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 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 41 |
| 2 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 242 |
| 3 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 388 |
| 4 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1946 | Tay Garnett | 779 |
| 5 | Ossessione | 1943 | Luchino Visconti | 1248 |
| 6 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1981 | Bob Rafelson | 1951 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 41 |
| 2 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 163 |
| 3 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock | 235 |
| 4 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 | Robert Altman | 721 |
| 5 | Murder, My Sweet | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | 1241 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Great Expectations | 1946 | David Lean | 257 |
| 2 | Oliver! | 1968 | Carol Reed | 471 |
| 3 | Oliver Twist | 1948 | David Lean | 939 |
| 4 | Scrooge | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | 962 |
| 5 | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor | 1062 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Big Sleep | 1946 | Howard Hawks | 163 |
| 2 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 383 |
| 3 | Mildred Pierce | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | 388 |
| 4 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 623 |
| 5 | The Southerner | 1945 | Jean Renoir | 2049 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Goldfinger | 1964 | Guy Hamilton | 186 |
| 2 | Dr. No | 1962 | Terence Young | 524 |
| 3 | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Terence Young | 720 |
| 4 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 917 |
| 5 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 1968 | Ken Hughes | 1112 |
| 6 | GoldenEye | 1995 | Martin Campbell | 1788 |
| 7 | The Spy Who Loved Me | 1977 | Lewis Gilbert | 1902 |
| 8 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | 1969 | Peter R. Hunt | 2041 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | 27 |
| 2 | Brighton Rock | 1947 | John Boulting | 925 |
| 3 | The Quiet American | 2002 | Phillip Noyce | 1429 |
| 4 | Went the Day Well? | 1942 | Alberto Cavalcanti | 1520 |
| 5 | The Fallen Idol | 1948 | Carol Reed | 1785 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang | 519 |
| 2 | Oklahoma! | 1955 | Fred Zinnemann | 801 |
| 3 | Carousel | 1956 | Henry King | 1162 |
| 4 | Show Boat | 1936 | James Whale | 1205 |
| 5 | Carmen Jones | 1954 | Otto Preminger | 1305 |
| 6 | South Pacific | 1958 | Joshua Logan | 1391 |
| 7 | Annie Get Your Gun | 1950 | George Sidney | 1993 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Camille | 1936 | George Cukor | 681 |
| 2 | Goodbye Mr. Chips | 1939 | Sam Wood | 685 |
| 3 | Mrs. Miniver | 1942 | William Wyler | 949 |
| 4 | Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1054 |
| 5 | Lost Horizon | 1937 | Frank Capra | 1128 |
| 6 | Random Harvest | 1942 | Mervyn LeRoy | 2097 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | 46 |
| 2 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 87 |
| 3 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 269 |
| 4 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 315 |
| 5 | The Green Mile | 1999 | Frank Darabont | 560 |
| 6 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | 1202 |
| 7 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 1714 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | 1957 | Jack Arnold | 892 |
| 2 | Duel | 1971 | Steven Spielberg | 918 |
| 3 | The Omega Man | 1971 | Boris Sagal | 1685 |
| 4 | What Dreams May Come | 1998 | Vincent Ward | 2154 |
| 5 | Pit and the Pendulum | 1961 | Roger Corman | 2281 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Godfather | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1 |
| 2 | The Godfather: Part II | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | 14 |
| 3 | Superman | 1978 | Richard Donner | 272 |
| 4 | The Godfather: Part III | 1990 | Francis Ford Coppola | 432 |
| 5 | Superman II | 1980 | Richard Lester | 1387 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 105 |
| 2 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | 399 |
| 3 | Horror of Dracula | 1958 | Terence Fisher | 718 |
| 4 | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | 1948 | Charles Barton | 857 |
| 5 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 1047 |
| 6 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1320 |
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Voyage to the Moon | 1902 | Georges Méliès | 517 |
| 2 | Dead of Night | 1945 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer | 640 |
| 3 | The War of the Worlds | 1953 | Byron Haskin | 711 |
| 4 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 731 |
| 5 | Things to Come | 1936 | William Cameron Menzies | 931 |
| 6 | The Time Machine | 1960 | George Pal | 1264 |
| 7 | War of the Worlds | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1449 |
| 8 | Island of Lost Souls | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton | 1877 |