| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 211 |
| 2 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 326 |
| 3 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 339 |
| 4 | Au hasard Balthazar | 1966 | Robert Bresson | 348 |
| 5 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 350 |
| 6 | Night and Fog | 1956 | Alain Resnais | 390 |
| 7 | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 392 |
| 8 | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker | 561 |
| 9 | In the Realm of the Senses | 1976 | Nagisa Ôshima | 589 |
| 10 | Fantastic Planet | 1973 | René Laloux | 728 |
| 11 | The Vanishing | 1988 | George Sluizer | 795 |
| 12 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | 980 |
| 13 | Mouchette | 1967 | Robert Bresson | 1036 |
| 14 | Chronicle of a Summer | 1961 | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch | 1510 |
| 15 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1569 |
| 16 | Masculine Feminine | 1966 | Jean-Luc Godard | 2041 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 60 |
| 2 | Jules and Jim | 1962 | François Truffaut | 201 |
| 3 | Day for Night | 1973 | François Truffaut | 467 |
| 4 | My Night at Maud's | 1969 | Eric Rohmer | 752 |
| 5 | Yeelen | 1987 | Souleymane Cissé | 1342 |
| 6 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard | 1569 |
| 7 | Stolen Kisses | 1968 | François Truffaut | 1860 |
| 8 | The Last Metro | 1980 | François Truffaut | 1896 |
| 9 | The Wild Child | 1970 | François Truffaut | 2141 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 215 |
| 2 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 219 |
| 3 | The Professional | 1994 | Luc Besson | 253 |
| 4 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 355 |
| 5 | A Man Escaped | 1956 | Robert Bresson | 443 |
| 6 | The Fifth Element | 1997 | Luc Besson | 599 |
| 7 | The Intouchables | 2011 | Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano | 802 |
| 8 | Les Vampires | 1915 | Louis Feuillade | 903 |
| 9 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 966 |
| 10 | Histoire(s) du cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | 1184 | |
| 11 | La Femme Nikita | 1990 | Luc Besson | 1309 |
| 12 | Betty Blue | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 1458 |
| 13 | À nos amours | 1983 | Maurice Pialat | 1607 |
| 14 | Possession | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski | 1719 |
| 15 | The Lovers on the Bridge | 1991 | Leos Carax | 1810 |
| 16 | Sabotage1 | 1936 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2257 |
| 17 | The Dinner Game | 1998 | Francis Veber | 2484 |
| 18 | The Man Who Knew Too Much1 | 1934 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2674 |
| 19 | Fantomas | 1913 | Louis Feuillade | 2682 |
| 20 | Querelle | 1982 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 2806 |
1 Produced or co-produced by Gaumont British Picture Corporation.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 86 |
| 2 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carné | 179 |
| 3 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | 293 |
| 4 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 326 |
| 5 | Thelma & Louise | 1991 | Ridley Scott | 379 |
| 6 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle | 394 |
| 7 | Nanook of the North | 1922 | Robert J. Flaherty | 411 |
| 8 | Rififi | 1955 | Jules Dassin | 420 |
| 9 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | 628 |
| 10 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | Julian Schnabel | 895 |
| 11 | Chicken Run | 2000 | Peter Lord and Nick Park | 962 |
| 12 | Touching the Void | 2003 | Kevin Macdonald | 1180 |
| 13 | The Descent | 2005 | Neil Marshall | 1228 |
| 14 | Ratcatcher | 1999 | Lynne Ramsay | 1432 |
| 15 | The Queen | 2006 | Stephen Frears | 1498 |
| 16 | Selma | 2014 | Ava DuVernay | 1589 |
| 17 | Quatermass and the Pit | 1967 | Roy Ward Baker | 1650 |
| 18 | 127 Hours | 2010 | Danny Boyle | 1738 |
| 19 | The Great Beauty | 2013 | Paolo Sorrentino | 2157 |
| 20 | The Illusionist | 2010 | Sylvain Chomet | 2356 |