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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…

  • 12 Angry Men
  • Seven Samurai
  • High and Low
  • Schindler's List
  • Ikiru
  • La Haine
  • Le Trou
  • Woman in the Dunes
  • Paths of Glory
  • Andrei Rublev
  • The Apartment
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • The Cranes Are Flying
  • The ion of Joan of Arc
  • The Ascent
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Persona
  • Nights of Cabiria
  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • Sherlock Jr.
  • Paper Moon
  • All About Eve
  • Ordet
  • A Man Escaped
  • The Wages of Fear
  • Late Spring
  • City Lights
  • The Seventh Seal
  • Wild Strawberries
  • La Jetée
  • Brief Encounter
  • The Great Dictator
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • Funeral Parade of Roses
  • Psycho
  • The 400 Blows
  • Wings of Desire
  • M
  • Yojimbo
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • 8½
  • La Notte
  • The Cremator
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • La Dolce Vita
  • Casablanca
  • Ace in the Hole
  • Modern Times
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Double Indemnity
  • Metropolis
  • The Third Man
  • Umberto D.
  • Winter Light
  • Sweet Smell of Success
  • Raging Bull
  • The White Ribbon
  • Embrace of the Serpent
  • The Last Picture Show
  • The General
  • In a Lonely Place
  • Citizen Kane
  • Ivan's Childhood
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • Diabolique
  • La Strada
  • The Shop Around the Corner
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Touch of Evil
  • Roman Holiday
  • On the Waterfront
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • It Happened One Night
  • My Night at Maud's
  • Seconds
  • Rebecca
  • The Innocents
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • The Children's Hour
  • Elevator to the Gallows
  • Roma
  • The Big Heat
  • Notorious
  • Onibaba
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • Black Girl
  • Strangers on a Train
  • Godzilla
  • The Trial
  • Ed Wood
  • Cold War
  • Laura
  • Ida
  • His Girl Friday
  • Vivre Sa Vie