**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | All Quiet on the Western Front** | Lewis Milestone | 146 |
| 2 | The Blue Angel | Josef von Sternberg | 321 |
| 3 | L'Âge d'or | Luis Buñuel | 428 |
| 4 | Earth | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 552 |
| 5 | Morocco | Josef von Sternberg | 1097 |
| 6 | The Blood of a Poet | Jean Cocteau | 1528 |
| 7 | Animal Crackers | Victor Heerman | 2061 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | City Lights | Charles Chaplin | 68 |
| 2 | M | Fritz Lang | 75 |
| 3 | Frankenstein | James Whale | 137 |
| 4 | Dracula | Tod Browning | 399 |
| 5 | The Public Enemy | William A. Wellman | 426 |
| 6 | Little Caesar | Mervyn LeRoy | 722 |
| 7 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Rouben Mamoulian | 874 |
| 8 | À Nous la Liberté | René Clair | 937 |
| 9 | Le Million | René Clair | 1514 |
| 10 | Tabu | F.W. Murnau | 1588 |
| 11 | Monkey Business | Norman Z. McLeod | 1754 |
| 12 | La Chienne | Jean Renoir | 1755 |
| 13 | The Front Page* | Lewis Milestone | 1844 |
| 14 | Marius | Alexander Korda, and Marcel Pagnol | 1895 |
| 15 | The Champ* | King Vidor | 2307 |
| 16 | Maedchen in Uniform | Leontine Sagan | 2319 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Freaks | Tod Browning | 289 |
| 2 | Trouble in Paradise | Ernst Lubitsch | 305 |
| 3 | Scarface | Howard Hawks | 328 |
| 4 | Love Me Tonight | Rouben Mamoulian | 622 |
| 5 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang* | Mervyn LeRoy | 756 |
| 6 | Horse Feathers | Norman Z. McLeod | 819 |
| 7 | The Mummy | Karl Freund | 852 |
| 8 | Grand Hotel** | Edmund Goulding | 911 |
| 9 | Vampyr | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 929 |
| 10 | The Old Dark House | James Whale | 1321 |
| 11 | Shanghai Express* | Josef von Sternberg | 1457 |
| 12 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | Jean Renoir | 1507 |
| 13 | The Music Box | James Parrott | 1678 |
| 14 | Fanny | Marc Allégret | 1810 |
| 15 | Island of Lost Souls | Erle C. Kenton | 1877 |
| 16 | I Was Born, But... | Yasujiro Ozu | 1963 |
| 17 | Million Dollar Legs | Edward F. Cline | 2006 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | King Kong | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 47 |
| 2 | Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | 56 |
| 3 | 42nd Street* | Lloyd Bacon | 393 |
| 4 | Zero for Conduct | Jean Vigo | 595 |
| 5 | The Invisible Man | James Whale | 731 |
| 6 | Queen Christina | Rouben Mamoulian | 800 |
| 7 | Sons of the Desert | William A. Seiter | 844 |
| 8 | Dinner at Eight | George Cukor | 922 |
| 9 | Little Women | George Cukor | 1053 |
| 10 | Gold Diggers of 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | 1095 |
| 11 | She Done Him Wrong* | Lowell Sherman | 1278 |
| 12 | Footlight Parade | Lloyd Bacon | 1447 |
| 13 | The Private Life of Henry VIII* | Alexander Korda | 1769 |
| 14 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | Fritz Lang | 1964 |
| 15 | Land without Bread | Luis Buñuel | 2013 |
| 16 | Baby Face | Alfred E. Green | 2107 |
| 17 | Christopher Strong | Dorothy Arzner | 2251 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | It Happened One Night** | Frank Capra | 69 |
| 2 | L'Atalante | Jean Vigo | 189 |
| 3 | The Thin Man* | W.S. Van Dyke | 409 |
| 4 | It's a Gift | Norman Z. McLeod | 515 |
| 5 | The Scarlet Empress | Josef von Sternberg | 631 |
| 6 | The Black Cat | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1046 |
| 7 | Twentieth Century | Howard Hawks | 1116 |
| 8 | Imitation of Life* | John M. Stahl | 1627 |
| 9 | The Merry Widow | Ernst Lubitsch | 1734 |
| 10 | The Gay Divorcee* | Mark Sandrich | 1756 |
| 11 | Man of Aran | Robert J. Flaherty | 1772 |
| 12 | Tarzan and His Mate | Cedric Gibbons | 2328 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
