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 | 196 |
| 2 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 266 |
| 3 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | 365 |
| 4 | The Eclipse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 967 |
| 5 | The Red Desert | 1964 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1101 |
| 6 | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1299 |
| 7 | Nostalgia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1675 |
| 8 | The Night of the Shooting Stars | 1982 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | 2190 |
| 9 | Landscape in the Mist | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2262 |
| 10 | Zabriskie Point | 1970 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 2321 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 17 |
| 2 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 72 |
| 3 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 104 |
| 4 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 106 |
| 5 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 235 |
| 6 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 239 |
| 7 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 328 |
| 8 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | 412 |
| 9 | The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | 472 |
| 10 | The Thing from Another World | 1951 | Christian Nyby | 513 |
| 11 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 623 |
| 12 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | 643 |
| 13 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian | 800 |
| 14 | Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1054 |
| 15 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1055 |
| 16 | Guys and Dolls | 1955 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1076 |
| 17 | Twentieth Century | 1934 | Howard Hawks | 1116 |
| 18 | Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | Michael Curtiz | 1145 |
| 19 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1146 |
| 20 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1289 |
| 21 | Kiss of Death | 1947 | Henry Hathaway | 1312 |
| 22 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1397 |
| 23 | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger | 1480 |
| 24 | The Prisoner of Zenda | 1937 | John Cromwell | 1519 |
| 25 | Monkey Business | 1931 | Norman Z. McLeod | 1754 |
| 26 | The Front Page | 1931 | Lewis Milestone | 1844 |
| 27 | Nothing Sacred | 1937 | William A. Wellman | 1880 |
| 28 | Million Dollar Legs | 1932 | Edward F. Cline | 2006 |
| 29 | A Star Is Born | 1937 | William A. Wellman | 2159 |
| 30 | Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | William Dieterle | 2196 |