| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 8 |
| 2 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 33 |
| 3 | The Deer Hunter | 1978 | Michael Cimino | 121 |
| 4 | Batman Returns | 1992 | Tim Burton | 560 |
| 5 | Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 733 |
| 6 | True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott | 925 |
| 7 | Heaven's Gate | 1980 | Michael Cimino | 1107 |
| 8 | Hairspray | 2007 | Adam Shankman | 1429 |
| 9 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton | 1441 |
| 10 | King of New York | 1990 | Abel Ferrara | 1568 |
| 11 | Dune: Part Two | 2024 | Denis Villeneuve | 1629 |
| 12 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 1990 |
| 13 | Man on Fire | 2004 | Tony Scott | 2062 |
| 14 | The Jungle Book | 2016 | Jon Favreau | 2379 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Blade Runner | 1982 | Ridley Scott | 12 |
| 2 | The Iron Giant | 1999 | Brad Bird | 173 |
| 3 | Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger | 280 |
| 4 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 591 |
| 5 | Blood Simple | 1984 | Joel Coen | 609 |
| 6 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | 810 |
| 7 | Serpico | 1973 | Sidney Lumet | 825 |
| 8 | Romeo + Juliet | 1996 | Baz Luhrmann | 826 |
| 9 | Slap Shot | 1977 | George Roy Hill | 841 |
| 10 | The Jerk | 1979 | Carl Reiner | 899 |
| 11 | What's Up, Doc? | 1972 | Peter Bogdanovich | 967 |
| 12 | Knives Out | 2019 | Rian Johnson | 1135 |
| 13 | Ordinary People | 1980 | Robert Redford | 1249 |
| 14 | My Best Friend's Wedding | 1997 | P.J. Hogan | 1345 |
| 15 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | 1837 |
| 16 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols | 2112 |
| 17 | Mikey and Nicky | 1976 | Elaine May | 2206 |
| 18 | A Time to Kill | 1996 | Joel Schumacher | 2595 |
| 19 | Bound for Glory | 1976 | Hal Ashby | 2944 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Sergio Leone | 48 |
| 2 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 388 |
| 3 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood | 707 |
| 4 | The Godfather: Part III | 1990 | Francis Ford Coppola | 916 |
| 5 | The Misfits | 1961 | John Huston | 1311 |
| 6 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1519 |
| 7 | The Holiday | 2006 | Nancy Meyers | 2238 |
| 8 | Baby Doll | 1956 | Elia Kazan | 2517 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Malcolm X | 1992 | Spike Lee | 555 |
| 2 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | 562 |
| 3 | Philadelphia | 1993 | Jonathan Demme | 792 |
| 4 | Remember the Titans | 2000 | Boaz Yakin | 846 |
| 5 | American Gangster | 2007 | Ridley Scott | 1523 |
| 6 | He Got Game | 1998 | Spike Lee | 1549 |
| 7 | Devil in a Blue Dress | 1995 | Carl Franklin | 1740 |
| 8 | Training Day | 2001 | Antoine Fuqua | 1826 |
| 9 | The Hurricane | 1999 | Norman Jewison | 1977 |
| 10 | Man on Fire | 2004 | Tony Scott | 2062 |
| 11 | Inside Man | 2006 | Spike Lee | 2384 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 305 |
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 333 |
| 3 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | 375 |
| 4 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 534 |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2007 | David Yates | 635 |
| 6 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | David Yates | 653 |
| 7 | Little Women | 2019 | Greta Gerwig | 661 |
| 8 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates | 718 |
| 9 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 731 |
| 10 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | 2012 | Stephen Chbosky | 991 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 89 |
| 2 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | 1038 |
| 3 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | 1046 |
| 4 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | 2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1140 |
| 5 | Eastern Promises | 2007 | David Cronenberg | 1266 |
| 6 | Inland Empire | 2006 | David Lynch | 1273 |
| 7 | 21 Grams | 2003 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 2003 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 53 |
| 2 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 183 |
| 3 | Rio Bravo | 1959 | Howard Hawks | 202 |
| 4 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 1962 | John Ford | 230 |
| 5 | Red River | 1948 | Howard Hawks | 319 |
| 6 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | John Ford | 848 |
| 7 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 864 |
| 8 | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | 1949 | John Ford | 1013 |
| 9 | Fort Apache | 1948 | John Ford | 1118 |
| 10 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel | 1226 |
| 11 | I Am Not Your Negro | 2016 | Raoul Peck | 1308 |
| 12 | True Grit | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | 1343 |
| 13 | How the West Was Won | 1962 | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1519 |
| 14 | They Were Expendable | 1945 | John Ford | 1642 |
| 15 | Rio Grande | 1950 | John Ford | 1916 |
| 16 | Sands of Iwo Jima | 1949 | Allan Dwan | 2055 |
| 17 | El Dorado | 1966 | Howard Hawks | 2643 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 6 |
| 2 | Annie Hall | 1977 | Woody Allen | 33 |
| 3 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | 50 |
| 4 | WALL•E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | 55 |
| 5 | Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron | 149 |
| 6 | Ghostbusters | 1984 | Ivan Reitman | 151 |
| 7 | Galaxy Quest | 1999 | Dean Parisot | 759 |
| 8 | The Cabin in the Woods | 2011 | Drew Goddard | 1052 |
| 9 | The Ice Storm | 1997 | Ang Lee | 1272 |
| 10 | Working Girl | 1988 | Mike Nichols | 1405 |
| 11 | The Village | 2004 | M. Night Shyamalan | 2390 |
| 12 | The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | Peter Weir | 2591 |
| 13 | Finding Dory | 2016 | Andrew Stanton | 2959 |
| 14 | Avatar: The Way of Water | 2022 | James Cameron | 2986 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Citizen Kane | 1941 | Orson Welles | 11 |
| 2 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 42 |
| 3 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 87 |
| 4 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles | 456 |
| 5 | The Muppet Movie | 1979 | James Frawley | 633 |
| 6 | Chimes at Midnight | 1965 | Orson Welles | 739 |
| 7 | F for Fake | 1973 | Orson Welles | 951 |
| 8 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | 1074 |
| 9 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | 1237 |
| 10 | The Trial | 1962 | Orson Welles | 1244 |
| 11 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | 1268 |
| 12 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1564 |
| 13 | Othello | 1951 | Orson Welles | 2031 |
| 14 | Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols | 2152 |
| 15 | Moby Dick | 1956 | John Huston | 2474 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | 116 |
| 2 | Blazing Saddles | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 232 |
| 3 | Young Frankenstein | 1974 | Mel Brooks | 279 |
| 4 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart | 364 |
| 5 | The Producers | 1967 | Mel Brooks | 420 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir | 291 |
| 2 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | 339 |
| 3 | Aladdin | 1992 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 427 |
| 4 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg | 655 |
| 5 | The Birdcage | 1996 | Mike Nichols | 941 |
| 6 | Mrs. Doubtfire | 1993 | Chris Columbus | 1138 |
| 7 | Jumanji | 1995 | Joe Johnston | 1567 |
| 8 | Good Morning, Vietnam | 1987 | Barry Levinson | 1594 |
| 9 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | 1988 | Terry Gilliam | 1726 |
| 10 | Insomnia | 2002 | Christopher Nolan | 2286 |
| 11 | Awakenings | 1990 | Penny Marshall | 2297 |
| 12 | Hamlet | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 2444 |
| 13 | The World According to Garp | 1982 | George Roy Hill | 2559 |
| 14 | The Fisher King | 1991 | Terry Gilliam | 2638 |
| 15 | Hook | 1991 | Steven Spielberg | 2708 |
| 16 | Happy Feet | 2006 | George Miller | 2747 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | 8 |
| 2 | Die Hard | 1988 | John McTiernan | 85 |
| 3 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | 168 |
| 4 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | 331 |
| 5 | The Fifth Element | 1997 | Luc Besson | 529 |
| 6 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 737 |
| 7 | Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | Wes Anderson | 757 |
| 8 | The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | 770 |
| 9 | Looper | 2012 | Rian Johnson | 800 |
| 10 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan | 1065 |
| 11 | The Verdict | 1982 | Sidney Lumet | 1346 |
| 12 | Die Hard with a Vengeance | 1995 | John McTiernan | 1511 |
| 13 | Armageddon | 1998 | Michael Bay | 1903 |
| 14 | Lucky Number Slevin | 2006 | Paul McGuigan | 2271 |
| 15 | Die Hard 2 | 1990 | Renny Harlin | 2471 |
| 16 | Grindhouse | 2007 | Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino | 2567 |
| 17 | The Last Boy Scout | 1991 | Tony Scott | 2755 |
| 18 | Live Free or Die Hard | 2007 | Len Wiseman | 3045 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 56 |
| 2 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 96 |
| 3 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee | 668 |
| 4 | Heavenly Creatures | 1994 | Peter Jackson | 1086 |
| 5 | Finding Neverland | 2004 | Marc Forster | 1965 |
| 6 | The Reader | 2008 | Stephen Daldry | 2128 |
| 7 | The Holiday | 2006 | Nancy Meyers | 2238 |
| 8 | Revolutionary Road | 2008 | Sam Mendes | 2401 |
| 9 | Little Children | 2006 | Todd Field | 2407 |
| 10 | Hamlet | 1996 | Kenneth Branagh | 2444 |
| 11 | Avatar: The Way of Water | 2022 | James Cameron | 2986 |
| 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 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 56 |
| 4 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 58 |
| 5 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 737 |
| 6 | Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis | 1133 |
| 7 | The Ice Storm | 1997 | Ang Lee | 1272 |
| 8 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 2012 | Peter Jackson | 1281 |
| 9 | The Wind Rises | 2013 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1601 |
| 10 | Happy Feet | 2006 | George Miller | 2747 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | 53 |
| 2 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 146 |
| 3 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 252 |
| 4 | Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 | George Seaton | 807 |
| 5 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan | 1189 |
| 6 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | 1947 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1791 |
| 7 | Los Angeles Plays Itself | 2003 | Thom Andersen | 2307 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 157 |
| 2 | Casino | 1995 | Martin Scorsese | 404 |
| 3 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 421 |
| 4 | The Virgin Suicides | 1999 | Sofia Coppola | 677 |
| 5 | The Way We Were | 1973 | Sydney Pollack | 1180 |
| 6 | Contact | 1997 | Robert Zemeckis | 1262 |
| 7 | Hercules | 1997 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 1524 |
| 8 | Any Given Sunday | 1999 | Oliver Stone | 1729 |
| 9 | Salvador | 1986 | Oliver Stone | 2009 |
| 10 | Night Moves | 1975 | Arthur Penn | 2259 |
| 11 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone | 2803 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 47 |
| 2 | Forrest Gump | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | 72 |
| 3 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve | 472 |
| 4 | Wonder Woman | 2017 | Patty Jenkins | 643 |
| 5 | Unbreakable | 2000 | M. Night Shyamalan | 1065 |
| 6 | Moneyball | 2011 | Bennett Miller | 1319 |
| 7 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2011 | David Fincher | 1390 |
| 8 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | 2021 | Zack Snyder | 2832 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 140 |
| 2 | The Killer | 1989 | John Woo | 569 |
| 3 | Hard Boiled | 1992 | John Woo | 649 |
| 4 | A Better Tomorrow | 1986 | John Woo | 1923 |
| 5 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | 2007 | Gore Verbinski | 2156 |
