Cinema is an ever-changing medium.
The fact that technical progress is the most evident should not make anyone forget how important the progress around the narrative aspect of the movie is. Cinema always moves forward, but in order to do that it has to convincingly find new ways to tell its stories.
Sure, certain types of storytelling have always been profitable (boy meets girl, hero fights a villain, and so on), but only the movies that push the envelope storytelling-wise are able to keep cinema fresh and engaging. This is true for the more experimental and audacious auteurs, but also for commercial filmmakers, who need to find interesting ways to tell their stories again and again.
This list looks at ten films in cinema history whose storytelling style has proven to be hugely influential and also set a new standard for the way cinema tells its stories.
