547 |
| 11 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1558 |
| 12 | The Grifters | 1990 | Stephen Frears | 2052 |
| 13 | Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox | 2241 |
| 14 | Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry | 2608 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 50 |
| 2 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 80 |
| 3 | Grease | 1978 | Randal Kleiser | 355 |
| 4 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay | 978 |
| 5 | The Abyss | 1989 | James Cameron | 1045 |
| 6 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos | 1213 |
| 7 | Grindhouse | 2007 | Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino | 2567 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 208 |
| 2 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 322 |
| 3 | Hidden | 2005 | Michael Haneke | 501 |
| 4 | The English Patient | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | 584 |
| 5 | Three Colors: White | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 600 |
| 6 | Histoire(s) du cinéma | 1989 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1340 |
| 7 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman | 1878 |
| 8 | The Lovers on the Bridge | 1991 | Leos Carax | 2248 |
| 9 | High Life | 2018 | Claire Denis | 2295 |
| 10 | Chocolat | 2000 | Lasse Hallström | 2525 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
| 2 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 81 |
| 3 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 142 |
| 4 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 215 |
| 5 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 306 |
| 6 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray | 568 |
| 7 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 907 |
| 8 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1240 |
| 9 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | 1451 |
| 10 | Key Largo | 1948 | John Huston | 1486 |
| 11 | Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | Michael Curtiz | 1586 |
| 12 | High Sierra | 1940 | Raoul Walsh | 2044 |
| 13 | The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2240 |
| 14 | The Roaring Twenties | 1939 | Raoul Walsh | 2455 |
| 15 | Play It Again, Sam | 1972 | Herbert Ross | 2490 |
| 16 | Dark Victory | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | 2942 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 9 |
| 2 | Annie | 1982 | John Huston | 1935 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 31 |
| 2 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 46 |
| 3 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 53 |
| 4 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 81 |
| 5 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 99 |
| 6 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 128 |
| 7 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 202 |
| 8 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 273 |
| 9 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 450 |
| 10 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 477 |
| 11 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | John Ford | 848 |
| 12 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 1056 |
| 13 | Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford | 1118 |
| 14 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 1332 |
| 15 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy | 1551 |
| 16 | They Were Expendable | 1945 | John Ford | 1642 |
| 17 | Fury | 1936 | Fritz Lang | 1708 |
| 18 | You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Frank Capra | 1995 |
| 19 | Wagon Master | 1950 | John Ford | 2265 |
| 20 | The Informer | 1935 | John Ford | 2294 |
| 21 | Dodge City | 1939 | Michael Curtiz | 2761 |
| 22 | You Only Live Once | 1937 | Fritz Lang | 3016 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 88 |
| 2 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 357 |
| 3 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 477 |
| 4 | Escape from New York | 1981 | John Carpenter | 528 |
| 5 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 537 |
| 6 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | 623 |
| 7 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 883 |
| 8 | Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann | 1161 |
| 9 | Vera Cruz | 1954 | Robert Aldrich | 2159 |
| 10 | The Poseidon Adventure | 1972 | Ronald Neame | 2636 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 2 |
| 2 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 10 |
| 3 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 79 |
| 4 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 237 |
| 5 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 238 |
| 6 | Last Tango in Paris | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 607 |
| 7 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1268 |
| 8 | I Am Not Your Negro | 2016 | Raoul Peck | 1308 |
| 9 | One-Eyed Jacks | 1961 | Marlon Brando | 1507 |
| 10 | Guys and Dolls | 1955 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1560 |
| 11 | The Wild One | 1953 | Laslo Benedek | 2702 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 123 |
| 2 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 202 |
| 3 | Red River | 1948 | Howard Hawks | 319 |
| 4 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 450 |
| 5 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 627 |
| 6 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 883 |
| 7 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 907 |
| 8 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 1056 |
| 9 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood | 1234 |
| 10 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1519 |
| 11 | Fury | 1936 | Fritz Lang | 1708 |
| 12 | The Westerner | 1940 | William Wyler | 3005 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 104 |
| 2 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 294 |
| 3 | Iron Man | 2008 | Jon Favreau | 376 |
| 4 | True Grit | 2010 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 685 |
| 5 | Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Michael Cimino | 1107 |
| 6 | Tron | 1982 | Steven Lisberger | 1134 |
| 7 | Fat City | 1972 | John Huston | 1413 |
| 8 | Hell or High Water | 2016 | David Mackenzie | 1432 |
| 9 | Seabiscuit | 2003 | Gary Ross | 1639 |
| 10 | Starman | 1984 | John Carpenter | 2373 |
| 11 | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | 1974 | Michael Cimino | 2486 |
| 12 | The Fisher King | 1991 | Terry Gilliam | 2638 |
| 13 | The Last Unicorn | 1982 | Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr. | 2990 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 92 |
| 2 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 1986 | John Hughes | 270 |
| 3 | Election | 1999 | Alexander Payne | 543 |
| 4 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | 562 |
| 5 | Manchester by the Sea | 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan | 1171 |
| 6 | Margaret | 2011 | Kenneth Lonergan | 2582 |
| 7 | Torch Song Trilogy | 1988 | Paul Bogart | 2665 |
| 8 | Ladyhawke | 1985 | Richard Donner | 2906 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 101 |
| 2 | Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | James Gunn | 312 |
| 3 | The Goonies | 1985 | Richard Donner | 335 |
| 4 | Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 373 |
| 5 | Avengers: Infinity War | 2018 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 436 |
| 6 | True Grit | 2010 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 685 |
| 7 | Milk | 2008 | Gus Van Sant | 811 |
| 8 | Dune | 2021 | Denis Villeneuve | 1062 |
| 9 | Sicario | 2015 | Denis Villeneuve | 1362 |
| 10 | American Gangster | 2007 | Ridley Scott | 1523 |
| 11 | Dune: Part Two | 2024 | Denis Villeneuve | 1629 |
| 12 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | 2015 | Joss Whedon | 2103 |
| 13 | Deadpool 2 | 2018 | David Leitch | 2366 |
| 14 | Inherent Vice | 2014 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2431 |
| 15 | Grindhouse | 2007 | Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino | 2567 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
| 2 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton | 163 |
| 3 | Drive | 2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn | 469 |
| 4 | Broadcast News | 1987 | James L. Brooks | 765 |
| 5 | Terms of Endearment | 1983 | James L. Brooks | 894 |
| 6 | Out of Sight | 1998 | Steven Soderbergh | 1001 |
| 7 | Lost in America | 1985 | Albert Brooks | 1675 |
| 8 | The Simpsons Movie | 2007 | David Silverman | 2884 |
| 9 | Finding Dory | 2016 | Andrew Stanton | 2959 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gravity | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | 371 |
| 2 | Speed | 1994 | Jan de Bont | 547 |
| 3 | While You Were Sleeping | 1995 | Jon Turteltaub | 1436 |
| 4 | Crash | 2004 | Paul Haggis | 1474 |
| 5 | The Blind Side | 2009 | John Lee Hancock | 1674 |
| 6 | The Proposal | 2009 | Anne Fletcher | 2277 |
| 7 | The Prince of Egypt | 1998 | Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells | 2446 |
| 8 | A Time to Kill | 1996 | Joel Schumacher | 2595 |
| 9 | Demolition Man | 1993 | Marco Brambilla | 2923 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | 62 |
| 2 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | 266 |
| 3 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | 293 |
| 4 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 294 |
| 5 | The Hurricane | 1999 | Norman Jewison | 1977 |
| 6 | The Fountain | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky | 2155 |
| 7 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese | 2182 |
| 8 | The Tale | 2018 | Jennifer Fox | 2628 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 8 |
| 2 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 67 |
| 3 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 95 |
| 4 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 104 |
| 5 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 327 |
| 6 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 553 |
| 7 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Martin Scorsese | 613 |
| 8 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 679 |
| 9 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 694 |
| 10 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 905 |
| 11 | Ghost World | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | 970 |
| 12 | The Wedding Singer | 1998 | Frank Coraci | 1303 |
| 13 | King of New York | 1990 | Abel Ferrara | 1568 |
| 14 | Con Air | 1997 | Simon West | 1772 |
| 15 | Armageddon | 1998 | Michael Bay | 1903 |
| 16 | Desperado | 1995 | Robert Rodriguez | 2235 |
| 17 | The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2240 |
| 18 | Mystery Train | 1989 | Jim Jarmusch | 2257 |
| 19 | Parting Glances | 1986 | Bill Sherwood | 2333 |
| 20 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 2694 |
| 21 | Billy Madison | 1995 | Tamra Davis | 2733 |
| 22 | The Death of Stalin | 2017 | Armando Iannucci | 3042 |
