**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci | 229 |
2 | M*A*S*H* | Robert Altman | 248 |
3 | Patton** | Franklin J. Schaffner | 291 |
4 | Performance | Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg | 576 |
5 | Five Easy Pieces* | Bob Rafelson | 581 |
6 | Little Big Man | Arthur Penn | 620 |
7 | Le Cercle rouge | Jean-Pierre Melville | 656 |
8 | El Topo | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 780 |
9 | Woodstock | Michael Wadleigh | 805 |
10 | Gimme Shelter | Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin | 830 |
11 | Love Story* | Arthur Hiller | 1209 |
12 | Le Boucher | Claude Chabrol | 1218 |
13 | Claire's Knee | Eric Rohmer | 1367 |
14 | Seven Plus Seven | Michael Apted | 1431 |
15 | The Railway Children | Lionel Jeffries | 1546 |
16 | Catch-22 | Mike Nichols | 1796 |
17 | Wanda | Barbara Loden | 1881 |
18 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Vittorio De Sica | 2042 |
19 | Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion | Elio Petri | 2048 |
20 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Russ Meyer | 2055 |
21 | The Boys in the Band | William Friedkin | 2124 |
22 | Kelly's Heroes | Brian G. Hutton | 2135 |
23 | The Wild Child | François Truffaut | 2141 |
24 | Tristana | Luis Buñuel | 2224 |
25 | Deep End | Jerzy Skolimowski | 2247 |
26 | Husbands | John Cassavetes | 2615 |
27 | Zabriskie Point | Michelangelo Antonioni | 2624 |
28 | The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | Dario Argento | 2783 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | A Clockwork Orange* | Stanley Kubrick | 24 |
2 | The French Connection** | William Friedkin | 172 |
3 | Harold and Maude | Hal Ashby | 199 |
4 | Dirty Harry | Don Siegel | 206 |
5 | The Last Picture Show* | Peter Bogdanovich | 287 |
6 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | 288 |
7 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | Mel Stuart | 416 |
8 | Get Carter | Mike Hodges | 564 |
9 | Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman | 716 |
10 | Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | Melvin Van Peebles | 730 |
11 | Death in Venice | Luchino Visconti | 778 |
12 | Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg | 853 |
13 | Klute | Alan J. Pakula | 880 |
14 | Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | 915 |
15 | THX-1138 | George Lucas | 944 |
16 | Duel | Steven Spielberg | 953 |
17 | Shaft | Gordon Parks | 993 |
18 | The Devils | Ken Russell | 1082 |
19 | A Touch of Zen | King Hu | 1265 |
20 | Fiddler on the Roof* | Norman Jewison | 1277 |
21 | Bananas | Woody Allen | 1477 |
22 | Duck, You Sucker | Sergio Leone | 1676 |
23 | Brian's Song | Buzz Kulik | 1693 |
24 | The Andromeda Strain | Robert Wise | 2011 |
25 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | John Schlesinger | 2211 |
26 | W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism | Dusan Makavejev | 2236 |
27 | Vanishing Point | Richard C. Sarafian | 2305 |
28 | Out 1 | Jacques Rivette | 2336 |
29 | Play Misty for Me | Clint Eastwood | 2387 |
30 | Carnal Knowledge | Mike Nichols | 2423 |
31 | Wake in Fright | Ted Kotcheff | 2561 |
32 | Punishment Park | Peter Watkins | 2756 |
33 | A New Leaf | Elaine May | 2772 |
34 | Murmur of the Heart | Louis Malle | 2777 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Godfather** | Francis Ford Coppola | 1 |
2 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | Werner Herzog | 151 |
3 | Cabaret* | Bob Fosse | 224 |
4 | Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | 227 |
5 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Luis Buñuel | 316 |
6 | Deliverance* | John Boorman | 404 |
7 | Last Tango in Paris | Bernardo Bertolucci | 451 |
8 | Pink Flamingos | John Waters | 520 |
9 | Cries and Whispers* | Ingmar Bergman | 550 |
10 | Fat City | John Huston | 964 |
11 | What's Up, Doc? | Peter Bogdanovich | 1038 |
12 | Silent Running | Douglas Trumbull | 1056 |
13 | Jeremiah Johnson | Sydney Pollack | 1155 |
14 | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1344 |
15 | Sleuth | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1430 |
16 | The Harder They Come | Perry Henzell | 1460 |
17 | The Last House on the Left | Wes Craven | 1483 |
18 | Play It Again, Sam | Herbert Ross | 1754 |
19 | Ulzana's Raid | Robert Aldrich | 1760 |
20 | Fritz the Cat | Ralph Bakshi | 1782 |
21 | Super Fly | Gordon Parks Jr. | 1830 |
22 | The Getaway | Sam Peckinpah | 1920 |
23 | Frenzy | Alfred Hitchcock | 2062 |
24 | Sounder* | Martin Ritt | 2154 |
25 | Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill | 2286 |
26 | The Poseidon Adventure | Ronald Neame | 2402 |
27 | Deep Throat | Gerard Damiano | 2424 |
28 | Chloe in the Afternoon | Eric Rohmer | 2529 |
29 | Sisters | Brian De Palma | 2587 |
30 | The Heartbreak Kid | Elaine May | 2592 |
31 | Return of the Dragon | Bruce Lee | 2761 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Exorcist* | William Friedkin | 88 |
2 | Don't Look Now | Nicolas Roeg | 165 |
3 | Badlands | Terrence Malick | 228 |
4 | Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese | 249 |
5 | The Wicker Man | Robin Hardy | 255 |
6 | The Sting** | George Roy Hill | 294 |
7 | The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor Erice | 352 |
8 | American Graffiti* | George Lucas | 362 |
9 | Amarcord | Federico Fellini | 367 |
10 | Day for Night | François Truffaut | 467 |
11 | Enter the Dragon | Robert Clouse | 481 |
12 | Sleeper | Woody Allen | 499 |
13 | The Long Goodbye | Robert Altman | 508 |
14 | F for Fake | Orson Welles | 640 |
15 | The Mother and the Whore | Jean Eustache | 692 |
16 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | Sam Peckinpah | 712 |
17 | Fantastic Planet | René Laloux | 728 |
18 | Serpico | Sidney Lumet | 767 |
19 | Westworld | Michael Crichton | 909 |
20 | Papillon | Franklin J. Schaffner | 948 |
21 | High Plains Drifter | Clint Eastwood | 1017 |
22 | Soylent Green | Richard Fleischer | 1040 |
23 | Paper Moon | Peter Bogdanovich | 1200 |
24 | The Holy Mountain | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1202 |
25 | The Way We Were | Sydney Pollack | 1502 |
26 | The Last Detail | Hal Ashby | 1553 |
27 | Bang the Drum Slowly | John D. Hancock | 1554 |
28 | The Day of the Jackal | Fred Zinnemann | 1573 |
29 | O Lucky Man! | Lindsay Anderson | 1942 |
30 | Robin Hood | Wolfgang Reitherman | 2117 |
31 | Touki Bouki | Djibril Diop Mambéty | 2134 |
32 | World on a Wire | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 2240 |
33 | Charley Varrick | Don Siegel | 2515 |
34 | The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Peter Yates | 2606 |
35 | Jesus Christ Superstar | Norman Jewison | 2622 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Godfather: Part II** | Francis Ford Coppola | 18 |
2 | Chinatown* | Roman Polanski | 21 |
3 | The Conversation* | Francis Ford Coppola | 162 |
4 | Blazing Saddles | Mel Brooks | 192 |
5 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Tobe Hooper | 216 |
6 | Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks | 268 |
7 | A Woman under the Influence | John Cassavetes | 356 |
8 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 430 |
9 | Celine & Julie Go Boating | Jacques Rivette | 631 |
10 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Joseph Sargent | 761 |
11 | Dark Star | John Carpenter | 897 |
12 | Scenes from a Marriage | Ingmar Bergman | 950 |
13 | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah | 1097 |
14 | The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | Werner Herzog | 1141 |
15 | The Longest Yard | Robert Aldrich | 1214 |
16 | Hearts and Minds | Peter Davis | 1346 |
17 | Alice in the Cities | Wim Wenders | 1375 |
18 | The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | 1411 |
19 | Phantom of the Paradise | Brian De Palma | 1565 |
20 | Female Trouble | John Waters | 1759 |
21 | Edvard Munch | Peter Watkins | 1787 |
22 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Martin Scorsese | 1792 |
23 | The Phantom of Liberty | Luis Buñuel | 1799 |
24 | Black Christmas | Bob Clark | 1968 |
25 | We All Loved Each Other So Much | Ettore Scola | 1985 |
26 | Death Wish | Michael Winner | 1991 |
27 | Lenny* | Bob Fosse | 2114 |
28 | Lacombe Lucien | Louis Malle | 2116 |
29 | The Towering Inferno* | John Guillermin and Irwin Allen | 2306 |
30 | Foxy Brown | Jack Hill | 2512 |
31 | Murder on the Orient Express | Sidney Lumet | 2597 |
32 | Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August | Lina Wertmüller | 2700 |
33 | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | Michael Cimino | 2734 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.