| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 28 |
| 2 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 29 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 188 |
| 2 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 1975 | Jim Sharman | 333 |
| 3 | Atlantic City | 1980 | Louis Malle | 374 |
| 4 | Bull Durham | 1988 | Ron Shelton | 419 |
| 5 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 506 |
| 6 | Little Women | 1994 | Gillian Armstrong | 715 |
| 7 | Dead Man Walking | 1995 | Tim Robbins | 751 |
| 8 | Stepmom | 1998 | Chris Columbus | 1647 |
| 9 | James and the Giant Peach | 1996 | Henry Selick | 2236 |
| 10 | The Hunger | 1983 | Tony Scott | 2114 |
| 11 | Bob Roberts | 1992 | Tim Robbins | 2278 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
| 2 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | 153 |
| 3 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 644 |
| 4 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse | 732 |
| 5 | Naked Lunch | 1991 | David Cronenberg | 1224 |
| 6 | Marathon Man | 1976 | John Schlesinger | 1286 |
| 7 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | 1985 | Paul Schrader | 2262 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 110 |
| 2 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 126 |
| 3 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 744 |
| 4 | Predator | 1987 | John McTiernan | 986 |
| 5 | Total Recall | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven | 1036 |
| 6 | Pumping Iron | 1977 | George Butler and Robert Fiore | 1445 |
| 7 | Dave | 1993 | Ivan Reitman | 1506 |
| 8 | True Lies | 1994 | James Cameron | 1701 |
| 9 | Conan the Barbarian | 1982 | John Milius | 1715 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 14 |
| 2 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 178 |
| 3 | The Hustler | 1961 | Robert Rossen | 216 |
| 4 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 517 |
| 5 | Petulia | 1968 | Richard Lester | 1330 |
| 6 | The Hospital | 1971 | Arthur Hiller | 1652 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Breathless | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | 77 |
| 2 | The Mouse That Roared | 1959 | Jack Arnold | 1493 |
| 3 | Airport | 1970 | George Seaton | 2102 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 14 |
| 2 | The Ladykillers | 1955 | Alexander Mackendrick | 441 |
| 3 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | 454 |
| 4 | Lolita | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick | 695 |
| 5 | A Shot in the Dark | 1964 | Blake Edwards | 763 |
| 6 | The Pink Panther | 1963 | Blake Edwards | 838 |
| 7 | The Mouse That Roared | 1959 | Jack Arnold | 1493 |
| 8 | I'm All Right Jack | 1959 | John Boulting | 1547 |
| 9 | The Party | 19684 | Blake Edwards | 2097 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 8 |
| 2 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 167 |
| 3 | Funny Girl | 1968 | William Wyler | 516 |
| 4 | Top Secret! | 1984 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker | 1691 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
| 2 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | 254 |
| 3 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | 428 |
| 4 | The Lavender Hill Mob | 1951 | Charles Crichton | 653 |
| 5 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 728 |
| 6 | The Dam Busters | 1955 | Michael Anderson | 1883 |
| 7 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1974 | Joseph Sargent | 2187 |
| 8 | Robin and Marian | 1976 | Richard Lester | 2358 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 83 |
| 2 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 135 |
| 3 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 145 |
| 4 | Toy Story 2 | 1999 | John Lasseter | 325 |
| 5 | Atlantic City | 1980 | Louis Malle | 374 |
| 6 | Clueless | 1995 | Amy Heckerling | 464 |
| 7 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Peter Docter | 580 |
| 8 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 657 |
| 9 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse | 732 |
| 10 | My Dinner with André | 1981 | Louis Malle | 902 |
| 11 | Vanya on 42nd Street | 1994 | Louis Malle | 1501 |
| 12 | Radio Days | 1987 | Woody Allen | 2150 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Platoon | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 111 |
| 2 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 1986 | John Hughes | 347 |
| 3 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 356 |
| 4 | Eight Men Out | 1988 | John Sayles | 852 |
| 5 | Wall Street | 1987 | Oliver Stone | 1333 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 17 |
| 2 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 218 |
| 3 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | 221 |
| 4 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 424 |
| 5 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 802 |
| 6 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols | 1135 |
| 7 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 1218 |
| 8 | Wall Street | 1987 | Oliver Stone | 1333 |
| 9 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1367 |
| 10 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 1499 |
| 11 | Gettysburg | 1993 | Ronald F. Maxwell | 1658 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 36 |
| 2 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 91 |
| 3 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | 316 |
| 4 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 384 |
| 5 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 581 |
| 6 | Life of Oharu | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 954 |
| 7 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | 987 |
| 8 | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa | 1007 |
| 9 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 1251 |
| 10 | Godzilla | 1954 | Ishirô Honda | 1405 |
| 11 | Godzilla, King of the Monsters! | 1956 | Ishirô Honda and Terry O. Morse | 1717 |
| 12 | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa | 1998 |
| 13 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa | 2008 |
| 14 | Samurai 3: Duel at Ganryu Island | 1956 | Hiroshi Inagaki | 2120 |
| 15 | Kwaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | 2224 |
| 16 | Red Beard | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa | 2326 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | 93 |
| 2 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 105 |
| 3 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 152 |
| 4 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 408 |
| 5 | On the Town | 1949 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 471 |
| 6 | Guys and Dolls | 1955 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 971 |
| 7 | Around the World in Eighty Days | 1956 | Michael Anderson | 985 |
| 8 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters | 1296 |
| 9 | That's Entertainment! | 1974 | Jack Haley Jr. | 2060 |
| 10 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 2135 |
| 11 | Ocean's Eleven | 1960 | Lewis Milestone | 2174 |
| 12 | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger | 2355 |
| 13 | Von Ryan's Express | 1965 | Mark Robson | 2395 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 218 |
| 2 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 275 |
| 3 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 424 |
| 4 | The Straight Story | 1999 | David Lynch | 740 |
| 5 | Coal Miner's Daughter | 1980 | Michael Apted | 870 |
| 6 | Missing | 1982 | Costa-Gavras | 1394 |
| 7 | 3 Women | 1977 | Robert Altman | 1740 |
| 8 | In the Bedroom | 2001 | Todd Field | 1808 |
| 9 | Trash | 1970 | Paul Morrissey | 2366 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | 64 |
| 2 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 105 |
| 3 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 123 |
| 4 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 143 |
| 5 | Working Girl | 1988 | Mike Nichols | 694 |
| 6 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | 700 |
| 7 | A Bug's Life | 1998 | John Lasseter | 705 |
| 8 | A Time to Kill | 1996 | Joel Schumacher | 1834 |
| 9 | Henry & June | 1990 | Philip Kaufman | 1976 |
| 10 | The Ref | 1994 | Ted Demme | 2198 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen | 107 |
| 2 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 644 |
| 3 | Bananas | 1971 | Woody Allen | 1300 |
| 4 | First Blood | 1982 | Ted Kotcheff | 1551 |
| 5 | Antz | 1998 | Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson | 1873 |
| 6 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | 1985 | George P. Cosmatos | 1994 |
| 7 | Death Race 2000 | 1975 | Paul Bartel | 2216 |
| 8 | Cop Land | 1997 | James Mangold | 2419 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 15 |
| 2 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 54 |
| 3 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 362 |
| 4 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 431 |
| 5 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 568 |
| 6 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 702 |
| 7 | The Straight Story | 1999 | David Lynch | 740 |
| 8 | The Last Temptation of Christ | 1988 | Martin Scorsese | 910 |
| 9 | Escape from New York | 1981 | John Carpenter | 944 |
| 10 | Repo Man | 1984 | Alex Cox | 1042 |
| 11 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | 1973 | Sam Peckinpah | 1175 |
| 12 | Two-Lane Blacktop | 1971 | Monte Hellman | 1248 |
| 13 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | 1992 | David Lynch | 1356 |
| 14 | Private Benjamin | 1980 | Howard Zieff | 1412 |
| 15 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1489 |
| 16 | Wild at Heart | 1990 | David Lynch | 1559 |
| 17 | Pretty in Pink | 1986 | Howard Deutch | 1599 |
| 18 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | 1998 | Terry Gilliam | 1753 |
| 19 | Wise Blood | 1979 | John Huston | 1863 |
| 20 | Kelly's Heroes | 1970 | Brian G. Hutton | 2098 |
| 21 | Straight Time | 1978 | Ulu Grosbard | 2155 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 40 |
| 2 | The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 125 |
| 3 | Stella Dallas | 1937 | King Vidor | 787 |
| 4 | Ball of Fire | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 890 |
| 5 | Meet John Doe | 1941 | Frank Capra | 1073 |
| 6 | Baby Face | 1933 | Alfred E. Green | 1793 |
| 7 | The Bitter Tea of General Yen | 1933 | Frank Capra | 2153 |
| 8 | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | 1982 | Carl Reiner | 2460 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 29 |
| 2 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 167 |
| 3 | In the Heat of the Night | 1967 | Norman Jewison | 319 |
| 4 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 506 |
| 5 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 536 |
| 6 | Oklahoma! | 1955 | Fred Zinnemann | 651 |
| 7 | The Pawnbroker | 1964 | Sidney Lumet | 1264 |
| 8 | The Hurricane | 1999 | Norman Jewison | 1745 |
| 9 | The Harder They Fall | 1956 | Mark Robson | 2308 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 10 |
| 2 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 13 |
| 3 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 30 |
| 4 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 81 |
| 5 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | 109 |
| 6 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 294 |
| 7 | The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | 344 |
| 8 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 517 |
| 9 | Harvey | 1950 | Henry Koster | 602 |
| 10 | Destry Rides Again | 1939 | George Marshall | 850 |
| 11 | Winchester '73 | 1950 | Anthony Mann | 939 |
| 12 | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker | 1097 |
| 13 | You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Frank Capra | 1141 |
| 14 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel | 1207 |
| 15 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1257 |
| 16 | The Naked Spur | 1953 | Anthony Mann | 1406 |
| 17 | The Greatest Show on Earth | 1952 | Cecil B. DeMille | 1459 |
| 18 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1489 |
| 19 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1585 |
| 20 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann | 1888 |
| 21 | That's Entertainment! | 1974 | Jack Haley Jr. | 2060 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 72 |
| 2 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 135 |
| 3 | Out of Africa | 1985 | Sydney Pollack | 445 |
| 4 | Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | Robert Benton | 448 |
| 5 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg | 648 |
| 6 | Sophie's Choice | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula | 775 |
| 7 | The Bridges of Madison County | 1995 | Clint Eastwood | 962 |
| 8 | The Hours | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | 1044 |
| 9 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze | 1181 |
| 10 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols | 1274 |
| 11 | Julia | 1977 | Fred Zinnemann | 1287 |
| 12 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | 1981 | Karel Reisz | 1465 |
| 13 | Postcards from the Edge | 1990 | Mike Nichols | 2134 |
| 14 | One True Thing | 1998 | Carl Franklin | 2390 |
| 15 | Defending Your Life | 1991 | Albert Brooks | 2411 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 117 |
| 2 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 185 |
| 3 | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 282 |
| 4 | Ordinary People | 1980 | Robert Redford | 389 |
| 5 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 424 |
| 6 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 632 |
| 7 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 644 |
| 8 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 814 |
| 9 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | 932 |
| 10 | A Time to Kill | 1996 | Joel Schumacher | 1834 |
| 11 | Without Limits | 1998 | Robert Towne | 2003 |
| 12 | Kelly's Heroes | 1970 | Brian G. Hutton | 2098 |
| 13 | Pride & Prejudice | 2005 | Joe Wright | 2125 |
| 14 | Six Degrees of Separation | 1993 | Fred Schepisi | 2348 |
| 15 | Cold Mountain | 2003 | Anthony Minghella | 2507 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 34 |