**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 2 |
2 | The Apartment** | Billy Wilder | 62 |
3 | Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | 65 |
4 | La Dolce Vita | Federico Fellini | 86 |
5 | L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | 195 |
6 | Peeping Tom | Michael Powell | 232 |
7 | Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick | 254 |
8 | The Magnificent Seven | John Sturges | 273 |
9 | Eyes without a Face | Georges Franju | 406 |
10 | Rocco and His Brothers | Luchino Visconti | 727 |
11 | Shoot the Piano Player | François Truffaut | 807 |
12 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Karel Reisz | 982 |
13 | The Virgin Spring | Ingmar Bergman | 1003 |
14 | Black Sunday | Mario Bava | 1246 |
15 | Village of the Damned | Wolf Rilla | 1268 |
16 | The Time Machine | George Pal | 1281 |
17 | Le Trou | Jacques Becker | 1352 |
18 | Purple Noon | René Clément | 1695 |
19 | Inherit the Wind | Stanley Kramer | 1859 |
20 | Two Women | Vittorio De Sica | 1986 |
21 | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | Mikio Naruse | 2127 |
22 | Elmer Gantry* | Richard Brooks | 2148 |
23 | Primary | Robert Drew | 2166 |
24 | The Cloud-Capped Star | Ritwik Ghatak | 2481 |
25 | The Little Shop of Horrors | Roger Corman | 2671 |
26 | Wild River | Elia Kazan | 2696 |
27 | The Fall of the House of Usher | Roger Corman | 2768 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | West Side Story** | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | 118 |
2 | The Hustler* | Robert Rossen | 301 |
3 | Yojimbo | Akira Kurosawa | 328 |
4 | Viridiana | Luis Buñuel | 332 |
5 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Blake Edwards | 359 |
6 | Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais | 392 |
7 | The Innocents | Jack Clayton | 442 |
8 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman | 755 |
9 | Judgment at Nuremberg* | Stanley Kramer | 1055 |
10 | Splendor in the Grass | Elia Kazan | 1233 |
11 | The Misfits | John Huston | 1286 |
12 | The Guns of Navarone* | J. Lee Thompson | 1303 |
13 | One-Eyed Jacks | Marlon Brando | 1319 |
14 | La Notte | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1400 |
15 | Chronicle of a Summer | Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch | 1510 |
16 | One, Two, Three | Billy Wilder | 1540 |
17 | Accattone | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1631 |
18 | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer | Masaki Kobayashi | 1669 |
19 | Through a Glass Darkly | Ingmar Bergman | 1770 |
20 | Victim | Basil Dearden | 1846 |
21 | Il Posto | Ermanno Olmi | 2153 |
22 | The Parent Trap | David Swift | 2195 |
23 | A Raisin in the Sun | Daniel Petrie | 2335 |
24 | Lola | Jacques Demy | 2509 |
25 | El Cid | Anthony Mann | 2544 |
26 | Divorce - Italian Style | Pietro Germi | 2621 |
27 | A Taste of Honey | Tony Richardson | 2726 |
28 | A Woman Is a Woman | Jean-Luc Godard | 2766 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Lawrence of Arabia** | David Lean | 19 |
2 | To Kill a Mockingbird* | Robert Mulligan | 100 |
3 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | John Ford | 178 |
4 | Jules and Jim | François Truffaut | 201 |
5 | The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | 214 |
6 | La Jetée | Chris Marker | 350 |
7 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | Agnès Varda | 461 |
8 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Robert Aldrich | 488 |
9 | L'Eclisse | Michelangelo Antonioni | 596 |
10 | The Exterminating Angel | Luis Buñuel | 613 |
11 | My Life to Live | Jean-Luc Godard | 628 |
12 | Ride the High Country | Sam Peckinpah | 684 |
13 | Dr. No | Terence Young | 742 |
14 | Harakiri | Masaki Kobayashi | 754 |
15 | Knife in the Water | Roman Polanski | 799 |
16 | Ivan's Childhood | Andrei Tarkovsky | 818 |
17 | Lolita | Stanley Kubrick | 823 |
18 | Carnival of Souls | Herk Harvey | 887 |
19 | The Longest Day* | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki | 923 |
20 | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Tony Richardson | 932 |
21 | The Music Man* | Morton DaCosta | 1114 |
22 | An Autumn Afternoon | Yasujirô Ozu | 1187 |
23 | Cape Fear | J. Lee Thompson | 1237 |
24 | The Trial | Orson Welles | 1244 |
25 | The Miracle Worker | Arthur Penn | 1368 |
26 | How the West Was Won* | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall | 1530 |
27 | Lonely Are the Brave | David Miller | 1704 |
28 | Sanjuro | Akira Kurosawa | 1921 |
29 | Advise & Consent | Otto Preminger | 1981 |
30 | Days of Wine and Roses | Blake Edwards | 1998 |
31 | Salvatore Giuliano | Francesco Rosi | 2068 |
32 | Prelude: Dog Star Man | Stan Brakhage | 2241 |
33 | Le Doulos | Jean-Pierre Melville | 2248 |
34 | Il Sorpasso | Dino Risi | 2384 |
35 | The Damned | Joseph Losey | 2430 |
36 | Dog Star Man: Part I | Stan Brakhage | 2499 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.