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The Best B&W Movies

by emilhagberg-84632 • Created 5 years ago • Modified 1 year ago
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  • Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Heather Dawn May in Psycho (1960)

    1. Psycho

    19601h 49mR97Metascore
    8.5 (760K)
    A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera Miles
  • The Doll (1962)

    2. The Doll

    19621h 36m
    6.7 (401)
    A lonely night watchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and brings her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life...
    DirectorArne MattssonStarsPer OscarssonGio PetréTor Isedal
  • Lille Fridolf och jag (1956)

    3. Lille Fridolf och jag

    19561h 38m
    5.5 (153)
    Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her way home to show her little baby.
    DirectorTorgny AnderbergStarsDouglas HågeHjördis PettersonLars Ekborg
  • Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

    4. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

    19221h 34mNot Rated
    7.8 (120K)
    Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
    DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsMax SchreckAlexander GranachGustav von Wangenheim
  • The Phantom Carriage (1921)

    5. The Phantom Carriage

    19211h 47mNot Rated
    8.0 (15K)
    On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.
    DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmHilda BorgströmTore Svennberg
  • Patricia Arquette, Johnny Depp, Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones, Sarah Jessica Parker, Martin Landau, Lisa Marie, and George 'The Animal' Steele in Ed Wood (1994)

    6. Ed Wood

    19942h 7mR71Metascore
    7.8 (189K)
    Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.
    DirectorTim BurtonStarsJohnny DeppMartin LandauSarah Jessica Parker
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925)

    7. Battleship Potemkin

    19251h 6mNot Rated97Metascore
    7.9 (64K)
    In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
    DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy Aleksandrov
  • Lille Fridolf blir morfar (1957)

    8. Lille Fridolf blir morfar

    19571h 30m
    5.7 (94)
    Fridolfs daughter Maggan is having a baby.
    DirectorPer GunvallStarsDouglas HågeHjördis PettersonLars Ekborg
  • Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, and Conrad Veidt in Casablanca (1942)

    9. Casablanca

    19421h 42mPG100Metascore
    8.5 (637K)
    A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul Henreid
  • Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)

    10. Dracula

    19311h 15mPassed71Metascore
    7.3 (63K)
    Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
    DirectorsTod BrowningKarl FreundStarsBela LugosiHelen ChandlerDavid Manners
  • Boris Karloff, John Boles, Mae Clarke, Colin Clive, and Dwight Frye in Frankenstein (1931)

    11. Frankenstein

    19311h 10mApproved91Metascore
    7.8 (84K)
    Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
    DirectorJames WhaleStarsColin CliveMae ClarkeBoris Karloff
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

    12. Creature from the Black Lagoon

    19541h 19mG68Metascore
    6.9 (37K)
    A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
    DirectorJack ArnoldStarsRichard CarlsonJulie AdamsRichard Denning
  • Fridolf sticker opp! (1958)

    13. Fridolf sticker opp!

    19581h 28m
    5.2 (118)
    Fridolf is responsible at the office while his boss is away on business.
    DirectorTorgny AnderbergStarsDouglas HågeHjördis PettersonLars Ekborg
  • Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

    14. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    19622h 14mApproved75Metascore
    8.0 (66K)
    A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.
    DirectorRobert AldrichStarsBette DavisJoan CrawfordVictor Buono
  • James Stewart and Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

    15. It's a Wonderful Life

    19462h 10mPG89Metascore
    8.6 (532K)
    An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel Barrymore
  • Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, and Henry Travers in The Invisible Man (1933)

    16. The Invisible Man

    19331h 11mApproved87Metascore
    7.6 (42K)
    A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
    DirectorJames WhaleStarsClaude RainsGloria StuartWilliam Harrigan
  • Fridolfs farliga ålder (1959)

    17. Fridolfs farliga ålder

    19591h 17m
    5.3 (180)
    Selma and her friend Agatha are watching a movie on TV. Agatha starts to talk about older men and their dangerous age, but Selma can't image that her husband Fridolf is among those.
    DirectorTorgny AnderbergStarsDouglas HågeHjördis PettersonSiv Ericks
  • Häxan (1922)

    18. Häxan

    19221h 31mNot Rated
    7.6 (18K)
    Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
    DirectorBenjamin ChristensenStarsBenjamin ChristensenElisabeth ChristensenMaren Pedersen
  • The Seventh Seal (1957)

    19. The Seventh Seal

    19571h 36mNot Rated88Metascore
    8.1 (211K)
    A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt Ekerot
  • Winter Light (1963)

    20. Winter Light

    19631h 21mNot Rated
    8.0 (29K)
    A small-town priest struggles with his faith.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngrid ThulinGunnar BjörnstrandGunnel Lindblom
  • Olga Baclanova, Harry Earles, and Henry Victor in Freaks (1932)

    21. Freaks

    19321h 4mNot Rated80Metascore
    7.8 (53K)
    A circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.
    DirectorTod BrowningStarsWallace FordLeila HyamsOlga Baclanova
  • Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)

    22. Some Like It Hot

    19592h 1mApproved98Metascore
    8.2 (298K)
    After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
    DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack Lemmon
  • John Hurt in The Elephant Man (1980)

    23. The Elephant Man

    19802h 4mPG78Metascore
    8.2 (275K)
    A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
    DirectorDavid LynchStarsAnthony HopkinsJohn HurtAnne Bancroft
  • Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

    24. Bride of Frankenstein

    19351h 15mApproved95Metascore
    7.8 (56K)
    Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
    DirectorJames WhaleStarsBoris KarloffElsa LanchesterColin Clive
  • Charles Chaplin in The Gold Rush (1925)

    25. The Gold Rush

    19251h 35mApproved90Metascore
    8.1 (125K)
    A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMack SwainTom Murray

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