**—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 | 73 |
| 2 | Bonnie and Clyde* | Arthur Penn | 116 |
| 3 | Cool Hand Luke | Stuart Rosenberg | 308 |
| 4 | Playtime | Jacques Tati | 328 |
| 5 | Belle de Jour | Luis Buñuel | 378 |
| 6 | The Producers | Mel Brooks | 420 |
| 7 | In the Heat of the Night** | Norman Jewison | 437 |
| 8 | Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | 455 |
| 9 | The Dirty Dozen | Robert Aldrich | 537 |
| 10 | The Jungle Book | Wolfgang Reitherman | 566 |
| 11 | Point Blank | John Boorman | 727 |
| 12 | Dont Look Back | D.A. Pennebaker | 910 |
| 13 | In Cold Blood | Richard Brooks | 1020 |
| 14 | Titicut Follies | Frederick Wiseman | 1066 |
| 15 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | Jacques Demy | 1111 |
| 16 | Mouchette | Robert Bresson | 1393 |
| 17 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* | Stanley Kramer | 1517 |
| 18 | Week End | Jean-Luc Godard | 1563 |
| 19 | Wait until Dark | Terence Young | 1737 |
| 20 | Quatermass and the Pit | Roy Ward Baker | 1754 |
| 21 | Samurai Rebellion | Masaki Kobayashi | 1764 |
| 22 | Portrait of Jason | Shirley Clarke | 1962 |
| 23 | Branded to Kill | Seijun Suzuki | 1987 |
| 24 | Wavelength | Michael Snow | 2036 |
| 25 | The Firemen's Ball | Milos Forman | 2123 |
| 26 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | Jean-Luc Godard | 2283 |
| 27 | The Red and the White | Miklós Jancsó | 2352 |
| 28 | Marketa Lazarová | Frantisek Vlácil | 2388 |
| 29 | Terra em Transe | Glauber Rocha | 2420 |
| 30 | Hombre | Martin Ritt | 2609 |
| 31 | To Sir, with Love | James Clavell | 2685 |
| 32 | Barefoot in the Park | Gene Saks | 2772 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
| 2 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Sergio Leone | 76 |
| 3 | Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski | 77 |
| 4 | Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | 102 |
| 5 | Planet of the Apes | Franklin J. Schaffner | 181 |
| 6 | Bullitt | Peter Yates | 741 |
| 7 | If.... | Lindsay Anderson | 850 |
| 8 | Yellow Submarine | George Dunning | 870 |
| 9 | Funny Girl* | William Wyler | 955 |
| 10 | Oliver!** | Carol Reed | 1029 |
| 11 | The Odd Couple | Gene Saks | 1091 |
| 12 | Where Eagles Dare | Brian G. Hutton | 1113 |
| 13 | The Great Silence | Sergio Corbucci | 1366 |
| 14 | The Party | Blake Edwards | 1414 |
| 15 | Memories of Underdevelopment | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1463 |
| 16 | Barbarella | Roger Vadim | 1491 |
| 17 | Faces | John Cassavetes | 1510 |
| 18 | The Lion in Winter* | Anthony Harvey | 1596 |
| 19 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Ken Hughes | 1853 |
| 20 | Romeo and Juliet* | Franco Zeffirelli | 1861 |
| 21 | Stolen Kisses | François Truffaut | 1893 |
| 22 | The Devil Rides Out | Terence Fisher | 1931 |
| 23 | High School | Frederick Wiseman | 1999 |
| 24 | Hour of the Wolf | Ingmar Bergman | 2086 |
| 25 | The Hour of the Furnaces | Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas | 2087 |
| 26 | Monterey Pop | D.A. Pennebaker | 2225 |
| 27 | Teorema | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 2292 |
| 28 | The Swimmer | Frank Perry | 2318 |
| 29 | Witchfinder General | Michael Reeves | 2383 |
| 30 | Shame | Ingmar Bergman | 2480 |
| 31 | The Thomas Crown Affair | Norman Jewison | 2699 |
| 32 | Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One | William Greaves | 2724 |
| 33 | Hell in the Pacific | John Boorman | 2737 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wild Bunch | Sam Peckinpah | 88 |
| 2 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid* | George Roy Hill | 162 |
| 3 | Midnight Cowboy** | John Schlesinger | 280 |
| 4 | Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | 323 |
| 5 | Army in the Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | 424 |
| 6 | Kes | Ken Loach | 576 |
| 7 | The Sorrow and the Pity | Marcel Ophüls | 766 |
| 8 | Z* | Costa-Gavras | 929 |
| 9 | My Night at Maud's | Éric Rohmer | 1034 |
| 10 | Salesman | Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin | 1250 |
| 11 | True Grit | Henry Hathaway | 1343 |
| 12 | The Italian Job | Peter Collinson | 1679 |
| 13 | The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1815 |
| 14 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Peter R. Hunt | 2015 |
| 15 | Funeral Parade of Roses | Toshio Matsumoto | 2053 |
| 16 | Fellini Satyricon | Federico Fellini | 2310 |
| 17 | Take the Money and Run | Woody Allen | 2391 |
| 18 | The Learning Tree | Gordon Parks | 2560 |
| 19 | Downhill Racer | Michael Ritchie | 2653 |
| 20 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Sydney Pollack | 2663 |
| 21 | The Damned | Luchino Visconti | 2704 |
| 22 | Antonio das Mortes | Glauber Rocha | 2754 |
| 23 | Battle of Britain | Guy Hamilton | 2918 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
