**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Sunset Blvd.* | Billy Wilder | 41 |
| 2 | All about Eve** | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 64 |
| 3 | Rashômon | Akira Kurosawa | 65 |
| 4 | In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | 568 |
| 5 | Los Olvidados | Luis Buñuel | 570 |
| 6 | The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | 641 |
| 7 | Winchester '73 | Anthony Mann | 786 |
| 8 | Orpheus | Jean Cocteau | 797 |
| 9 | Cinderella | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 817 |
| 10 | Night and the City | Jules Dassin | 1106 |
| 11 | Gun Crazy | Joseph H. Lewis | 1141 |
| 12 | The Gunfighter | Henry King | 1178 |
| 13 | Harvey | Henry Koster | 1672 |
| 14 | Born Yesterday* | George Cukor | 1821 |
| 15 | Rio Grande | John Ford | 1916 |
| 16 | Un chant d'amour | Jean Genet | 2173 |
| 17 | Wagon Master | John Ford | 2265 |
| 18 | The Flowers of St. Francis | Roberto Rossellini | 2275 |
| 19 | La Ronde | Max Ophüls | 2515 |
| 20 | Stromboli | Roberto Rossellini | 2563 |
| 21 | Broken Arrow | Delmer Daves | 2807 |
| 22 | Outrage | Ida Lupino | 2882 |
| 23 | Destination Moon | Irving Pichel | 2889 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | A Streetcar Named Desire* | Elia Kazan | 237 |
| 2 | Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | 286 |
| 3 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Robert Wise | 298 |
| 4 | The African Queen | John Huston | 306 |
| 5 | An American in Paris** | Vincente Minnelli | 405 |
| 6 | Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | 510 |
| 7 | Diary of a Country Priest | Robert Bresson | 715 |
| 8 | The Thing from Another World | Christian Nyby | 843 |
| 9 | Alice in Wonderland | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1127 |
| 10 | A Place in the Sun* | George Stevens | 1258 |
| 11 | The River | Jean Renoir | 1589 |
| 12 | Early Summer | Yasujirô Ozu | 1723 |
| 13 | The Steel Helmet | Samuel Fuller | 1909 |
| 14 | Othello | Orson Welles | 2031 |
| 15 | Scrooge | Brian Desmond Hurst | 2178 |
| 16 | The Lavender Hill Mob | Charles Crichton | 2325 |
| 17 | The Man in the White Suit | Alexander Mackendrick | 2427 |
| 18 | When Worlds Collide | Rudolph Maté | 2613 |
| 19 | Miracle in Milan | Vittorio De Sica | 2790 |
| 20 | The Tales of Hoffmann | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 2830 |
| 21 | Quo Vadis* | Mervyn LeRoy | 2936 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | 7 |
| 2 | High Noon* | Fred Zinnemann | 206 |
| 3 | Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa | 223 |
| 4 | Umberto D. | Vittorio De Sica | 491 |
| 5 | The Quiet Man* | John Ford | 848 |
| 6 | The Life of Oharu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1299 |
| 7 | The Bad and the Beautiful | Vincente Minnelli | 1310 |
| 8 | Forbidden Games | René Clément | 1599 |
| 9 | Limelight | Charles Chaplin | 1773 |
| 10 | Casque d'Or | Jacques Becker | 2367 |
| 11 | Rancho Notorious | Fritz Lang | 2428 |
| 12 | Bend of the River | Anthony Mann | 2494 |
| 13 | Europa '51 | Roberto Rossellini | 2666 |
| 14 | Le Plaisir | Max Ophüls | 2688 |
| 15 | The Lusty Men | Nicholas Ray | 2809 |
| 16 | The Narrow Margin | Richard Fleischer | 3013 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Tokyo Story | Yasujirô Ozu | 78 |
| 2 | Roman Holiday* | William Wyler | 203 |
| 3 | The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 269 |
| 4 | Ugetsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 352 |
| 5 | From Here to Eternity** | Fred Zinnemann | 357 |
| 6 | Shane* | George Stevens | 410 |
| 7 | Mr. Hulot's Holiday | Jacques Tati | 525 |
| 8 | The Band Wagon | Vincente Minnelli | 542 |
| 9 | Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | 544 |
| 10 | The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | 594 |
| 11 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Howard Hawks | 673 |
| 12 | The Earrings of Madame De… | Max Ophüls | 801 |
| 13 | Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | 939 |
| 14 | The Naked Spur | Anthony Mann | 1042 |
| 15 | The War of the Worlds | Byron Haskin | 1053 |
| 16 | Peter Pan | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1290 |
| 17 | Duck Amuck | Chuck Jones | 1783 |
| 18 | House of Wax | André De Toth | 1807 |
| 19 | I Vitelloni | Federico Fellini | 1863 |
| 20 | Invaders from Mars | William Cameron Menzies | 2071 |
| 21 | The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | 2126 |
| 22 | Calamity Jane | David Butler | 2197 |
| 23 | The Cruel Sea | Charles Frend | 2350 |
| 24 | Kiss Me Kate | George Sidney | 2605 |
| 25 | Little Fugitive | Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, and Ruth Orkin | 2691 |
| 26 | The Wild One | Laslo Benedek | 2702 |
| 27 | The Robe* | Henry Koster | 2811 |
| 28 | It Came from Outer Space | Jack Arnold | 2861 |
| 29 | The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | Eugène Lourié | 2869 |
| 30 | How to Marry a Millionaire | Jean Negulesco | 2937 |
| 31 | Monika | Ingmar Bergman | 3048 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 24 |
| 2 | Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | 37 |
| 3 | On the Waterfront** | Elia Kazan | 79 |
| 4 | La Strada | Federico Fellini | 366 |
| 5 | Godzilla | Ishirô Honda | 400 |
| 6 | Sansho the Bailiff | Kenji Mizoguchi | 414 |
| 7 | A Star Is Born | George Cukor | 453 |
| 8 | Johnny Guitar | Nicholas Ray | 477 |
| 9 | Voyage in Italy | Roberto Rossellini | 833 |
| 10 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea | Richard Fleischer | 950 |
| 11 | Dial M for Murder | Alfred Hitchcock | 1101 |
| 12 | Them! | Gordon Douglas | 1217 |
| 13 | Sabrina | Billy Wilder | 1240 |
| 14 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers* | Stanley Donen | 1392 |
| 15 | Carmen Jones | Otto Preminger | 1438 |
| 16 | The Caine Mutiny* | Edward Dmytryk | 1451 |
| 17 | White Christmas | Michael Curtiz | 1610 |
| 18 | Senso | Luchino Visconti | 1700 |
| 19 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | Jack Arnold | 1859 |
| 20 | Vera Cruz | Robert Aldrich | 2159 |
| 21 | Touchez pas au grisbi | Jacques Becker | 2380 |
| 22 | The Crucified Lovers | Kenji Mizoguchi | 2758 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
