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.

Night of the Demon
Now Voyager
All About Eve
Casablanca
Schindler's List
Manhattan
Raging Bull
Anything in B/W by Kurosawa or Bergman
Psycho and anything b/W by Hitchcock
Persepolis
Anything by Lean or Wilder
Nebraska
Sunset Boulevard
Nosferatu
Anything by the great French directors: Bresson, Godard etc

Ice Cold in Alex

A Patch of Blue

Casablanca
The Lady Vanishes
Arsenic and Old Lace
To Kill a Mockingbird
Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films
The Ladykillers
It's a Wonderful Life

Oh I forgot Some Like it Hot! Well, nobody's perfect 😉

Another vote for The Ghost and Mrs Muir.. absolutely amazing,
Rear window also .. black and white vision makes these movies so atmospheric

Oh and The Univited - my Nan loved this and I managed to get it on DVD and we watched it before she passed away

This x a million . My all time favourite movie.

Room at the Top with Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret. Love that film.

Papillon

Kind of Loving is another one

I like the social history aspect and love the writing of Stan Barstow

I've never seen 'The Lady Vanishes', but have read the novel it was based on, 'The Wheel Spins' by Ethel Lina White. I'll stick that one on my own list!

For me this would include:

Most work by Eisenstein or G W Pabst, especially Secrets of a Soul
Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Big yes to The Maltese Falcon
The Prowler
Borderline (the 1930 one)
Metropolis
Julie (Doris Day film)

I was going to say This Happy Breed, but just checked and it's in colour. Worth watching, though.

Think most of mine have been mentioned -
Casablanca, The Third Man, Great Expectations etc.

Almost anything with Bette Davis or Humphrey Bogart
Stagecoach - John Wayne's first major starring role and an absolute classic of the genre.
The Blue Lamp - another classic.
Pimpernel Smith with Leslie Howard - updated version of The Scarlet Pimpernel, in which LH starred.
Night train to Munich - similar premise, with Rex Harrison.
Millions Like Us, film about women in WW2
The Gentle Sex - docudrama narrated by Leslie Howard, also about women in WW2.
The Way to the Stars - in which John Mills recites 'For Johnny'.
Dambusters

Night of the Hunter (shiver!!)

I married a witch.- Veronica lake stars.

Early Sherlock holmes films

Day the earth stood still

Marx brothers films.- a night at the opera is the best.
The early carry on’s are black and white.

The Magnificent Ambersons and Waterloo Bridge are two of my favourites.

The Third Man.

Whatever happened to Baby Jane

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

Yield to the Night. Diana Dors is incredible in it. A criminally underrated actor.

Jean Vigo's L'Atalante

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024844/?ref_=ext_shr

(Available on YouTube)

Any of the Ealing films, and the ghost and Mrs Muir are my favourites. I also like the 60s films kitchen sink dramas I think they were called.

Just coming back to thank everyone for all these suggestions. Perfect watching now that the evenings seem so long.

I've just starts watching the list of films I collated from this thread and all your replies.

Kind Hearts and Coronets - OMG so good!!!

One of the few 100% films on RottenTomatoes. And so well deserved.