| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 73 |
| 2 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 118 |
| 3 | Dirty Harry | 1971 | Don Siegel | 255 |
| 4 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | 536 |
| 5 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | 1976 | Clint Eastwood | 645 |
| 6 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 653 |
| 7 | The Bridges of Madison County | 1995 | Clint Eastwood | 964 |
| 8 | Where Eagles Dare | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton | 1037 |
| 9 | In the Line of Fire | 1993 | Wolfgang Petersen | 1402 |
| 10 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | 1533 |
| 11 | High Plains Drifter | 1973 | Clint Eastwood | 1542 |
| 12 | Play Misty for Me | 1971 | Clint Eastwood | 1759 |
| 13 | Kelly's Heroes | 1970 | Brian G. Hutton | 1886 |
| 14 | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | 1929 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 193 |
| 2 | Hannah and Her Sisters | 1986 | Woody Allen | 354 |
| 3 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen | 503 |
| 4 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1985 | Woody Allen | 837 |
| 5 | Zelig | 1983 | Woody Allen | 1269 |
| 6 | Broadway Danny Rose | 1984 | Woody Allen | 1394 |
| 7 | Husbands and Wives | 1992 | Woody Allen | 1581 |
| 8 | Radio Days | 1987 | Woody Allen | 1869 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 22 |
| 2 | The English Patient | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | 231 |
| 3 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | Steve Box and Nick Park | 951 |
| 4 | Quiz Show | 1994 | Robert Redford | 1012 |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 1214 |
| 6 | Strange Days | 1995 | Kathryn Bigelow | 2009 |
| 7 | The Hurt Locker | 2008 | Kathryn Bigelow | 2031 |
| 8 | The Prince of Egypt | 1998 | Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells | 2185 |
| 9 | The Constant Gardner | 2005 | Fernando Meirelles | 2235 |
| 10 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2007 | David Yates | 2292 |
| 11 | Spider | 2002 | David Cronenberg | 2366 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Tom Jones | 1963 | Tony Richardson | 435 |
| 2 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 460 |
| 3 | Erin Brockovich | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 649 |
| 4 | Traffic | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 713 |
| 5 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | 1960 | Karel Reisz | 772 |
| 6 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | 859 |
| 7 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 1258 |
| 8 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | 2105 |
| 9 | Annie | 1982 | John Huston | 2110 |
| 10 | Two for the Road | 1967 | Stanley Donen | 2375 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 13 |
| 2 | The Matrix | 1999 | Andy and Larry Wachowski | 42 |
| 3 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | 568 |
| 4 | The Color Purple | 1985 | Steven Spielberg | 630 |
| 5 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | Steven Zaillian | 1149 |
| 6 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1178 |
| 7 | The Matrix Reloaded | 2003 | Andy and Larry Wachowski | 1249 |
| 8 | King of New York | 1990 | Abel Ferrara | 1333 |
| 9 | What's Love Got to Do with It | 1993 | Brian Gibson | 1451 |
| 10 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood | 1511 |
| 11 | Rumble Fish | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 |
| 12 | The Matrix Revolutions | 2003 | Andy and Larry Wachowski | 2104 |
| 13 | Event Horizon | 1997 | Paul W.S. Anderson | 2347 |
| 14 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 2005 | Shane Black | 2352 |
| 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 | 167 |
| 4 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 178 |
| 5 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | 293 |
| 6 | Hannah and Her Sisters | 1986 | Woody Allen | 354 |
| 7 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | 1997 | Jay Roach | 401 |
| 8 | Shampoo | 1975 | Hal Ashby | 1200 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | 35 |
| 2 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 492 |
| 3 | Cruel Intentions | 1999 | Roger Kumble | 1230 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 153 |
| 2 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | 904 |
| 3 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | Michael Curtiz | 1323 |
| 4 | The Sea Hawk | 1940 | Michael Curtiz | 1702 |
| 5 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz | 1800 |
| 6 | Gentleman Jim | 1942 | Raoul Walsh | 1916 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 102 |
| 2 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 1968 | Sergio Leone | 107 |
| 3 | The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 138 |
| 4 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 154 |
| 5 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 263 |
| 6 | The Ox-Bow Incident | 1943 | William A. Wellman | 525 |
| 7 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 614 |
| 8 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 725 |
| 9 | On Golden Pond | 1981 | Mark Rydell | 804 |
| 10 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy | 863 |
| 11 | Jezebel | 1938 | William Wyler | 1172 |
| 12 | Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford | 1341 |
| 13 | Fail-Safe | 1964 | Sidney Lumet | 1368 |
| 14 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1625 |
| 15 | The Wrong Man | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1848 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Barbarella | 1968 | Roger Vadim | 734 |
| 2 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 767 |
| 3 | On Golden Pond | 1981 | Mark Rydell | 804 |
| 4 | The China Syndrome | 1979 | James Bridges | 1118 |
| 5 | Coming Home | 1978 | Hal Ashby | 1356 |
| 6 | Julia | 1977 | Fred Zinnemann | 1403 |
| 7 | Cat Ballou | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein | 1510 |
| 8 | Nine to Five | 1980 | Colin Higgins | 1741 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 225 |
| 2 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 1948 | Max Ophüls | 477 |
| 3 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 623 |
| 4 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 835 |
| 5 | Othello | 1952 | Orson Welles | 1790 |
| 6 | Suspicion | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1822 |
| 7 | Jane Eyre | 1943 | Robert Stevenson | 2378 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 8 |
| 2 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 13 |
| 3 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 21 |
| 4 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | 29 |
| 5 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 43 |
| 6 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 155 |
| 7 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 166 |
| 8 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 178 |
| 9 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | 198 |
| 10 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg | 450 |
| 11 | The Fugitive | 1993 | Andrew Davis | 496 |
| 12 | Witness | 1985 | Peter Weir | 510 |
| 13 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | 1984 | Steven Spielberg | 676 |
| 14 | Working Girl | 1988 | Mike Nichols | 789 |
| 15 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1178 |
| 16 | Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | Phillip Noyce | 1383 |
| 17 | Air Force One | 1997 | Wolfgang Petersen | 1488 |
| 18 | Zabriskie Point | 1970 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 2321 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 19 |
| 2 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 30 |
| 3 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis | 775 |
| 4 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese | 1268 |
| 5 | Bugsy Malone | 1976 | Alan Parker | 1582 |
| 6 | The Accused | 1988 | Jonathan Kaplan | 2254 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 91 |
| 2 | Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis | 1067 |
| 3 | Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | Robert Zemeckis | 1192 |
| 4 | Stuart Little | 1999 | Rob Minkoff | 1616 |
| 5 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 1674 |
| 6 | Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton | 2065 |
| 7 | Casualties of War | 1989 | Brian De Palma | 2300 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 46 |
| 2 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 73 |
| 3 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 112 |
| 4 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | 395 |
| 5 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | 536 |
| 6 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 581 |
| 7 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 592 |
| 8 | Driving Miss Daisy | 1989 | Bruce Beresford | 955 |
| 9 | War of the Worlds | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1449 |
| 10 | The Pawnbroker | 1964 | Sidney Lumet | 1547 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 98 |
| 2 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | 706 |
