| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 67 |
| 2 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 116 |
| 3 | Dirty Harry | 1971 | Don Siegel | 265 |
| 4 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | 593 |
| 5 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | 1976 | Clint Eastwood | 636 |
| 6 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 680 |
| 7 | The Bridges of Madison County | 1995 | Clint Eastwood | 884 |
| 8 | Where Eagles Dare | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton | 1327 |
| 9 | In the Line of Fire | 1993 | Wolfgang Petersen | 1430 |
| 10 | High Plains Drifter | 1973 | Clint Eastwood | 1471 |
| 11 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | 1472 |
| 12 | Kelly's Heroes | 1970 | Brian G. Hutton | 1590 |
| 13 | Play Misty for Me | 1971 | Clint Eastwood | 1810 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 217 |
| 2 | Hannah and Her Sisters | 1986 | Woody Allen | 349 |
| 3 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen | 493 |
| 4 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1985 | Woody Allen | 879 |
| 5 | Zelig | 1983 | Woody Allen | 1319 |
| 6 | Husbands and Wives | 1992 | Woody Allen | 1445 |
| 7 | Broadway Danny Rose | 1984 | Woody Allen | 1500 |
| 8 | Radio Days | 1987 | Woody Allen | 1960 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 21 |
| 2 | The English Patient | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | 219 |
| 3 | Quiz Show | 1994 | Robert Redford | 940 |
| 4 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | Steve Box and Nick Park | 1002 |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 1243 |
| 6 | The Constant Gardner | 2005 | Fernando Meirelles | 2015 |
| 7 | The Prince of Egypt | 1998 | Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells | 2023 |
| 8 | Strange Days | 1995 | Kathryn Bigelow | 2097 |
| 9 | Spider | 2002 | David Cronenberg | 2263 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Tom Jones | 1963 | Tony Richardson | 423 |
| 2 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 449 |
| 3 | Erin Brockovich | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 647 |
| 4 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 696 |
| 5 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | 1960 | Karel Reisz | 786 |
| 6 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | 1065 |
| 7 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 1342 |
| 8 | Two for the Road | 1967 | Stanley Donen | 1603 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 16 |
| 2 | The Matrix | 1999 | Andy and Larry Wachowski | 47 |
| 3 | The Color Purple | 1985 | Steven Spielberg | 512 |
| 4 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | 566 |
| 5 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | Steven Zaillian | 1147 |
| 6 | The Matrix Reloaded | 2003 | Andy and Larry Wachowski | 1163 |
| 7 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1343 |
| 8 | King of New York | 1990 | Abel Ferrara | 1358 |
| 9 | What's Love Got to Do with It | 1993 | Brian Gibson | 1399 |
| 10 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood | 1444 |
| 11 | The Matrix Revolutions | 2003 | Andy and Larry Wachowski | 1887 |
| 12 | Event Horizon | 1997 | Paul W.S. Anderson | 2246 |
| 13 | Rumble Fish | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 2267 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 8 |
| 2 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 43 |
| 3 | When Harry Met Sally… | 1989 | Rob Reiner | 178 |
| 4 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 185 |
| 5 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | 304 |
| 6 | Hannah and Her Sisters | 1986 | Woody Allen | 349 |
| 7 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | 1997 | Jay Roach | 417 |
| 8 | Shampoo | 1975 | Hal Ashby | 1055 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | 34 |
| 2 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 495 |
| 3 | Cruel Intentions | 1999 | Roger Kumble | 1311 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 155 |
| 2 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | 886 |
| 3 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | Michael Curtiz | 1448 |
| 4 | The Sea Hawk | 1940 | Michael Curtiz | 1623 |
| 5 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz | 1994 |
| 6 | Gentleman Jim | 1942 | Raoul Walsh | 2101 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 80 |
| 2 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 115 |
| 3 | The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 140 |
| 4 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 156 |
| 5 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 247 |
| 6 | The Ox-Bow Incident | 1943 | William A. Wellman | 442 |
| 7 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 607 |
| 8 | On Golden Pond | 1981 | Mark Rydell | 666 |
| 9 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 668 |
| 10 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy | 762 |
| 11 | Jezebel | 1938 | William Wyler | 995 |
| 12 | Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford | 1352 |
| 13 | Fail-Safe | 1964 | Sidney Lumet | 1426 |
| 14 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1775 |
| 15 | The Wrong Man | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1781 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | On Golden Pond | 1981 | Mark Rydell | 666 |
| 2 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 682 |
| 3 | Barbarella | 1968 | Roger Vadim | 822 |
| 4 | The China Syndrome | 1979 | James Bridges | 1074 |
| 5 | Coming Home | 1978 | Hal Ashby | 1244 |
| 6 | Cat Ballou | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein | 1404 |
| 7 | Julia | 1977 | Fred Zinnemann | 1499 |
| 8 | Nine to Five | 1980 | Colin Higgins | 1586 |
| 9 | Barefoot in the Park | 1967 | Gene Saks | 2127 |
| 10 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | 1969 | Sydney Pollack | 2199 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 218 |
| 2 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento | 377 |
| 3 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 1948 | Max Ophüls | 402 |
| 4 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 562 |
| 5 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 855 |
| 6 | Othello | 1952 | Orson Welles | 1723 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 8 |
| 2 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 16 |
| 3 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 23 |
| 4 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | 30 |
| 5 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 43 |
| 6 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 151 |
| 7 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | 177 |
| 8 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 185 |
| 9 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg | 460 |
| 10 | Witness | 1985 | Peter Weir | 472 |
| 11 | The Fugitive | 1993 | Andrew Davis | 502 |
| 12 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | 1984 | Steven Spielberg | 699 |
| 13 | Working Girl | 1988 | Mike Nichols | 802 |
| 14 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1343 |
| 15 | Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | Phillip Noyce | 1597 |
| 16 | Air Force One | 1997 | Wolfgang Petersen | 1752 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 19 |
| 2 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 31 |
| 3 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis | 755 |
| 4 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese | 1320 |
| 5 | Bugsy Malone | 1976 | Alan Parker | 1620 |
| 6 | The Accused | 1988 | Jonathan Kaplan | 2176 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 95 |
| 2 | Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis | 1035 |
| 3 | Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | Robert Zemeckis | 1144 |
| 4 | Stuart Little | 1999 | Rob Minkoff | 1484 |
| 5 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 1583 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 50 |
| 2 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 67 |
| 3 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 118 |
| 4 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | 359 |
| 5 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 583 |
| 6 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | 593 |
| 7 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 701 |
| 8 | Driving Miss Daisy | 1989 | Bruce Beresford | 825 |
| 9 | The Pawnbroker | 1964 | Sidney Lumet | 1492 |
| 10 | War of the Worlds | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1828 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 110 |
| 2 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | 717 |