With so many movies released in a given year, it's hard to remember that the format is a true art form. Morphing sound and movement, and colliding music and ideas, film is truly one of the most important creations throughout time. For entertainment value and to put life itself in a microcosm, there are many things that film represents for everyone.
With that being said, with so many works, only a percentage of those really last in the mind of scholars and publications, and even with that small percentage, even fewer are looked at as masterpieces, and are repeatedly taught to others as a true testament to the idea of what film really is.
As hard as it is to say what makes a film something more than just a passing of time, these are 10 films that have lasted over the decades and are still seen as an essential viewing for any fan.
