Mel Brooks shot 1974’s hilarious spoof “Young Frankenstein” in black and white as an homage to classic Hollywood monster movies. But coming just a decade or so after most of the industry had switched to color, his producers were not on board at first with the seemingly uncommercial move...
Thanks to ongoing advancements in technology and resolution, modern films are more colourful than ever before. Yet there's something to be said for movies shot in black and white.
From classic films like Hotel Rwanda, The Color Purple, and Jerry Maguire, the fictional characters on this list are also some of the best characters in film history. Many of the actors who portrayed these classic Black film characters received numerous awards for their notable...
From classic films to modern releases, check out our list of movies about racism. We’ve ranked them all from most popular to least so you can find the film ...
The two classic actors star in what is regarded as cinema’s very first romantic comedy, Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night. A black-and-white gem about a socialite who becomes just the story her reporter love interest is after, it won all five top Oscar Awards back in 1935. Watch ...
Stacker ranks the 100 best black and white films of all time, according to IMDb data. Each film needed at least 10,000 votes to qualify. In the case of a rating tie, the film with more votes ranked higher on the list.
Critics Consensus: Injecting a classic story with fresh innovation and social relevance, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is a thrillingly assured feature debut for writer-director Bomani J. Story. Synopsis: Vicaria is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured...
In the ’50s and ’60s, Ingmar Bergman became the poster boy for the mystique of art-house cinema by filling his black-and-white movies with symbols, metaphors, dreams. Yet his great searing drama about the experience and meaning of divorce carries none of that literary burden. It’s a ...
Experiential cinema in its purest form, Gunda chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy. Using stark, transcendent black and white cinematography and the farm's ambient soundtrack, director Victor Kossakowsky invites the audi...
Mario Bava has given the world the prototype for thegiallomovie in 1963, with his black-and-white thrillerThe Girl Who Knew Too Much.The next year, he’d give the subgenre it’s first bona fide masterpiece. After a female model is murdered, her bosses and peers begin to fret over a ...