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| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 316 |
| 2 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 317 |
| 3 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | 980 |
| 4 | That Obscure Object of Desire | 1977 | Luis Buñuel | 1273 |
| 5 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1988 | Philip Kaufman | 1601 |
| 6 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1990 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | 1641 |
| 7 | The Phantom of Liberty | 1974 | Luis Buñuel | 1799 |
| 8 | Birth | 2004 | Jonathan Glazer | 2672 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 74 |
| 2 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 86 |
| 3 | La Strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini | 276 |
| 4 | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | 496 |
| 5 | I Vitelloni | 1953 | Federico Fellini | 1343 |
| 6 | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1400 |
| 7 | Juliet of the Spirits | 1965 | Federico Fellini | 2109 |
| 8 | Not on Your Life | 1963 | Luis García Berlanga | 2210 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Princess Bride | 1987 | Rob Reiner | 96 |
| 2 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | 136 |
| 3 | All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | 290 |
| 4 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | 745 |
| 5 | Marathon Man | 1976 | John Schlesinger | 1403 |
| 6 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 2099 |
| 7 | Chaplin | 1992 | Richard Attenborough | 2770 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | L'Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 195 |
| 2 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 246 |
| 3 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | 367 |
| 4 | L'Eclisse | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 596 |
| 5 | Nostalgia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 943 |
| 6 | La Notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1400 |
| 7 | The Red Desert | 1964 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1415 |
| 8 | Landscape in the Mist | 1988 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1744 |
| 9 | Zabriskie Point | 1970 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 2624 |
| 10 | Ulysses' Gaze | 1995 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 2781 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 32 |
| 2 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 87 |
| 3 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 126 |
| 4 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 140 |
| 5 | Scarface | 1983 | Brian De Palma | 202 |
| 6 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 263 |
| 7 | The Shop around the Corner | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch | 345 |
| 8 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 534 |
| 9 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | 669 |
| 10 | Gilda | 1946 | Charles Vidor | 719 |
| 11 | The Thing from Another World | 1951 | Christian Nyby | 762 |
| 12 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | 1136 |
| 13 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 1213 |
| 14 | Duel in the Sun | 1946 | King Vidor | 1285 |
| 15 | Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | Michael Curtiz | 1382 |
| 16 | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1955 | Otto Preminger | 1383 |
| 17 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian | 1462 |
| 18 | Guys and Dolls | 1955 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1470 |
| 19 | Kiss of Death | 1947 | Henry Hathaway | 1555 |
| 20 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1654 |
| 21 | Twentieth Century | 1934 | Howard Hawks | 1709 |
| 22 | Spellbound | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1987 |
| 23 | Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2232 |
| 24 | Underworld | 1927 | Josef von Sternberg | 2364 |
| 25 | Design for Living | 1933 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2451 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | 328 |
| 2 | A Fistful of Dollars | 1964 | Sergio Leone | 383 |
| 3 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 507 |
| 4 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 662 |
| 5 | Red Beard | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa | 1225 |
| 6 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | 1238 |
| 7 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa | 1921 |
| 8 | Stray Dog | 1949 | Akira Kurosawa | 1965 |
| 9 | Runaway Train | 1985 | Andrey Konchalovskiy | 2090 |
| 10 | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | 1960 | Mikio Naruse | 2127 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | North by Northwest | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock | 40 |
| 2 | West Side Story | 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 118 |
| 3 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise | 144 |
| 4 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 173 |
| 5 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1966 | Mike Nichols | 448 |
| 6 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang | 997 |
| 7 | Sabrina | 1954 | Billy Wilder | 1394 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa | 22 |
| 2 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | 197 |
| 3 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | 256 |
| 4 | The Magnificent Seven | 1960 | John Sturges | 273 |
| 5 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 507 |
| 6 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | 662 |
| 7 | Red Beard | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa | 1225 |
| 8 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | 1238 |
| 9 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa | 1921 |
| 10 | Runaway Train | 1985 | Andrey Konchalovskiy | 2090 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield | 266 |
| 2 | Dumbo | 1941 | Ben Sharpsteen | 616 |
| 3 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | 1961 | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman | 755 |
| 4 | Cinderella | 1950 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 847 |
| 5 | Sleeping Beauty | 1959 | Clyde Geronimi | 974 |
| 6 | Alice in Wonderland | 1951 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1310 |
| 7 | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1396 |