| 1 . | Adam's Rib (1949) | Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell | score |
| 2 . | Anatomy of a Murder (1959) | James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell | score |
| 3 . | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) | Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy | score |
| 4 . | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) | Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester | score |
| 5 . | Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) | Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich | score |
| 6 . | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) | Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Arthur Franz | score |
| 7 . | Inherit the Wind (1960) | Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York | score |
| 8 . | Boomerang (1947) | Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams | score |
| 9 . | In Cold Blood (1967) | Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, James Flavin | score |
| 10 . | A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Richard Attenborough | score |
| 11 . | 12 Angry Men (1957) | Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall | score |
| 12 . | Libel (1959) | Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Morley, Wilfrid Hyde-White | score |
| 13 . | Trial (1955) | Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak | score |
| 14 . | Evelyn Prentice (1934) | William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel, Rosalind Russell | score |
| 15 . | Sergeant Rutledge (1960) | Jeffrey Hunter, Billie Burke, Woody Strode, Willis Bouchey | score |
| 16 . | Wives Under Suspicion (1938) | Warren William, Gail Patrick, Constance Moore, William Lundigan | score |
| 17 . | Town Without Pity (1961) | Kirk Douglas, E.G. Marshall, Robert Blake, Richard Jaeckel | score |
| 18 . | Winterset (1936) | Burgess Meredith, Eduardo Ciannelli, Paul Guilfoyle, Stanley Ridges | score |
| 19 . | The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) | Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart | score |
| 20 . | The Paradine Case (1947) | Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn | score |
| 21 . | The Trial (1962) | Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli, Orson Welles | score |
| 22 . | Fury (1936) | Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot | score |
| 23 . | The Young Savages (1961) | Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Shelley Winters | score |
| 24 . | The Young Philadelphians (1959) | Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Brian Keith | score |
| 25 . | The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) | Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Lionel Jeffries | score |
| 26 . | Madeleine (1950) | Ann Todd, Leslie Banks, Jean Cadell, Ivor Barnard | score |
| 27 . | Where Love Has Gone (1964) | Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Mike Connors, Jane Greer | score |
This chart uses a weighted rating based on the average rating per film and the number of votes per film.
