Best black and white films ever

[DaisyDukesAuntie]

I am trying to compile a list of black and white films to watch. I love black and white film - care to share recommendations?

My personal favourite is Brief Encounter.

No, that's Spellbound. Suspicion is Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. Both Hitchcock, as are The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes. That man was a genius.

A good few of the early Powell and Pressburger films are black and white, I think, although Michael Powell used colour film as often as he could get it. I Know Where I'm Going is a particular favourite of mine.

Casablanca, Some Like it Hot, Brief Encounter and Kind Hearts and Coronets are my all-time favourites. Also Manhattan, though that’s b&w as an artistic choice rather than because of its age (1979).

Now Voyager
The Card
Barnacle Bill
The Shop around the corner
Have you found Talking Pictures TV yet? 😁

All of the above! Plus:
His Girl Friday
Notorious
The Big Sleep
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Farewell My Lovely
Build my Gallows High
Billy Liar
Arsenic and Old Lace
Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Nosferatu
Children of Paradise
Breathless
Bicycle Thieves
Sunset Boulevard

King Kong- the original from the 1930s
The Artist
High Noon
Cape Fear- original

The start of The Wizard of Oz!

I love the old Alfred Hitchcock films, TV series repeated on one of the channels. Also old Twilight Zone episodes.

Lots of great British films like Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Classic ones already mentioned so won't repeat them.

The Apartment and The Third Man. Both great films

Bicycle Thieves
A Man Escaped

Young Frankenstein
Dinner for one
School for Scoundrels
The Elephant Man
Dead men don't wear Plaid
Sunset boulevard
All about eve
Old St. Trinians films
Will Hay films
Laurel and Hardy - Babes in Toyland, Sons of the Desert, Another fine mess...

The Haunting

Ice Cold in Alex. 39 steps..It's A Wonderful Life.. Psycho ,Anthony Perkins.I'm old you see,born 1950, I remember the days pre TV, used to go to the cinema, occasionally..

David Lean's Great Expectations

Powell and Pressburgers WW11 epic A matter of life and death. There is some technicolour at key moments tho
Beautiful haunting meditation on mortality grief and the mystery of love that can conquer all
Some scenes are rendered to allow us to imagine the terrible loss of young life that generation faced . Yet there is humor and a love story. I must have watched this movie 10 times and each time I interpret it differently
Oh and did I mention it has David Niven as the ultimate handsome brave and stoic airman? Sigh
Highly recommend

Ice cold in Alex

and a new black and white film called Hundreds of Beavers (yes, really)

Dial M for Murder
Audrey Hepburn films, especially Sabrina (with Humphrey Bogart).

This Happy Breed
In Which We Serve
Blithe Spirit

Kind Hearts and Coronets is one of the best films ever.
On the Waterfront - watched recently
Key Largo
Roman Holiday
Some Like it Hot

Pretty sure Dial M for Murder is in colour.

The Ghost and Mrs Muir.

I always wanted to live near the sea and Mrs Muir’s house looked lovely.

Thought it was somewhere in the UK and then found it was built especially for the film in the US.

Dial M is definitely colour. I saw it the other day. Grace Kelly was truly stunning

It's a fabulous film. Grace Kelly is so watchable.

A Streetcar Named Desire
The original Cape Fear - Robert Mitchum is so menacing!

The Young Frankenstein for Halloween!
L'Enfant du Paradis - it's v long but sweeping and romantic.

Don't Talk to Strange Men

Knock on any door