The lists below include films based on work previous written by the screenwriter in question.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 368 |
| 2 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 378 |
| 3 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | 1535 |
| 4 | That Obscure Object of Desire | 1977 | Luis Buñuel | 1848 |
| 5 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman | 1878 |
| 6 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | 2043 |
| 7 | The Phantom of Liberty | 1974 | Luis Buñuel | 2571 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 100 |
| 2 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 124 |
| 3 | La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini | 366 |
| 4 | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 693 |
| 5 | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1454 |
| 6 | I Vitelloni | 1953 | Federico Fellini | 1863 |
| 7 | Juliet of the Spirits | 1965 | Federico Fellini | 2161 |
| 8 | Not on Your Life | 1963 | Luis García Berlanga | 2952 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 47 |
| 2 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 162 |
| 3 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 282 |
| 4 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | 585 |
| 5 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 2141 |
| 6 | Marathon Man | 1976 | John Schlesinger | 2209 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 299 |
| 2 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 346 |
| 3 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | 554 |
| 4 | L'Eclisse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 806 |
| 5 | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1454 |
| 6 | Nostalgia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1478 |
| 7 | The Red Desert | 1964 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1583 |
| 8 | Landscape in the Mist | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1985 |
| 9 | Eternity and a Day | 1998 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2828 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 98 |
| 2 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 148 |
| 3 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 665 |
| 4 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | 1163 |
| 5 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 1598 |
| 6 | Twentieth Century | 1934 | Howard Hawks | 2011 |
| 7 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2099 |
| 8 | Design for Living | 1933 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2304 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 354 |
| 2 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 592 |
| 3 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 642 |
| 4 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | 1342 |
| 5 | Red Beard | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa | 1437 |
| 6 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa | 1900 |
| 7 | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | 1960 | Mikio Naruse | 2251 |
| 8 | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa | 2684 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 49 |
| 2 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise | 135 |
| 3 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 146 |
| 4 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 209 |
| 5 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | Mike Nichols | 559 |
| 6 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1240 |
| 7 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang | 1315 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 24 |
| 2 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | 186 |
| 3 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | 223 |
| 4 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 592 |
| 5 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 642 |
| 6 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | 1342 |
| 7 | Red Beard | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa | 1437 |
| 8 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa | 1900 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, and Ben Sharpsteen | 229 |
| 2 | Dumbo | 1941 | Ben Sharpsteen | 482 |
| 3 | Cinderella | 1950 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 817 |
| 4 | Sleeping Beauty | 1959 | Clyde Geronimi | 847 |
| 5 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | 1961 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman | 885 |
| 6 | Alice in Wonderland | 1951 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1127 |
| 7 | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1290 |
| 8 | The Sword in the Stone | 1963 | Wolfgang Reitherman | 2634 |