| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 2 |
| 2 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 58 |
| 3 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 89 |
| 4 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 332 |
| 5 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 1953 | Howard Hawks | 717 |
| 6 | Pillow Talk | 1959 | Michael Gordon | 774 |
| 7 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1016 |
| 8 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols | 1135 |
| 9 | Pépé Le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier | 1256 |
| 10 | The Song of Bernadette | 1943 | Henry King | 1853 |
| 11 | The Great White Hope | 1970 | Martin Ritt | 2002 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | 67 |
| 2 | Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | 219 |
| 3 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | 474 |
| 4 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 802 |
| 5 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | 1999 | Anthony Minghella | 1307 |
| 6 | Chasing Amy | 1997 | Kevin Smith | 1345 |
| 7 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | 1432 |
| 8 | The Bourne Identity | 2002 | Doug Liman | 1458 |
| 9 | Mystic Pizza | 1988 | Donald Petrie | 1728 |
| 10 | Dogma | 1999 | Kevin Smith | 1889 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 89 |
| 2 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 193 |
| 3 | Z | 1969 | Costa-Gavras | 483 |
| 4 | Zero for Conduct | 1933 | Jean Vigo | 518 |
| 5 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | 1932 | Jean Renoir | 947 |
| 6 | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 1120 |
| 7 | The Crime of Mr. Lange | 1936 | Jean Renoir | 1184 |
| 8 | The Wild Child | 1970 | François Truffaut | 1426 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 35 |
| 2 | Now, Voyager | 1942 | Irving Rapper | 328 |
| 3 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | 792 |
| 4 | Jezebel | 1938 | William Wyler | 811 |
| 5 | Dark Victory | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | 824 |
| 6 | The Little Foxes | 1941 | William Wyler | 1308 |
| 7 | The Letter | 1940 | William Wyler | 1835 |
| 8 | The Petrified Forest | 1936 | Archie Mayo | 1975 |
| 9 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | 1964 | Robert Aldrich | 2172 |
| 10 | The Man Who Came to Dinner | 1942 | William Keighley | 2194 |
| 11 | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | 1982 | Carl Reiner | 2460 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Tootsie | 1982 | William Wyler | 186 |
| 2 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 188 |
| 3 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | 524 |
| 4 | A League of Their Own | 1992 | Penny Marshall | 621 |
| 5 | Beetlejuice | 1988 | Tim Burton | 749 |
| 6 | Stuart Little | 1999 | Rob Minkoff | 1625 |
| 7 | Fletch | 1985 | Michael Ritchie | 1988 |
| 8 | The Accidental Tourist | 1988 | Lawrence Kasdan | 2072 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | 221 |
| 2 | A Room with a View | 1985 | James Ivory | 443 |
| 3 | The Last of the Mohicans | 1992 | Michael Mann | 467 |
| 4 | The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Martin Scorsese | 547 |
| 5 | My Beautiful Laundrette | 1985 | Stephen Frears | 637 |
| 6 | My Left Foot | 1989 | Jim Sheridan | 739 |
| 7 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman | 845 |
| 8 | Gangs of New York | 2002 | Martin Scorsese | 1209 |
| 9 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | 1971 | John Schlesinger | 1632 |
| 10 | The Crucible | 1996 | Nicholas Hytner | 1780 |
| 11 | In the Name of the Father | 1993 | Jim Sheridan | 2021 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 11 |
| 2 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 155 |
| 3 | The Heiress | 1949 | William Wyler | 650 |
| 4 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | Michael Curtiz | 1321 |
| 5 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz | 1324 |
| 6 | The Snake Pit | 1948 | Anatole Litvak | 1993 |
| 7 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | 1964 | Robert Aldrich | 2172 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 15 |
| 2 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 16 |
| 3 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | 18 |
| 4 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 31 |
| 5 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 72 |
| 6 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 97 |
| 7 | Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese | 171 |
| 8 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 208 |
| 9 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 233 |
| 10 | The Untouchables | 1987 | Brian De Palma | 379 |
| 11 | The King of Comedy | 1983 | Martin Scorsese | 480 |
| 12 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 560 |
| 13 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 814 |
| 14 | Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach | 1095 |
| 15 | Wag the Dog | 1997 | Barry Levinson | 1217 |
| 16 | Jackie Brown | 1997 | Quentin Tarantino | 1341 |
| 17 | Midnight Run | 1988 | Martin Brest | 1365 |
| 18 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1367 |
| 19 | Bang the Drum Slowly | 1973 | John D. Hancock | 1391 |
| 20 | Ronin | 1998 | John Frankenheimer | 1460 |
| 21 | The Mission | 1986 | Roland Joffé | 1623 |
| 22 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | 1723 |
| 23 | Angel Heart | 1987 | Alan Parker | 1876 |
| 24 | A Bronx Tale | 1993 | Robert De Niro | 1989 |
| 25 | This Boy's Life | 1993 | Michael Caton-Jones | 2027 |
| 26 | Awakenings | 1990 | Penny Marshall | 2087 |
| 27 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | 2004 | Michael Moore | 2347 |
| 28 | Cop Land | 1997 | James Mangold | 2419 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 85 |
| 2 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 412 |
| 3 | East of Eden | 1955 | Elia Kazan | 413 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 420 |
| 2 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 535 |
| 3 | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti | 769 |
| 4 | The Eclipse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 794 |
| 5 | Le Cercle rouge | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1962 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 261 |
| 2 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski | 348 |
| 3 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Jacques Demy | 377 |
| 4 | Tristana | 1970 | Luis Buñuel | 935 |
| 5 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 1021 |
| 6 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | 1967 | Jacques Demy | 1331 |
| 7 | Indochine | 1992 | Régis Wargnier | 1709 |
| 8 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 1814 |
| 9 | The Hunger | 1983 | Tony Scott | 2114 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jean de Florette | 1986 | Claude Berri | 385 |
| 2 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | 696 |
| 3 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 814 |
| 4 | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 1120 |
| 5 | Hamlet | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 1430 |
| 6 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 1814 |
| 7 | Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | 1978 | Bertrand Blier | 2383 |
| 8 | Danton | 1983 | Andrzej Wajda | 2493 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 111 |
| 2 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 354 |
| 3 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | 449 |
| 4 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | Wes Craven | 451 |
| 5 | Ed Wood | 1994 | Tim Burton | 615 |
| 6 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 782 |
| 7 | Chocolat | 2000 | Lasse Hallström | 937 |
| 8 | Donnie Brasco | 1997 | Mike Newell | 1099 |
| 9 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | 1993 | Lasse Hallström | 1199 |
| 10 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton | 1519 |
| 11 | Finding Neverland | 2004 | Terry Gilliam | 1613 |
| 12 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | 1998 | Terry Gilliam | 1753 |
| 13 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005 | Tim Burton | 2334 |
| 14 | Before Night Falls | 2000 | Julian Schnabel | 2487 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 61 |
| 2 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 131 |
| 3 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese | 1076 |
| 4 | October Sky | 1999 | Joe Johnston | 1396 |
| 5 | Wild at Heart | 1990 | David Lynch | 1559 |
| 6 | Citizen Ruth | 1996 | Alexander Payne | 2115 |
| 7 | Mask | 1985 | Peter Bogdanovich | 2361 |
| 8 | Rambling Rose | 1991 | Martha Coolidge | 2467 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 79 |
| 2 | Romeo + Juliet | 1996 | Baz Luhrmann | 352 |
| 3 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 802 |
| 4 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | 1993 | Lasse Hallström | 1199 |
| 5 | Gangs of New York | 2002 | Martin Scorsese | 1209 |
| 6 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | 1662 |
| 7 | This Boy's Life | 1993 | Michael Caton-Jones | 2152 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 49 |
| 2 | The Blue Angel | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | 244 |
| 3 | The Scarlet Empress | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg | 505 |
| 4 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | 600 |
| 5 | Morocco | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | 828 |
| 6 | Destry Rides Again | 1939 | George Marshall | 850 |
| 7 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | 920 |
| 8 | Around the World in Eighty Days | 1956 | Michael Anderson | 985 |
| 9 | Shanghai Express | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg | 1383 |
| 10 | Blonde Venus | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg | 2242 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 223 |
| 2 | Goodbye Mr. Chips | 1939 | Sam Wood | 527 |
| 3 | Private Life of Henry VIII | 1933 | Alexander Korda | 1550 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | 144 |
| 2 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 198 |
| 3 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 222 |
| 4 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | 1954 | Richard Fleischer | 654 |
| 5 | The Big Carnival | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 830 |
| 6 | Lust for Life | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli | 1086 |
| 7 | The Bad and the Beautiful | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli | 1172 |
| 8 | Champion | 1949 | Mark Robson | 1225 |
| 9 | A Letter to Three Wives | 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1352 |
| 10 | Seven Days in May | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 1419 |
| 11 | Lonely Are the Brave | 1962 | David Miller | 1552 |
| 12 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | 2175 |
| 13 | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | 1982 | Carl Reiner | 2460 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fatal Attraction | 1987 | Adrian Lyne | 499 |
| 2 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 599 |
| 3 | Basic Instinct | 1992 | Paul Verhoeven | 762 |
| 4 | The China Syndrome | 1979 | James Bridges | 1000 |
| 5 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 1218 |
| 6 | Wall Street | 1987 | Oliver Stone | 1333 |
| 7 | The Game | 1997 | David Fincher | 1377 |
| 8 | Romancing the Stone | 1984 | Robert Zemeckis | 1478 |
| 9 | The War of the Roses | 1989 | Danny DeVito | 1646 |
| 10 | Wonder Boys | 2000 | Curtis Hanson | 1790 |
| 11 | One Day in September | 1999 | Kevin Macdonald | 1893 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
| 2 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 38 |
| 3 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 103 |
| 4 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | 179 |
| 5 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 336 |
| 6 | The Goodbye Girl | 1977 | Herbert Ross | 1185 |
| 7 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 1218 |
| 8 | Mr. Holland's Opus | 1995 | Stephen Herek | 1636 |
| 9 | What about Bob? | 1991 | Frank Oz | 2077 |
| 10 | Postcards from the Edge | 1990 | Mike Nichols | 2134 |
| 11 | James and the Giant Peach | 1996 | Henry Selick | 2236 |
| 12 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | 1974 | Ted Kotcheff | 2317 |
| 13 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | 1986 | Paul Mazursky | 2380 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 4 |
| 2 | Black Christmas | 1974 | Bob Clark | 1644 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 56 |
| 2 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood | 232 |
| 3 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 668 |
| 4 | A Day at the Races | 1937 | Sam Wood | 1211 |
| 5 | Auntie Mame | 1958 | Morton DaCosta | 1719 |
| 6 | Animal Crackers | 1930 | Victor Heerman | 1739 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 19 |
| 2 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 41 |
| 3 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 202 |
| 4 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | 699 |
| 5 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1968 | Norman Jewison | 1247 |
| 6 | The Towering Inferno | 1974 | John Guillermin and Irwin Allen | 1265 |
| 7 | Three Days of the Condor | 1975 | Sydney Pollack | 1732 |
| 8 | Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry | 1864 |
| 9 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1999 | John McTiernan | 2170 |
| 10 | Barfly | 1987 | Barbet Schroeder | 2227 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 3 |
| 2 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 15 |
| 3 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 17 |
| 4 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 57 |
| 5 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 117 |
| 6 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 176 |
| 7 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 202 |
| 8 | Bullitt | 1968 | Peter Yates | 746 |
| 9 | Sling Blade | 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton | 805 |
| 10 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | 932 |
| 11 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1108 |
| 12 | The Natural | 1984 | Barry Levinson | 1167 |
| 13 | Tender Mercies | 1983 | Bruce Beresford | 1297 |
| 14 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1367 |
| 15 | The Apostle | 1997 | Robert Duvall | 1539 |
| 16 | THX-1138 | 1971 | George Lucas | 1844 |
| 17 | The Great Santini | 1979 | Lewis John Carlino | 2340 |
| 18 | Rambling Rose | 1991 | Martha Coolidge | 2467 |