Movies: Your Top 10 B & W Films

[Say Hey Kid]

The Artist
Casablanca
Psycho
Schindler's List
Citizen Kane
It's a Wonderful Life
Sunset Blvd.
The Apartment
The Best Years of Our Lives
La Grande Illusion​

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[Mimsy]

Listing seven for now:

"A Christmas Carol" (Alastair Sim)
Ed Wood
Raging Bull
Psycho
A Hard Day's Night
Nosferatu
Schindler's List

 

[kihei]

In order:

Children of Paradise
Pather Panchali
Jules and Jim
Last Year at Marienbad
Charulata
Alice in the Cities
Tokyo Story
8 1/2
Breathless
The Exterminating Angel

So many HMs, including: Vampyr; Nosferatu; Casablanca; The Maltese Falcon; Ivan, the Terrible; The Rules of the Game; L'Atalante; L'Eclisse; Werckmeister Harmonies; Ida

 

[Chili]

Probably have 100 (or more)

25 by date order (bolded 10)

The Kid (1921)
The General (1927)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
City Lights (1931)
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
The Old Fashioned Way (1934)
Captain Blood (1935)
The Little Colonel (1935)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Modern Times (1936)
Beau Geste (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Casablanca (1942)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Ma & Pa Kettle (1949)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Wild One (1954)
{Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) in color} The Defiant Ones (1958)
The One That Got Away (1958)
The Hustler (1963)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
The Hill (1965)
The Train (1965)

Edit: Stalag 17 (1953) somehow got left out (among a lot of others)

 

[Osprey]

This isn't a list of the "best," but of my favorites that I re-watch and enjoy the most:

King Kong (1933)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
A Christmas Carol (1938)
Lifeboat (1944)
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1956)
12 Angry Men (Twelve Angry Men) (1957)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

Edit: Credit to @Chili for reminding me of Stalag 17. BTW, The Bridge on the River Kwai is a color film.
Edit: Credit to Babe Ruth for reminding me of King Kong. How do I forget some of these?

 

[Chili]

Edit: Credit to @Chili for reminding me of Stalag 17. BTW, The Bridge on the River Kwai is a color film.

Thanks. Guess my memory is in B & W.

 

[Babe Ruth]

King Kong

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

L'année dernière à Marienbad was already posted, I'll add a few other gems (just what came to mind, not a top or in any order, missing too many):

L'hypothèse du tableau volé (Ruiz, 1978)
L'âge d'or (Bunuel, 1930)
Happy End (Lipsky, 1967)
Trans-Europ-Express (Robbe-Grillet, 1966)
L'homme qui ment (Robbe-Grillet, 1968)
Un homme qui dort (Queysanne, 1974)
Persona (Bergman, 1966)
Bande à part (Godard, 1964)
Masculin féminin (Godard, 1966)
Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Makavejev, 1967)
La noia (Damiani, 1963)
322 (Hanak, 1969)
Elle veut le chaos (Côté, 2008)
Fando y Lis (Jodorowsky, 1968)
Soy Cuba (Kalatozov, 1964)
Repulsion (Polanski, 1965)
My Winnipeg (Maddin, 2007)
Goto, l'île d'amour (Borowczyk, 1969)
Lumière et compagnie (collective, 1995)

And a lot of short films...
La jetée (Marker, 1962)
Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver) (Duras, 1979)

 

[Neutrinos]

Dr. Strangelove
Paths Of Glory
The Wizard Of Oz

 

[nameless1]

Damn, where do we begin?


Jules et Jim
The 400 Blows
La Dolce Vita
Seven Samurai
Ikiru
Tokyo Story
City Lights
The Asphalt Jungle
The Wages of Fear
Bicycle Thieves

I will probably edit the list later.

 

[Howe Elbows 9]

Seven Samurai
Citizen Kane
Ikiru
A Man Escaped
Nights of Cabiria
The Maltese Falcon
Sweet Smell of Success
Psycho
Casablanca
La Strada

 

[expatriatedtexan]

In alphabetical order off the top of my head. May need to be updated because I haven't had a lot of sleep lately.

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Casablanca (1942)
Clerks (1994)
Dreamscape (2007)
In Harm's Way (1965)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Red River (1948)
White Christmas (1954)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

 

[frisco]

In no order:
Raging Bull
Baby, The Rain Must Fall
Hell Is For Heroes
The Last Picture Show
Casablanca
Dr. Strangelove
Paths Of Glory
Touch Of Evil
Twelve Angry Men
Wizard Of Oz

My Best-Carey

 

[Mount Suribachi]

First one that immediately came to mind was Schindler's List.

Followed immediately by all the classic WW2 movies - The Dambusters, Reach For the Sky, The Longest Day etc etc

 

[The Macho King]

Not going to think of ten because I'll invariably leave something off, but a few that immediately came to mind for me were:

The Bicycle Thief
The Big Sleep
Rashomon
Seven Samurai
The Ox Bow Incident