Best Black And White Movies

1993 • Rating 8.6 • drama, history, war

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Genre: Drama, History, War

Style:

Audience: Adult, Date Night

Plot: Factory, Hero, Nazi, Concentration Camp, Ss (Nazi Schutzstaffel), Holocaust (Shoah), World War Ii, Ghetto, Jew Persecution, Kraków, Poland

Time: Year 1993, 1990S, 1993-12-15

Place: United States Of America, German, Polish, Hebrew, English

Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz

1957 • Rating 8.6 • drama

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

Genre: Drama

Style: Dark, Suspenseful

Audience: Date Night

Plot: Death Penalty, Anonymity, Court Case, Judge, Jurors, Innocence, Witness, Knife, Matter Of Life And Death, Based On Play Or Musical

Time: Year 1957, 1950S, 1957-04-10

Place: United States Of America, English

Cast: Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns

1954 • Rating 8.5 • action, drama

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Genre: Action, Drama

Style:

Audience: Date Night

Plot: Martial Arts, Japan, Samurai, Sword, Peasant, Village, Looting, Rice, Fencing, Moral Ambiguity

Time: Year 1954, 1950S, 1954-04-26

Place: Japan, Japanese

Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Katō

1962 • Rating 8.4 • action, drama, history

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Style:

Audience: Date Night

Plot: Suicide, Japan, Samurai, Asia, Flashback, Revenge, Poverty, Black And White, Seppuku, Ronin

Time: Year 1962, 1960S, 1962-09-15

Place: Japan, Japanese

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsuro Tamba, Masao Mishima, Ichirō Nakatani

1960 • Rating 8.4 • horror, thriller, mystery

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Style: Cerebral, Dark, Psychological, Suspenseful

Audience: Adult

Plot: Hotel, Clerk, Detective, Shower, Arizona, Motel, Halloween, Stolen Money, Alter Ego, Taxidermy

Time: Year 1960, 1960S, 1960-06-22

Place: United States Of America, English

Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire

1998 • Rating 7.1 • mystery, drama, thriller

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

Genre: Mystery, Drama, Thriller

Style: Cerebral, Futuristic, Surreal, Suspenseful

Audience: Adult, Date Night

Plot: New York City, Hacker, Ark Of The Covenant, Insanity, Paranoia, Mathematics, Mathematician, Delusion, Helix, Headache

Time: Year 1998, 1990S, 1998-07-10

Place: United States Of America, English, New York, Future City

Cast: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart, Stephen Pearlman, Samia Shoaib

1957 • Rating 6.8 • drama

In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.

Genre: Drama

Style:

Audience: Date Night

Plot: Airplane, Based On Novel Or Book, Love Triangle, New Orleans, Louisiana, Mardi Gras, Pilot, Airplane Wreck, Great Depression, Reporter, Black And White

Time: Year 1957, 1950S, 1957-11-21

Place: United States Of America, English

Cast: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, Robert Middleton, William Schallert

1942 • Rating 6.7 • war, drama

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.

Genre: War, Drama

Style:

Audience: Adult, Date Night

Plot: World War Ii, Biography, Aviation, Black And White, Spitfire, This, Fictionalized Biopic Chronicles The True Story Of How Two Of The Most Remarkable Men In Aviation History - Visionary Spitfire Designer R, Mitchell And His Test Pilot Geoffrey Crisp - Designed A Streamlined Monoplane That Led To The Development Of The Spitfire

Time: Year 1942, 1940S, 1942-09-14

Place: United Kingdom, English, German, Italian

Cast: Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John, Roland Culver, Anne Firth, David Horne