To be perfect is to be without a flaw. It's an old truism that nobody's perfect. Though there are very absolute standards for perfection in some areas, perfection can also be a subjective thing.
Are there films without flaws? This article hopes to provide an affirmative answer to that question. However, the reader should know that perfection can also relate to what a film's ultimate idea or goal was, and how the elements put together all contributed to making the notion of perfection possible for these films. Film history is full of pictures that were compromised, flawed by miscalculation, or were the victims of caprices of fate.
The films appearing on this list, happily, were finished as their creators wished and those wishes, in the opinion of very many, were proven to be correct. Not all were big hits and many readers may argue about some components of some of these entries. However, in this quite subjective opinion, here are 10 choices for cinematic perfection.
