The lists below include films from a number of novelists and playwrights. In most cases, the films are adaptations of their novels or plays. In some cases, the authors wrote the screenplays for the films.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sense and Sensibility | 1995 | Ang Lee | 357 |
| 2 | Pride and Prejudice | 1940 | Robert Z. Leonard | 917 |
| 3 | Emma | 1996 | Douglas McGrath | 1970 |
| 4 | Pride and Prejudice | 1995 | Simon Langton | 2059 |
| 5 | Pride & Prejudice | 2005 | Joe Wright | 2125 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 40 |
| 2 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 222 |
| 3 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 371 |
| 4 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett | 633 |
| 5 | Ossessione | 1943 | Luchino Visconti | 869 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 40 |
| 2 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 122 |
| 3 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 220 |
| 4 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 744 |
| 5 | Murder, My Sweet | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | 991 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Great Expectations | 1946 | David Lean | 234 |
| 2 | Oliver! | 1968 | Carol Reed | 559 |
| 3 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | 748 |
| 4 | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor | 778 |
| 5 | Oliver Twist | 1948 | David Lean | 784 |
| 6 | A Tale of Two Cities | 1935 | Jack Conway | 2071 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 122 |
| 2 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 332 |
| 3 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 371 |
| 4 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 388 |
| 5 | The Southerner | 1945 | Jean Renoir | 1484 |
| 6 | Intruder in the Dust | 1949 | Clarence Brown | 2074 |
| 7 | The Long, Hot Summer | 1958 | Martin Ritt | 2403 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Giant | 1956 | George Stevens | 412 |
| 2 | Dinner at Eight | 1933 | George Cukor | 692 |
| 3 | Stage Door | 1937 | Gregory La Cava | 839 |
| 4 | Show Boat | 1936 | James Whale | 981 |
| 5 | Show Boat | 1951 | George Sidney | 2226 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 213 |
| 2 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young | 624 |
| 3 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 728 |
| 4 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 1968 | Ken Hughes | 1262 |
| 5 | GoldenEye | 1995 | Martin Campbell | 1860 |
| 6 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 1869 |
| 7 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | 1969 | Peter R. Hunt | 1912 |
| 8 | You Only Live Twice | 1967 | Lewis Gilbert | 2237 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 26 |
| 2 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | John Ford | 236 |
| 3 | Brighton Rock | 1947 | John Boulting | 1198 |
| 4 | The Fallen Idol | 1948 | Carol Reed | 1921 |
| 5 | Went the Day Well? | 1942 | Alberto Cavalcanti | 2016 |
| 6 | The End of the Affair | 1999 | Neil Jordan | 2252 |
| 7 | This Gun for Hire | 1942 | Frank Tuttle | 2293 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang | 475 |
| 2 | Oklahoma! | 1955 | Fred Zinnemann | 651 |
| 3 | Show Boat | 1936 | James Whale | 981 |
| 4 | Carousel | 1956 | Henry King | 1075 |
| 5 | Carmen Jones | 1954 | Otto Preminger | 1085 |
| 6 | South Pacific | 1958 | Joshua Logan | 1105 |
| 7 | Show Boat | 1951 | George Sidney | 2226 |
| 8 | Annie Get Your Gun | 1950 | George Sidney | 2400 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Camille | 1936 | George Cukor | 437 |
| 2 | Goodbye Mr. Chips | 1939 | Sam Wood | 527 |
| 3 | Lost Horizon | 1937 | Frank Capra | 690 |
| 4 | Mrs. Miniver | 1942 | William Wyler | 701 |
| 5 | Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 882 |
| 6 | Random Harvest | 1942 | Mervyn LeRoy | 1457 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 48 |
| 2 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 129 |
| 3 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 275 |
| 4 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 336 |
| 5 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 568 |
| 6 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | 1231 |
| 7 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 1499 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 3 |
| 2 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 15 |
| 3 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 314 |
| 4 | The Godfather: Part III | 1990 | Francis Ford Coppola | 387 |
| 5 | Superman II | 1980 | Richard Lester | 1766 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Odd Couple | 1968 | Gene Saks | 972 |
| 2 | The Goodbye Girl | 1977 | Herbert Ross | 1185 |
| 3 | Barefoot in the Park | 1967 | Gene Saks | 1415 |
| 4 | The Sunshine Boys | 1975 | Herbert Ross | 1845 |
| 5 | The Heartbreak Kid | 1972 | Elaine May | 1905 |
| 6 | Sweet Charity | 1969 | Bob Fosse | 2147 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 68 |
| 2 | East of Eden | 1955 | Elia Kazan | 413 |
| 3 | Of Mice and Men | 1939 | Lewis Milestone | 1557 |
| 4 | Viva Zapata! | 1952 | Elia Kazan | 1911 |
| 5 | Lifeboat | 1944 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2388 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F. W. Murnau | 115 |
| 2 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | 340 |
| 3 | Horror of Dracula | 1958 | Terrence Fisher | 758 |
| 4 | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | 1948 | Charles Barton | 878 |
| 5 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 1222 |
| 6 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1401 |
| 7 | Dracula's Daughter | 1936 | Lambert Hillyer | 2191 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 473 |
| 2 | Dead of Night | 1945 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer | 638 |
| 3 | The War of the Worlds | 1953 | Byron Haskin | 682 |
| 4 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 713 |
| 5 | The Time Machine | 1960 | George Pal | 1216 |
| 6 | Things To Come | 1936 | William Cameron Menzies | 1232 |
| 7 | Island of Lost Souls | 1933 | Erle C. Kenton | 1903 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 99 |
| 2 | Senso | 1954 | Luchino Visconti | 1079 |
| 3 | Baby Doll | 1956 | Elia Kazan | 1518 |
| 4 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Richard Brooks | 1837 |
| 5 | Suddenly, Last Summer | 1959 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2186 |