**—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 | 234 |
| 2 | The Blue Angel | Josef von Sternberg | 937 |
| 3 | L'Âge d'or | Luis Buñuel | 989 |
| 4 | Earth | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 1330 |
| 5 | Morocco | Josef von Sternberg | 1852 |
| 6 | Animal Crackers | Victor Heerman | 2224 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | City Lights | Charles Chaplin | 40 |
| 2 | M | Fritz Lang | 84 |
| 3 | Frankenstein | James Whale | 177 |
| 4 | Dracula | Tod Browning | 517 |
| 5 | The Public Enemy | William A. Wellman | 1068 |
| 6 | Little Caesar | Mervyn LeRoy | 1177 |
| 7 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Rouben Mamoulian | 1289 |
| 8 | Tabu | F.W. Murnau | 1884 |
| 9 | Maedchen in Uniform | Leontine Sagan | 1925 |
| 10 | Monkey Business | Norman Z. McLeod | 2231 |
| 11 | La Chienne | Jean Renoir | 2331 |
| 12 | Le Million | René Clair | 2424 |
| 13 | À Nous la Liberté | René Clair | 2526 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Freaks | Tod Browning | 247 |
| 2 | Trouble in Paradise | Ernst Lubitsch | 540 |
| 3 | Vampyr | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 652 |
| 4 | Scarface | Howard Hawks | 665 |
| 5 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang* | Mervyn LeRoy | 1260 |
| 6 | Love Me Tonight | Rouben Mamoulian | 1349 |
| 7 | The Mummy | Karl Freund | 1512 |
| 8 | I Was Born, But... | Yasujirô Ozu | 1538 |
| 9 | Grand Hotel** | Edmund Goulding | 1662 |
| 10 | Island of Lost Souls | Erle C. Kenton | 1735 |
| 11 | Shanghai Express* | Josef von Sternberg | 1827 |
| 12 | The Blood of a Poet | Jean Cocteau | 1831 |
| 13 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | Jean Renoir | 2139 |
| 14 | Horse Feathers | Norman Z. McLeod | 2184 |
| 15 | The Music Box | James Parrott | 2315 |
| 16 | The Old Dark House | James Whale | 2349 |
| 17 | Blonde Venus | Josef von Sternberg | 3034 |
| 18 | One Hour with You* | Ernst Lubitsch | 3046 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | King Kong | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 68 |
| 2 | Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | 129 |
| 3 | The Invisible Man | James Whale | 627 |
| 4 | 42nd Street* | Lloyd Bacon | 734 |
| 5 | Gold Diggers of 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | 1351 |
| 6 | Zero for Conduct | Jean Vigo | 1499 |
| 7 | Sons of the Desert | William A. Seiter | 1645 |
| 8 | Queen Christina | Rouben Mamoulian | 1701 |
| 9 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | Fritz Lang | 1944 |
| 10 | Footlight Parade | Lloyd Bacon | 2002 |
| 11 | Dinner at Eight | George Cukor | 2186 |
| 12 | Land without Bread | Luis Buñuel | 2236 |
| 13 | Design for Living | Ernst Lubitsch | 2304 |
| 14 | Little Women* | George Cukor | 2581 |
| 15 | She Done Him Wrong* | Lowell Sherman | 2766 |
| 16 | The Private Life of Henry VIII* | Alexander Korda | 3015 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | It Happened One Night** | Frank Capra | 99 |
| 2 | L'Atalante | Jean Vigo | 332 |
| 3 | The Thin Man* | W.S. Van Dyke | 630 |
| 4 | The Scarlet Empress | Josef von Sternberg | 1434 |
| 5 | It's a Gift | Norman Z. McLeod | 1777 |
| 6 | The Black Cat | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1930 |
| 7 | Twentieth Century | Howard Hawks | 2011 |
| 8 | The Merry Widow | Ernst Lubitsch | 2114 |
| 9 | Man of Aran | Robert J. Flaherty | 2730 |
| 10 | The Gay Divorcee* | Mark Sandrich | 2916 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
