| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 90 |
| 2 | Le Jour se lève | 1939 | Marcel Carné | 965 |
| 3 | Pépé Le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier | 1256 |
| 4 | Mon oncle d'Amérique | 1980 | Alain Resnais | 1300 |
| 5 | La Bête Humaine | 1938 | Jean Renoir | 1574 |
| 6 | Port of Shadows | 1938 | Marcel Carné | 1708 |
| 7 | Le Plaisir | 1952 | Max Ophüls | 1831 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 17 |
| 2 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 69 |
| 3 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 447 |
| 4 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1226 |
| 5 | The Misfits | 1961 | John Huston | 1549 |
| 6 | San Francisco | 1936 | W.S. Van Dyke | 1854 |
| 7 | Run Silent Run Deep | 1958 | Robert Wise | 2043 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 195 |
| 2 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 600 |
| 3 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 1047 |
| 4 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders | 1653 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Ninotchka | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch | 229 |
| 2 | Camille | 1936 | George Cukor | 681 |
| 3 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian | 800 |
| 4 | Grand Hotel | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | 911 |
| 5 | Anna Karenina | 1935 | Clarence Brown | 1789 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 5 |
| 2 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | 226 |
| 3 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | 250 |
| 4 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | 1126 |
| 5 | Easter Parade | 1948 | Charles Walters | 1437 |
| 6 | The Pirate | 1948 | Vincente Minnelli | 2027 |
| 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 | 155 |
| 3 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 197 |
| 4 | Young Frankenstein | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 260 |
| 5 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 492 |
| 6 | Ghost World | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | 815 |
| 7 | After Hours | 1985 | Martin Scorsese | 944 |
| 8 | Dumb & Dumber | 1994 | Peter Farrelly | 1311 |
| 9 | The Black Stallion | 1979 | Carroll Ballard | 1342 |
| 10 | Head | 1968 | Bob Rafelson | 1976 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | 297 |
| 2 | Pretty Woman | 1990 | Garry Marshall | 298 |
| 3 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | 624 |
| 4 | An Officer and a Gentleman | 1982 | Taylor Hackford | 1134 |
| 5 | American Gigolo | 1980 | Paul Schrader | 1701 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | 116 |
| 2 | The Road Warrior | 1981 | George Miller | 306 |
| 3 | Gallipoli | 1981 | Peter Weir | 598 |
| 4 | Mad Max | 1979 | George Miller | 606 |
| 5 | Chicken Run | 2000 | Peter Lord and Nick Park | 747 |
| 6 | Lethal Weapon | 1987 | Richard Donner | 794 |
| 7 | The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | Peter Weir | 1189 |
| 8 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan | 1858 |
| 9 | The Patriot | 2000 | Roland Emmerich | 2239 |
| 10 | Lethal Weapon 2 | 1989 | Richard Donner | 2355 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 61 |
| 2 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | 161 |
| 3 | Intolerance | 1916 | D.W. Griffith | 181 |
| 4 | The Wind | 1928 | Victor Sjöström | 483 |
| 5 | Broken Blossoms | 1919 | D.W. Griffith | 616 |
| 6 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1146 |
| 7 | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | 1226 |
| 8 | Way Down East | 1920 | D.W. Griffith | 1474 |
| 9 | Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | William Dieterle | 2196 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 108 |
| 2 | The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charles Chaplin | 369 |
| 3 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 835 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Raise the Red Lantern | 1991 | Yimou Zhang | 363 |
| 2 | Farewell My Concubine | 1993 | Kaige Chen | 601 |
| 3 | Ju Dou | 1990 | Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang | 946 |
| 4 | To Live | 1994 | Yimou Zhang | 1221 |
| 5 | Red Sorghum | 1988 | Yimou Zhang | 1362 |
| 6 | The Story of Qiu Ju | 1992 | Yimou Zhang | 1565 |
| 7 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar Wai Wong | 2244 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 173 |
| 2 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 528 |
| 3 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 607 |
| 4 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 776 |
| 5 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 907 |
| 6 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 1435 |
| 7 | The Big Easy | 1986 | Jim McBride | 2078 |
| 8 | Revenge of the Nerds | 1984 | Jeff Kanew | 2351 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 86 |
| 2 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 128 |
| 3 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 492 |
| 4 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | 706 |
| 5 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 721 |
| 6 | The Muppet Movie | 1979 | James Frawley | 1243 |
| 7 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | 1352 |
| 8 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 1709 |
| 9 | Bugsy | 1991 | Barry Levinson | 1770 |
| 10 | Airport | 1970 | George Seaton | 1979 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 235 |
| 2 | They Live by Night | 1949 | Nicholas Ray | 910 |
| 3 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1055 |
| 4 | Senso | 1954 | Luchino Visconti | 1346 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 31 |
| 2 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 52 |
| 3 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 72 |
| 4 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 104 |
| 5 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 109 |
| 6 | The Awful Truth | 1937 | Leo McCarey | 469 |
| 7 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Leo McCarey | 514 |
| 8 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 623 |
| 9 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 638 |
| 10 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra | 686 |
| 11 | Holiday | 1938 | George Cukor | 1034 |
| 12 | Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | Howard Hawks | 1154 |
| 13 | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 | Lowell Sherman | 1278 |
| 14 | To Catch a Thief | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1517 |
| 15 | Suspicion | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1822 |
| 16 | The Talk of the Town | 1942 | George Stevens | 2015 |
| 17 | My Favorite Wife | 1940 | Garson Kanin | 2332 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | Mike Newell | 267 |
| 2 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee | 405 |
| 3 | The Remains of the Day | 1993 | James Ivory | 594 |
| 4 | Bridget Jones's Diary | 2001 | Sharon Maguire | 714 |
| 5 | Love Actually | 2003 | Richard Curtis | 1024 |
| 6 | Notting Hill | 1999 | Roger Michell | 1166 |
| 7 | About a Boy | 2002 | Chris and Paul Weitz | 1986 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner | 78 |
| 2 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 132 |
| 3 | Best in Show | 2000 | Christopher Guest | 822 |
| 4 | Waiting for Guffman | 1996 | Christopher Guest | 998 |
| 5 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1183 |
| 6 | Little Shop of Horrors | 1986 | Frank Oz | 1668 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 8 |
| 2 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 9 |
| 3 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 43 |
| 4 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 57 |
| 5 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1949 | Robert Hamer | 170 |
| 6 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 178 |
| 7 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 191 |
| 8 | Great Expectations | 1946 | David Lean | 257 |
| 9 | The Ladykillers | 1955 | Alexander Mackendrick | 333 |
| 10 | The Lavender Hill Mob | 1951 | Charles Crichton | 677 |
| 11 | Oliver Twist | 1948 | David Lean | 939 |
| 12 | The Man in the White Suit | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick | 1071 |
| 13 | A Passage to India | 1984 | David Lean | 2023 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 212 |
| 2 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Ang Lee | 474 |
| 3 | October Sky | 1999 | Joe Johnston | 1392 |
| 4 | City Slickers | 1991 | Ron Underwood | 1614 |
| 5 | Lovely & Amazing | 2001 | Nicole Holofcener | 2266 |