| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 3 |
| 2 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 70 |
| 3 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 90 |
| 4 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 383 |
| 5 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 1953 | Howard Hawks | 719 |
| 6 | Pillow Talk | 1959 | Michael Gordon | 936 |
| 7 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1059 |
| 8 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols | 1109 |
| 9 | Pépé Le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier | 1256 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | 50 |
| 2 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | 387 |
| 3 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 522 |
| 4 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | 859 |
| 5 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | 1999 | Anthony Minghella | 983 |
| 6 | The Bourne Identity | 2002 | Doug Liman | 1004 |
| 7 | The Bourne Supremacy | 2004 | Paul Greengrass | 1018 |
| 8 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | 1352 |
| 9 | Chasing Amy | 1997 | Kevin Smith | 1430 |
| 10 | Dogma | 1999 | Kevin Smith | 2059 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 37 |
| 2 | Now, Voyager | 1942 | Irving Rapper | 361 |
| 3 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | 682 |
| 4 | Dark Victory | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | 1113 |
| 5 | Jezebel | 1938 | William Wyler | 1172 |
| 6 | The Little Foxes | 1941 | William Wyler | 1603 |
| 7 | The Petrified Forest | 1936 | Archie Mayo | 2181 |
| 8 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | 1964 | Robert Aldrich | 2230 |
| 9 | The Letter | 1940 | William Wyler | 2259 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 197 |
| 2 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 228 |
| 3 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | 349 |
| 4 | A League of Their Own | 1992 | Penny Marshall | 641 |
| 5 | Beetlejuice | 1988 | Tim Burton | 784 |
| 6 | Stuart Little | 1999 | Rob Minkoff | 1616 |
| 7 | Fletch | 1985 | Michael Ritchie | 1850 |
| 8 | The Accidental Tourist | 1988 | Lawrence Kasdan | 2376 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | 251 |
| 2 | The Last of the Mohicans | 1992 | Michael Mann | 468 |
| 3 | A Room with a View | 1985 | James Ivory | 526 |
| 4 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 533 |
| 5 | The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Martin Scorsese | 570 |
| 6 | My Beautiful Laundrette | 1985 | Stephen Frears | 610 |
| 7 | My Left Foot | 1989 | Jim Sheridan | 683 |
| 8 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman | 958 |
| 9 | Gangs of New York | 2002 | Martin Scorsese | 1276 |
| 10 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | 1971 | John Schlesinger | 1838 |
| 11 | The Crucible | 1996 | Nicholas Hytner | 1932 |
| 12 | In the Name of the Father | 1993 | Jim Sheridan | 2000 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 17 |
| 2 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 153 |
| 3 | The Heiress | 1949 | William Wyler | 1045 |
| 4 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | Michael Curtiz | 1323 |
| 5 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz | 1800 |
| 6 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | 1964 | Robert Aldrich | 2230 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 14 |
| 2 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | 18 |
| 3 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 19 |
| 4 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 26 |
| 5 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 77 |
| 6 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 85 |
| 7 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 150 |
| 8 | Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese | 190 |
| 9 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 207 |
| 10 | The Untouchables | 1987 | Brian De Palma | 408 |
| 11 | The King of Comedy | 1982 | Martin Scorsese | 475 |
| 12 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 488 |
| 13 | Jackie Brown | 1997 | Quentin Tarantino | 927 |
| 14 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 970 |
| 15 | Midnight Run | 1988 | Martin Brest | 1021 |
| 16 | Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach | 1066 |
| 17 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1178 |
| 18 | Bang the Drum Slowly | 1973 | John D. Hancock | 1225 |
| 19 | Wag the Dog | 1997 | Barry Levinson | 1261 |
| 20 | Angel Heart | 1987 | Alan Parker | 1353 |
| 21 | The Mission | 1986 | Roland Joffé | 1355 |
| 22 | Ronin | 1998 | John Frankenheimer | 1446 |
| 23 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | 1646 |
| 24 | A Bronx Tale | 1993 | Robert De Niro | 2071 |
| 25 | New York, New York | 1977 | Martin Scorsese | 2204 |
| 26 | Awakenings | 1990 | Penny Marshall | 2232 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 115 |
| 2 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 | Robert Wise | 214 |
| 3 | East of Eden | 1955 | Elia Kazan | 527 |
| 4 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 605 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 332 |
| 2 | Le Samouraï | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 504 |
| 3 | The Eclipse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 967 |
| 4 | Rocco and His Brothers | 1960 | Luchino Visconti | 1008 |
| 5 | Le Cercle rouge | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1335 |
| 6 | Purple Noon | 1960 | René Clément | 1998 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 274 |
| 2 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski | 350 |
| 3 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | Jacques Demy | 368 |
| 4 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 780 |
| 5 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | 1967 | Jacques Demy | 1144 |
| 6 | Tristana | 1970 | Luis Buñuel | 1191 |
| 7 | Persepolis | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 1651 |
| 8 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 1739 |
| 9 | The Hunger | 1983 | Tony Scott | 1777 |
| 10 | Indochine | 1992 | Régis Wargnier | 1921 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 122 |
| 2 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 287 |
| 3 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | Wes Craven | 345 |
| 4 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | 379 |
| 5 | Ed Wood | 1994 | Tim Burton | 497 |
| 6 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 732 |
| 7 | Donnie Brasco | 1997 | Mike Newell | 869 |
| 8 | Chocolat | 2000 | Lasse Hallström | 1114 |
| 9 | Finding Neverland | 2004 | Marc Forster | 1219 |
| 10 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | 1993 | Lasse Hallström | 1326 |
| 11 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton | 1516 |
| 12 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | 1998 | Terry Gilliam | 1720 |
| 13 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2006 | Gore Verbinski | 1874 |
| 14 | Before Night Falls | 2000 | Julian Schnabel | 1928 |
| 15 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | Tim Burton | 1975 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 59 |
| 2 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 149 |
| 3 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese | 1268 |
| 4 | October Sky | 1999 | Joe Johnston | 1392 |
| 5 | Citizen Ruth | 1996 | Alexander Payne | 1492 |
| 6 | Wild at Heart | 1990 | David Lynch | 1665 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 63 |
| 2 | Romeo + Juliet | 1996 | Baz Luhrmann | 406 |
| 3 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 522 |
| 4 | Gangs of New York | 2002 | Martin Scorsese | 1276 |
| 5 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | 1993 | Lasse Hallström | 1326 |
| 6 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | 1495 |
| 7 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 1654 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 54 |
| 2 | The Blue Angel | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | 321 |
| 3 | Witness for the Prosecution | 1957 | Billy Wilder | 573 |
| 4 | The Scarlet Empress | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg | 631 |
| 5 | Destry Rides Again | 1939 | George Marshall | 947 |
| 6 | Morocco | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | 1097 |
| 7 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | 1126 |
| 8 | Around the World in Eighty Days | 1956 | Michael Anderson | 1288 |
| 9 | Shanghai Express | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg | 1457 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 206 |
| 2 | Goodbye Mr. Chips | 1939 | Sam Wood | 685 |
| 3 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1933 | Alexander Korda | 1769 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | 152 |
| 2 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 211 |
| 3 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 242 |
| 4 | The Big Carnival | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 728 |
| 5 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | 1954 | Richard Fleischer | 753 |
| 6 | The Bad and the Beautiful | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli | 1190 |
| 7 | Champion | 1949 | Mark Robson | 1463 |
| 8 | A Letter to Three Wives | 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1487 |
| 9 | Lust for Life | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli | 1525 |
| 10 | Lonely Are the Brave | 1962 | David Miller | 1629 |
| 11 | Seven Days in May | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 1717 |
| 12 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | 1939 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fatal Attraction | 1987 | Adrian Lyne | 530 |
| 2 | Basic Instinct | 1992 | Paul Verhoeven | 636 |
| 3 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 713 |
| 4 | The China Syndrome | 1979 | James Bridges | 1118 |
| 5 | Wall Street | 1987 | Oliver Stone | 1120 |
| 6 | The Game | 1997 | David Fincher | 1491 |
| 7 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 1674 |
| 8 | The War of the Roses | 1989 | Danny DeVito | 1784 |
| 9 | One Day in September | 1999 | Kevin Macdonald | 1792 |
| 10 | Romancing the Stone | 1984 | Robert Zemeckis | 1872 |
| 11 | Wonder Boys | 2000 | Curtis Hanson | 1878 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 24 |
| 2 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 39 |
| 3 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 103 |
| 4 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | 198 |
| 5 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 315 |
| 6 | The Goodbye Girl | 1977 | Herbert Ross | 1633 |
| 7 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 1674 |
| 8 | Mr. Holland's Opus | 1995 | Stephen Herek | 1780 |
| 9 | James and the Giant Peach | 1996 | Henry Selick | 2075 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 4 |
| 2 | Black Christmas | 1974 | Bob Clark | 1782 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 56 |
| 2 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood | 253 |
| 3 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 835 |
| 4 | A Day at the Races | 1937 | Sam Wood | 1385 |
| 5 | Auntie Mame | 1958 | Morton DaCosta | 1839 |
| 6 | Animal Crackers | 1930 | Victor Heerman | 2061 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 20 |
| 2 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 48 |
| 3 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 221 |
| 4 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | 742 |
| 5 | The Towering Inferno | 1974 | John Guillermin and Irwin Allen | 1267 |
| 6 | Three Days of the Condor | 1975 | Sydney Pollack | 1308 |
| 7 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1968 | Norman Jewison | 1484 |
| 8 | Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry | 2036 |
| 9 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1999 | John McTiernan | 2093 |
| 10 | The Three Musketeers | 1973 | Richard Lester | 2216 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1 |
| 2 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 13 |
| 3 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 14 |
| 4 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 62 |
| 5 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 128 |
| 6 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 155 |
| 7 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 221 |
| 8 | Bullitt | 1968 | Peter Yates | 587 |
| 9 | Sling Blade | 1996 | Billy Bob Thornton | 826 |
| 10 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | 889 |
| 11 | The Natural | 1984 | Barry Levinson | 908 |
| 12 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1178 |
| 13 | THX-1138 | 1971 | George Lucas | 1182 |
| 14 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1187 |
| 15 | Tender Mercies | 1983 | Bruce Beresford | 1526 |
| 16 | The Apostle | 1997 | Robert Duvall | 1543 |