**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | 8 1/2 | Federico Fellini | 66 |
2 | The Birds | Alfred Hitchcock | 209 |
3 | The Great Escape | John Sturges | 263 |
4 | The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | 265 |
5 | Contempt | Jean-Luc Godard | 388 |
6 | The Haunting | Robert Wise | 413 |
7 | The Servant | Joseph Losey | 669 |
8 | This Sporting Life | Lindsay Anderson | 681 |
9 | From Russia with Love | Terence Young | 742 |
10 | Charade | Stanley Donen | 806 |
11 | Jason and the Argonauts | Don Chaffey | 807 |
12 | Winter Light | Ingmar Bergman | 809 |
13 | Hud | Martin Ritt | 850 |
14 | Tom Jones** | Tony Richardson | 870 |
15 | High and Low | Akira Kurosawa | 899 |
16 | Shock Corridor | Samuel Fuller | 932 |
17 | The Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | 1018 |
18 | The Nutty Professor | Jerry Lewis | 1114 |
19 | The Silence | Ingmar Bergman | 1166 |
20 | Cleopatra* | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1393 |
21 | Billy Liar | John Schlesinger | 1547 |
22 | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | Stanley Kramer | 1669 |
23 | Flaming Creatures | Jack Smith | 1727 |
24 | The Fire within | Louis Malle | 1753 |
25 | The House Is Black | Forugh Farrokhzad | 1792 |
26 | The Damned | Joseph Losey | 1918 |
27 | Blood Feast | Herschell Gordon Lewis | 1925 |
28 | Not on Your Life | Luis García Berlanga | 1966 |
29 | Barren Lives | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | 1992 |
30 | Bye Bye Birdie | George Sidney | 2118 |
31 | Muriel | Alain Resnais | 2231 |
32 | An Actor's Revenge | Kon Ichikawa | 2362 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* | Stanley Kubrick | 10 |
2 | A Hard Day's Night | Richard Lester | 199 |
3 | Goldfinger | Guy Hamilton | 241 |
4 | Mary Poppins* | Robert Stevenson | 256 |
5 | My Fair Lady** | George Cukor | 277 |
6 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Jacques Demy | 340 |
7 | A Fistful of Dollars | Sergio Leone | 525 |
8 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 590 |
9 | Woman in the Dunes | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 711 |
10 | Zulu | Cy Endfield | 744 |
11 | Band of Outsiders | Jean-Luc Godard | 835 |
12 | I Am Cuba | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 893 |
13 | Gertrud | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 924 |
14 | Charulata | Satyajit Ray | 1016 |
15 | Scorpio Rising | Kenneth Anger | 1128 |
16 | Onibaba | Kaneto Shindô | 1143 |
17 | The Red Desert | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1202 |
18 | Black God and White Devil | Glauber Rocha | 1253 |
19 | The Train | John Frankenheimer | 1289 |
20 | Kwaidan | Masaki Kobayashi | 1297 |
21 | A Shot in the Dark | Blake Edwards | 1334 |
22 | Marnie | Alfred Hitchcock | 1369 |
23 | Seven Up! | Paul Almond | 1493 |
24 | Fail-Safe | Sidney Lumet | 1562 |
25 | The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | 1729 |
26 | The Naked Kiss | Samuel Fuller | 1770 |
27 | The Masque of the Red Death | Roger Corman | 1868 |
28 | Seven Days in May | John Frankenheimer | 1963 |
29 | Zorba the Greek* | Michael Cacoyannis | 2163 |
30 | Nothing but a Man | Michael Roemer | 2374 |
31 | Dog Star Man: Part IV | Stan Brakhage | 2384 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Sound of Music** | Robert Wise | 121 |
2 | Doctor Zhivago* | David Lean | 288 |
3 | Repulsion | Roman Polanski | 350 |
4 | Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc Godard | 480 |
5 | Alphaville | Jean-Luc Godard | 551 |
6 | Chimes at Midnight | Orson Welles | 707 |
7 | For a Few Dollars More | Sergio Leone | 799 |
8 | The Ipcress File | Sidney J. Furie | 930 |
9 | The Shop on Main Street | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | 978 |
10 | Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | Russ Meyer | 1043 |
11 | Loves of a Blonde | Milos Forman | 1151 |
12 | Red Beard | Akira Kurosawa | 1220 |
13 | The War Game | Peter Watkins | 1238 |
14 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | Sergei Parajanov | 1410 |
15 | Juliet of the Spirits | Federico Fellini | 1575 |
16 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Martin Ritt | 1670 |
17 | Thunderball | Terence Young | 1969 |
18 | Tokyo Olympiad | Kon Ichikawa | 1980 |
19 | Darling* | John Schlesinger | 1997 |
20 | Fist in His Pocket | Marco Bellocchio | 2122 |
21 | Cat Ballou | Elliot Silverstein | 2199 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Sergio Leone | 69 |
2 | Persona | Ingmar Bergman | 136 |
3 | The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | 145 |
4 | Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky | 175 |
5 | Blow-Up | Michelangelo Antonioni | 247 |
6 | Au hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | 398 |
7 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?* | Mike Nichols | 432 |
8 | Closely Watched Trains | Jirí Menzel | 570 |
9 | A Man for All Seasons** | Fred Zinnemann | 667 |
10 | Seconds | John Frankenheimer | 941 |
11 | Alfie* | Lewis Gilbert | 1141 |
12 | War and Peace | Sergey Bondarchuk | 1298 |
13 | Fahrenheit 451 | François Truffaut | 1346 |
14 | Daisies | Vera Chytilová | 1389 |
15 | Fantastic Voyage | Richard Fleischer | 1444 |
16 | The Endless Summer | Bruce Brown | 1551 |
17 | Chelsea Girls | Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol | 1554 |
18 | A Man and a Woman | Claude Lelouch | 1573 |
19 | Masculine Feminine | Jean-Luc Godard | 1599 |
20 | Black Girl | Ousmane Sembene | 1767 |
21 | The Professionals | Richard Brooks | 1781 |
22 | Django | Sergio Corbucci | 2100 |
23 | The Shooting | Monte Hellman | 2241 |
24 | Tokyo Drifter | Seijun Suzuki | 2414 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.