• Recommend Me Accessible Black & White Films
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Hey guys, I'm trying to get someone into watching more black and white films and it started to occur to me that I haven't seen as many as I'd like either. We've gone through a few of them already, here's a few just to rule a few out -Persona -Night of the Living Dead -Ace in the Hole -Carnival of Souls -The Apartment -Harakiri -The Seventh Seal -Night of the Hunter -Rebel Without A Cause -Bicycle Thieves Any suggestions are appreciated. Just trying to broaden our horizons.
The Third Man
Metropolis Rashomon Yojimbo
citizen kane should be the obvious answer bela tarr's films are great too but not so accessible
Seven Samurai Gojira Through a Glass Darkly The Seventh Seal Scenes of a Marriage Fanny and Alexander Raging Bull Schindler's List Citizen Kane On the Waterfront Dr. Strangelove Metropolis The Treasure of Sierra Madre Grapes of Wrath Rashomon Paths of Glory The Hustler City Lights Casablanca Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Nosferatu
The best years of our lives. The train. The great dictator. The Maltese Falcon. Casa Blanca.
Young Frankenstein
King Kong.
The good earth. Can't forget that one.
12 Angry Men my guys
Metropolis
Godzilla?
This. It really aged well and it keeps you interested right from the start. Considering the minimalist approach, it blows my mind how entertaining it still is.
The Killing The Killers Asphalt Jungle Out of the Past Really, look out for classic noir films from the 40s and 50s and you’ll find some great black and white cinematography.
Just watched Throne of Blood today, that one's awesome too.
You'll open yourself up to a lot of stuff if you just watch anything that's rated very highly and aren't too picky. If you go down the top movies on IMDB you'll hit a lot of stuff in this thread. A bunch of Kurosawa's movies were mentioned here and I need to throw in another recommendation for him. If you like his movies, there's a LOT of good ones. Personal favorites: Yojimbo (Clint Eastwood's character in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly appears in three movies. The first one, Fistful of Dollars was heavily based on Yojimbo) Ran Kagemusha Red Beard
Can't believe Psycho hasn't been mentioned yet. Its pretty good, although almost everybody knows the plot twist
All About Eve A Streetcar Named Desire To Kill a Mockingbird The Day the Earth Stood Still And I'd highly recommend watching Raiders of the Lost Ark in black and white at least once.
Andrei Rublev is one of the best films ever imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1d5FSyMEd8 And despite being probably the most disgusting, incomprehensible film I've ever seen, Hard to be a God is also one I'd recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11sMDQIgggA
Superman and the Molemen.
Johnny Got His Gun Not totally black and white but there are maybe 3 total scenes in color.
Sin City counts, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOE_3_Ws4y0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_a_Dog Make sure to enable closed captions.
Just watched Ingmar Bergman's "Winter Light" and tbh I could recommend that to pretty much any film enthusiast.
M (1931) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/
If you're looking for black and white, I'd watch Seven Samurai. Anything from Akira Kurosawa, really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8
I highly recommend Some Like It Hot and An Inspector Calls.
Any of Alfred Hitchcock's work, really. Dr Strangelove, hell, watch the original Twilight Zone series.
Ed Wood
Just caught this the other day. Probably my favorite Burton film. So, so, so underrated.
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