The best black and white movies

97 movies

1. Casablanca1943
2. Citizen Kane1941
3. Psycho1960
4. 12 Angry Men1957
5. It's a Wonderful Life1946
6. Schindler's List1993
7. Some Like It Hot1959
8. Sunset Boulevard1950
9. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964
10. To Kill a Mockingbird1962
11. The Third Man1949
12. Raging Bull1980
13. The Apartment1960
14. Double Indemnity1944
15. The Maltese Falcon1941
16. The Great Dictator1940
17. Modern Times1936
18. City Lights1931
19. The Gold Rush1925
20. The Kid1921
21. All About Eve1950
22. On the Waterfront1954
23. Roman Holiday1953
24. Paths of Glory1957
25. The Elephant Man1980
26. Young Frankenstein1974
27. Manhattan1979
28. Night of the Living Dead1968
29. Rebecca1940
30. Notorious1946
31. Strangers on a Train1951
32. Shadow of a Doubt1943
33. The Lady Vanishes1938
34. The 39 Steps1935
35. Witness for the Prosecution1957
36. Stalag 171953
37. Ace in the Hole1951
38. The Lost Weekend1945
39. The Night of the Hunter1955
40. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948
41. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington1939
42. It Happened One Night1934
43. The Grapes of Wrath1940
44. The Best Years of Our Lives1946
45. Judgment at Nuremberg1961
46. From Here to Eternity1953
47. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962
48. High Noon1952
49. Stagecoach1939
50. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962
51. Touch of Evil1958
52. The Big Sleep1946
53. Out of the Past1947
54. Laura1944
55. Sweet Smell of Success1957
56. Gaslight1944
57. Anatomy of a Murder1959
58. The Hustler1961
59. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?1966
60. The Miracle Worker1962
61. His Girl Friday1940
62. The Philadelphia Story1940
63. Bringing Up Baby1938
64. Arsenic and Old Lace1944
65. To Be or Not to Be1942
66. Duck Soup1933
67. The General1926
68. Sherlock Jr.1924
69. Frankenstein1931
70. Bride of Frankenstein1935
71. King Kong1933
72. Dracula1931
73. The Invisible Man1933
74. Freaks1932
75. The Day the Earth Stood Still1951
76. Invasion of the Body Snatchers1956
77. The Innocents1961
78. The Haunting1963
79. Cape Fear1962
80. In Cold Blood1967
81. Brief Encounter1945
82. Kind Hearts and Coronets1949
83. Great Expectations1946
84. A Hard Day's Night1964
85. The Last Picture Show1971
86. Paper Moon1973
87. Ed Wood1994
88. The Man Who Wasn't There2001
89. Good Night, and Good Luck.2005
90. Nebraska2013
91. The Lighthouse2019
92. Frances Ha2013
93. Belfast2021
94. Eraserhead1977
95. Clerks1994
96. The Artist2011
97. Seven Samurai1954

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