| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 37 |
| 2 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | 189 |
| 3 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 391 |
| 4 | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa | 1138 |
| 5 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 1215 |
| 6 | Harakiri | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1996 |
| 7 | Kwaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | 2229 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 21 |
| 2 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 583 |
| 3 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas | 837 |
| 4 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | 2002 | George Lucas | 899 |
| 5 | Love Actually | 2003 | Richard Curtis | 985 |
| 6 | Excalibur | 1981 | John Boorman | 1135 |
| 7 | Gangs of New York | 2002 | Martin Scorsese | 1258 |
| 8 | The Mission | 1986 | Roland Joffé | 1317 |
| 9 | Husbands and Wives | 1992 | Woody Allen | 1445 |
| 10 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 2005 | Andrew Adamson | 2174 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | 148 |
| 2 | The Piano | 1993 | Jane Campion | 202 |
| 3 | My Brilliant Career | 1979 | Gillian Armstrong | 987 |
| 4 | The Hunt for Red October | 1990 | John McTiernan | 1654 |
| 5 | The Dish | 2000 | Rob Sitch | 2230 |
| 6 | Event Horizon | 1997 | Paul W.S. Anderson | 2246 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 107 |
| 2 | The Hustler | 1961 | Robert Rossen | 201 |
| 3 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | 261 |
| 4 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 322 |
| 5 | Hud | 1963 | Martin Ritt | 606 |
| 6 | Slap Shot | 1977 | George Roy Hill | 710 |
| 7 | The Verdict | 1982 | Sidney Lumet | 813 |
| 8 | Road to Perdition | 2002 | Sam Mendes | 1239 |
| 9 | The Towering Inferno | 1974 | John Guillermin and Irwin Allen | 1307 |
| 10 | The Color of Money | 1986 | Martin Scorsese | 1421 |
| 11 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 1449 |
| 12 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks | 2095 |
| 13 | Hombre | 1967 | Martin Ritt | 2271 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Chinatown | 1974 | Roman Polanski | 20 |
| 2 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | 34 |
| 3 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 108 |
| 4 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 157 |
| 5 | Terms of Endearment | 1983 | James L. Brooks | 288 |
| 6 | Five Easy Pieces | 1970 | Bob Rafelson | 337 |
| 7 | Batman | 1989 | Tim Burton | 459 |
| 8 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | 480 |
| 9 | Broadcast News | 1987 | James L. Brooks | 541 |
| 10 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 564 |
| 11 | As Good as It Gets | 1997 | James L. Brooks | 615 |
| 12 | The Passenger | 1975 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 958 |
| 13 | Prizzi's Honor | 1985 | John Huston | 971 |
| 14 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | 1092 |
| 15 | The Last Detail | 1973 | Hal Ashby | 1283 |
| 16 | Tommy | 1975 | Ken Russell | 1509 |
| 17 | About Schmidt | 2002 | Alexander Payne | 1786 |
| 18 | Head | 1968 | Bob Rafelson | 2047 |
| 19 | Carnal Knowledge | 1971 | Mike Nichols | 2155 |
| 20 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1981 | Bob Rafelson | 2260 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 260 |
| 2 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | 363 |
| 3 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 371 |
| 4 | Dodsworth | 1936 | William Wyler | 643 |
| 5 | The Pink Panther | 1963 | Blake Edwards | 751 |
| 6 | The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | 803 |
| 7 | Around the World in Eighty Days | 1956 | Michael Anderson | 1083 |
| 8 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | Michael Curtiz | 1448 |
| 9 | The Prisoner of Zenda | 1937 | John Cromwell | 1456 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | 91 |
| 2 | American History X | 1998 | Tony Kaye | 717 |
| 3 | 25th Hour | 2002 | Spike Lee | 1227 |
| 4 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | 1996 | Milos Forman | 1638 |
| 5 | Everyone Says I Love You | 1996 | Woody Allen | 1669 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 10 |
| 2 | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker | 1101 |
| 3 | Picnic | 1955 | Joshua Logan | 1896 |
| 4 | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger | 1956 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sunrise | 1927 | F. W. Murnau | 104 |
| 2 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | 1949 | John Ford | 1008 |
| 3 | Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford | 1352 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Singin' in the Rain | 1952 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 5 |
| 2 | Beau Geste | 1939 | William A. Wellman | 1909 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | John Ford | 267 |
| 2 | How Green Was My Valley | 1941 | John Ford | 353 |
| 3 | Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 | George Seaton | 464 |
| 4 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1939 | William Dieterle | 1151 |
| 5 | Dance, Girl, Dance | 1940 | Dorothy Arzner | 1671 |
| 6 | Rio Grande | 1950 | John Ford | 2074 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | 197 |
| 2 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 218 |
| 3 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | 363 |
| 4 | Henry V | 1944 | Laurence Olivier | 364 |
| 5 | Hamlet | 1948 | Laurence Olivier | 806 |
| 6 | Romeo and Juliet | 1968 | Franco Zeffirelli | 916 |
| 7 | Marathon Man | 1976 | John Schlesinger | 931 |
| 8 | Sleuth | 1972 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1057 |
| 9 | Pride and Prejudice | 1940 | Robert Z. Leonard | 1231 |
| 10 | Richard III | 1955 | Laurence Olivier | 1349 |
| 11 | Battle of Britain | 1969 | Guy Hamilton | 1980 |
| 12 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 2043 |
| 13 | 49th Parallel | 1941 | Michael Powell | 2152 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 9 |
| 2 | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 524 |
| 3 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Anthony Harvey | 833 |
| 4 | Ratatouille | 2007 | Brad Bird | 1142 |
| 5 | My Favorite Year | 1982 | Richard Benjamin | 1297 |
| 6 | The Stunt Man | 1980 | Richard Rush | 1480 |
| 7 | The Ruling Class | 1972 | Peter Medak | 1735 |
| 8 | Becket | 1964 | Peter Glenville | 2149 |
| 9 | Troy | 2004 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2250 |