| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 180 |
| 2 | Pépé Le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier | 1033 |
| 3 | Le Jour se lève | 1939 | Marcel Carné | 1576 |
| 4 | La Bête Humaine | 1938 | Jean Renoir | 2338 |
| 5 | Touchez pas au grisbi | 1954 | Jacques Becker | 2380 |
| 6 | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 2675 |
| 7 | Le Plaisir | 1952 | Max Ophüls | 2688 |
| 8 | Port of Shadows | 1938 | Marcel Carné | 2827 |
| 9 | French Cancan | 1955 | Jean Renoir | 2930 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 31 |
| 2 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 99 |
| 3 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 1211 |
| 4 | The Misfits | 1961 | John Huston | 1311 |
| 5 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1798 |
| 6 | Run Silent Run Deep | 1958 | Robert Wise | 2536 |
| 7 | San Francisco | 1936 | W.S. Van Dyke | 3018 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 277 |
| 2 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 526 |
| 3 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 992 |
| 4 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders | 1932 |
| 5 | The Reader | 2008 | Stephen Daldry | 2128 |
| 6 | Eternity and a Day | 1998 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2828 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich | 304 |
| 2 | Y tu mamá también | 2001 | Alfonso Cuarón | 462 |
| 3 | Amores perros | 2000 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 612 |
| 4 | Bad Education | 2004 | Pedro Almodóvar | 1699 |
| 5 | Babel | 2006 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 2077 |
| 6 | The Motorcycle Diaries | 2004 | Walter Salles | 2646 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 9 |
| 2 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | 284 |
| 3 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | 453 |
| 4 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | 936 |
| 5 | Easter Parade | 1948 | Charles Walters | 2026 |
| 6 | P.S. I Love You | 2007 | Richard LaGravenese | 3035 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1977 | Steven Spielberg | 110 |
| 2 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 207 |
| 3 | Young Frankenstein | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 279 |
| 4 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 359 |
| 5 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 770 |
| 6 | Ghost World | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | 970 |
| 7 | Dumb & Dumber | 1994 | Peter Farrelly | 1014 |
| 8 | After Hours | 1985 | Martin Scorsese | 1021 |
| 9 | The Black Stallion | 1979 | Carroll Ballard | 1797 |
| 10 | Viva Las Vegas | 1964 | George Sidney | 2935 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 243 |
| 2 | Pretty Woman | 1990 | Garry Marshall | 443 |
| 3 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | 763 |
| 4 | Hachiko: A Dog's Story | 2009 | Lasse Hallström | 1367 |
| 5 | Primal Fear | 1996 | Gregory Hoblit | 1711 |
| 6 | An Officer and a Gentleman | 1982 | Taylor Hackford | 1721 |
| 7 | I'm Not There. | 2007 | Todd Haynes | 2282 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | 278 |
| 2 | The Road Warrior | 1981 | George Miller | 325 |
| 3 | Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller | 614 |
| 4 | Lethal Weapon | 1987 | Richard Donner | 862 |
| 5 | Chicken Run | 2000 | Peter Lord and Nick Park | 995 |
| 6 | Gallipoli | 1981 | Peter Weir | 1137 |
| 7 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan | 1581 |
| 8 | Lethal Weapon 2 | 1989 | Richard Donner | 2258 |
| 9 | The Patriot | 2000 | Roland Emmerich | 2496 |
| 10 | Pocahontas | 1995 | Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg | 2545 |
| 11 | The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | Peter Weir | 2591 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 61 |
| 2 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | 222 |
| 3 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 1294 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 104 |
| 2 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 327 |
| 3 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 591 |
| 4 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 905 |
| 5 | The Artist | 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius | 911 |
| 6 | Argo | 2012 | Ben Affleck | 1002 |
| 7 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 1090 |
| 8 | Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 1184 |
| 9 | The Princess and the Frog | 2009 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 1520 |
| 10 | The Emperor's New Groove | 2000 | Mark Dindal | 2019 |
| 11 | Cars | 2006 | John Lasseter | 2239 |
| 12 | Atomic Blonde | 2017 | David Leitch | 2255 |
| 13 | 10 Cloverfield Lane | 2016 | Dan Trachtenberg | 2263 |
| 14 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 2694 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Notebook | 2004 | Nick Cassavetes | 439 |
| 2 | Drive | 2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn | 469 |
| 3 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve | 472 |
| 4 | La La Land | 2016 | Damien Chazelle | 484 |
| 5 | Remember the Titans | 2000 | Boaz Yakin | 846 |
| 6 | Blue Valentine | 2010 | Derek Cianfrance | 1395 |
| 7 | Crazy, Stupid, Love. | 2011 | Glenn Ficarra and John Requa | 1647 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 49 |
| 2 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 98 |
| 3 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 126 |
| 4 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 128 |
| 5 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 148 |
| 6 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra | 656 |
| 7 | The Awful Truth | 1937 | Leo McCarey | 827 |
| 8 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Leo McCarey | 900 |
| 9 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 1009 |
| 10 | Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | Howard Hawks | 1482 |
| 11 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 1598 |
| 12 | Holiday | 1938 | George Cukor | 1702 |
| 13 | To Catch a Thief | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1743 |
| 14 | Suspicion | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2566 |
| 15 | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 | Lowell Sherman | 2766 |
| 16 | Blonde Venus | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg | 3034 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | Mike Newell | 441 |
| 2 | Love Actually | 2003 | Richard Curtis | 503 |
| 3 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee | 668 |
| 4 | Notting Hill | 1999 | Roger Michell | 732 |
| 5 | Bridget Jones's Diary | 2001 | Sharon Maguire | 736 |
| 6 | Paddington 2 | 2017 | Paul King | 785 |
| 7 | The Remains of the Day | 1993 | James Ivory | 999 |
| 8 | About a Boy | 2002 | Chris and Paul Weitz | 2175 |
| 9 | Maurice | 1987 | James Ivory | 2377 |
| 10 | Cloud Atlas | 2012 | Tom Tykwer and Lana & Lilly Wachowski | 2894 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 4 |
| 2 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 25 |
| 3 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 29 |
| 4 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 91 |
| 5 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 219 |
| 6 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1949 | Robert Hamer | 345 |
| 7 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 393 |
| 8 | Great Expectations | 1946 | David Lean | 539 |
| 9 | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | 2015 | J.J. Abrams | 565 |
| 10 | The Ladykillers | 1955 | Alexander Mackendrick | 616 |
| 11 | The Lavender Hill Mob | 1951 | Charles Crichton | 2325 |
| 12 | The Man in the White Suit | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick | 2427 |
| 13 | Oliver Twist | 1948 | David Lean | 2579 |
| 14 | A Passage to India | 1984 | David Lean | 2717 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Ang Lee | 111 |
| 2 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 136 |
| 3 | Zodiac | 2007 | David Fincher | 507 |
| 4 | Prisoners | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve | 1198 |
| 5 | Nightcrawler | 2014 | Dan Gilroy | 1245 |
| 6 | October Sky | 1999 | Joe Johnston | 1833 |
| 7 | Spider-Man: Far from Home | 2019 | Jon Watts | 2433 |
| 8 | Source Code | 2011 | Duncan Jones | 2499 |
| 9 | Nocturnal Animals | 2016 | Tom Ford | 2701 |
| 10 | Enemy | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve | 2806 |
| 11 | City Slickers | 1991 | Ron Underwood | 2948 |
| 12 | Jarhead | 2005 | Sam Mendes | 3058 |
