**—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 | 74 |
2 | The Great Escape | John Sturges | 234 |
3 | The Birds | Alfred Hitchcock | 251 |
4 | The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | 293 |
5 | Contempt | Jean-Luc Godard | 371 |
6 | The Haunting | Robert Wise | 497 |
7 | High and Low | Akira Kurosawa | 662 |
8 | The Servant | Joseph Losey | 824 |
9 | From Russia with Love | Terence Young | 856 |
10 | Winter Light | Ingmar Bergman | 872 |
11 | Jason and the Argonauts | Don Chaffey | 877 |
12 | Hud | Martin Ritt | 911 |
13 | This Sporting Life | Lindsay Anderson | 977 |
14 | Charade | Stanley Donen | 1007 |
15 | Tom Jones** | Tony Richardson | 1043 |
16 | Shock Corridor | Samuel Fuller | 1060 |
17 | Scorpio Rising | Kenneth Anger | 1122 |
18 | The Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | 1143 |
19 | The Nutty Professor | Jerry Lewis | 1269 |
20 | The Silence | Ingmar Bergman | 1318 |
21 | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | Stanley Kramer | 1476 |
22 | Cleopatra* | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1654 |
23 | Billy Liar | John Schlesinger | 1678 |
24 | The House Is Black | Forugh Farrokhzad | 1870 |
25 | Flaming Creatures | Jack Smith | 1880 |
26 | The Fire within | Louis Malle | 1915 |
27 | Not on Your Life | Luis García Berlanga | 2210 |
28 | Barren Lives | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | 2386 |
29 | America, America* | Elia Kazan | 2421 |
30 | Dog Star Man: Part II | Stan Brakhage | 2482 |
31 | Blood Feast | Herschell Gordon Lewis | 2554 |
32 | Black Sabbath | Mario Bava and Salvatore Billitteri | 2564 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb* | Stanley Kubrick | 12 |
2 | Goldfinger | Guy Hamilton | 244 |
3 | Mary Poppins* | Robert Stevenson | 267 |
4 | A Hard Day's Night | Richard Lester | 270 |
5 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Jacques Demy | 298 |
6 | My Fair Lady** | George Cukor | 322 |
7 | A Fistful of Dollars | Sergio Leone | 383 |
8 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 557 |
9 | Woman in the Dunes | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 667 |
10 | Zulu | Cy Endfield | 825 |
11 | I Am Cuba | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | 965 |
12 | Band of Outsiders | Jean-Luc Godard | 985 |
13 | Gertrud | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1015 |
14 | The Train | John Frankenheimer | 1064 |
15 | Charulata | Satyajit Ray | 1140 |
16 | Kwaidan | Masaki Kobayashi | 1161 |
17 | Seven Up! | Paul Almond | 1196 |
18 | Black God and White Devil | Glauber Rocha | 1197 |
19 | Onibaba | Kaneto Shindô | 1393 |
20 | Marnie | Alfred Hitchcock | 1401 |
21 | The Red Desert | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1415 |
22 | Fail-Safe | Sidney Lumet | 1520 |
23 | A Shot in the Dark | Blake Edwards | 1544 |
24 | The Naked Kiss | Samuel Fuller | 1847 |
25 | Seven Days in May | John Frankenheimer | 2018 |
26 | The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | 2052 |
27 | The Masque of the Red Death | Roger Corman | 2268 |
28 | Dog Star Man: Part IV | Stan Brakhage | 2368 |
29 | Becket* | Peter Glenville | 2409 |
30 | Dog Star Man: Part III | Stan Brakhage | 2506 |
31 | Blood and Black Lace | Mario Bava | 2531 |
32 | Zorba the Greek* | Michael Cacoyannis | 2569 |
33 | Nothing but a Man | Michael Roemer | 2654 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Sound of Music** | Robert Wise | 144 |
2 | Repulsion | Roman Polanski | 358 |
3 | Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc Godard | 422 |
4 | Doctor Zhivago* | David Lean | 425 |
5 | For a Few Dollars More | Sergio Leone | 468 |
6 | Alphaville | Jean-Luc Godard | 517 |
7 | Chimes at Midnight | Orson Welles | 858 |
8 | The Ipcress File | Sidney J. Furie | 912 |
9 | The Shop on Main Street | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | 1121 |
10 | Red Beard | Akira Kurosawa | 1225 |
11 | Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! | Russ Meyer | 1278 |
12 | Loves of a Blonde | Milos Forman | 1428 |
13 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | Sergei Parajanov | 1671 |
14 | The Endless Summer | Bruce Brown | 1765 |
15 | Cat Ballou | Elliot Silverstein | 1837 |
16 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Martin Ritt | 1984 |
17 | Fist in His Pocket | Marco Bellocchio | 2081 |
18 | Juliet of the Spirits | Federico Fellini | 2109 |
19 | Tokyo Olympiad | Kon Ichikawa | 2122 |
20 | The Saragossa Manuscript | Wojciech Has | 2291 |
21 | Major Dundee | Sam Peckinpah | 2311 |
22 | Darling* | John Schlesinger | 2458 |
23 | Thunderball | Terence Young | 2535 |
24 | A Charlie Brown Christmas | Bill Melendez | 2640 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Sergio Leone | 44 |
2 | Persona | Ingmar Bergman | 105 |
3 | The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | 145 |
4 | Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky | 160 |
5 | Blow-Up | Michelangelo Antonioni | 246 |
6 | Au hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | 348 |
7 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?* | Mike Nichols | 448 |
8 | Closely Watched Trains | Jirí Menzel | 680 |
9 | Seconds | John Frankenheimer | 817 |
10 | A Man for All Seasons** | Fred Zinnemann | 838 |
11 | Daisies | Vera Chytilová | 1138 |
12 | Fahrenheit 451 | François Truffaut | 1178 |
13 | The War Game | Peter Watkins | 1369 |
14 | Black Girl | Ousmane Sembene | 1379 |
15 | Alfie* | Lewis Gilbert | 1418 |
16 | The Professionals | Richard Brooks | 1480 |
17 | Fantastic Voyage | Richard Fleischer | 1500 |
18 | Django | Sergio Corbucci | 1583 |
19 | Chelsea Girls | Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol | 1717 |
20 | War and Peace | Sergey Bondarchuk | 1776 |
21 | A Man and a Woman | Claude Lelouch | 1955 |
22 | The Shooting | Monte Hellman | 1958 |
23 | Masculine Feminine | Jean-Luc Godard | 2041 |
24 | Kill, Baby...Kill! | Mario Bava | 2250 |
25 | The Face of Another | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 2397 |
26 | The Rise of Louis XIV | Roberto Rossellini | 2477 |
27 | Batman | Leslie H. Martinson | 2556 |
28 | Tokyo Drifter | Seijun Suzuki | 2677 |
29 | Cul-de-sac | Roman Polanski | 2694 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.