| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 48 |
| 2 | Unforgiven | 1992 | Clint Eastwood | 73 |
| 3 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | 151 |
| 4 | The Conversation | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 155 |
| 5 | Young Frankenstein | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 260 |
| 6 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 272 |
| 7 | The Royal Tenenbaums | 2001 | Wes Anderson | 516 |
| 8 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | 588 |
| 9 | Hoosiers | 1986 | David Anspaugh | 651 |
| 10 | The Poseidon Adventure | 1972 | Ronald Neame | 1038 |
| 11 | Downhill Racer | 1969 | Michael Ritchie | 1364 |
| 12 | Get Shorty | 1995 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 1374 |
| 13 | Superman II | 1980 | Richard Lester | 1387 |
| 14 | Night Moves | 1975 | Arthur Penn | 1623 |
| 15 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 1709 |
| 16 | Antz | 1998 | Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson | 1994 |
| 17 | Enemy of the State | 1998 | Tony Scott | 2038 |
| 18 | The Birdcage | 1996 | Mike Nichols | 2308 |
| 19 | Mississippi Burning | 1988 | Alan Parker | 2368 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 8 |
| 2 | The Empire Strikes Back | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | 43 |
| 3 | Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Richard Marquand | 178 |
| 4 | The Big Red One | 1980 | Samuel Fuller | 619 |
| 5 | The Little Mermaid | 1989 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 928 |
| 6 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1647 |
| 7 | Laputa: Castle in the Sky | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki | 2245 |
| 8 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | 1993 | Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm | 2331 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 95 |
| 2 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 98 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Steven Spielberg | 50 |
| 2 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 64 |
| 3 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | 93 |
| 4 | Toy Story 2 | 1999 | John Lasseter | 268 |
| 5 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 485 |
| 6 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 560 |
| 7 | Big | 1988 | Penny Marshall | 608 |
| 8 | A League of Their Own | 1992 | Penny Marshall | 641 |
| 9 | Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | Nora Ephron | 652 |
| 10 | Philadelphia | 1993 | Jonathan Demme | 898 |
| 11 | Cast Away | 2000 | Robert Zemeckis | 1119 |
| 12 | Road to Perdition | 2002 | Sam Mendes | 1224 |
| 13 | Splash | 1984 | Ron Howard | 1515 |
| 14 | You've Got Mail | 1998 | Nora Ephron | 1567 |
| 15 | Band of Brothers | 2001 | David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To | 1915 |
| 16 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich | 1967 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | 291 |
| 2 | The Right Stuff | 1983 | Philip Kaufman | 371 |
| 3 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | 485 |
| 4 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | 612 |
| 5 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 621 |
| 6 | The Abyss | 1989 | James Cameron | 661 |
| 7 | A History of Violence | 2005 | David Cronenberg | 994 |
| 8 | The Rock | 1996 | Michael Bay | 1058 |
| 9 | The Hours | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | 1085 |
| 10 | Places in the Heart | 1984 | Robert Benton | 1350 |
| 11 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone | 1460 |
| 12 | Stepmom | 1998 | Chris Columbus | 2073 |
| 13 | Enemy at the Gates | 2001 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2077 |
| 14 | Pollock | 2000 | Ed Harris | 2312 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | George Cukor | 164 |
| 2 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 1947 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1307 |
| 3 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1397 |
| 4 | Unfaithfully Yours | 1948 | Preston Sturges | 1605 |
| 5 | Major Barbara | 1941 | Gabriel Pascal | 2380 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | 124 |
| 2 | F for Fake | 1973 | Orson Welles | 799 |
| 3 | Room at the Top | 1959 | Jack Clayton | 877 |
| 4 | Darling | 1965 | John Schlesinger | 1084 |
| 5 | The Alamo | 1960 | John Wayne | 2258 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 21 |
| 2 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 575 |
| 3 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 592 |
| 4 | The Hitcher | 1986 | Robert Harmon | 1247 |
| 5 | Soldier of Orange | 1977 | Paul Verhoeven | 2166 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir | 384 |
| 2 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater | 508 |
| 3 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | Richard Linklater | 679 |
| 4 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | 950 |
| 5 | Waking Life | 2001 | Richard Linklater | 954 |
| 6 | Quiz Show | 1994 | Robert Redford | 1012 |
| 7 | A Midnight Clear | 1992 | Keith Gordon | 1454 |
| 8 | Training Day | 2001 | Antoine Fuqua | 2144 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1 |
| 2 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 12 |
| 3 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | 542 |
| 4 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 558 |
| 5 | Johnny Guitar | 1954 | Nicholas Ray | 590 |
| 6 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 721 |
| 7 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 970 |
| 8 | Nine to Five | 1980 | Colin Higgins | 1741 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | My Fair Lady | 1964 | George Cukor | 164 |
| 2 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | 1961 | Blake Edwards | 203 |
| 3 | Roman Holiday | 1953 | William Wyler | 300 |
| 4 | Charade | 1963 | Stanley Donen | 638 |
| 5 | The Lavender Hill Mob | 1951 | Charles Crichton | 677 |
| 6 | Funny Face | 1957 | Stanley Donen | 723 |
| 7 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1059 |
| 8 | Wait until Dark | 1967 | Terence Young | 1765 |
| 9 | The Nun's Story | 1959 | Fred Zinnemann | 1982 |
| 10 | Two for the Road | 1967 | Stanley Donen | 2375 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 52 |
| 2 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 109 |
| 3 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 120 |
| 4 | Adam's Rib | 1949 | George Cukor | 358 |
| 5 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 1967 | Stanley Kramer | 778 |
| 6 | On Golden Pond | 1981 | Mark Rydell | 804 |
| 7 | Woman of the Year | 1942 | George Stevens | 827 |
| 8 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Anthony Harvey | 848 |
| 9 | Stage Door | 1937 | Gregory La Cava | 897 |
| 10 | Holiday | 1938 | George Cukor | 1034 |
| 11 | Little Women | 1933 | George Cukor | 1053 |
| 12 | Pat and Mike | 1952 | George Cukor | 1105 |
| 13 | Long Day's Journey into Night | 1962 | Sidney Lumet | 1167 |
| 14 | State of the Union | 1948 | Frank Capra | 2081 |
| 15 | Summertime | 1955 | David Lean | 2128 |
| 16 | Christopher Strong | 1933 | Dorothy Arzner | 2251 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 54 |
| 2 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | 140 |
| 3 | Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 240 |
| 4 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 403 |
| 5 | Armageddon | 1998 | Michael Bay | 733 |
| 6 | Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | Michael Moore | 840 |
| 7 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | 1257 |
| 8 | Hamlet | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 1386 |
| 9 | True Lies | 1994 | James Cameron | 1411 |
| 10 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos | 1573 |
| 11 | The Greatest Show on Earth | 1952 | Cecil B. DeMille | 1583 |
| 12 | The Big Country | 1958 | William Wyler | 1586 |
| 13 | Any Given Sunday | 1999 | Oliver Stone | 1660 |
| 14 | The Omega Man | 1971 | Boris Sagal | 1685 |
| 15 | El Cid | 1961 | Anthony Mann | 2004 |
| 16 | The Three Musketeers | 1973 | Richard Lester | 2216 |
| 17 | Will Penny | 1968 | Tom Gries | 2267 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 39 |
| 2 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger | 142 |
| 3 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 197 |
| 4 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 277 |
| 5 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 319 |
| 6 | Rain Man | 1988 | Barry Levinson | 347 |
| 7 | Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | Robert Benton | 535 |
| 8 | Straw Dogs | 1971 | Sam Peckinpah | 726 |
| 9 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | 742 |
| 10 | Marathon Man | 1976 | John Schlesinger | 966 |
| 11 | Finding Neverland | 2004 | Marc Forster | 1219 |
| 12 | Wag the Dog | 1997 | Barry Levinson | 1261 |
| 13 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 1292 |
| 14 | Lenny | 1974 | Bob Fosse | 1816 |
| 15 | A Walk on the Moon | 1999 | Tony Goldwyn | 1820 |
| 16 | Dick Tracy | 1990 | Warren Beatty | 2098 |
| 17 | Straight Time | 1978 | Ulu Grosbard | 2217 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 33 |
| 2 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 51 |
| 3 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | David Lean | 57 |
| 4 | Network | 1976 | Sidney Lumet | 221 |
| 5 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder | 569 |
| 6 | Born Yesterday | 1950 | George Cukor | 690 |
| 7 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1059 |
| 8 | The Towering Inferno | 1974 | John Guillermin and Irwin Allen | 1267 |
| 9 | Picnic | 1955 | Joshua Logan | 1775 |
| 10 | Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto | 1954 | Hiroshi Inagaki | 2212 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 30 |
| 2 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | 421 |
| 3 | The Remains of the Day | 1993 | James Ivory | 594 |
| 4 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Anthony Harvey | 848 |
| 5 | Howards End | 1992 | James Ivory | 933 |
| 6 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1320 |
| 7 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone | 1460 |
| 8 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 1709 |
| 9 | Shadowlands | 1993 | Richard Attenborough | 1744 |
| 10 | Chaplin | 1992 | Richard Attenborough | 2072 |
| 11 | Legends of the Fall | 1994 | Edward Zwick | 2092 |
| 12 | The Mask of Zorro | 1998 | Martin Campbell | 2228 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 13 |
| 2 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 59 |
| 3 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 115 |
| 4 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 160 |
| 5 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 336 |
| 6 | Speed | 1994 | Jan de Bont | 370 |
| 7 | True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott | 430 |
| 8 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 605 |
| 9 | Hoosiers | 1986 | David Anspaugh | 651 |
| 10 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1178 |
| 11 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1187 |
| 12 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders | 1653 |
| 13 | River's Edge | 1986 | Tim Hunter | 1778 |
| 14 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | 1939 |
| 15 | Rumble Fish | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 |
| 16 | Head | 1968 | Bob Rafelson | 1976 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Written on the Wind | 1956 | Douglas Sirk | 484 |
| 2 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 605 |
| 3 | All That Heaven Allows | 1955 | Douglas Sirk | 670 |
| 4 | Pillow Talk | 1959 | Michael Gordon | 936 |
| 5 | Winchester '73 | 1950 | Anthony Mann | 943 |
| 6 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | 1122 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Piano | 1993 | Jane Campion | 247 |
| 2 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 385 |
| 3 | Blood Simple | 1984 | Joel Coen | 479 |
| 4 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 528 |
| 5 | Broadcast News | 1987 | James L. Brooks | 564 |
| 6 | Crash | 1996 | David Cronenberg | 655 |
| 7 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 776 |
| 8 | Home for the Holidays | 1995 | Jodie Foster | 2201 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 28 |
| 2 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 614 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 44 |
| 2 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 92 |
| 3 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | 161 |
| 4 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 338 |
| 5 | Dodsworth | 1936 | William Wyler | 698 |
| 6 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1146 |
| 7 | And Then There Were None | 1945 | René Clair | 1613 |
| 8 | The Devil and Daniel Webster | 1941 | William Dieterle | 2296 |
| 9 | Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War | 1943 | Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak | 2316 |