**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 9 |
| 2 | Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | 77 |
| 3 | La Dolce Vita | Federico Fellini | 134 |
| 4 | The Apartment** | Billy Wilder | 147 |
| 5 | L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | 189 |
| 6 | Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick | 198 |
| 7 | Peeping Tom | Michael Powell | 287 |
| 8 | The Magnificent Seven | John Sturges | 404 |
| 9 | Shoot the Piano Player | François Truffaut | 596 |
| 10 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Karel Reisz | 743 |
| 11 | Eyes without a Face | Georges Franju | 756 |
| 12 | Rocco and His Brothers | Luchino Visconti | 769 |
| 13 | The Virgin Spring | Ingmar Bergman | 901 |
| 14 | Black Sunday | Mario Bava | 1014 |
| 15 | Inherit the Wind | Stanley Kramer | 1094 |
| 16 | The Time Machine | George Pal | 1216 |
| 17 | Village of the Damned | Wolf Rilla | 1234 |
| 18 | Two Women | Vittorio De Sica | 1351 |
| 19 | Elmer Gantry* | Richard Brooks | 1565 |
| 20 | The Cloud-Capped Star | Ritwik Ghatak | 1675 |
| 21 | Swiss Family Robinson | Ken Annakin | 1714 |
| 22 | Tunes of Glory | Ronald Neame | 1720 |
| 23 | The Bellboy | Jerry Lewis | 2029 |
| 24 | Never on Sunday | Jules Dassin | 2044 |
| 25 | The Entertainer | Tony Richardson | 2129 |
| 26 | Ocean's Eleven | Lewis Milestone | 2174 |
| 27 | The Alamo* | John Wayne | 2267 |
| 28 | Primary | Robert Drew | 2270 |
| 29 | The Sundowners* | Fred Zinnemann | 2289 |
| 30 | Le Trou | Jacques Becker | 2295 |
| 31 | The Testament of Orpheus | Jean Cocteau | 2447 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | West Side Story** | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 84 |
| 2 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Blake Edwards | 163 |
| 3 | The Hustler* | Robert Rossen | 216 |
| 4 | Viridiana | Luis Buñuel | 304 |
| 5 | Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais | 382 |
| 6 | Yojimbo | Akira Kurosawa | 384 |
| 7 | Splendor in the Grass | Elia Kazan | 640 |
| 8 | The Guns of Navarone* | J. Lee Thompson | 885 |
| 9 | The Innocents | Jack Clayton | 899 |
| 10 | Judgment at Nuremberg* | Stanley Kramer | 920 |
| 11 | A Raisin in the Sun | Daniel Petrie | 1082 |
| 12 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman | 1187 |
| 13 | El Cid | Anthony Mann | 1192 |
| 14 | Lola | Jacques Demy | 1215 |
| 15 | La Notte | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1301 |
| 16 | One, Two, Three | Billy Wilder | 1395 |
| 17 | Victim | Basil Dearden | 1555 |
| 18 | Divorce - Italian Style | Pietro Germi | 1568 |
| 19 | Accattone | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1687 |
| 20 | Through a Glass Darkly | Ingmar Bergman | 1706 |
| 21 | A Taste of Honey | Tony Richardson | 1727 |
| 22 | Chronicle of a Summer | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch | 1769 |
| 23 | The Misfits | John Huston | 1868 |
| 24 | Pit and the Pendulum | Roger Corman | 1931 |
| 25 | Whistle Down the Wind | Bryan Forbes | 1945 |
| 26 | One-Eyed Jacks | Marlon Brando | 1952 |
| 27 | King of Kings | Nicholas Ray | 2036 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Lawrence of Arabia** | David Lean | 8 |
| 2 | To Kill a Mockingbird* | Robert Mulligan | 57 |
| 3 | The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | 93 |
| 4 | Jules and Jim | François Truffaut | 154 |
| 5 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | John Ford | 294 |
| 6 | The Longest Day* | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 536 |
| 7 | Knife in the Water | Roman Polanski | 620 |
| 8 | Dr. No | Terence Young | 624 |
| 9 | The Exterminating Angel | Luis Buñuel | 655 |
| 10 | Ride the High Country | Sam Peckinpah | 672 |
| 11 | La Jetée | Chris Marker | 687 |
| 12 | Lolita | Stanley Kubrick | 695 |
| 13 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Robert Aldrich | 792 |
| 14 | The Eclipse | Michelangelo Antonioni | 794 |
| 15 | The Music Man* | Morton DaCosta | 825 |
| 16 | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Tony Richardson | 832 |
| 17 | Long Day's Journey into Night | Sidney Lumet | 837 |
| 18 | My Life to Live | Jean-Luc Godard | 966 |
| 19 | Carnival of Souls | Herk Harvey | 1020 |
| 20 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | Agnès Varda | 1070 |
| 21 | The Miracle Worker | Arthur Penn | 1117 |
| 22 | Days of Wine and Roses | Blake Edwards | 1336 |
| 23 | How the West Was Won* | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1489 |
| 24 | An Autumn Afternoon | Yasujiro Ozu | 1525 |
| 25 | Cape Fear | J. Lee Thompson | 1549 |
| 26 | Lonely Are the Brave | David Miller | 1552 |
| 27 | Salvatore Giuliano | Francesco Rosi | 1567 |
| 28 | Ivan's Childhood | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1948 |
| 29 | Sanjuro | Akira Kurosawa | 2008 |
| 30 | Requiem for a Heavyweight | Ralph Nelson | 2026 |
| 31 | Winter Light | Ingmar Bergman | 2047 |
| 32 | The Trial | Orson Welles | 2160 |
| 33 | Harakiri | Masaki Kobayashi | 2218 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
