The lists below include films based on work previous written by the screenwriter in question.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 189 |
| 2 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 253 |
| 3 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | 291 |
| 4 | The Eclipse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 794 |
| 5 | The Red Desert | 1964 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 931 |
| 6 | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1301 |
| 7 | The Night of the Shooting Stars | 1982 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | 1429 |
| 8 | Landscape in the Mist | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1639 |
| 9 | Nostalgia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1982 |
| 10 | Eternity and a Day | 1998 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2501 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 11 |
| 2 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 76 |
| 3 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 86 |
| 4 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 121 |
| 5 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 220 |
| 6 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 260 |
| 7 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | 299 |
| 8 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 315 |
| 9 | The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | 344 |
| 10 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 388 |
| 11 | The Thing from Another World | 1951 | Christian Nyby | 482 |
| 12 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian | 529 |
| 13 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | 614 |
| 14 | Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 882 |
| 15 | Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | Michael Curtiz | 898 |
| 16 | Guys and Dolls | 1955 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 971 |
| 17 | Twentieth Century | 1934 | Howard Hawks | 1008 |
| 18 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1062 |
| 19 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1169 |
| 20 | The Prisoner of Zenda | 1937 | John Cromwell | 1253 |
| 21 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1257 |
| 22 | Nothing Sacred | 1937 | William A. Wellman | 1334 |
| 23 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1421 |
| 24 | Kiss of Death | 1947 | Henry Hathaway | 1556 |
| 25 | Monkey Business | 1931 | Norman Z. McLeod | 1581 |
| 26 | The Front Page | 1931 | Lewis Milestone | 1641 |
| 27 | A Star Is Born | 1937 | William A. Wellman | 1679 |
| 28 | Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | William Dieterle | 1850 |
| 29 | Million Dollar Legs | 1932 | Edward F. Cline | 2064 |
| 30 | Hallelujah, I'm a Bum | 1933 | Lewis Milestone | 2078 |
| 31 | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger | 2355 |
| 32 | Lifeboat | 1944 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2388 |
| 33 | Underworld | 1927 | Josef von Sternberg | 2474 |