**—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 | 59 |
| 2 | Bonnie and Clyde* | Arthur Penn | 97 |
| 3 | Cool Hand Luke | Stuart Rosenberg | 285 |
| 4 | Playtime | Jacques Tati | 300 |
| 5 | The Producers | Mel Brooks | 309 |
| 6 | Belle de Jour | Luis Buñuel | 317 |
| 7 | Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | 375 |
| 8 | In the Heat of the Night** | Norman Jewison | 464 |
| 9 | The Jungle Book | Wolfgang Reitherman | 474 |
| 10 | Point Blank | John Boorman | 489 |
| 11 | The Dirty Dozen | Robert Aldrich | 566 |
| 12 | Dont Look Back | D.A. Pennebaker | 749 |
| 13 | Titicut Follies | Frederick Wiseman | 920 |
| 14 | Mouchette | Robert Bresson | 1036 |
| 15 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | Jacques Demy | 1193 |
| 16 | In Cold Blood | Richard Brooks | 1250 |
| 17 | Week End | Jean-Luc Godard | 1366 |
| 18 | Wavelength | Michael Snow | 1526 |
| 19 | Two or Three Things I Know about Her | Jean-Luc Godard | 1569 |
| 20 | Quatermass and the Pit | Roy Ward Baker | 1650 |
| 21 | Branded to Kill | Seijun Suzuki | 1769 |
| 22 | Marketa Lazarová | Frantisek Vlácil | 1818 |
| 23 | Samurai Rebellion | Masaki Kobayashi | 1861 |
| 24 | The Firemen's Ball | Milos Forman | 1862 |
| 25 | The Red and the White | Miklós Jancsó | 1939 |
| 26 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* | Stanley Kramer | 2113 |
| 27 | El Dorado | Howard Hawks | 2172 |
| 28 | Hombre | Martin Ritt | 2205 |
| 29 | Bedazzled | Stanley Donen | 2403 |
| 30 | David Holzman's Diary | Jim McBride | 2416 |
| 31 | Portrait of Jason | Shirley Clarke | 2496 |
| 32 | Wait until Dark | Terence Young | 2526 |
| 33 | Terra em Transe | Glauber Rocha | 2647 |
| 34 | La Collectionneuse | Eric Rohmer | 2704 |
| 35 | Will Penny | Tom Gries | 2794 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 3 |
| 2 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Sergio Leone | 58 |
| 3 | Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski | 78 |
| 4 | Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | 113 |
| 5 | Planet of the Apes | Franklin J. Schaffner | 166 |
| 6 | If.... | Lindsay Anderson | 559 |
| 7 | Bullitt | Peter Yates | 627 |
| 8 | Yellow Submarine | George Dunning | 731 |
| 9 | Oliver!** | Carol Reed | 757 |
| 10 | The Odd Couple | Gene Saks | 798 |
| 11 | The Party | Blake Edwards | 908 |
| 12 | Faces | John Cassavetes | 938 |
| 13 | Memories of Underdevelopment | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1002 |
| 14 | Where Eagles Dare | Brian G. Hutton | 1033 |
| 15 | Barbarella | Roger Vadim | 1078 |
| 16 | Funny Girl* | William Wyler | 1137 |
| 17 | Romeo and Juliet* | Franco Zeffirelli | 1398 |
| 18 | The Great Silence | Sergio Corbucci | 1479 |
| 19 | Hour of the Wolf | Ingmar Bergman | 1547 |
| 20 | The Lion in Winter* | Anthony Harvey | 1568 |
| 21 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Ken Hughes | 1622 |
| 22 | High School | Frederick Wiseman | 1730 |
| 23 | The Hour of the Furnaces | Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez | 1762 |
| 24 | Teorema | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1855 |
| 25 | Stolen Kisses | François Truffaut | 1860 |
| 26 | Witchfinder General | Michael Reeves | 1910 |
| 27 | The Thomas Crown Affair | Norman Jewison | 2144 |
| 28 | Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | 2188 |
| 29 | The Swimmer | Frank Perry | 2219 |
| 30 | Head | Bob Rafelson | 2317 |
| 31 | Hell in the Pacific | John Boorman | 2338 |
| 32 | Shame | Ingmar Bergman | 2355 |
| 33 | In the Year of the Pig | Emile de Antonio | 2548 |
| 34 | Danger: Diabolik | Mario Bava | 2660 |
| 35 | Monterey Pop | D.A. Pennebaker | 2680 |
| 36 | The Devil Rides Out | Terence Fisher | 2753 |
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | The Wild Bunch | Sam Peckinpah | 63 |
| 2 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid* | George Roy Hill | 136 |
| 3 | Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | 181 |
| 4 | Midnight Cowboy** | John Schlesinger | 194 |
| 5 | Army in the Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | 388 |
| 6 | Kes | Ken Loach | 478 |
| 7 | Z* | Costa-Gavras | 584 |
| 8 | The Sorrow and the Pity | Marcel Ophüls | 709 |
| 9 | My Night at Maud's | Eric Rohmer | 752 |
| 10 | Salesman | Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin | 906 |
| 11 | The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1125 |
| 12 | True Grit | Henry Hathaway | 1293 |
| 13 | The Italian Job | Peter Collinson | 1447 |
| 14 | The Damned | Luchino Visconti | 1976 |
| 15 | Fellini Satyricon | Federico Fellini | 2023 |
| 16 | Downhill Racer | Michael Ritchie | 2105 |
| 17 | Battle of Britain | Guy Hamilton | 2262 |
| 18 | Women in Love | Ken Russell | 2293 |
| 19 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Peter R. Hunt | 2320 |
| 20 | Antonio das Mortes | Glauber Rocha | 2330 |
| 21 | Take the Money and Run | Woody Allen | 2333 |
| 22 | La Femme Infidèle | Claude Chabrol | 2650 |
| 23 | L'Amour Fou | Jacques Rivette | 2731 |
| 24 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Sydney Pollack | 2809 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
