What are your top 5 black and white movies?

Pather Panchali
A Hard Day's Night
La Dolce Vita
Shakespeare Wallah
Alphaville



... I'd probably include the entire (b&w) catalogues of Satyajit Ray, Fellini, Godard and Kurosawa, were I to bend the rules.

 

Seven Samurai is my favorite movie, period.

 

Cant think of any right now, but absolutely love old b/w movies. Also love old coloured movies too from the late 50s, early 60s.

 

Recently saw John Ford's Long Voyage Home - worth seeing just for Gregg Toland's cinematography. Stunning.

 

Oops, I forgot one...

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

"Martha, rubbing alcohol for you?"
"Sure! Never mix, never worry!"

 

You've sold me on this one, it seems to tick a lot of my boxes ('60s film, cool cars, funny, jazz score, a bit nouvelle vague I'm guessing) ... is it available on DVD or Blu Ray anywhere? (I just searched Amazon, no result).

 

The Lady Vanishes
I Married A Witch
Her Man Godfrey
Anatomy of a Murder
Notorious

 

I posted my 5 above but I’ll add, just saw Bride Of Frankenstein the first time and it was pretty impressive

 

The Manchurian Candidate
Werckmeister Harmonies
Out of the Past
Andrei Rublev
The Last Picture Show

 

Man - this one's tough! I'll go with these since I have seen them all at least 10 times.

Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Night of the Hunter
The Third Man
The Bank Dick
Dr. Strangelove

 

High and Low
Counselor at Law
Paths of Glory
The Apartment
King Kong

 

Sorry, no idea, I hadn't thought I would be asked this. I got it as a PAL VHS from France in the '00s, after having initially seen it on silver screen, no less, at the local arthouse theatre in 1997. Yeah, it's a French-speaking new wave B&W romcom about a racing car driver, with a jazz score played by the likes of Don Cherry and Gato Barbieri. Too bad if you can't find it if that ticks a lot of your boxes.

edit: it's been on DVD a few times, as seen on French Amazon. Not sure what kind of dolphin hoops that would present for you: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B08HGZKCHM

 

Hey, thanks!

... only hoop to jump through would be my mostly-forgotten Français (two years in high school, back when Nixon was president).

 

5 more'

Each Dawn I Die
Tortilla Flat
The Next Voice You Hear
Murder He Says
The Egg and I

 

Hell is for Heroes
Bataan
Them!
Nosferatu
All Quiet on the Western Front

 

Nattvardsgästerna (all-time favorite movie)
Die Nibelungen: 2. Film – Kriemhilds Rache
Foolish Wives
La notte
Dishonored

 

I only like black and white movies when they have been COLORIZED.

 

Out Of The Past
Fallen Angel
Young Frankenstein
A Hard Day's Night
I Wake Up Screaming

 

Can't even begin to imagine some of the movies listed here in colour.
That would be horrible.

 

Totally agree! Black and white is gorgeous!! I like seeing the special editions of newer movies such as The Mist and Mad Max: Fury Road that get presented in B&W and look even better!

 

Watch 'Alien' in black and white.
I realize simply removing the colour isn't ideal but, trust me, it makes the movie even creepier and more claustrophobic

 

La Strada
Elevator to the Gallows
Hud
The Last Picture Show
Roma

 

King Kong (my favorite movie)
Scarlet Street
It's a Wonderful Life
The Red House
Incredible Shrinking Man

 

Letter's from Iwo Jima
A hard day's night
12 angry men
Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Schindler's list

 

King Kong is my fave too.