| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1 |
| 2 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 18 |
| 3 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 157 |
| 4 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 202 |
| 5 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | 208 |
| 6 | Serpico | 1973 | Sidney Lumet | 767 |
| 7 | The Godfather: Part III | 1990 | Francis Ford Coppola | 774 |
| 8 | Carlito's Way | 1993 | Brian De Palma | 804 |
| 9 | Donnie Brasco | 1997 | Mike Newell | 878 |
| 10 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | 914 |
| 11 | The Insider | 1999 | Michael Mann | 1105 |
| 12 | Scent of a Woman | 1992 | Martin Brest | 1260 |
| 13 | In the Name of the Father | 1993 | Jim Sheridan | 1333 |
| 14 | Any Given Sunday | 1999 | Oliver Stone | 1440 |
| 15 | Cruising | 1980 | William Friedkin | 1549 |
| 16 | Insomnia | 2002 | Christopher Nolan | 1962 |
| 17 | The Devil's Advocate | 1997 | Taylor Hackford | 2337 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 127 |
| 2 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | 139 |
| 3 | The Hurt Locker | 2008 | Kathryn Bigelow | 399 |
| 4 | The King's Speech | 2010 | Tom Hooper | 696 |
| 5 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 1994 | Stephan Elliott | 1340 |
| 6 | The Proposition | 2005 | John Hillcoat | 1878 |
| 7 | Animal Kingdom | 2010 | David Michôd | 2093 |
| 8 | The Road | 2009 | John Hillcoat | 2326 |
| 9 | Iron Man 3 | 2013 | Shane Black | 2583 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 100 |
| 2 | Roman Holiday | 1953 | William Wyler | 213 |
| 3 | The Omen | 1976 | Richard Donner | 637 |
| 4 | The Big Country | 1958 | William Wyler | 1050 |
| 5 | The Gunfighter | 1950 | Henry King | 1104 |
| 6 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | 1179 |
| 7 | Twelve O'Clock High | 1949 | Henry King | 1185 |
| 8 | Cape Fear | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson | 1237 |
| 9 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1285 |
| 10 | The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | 1303 |
| 11 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1530 |
| 12 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1987 |
| 13 | Gentleman's Agreement | 1947 | Elia Kazan | 2150 |
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| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 346 |
| 2 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick | 378 |
| 3 | Persepolis | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 472 |
| 4 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | 1982 | Amy Heckerling | 536 |
| 5 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood | 759 |
| 6 | Carlito's Way | 1993 | Brian De Palma | 804 |
| 7 | Milk | 2008 | Gus Van Sant | 886 |
| 8 | Risky Business | 1983 | Paul Brickman | 1044 |
| 9 | The Game | 1997 | David Fincher | 1173 |
| 10 | The Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick | 1275 |
| 11 | When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | 2006 | Spike Lee | 1300 |
| 12 | Dead Man Walking | 1995 | Tim Robbins | 1363 |
| 13 | 21 Grams | 2003 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1426 |
| 14 | Dogtown and Z-Boys | 2001 | Stacy Peralta | 1806 |
| 15 | I Am Sam | 2001 | Jessie Nelson | 2315 |
| 16 | Before Night Falls | 2000 | Julian Schnabel | 2519 |
| 17 | Casualties of War | 1989 | Brian De Palma | 2600 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2 |
| 2 | The Trial | 1962 | Orson Welles | 1244 |
| 3 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols | 1796 |
| 4 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Sidney Lumet | 2597 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | 17 |
| 2 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | 29 |
| 3 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 133 |
| 4 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 398 |
| 5 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 529 |
| 6 | Home Alone | 1990 | Chris Columbus | 822 |
| 7 | My Cousin Vinny | 1992 | Jonathan Lynn | 1557 |
| 8 | A Bronx Tale | 1993 | Robert De Niro | 1635 |
| 9 | Lethal Weapon 2 | 1989 | Richard Donner | 1932 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 137 |
| 2 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George | 789 |
| 3 | Her | 2013 | Spike Jonze | 840 |
| 4 | Walk the Line | 2005 | James Mangold | 1171 |
| 5 | Signs | 2002 | M. Night Shyamalan | 2007 |
| 6 | To Die For | 1995 | Gus Van Sant | 2024 |
| 7 | Parenthood | 1989 | Ron Howard | 2428 |
| 8 | The Master | 2012 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2472 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | 71 |
| 2 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 102 |
| 3 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | 272 |
| 4 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 346 |
| 5 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | 354 |
| 6 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 379 |
| 7 | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Steve McQueen | 543 |
| 8 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie | 673 |
| 9 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | 681 |
| 10 | True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott | 768 |
| 11 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | 984 |
| 12 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | David Fincher | 1029 |
| 13 | The Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick | 1275 |
| 14 | Babel | 2006 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1420 |
| 15 | Legends of the Fall | 1994 | Edward Zwick | 1478 |
| 16 | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles | 1994 | Neil Jordan | 1492 |
| 17 | Moneyball | 2011 | Bennett Miller | 1657 |
| 18 | Exit through the Gift Shop | 2010 | Banksy | 1723 |
| 19 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | 2005 | Doug Liman | 2146 |
| 20 | Sleepers | 1996 | Barry Levinson | 2533 |
| 21 | A River Runs Through It | 1992 | Robert Redford | 2773 |
| 22 | Fury | 2014 | David Ayer | 2811 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter | 150 |
| 2 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | 234 |
| 3 | Escape from New York | 1981 | John Carpenter | 624 |
| 4 | THX-1138 | 1971 | George Lucas | 944 |
| 5 | Fantastic Voyage | 1966 | Richard Fleischer | 1500 |
| 6 | Wake in Fright | 1971 | Ted Kotcheff | 2561 |
| 7 | Cul-de-sac | 1966 | Roman Polanski | 2694 |
| 8 | Will Penny | 1967 | Tom Gries | 2794 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Heat | 1995 | Michael Mann | 157 |
| 2 | The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 253 |
| 3 | Black Swan | 2010 | Darren Aronofsky | 676 |
| 4 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | 705 |
| 5 | Zoolander | 2001 | Ben Stiller | 866 |
| 6 | Garden State | 2004 | Zach Braff | 1112 |
| 7 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas | 1139 |
| 8 | Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1454 |
| 9 | Mars Attacks! | 1996 | Tim Burton | 1807 |
| 10 | Thor | 2011 | Kenneth Branagh | 1864 |
| 11 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | 1999 | George Lucas | 2263 |
| 12 | Annihilation | 2018 | Alex Garland | 2570 |
| 13 | The Darjeeling Limited | 2007 | Wes Anderson | 2741 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 449 |
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | 484 |
| 3 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 503 |
| 4 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 827 |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2007 | David Yates | 1030 |
| 6 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates | 1087 |
| 7 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 1151 |
| 8 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | David Yates | 1153 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
| 2 | Sleeper | 1973 | Woody Allen | 499 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 5 |
| 2 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 19 |
| 3 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 126 |
| 4 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 212 |
| 5 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | 303 |
| 6 | Now, Voyager | 1942 | Irving Rapper | 612 |
| 7 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 743 |
| 8 | The Wolf Man | 1941 | George Waggner | 1192 |
| 9 | The Sea Hawk | 1940 | Michael Curtiz | 2778 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 136 |
| 2 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 290 |
| 3 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | 294 |
| 4 | The Natural | 1984 | Barry Levinson | 832 |
| 5 | Out of Africa | 1985 | Sydney Pollack | 930 |
| 6 | Jeremiah Johnson | 1972 | Sydney Pollack | 1155 |
| 7 | Three Days of the Condor | 1975 | Sydney Pollack | 1378 |
| 8 | Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1454 |
| 9 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | 2014 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 1475 |
| 10 | The Way We Were | 1973 | Sydney Pollack | 1502 |
| 11 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 2099 |
| 12 | Downhill Racer | 1969 | Michael Ritchie | 2105 |
| 13 | All Is Lost | 2013 | J.C. Chandor | 2754 |
| 14 | A River Runs Through It | 1992 | Robert Redford | 2773 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Matrix | 1999 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 35 |
| 2 | Speed | 1994 | Jan de Bont | 473 |
| 3 | Point Break | 1991 | Kathryn Bigelow | 661 |
| 4 | My Own Private Idaho | 1991 | Gus Van Sant | 769 |
| 5 | Dangerous Liaisons | 1988 | Stephen Frears | 1008 |
| 6 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1350 |
| 7 | A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | Richard Linklater | 1389 |
| 8 | The Matrix Reloaded | 2003 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 1901 |
| 9 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | 1989 | Stephen Herek | 2016 |
| 10 | The Devil's Advocate | 1997 | Taylor Hackford | 2337 |
| 11 | John Wick | 2014 | Chad Stahelski | 2372 |
| 12 | Parenthood | 1989 | Ron Howard | 2428 |
| 13 | The Matrix Revolutions | 2003 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 2507 |
| 14 | River's Edge | 1986 | Tim Hunter | 2565 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | 172 |
| 2 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 316 |
| 3 | Viridiana | 1961 | Luis Buñuel | 332 |
| 4 | Chimes at Midnight | 1965 | Orson Welles | 858 |
| 5 | That Obscure Object of Desire | 1977 | Luis Buñuel | 1273 |
| 6 | Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller | 1721 |
| 7 | Tristana | 1970 | Luis Buñuel | 2224 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | 26 |
| 2 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 43 |
| 3 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 48 |
| 4 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 67 |
| 5 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1989 | Steven Spielberg | 380 |
| 6 | Victor/Victoria | 1982 | Blake Edwards | 1354 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 52 |
| 2 | Bull Durham | 1988 | Ron Shelton | 441 |
| 3 | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | 2004 | Adam McKay | 491 |
| 4 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 551 |
| 5 | Short Cuts | 1993 | Robert Altman | 675 |
| 6 | Top Gun | 1986 | Tony Scott | 693 |
| 7 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood | 759 |
| 8 | High Fidelity | 2000 | Stephen Frears | 1052 |
| 9 | Jacob's Ladder | 1990 | Adrian Lyne | 1271 |
| 10 | War of the Worlds | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1684 |
| 11 | The Sure Thing | 1985 | Rob Reiner | 2393 |
| 12 | Arlington Road | 1999 | Mark Pellington | 2449 |
| 13 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | Joel Coen | 2605 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
| 2 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | 493 |
| 3 | Little Caesar | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy | 983 |
| 4 | Soylent Green | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | 1040 |
| 5 | Key Largo | 1948 | John Huston | 1337 |
| 6 | Scarlet Street | 1945 | Fritz Lang | 1513 |
| 7 | The Woman in the Window | 1944 | Fritz Lang | 1643 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 9 |
| 2 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | 80 |
| 3 | The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover | 1989 | Peter Greenaway | 1102 |
| 4 | Selma | 2014 | Ava DuVernay | 1589 |
| 5 | The Hateful Eight | 2015 | Quentin Tarantino | 1707 |
| 6 | The Legend of 1900 | 1998 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 2737 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wrestler | 2008 | Darren Aronofsky | 475 |
| 2 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 515 |
| 3 | Body Heat | 1981 | Lawrence Kasdan | 702 |
| 4 | Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Michael Cimino | 910 |
| 5 | Diner | 1982 | Barry Levinson | 1084 |
| 6 | Buffalo '66 | 1998 | Vincent Gallo | 1465 |
| 7 | Angel Heart | 1987 | Alan Parker | 1468 |
| 8 | Rumble Fish | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1529 |
| 9 | 9 1/2 Weeks | 1986 | Adrian Lyne | 1633 |
| 10 | Man on Fire | 2004 | Tony Scott | 1813 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | 106 |
| 2 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | 107 |
| 3 | Escape from New York | 1981 | John Carpenter | 624 |
| 4 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos | 1023 |
| 5 | Miracle | 2004 | Gavin O'Connor | 1172 |
| 6 | Big Trouble in Little China | 1986 | John Carpenter | 1699 |
| 7 | The Hateful Eight | 2015 | Quentin Tarantino | 1707 |
| 8 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols | 1924 |
| 9 | Stargate | 1994 | Roland Emmerich | 2739 |
| 10 | Vanilla Sky | 2001 | Cameron Crowe | 2767 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 203 |
| 2 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 346 |
| 3 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams | 623 |
| 4 | Heathers | 1989 | Michael Lehmann | 663 |
| 5 | Black Swan | 2010 | Darren Aronofsky | 676 |
| 6 | Zoolander | 2001 | Ben Stiller | 866 |
| 7 | Beetlejuice | 1988 | Tim Burton | 1072 |
| 8 | The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Martin Scorsese | 1235 |
| 9 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1350 |
| 10 | A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | Richard Linklater | 1389 |
| 11 | Girl, Interrupted | 1999 | James Mangold | 1781 |
| 12 | Little Women | 1994 | Gillian Armstrong | 1786 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu | 70 |
| 2 | Late Spring | 1949 | Yasujirô Ozu | 586 |
| 3 | An Autumn Afternoon | 1962 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1187 |
| 4 | Red Beard | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa | 1225 |
| 5 | I Was Born, But... | 1932 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1392 |
| 6 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | 1985 | Paul Schrader | 1525 |
| 7 | Early Summer | 1951 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1536 |
| 8 | Floating Weeds | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1630 |
| 9 | The Human Condition: A Soldier's Prayer | 1961 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1669 |
| 10 | Good Morning | 1959 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1752 |
| 11 | Akira Kurosawa's Dreams | 1990 | Akira Kurosawa | 2285 |
