The lists below include films from selected 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 | Double Indemnity | 1947 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
| 2 | Out of the Past | 1945 | Jacques Tourneur | 289 |
| 3 | Mildred Pierce | 1946 | Michael Curtiz | 440 |
| 4 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1943 | Tay Garnett | 954 |
| 5 | Ossessione | 1981 | Luchino Visconti | 1257 |
| 6 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1944 | Bob Rafelson | 2714 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 42 |
| 2 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 177 |
| 3 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 263 |
| 4 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 508 |
| 5 | Murder, My Sweet | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | 1413 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart | 416 |
| 2 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Wes Anderson | 694 |
| 3 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 1968 | Ken Hughes | 1622 |
| 4 | James and the Giant Peach | 1996 | Henry Selick | 1867 |
| 5 | The Witches | 1990 | Nicolas Roeg | 1949 |
| 6 | Matilda | 1996 | Danny DeVito | 1970 |
| 7 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 2005 | Tim Burton | 2179 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Great Expectations | 1946 | David Lean | 415 |
| 2 | Oliver! | 1968 | Carol Reed | 757 |
| 3 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | 1914 |
| 4 | Oliver Twist | 1948 | David Lean | 2037 |
| 5 | The Muppet Christmas Carol | 1992 | Brian Henson | 2527 |
| 6 | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor | 2568 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 244 |
| 2 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 431 |
| 3 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young | 742 |
| 4 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 856 |
| 5 | Skyfall | 2012 | Sam Mendes | 1259 |
| 6 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 1968 | Ken Hughes | 1622 |
| 7 | The Spy Who Loved Me | 1977 | Lewis Gilbert | 2017 |
| 8 | GoldenEye | 1995 | Martin Campbell | 2242 |
| 9 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | 1969 | Peter R. Hunt | 2320 |
| 10 | Thunderball | 1965 | Terence Young | 2535 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 30 |
| 2 | Brighton Rock | 1948 | John Boulting | 1301 |
| 3 | Went the Day Well? | 1942 | Alberto Cavalcanti | 1551 |
| 4 | The Fallen Idol | 1948 | Carol Reed | 1639 |
| 5 | The Quiet American | 2002 | Phillip Noyce | 2360 |
| 6 | Ministry of Fear | 1944 | Fritz Lang | 2653 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Oklahoma! | 1955 | Fred Zinnemann | 933 |
| 2 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang | 997 |
| 3 | Carmen Jones | 1954 | Otto Preminger | 1698 |
| 4 | Show Boat | 1936 | James Whale | 2083 |
| 5 | South Pacific | 1958 | Joshua Logan | 2143 |
| 6 | Carousel | 1956 | Henry King | 2651 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 263 |
| 2 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | 1999 | Anthony Minghella | 979 |
| 3 | Carol | 2015 | Todd Haynes | 1279 |
| 4 | The American Friend | 1977 | Wim Wenders | 1688 |
| 5 | Purple Noon | 1960 | René Clément | 1695 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Lost Horizon | 1937 | Frank Capra | 1248 |
| 2 | Mrs. Miniver | 1942 | William Wyler | 1496 |
| 3 | Goodbye Mr. Chips | 1939 | Sam Wood | 1621 |
| 4 | Camille | 1936 | George Cukor | 2006 |
| 5 | Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2232 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 41 |
| 2 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 52 |
| 3 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 278 |
| 4 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 325 |
| 5 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 421 |
| 6 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | 745 |
| 7 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 1816 |
| 8 | The Mist | 2007 | Frank Darabont | 2002 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Jungle Book | 1967 | Wolfgang Reitherman | 474 |
| 2 | The Man Who Would be King | 1975 | John Huston | 764 |
| 3 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 1213 |
| 4 | Captains Courageous | 1937 | Victor Fleming | 2092 |
| 5 | The Jungle Book | 2016 | Jon Favreau | 2631 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Jackie Brown | 1997 | Quentin Tarantino | 722 |
| 2 | Out of Sight | 1998 | Steven Soderbergh | 860 |
| 3 | 3:10 to Yuma | 2007 | James Mangold | 1059 |
| 4 | 3:10 to Yuma | 1957 | Delmer Daves | 1519 |
| 5 | The Tall T | 1957 | Budd Boetticher | 1853 |
| 6 | Hombre | 1967 | Martin Ritt | 2205 |
| 7 | Get Shorty | 1995 | Barry Sonnenfeld | 2209 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | 1957 | Jack Arnold | 783 |
| 2 | Duel | 1971 | Steven Spielberg | 953 |
| 3 | I Am Legend | 2007 | Francis Lawrence | 2385 |
| 4 | What Dreams May Come | 1998 | Vincent Ward | 2690 |
| 5 | The Devil Rides Out | 1968 | Terence Fisher | 2753 |
| 6 | The Fall of the House of Usher | 1960 | Roger Corman | 2768 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Fall of the House of Usher | 1928 | Jean Epstein | 1186 |
| 2 | The Black Cat | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1518 |
| 3 | Witchfinder General | 1968 | Michael Reeves | 1910 |
| 4 | The Masque of the Red Death | 1964 | Roger Corman | 2268 |
| 5 | The Fall of the House of Usher | 1960 | Roger Corman | 2768 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1 |
| 2 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 18 |
| 3 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 275 |
| 4 | The Godfather: Part III | 1990 | Francis Ford Coppola | 774 |
| 5 | Superman II | 1980 | Richard Lester | 971 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 449 |
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | 484 |
| 3 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 503 |
| 4 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 827 |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2007 | David Yates | 1030 |
| 6 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates | 1087 |
| 7 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 1151 |
| 8 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | David Yates | 1153 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 84 |
| 2 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | 530 |
| 3 | Horror of Dracula | 1958 | Terence Fisher | 875 |
| 4 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 966 |
| 5 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1350 |
| 6 | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | 1948 | Charles Barton | 1751 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 337 |
| 2 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 743 |
| 3 | The War of the Worlds | 1953 | Byron Haskin | 871 |
| 4 | Dead of Night | 1945 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer | 882 |
| 5 | Things to Come | 1936 | William Cameron Menzies | 1022 |
| 6 | The Time Machine | 1960 | George Pal | 1281 |
| 7 | Island of Lost Souls | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton | 1638 |
| 8 | War of the Worlds | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1684 |