| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 69 |
| 2 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 52 |
| 3 | The Gold Rush | 1925 | Charles Chaplin | 97 |
| 4 | His Girl Friday | 1940 | Howard Hawks | 72 |
| 5 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | William Wyler | 126 |
| 6 | The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | John Ford | 102 |
| 7 | The General | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton | 45 |
| 8 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 106 |
| 9 | Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 125 |
| 10 | The Lady Eve | 1941 | Preston Sturges | 138 |
| 11 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | 137 |
| 12 | Top Hat | 1935 | Mark Sandrich | 172 |
| 13 | Ninotchka | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch | 229 |
| 14 | Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli | 226 |
| 15 | Notorious | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock | 104 |
| 16 | An American in Paris | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli | 237 |
| 17 | Shane | 1953 | George Stevens | 200 |
| 18 | Laura | 1944 | Otto Preminger | 259 |
| 19 | The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | 161 |
| 20 | Red River | 1948 | Howard Hawks | 234 |
| 21 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 1948 | John Huston | 92 |
| 22 | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | 220 |
| 23 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 121 |
| 24 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 338 |
| 25 | To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch | 248 |
| 26 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 56 |
| 27 | How Green Was My Valley | 1941 | John Ford | 417 |
| 28 | Double Indemnity | 1944 | Billy Wilder | 41 |
| 29 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | 146 |
| 30 | Swing Time | 1936 | George Stevens | 392 |
| 31 | A Star Is Born | 1954 | George Cukor | 250 |
| 32 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 1942 | Orson Welles | 201 |
| 33 | Greed | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim | 209 |
| 34 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski | 350 |
| 35 | Adam's Rib | 1949 | George Cukor | 358 |
| 36 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 206 |
| 37 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 86 |
| 38 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 105 |
| 39 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | 156 |
| 40 | M*A*S*H | 1970 | Robert Altman | 128 |
| 41 | The Bank Dick | 1940 | Edward F. Cline | 429 |
| 42 | My Darling Clementine | 1946 | John Ford | 263 |
| 43 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood | 253 |
| 44 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | 412 |
| 45 | The Haunting | 1963 | Robert Wise | 418 |
| 46 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | 458 |
| 47 | Trouble in Paradise | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch | 305 |
| 48 | Tootsie | 1982 | Sydney Pollack | 197 |
| 49 | The Crowd | 1928 | King Vidor | 337 |
| 50 | A Place in the Sun | 1951 | George Stevens | 356 |
| 51 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand | 89 |
| 52 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | 383 |
| 53 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 223 |
| 54 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | 289 |
| 55 | 42nd Street | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | 393 |
| 56 | The Thin Man | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke | 409 |
| 57 | The Lost Weekend | 1945 | Billy Wilder | 380 |
| 58 | The Ox-Bow Incident | 1943 | William A. Wellman | 525 |
| 59 | Great Expectations | 1946 | David Lean | 257 |
| 60 | My Man Godfrey | 1936 | Gregory La Cava | 538 |
| 61 | The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | George Cukor | 109 |
| 62 | The Awful Truth | 1937 | Leo McCarey | 469 |
| 63 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 90 |
| 64 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell | 258 |
| 65 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 193 |
| 66 | Out of the Past | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur | 242 |
| 67 | Intolerance | 1916 | D.W. Griffith | 181 |
| 68 | Pinocchio | 1940 | Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen | 217 |
| 69 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 447 |
| 70 | High Noon | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | 58 |
| 71 | Marty | 1955 | Delbert Mann | 555 |
| 72 | White Heat | 1949 | Raoul Walsh | 313 |
| 73 | Born Yesterday | 1950 | George Cukor | 690 |
| 74 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 | Elia Kazan | 145 |
| 75 | The Band Wagon | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli | 381 |
| 76 | Gigi | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 532 |
| 77 | Tom Jones | 1963 | Tony Richardson | 435 |
| 78 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | 399 |
| 79 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 108 |
| 80 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | 1944 | Preston Sturges | 487 |
| 81 | The Killers | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 574 |
| 82 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | John Huston | 44 |
| 83 | A Hard Day's Night | 1964 | Richard Lester | 157 |
| 84 | The Big Parade | 1925 | King Vidor | 461 |
| 85 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock | 382 |
| 86 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | 152 |
| 87 | It's a Gift | 1934 | Norman Z. McLeod | 515 |
| 88 | Rebecca | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | 225 |
| 89 | The Lady Vanishes | 1938 | Alfred Hitchcock | 376 |
| 90 | The African Queen | 1951 | John Huston | 120 |
| 91 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero | 139 |
| 92 | East of Eden | 1955 | Elia Kazan | 527 |
| 93 | Sweet Smell of Success | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick | 177 |
| 94 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 294 |
| 95 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 204 |
| 96 | On the Town | 1949 | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 506 |
| 97 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1936 | Frank Capra | 654 |
| 98 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper | 691 |
| 99 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 269 |
| 100 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 623 |