- Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles
- The Godfather (1972) - Francis Ford Coppola
- Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz
- Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock
- Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
- Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
- Sunrise (1927) - F.W. Murnau
- The Kid (1921) - Charles Chaplin
- Modern Times (1936) - Charles Chaplin
- The Apartment (1960) - Billy Wilder
- North by Northwest (1959) - Alfred Hitchcock
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - John Huston
- On the Waterfront (1954) - Elia Kazan
- Some Like It Hot (1959) - Billy Wilder
- The Third Man (1949) - Carol Reed
- Rear Window (1954) - Alfred Hitchcock
- All About Eve (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Double Indemnity (1944) - Billy Wilder
- Gone with the Wind (1939) - Victor Fleming
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - David Lean
- The Magnificent Seven (1960) - John Sturges
- High Noon (1952) - Fred Zinnemann
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) - John Huston
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Wearing and Love the Bomb (1964) - Stanley Kubrick
- Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Billy Wilder
- West Side Story (1961) - Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra
- The African Queen (1951) - John Huston
- The Searchers (1956) - John Ford
- Ben-Hur (1959) - William Wyler
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - David Lean
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - John Ford
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Elia Kazan
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) - John Huston
- The Elephant Man (1980) - David Lynch
- Star Wars (1977) - George Lucas
- Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Frank Darabont
- Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quentin Tarantino
- Taxi Driver (1976) - Martin Scorsese
- Goodfellas (1990) - Martin Scorsese
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Steven Spielberg
- Forrest Gump (1994) - Robert Zemeckis
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Steven Spielberg
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Jonathan Demme
- Schindler's List (1993) - Steven Spielberg
- The Green Mile (1999) - Frank Darabont
- The Matrix (1999) - The Wachowski Brothers
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Peter Jackson.
This list is not comprehensive and is just meant to be a starting point.