| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sunset Blvd. | 1950 | Billy Wilder | 28 |
| 2 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 30 |
| 3 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 41 |
| 4 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 50 |
| 5 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 59 |
| 6 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles | 63 |
| 7 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 118 |
| 8 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 181 |
| 9 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 198 |
| 10 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 231 |
| 11 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 262 |
| 12 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 275 |
| 13 | Laura | 1944 | Otto Preminger | 280 |
| 14 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 | Robert Aldrich | 311 |
| 15 | White Heat | 1949 | Raoul Walsh | 346 |
| 16 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 409 |
| 17 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 | Nicholas Ray | 442 |
| 18 | The Big Heat | 1953 | Fritz Lang | 444 |
| 19 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 449 |
| 20 | Ace in the Hole | 1951 | Billy Wilder | 486 |
| 21 | The Lost Weekend | 1945 | Billy Wilder | 523 |
| 22 | Gun Crazy | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis | 536 |
| 23 | The Killing | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | 547 |
| 24 | The Asphalt Jungle | 1950 | John Huston | 556 |
| 25 | The Killers | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 568 |
| 26 | A Place in the Sun | 1951 | George Stevens | 632 |
| 27 | Pickup on South Street | 1953 | Samuel Fuller | 647 |
| 28 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | 689 |
| 29 | Detour | 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 750 |
| 30 | Little Caesar | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy | 760 |
| 31 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 | Orson Welles | 854 |
| 32 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | 889 |
| 33 | Force of Evil | 1948 | Abraham Polonsky | 910 |
| 34 | They Live by Night | 1948 | Nicholas Ray | 959 |
| 35 | Brighton Rock | 1947 | John Boulting | 988 |
| 36 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock | 999 |
| 37 | Night and the City | 1950 | Jules Dassin | 1000 |
| 38 | Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | Michael Curtiz | 1017 |
| 39 | Body and Soul | 1947 | Robert Rossen | 1062 |
| 40 | Key Largo | 1948 | John Huston | 1152 |
| 41 | Fury | 1936 | Fritz Lang | 1161 |
| 42 | The Roaring Twenties | 1939 | Raoul Walsh | 1223 |
| 43 | The Set-Up | 1949 | Robert Wise | 1234 |
| 44 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | 1271 |
| 45 | All the King's Men | 1949 | Robert Rossen | 1336 |
| 46 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett | 1337 |
| 47 | Odd Man Out | 1947 | Carol Reed | 1362 |
| 48 | Scarlet Street | 1945 | Fritz Lang | 1543 |
| 49 | Murder, My Sweet | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | 1545 |
| 50 | Kiss of Death | 1947 | Henry Hathaway | 1567 |
| 51 | D.O.A. | 1950 | Rudolph Maté | 1651 |
| 52 | The Naked City | 1948 | Jules Dassin | 1712 |
| 53 | The Fallen Idol | 1948 | Carol Reed | 1739 |
| 54 | The Woman in the Window | 1944 | Fritz Lang | 1747 |
| 55 | High Sierra | 1941 | Raoul Walsh | 1835 |
| 56 | Leave Her to Heaven | 1945 | John M. Stahl | 1838 |
| 57 | The Docks of New York | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | 1876 |
| 58 | Champion | 1949 | Mark Robson | 1981 |
| 59 | The Wrong Man | 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2012 |
| 60 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2130 |
| 61 | The Big Combo | 1955 | Joseph H. Lewis | 2160 |
| 62 | Dead End | 1937 | William Wyler | 2338 |
| 63 | Underworld | 1927 | Josef von Sternberg | 2339 |
| 64 | The Letter | 1940 | William Wyler | 2365 |