| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 173 |
| 2 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 293 |
| 3 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 372 |
| 4 | Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | 385 |
| 5 | The Killers | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 686 |
| 6 | Atlantic City | 1980 | Louis Malle | 784 |
| 7 | Local Hero | 1983 | Bill Forsyth | 894 |
| 8 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 1961 | Stanley Kramer | 1055 |
| 9 | The Train | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 1064 |
| 10 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks | 1480 |
| 11 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1600 |
| 12 | Ulzana's Raid | 1972 | Robert Aldrich | 1760 |
| 13 | Seven Days in May | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | 2018 |
| 14 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | 2026 |
| 15 | Elmer Gantry | 1960 | Richard Brooks | 2148 |
| 16 | The Swimmer | 1968 | Frank Perry | 2219 |
| 17 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | 1985 | Hector Babenco | 2361 |
| 18 | Criss Cross | 1949 | Robert Siodmak | 2518 |
| 19 | Run Silent Run Deep | 1958 | Robert Wise | 2760 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 60 |
| 2 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 422 |
| 3 | Last Tango in Paris | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 451 |
| 4 | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut | 467 |
| 5 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 517 |
| 6 | The Mother and the Whore | 1973 | Jean Eustache | 692 |
| 7 | Elizabeth | 1998 | Shekhar Kapur | 1240 |
| 8 | Weekend | 2011 | Andrew Haigh | 1572 |
| 9 | Stolen Kisses | 1968 | François Truffaut | 1860 |
| 10 | The Dreamers | 2003 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1899 |
| 11 | Masculine Feminine | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard | 2041 |
| 12 | Out 1 | 1971 | Jacques Rivette | 2336 |
| 13 | Irma Vep | 1996 | Olivier Assayas | 2437 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 47 |
| 2 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Ang Lee | 153 |
| 3 | 10 Things I Hate about You | 1999 | Gil Junger | 1045 |
| 4 | I'm Not There. | 2007 | Todd Haynes | 2008 |
| 5 | The Patriot | 2000 | Roland Emmerich | 2557 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2 |
| 2 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 55 |
| 3 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | 214 |
| 4 | The Naked Spur | 1953 | Anthony Mann | 867 |
| 5 | The Fog | 1980 | John Carpenter | 1524 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 32 |
| 2 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 196 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 10 |
| 2 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 62 |
| 3 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 529 |
| 4 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 551 |
| 5 | Short Cuts | 1993 | Robert Altman | 675 |
| 6 | The Odd Couple | 1968 | Gene Saks | 798 |
| 7 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | 914 |
| 8 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy | 1627 |
| 9 | Days of Wine and Roses | 1962 | Blake Edwards | 1998 |
| 10 | Missing | 1982 | Costa-Gavras | 2295 |
| 11 | The China Syndrome | 1979 | James Bridges | 2588 |
| 12 | Hamlet | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 2652 |
| 13 | Chaplin | 1992 | Richard Attenborough | 2770 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Kar-Wai Wong | 135 |
| 2 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar-Wai Wong | 403 |
| 3 | Hard Boiled | 1992 | John Woo | 567 |
| 4 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai-keung Lau and Alan Mak | 685 |
| 5 | Happy Together | 1997 | Kar-Wai Wong | 816 |
| 6 | Hero | 2002 | Yimou Zhang | 898 |
| 7 | 2046 | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1304 |
| 8 | A City of Sadness | 1989 | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 1388 |
| 9 | Days of Being Wild | 1990 | Kar-Wai Wong | 1597 |
| 10 | Lust, Caution | 2007 | Ang Lee | 2218 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
| 2 | Field of Dreams | 1989 | Phil Alden Robinson | 385 |
| 3 | Something Wild | 1986 | Jonathan Demme | 2086 |
| 4 | Blow | 2001 | Ted Demme | 2553 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 240 |
| 2 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 327 |
| 3 | 'I Know Where I'm Going!' | 1945 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 672 |
| 4 | It Happened in Broad Daylight | 1958 | Ladislao Vajda | 2708 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
| 2 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 68 |
| 3 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 69 |
| 4 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 1944 | Frank Capra | 533 |
| 5 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | 1954 | Richard Fleischer | 1159 |
| 6 | Around the World in Eighty Days | 1956 | Michael Anderson | 2078 |
| 7 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1934 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2674 |
