| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 2 |
| 2 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 23 |
| 3 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | 585 |
| 4 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 869 |
| 5 | Elf | 2003 | Jon Favreau | 975 |
| 6 | The Tale of Princess Kaguya | 2013 | Isao Takahata | 1148 |
| 7 | Rollerball | 1975 | Norman Jewison | 1371 |
| 8 | Thief | 1981 | Michael Mann | 1506 |
| 9 | Bottle Rocket | 1996 | Wes Anderson | 1834 |
| 10 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 2141 |
| 11 | Brian's Song | 1971 | Buzz Kulik | 2249 |
| 12 | El Dorado | 1966 | Howard Hawks | 2643 |
| 13 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | 2009 | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | 2775 |
| 14 | Dick Tracy | 1990 | Warren Beatty | 2969 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman | 189 |
| 2 | Moonstruck | 1987 | Norman Jewison | 498 |
| 3 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 591 |
| 4 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | 1982 | Amy Heckerling | 640 |
| 5 | Face/Off | 1997 | John Woo | 744 |
| 6 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay | 978 |
| 7 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze | 1050 |
| 8 | Wild at Heart | 1990 | David Lynch | 1152 |
| 9 | Kick-Ass | 2010 | Matthew Vaughn | 1157 |
| 10 | The Outsiders | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1255 |
| 11 | Leaving Las Vegas | 1995 | Mike Figgis | 1337 |
| 12 | Con Air | 1997 | Simon West | 1772 |
| 13 | Rumble Fish | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1784 |
| 14 | Lord of War | 2005 | Andrew Niccol | 2365 |
| 15 | National Treasure | 2004 | Jon Turteltaub | 2413 |
| 16 | Mandy | 2018 | Panos Cosmatos | 2522 |
| 17 | Grindhouse | 2007 | Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino | 2567 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | White Heat | 1949 | Raoul Walsh | 447 |
| 2 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 820 |
| 3 | The Public Enemy | 1931 | William A. Wellman | 1068 |
| 4 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 1211 |
| 5 | Zelig | 1983 | Woody Allen | 1493 |
| 6 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy | 1551 |
| 7 | Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | Michael Curtiz | 1586 |
| 8 | One, Two, Three | 1961 | Billy Wilder | 1865 |
| 9 | Footlight Parade | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | 2002 |
| 10 | Los Angeles Plays Itself | 2003 | Thom Andersen | 2307 |
| 11 | The Roaring Twenties | 1939 | Raoul Walsh | 2455 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 18 |
| 2 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 74 |
| 3 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | 193 |
| 4 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | 266 |
| 5 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 384 |
| 6 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | 392 |
| 7 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | Christopher Nolan | 438 |
| 8 | Dunkirk | 2017 | Christopher Nolan | 460 |
| 9 | Hannah and Her Sisters | 1986 | Woody Allen | 567 |
| 10 | Get Carter | 1971 | Mike Hodges | 789 |
| 11 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston | 921 |
| 12 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield | 1036 |
| 13 | Dressed to Kill | 1980 | Brian De Palma | 1174 |
| 14 | The Ipcress File | 1965 | Sidney J. Furie | 1336 |
| 15 | The Italian Job | 1969 | Peter Collinson | 1679 |
| 16 | Sleuth | 1972 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1747 |
| 17 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | 1988 | Frank Oz | 1770 |
| 18 | Victory | 1981 | John Huston | 1901 |
| 19 | The Muppet Christmas Carol | 1992 | Brian Henson | 1933 |
| 20 | Kingsman: The Secret Service | 2014 | Matthew Vaughn | 2110 |
| 21 | Alfie | 1966 | Lewis Gilbert | 2122 |
| 22 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 2141 |
| 23 | The Quiet American | 2002 | Phillip Noyce | 2857 |
| 24 | Battle of Britain | 1969 | Guy Hamilton | 2918 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 76 |
| 2 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 100 |
| 3 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 340 |
| 4 | Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | Werner Herzog | 712 |
| 5 | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti | 838 |
| 6 | The Pink Panther | 1963 | Blake Edwards | 1206 |
| 7 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks | 1501 |
| 8 | Burden of Dreams | 1982 | Les Blank | 1866 |
| 9 | Big Deal on Madonna Street | 1958 | Mario Monicelli | 2143 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 56 |
| 2 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | 236 |
| 3 | Dumb & Dumber | 1994 | Peter Farrelly | 1014 |
| 4 | The Mask | 1994 | Chuck Russell | 1744 |
| 5 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | 2018 | Morgan Neville | 2172 |
| 6 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | 1994 | Tom Shadyac | 3027 |
| 7 | Man on the Moon | 1999 | Milos Forman | 3060 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 40 |
| 2 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 61 |
| 3 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 171 |
| 4 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | 222 |
| 5 | The Kid | 1921 | Charles Chaplin | 406 |
| 6 | The Circus | 1928 | Charles Chaplin | 1121 |
| 7 | Zelig | 1983 | Woody Allen | 1493 |
| 8 | Monsieur Verdoux | 1947 | Charles Chaplin | 1658 |
| 9 | Limelight | 1952 | Charles Chaplin | 1773 |
| 10 | The Dreamers | 2003 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1817 |
| 11 | The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2240 |
| 12 | Show People | 1928 | King Vidor | 2532 |
| 13 | The Immigrant | 1917 | Charles Chaplin | 2848 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 105 |
| 2 | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 194 |
| 3 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 2375 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Kar-Wai Wong | 94 |
| 2 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar-Wai Wong | 372 |
| 3 | Hard Boiled | 1992 | John Woo | 649 |
| 4 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai Keung Lau and Alan Mak | 711 |
| 5 | Happy Together | 1997 | Kar-Wai Wong | 735 |
| 6 | Hero | 2002 | Yimou Zhang | 808 |
| 7 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1142 |
| 8 | Days of Being Wild | 1990 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1329 |
| 9 | A City of Sadness | 1989 | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 1443 |
| 10 | Lust, Caution | 2007 | Ang Lee | 1543 |
| 11 | Flowers of Shanghai | 1998 | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 2416 |
| 12 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | 2021 | Destin Daniel Cretton | 2834 |
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| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 160 |
| 2 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 161 |
| 3 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 305 |
| 4 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | 1971 | Robert Altman | 337 |
| 5 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 393 |
| 6 | Fahrenheit 451 | 1966 | François Truffaut | 1108 |
| 7 | Heaven Can Wait | 1978 | Warren Beatty and Buck Henry | 1668 |
| 8 | Finding Neverland | 2004 | Marc Forster | 1965 |
| 9 | The Barbarian Invasions | 2003 | Denys Arcand | 2074 |
| 10 | Troy | 2004 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2308 |
| 11 | Hamlet | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 2444 |
| 12 | Billy Liar | 1963 | John Schlesinger | 2503 |
| 13 | Shampoo | 1975 | Hal Ashby | 2676 |
| 14 | Away from Her | 2006 | Sarah Polley | 2844 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 105 |
| 2 | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 194 |
| 3 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 333 |
| 4 | A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | Charles Crichton | 598 |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 731 |
| 6 | Time Bandits | 1981 | Terry Gilliam | 821 |
| 7 | Shrek 2 | 2004 | Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon | 1114 |
| 8 | Silverado | 1985 | Lawrence Kasdan | 1881 |
| 9 | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Jones | 2375 |
| 10 | Winnie the Pooh | 2011 | Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall | 2804 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Red River | 1948 | Howard Hawks | 319 |
| 2 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 357 |
| 3 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | 936 |
| 4 | A Place in the Sun | 1951 | George Stevens | 1258 |
| 5 | The Misfits | 1961 | John Huston | 1311 |
| 6 | The Heiress | 1949 | William Wyler | 1557 |
| 7 | The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2240 |
| 8 | Wild River | 1960 | Elia Kazan | 2719 |
| 9 | Suddenly, Last Summer | 1959 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2792 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gravity | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | 371 |
| 2 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick | 380 |
| 3 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Wes Anderson | 564 |
| 4 | South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Trey Parker | 578 |
| 5 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | 962 |
| 6 | Out of Sight | 1998 | Steven Soderbergh | 1001 |
| 7 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 1090 |
| 8 | Three Kings | 1999 | David O. Russell | 1238 |
| 9 | The Descendants | 2011 | Alexander Payne | 1713 |
| 10 | From Dusk Till Dawn | 1996 | Robert Rodriguez | 1828 |
| 11 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | 2005 | George Clooney | 2012 |
| 12 | Up in the Air | 2009 | Jason Reitman | 2049 |
| 13 | Burn after Reading | 2008 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 2326 |
| 14 | The Limey | 1999 | Steven Soderbergh | 2484 |
| 15 | Michael Clayton | 2007 | Tony Gilroy | 2539 |
| 16 | The Perfect Storm | 2000 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2750 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 246 |
| 2 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg | 370 |
| 3 | The Untouchables | 1987 | Brian De Palma | 533 |
| 4 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young | 781 |
| 5 | Time Bandits | 1981 | Terry Gilliam | 821 |
| 6 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 864 |
| 7 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 889 |
| 8 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston | 921 |
| 9 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay | 978 |
| 10 | The Hunt for Red October | 1990 | John McTiernan | 1633 |
| 11 | Highlander | 1986 | Russell Mulcahy | 1671 |
| 12 | Marnie | 1964 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1785 |
| 13 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 2141 |
| 14 | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2180 |
| 15 | Thunderball | 1965 | Terence Young | 2181 |
| 16 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | 1991 | Kevin Reynolds | 2910 |
| 17 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | 3003 |
| 18 | Outland | 1981 | Peter Hyams | 3059 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 206 |
| 2 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 1056 |
| 3 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood | 1234 |
| 4 | I Am Not Your Negro | 2016 | Raoul Peck | 1308 |
| 5 | Wings | 1927 | William A. Wellman | 1419 |
| 6 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1936 | Frank Capra | 1673 |
| 7 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1798 |
| 8 | Morocco | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | 1852 |
| 9 | Ball of Fire | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 1960 |
| 10 | Man of the West | 1958 | Anthony Mann | 2127 |
| 11 | Vera Cruz | 1954 | Robert Aldrich | 2159 |
| 12 | The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2240 |
| 13 | Design for Living | 1933 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2304 |
| 14 | Love in the Afternoon | 1957 | Billy Wilder | 2798 |
| 15 | The Westerner | 1940 | William Wyler | 3005 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Kevin Costner | 356 |
| 2 | Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | 430 |
| 3 | Bull Durham | 1988 | Ron Shelton | 518 |
| 4 | The Untouchables | 1987 | Brian De Palma | 533 |
| 5 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 745 |
| 6 | Hidden Figures | 2016 | Theodore Melfi | 771 |
| 7 | Tin Cup | 1996 | Ron Shelton | 1453 |
| 8 | The Big Chill | 1983 | Lawrence Kasdan | 1656 |
| 9 | Open Range | 2003 | Kevin Costner | 1776 |
| 10 | Silverado | 1985 | Lawrence Kasdan | 1881 |
| 11 | Man of Steel | 2013 | Zack Snyder | 2125 |
| 12 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | 2021 | Zack Snyder | 2832 |
| 13 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | 1991 | Kevin Reynolds | 2910 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 11 |
| 2 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 42 |
| 3 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 87 |
| 4 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock | 425 |
| 5 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles | 456 |
| 6 | F for Fake | 1973 | Orson Welles | 951 |
| 7 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | 1061 |
| 8 | Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Michael Cimino | 1107 |
| 9 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 1280 |
| 10 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1564 |
| 11 | Othello | 1951 | Orson Welles | 2031 |
| 12 | Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | William Dieterle | 2939 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 358 |
| 2 | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | 2015 | J.J. Abrams | 565 |
| 3 | Skyfall | 2012 | Sam Mendes | 703 |
| 4 | Knives Out | 2019 | Rian Johnson | 1135 |
| 5 | Road to Perdition | 2002 | Sam Mendes | 1328 |
| 6 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2011 | David Fincher | 1390 |
| 7 | Munich | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1883 |
| 8 | Elizabeth | 1998 | Shekhar Kapur | 2034 |
| 9 | Layer Cake | 2004 | Matthew Vaughn | 2819 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 454 |
| 2 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 477 |
| 3 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | 530 |
| 4 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 1294 |
| 5 | I Am Not Your Negro | 2016 | Raoul Peck | 1308 |
| 6 | Grand Hotel | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | 1662 |
| 7 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1798 |
| 8 | The Unknown | 1927 | Tod Browning | 2461 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 137 |
| 2 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 139 |
| 3 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 572 |
| 4 | The Insider | 1999 | Michael Mann | 871 |
| 5 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Peter Weir | 1129 |
| 6 | 3:10 to Yuma | 2007 | James Mangold | 1195 |
| 7 | Cinderella Man | 2005 | Ron Howard | 1423 |
| 8 | American Gangster | 2007 | Ridley Scott | 1523 |
| 9 | Les Misérables | 2012 | Tom Hooper | 1695 |
| 10 | Man of Steel | 2013 | Zack Snyder | 2125 |
| 11 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | 2021 | Zack Snyder | 2832 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Magnolia | 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 387 |
| 2 | Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 413 |
| 3 | Jerry Maguire | 1996 | Cameron Crowe | 487 |
| 4 | Edge of Tomorrow | 2014 | Doug Liman | 582 |
| 5 | Eyes Wide Shut | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick | 595 |
| 6 | Rain Man | 1988 | Barry Levinson | 667 |
| 7 | Top Gun | 1986 | Tony Scott | 816 |
| 8 | Mission: Impossible - Fallout | 2018 | Christopher McQuarrie | 882 |
| 9 | Mission: Impossible | 1996 | Brian De Palma | 1055 |
| 10 | The Outsiders | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1255 |
| 11 | The Color of Money | 1986 | Martin Scorsese | 1269 |
| 12 | Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Oliver Stone | 1295 |
| 13 | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles | 1994 | Neil Jordan | 1334 |
| 14 | Top Gun: Maverick | 2022 | Joseph Kosinski | 1339 |
| 15 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1558 |
| 16 | Collateral | 2004 | Michael Mann | 1590 |
| 17 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | 2011 | Brad Bird | 1615 |
| 18 | War of the Worlds | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1623 |
| 19 | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation | 2015 | Christopher McQuarrie | 1755 |
| 20 | Risky Business | 1983 | Paul Brickman | 1907 |
| 21 | The Last Samurai | 2003 | Edward Zwick | 1949 |
| 22 | Tropic Thunder | 2008 | Ben Stiller | 2324 |
| 23 | The Queen | 2006 | Stephen Frears | 2485 |
| 24 | Mission: Impossible III | 2006 | J.J. Abrams | 2521 |
| 25 | Legend | 1985 | Ridley Scott | 2909 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 47 |
| 2 | When Harry Met Sally… | 1989 | Rob Reiner | 130 |
| 3 | This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner | 143 |
| 4 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 327 |
| 5 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki | 599 |
| 6 | American Movie | 1999 | Chris Smith | 1439 |
| 7 | Cars | 2006 | John Lasseter | 2239 |
| 8 | Hamlet | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 2444 |
| 9 | Sicko | 2007 | Michael Moore | 2779 |
| 10 | City Slickers | 1991 | Ron Underwood | 2948 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter | 132 |
| 2 | Escape from New York | 1981 | John Carpenter | 528 |
| 3 | A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | Charles Crichton | 598 |
| 4 | Trading Places | 1983 | John Landis | 818 |
| 5 | True Lies | 1994 | James Cameron | 1016 |
| 6 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | 2022 | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | 1093 |
| 7 | Knives Out | 2019 | Rian Johnson | 1135 |
| 8 | The Fog | 1980 | John Carpenter | 1455 |
| 9 | My Girl | 1991 | Howard Zieff | 1811 |
| 10 | Freaky Friday | 2003 | Mark Waters | 2023 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 19 |
| 2 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 77 |
| 3 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 209 |
| 4 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 336 |
| 5 | Jackie Brown | 1997 | Quentin Tarantino | 688 |
| 6 | Winchester '73 | 1950 | Anthony Mann | 786 |
| 7 | I Am Not Your Negro | 2016 | Raoul Peck | 1308 |
| 8 | The Defiant Ones | 1958 | Stanley Kramer | 2179 |
| 9 | The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2240 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 307 |
| 2 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick | 380 |
| 3 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 451 |
| 4 | Say Anything… | 1989 | Cameron Crowe | 615 |
| 5 | Broadcast News | 1987 | James L. Brooks | 765 |
| 6 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 770 |
| 7 | High Fidelity | 2000 | Stephen Frears | 1027 |
| 8 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze | 1050 |
| 9 | Eight Men Out | 1988 | John Sayles | 1185 |
| 10 | Sixteen Candles | 1984 | John Hughes | 1389 |
| 11 | Con Air | 1997 | Simon West | 1772 |
| 12 | Grosse Pointe Blank | 1997 | George Armitage | 1886 |
| 13 | The Grifters | 1990 | Stephen Frears | 2052 |
| 14 | Better Off Dead… | 1985 | Savage Steve Holland | 2470 |
| 15 | Serendipity | 2001 | Peter Chelsom | 2641 |
| 16 | Anastasia | 1997 | Don Bluth and Gary Goldman | 2814 |
