**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Graduate* | Mike Nichols | 38 |
| 2 | Bonnie and Clyde* | Arthur Penn | 41 |
| 3 | Belle de Jour | Luis Buñuel | 261 |
| 4 | In the Heat of the Night** | Norman Jewison | 319 |
| 5 | Playtime | Jacques Tati | 351 |
| 6 | Cool Hand Luke | Stuart Rosenberg | 362 |
| 7 | Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | 535 |
| 8 | The Jungle Book | Wolfgang Reitherman | 545 |
| 9 | Week End | Jean-Luc Godard | 552 |
| 10 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* | Stanley Kramer | 564 |
| 11 | Dont Look Back | D.A. Pennebaker | 630 |
| 12 | The Dirty Dozen | Robert Aldrich | 632 |
| 13 | Point Blank | John Boorman | 710 |
| 14 | War and Peace | Sergei Bondarchuk | 734 |
| 15 | In Cold Blood | Richard Brooks | 781 |
| 16 | Two for the Road | Stanley Donen | 1143 |
| 17 | Wavelength | Michael Snow | 1168 |
| 18 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | Jean-Luc Godard | 1243 |
| 19 | Mouchette | Robert Bresson | 1293 |
| 20 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | Jacques Demy | 1331 |
| 21 | The Firemen's Ball | Milos Forman | 1381 |
| 22 | Barefoot in the Park | Gene Saks | 1415 |
| 23 | The Red and the White | Miklós Jancsó | 1491 |
| 24 | Wait until Dark | Terence Young | 1553 |
| 25 | Bedazzled | Stanley Donen | 1682 |
| 26 | David Holzman's Diary | Jim McBride | 1767 |
| 27 | How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying | David Swift | 2145 |
| 28 | You Only Live Twice | Lewis Gilbert | 2237 |
| 29 | Titicut Follies | Frederick Wiseman | 2321 |
| 30 | Hombre | Martin Ritt | 2421 |
| 31 | Quatermass and the Pit | Roy Ward Baker | 2424 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 4 |
| 2 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Sergio Leone | 136 |
| 3 | Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | 168 |
| 4 | The Producers | Mel Brooks | 217 |
| 5 | Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski | 255 |
| 6 | Planet of the Apes | Franklin J. Schaffner | 279 |
| 7 | Funny Girl* | William Wyler | 516 |
| 8 | If.… | Lindsay Anderson | 533 |
| 9 | Oliver!** | Carol Reed | 559 |
| 10 | Faces | John Cassavetes | 706 |
| 11 | The Lion in Winter* | Anthony Harvey | 720 |
| 12 | Bullitt | Peter Yates | 746 |
| 13 | Romeo and Juliet* | Franco Zeffirelli | 809 |
| 14 | The Conqueror Worm | Michael Reeves | 812 |
| 15 | Barbarella | Roger Vadim | 820 |
| 16 | Salesman | Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin | 914 |
| 17 | Yellow Submarine | George Dunning | 924 |
| 18 | Stolen Kisses | François Truffaut | 964 |
| 19 | The Odd Couple | Gene Saks | 972 |
| 20 | The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1077 |
| 21 | Memories of Underdevelopment | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1132 |
| 22 | Shame | Ingmar Bergman | 1194 |
| 23 | The Thomas Crown Affair | Norman Jewison | 1247 |
| 24 | Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | 1254 |
| 25 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Ken Hughes | 1262 |
| 26 | Petulia | Richard Lester | 1330 |
| 27 | High School | Frederick Wiseman | 1653 |
| 28 | Teorema | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1669 |
| 29 | The Love Bug | Robert Stevenson | 1680 |
| 30 | The Hour of the Furnaces | Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez | 1685 |
| 31 | Where Eagles Dare | Brian G. Hutton | 1786 |
| 32 | Hour of the Wolf | Ingmar Bergman | 1908 |
| 33 | Carry On... Up the Khyber | Gerald Thomas | 1913 |
| 34 | The Party | Blake Edwards | 2097 |
| 35 | Hell in the Pacific | John Boorman | 2288 |
| 36 | Lucía | Humberto Solás | 2344 |
| 37 | Head | Bob Rafelson | 2408 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wild Bunch | Sam Peckinpah | 51 |
| 2 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid* | George Roy Hill | 100 |
| 3 | Midnight Cowboy** | John Schlesinger | 120 |
| 4 | Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | 161 |
| 5 | Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky | 200 |
| 6 | Z* | Costa-Gavras | 483 |
| 7 | The Italian Job | Peter Collinson | 494 |
| 8 | The Sorrow and the Pity | Marcel Ophüls | 502 |
| 9 | Kes | Ken Loach | 510 |
| 10 | Women in Love | Ken Russell | 851 |
| 11 | Medium Cool | Haskell Wexler | 1012 |
| 12 | My Night at Maud's | Eric Rohmer | 1023 |
| 13 | True Grit | Henry Hathaway | 1108 |
| 14 | A Touch of Zen | King Hu | 1282 |
| 15 | La Femme Infidèle | Claude Chabrol | 1347 |
| 16 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Sydney Pollack | 1502 |
| 17 | Fellini Satyricon | Federico Fellini | 1532 |
| 18 | The Army in the Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1554 |
| 19 | Downhill Racer | Michael Ritchie | 1776 |
| 20 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Ronald Neame | 1881 |
| 21 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Peter R. Hunt | 1912 |
| 22 | Antonio das Mortes | Glauber Rocha | 1918 |
| 23 | Take the Money and Run | Woody Allen | 2089 |
| 24 | Sweet Charity | Bob Fosse | 2147 |
| 25 | Boy | Nagisa Oshima | 2454 |
**--Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*--Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
