Best Black & White Films by Title

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Rating
Title
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2692
1222
1948
Alberto Lattuada
Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Pierre Claudé, Giulietta Masina
Drama / Romance / War
Italy
Italian
4.5 Stars
926
419
1957
Billy Wilder
Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
40
23
1939
Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley
Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2681
1218
2013
Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley
Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical / Cult
USA
English
4 Stars
1351
601
1941
George Waggner
Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2790
1274
1957
Jirí Weiss
Jana Brejchová, Jirina Sejbalová, Miroslav Dolezal
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2.5 Stars
2692
1222
1915
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Inslee, Marta Golden, Margie Reiger
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1918
Maurice Tourneur
Warren Cook, Florence Billings, Ethel Hallor, Henry West, Flora Revalles
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1928
Henry King, Sam Taylor
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent, Boris de Fast, Michael Vavitch
Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
1222
1934
Archie Gottler
Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Marjorie White, Walter Brennan
Comedy / Musical / Short
USA
English
Rating
Title
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2775
1265
1957
J. Lee Thompson
Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Andrew Ray
Drama
UK
English
5 Stars
405
203
1964
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
4 Stars
1112
498
1944
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
1222
1928
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
3 Stars
2141
956
1923
Charles Chaplin
Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K. French
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1926
Josef von Sternberg
Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Charles K. French, Eve Southern, Gayne Whitman
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1925
Malcolm St. Clair
Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert, Blanche Mehaffey, Chester Conklin
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
645
308
1942
George Stevens
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2794
1277
1947
Jean Renoir
Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1950
Norman Foster
Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1929
Curtis Bernhardt
Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, Uno Henning
Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
1222
1923
Graham Cutts
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Josephine Earle, Marie Ault, Myrtle Peter
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2773
1263
2016
Lav Diaz
Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz, Michael De Mesa, Nonie Buencamino
Drama
Philippines
Filipino
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1925
Gregory La Cava
Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Cora Williams, Olive Tell
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2608
1185
1948
Zoltan Korda
Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick
Drama / Crime
USA
English
5 Stars
489
241
1939
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2803
1285
1993
Ray Müller
Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Walter Frentz, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess
Documentary / Biography / History / War
France / UK / Germany / Belgium
German
2.5 Stars
2805
1286
1929
Hanns Schwarz
Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan, Harry Hardt
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2550
1153
1984
Jim Brown
Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
1222
1922
Phil Rosen
Wallace Reid, Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Henry Miller Jr., Helen Dunbar
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
744
348
1971
Dusan Makavejev
Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg
Drama / Comedy / Fantasy
Yugoslavia / West Germany
Serbo-Croatian
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1914
Reginald Barker
Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Kisaburo Kurihara, Henry Kotani
Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1013
455
1956
Alfred Hitchcock
Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold Stone
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir
USA
English
5 Stars
354
183
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2694
1223
1954
Luis Buñuel
Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado, Ernesto Alonso
Drama / Romance
Mexico
Spanish
2.5 Stars
2692
1222
1938
Jack Conway
Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh, Edmund Gwenn
Drama / Comedy / Sports
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2692
1222
1941
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
323
170
1942
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2304
1029
1937
Weibang Ma-Xu
Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jin, Chao Shi, Wenzhu Zhou
Horror
China
Mandarin
2.5 Stars
2742
1247
1936
Andre Sofame
M. O. Williams
Documentary
France
French
2.5 Stars
2694
1223
1948
William A. Wellman
Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell
Western
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2743
1248
1959
Val Guest
Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson, David Oxley, Richard Pasco
War / Drama / Action
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2608
1185
1936
Joseph Green, Jan Nowina-Przybylski
Molly Picon, Leon Liebgold, Simche Fostel, Max Bozyk, Dora Fakiel, A. Lewin
Comedy / Musical / Romance
Poland / USA
Yiddish
2.5 Stars
2743
1248
1956
J. Lee Thompson
Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Marie Ney, Olga Lindo, Joan Miller
Drama / Crime
UK
English
5 Stars
384
197
1961
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
2009
Aviva Kempner
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gertrude Berg, Lewis Berg, Sara Chase, Viola Harris
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2794
1277
1938
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey
Drama / Comedy / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2794
1277
1981
Sara Driver
Suzanne Fletcher, Evelyn Smith, Luc Sante
Horror / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2608
1185
1939
George Marshall, Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgwick
W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Constance Moore, John Arledge
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1397
624
1938
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1948
H.C. Potter
Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1475
658
1937
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Pre-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2232
998
1942
William A. Seiter
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2577
1171
2017
Lynne Ramsay
Joaquin Phoenix, Dante Pereira-Olson, Larry Canady, Vinicius Damasceno, Neo Randall
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Detective
UK / France
English
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1937
Alfred Hitchcock
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Crime / Thriller / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2742
1247
1961
Phil Karlson
Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
1222
1938
Harold S. Bucquet
Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Jo Ann Sayers
Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
534
260
1974
Mel Brooks
Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1919
853
1938
Richard Wallace
Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1412
632
1958
Edward Dmytryk
Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2694
1223
1950
Michael Curtiz
Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
567
273
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
3 Stars
2105
937
1960
Luis Buñuel
Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton
Drama / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1922
Phil Rosen
Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field
Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1933
Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2197
985
1928
Edgar Kennedy
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge, Chet Brandenburg, Christian J. Frank
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2608
1185
1934
Erle C. Kenton
W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter
Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2470
1117
2015
Paolo Sorrentino
Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda, Mark Kozelek
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France / Switzerland / UK
English
2.5 Stars
2692
1222
1952
Aleksander Ford
Czeslaw Wollejko, Zbigniew Lobodzinski, J. Nieweglowski, Jerzy Duszynski
Drama / Music
Poland
Polish
2.5 Stars
2742
1247
1935
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2692
1222
1930
Francisco Camacho
Pio Baroja, Ricardo Baroja, Maria Luz Callejo, Andrés Carranque de los Rios
Action / Adventure
Spain
Spanish (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1808
797
1983
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Buckwalter, Patrick Horgan
Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
5 Stars
189
106
1933
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1957
Hall Bartlett
Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch
Thriller / Drama / Action / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2790
1274
1963
Jirí Weiss
Josef Bek
Fantasy
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2.5 Stars
2310
1032
1933
Rowland V. Lee
Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, Wally Albright
Romance / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
1256
1975
Zora Lathan
Experimental / Short
USA
English
4 Stars
1343
596
1964
Michael Cacoyannis
Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance
USA / UK / Greece
English
2.5 Stars
2809
1288
1939
John English, William Witney
Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova, Edmund Cobb
Western / Adventure / Action / Cult / Serial / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2685
1220
1928
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2742
1247
1930
Erich Waschneck
Charlotte Susa, Gustav Fröhlich, Friedrich Kayßler
Drama / Religion
Germany
German
Rating
Title
Starring
Genre
Country
Language