Best Black & White Films by Title
2604
1180
1972
unknown
Rusty Sachs, Joe Bangert, Scott Shimabukuro, Kenneth Campbell, Scott Camil
Documentary / War
USA
English
2387
1083
1936
Alfred Santell
Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, Maurice Moscovitch
Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2589
1175
1914
Maurice Tourneur
Vivian Martin, Alec B. Francis, Chester Barnett, Gyp Williams
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2815
1290
1930
unknown
Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
2762
1257
1929
Aloha Wanderwell
Aloha Wanderwell, Walter Wanderwell
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2762
1257
1938
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herbert Kline
Documentary / War
USA
English
1838
812
1920
Oscar Micheaux
Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2813
1289
1923
Frank Lloyd
Norma Talmadge, Lew Cody, DeWitt Jennings, Lionel Belmore, Ward Crane
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2813
1289
1945
Harold S. Bucquet
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2696
1223
1948
Alberto Lattuada
Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Pierre Claudé, Giulietta Masina
Drama / Romance / War
Italy
Italian
927
419
1957
Billy Wilder
Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
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
2685
1219
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
1353
601
1941
George Waggner
Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
2794
1275
1957
Jirí Weiss
Jana Brejchová, Jirina Sejbalová, Miroslav Dolezal
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2696
1223
1915
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Inslee, Marta Golden, Margie Reiger
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2813
1289
1918
Maurice Tourneur
Warren Cook, Florence Billings, Ethel Hallor, Henry West, Flora Revalles
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2813
1289
1928
Henry King, Sam Taylor
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent, Boris de Fast, Michael Vavitch
Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2696
1223
1934
Archie Gottler
Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Marjorie White, Walter Brennan
Comedy / Musical / Short
USA
English
2779
1266
1957
J. Lee Thompson
Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Andrew Ray
Drama
UK
English
405
203
1964
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
1112
498
1944
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2696
1223
1928
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2143
957
1923
Charles Chaplin
Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K. French
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2813
1289
1926
Josef von Sternberg
Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Charles K. French, Eve Southern, Gayne Whitman
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2813
1289
1925
Malcolm St. Clair
Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert, Blanche Mehaffey, Chester Conklin
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
645
308
1942
George Stevens
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2798
1278
1947
Jean Renoir
Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2813
1289
1950
Norman Foster
Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2813
1289
1929
Curtis Bernhardt
Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, Uno Henning
Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2696
1223
1923
Graham Cutts
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Josephine Earle, Marie Ault, Myrtle Peter
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English (Silent)
2777
1264
2016
Lav Diaz
Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz, Michael De Mesa, Nonie Buencamino
Drama
Philippines
Filipino
2813
1289
1925
Gregory La Cava
Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Cora Williams, Olive Tell
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2612
1186
1948
Zoltan Korda
Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick
Drama / Crime
USA
English
489
241
1939
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2807
1286
1993
Ray Müller
Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Walter Frentz, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess
Documentary / Biography / History / War
France / UK / Germany / Belgium
German
2809
1287
1929
Hanns Schwarz
Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan, Harry Hardt
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2554
1154
1984
Jim Brown
Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2696
1223
1922
Phil Rosen
Wallace Reid, Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Henry Miller Jr., Helen Dunbar
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
745
348
1971
Dusan Makavejev
Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg
Drama / Comedy / Fantasy
Yugoslavia / West Germany
Serbo-Croatian
2813
1289
1914
Reginald Barker
Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Kisaburo Kurihara, Henry Kotani
Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
1014
455
1956
Alfred Hitchcock
Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold Stone
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir
USA
English
354
183
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2698
1224
1954
Luis Buñuel
Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado, Ernesto Alonso
Drama / Romance
Mexico
Spanish
2696
1223
1938
Jack Conway
Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh, Edmund Gwenn
Drama / Comedy / Sports
UK
English
2696
1223
1941
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
323
170
1942
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
2306
1030
1937
Weibang Ma-Xu
Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jin, Chao Shi, Wenzhu Zhou
Horror
China
Mandarin
2698
1224
1948
William A. Wellman
Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell
Western
USA
English
2747
1249
1959
Val Guest
Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson, David Oxley, Richard Pasco
War / Drama / Action
UK
English
2612
1186
1936
Joseph Green, Jan Nowina-Przybylski
Molly Picon, Leon Liebgold, Simche Fostel, Max Bozyk, Dora Fakiel, A. Lewin
Comedy / Musical / Romance
Poland / USA
Yiddish
2747
1249
1956
J. Lee Thompson
Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Marie Ney, Olga Lindo, Joan Miller
Drama / Crime
UK
English
384
197
1961
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2813
1289
2009
Aviva Kempner
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gertrude Berg, Lewis Berg, Sara Chase, Viola Harris
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2798
1278
1938
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey
Drama / Comedy / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2798
1278
1981
Sara Driver
Suzanne Fletcher, Evelyn Smith, Luc Sante
Horror / Drama
USA
English
2612
1186
1939
George Marshall, Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgwick
W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Constance Moore, John Arledge
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1399
624
1938
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2813
1289
1948
H.C. Potter
Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1477
658
1937
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Pre-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2234
999
1942
William A. Seiter
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2581
1172
2017
Lynne Ramsay
Joaquin Phoenix, Dante Pereira-Olson, Larry Canady, Vinicius Damasceno, Neo Randall
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Detective
UK / France
English
2813
1289
1937
Alfred Hitchcock
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Crime / Thriller / Romance
UK
English
2746
1248
1961
Phil Karlson
Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert
Drama
USA
English
2696
1223
1938
Harold S. Bucquet
Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Jo Ann Sayers
Drama
USA
English
534
260
1974
Mel Brooks
Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
1921
854
1938
Richard Wallace
Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1414
632
1958
Edward Dmytryk
Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt
Drama / War
USA
English
2698
1224
1950
Michael Curtiz
Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
567
273
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2107
938
1960
Luis Buñuel
Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton
Drama / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2813
1289
1922
Phil Rosen
Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field
Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2199
986
1928
Edgar Kennedy
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge, Chet Brandenburg, Christian J. Frank
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2612
1186
1934
Erle C. Kenton
W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter
Comedy
USA
English
2474
1118
2015
Paolo Sorrentino
Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda, Mark Kozelek
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France / Switzerland / UK
English
2696
1223
1952
Aleksander Ford
Czeslaw Wollejko, Zbigniew Lobodzinski, J. Nieweglowski, Jerzy Duszynski
Drama / Music
Poland
Polish
2746
1248
1935
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2696
1223
1930
Francisco Camacho
Pio Baroja, Ricardo Baroja, Maria Luz Callejo, Andrés Carranque de los Rios
Action / Adventure
Spain
Spanish (Silent)
1809
797
1983
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Buckwalter, Patrick Horgan
Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
189
106
1933
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
2813
1289
1957
Hall Bartlett
Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch
Thriller / Drama / Action / Cult
USA
English
2312
1033
1933
Rowland V. Lee
Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, Wally Albright
Romance / Drama
USA
English
1345
596
1964
Michael Cacoyannis
Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance
USA / UK / Greece
English
2813
1289
1939
John English, William Witney
Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova, Edmund Cobb
Western / Adventure / Action / Cult / Serial / Family
USA
English
2689
1221
1928
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2746
1248
1930
Erich Waschneck
Charlotte Susa, Gustav Fröhlich, Friedrich Kayßler
Drama / Religion
Germany
German
