**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Jaws* | Steven Spielberg | 23 |
2 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest** | Milos Forman | 38 |
3 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 111 |
4 | Nashville* | Robert Altman | 121 |
5 | Dog Day Afternoon* | Sidney Lumet | 208 |
6 | Barry Lyndon* | Stanley Kubrick | 231 |
7 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Jim Sharman | 386 |
8 | Jeanne Dielman | Chantal Akerman | 408 |
9 | The Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | 498 |
10 | Grey Gardens | Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer | 670 |
11 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | Peter Weir | 718 |
12 | The Man Who Would be King | John Huston | 764 |
13 | The Passenger | Michelangelo Antonioni | 833 |
14 | Salò | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 928 |
15 | The Travelling Players | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1024 |
16 | Deep Red | Dario Argento | 1049 |
17 | Rollerball | Norman Jewison | 1079 |
18 | Love and Death | Woody Allen | 1088 |
19 | Dersu Uzala | Akira Kurosawa | 1224 |
20 | Three Days of the Condor | Sydney Pollack | 1378 |
21 | Xala | Ousmane Sembene | 1514 |
22 | Night Moves | Arthur Penn | 1666 |
23 | Seven Beauties | Lina Wertmüller | 1721 |
24 | The Battle of Chile: Part 1 | Patricio Guzmán | 1808 |
25 | Shampoo | Hal Ashby | 1871 |
26 | Tommy | Ken Russell | 2098 |
27 | India song | Marguerite Duras | 2151 |
28 | Sholay | Ramesh Sippy | 2266 |
29 | Fox and His Friends | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 2282 |
30 | Shivers | David Cronenberg | 2366 |
31 | A Boy and His Dog | L.Q. Jones | 2722 |
32 | The Promised Land | Andrzej Wajda | 2793 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Taxi Driver* | Martin Scorsese | 14 |
2 | Rocky** | John G. Avildsen | 125 |
3 | Network* | Sidney Lumet | 182 |
4 | Carrie | Brian De Palma | 278 |
5 | All the President's Men* | Alan J. Pakula | 290 |
6 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | Clint Eastwood | 558 |
7 | In the Realm of the Senses | Nagisa Ôshima | 589 |
8 | Harlan County, U.S.A. | Barbara Kopple | 598 |
9 | The Omen | Richard Donner | 637 |
10 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nicolas Roeg | 765 |
11 | The Bad News Bears | Michael Ritchie | 976 |
12 | Assault on Precinct 13 | John Carpenter | 989 |
13 | The Tenant | Roman Polanski | 1034 |
14 | The Shootist | Don Siegel | 1110 |
15 | The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | John Cassavetes | 1402 |
16 | Marathon Man | John Schlesinger | 1403 |
17 | Kings of the Road | Wim Wenders | 1545 |
18 | Logan's Run | Michael Anderson | 1580 |
19 | 1900 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1600 |
20 | Bugsy Malone | Alan Parker | 1649 |
21 | Cría Cuervos | Carlos Saura | 1710 |
22 | The Battle of Chile: Part 2 | Patricio Guzmán | 1884 |
23 | The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | John Badham | 2373 |
24 | Silver Streak | Arthur Hiller | 2791 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Star Wars* | George Lucas | 6 |
2 | Annie Hall** | Woody Allen | 20 |
3 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | 120 |
4 | Eraserhead | David Lynch | 220 |
5 | Suspiria | Dario Argento | 302 |
6 | Saturday Night Fever | John Badham | 587 |
7 | Slap Shot | George Roy Hill | 801 |
8 | Opening Night | John Cassavetes | 1242 |
9 | That Obscure Object of Desire | Luis Buñuel | 1273 |
10 | 21 Up | Michael Apted | 1290 |
11 | The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | 1531 |
12 | Cross of Iron | Sam Peckinpah | 1606 |
13 | Pumping Iron | George Butler and Robert Fiore | 1617 |
14 | The American Friend | Wim Wenders | 1688 |
15 | 3 Women | Robert Altman | 1706 |
16 | Sorcerer | William Friedkin | 1747 |
17 | A Special Day | Ettore Scola | 1835 |
18 | Ceddo | Ousmane Sembene | 1866 |
19 | The Spy Who Loved Me | Lewis Gilbert | 2017 |
20 | A Bridge Too Far | Richard Attenborough | 2099 |
21 | Stroszek | Werner Herzog | 2138 |
22 | Martin | George A. Romero | 2358 |
23 | The Goodbye Girl* | Herbert Ross | 2426 |
24 | Man of Marble | Andrzej Wajda | 2432 |
25 | The Rescuers | John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Art Stevens | 2586 |
26 | The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman | 2625 |
27 | Julia* | Fred Zinnemann | 2713 |
28 | Smokey and the Bandit | Hal Needham | 2792 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Deer Hunter** | Michael Cimino | 110 |
2 | Halloween | John Carpenter | 150 |
3 | Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick | 221 |
4 | Superman | Richard Donner | 275 |
5 | Dawn of the Dead | George A. Romero | 307 |
6 | Animal House | John Landis | 360 |
7 | Grease | Randal Kleiser | 365 |
8 | Killer of Sheep | Charles Burnett | 370 |
9 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Philip Kaufman | 483 |
10 | The Last Waltz | Martin Scorsese | 896 |
11 | The Tree of Wooden Clogs | Ermanno Olmi | 1096 |
12 | Gates of Heaven | Errol Morris | 1236 |
13 | Heaven Can Wait* | Warren Beatty and Buck Henry | 1262 |
14 | Watership Down | Martin Rosen | 1316 |
15 | Autumn Sonata | Ingmar Bergman | 1409 |
16 | Midnight Express* | Alan Parker | 1703 |
17 | The Driver | Walter Hill | 1959 |
18 | In a Year of 13 Moons | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 2043 |
19 | La Cage aux Folles | Edouard Molinaro | 2111 |
20 | Coming Home* | Hal Ashby | 2194 |
21 | Blue Collar | Paul Schrader | 2314 |
22 | The Lord of the Rings | Ralph Bakshi | 2599 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Apocalypse Now* | Francis Ford Coppola | 8 |
2 | Alien | Ridley Scott | 16 |
3 | Manhattan | Woody Allen | 117 |
4 | Life of Brian | Terry Jones | 156 |
5 | Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 222 |
6 | All That Jazz* | Bob Fosse | 486 |
7 | Being There | Hal Ashby | 554 |
8 | Breaking Away* | Peter Yates | 622 |
9 | Mad Max | George Miller | 671 |
10 | The Jerk | Carl Reiner | 704 |
11 | Kramer vs. Kramer** | Robert Benton | 714 |
12 | The Warriors | Walter Hill | 720 |
13 | The Muppet Movie | James Frawley | 723 |
14 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 819 |
15 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | 966 |
16 | The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | 980 |
17 | The Brood | David Cronenberg | 1132 |
18 | North Dallas Forty | Ted Kotcheff | 1570 |
19 | Norma Rae* | Martin Ritt | 1578 |
20 | Rocky II | Sylvester Stallone | 1686 |
21 | Hair | Milos Forman | 1746 |
22 | The Black Stallion | Carroll Ballard | 1763 |
23 | Quadrophenia | Franc Roddam | 1907 |
24 | The Battle of Chile: Part 3 | Patricio Guzmán | 2015 |
25 | Phantasm | Don Coscarelli | 2039 |
26 | Escape from Alcatraz | Don Siegel | 2107 |
27 | My Brilliant Career | Gillian Armstrong | 2251 |
28 | The Castle of Cagliostro | Hayao Miyazaki | 2576 |
29 | The In-Laws | Arthur Hiller | 2584 |
30 | The China Syndrome | James Bridges | 2588 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.