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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…

There are 23 films in this list released in the 1940s.

  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Late Spring
  • Brief Encounter
  • The Great Dictator
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Casablanca
  • Double Indemnity
  • The Third Man
  • Citizen Kane
  • The Shop Around the Corner
  • Rebecca
  • Notorious
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Laura
  • His Girl Friday
  • Gaslight
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Now, Voyager
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • Brute Force
  • Gilda