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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 113 films in this list available on Apple TV US.

  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • The General
  • Sherlock Jr.
  • Jules and Jim
  • Citizen Kane
  • Wings of Desire
  • The Shop Around the Corner
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Freaks
  • Vivre Sa Vie
  • High and Low
  • A Place in the Sun
  • Ed Wood
  • Ida
  • His Girl Friday
  • Now, Voyager
  • Modern Times
  • Ivan's Childhood
  • 12 Angry Men
  • The Apartment
  • Godzilla
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Ace in the Hole
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • Laura
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Roman Holiday
  • Gaslight
  • It Happened One Night
  • Late Spring
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • Elevator to the Gallows
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • Andrei Rublev
  • Bringing Up Baby
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Sabrina
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Strangers on a Train
  • The Children's Hour
  • Metropolis
  • Repulsion
  • La Strada
  • The Great Dictator
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • City Lights
  • A Man Escaped
  • Embrace of the Serpent
  • Paper Moon
  • Casablanca
  • The Last Picture Show
  • La Jetée
  • Breathless
  • All About Eve
  • Raging Bull
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Woman in the Dunes
  • Diabolique
  • Seconds
  • The Cremator
  • Gilda
  • The Third Man
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • On the Waterfront
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • The Seventh Seal
  • Brute Force
  • The Wages of Fear
  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Umberto D.
  • In a Lonely Place
  • Paths of Glory
  • Persona
  • Sweet Smell of Success
  • The ion of Joan of Arc
  • 8½
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Pickpocket
  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Seven Samurai
  • Yojimbo
  • Psycho
  • The 400 Blows
  • The Trial
  • Black Girl
  • Winter Light
  • La Haine
  • The Lighthouse
  • Hour of the Wolf
  • Onibaba
  • Nights of Cabiria
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Touch of Evil
  • Double Indemnity
  • Ikiru
  • Wild Strawberries
  • L'Eclisse
  • The Girl with the Needle