| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 195 |
| 2 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 303 |
| 3 | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 439 |
| 4 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 473 |
| 5 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 480 |
| 6 | Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 544 |
| 7 | In the Realm of the Senses | 1976 | Nagisa Oshima | 615 |
| 8 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | 644 |
| 9 | Night and Fog | 1955 | Alain Resnais | 744 |
| 10 | The Vanishing | 1988 | George Sluizer | 818 |
| 11 | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker | 1033 |
| 12 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1347 |
| 13 | Masculine Feminine | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1434 |
| 14 | Fantastic Planet | 1973 | René Laloux | 1641 |
| 15 | Mouchette | 1967 | Robert Bresson | 1837 |
| 16 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch | 1931 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 71 |
| 2 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 168 |
| 3 | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut | 414 |
| 4 | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Eric Rohmer | 805 |
| 5 | Stolen Kisses | 1968 | François Truffaut | 1327 |
| 6 | Yeelen | 1987 | Souleymane Cissé | 1328 |
| 7 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1347 |
| 8 | The Wild Child | 1970 | François Truffaut | 1636 |
| 9 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 1739 |
| 10 | Love on the Run | 1979 | François Truffaut | 2229 |
| 11 | Two English Girls | 1971 | François Truffaut | 2306 |
| 12 | The Story of Adele H. | 1975 | François Truffaut | 2362 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 189 |
| 2 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 206 |
| 3 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 276 |
| 4 | The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 282 |
| 5 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson | 511 |
| 6 | The Fifth Element | 1997 | Luc Besson | 549 |
| 7 | La Femme Nikita | 1990 | Luc Besson | 810 |
| 8 | Les Vampires | 1915 | Louis Feuillade | 856 |
| 9 | Betty Blue | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 890 |
| 10 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 1047 |
| 11 | The Dinner Game | 1998 | Francis Veber | 1232 |
| 12 | À nos amours | 1983 | Maurice Pialat | 1611 |
| 13 | The Lovers on the Bridge | 1991 | Leos Carax | 1758 |
| 14 | Histoire(s) du cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | 1935 | |
| 15 | Fantomas | 1913 | Louis Feuillade | 2162 |
| 16 | Oh, Mr. Porter! | 1937 | Marcel Varnel | 2237 |
| 17 | Danton | 1983 | Andrzej Wajda | 2326 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 129 |
| 2 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 134 |
| 3 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 228 |
| 4 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 303 |
| 5 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 332 |
| 6 | Nanook of the North | 1922 | Robert J. Flaherty | 364 |
| 7 | Rififi | 1955 | Jules Dassin | 521 |
| 8 | Chicken Run | 2000 | Peter Lord and Nick Park | 747 |
| 9 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle | 872 |
| 10 | Touching the Void | 2003 | Kevin Macdonald | 906 |
| 11 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1028 |
| 12 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | Julian Schnabel | 1467 |
| 13 | Quatermass and the Pit | 1967 | Roy Ward Baker | 1478 |
| 14 | The Queen | 2006 | Stephen Frears | 1639 |
| 15 | The Descent | 2005 | Neil Marshall | 1648 |
| 16 | Ratcatcher | 1999 | Lynne Ramsay | 1684 |
| 17 | Read My Lips | 2001 | Jacques Audiard | 2074 |