| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 259 |
| 2 | Dead Ringers | 1988 | David Cronenberg | 679 |
| 3 | Reversal of Fortune | 1990 | Barbet Schroeder | 1357 |
| 4 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | 1981 | Karel Reisz | 1465 |
| 5 | The Mission | 1986 | Roland Joffé | 1623 |
| 6 | Stealing Beauty | 1996 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 2300 |
| 7 | Moonlighting | 1982 | Jerzy Skolimowski | 2302 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 20 |
| 2 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 31 |
| 3 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | 106 |
| 4 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 131 |
| 5 | True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott | 440 |
| 6 | Out of Sight | 1998 | Steven Soderbergh | 603 |
| 7 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 657 |
| 8 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas | 857 |
| 9 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | 2002 | George Lucas | 907 |
| 10 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Quentin Tarantino | 1019 |
| 11 | Jackie Brown | 1997 | Quentin Tarantino | 1341 |
| 12 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas | 1690 |
| 13 | A Time to Kill | 1996 | Joel Schumacher | 1834 |
| 14 | Patriot Games | 1992 | Phillip Noyce | 2287 |
| 15 | Menace II Society | 1993 | Albert and Allen Hughes | 2377 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Blue Angel | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | 244 |
| 2 | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F. W. Murnau | 495 |
| 3 | Faust | 1926 | F. W. Murnau | 1249 |
| 4 | The Last Command | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | 1995 |
| 5 | Varieté | 1925 | Ewald André Dupont | 2119 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | 114 |
| 2 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 116 |
| 3 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 315 |
| 4 | The Mummy | 1932 | Karl Freund | 767 |
| 5 | The Black Cat | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1195 |
| 6 | Targets | 1968 | Peter Bogdanovich | 1254 |
| 7 | The Old Dark House | 1932 | James Whale | 1546 |
| 8 | Son of Frankenstein | 1939 | Rowland V. Lee | 1861 |
| 9 | Head | 1968 | Bob Rafelson | 2408 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 34 |
| 2 | The General | 1927 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 42 |
| 3 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 226 |
| 4 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | 1928 | Charles Reisner | 844 |
| 5 | Around the World in Eighty Days | 1956 | Michael Anderson | 985 |
| 6 | The Navigator | 1924 | Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton | 989 |
| 7 | Our Hospitality | 1923 | John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton | 1100 |
| 8 | The Cameraman | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick | 1166 |
| 9 | Limelight | 1952 | Charles Chaplin | 1227 |
| 10 | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | 1963 | Stanley Kramer | 1372 |
| 11 | That's Entertainment! | 1974 | Jack Haley Jr. | 2060 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 3 |
| 2 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 15 |
| 3 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 24 |
| 4 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 135 |
| 5 | The Godfather: Part III | 1990 | Francis Ford Coppola | 387 |
| 6 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | 452 |
| 7 | Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen | 641 |
| 8 | Love and Death | 1975 | Woody Allen | 1544 |
| 9 | Play It Again, Sam | 1972 | Herbert Ross | 1573 |
| 10 | The First Wives Club | 1996 | Hugh Wilson | 1942 |
| 11 | Something's Gotta Give | 2003 | Nancy Meyers | 2073 |
| 12 | Radio Days | 1987 | Woody Allen | 2150 |
| 13 | Father of the Bride | 1991 | Charles Shyer | 2303 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Taxi Driver | 1976 | Martin Scorsese | 16 |
| 2 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 20 |
| 3 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 90 |
| 4 | Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese | 171 |
| 5 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 188 |
| 6 | The Piano | 1993 | Jane Campion | 203 |
| 7 | The Last Temptation of Christ | 1988 | Martin Scorsese | 910 |
| 8 | From Dusk Till Dawn | 1996 | Robert Rodriguez | 1010 |
| 9 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974 | Martin Scorsese | 1076 |
| 10 | Bad Lieutenant | 1992 | Abel Ferrara | 1154 |
| 11 | Get Shorty | 1995 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 1179 |
| 12 | Blue Collar | 1978 | Paul Schrader | 1604 |
| 13 | Bugsy | 1991 | Barry Levinson | 1614 |
| 14 | Smoke | 1995 | Wayne Wang | 1862 |
| 15 | Clockers | 1995 | Spike Lee | 2282 |
| 16 | Sister Act | 1992 | Emile Ardolino | 2307 |
| 17 | Cop Land | 1997 | James Mangold | 2419 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 5 |
| 2 | An American in Paris | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli | 169 |
| 3 | On the Town | 1949 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 471 |
| 4 | Inherit the Wind | 1960 | Stanley Kramer | 1094 |
| 5 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | 1967 | Jacques Demy | 1331 |
| 6 | The Pirate | 1948 | Vincente Minnelli | 1825 |
| 7 | Brigadoon | 1954 | Vincente Minnelli | 1950 |
| 8 | That's Entertainment! | 1974 | Jack Haley Jr. | 2060 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 30 |
| 2 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 45 |
| 3 | To Catch a Thief | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1090 |
| 4 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters | 1296 |
| 5 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1409 |
| 6 | The Bridges at Toko-Ri | 1954 | Mark Robson | 2168 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 105 |
| 2 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 152 |
| 3 | Black Narcissus | 1947 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 318 |
| 4 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 368 |
| 5 | An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Leo McCarey | 455 |
| 6 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang | 475 |
| 7 | The Innocents | 1961 | Jack Clayton | 899 |
| 8 | Quo Vadis | 1951 | Mervyn LeRoy | 1317 |
| 9 | Major Barbara | 1941 | Gabriel Pascal | 1819 |
| 10 | Julius Caesar | 1953 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2009 |
| 11 | King Solomon's Mines | 1950 | Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton | 2142 |
| 12 | The Sundowners | 1960 | Fred Zinnemann | 2289 |
| 13 | Separate Tables | 1958 | Delbert Mann | 2437 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Moulin Rouge! | 2001 | Baz Luhrmann | 235 |
| 2 | Eyes Wide Shut | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick | 877 |
| 3 | The Others | 2001 | Alejandro Amenábar | 915 |
| 4 | The Hours | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | 1044 |
| 5 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 1378 |
| 6 | To Die For | 1995 | Gus Van Sant | 1617 |
| 7 | Flirting | 1991 | John Duigan | 2006 |
| 8 | Cold Mountain | 2003 | Anthony Minghella | 2507 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 22 |
| 2 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | 221 |
| 3 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg | 648 |
| 4 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | Steven Zaillian | 1128 |
| 5 | Sexy Beast | 2000 | Jonathan Glazer | 1152 |
| 6 | Dave | 1993 | Ivan Reitman | 1506 |
| 7 | Bugsy | 1991 | Barry Levinson | 1614 |
| 8 | House of Sand and Fog | 2003 | Vadim Perelman | 2035 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 167 |
| 2 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 181 |
| 3 | Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | Werner Herzog | 684 |
| 4 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 1222 |
| 5 | For a Few Dollars More | 1965 | Sergio Leone | 1637 |
| 6 | Burden of Dreams | 1982 | Les Blank | 1929 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 54 |
| 2 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1968 | Norman Jewison | 1247 |
| 3 | Midnight Run | 1988 | Martin Brest | 1365 |
| 4 | Blue Collar | 1978 | Paul Schrader | 1604 |
| 5 | Nothing but a Man | 1964 | Michael Roemer | 2234 |
