10 Key Movies That Every Cinephile Needs to Have Watched

It is hard work being a cinephile. There are just so many great movies out there. Even if you watch everything under the sun on TCM, there will still be the odd classic of French cinema you haven't seen. As with any lists, there is no definitive list to what is necessary to watch. In a span of over a 100 years of movie making, from the Lumiere Brothers to Christopher Nolan, there has to be roughly a million films that have been released and thousands of classics among the bunch. To include them all is a pointless endeavor. The films on the list are all influential on its own right. Each one provides a seminal moment in the art of cinema in which it changed the landscape and the way people looked at films. In order not to incite a heated debate in the comment section about the ordering, these films appear in chronological order by release date.