| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 49 |
| 2 | On the Waterfront | 1954 | Elia Kazan | 79 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron | 149 |
| 2 | Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | James Gunn | 312 |
| 3 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | 363 |
| 4 | Avengers: Endgame | 2019 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 373 |
| 5 | Avengers: Infinity War | 2018 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 436 |
| 6 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams | 522 |
| 7 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | 2017 | James Gunn | 1447 |
| 8 | Star Trek into Darkness | 2013 | J.J. Abrams | 1613 |
| 9 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | 2023 | James Gunn | 2726 |
| 10 | Avatar: The Way of Water | 2022 | James Cameron | 2986 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 1975 | Jim Sharman | 297 |
| 2 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 402 |
| 3 | Bull Durham | 1988 | Ron Shelton | 518 |
| 4 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 770 |
| 5 | Enchanted | 2007 | Kevin Lima | 1049 |
| 6 | Little Women | 1994 | Gillian Armstrong | 1377 |
| 7 | Atlantic City | 1980 | Louis Malle | 1574 |
| 8 | Dead Man Walking | 1995 | Tim Robbins | 1898 |
| 9 | James and the Giant Peach | 1996 | Henry Selick | 1955 |
| 10 | The Hunger | 1983 | Tony Scott | 2115 |
| 11 | The Celluloid Closet | 1995 | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | 2240 |
| 12 | Stepmom | 1998 | Chris Columbus | 2794 |
| 13 | Cloud Atlas | 2012 | Tom Tykwer and Lana & Lilly Wachowski | 2894 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 13 |
| 2 | The French Connection | 1971 | William Friedkin | 167 |
| 3 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse | 558 |
| 4 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 1035 |
| 5 | Sorcerer | 1977 | William Friedkin | 1550 |
| 6 | Marathon Man | 1976 | John Schlesinger | 2209 |
| 7 | Naked Lunch | 1991 | David Cronenberg | 2227 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | James Cameron | 54 |
| 2 | The Terminator | 1984 | James Cameron | 80 |
| 3 | Predator | 1987 | John McTiernan | 374 |
| 4 | Total Recall | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven | 511 |
| 5 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 538 |
| 6 | True Lies | 1994 | James Cameron | 1016 |
| 7 | I Am Not Your Negro | 2016 | Raoul Peck | 1308 |
| 8 | Conan the Barbarian | 1982 | John Milius | 1410 |
| 9 | Pumping Iron | 1977 | George Butler and Robert Fiore | 1661 |
| 10 | Commando | 1985 | Mark L. Lester | 1918 |
| 11 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | 2005 | Alex Gibney | 2553 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 16 |
| 2 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | 302 |
| 3 | The Hustler | 1961 | Robert Rossen | 426 |
| 4 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 464 |
| 5 | The Changeling | 1980 | Peter Medak | 1681 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | 16 |
| 2 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | 601 |
| 3 | The Ladykillers | 1955 | Alexander Mackendrick | 616 |
| 4 | Koyaanisqatsi | 1982 | Godfrey Reggio | 704 |
| 5 | Lolita | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick | 1089 |
| 6 | The Pink Panther | 1963 | Blake Edwards | 1206 |
| 7 | The Party | 1968 | Blake Edwards | 1414 |
| 8 | A Shot in the Dark | 1964 | Blake Edwards | 1525 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | 25 |
| 2 | Doctor Zhivago | 1965 | David Lean | 393 |
| 3 | Funny Girl | 1968 | William Wyler | 955 |
| 4 | Top Secret! | 1984 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker | 1492 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 13 |
| 2 | The Sting | 1973 | George Roy Hill | 343 |
| 3 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 889 |
| 4 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1974 | Joseph Sargent | 912 |
| 5 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | 1237 |
| 6 | The Dam Busters | 1955 | Michael Anderson | 2244 |
| 7 | The Lavender Hill Mob | 1951 | Charles Crichton | 2325 |
| 8 | Battle of Britain | 1969 | Guy Hamilton | 2918 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Toy Story | 1995 | John Lasseter | 38 |
| 2 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 47 |
| 3 | Clueless | 1995 | Amy Heckerling | 156 |
| 4 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich | 169 |
| 5 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 184 |
| 6 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 191 |
| 7 | Toy Story 2 | 1999 | John Lasseter | 256 |
| 8 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 327 |
| 9 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse | 558 |
| 10 | Toy Story 4 | 2019 | Josh Cooley | 1448 |
| 11 | Marriage Story | 2019 | Noah Baumbach | 1539 |
| 12 | Atlantic City | 1980 | Louis Malle | 1574 |
| 13 | My Dinner with Andre | 1981 | Louis Malle | 2192 |
| 14 | Radio Days | 1987 | Woody Allen | 2957 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 10 |
| 2 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 153 |
| 3 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 272 |
| 4 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | 626 |
| 5 | Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 733 |
| 6 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 745 |
| 7 | Selma | 2014 | Ava DuVernay | 796 |
| 8 | Wall Street | 1987 | Oliver Stone | 1212 |
| 9 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1268 |
| 10 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 1990 |
| 11 | Gettysburg | 1993 | Ron Maxwell | 2000 |
| 12 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols | 2152 |
| 13 | The American President | 1995 | Rob Reiner | 2729 |
| 14 | The Amazing Spider-Man | 2012 | Marc Webb | 2885 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 24 |
| 2 | Rashômon | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa | 65 |
| 3 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | 223 |
| 4 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 354 |
| 5 | Godzilla | 1954 | Ishirô Honda | 400 |
| 6 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 592 |
| 7 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 642 |
| 8 | Kwaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | 852 |
| 9 | The Life of Oharu | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1299 |
| 10 | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa | 1326 |
| 11 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | 1342 |
| 12 | Red Beard | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa | 1437 |
| 13 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa | 1900 |
| 14 | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa | 2684 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 139 |
| 2 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 225 |
| 3 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | 261 |
| 4 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 357 |
| 5 | On the Town | 1949 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 1023 |
| 6 | Guys and Dolls | 1955 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1560 |
| 7 | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger | 1653 |
| 8 | Some Came Running | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 2025 |
| 9 | Advise & Consent | 1962 | Otto Preminger | 2323 |
| 10 | High Society | 1956 | Charles Walters | 2439 |
| 11 | Anchors Aweigh | 1945 | George Sidney | 2651 |
| 12 | Von Ryan's Express | 1965 | Mark Robson | 2927 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Independence Day | 1996 | Roland Emmerich | 527 |
| 2 | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 637 |
| 3 | Ali | 2001 | Michael Mann | 1316 |
| 4 | The Pursuit of Happyness | 2006 | Gabriele Muccino | 1374 |
| 5 | Bad Boys | 1995 | Michael Bay | 1851 |
| 6 | I Am Legend | 2007 | Francis Lawrence | 2253 |
| 7 | Enemy of the State | 1998 | Tony Scott | 2516 |
| 8 | Seven Pounds | 2008 | Gabriele Muccino | 2812 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 159 |
| 2 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | 272 |
| 3 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 745 |
| 4 | The Straight Story | 1999 | David Lynch | 812 |
| 5 | The Help | 2011 | Tate Taylor | 969 |
| 6 | Coal Miner's Daughter | 1980 | Michael Apted | 1552 |
| 7 | 3 Women | 1977 | Robert Altman | 2269 |
| 8 | In the Bedroom | 2001 | Todd Field | 2443 |
| 9 | Missing | 1982 | Costa-Gavras | 2477 |
| 10 | The Man with Two Brains | 1983 | Carl Reiner | 2873 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Seven | 1995 | David Fincher | 90 |
| 2 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Bryan Singer | 134 |
| 3 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Curtis Hanson | 139 |
| 4 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 218 |
| 5 | Moon | 2009 | Duncan Jones | 495 |
| 6 | Baby Driver | 2017 | Edgar Wright | 1146 |
| 7 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | 1205 |
| 8 | Working Girl | 1988 | Mike Nichols | 1405 |
| 9 | A Bug's Life | 1998 | John Lasseter | 1841 |
| 10 | A Time to Kill | 1996 | Joel Schumacher | 2595 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Rocky | 1976 | John G. Avildsen | 108 |
| 2 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 344 |
| 3 | Men in Black | 1997 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 637 |
| 4 | Creed | 2015 | Ryan Coogler | 985 |
| 5 | First Blood | 1982 | Ted Kotcheff | 1011 |
| 6 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | 2017 | James Gunn | 1447 |
| 7 | Bananas | 1971 | Woody Allen | 1838 |
| 8 | Victory | 1981 | John Huston | 1901 |
| 9 | Rocky II | 1979 | Sylvester Stallone | 2069 |
| 10 | The Suicide Squad | 2021 | James Gunn | 2093 |
| 11 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | 1985 | George P. Cosmatos | 2230 |
| 12 | Rocky III | 1982 | Sylvester Stallone | 2611 |
| 13 | Rocky IV | 1985 | Sylvester Stallone | 2657 |
| 14 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | 2023 | James Gunn | 2726 |
| 15 | Demolition Man | 1993 | Marco Brambilla | 2923 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 6 |
| 2 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 23 |
| 3 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 296 |
| 4 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg | 308 |
| 5 | The Avengers | 2012 | Joss Whedon | 313 |
| 6 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 353 |
| 7 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 429 |
| 8 | Escape from New York | 1981 | John Carpenter | 528 |
| 9 | Repo Man | 1984 | Alex Cox | 658 |
| 10 | The Straight Story | 1999 | David Lynch | 812 |
| 11 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | 1992 | David Lynch | 963 |
| 12 | Two-Lane Blacktop | 1971 | Monte Hellman | 984 |
| 13 | Pretty in Pink | 1986 | Howard Deutch | 986 |
| 14 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | 1973 | Sam Peckinpah | 988 |
| 15 | Wild at Heart | 1990 | David Lynch | 1152 |
| 16 | Inland Empire | 2006 | David Lynch | 1273 |
| 17 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | 1998 | Terry Gilliam | 1353 |
| 18 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1519 |
| 19 | The Last Temptation of Christ | 1988 | Martin Scorsese | 1609 |
| 20 | Rango | 2011 | Gore Verbinski | 1964 |
| 21 | Kelly's Heroes | 1970 | Brian G. Hutton | 2396 |
| 22 | The Wrong Man | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2707 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 51 |
| 2 | The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 239 |
| 3 | Forty Guns | 1957 | Samuel Fuller | 1561 |
| 4 | Ball of Fire | 1941 | Howard Hawks | 1960 |
| 5 | Stella Dallas | 1937 | King Vidor | 2022 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 15 |
| 2 | Rear Window | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 37 |
| 3 | It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | 46 |
| 4 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 126 |
| 5 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 230 |
| 6 | The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | 260 |
| 7 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | 362 |
| 8 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Otto Preminger | 464 |
| 9 | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker | 700 |
| 10 | Winchester '73 | 1950 | Anthony Mann | 786 |
| 11 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | 856 |
| 12 | The Naked Spur | 1953 | Anthony Mann | 1042 |
| 13 | Destry Rides Again | 1939 | George Marshall | 1105 |
| 14 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel | 1226 |
| 15 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1465 |
| 16 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1519 |
| 17 | Harvey | 1950 | Henry Koster | 1672 |
| 18 | The Man from Laramie | 1955 | Anthony Mann | 1858 |
| 19 | You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Frank Capra | 1995 |
| 20 | Bend of the River | 1952 | Anthony Mann | 2494 |
| 21 | Broken Arrow | 1950 | Delmer Daves | 2807 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | 2004 | Adam McKay | 479 |
| 2 | The Royal Tenenbaums | 2001 | Wes Anderson | 546 |
| 3 | There's Something about Mary | 1998 | Bobby and Peter Farrelly | 583 |
| 4 | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg | 876 |
| 5 | Happy Gilmore | 1996 | Dennis Dugan | 1104 |
| 6 | Zoolander | 2001 | Ben Stiller | 1305 |
| 7 | Meet the Parents | 2000 | Jay Roach | 1513 |
| 8 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | 2004 | Rawson Marshall Thurber | 1690 |
| 9 | Mystery Men | 1999 | Kinka Usher | 2144 |
| 10 | Tropic Thunder | 2008 | Ben Stiller | 2324 |
| 11 | Reality Bites | 1994 | Ben Stiller | 2572 |
| 12 | Submarine | 2010 | Richard Ayoade | 3028 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 121 |
| 2 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | 191 |
| 3 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Wes Anderson | 564 |
| 4 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg | 655 |
| 5 | Little Women | 2019 | Greta Gerwig | 661 |
| 6 | Kramer vs. Kramer | 1979 | Robert Benton | 884 |
| 7 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze | 1050 |
| 8 | Sophie's Choice | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula | 1075 |
| 9 | The Bridges of Madison County | 1995 | Clint Eastwood | 1103 |
| 10 | Mamma Mia! | 2008 | Phyllida Lloyd | 1229 |
| 11 | Out of Africa | 1985 | Sydney Pollack | 1259 |
| 12 | The Hours | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | 1445 |
| 13 | The Devil Wears Prada | 2006 | David Frankel | 1751 |
| 14 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols | 2112 |
| 15 | Doubt | 2008 | John Patrick Shanley | 2176 |
| 16 | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | 2018 | Ol Parker | 2903 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 160 |
| 2 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 344 |
| 3 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | 349 |
| 4 | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 489 |
| 5 | The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | 537 |
| 6 | JFK | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 745 |
| 7 | The Hunger Games | 2012 | Gary Ross | 923 |
| 8 | Pride & Prejudice | 2005 | Joe Wright | 968 |
| 9 | Klute | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula | 1035 |
| 10 | Ordinary People | 1980 | Robert Redford | 1249 |
| 11 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | 2013 | Francis Lawrence | 1485 |
| 12 | 1900 | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 2059 |
| 13 | Lord of War | 2005 | Andrew Niccol | 2365 |
| 14 | Kelly's Heroes | 1970 | Brian G. Hutton | 2396 |
| 15 | A Time to Kill | 1996 | Joel Schumacher | 2595 |
| 16 | The Italian Job | 2003 | F. Gary Gray | 2715 |
| 17 | Johnny Got His Gun | 1971 | Dalton Trumbo | 2881 |
| 18 | Cold Mountain | 2003 | Anthony Minghella | 3014 |
