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How to fall in love with B&W movies

“They don’t want to see a black and white movie, but you gonna have to, and I promise, ten minutes into the picture, they don’t know whether it’s black and white or color, they are into the movie, and when it’s over, they are raving about it”

 — Steven Spielberg.

This is my first list in this style, I don't know if it's a good start but I hope it's somehow encouraging for some who want to start exploring more black and white or classic movies.

Many people end up not getting black and white movies a chance because they think it's too tedious or unrealistic because of the time, which is actually the complete opposite, when we talk about…

Block or Report
  • The White Ribbon
  • Schindler's List
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Brief Encounter
  • Wild Strawberries
  • Ikiru
  • Double Indemnity
  • Nights of Cabiria
  • La Haine
  • Le Trou
  • The Trial
  • The 400 Blows
  • Psycho
  • Yojimbo
  • Seven Samurai
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • 8½
  • The ion of Joan of Arc
  • Sweet Smell of Success
  • Persona
  • Paths of Glory
  • The Wages of Fear
  • The Seventh Seal
  • Seconds
  • Woman in the Dunes
  • Rebecca
  • All About Eve
  • Breathless
  • Casablanca
  • A Man Escaped
  • La Dolce Vita
  • Metropolis
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Sabrina
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Bringing Up Baby
  • It Happened One Night
  • Gaslight
  • Roman Holiday
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Ace in the Hole
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • The Apartment
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Ivan's Childhood
  • Vivre Sa Vie
  • Freaks
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • The Shop Around the Corner
  • Citizen Kane
  • Sherlock Jr.
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • The Last Picture Show
  • La Strada
  • L'Eclisse
  • His Girl Friday
  • Strangers on a Train
  • The Innocents
  • Touch of Evil
  • Umberto D.
  • The Third Man
  • Modern Times
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • Eraserhead
  • Raging Bull
  • Godzilla
  • Onibaba
  • The Most Dangerous Game
  • Ed Wood
  • In a Lonely Place
  • Diabolique
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • Now, Voyager
  • The Ascent
  • Andrei Rublev
  • High and Low
  • City Lights
  • Paper Moon
  • La Notte
  • Winter Light
  • The Lighthouse
  • Embrace of the Serpent
  • The Cranes Are Flying
  • Funeral Parade of Roses
  • Repulsion
  • The Great Dictator
  • Sawdust and Tinsel
  • Cold War
  • Ida
  • Laura
  • The Invisible Man
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • Roma
  • Pi
  • M
  • The Cremator