| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 41 |
| 2 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 80 |
| 3 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | 153 |
| 4 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 176 |
| 5 | Young Frankenstein | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 274 |
| 6 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 314 |
| 7 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | 452 |
| 8 | The Royal Tenenbaums | 2001 | Wes Anderson | 714 |
| 9 | Hoosiers | 1986 | David Anspaugh | 754 |
| 10 | The Poseidon Adventure | 1972 | Ronald Neame | 983 |
| 11 | Get Shorty | 1995 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 1179 |
| 12 | Night Moves | 1975 | Arthur Penn | 1320 |
| 13 | Superman II | 1980 | Richard Lester | 1766 |
| 14 | Downhill Racer | 1969 | Michael Ritchie | 1776 |
| 15 | Antz | 1998 | Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson | 1873 |
| 16 | Postcards from the Edge | 1990 | Mike Nichols | 2134 |
| 17 | Mississippi Burning | 1988 | Alan Parker | 2296 |
| 18 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 2353 |
| 19 | The Birdcage | 1997 | Mike Nichols | 2373 |
| 20 | Enemy of the State | 1998 | Tony Scott | 2381 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 7 |
| 2 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 46 |
| 3 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 199 |
| 4 | The Big Red One | 1980 | Samuel Fuller | 575 |
| 5 | The Little Mermaid | 1989 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 874 |
| 6 | Laputa: Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | 2276 |
| 7 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | 1993 | Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm | 2397 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 110 |
| 2 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 126 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | 67 |
| 2 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | 75 |
| 3 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 83 |
| 4 | Toy Story 2 | 1999 | John Lasseter | 325 |
| 5 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 375 |
| 6 | Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | Nora Ephron | 539 |
| 7 | Big | 1988 | Penny Marshall | 563 |
| 8 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 568 |
| 9 | A League of Their Own | 1992 | Penny Marshall | 621 |
| 10 | Philadelphia | 1993 | Jonathan Demme | 777 |
| 11 | Cast Away | 2000 | Robert Zemeckis | 1125 |
| 12 | Splash | 1984 | Ron Howard | 1030 |
| 13 | Road to Perdition | 2002 | Sam Mendes | 1190 |
| 14 | You've Got Mail | 1998 | Nora Ephron | 1358 |
| 15 | Band of Brothers | 2001 | David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To | 1956 |
| 16 | The Queen | 2006 | Stephen Frears | 2369 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Right Stuff | 1983 | Philip Kaufman | 364 |
| 2 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | 366 |
| 3 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 375 |
| 4 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 645 |
| 5 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | 700 |
| 6 | The Abyss | 1989 | James Cameron | 731 |
| 7 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay | 943 |
| 8 | The Hours | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | 1044 |
| 9 | Places in the Heart | 1984 | Robert Benton | 1193 |
| 10 | A History of Violence | 2005 | David Cronenberg | 1514 |
| 11 | Stepmom | 1998 | Chris Columbus | 1647 |
| 12 | Pollock | 2000 | Ed Harris | 2269 |
| 13 | Baseball | 1994 | Ken Burns | 2396 |
| 14 | Enemy at the Gates | 2001 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2471 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | George Cukor | 150 |
| 2 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 1947 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 960 |
| 3 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1169 |
| 4 | Unfaithfully Yours | 1948 | Preston Sturges | 1463 |
| 5 | Major Barbara | 1941 | Gabriel Pascal | 1819 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | 93 |
| 2 | Room at the Top | 1959 | Jack Clayton | 819 |
| 3 | Darling | 1965 | John Schlesinger | 1205 |
| 4 | F for Fake | 1974 | Orson Welles | 1337 |
| 5 | The Alamo | 1960 | John Wayne | 2267 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 25 |
| 2 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 765 |
| 3 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 1005 |
| 4 | The Hitcher | 1986 | Robert Harmon | 1621 |
| 5 | Soldier of Orange | 1977 | Paul Verhoeven | 2019 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 2 |
| 2 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 14 |
| 3 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | 550 |
| 4 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 557 |
| 5 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 619 |
| 6 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 744 |
| 7 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 814 |
| 8 | Nine to Five | 1980 | Colin Higgins | 1516 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | George Cukor | 150 |
| 2 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 163 |
| 3 | Roman Holiday | 1953 | William Wyler | 330 |
| 4 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 582 |
| 5 | The Lavender Hill Mob | 1951 | Charles Crichton | 653 |
| 6 | Funny Face | 1957 | Stanley Donen | 711 |
| 7 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1016 |
| 8 | Two for the Road | 1967 | Stanley Donen | 1143 |
| 9 | The Nun's Story | 1959 | Fred Zinnemann | 1496 |
| 10 | Wait until Dark | 1967 | Terence Young | 1553 |
| 11 | Robin and Marian | 1976 | Richard Lester | 2358 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 44 |
| 2 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 71 |
| 3 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 81 |
| 4 | Adam's Rib | 1949 | George Cukor | 270 |
| 5 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 1967 | Stanley Kramer | 564 |
| 6 | Woman of the Year | 1942 | George Stevens | 566 |
| 7 | On Golden Pond | 1981 | Mark Rydell | 587 |
| 8 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Anthony Harvey | 720 |
| 9 | Long Day's Journey into Night | 1962 | Sidney Lumet | 837 |
| 10 | Stage Door | 1937 | Gregory La Cava | 839 |
| 11 | Little Women | 1933 | George Cukor | 863 |
| 12 | Pat and Mike | 1952 | George Cukor | 1024 |
| 13 | Holiday | 1938 | George Cukor | 1052 |
| 14 | Summertime | 1955 | David Lean | 1542 |
| 15 | Christopher Strong | 1933 | Dorothy Arzner | 1920 |
| 16 | Suddenly, Last Summer | 1959 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2186 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 49 |
| 2 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 101 |
| 3 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 279 |
| 4 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 323 |
| 5 | Armageddon | 1998 | Michael Bay | 712 |
| 6 | Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | Michael Moore | 933 |
| 7 | El Cid | 1961 | Anthony Mann | 1192 |
| 8 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | 1299 |
| 9 | Hamlet | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 1430 |
| 10 | The Greatest Show on Earth | 1952 | Cecil B. DeMille | 1459 |
| 11 | True Lies | 1994 | James Cameron | 1701 |
| 12 | Any Given Sunday | 1999 | Oliver Stone | 1711 |
| 13 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos | 1898 |
| 14 | The Big Country | 1958 | William Wyler | 2012 |
| 15 | Planet of the Apes | 2001 | Tim Burton | 225 |
| 16 | The Omega Man | 1971 | Boris Sagal | 2243 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 38 |
| 2 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger | 120 |
| 3 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 186 |
| 4 | Rain Man | 1988 | Barry Levinson | 296 |
| 5 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 309 |
| 6 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 356 |
| 7 | Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | Robert Benton | 448 |
| 8 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | 699 |
| 9 | Straw Dogs | 1971 | Sam Peckinpah | 963 |
| 10 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 1093 |
| 11 | Wag the Dog | 1997 | Barry Levinson | 1217 |
| 12 | Marathon Man | 1976 | John Schlesinger | 1286 |
| 13 | Lenny | 1974 | Bob Fosse | 1508 |
| 14 | Finding Neverland | 2004 | Marc Forster | 1613 |
| 15 | Dick Tracy | 1990 | Warren Beatty | 2034 |
| 16 | Straight Time | 1978 | Ulu Grosbard | 2155 |
| 17 | A Walk on the Moon | 1999 | Tony Goldwyn | 2189 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 34 |
| 2 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 51 |
| 3 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 52 |
| 4 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 202 |
| 5 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder | 508 |
| 6 | Born Yesterday | 1950 | George Cukor | 541 |
| 7 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1016 |
| 8 | The Towering Inferno | 1974 | John Guillermin and Irwin Allen | 1265 |
| 9 | Picnic | 1955 | Joshua Logan | 1529 |
| 10 | Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto | 1954 | Hiroshi Inagaki | 1716 |
| 11 | The Bridges at Toko-Ri | 1954 | Mark Robson | 2168 |
| 12 | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | 1955 | Henry King | 2469 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 39 |
| 2 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | 457 |
| 3 | The Remains of the Day | 1993 | James Ivory | 591 |
| 4 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Anthony Harvey | 720 |
| 5 | Howards End | 1992 | James Ivory | 835 |
| 6 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1401 |
| 7 | Legends of the Fall | 1994 | Edward Zwick | 1725 |
| 8 | Shadowlands | 1993 | Richard Attenborough | 1733 |
| 9 | The Mask of Zorro | 1998 | Martin Campbell | 1804 |
| 10 | Amistad | 1997 | Steven Spielberg | 2092 |
| 11 | Hannibal | 2001 | Ridley Scott | 2291 |
| 12 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 2353 |
| 13 | Mission: Impossible II | 2000 | John Woo | 2392 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 17 |
| 2 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 61 |
| 3 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 85 |
| 4 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 161 |
| 5 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 362 |
| 6 | Speed | 1994 | Jan de Bont | 390 |
| 7 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 412 |
| 8 | True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott | 440 |
| 9 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 619 |
| 10 | Hoosiers | 1986 | David Anspaugh | 754 |
| 11 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1108 |
| 12 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders | 1279 |
| 13 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1367 |
| 14 | River's Edge | 1986 | Tim Hunter | 1851 |
| 15 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | 2175 |
| 16 | Rumble Fish | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 2206 |
| 17 | Jesus' Son | 1999 | Alison Maclean | 2382 |
| 18 | Head | 1968 | Bob Rafelson | 2408 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Written on the Wind | 1956 | Douglas Sirk | 405 |
| 2 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 412 |
| 3 | All That Heaven Allows | 1955 | Douglas Sirk | 671 |
| 4 | Pillow Talk | 1959 | Michael Gordon | 774 |
| 5 | Winchester '73 | 1950 | Anthony Mann | 939 |
| 6 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | 1068 |
| 7 | Magnificent Obsession | 1954 | Douglas Sirk | 1997 |
| 8 | Bend of the River | 1952 | Anthony Mann | 2510 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Piano | 1993 | Jane Campion | 203 |
| 2 | Broadcast News | 1987 | James L. Brooks | 476 |
| 3 | Blood Simple | 1984 | Joel Coen | 500 |
| 4 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 569 |
| 5 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 657 |
| 6 | Crash | 1996 | David Cronenberg | 793 |
| 7 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 867 |
| 8 | Home for the Holidays | 1995 | Jodie Foster | 2122 |
| 9 | Jesus' Son | 1999 | Alison Maclean | 2382 |
| 10 | Thirteen | 2003 | Catherine Hardwicke | 2480 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 23 |
| 2 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 536 |
| 3 | King of Kings | 1961 | Nicholas Ray | 2036 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 33 |
| 2 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 69 |
| 3 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D. W. Griffith | 112 |
| 4 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 257 |
| 5 | Dodsworth | 1936 | William Wyler | 578 |
| 6 | And Then There Were None | 1945 | René Clair | 1213 |
| 7 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1421 |
| 8 | The Devil and Daniel Webster | 1941 | William Dieterle | 1890 |
| 9 | Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War | 1943 | Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak | 2265 |