| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 89 |
| 2 | Le Jour se lève | 1939 | Marcel Carné | 676 |
| 3 | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 1120 |
| 4 | Pépé Le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier | 1256 |
| 5 | Port of Shadows | 1938 | Marcel Carné | 1403 |
| 6 | La Bête Humaine | 1938 | Jean Renoir | 1497 |
| 7 | Le Plaisir | 1952 | Max Ophüls | 1949 |
| 8 | French Cancan | 1954 | Jean Renoir | 1979 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 11 |
| 2 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 53 |
| 3 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 300 |
| 4 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 861 |
| 5 | San Francisco | 1936 | W.S. Van Dyke | 1310 |
| 6 | Red Dust | 1932 | Victor Fleming | 1816 |
| 7 | The Misfits | 1961 | John Huston | 1868 |
| 8 | That's Entertainment! | 1974 | Jack Haley Jr. | 2060 |
| 9 | Run Silent Run Deep | 1958 | Robert Wise | 2238 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 195 |
| 2 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 1222 |
| 3 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders | 1279 |
| 4 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 1576 |
| 5 | Eternity and a Day | 1998 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2501 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Ninotchka | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch | 190 |
| 2 | Camille | 1936 | George Cukor | 437 |
| 3 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian | 529 |
| 4 | Grand Hotel | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | 677 |
| 5 | Anna Karenina | 1935 | Clarence Brown | 1530 |
| 6 | Flesh and the Devil | 1926 | Clarence Brown | 2325 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 6 |
| 2 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | 204 |
| 3 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | 224 |
| 4 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | 920 |
| 5 | Easter Parade | 1948 | Charles Walters | 1327 |
| 6 | The Pirate | 1948 | Vincente Minnelli | 1825 |
| 7 | That's Entertainment! | 1974 | Jack Haley Jr. | 2060 |
| 8 | Babes in Arms | 1939 | Busby Berkeley | 2404 |
| 9 | Love Finds Andy Hardy | 1938 | George B. Seitz | 2420 |
| 10 | The Clock | 1945 | Vincente Minnelli | 2482 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 103 |
| 2 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 176 |
| 3 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 186 |
| 4 | Young Frankenstein | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 274 |
| 5 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 506 |
| 6 | Ghost World | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | 967 |
| 7 | After Hours | 1985 | Martin Scorsese | 1048 |
| 8 | The Black Stallion | 1979 | Carroll Ballard | 1111 |
| 9 | Dumb & Dumber | 1994 | Peter Farrelly | 1676 |
| 10 | Head | 1968 | Bob Rafelson | 2408 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sunrise | 1927 | F. W. Murnau | 95 |
| 2 | Seventh Heaven | 1927 | Frank Borzage | 1563 |
| 3 | A Star Is Born | 1937 | William A. Wellman | 1679 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pretty Woman | 1990 | Garry Marshall | 272 |
| 2 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 295 |
| 3 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | 680 |
| 4 | An Officer and a Gentleman | 1982 | Taylor Hackford | 1040 |
| 5 | American Gigolo | 1980 | Paul Schrader | 1957 |
| 6 | Primal Fear | 1996 | Gregory Hoblit | 2438 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | 94 |
| 2 | The Road Warrior | 1981 | George Miller | 370 |
| 3 | Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller | 543 |
| 4 | Gallipoli | 1981 | Peter Weir | 590 |
| 5 | Chicken Run | 2000 | Peter Lord and Nick Park | 707 |
| 6 | Lethal Weapon | 1987 | Richard Donner | 807 |
| 7 | The Passion of the Christ | 2004 | Mel Gibson | 1292 |
| 8 | The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | Peter Weir | 1707 |
| 9 | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | 1985 | George Miller | 2083 |
| 10 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan | 2161 |
| 11 | The Patriot | 2000 | Roland Emmerich | 2181 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 73 |
| 2 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D. W. Griffith | 112 |
| 3 | Intolerance | 1916 | D. W. Griffith | 133 |
| 4 | The Wind | 1928 | Victor Sjöström | 410 |
| 5 | Broken Blossoms | 1919 | D. W. Griffith | 501 |
| 6 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 861 |
| 7 | Way Down East | 1920 | D. W. Griffith | 1294 |
| 8 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1421 |
| 9 | Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | William Dieterle | 1850 |
| 10 | Orphans of the Storm | 1921 | D. W. Griffith | 2323 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 92 |
| 2 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | 392 |
| 3 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 668 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Raise the Red Lantern | 1991 | Yimou Zhang | 326 |
| 2 | Farewell My Concubine | 1993 | Kaige Chen | 548 |
| 3 | Ju Dou | 1990 | Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang | 918 |
| 4 | To Live | 1994 | Yimou Zhang | 1038 |
| 5 | Red Sorghum | 1987 | Yimou Zhang | 1178 |
| 6 | The Story of Qiu Ju | 1992 | Yimou Zhang | 1354 |
| 7 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar Wai Wong | 2517 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 70 |
| 2 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 117 |
| 3 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 506 |
| 4 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 744 |
| 5 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | 868 |
| 6 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | 1432 |
| 7 | Bugsy | 1991 | Barry Levinson | 1614 |
| 8 | The Muppet Movie | 1979 | James Frawley | 1787 |
| 9 | Airport | 1970 | George Seaton | 2102 |
| 10 | Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult | 1994 | Peter Segal | 2339 |
| 11 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 2353 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 220 |
| 2 | They Live by Night | 1948 | Nicholas Ray | 957 |
| 3 | Senso | 1954 | Luchino Visconti | 1079 |
| 4 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1257 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 28 |
| 2 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 44 |
| 3 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 81 |
| 4 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 86 |
| 5 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 121 |
| 6 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 388 |
| 7 | The Awful Truth | 1937 | Leo McCarey | 393 |
| 8 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Leo McCarey | 455 |
| 9 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 582 |
| 10 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra | 790 |
| 11 | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 | Lowell Sherman | 922 |
| 12 | Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | Howard Hawks | 984 |
| 13 | Holiday | 1938 | George Cukor | 1052 |
| 14 | To Catch a Thief | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1090 |
| 15 | Suspicion | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1522 |
| 16 | The Talk of the Town | 1942 | George Stevens | 1722 |
| 17 | That's Entertainment! | 1974 | Jack Haley Jr. | 2060 |
| 18 | Topper | 1937 | Norman Z. McLeod | 2179 |
| 19 | The Bishop's Wife | 1947 | Henry Koster | 2190 |
| 20 | Blonde Venus | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg | 2242 |
| 21 | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | 1948 | H.C. Potter | 2376 |
| 22 | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | 1982 | Carl Reiner | 2460 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | Mike Newell | 241 |
| 2 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee | 357 |
| 3 | The Remains of the Day | 1993 | James Ivory | 591 |
| 4 | Bridget Jones's Diary | 2001 | Sharon Maguire | 626 |
| 5 | Love Actually | 2003 | Richard Curtis | 1147 |
| 6 | Notting Hill | 1999 | Roger Michell | 1223 |
| 7 | About a Boy | 2002 | Chris and Paul Weitz | 1922 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 7 |
| 2 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 8 |
| 3 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 52 |
| 4 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 46 |
| 5 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 167 |
| 6 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 199 |
| 7 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1949 | Robert Hamer | 228 |
| 8 | Great Expectations | 1946 | David Lean | 234 |
| 9 | The Ladykillers | 1955 | Alexander Mackendrick | 441 |
| 10 | The Lavender Hill Mob | 1951 | Charles Crichton | 653 |
| 11 | Oliver Twist | 1948 | David Lean | 784 |
| 12 | The Man in the White Suit | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick | 908 |
| 13 | Tunes of Glory | 1960 | Ronald Neame | 1720 |
| 14 | A Passage to India | 1984 | David Lean | 1758 |