| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 59 |
| 2 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | 601 |
| 3 | Terms of Endearment | 1983 | James L. Brooks | 894 |
| 4 | Steel Magnolias | 1989 | Herbert Ross | 1415 |
| 5 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 2025 |
| 6 | The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2240 |
| 7 | The Trouble with Harry | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2426 |
| 8 | The Children's Hour | 1961 | William Wyler | 2888 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 51 |
| 2 | The Apartment | 1960 | Billy Wilder | 59 |
| 3 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | 1451 |
| 4 | Los Angeles Plays Itself | 2003 | Thom Andersen | 2307 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 67 |
| 2 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 318 |
| 3 | Magnolia | 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 387 |
| 4 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 905 |
| 5 | Room | 2015 | Lenny Abrahamson | 1124 |
| 6 | Inland Empire | 2006 | David Lynch | 1273 |
| 7 | The Wind Rises | 2013 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1601 |
| 8 | Seabiscuit | 2003 | Gary Ross | 1639 |
| 9 | Pleasantville | 1998 | Gary Ross | 1694 |
| 10 | Ernest & Celestine | 2012 | Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner | 1947 |
| 11 | Mystery Men | 1999 | Kinka Usher | 2144 |
| 12 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | Steven Zaillian | 2731 |
| 13 | Radio Days | 1987 | Woody Allen | 2957 |
| 14 | The Last Dragon | 1985 | Michael Schultz | 3007 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 53 |
| 2 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 273 |
| 3 | Intolerance | 1916 | D.W. Griffith | 369 |
| 4 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | 448 |
| 5 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 450 |
| 6 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | 453 |
| 7 | Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 | George Seaton | 807 |
| 8 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | John Ford | 848 |
| 9 | How Green Was My Valley | 1941 | John Ford | 895 |
| 10 | Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford | 1118 |
| 11 | The Gunfighter | 1950 | Henry King | 1178 |
| 12 | Leave Her to Heaven | 1945 | John M. Stahl | 1954 |
| 13 | A Letter to Three Wives | 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2602 |
| 14 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 1945 | Elia Kazan | 2787 |
| 15 | The Robe | 1953 | Henry Koster | 2811 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 230 |
| 2 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 537 |
| 3 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang | 594 |
| 4 | Point Blank | 1967 | John Boorman | 727 |
| 5 | The Big Red One | 1980 | Samuel Fuller | 863 |
| 6 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | John Sturges | 883 |
| 7 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | 1451 |
| 8 | Seven Men from Now | 1956 | Budd Boetticher | 1462 |
| 9 | The Professionals | 1966 | Richard Brooks | 1501 |
| 10 | Cat Ballou | 1965 | Elliot Silverstein | 2104 |
| 11 | Attack! | 1956 | Robert Aldrich | 2374 |
| 12 | The Wild One | 1953 | Laslo Benedek | 2702 |
| 13 | Hell in the Pacific | 1968 | John Boorman | 2737 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 129 |
| 2 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood | 500 |
| 3 | Horse Feathers | 1932 | Norman Z. McLeod | 2184 |
| 4 | Animal Crackers | 1930 | Victor Heerman | 2224 |
| 5 | Monkey Business | 1931 | Norman Z. McLeod | 2231 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 49 |
| 2 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | 453 |
| 3 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | 1954 | Richard Fleischer | 950 |
| 4 | Lolita | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick | 1089 |
| 5 | The Verdict | 1982 | Sidney Lumet | 1346 |
| 6 | Odd Man Out | 1947 | Carol Reed | 1487 |
| 7 | Heaven Can Wait | 1978 | Warren Beatty and Buck Henry | 1668 |
| 8 | Cross of Iron | 1977 | Sam Peckinpah | 1860 |
| 9 | Bigger than Life | 1956 | Nicholas Ray | 2028 |
| 10 | Caught | 1949 | Max Ophüls | 2984 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 100 |
| 2 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 124 |
| 3 | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1454 |
| 4 | A Special Day | 1977 | Ettore Scola | 1814 |
| 5 | Big Deal on Madonna Street | 1958 | Mario Monicelli | 2143 |
| 6 | Divorce - Italian Style | 1961 | Pietro Germi | 2687 |
| 7 | We All Loved Each Other So Much | 1974 | Ettore Scola | 2753 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Interstellar | 2014 | Christopher Nolan | 266 |
| 2 | Dazed and Confused | 1993 | Richard Linklater | 379 |
| 3 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Martin Scorsese | 613 |
| 4 | Dallas Buyers Club | 2013 | Jean-Marc Vallée | 954 |
| 5 | Kubo and the Two Strings | 2016 | Travis Knight | 1058 |
| 6 | Lone Star | 1996 | John Sayles | 1179 |
| 7 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis | 1262 |
| 8 | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | 2003 | Donald Petrie | 2073 |
| 9 | Tropic Thunder | 2008 | Ben Stiller | 2324 |
| 10 | A Time to Kill | 1996 | Joel Schumacher | 2595 |
| 11 | We Are Marshall | 2006 | McG | 2893 |
| 12 | Mud | 2012 | Jeff Nichols | 2934 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fargo | 1996 | Joel Coen | 67 |
| 2 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 494 |
| 3 | Miller's Crossing | 1990 | Joel Coen | 553 |
| 4 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 591 |
| 5 | Blood Simple | 1984 | Joel Coen | 609 |
| 6 | Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | Wes Anderson | 757 |
| 7 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel Coen | 905 |
| 8 | Short Cuts | 1993 | Robert Altman | 1032 |
| 9 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 2017 | Martin McDonagh | 1109 |
| 10 | Lone Star | 1996 | John Sayles | 1179 |
| 11 | Something's Gotta Give | 2003 | Nancy Meyers | 1470 |
| 12 | Nomadland | 2020 | Chloé Zhao | 1654 |
| 13 | Mississippi Burning | 1988 | Alan Parker | 1676 |
| 14 | Primal Fear | 1996 | Gregory Hoblit | 1711 |
| 15 | Isle of Dogs | 2018 | Wes Anderson | 1742 |
| 16 | Burn after Reading | 2008 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 2326 |
| 17 | Darkman | 1990 | Sam Raimi | 2464 |
| 18 | The Man Who Wasn't There | 2001 | Joel Coen | 2858 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 36 |
| 2 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 770 |
| 3 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | 850 |
| 4 | The Artist | 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius | 911 |
| 5 | Easy A | 2010 | Will Gluck | 1412 |
| 6 | O Lucky Man! | 1973 | Lindsay Anderson | 2670 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | 197 |
| 2 | Moulin Rouge! | 2001 | Baz Luhrmann | 350 |
| 3 | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | 2015 | J.J. Abrams | 565 |
| 4 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 694 |
| 5 | Black Hawk Down | 2001 | Ridley Scott | 837 |
| 6 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas | 887 |
| 7 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas | 2013 |
| 8 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | 2002 | George Lucas | 2335 |
| 9 | Shallow Grave | 1994 | Danny Boyle | 2500 |
| 10 | Velvet Goldmine | 1998 | Todd Haynes | 2524 |
| 11 | Beginners | 2010 | Mike Mills | 2630 |
| 12 | Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) | 2020 | Cathy Yan | 2997 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 35 |
| 2 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 52 |
| 3 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 58 |
| 4 | X2 | 2003 | Bryan Singer | 675 |
| 5 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | 2014 | Bryan Singer | 1136 |
| 6 | X-Men | 2000 | Bryan Singer | 1183 |
| 7 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | Peter Jackson | 1281 |
| 8 | Stardust | 2007 | Matthew Vaughn | 1667 |
| 9 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | Peter Jackson | 1850 |
| 10 | Gods and Monsters | 1998 | Bill Condon | 2847 |
| 11 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | 2014 | Peter Jackson | 2961 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 154 |
| 2 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 388 |
| 3 | Bullitt | 1968 | Peter Yates | 741 |
| 4 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 1261 |
| 5 | The Blob | 1958 | Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | 1580 |
| 6 | The Towering Inferno | 1974 | John Guillermin | 2336 |
| 7 | The Thomas Crown Affair | 1968 | Norman Jewison | 2699 |
| 8 | The Getaway | 1972 | Sam Peckinpah | 2703 |
| 9 | The Sand Pebbles | 1966 | Robert Wise | 2795 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 24 |
| 2 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 65 |
| 3 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 354 |
| 4 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 592 |
| 5 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 642 |
| 6 | The Life of Oharu | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1299 |
| 7 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | 1342 |
| 8 | Red Beard | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa | 1437 |
| 9 | Samurai Rebellion | 1967 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1764 |
| 10 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa | 1900 |
| 11 | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa | 2684 |
| 12 | Hell in the Pacific | 1968 | John Boorman | 2737 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 57 |
| 2 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 461 |
| 3 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 679 |
| 4 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 864 |
| 5 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | 1160 |
| 6 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos | 1213 |
| 7 | Cape Fear | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson | 1219 |
| 8 | Thirty Seconds over Tokyo | 1944 | Mervyn LeRoy | 2458 |
| 9 | El Dorado | 1966 | Howard Hawks | 2643 |
| 10 | The Friends of Eddie Coyle | 1973 | Peter Yates | 2716 |
| 11 | The Lusty Men | 1952 | Nicholas Ray | 2809 |
| 12 | Story of G.I. Joe | 1945 | William A. Wellman | 3006 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 19 |
| 2 | All about Eve | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 64 |
| 3 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 139 |
| 4 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 641 |
| 5 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 1953 | Howard Hawks | 673 |
| 6 | The Misfits | 1961 | John Huston | 1311 |
| 7 | The Seven Year Itch | 1955 | Billy Wilder | 1317 |
| 8 | How to Marry a Millionaire | 1953 | Jean Negulesco | 2937 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 65 |
| 2 | Ugetsu | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 352 |
| 3 | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | 1960 | Mikio Naruse | 2251 |
| 4 | Floating Clouds | 1955 | Mikio Naruse | 2330 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 35 |
| 2 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 52 |
| 3 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 58 |
| 4 | A History of Violence | 2005 | David Cronenberg | 769 |
| 5 | Carlito's Way | 1993 | Brian De Palma | 945 |
| 6 | Eastern Promises | 2007 | David Cronenberg | 1266 |
| 7 | Witness | 1985 | Peter Weir | 1335 |
| 8 | Green Book | 2018 | Peter Farrelly | 1920 |
| 9 | The Road | 2009 | John Hillcoat | 2118 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 338 |
| 2 | Coming to America | 1988 | John Landis | 681 |
| 3 | Trading Places | 1983 | John Landis | 818 |
| 4 | Mulan | 1998 | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook | 917 |
| 5 | Shrek 2 | 2004 | Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon | 1114 |
| 6 | Beverly Hills Cop | 1984 | Martin Brest | 1143 |
| 7 | Dreamgirls | 2006 | Bill Condon | 1908 |
| 8 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | 2018 | Morgan Neville | 2172 |
| 9 | 48 Hrs. | 1982 | Walter Hill | 2821 |
| 10 | Boomerang | 1992 | Reginald Hudlin | 2938 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 93 |
| 2 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman | 151 |
| 3 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | 172 |
| 4 | Rushmore | 1998 | Wes Anderson | 330 |
| 5 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 359 |
| 6 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | Wes Anderson | 467 |
| 7 | The Royal Tenenbaums | 2001 | Wes Anderson | 546 |
| 8 | Caddyshack | 1980 | Harold Ramis | 563 |
| 9 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Wes Anderson | 564 |
| 10 | Ed Wood | 1994 | Tim Burton | 674 |
| 11 | Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | Wes Anderson | 757 |
| 12 | Little Shop of Horrors | 1986 | Frank Oz | 1076 |
| 13 | Wild Things | 1998 | John McNaughton | 1678 |
| 14 | Isle of Dogs | 2018 | Wes Anderson | 1742 |
| 15 | Space Jam | 1996 | Joe Pytka | 1765 |
| 16 | Zombieland | 2009 | Ruben Fleischer | 1780 |
| 17 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 2004 | Wes Anderson | 1802 |
| 18 | Kingpin | 1996 | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | 2243 |
| 19 | The Jungle Book | 2016 | Jon Favreau | 2379 |
| 20 | Stripes | 1981 | Ivan Reitman | 2614 |
| 21 | The Darjeeling Limited | 2007 | Wes Anderson | 2867 |
