List of recent films in black-and-white
Encyclopedia
Since the 1970s, fictional feature films have been filmed almost exclusively in color. Before this time, most dramas were filmed in black-and-white
Black-and-white
Black-and-white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, is a term referring to a number of monochrome forms in visual arts.Black-and-white as a description is also something of a misnomer, for in addition to black and white, most of these media included varying shades of gray...

 while escapist fare, such as Westerns, musicals and comedies, were in color. Still, films from the last few decades are occasionally presented in black-and-white, sometimes due to budget constraints. This is a list of notable feature films whose majority of running time is in black-and-white or monochrome/sepia tone and made after the 1960s.

Note: this list does not include short films or documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

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2010s

FilmYearPartial color
Frankenweenie
Frankenweenie (2012 film)
Frankenweenie is an upcoming 3D black and white stop motion film and remake of the 1984 short film of the same name. Like the 1984 version, it is a parody of and an homage to the 1931 film Frankenstein based on Mary Shelley's book of the same name...

2012 TBC
Alois Nebel
Alois Nebel
Alois Nebel is a 2011 Czech animated drama film directed by Tomáš Luňák, based on the comic-book trilogy by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99. It is set in the late 1980s in a small village in the Jeseník Mountains, close to the Polish border, and tells the story of a train dispatcher who begins to...

2011
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
The Human Centipede 2 is a 2011 British-Dutch body horror film directed by Dutch filmmaker Tom Six. The sequel to 2010's Dutch film The Human Centipede , the film was scheduled for straight-to-DVD release...

2011
The Artist
The Artist (film)
The Artist is a 2011 French romance film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on a declining male film star and a rising actress, as silent cinema grows out of fashion and is replaced by the...

2011
The Day He Arrives
The Day He Arrives
The Day He Arrives is a 2011 South Korean film written and directed by Hong Sang-soo. The film is in black and white. It premiered on 19 May 2011 in the Un Certain Regard section of the 64th Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Yu Jun-sang as Seong-jun...

2011
The Turin Horse
The Turin Horse
The Turin Horse is a 2011 Hungarian drama film directed by Béla Tarr, starring János Derzsi, Erika Bók and Mihály Kormos. It was co-written by Tarr and his frequent collaborator László Krasznahorkai. It recalls the whipping of a horse in the Italian city Turin which is rumoured to have caused the...

2011
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is a 2009 American jazz musical film directed by Damien Chazelle, that recasts the MGM musical tradition in a gritty, vérité style...

2010

2000s

FilmYearPartial color
Chiaroscuro, Baby 2009
City of Life and Death 2009
Polytechnique
Polytechnique (film)
Polytechnique is a 2009 Canadian film from Quebec written by Jacques Davidts and Denis Villeneuve and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Set in Montreal, Quebec and based on the École Polytechnique massacre , the film documents the events of December 6, 1989 through the eyes of two students who witness...

2009
Rewers
Rewers
Rewers is a 2009 Polish drama film with a fair portion of black humor, directed by Borys Lankosz.- Plot :The film is set in Warsaw in the 1950s, with a few flash-forwards to present-day Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty, and lives together with her...

2009
Stingray Sam
Stingray Sam
Stingray Sam is a 2009 space-western/musical serial film, directed by and starring Cory McAbee. The film premiered on January 20, 2009 at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontier program...

2009
Tetro
Tetro
Tetro is a 2009 drama film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich and Maribel Verdú. Filming took place in 2008 in Buenos Aires, Patagonia, and Spain...

2009
The White Ribbon
The White Ribbon
The White Ribbon is a 2009 Austrian-German film, released in black and white, written and directed by Michael Haneke. The drama darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I...

2009
House of the Damned
House of the Damned
House of the Damned is an American zombie, comedy horror film that was filmed in February 1996, it received a limited release later that year. The film gained its first wide release in 2008 and has been recently re-released with a 15th Anniversary Edition through Music Video Distributors on...

2008
Fear(s) of the Dark
Fear(s) of the Dark
Fear[s] of the Dark is a 2007 French black-and-white animated anthology film on the subject of fear written and directed by several acclaimed comic book creators and graphic designers...

2008
Frontier of the Dawn 2008
Melancholia
Melancholia (2008 film)
Melancholia is a 2008 Philippine film directed by Lav Diaz. It won the Horizons prize at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.-Cast:* Angeli Bayani as Alberta Munoz / Jenine* Perry Dizon as Julian Tomas / pimp* Roeder as Renato Munoz...

2008
My Winnipeg
My Winnipeg
My Winnipeg is a feature film directed by Guy Maddin. Starring Ann Savage, the film is a surrealist-inflected pseudo-documentary about Winnipeg, Maddin's home town...

2008
Somers Town
Somers Town (film)
Somers Town is a 2008 film directed by Shane Meadows, written by Paul Fraser and produced by Barnaby Spurrier. It stars Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Kate Dickie, Perry Benson, and Elisa Lasowski...

2008
Zift  2008
The Dungeon of Dr. Dreck  2007
Control  2007
Dr. Plonk
Dr Plonk
Dr Plonk is a 2007 Australian film directed by Adelaide-based Australian director Rolf de Heer. It premiered in Australia in March 2007 at the Adelaide Film Festival. It is a silent film and at the premiere had live accompaniment by the Stiletto Sisters. The film was also screened at the launch of...

2007
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
In Search of a Midnight Kiss is an American independent romantic comedy written and directed by Alex Holdridge. It is listed on the National Board of Review's Top 10 Independent Films of 2008, won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award in 2009 as well as having earned awards at festivals...

2007
Dreamscape
Dreamscape (2007 film)
Dreamscape is a 2007 science fiction thriller style black-and-white film noir written and directed by Daniel J. Fox as the first feature film made by UK based Indie production company Chat Noir Productions Ltd.-Plot:...

2007
La Antena
La Antena
La Antena is an Argentine drama film, written and directed by acclaimed film director Esteban Sapir. The film features Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rafael Ferro, Florencia Raggi, and others.-Plot:...

2007
La León
La León
La León is a 2007 Argentine drama written and directed by Santiago Otheguy. Set in Northern Argentina, the film tells the story of a homosexual fieldworker, Álvaro , and his relationship with a local bully, El Turu...

2007
The Man from London
The Man From London
The Man from London is a 2007 film by Hungarian director Béla Tarr. It is an adaptation by Tarr and his collaborator-friend László Krasznahorkai of the 1934 French language novel L'Homme de Londres by prolific Belgian writer Georges Simenon...

 
2007
The Mist
The Mist (film)
The Mist is a 2007 American science-fiction horror film based on the 1980 novella of the same name by Stephen King. The film is written and directed by Frank Darabont, who had previously adapted Stephen King's works The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile...

 
2007
Persepolis
Persepolis (film)
Persepolis is a 2007 French animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The story...

 
2007
Ten Canoes
Ten Canoes
Ten Canoes is a 2006 film. It was directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr and starred Crusoe Kurddal. The title of the film arose from discussions between de Heer and David Gulpilil about a photograph of ten canoeists poling across the Arafura Swamp, taken by anthropologist Donald Thomson in...

 
2006
Destination Mars
Destination Mars
Destination Mars is a juvenile science fiction novel, the sixth in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1963 and in the US by Criterion Books in 1964....

2006
Mercy
Mercy
Mercy is broad term that refers to benevolence, forgiveness and kindness in a variety of ethical, religious, social and legal contexts.The concept of a "Merciful God" appears in various religions from Christianity to...

2006
Addison's Wall 2006
The Good German
The Good German
The Good German is a 2006 feature film adaptation of the novel by Joseph Kanon. It was directed by Steven Soderbergh, and stars George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire...

 
2006
Duck Season  2006
Asudem
Asudem
Asudem is an American horror film written and directed by Daryush Shokof. Asudem is the reverse writing of medusa indicates a surreal story of a woman Yangzom Brauen in the woods, where she meets Satan experiencing a heavenly vision after consuming hallucinogenic mushrooms...

 
2006
Brand Upon the Brain! 2006
Automatons
Automatons
Automatons is a 2006 black-and-white horror film about a war against robots. The movie was made under the working title Death to the Automatons. Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm, and Brenda Cooney star. John Levene, Don Wood and Executive Producer Larry Fessenden have supporting roles...

2006
Punish Me 2006
Slow Days
Slow Days
Slow Days is a black and white Croatian indie film. Set in the Croatian capital Zagreb and its satellite town, Velika Gorica, it follows the lives of over twenty individuals...

2006
The Bridge
The Bridge (2006 drama)
The Bridge is a 2006 feature film, directed by filmmaker Brett Hanover.A fictional story of involvement and disillusionment with Scientology, the film explicitly uses Scientology terms throughout, as well as including clips from actual Scientology promotional and training videos...

 
2006
Renaissance
Renaissance (film)
Renaissance is a 2006 French black-and-white animated science fiction film by French director Christian Volckman. It was co-produced in France, United Kingdom and Luxembourg and released on 15 March 2006 in France and 28 July 2006 in the UK by Miramax Films...

 
2006
13 Tzameti
13 Tzameti
13 Tzameti is a 2005 film written and directed by Georgian filmmaker Géla Babluani. "Tzameti" is the Georgian word for thirteen. 13 Tzameti is the feature length directorial debut for Babluani...

 
2005
Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove
Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove
Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove is a 2005 horror film written and directed by William Winckler. It is the second film from William Winckler Productions. Filmed in black and white, the movie is an homage to classic monster movies, harkening back to the days of Universal's "Monster...

2005
Äideistä parhain
Äideistä parhain
Mother of Mine is a 2005 Finnish-Swedish film directed by Klaus Härö. The film is based on a novel by Heikki Hietamies. It received good reviews from the Finnish press, and was selected to be Finland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy...

 
2005
Mutual Appreciation
Mutual Appreciation
Mutual Appreciation is an independent film by Andrew Bujalski who previously directed Funny Ha Ha . The script is primarily dialogue between a group of young people as they try to determine where they fit in the world. It is considered part of the mumblecore movement.-Plot:The principal characters...

2005
The Call of Cthulhu
The Call of Cthulhu (film)
The Call of Cthulhu is a 2005 silent film adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft short story of the same name, produced by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman and distributed by the HP Lovecraft Historical Society...

2005
Frozen Days  2005
Angel-A
Angel-A
Angel-A , directed by Luc Besson, is a French fantasy and romantic drama featuring Jamel Debbouze and Rie Rasmussen. The film was premiered in the United States at the Sundance Film Festival of 2007.- Plot :...

 
2005
Ashes and Snow
Ashes and Snow
Ashes and Snow by Canadian artist Gregory Colbert is an installation of photographic artworks, films, and a novel in letters that travels in the Nomadic Museum, a temporary structure built exclusively to house the exhibition. The work explores the shared poetic sensibilities of human beings and...

 
2005
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2005 film)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 2005 independent film, and a remake of the 1920 silent film of the same name. It was directed by David Lee Fisher and released in the U.S...

 
2005
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Good Night, and Good Luck. is a 2005 American drama film directed by George Clooney. The film was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S...

 
2005
The Notorious Bettie Page
The Notorious Bettie Page
The Notorious Bettie Page is a 2005 American biographical film directed by Mary Harron. The screenplay by Harron and Guinevere Turner focuses on 1950s pinup and bondage model Bettie Page.-Plot:...

 
2005
Regular Lovers
Regular Lovers (film)
Regular Lovers is a 2005 film directed by Philippe Garrel and starring his son, actor Louis Garrel. The director's father, actor Maurice Garrel, also appears in the film in a supporting role...

2005
Sin City
Sin City (film)
Sin City, also known as Frank Miller's Sin City, is a 2005 crime thriller film written, produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez...

 
2005
Aaltra
Aaltra
Aaltra is a 2004 French drama film, directed and written by Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine. The film was nominated for 3 awards and won 4 awards, mostly going to Benoît Delépine.-Cast:*Benoît Delépine ... The Employee...

2004
À tout de suite
À tout de suite
Right Now is a 2004 French film by director Benoît Jacquot. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...

 
2004
After the Apocalypse
After the Apocalypse
After the Apocalypse is a 2004 science fiction black-and-white film about five survivors after World War III. A single woman and four men are forced to communicate without words because of destructive gasses from the war. They are forced to recreate their lives both individually and collectively...

2004
Evolution of a Filipino Family
Evolution of a Filipino Family
Evolution of a Filipino Family is a Filipino film by Lav Diaz. The film is 593 minutes long and ranks among the longest films of all time.-External links:* Ten Best Films of the Decade, Cinema Scope Magazine...

2004
Kill Your Idols
Kill Your Idols
Kill Your Idols was a hardcore punk band from Long Island/New York City, New York. The band was active from 1995 through 2007. They were signed to SideOneDummy Records....

2004
Late Bloomer
Late Bloomer
Late Bloomer is a 2004 Japanese film by Go Shibata, about a handicapped serial killer named Sumida.Sumida is disabled with cerebral palsy, but all he wants is to hang out with his friends and enjoy beer, rock and roll, and women. When his best friend steals his secret love, he embarks upon a...

2004
People Who Die Mysteriously in Their Sleep 2004
Temporada de patos
Temporada de patos
Temporada de patos is a 2004 Mexican film. It is the first feature film by writer/director, Fernando Eimbcke, a former MTV Awards videoclip director....

2004
Coffee and Cigarettes
Coffee and Cigarettes
Coffee and Cigarettes is the title of three short films and a 2003 feature film by independent director Jim Jarmusch. The 2003 film consists of 11 short stories which share coffee and cigarettes as a common thread, and includes the earlier three films....

 
2003
Margarette's Feast 2003
A Thousand Clouds of Peace
A Thousand Clouds of Peace
A Thousand Clouds of Peace is a 2003 romantic drama film written and directed by Julián Hernández. Its original Spanish title is Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor and alternative titles for it are A Thousand Clouds of Peace Fence the Sky, Love; Your Being Love Will...

2003
Cowards Bend the Knee
Cowards Bend the Knee
Cowards Bend the Knee is a 2003 film by Guy Maddin, starring Darcy Fehr and Melissa Dionisio.The 64 minute film is a reworking of an autobiographical project originally imagined as a peep-show. It is divided into ten short sections, giving it the same sort of episodic quality as old silent matinee...

 
2003
The Saddest Music in the World
The Saddest Music in the World
The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin. It stars Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox and Ross McMillan....

 
2003
Woodenhead
Woodenhead
Woodenhead is the name of a 2003 New Zealand film directed by Florian Habicht.The film is a dark fairy tale in the style of the Brothers Grimm, and is based around the life of a dump-hand called Gert and a mute princess called Plum. The two wander into the forest with a donkey and mysterious things...

 
2003
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is an independent film spoofing 1950s era B-movies. It was videotaped on a budget of less than USD $100,000, and converted to black-and-white film in post-production. Larry Blamire acted in and directed the film, wrote its screenplay and provided the voice of the...

 
2002
September 11 2002
Don't Ask Don't Tell  2002
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary is a 2002 horror film directed by Guy Maddin. It is a silent interpretation of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's take of Bram Stoker's Dracula...

 
2002
Suddenly 2002
The Box Head Revolution
Box Head Revolution
Box Head Revolution is a 2002 science fiction film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Mark Christensen.-Plot:On an unknown planet in an uncertain time, a two-tiered society has taken shape. The ruling class live above ground and wear masks on their faces, while the working class labors...

2002
Memento  2001
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 neo-noir film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Billy Bob Thornton stars in the title role. Also featured are James Gandolfini, Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson, Adam Alexi-Malle and Coen regulars Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, and Jon...

 
2001
In Praise of Love  2001
Don's Plum
Don's Plum
Don's Plum is a 2001 low-budget black and white drama film directed by R.D. Robb. Robb co-wrote it with Bethany Ashton, Tawd Hackman, David Stutman, and Dale Wheatley. The film features Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Connolly and Tobey Maguire, who make crude jokes while hanging out in a Los Angeles diner...

 
2001
The American Astronaut
The American Astronaut
The American Astronaut is a 2001 space-western/musical, directed by and starring Cory McAbee. The film was released on DVD in Spring of 2005. The band Billy Nayer Show, helmed by McAbee, wrote and performed the film's soundtrack.- Plot Summary :...

 
2001
Bolivia
Bolivia (film)
Bolivia is an Argentine and Dutch drama film directed by Israel Adrián Caetano, his first feature-length film. The screenplay is written by Caetano, based upon the Romina Lafranchini story, about his wife...

2001
Return to Innocence
Return to Innocence (film)
Return to Innocence is a 2001 independent film about Glen Erskine , who gets caught up in a child sex abuse case with Tommy Jackson . The screenplay for Return to Innocence was written by Gary M...

2001
Electric Dragon 80.000 V
Electric Dragon 80.000 V
Electric Dragon 80.000 V is a 2001 Japanese film written and directed by Sogo Ishii. The comic-book style story stars Tadanobu Asano and Masatoshi Nagase as electricity wielding super-heroes.-Plot:...

2001
25 Watts
25 Watts
25 watts is a 2001 Uruguayan urban comedy drama film directed and written by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll. The independent film picture stars Daniel Hendler, Jorge Temponi, and Alfonso Tort...

2001
Nada 2001
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is an independent film spoofing 1950s era B-movies. It was videotaped on a budget of less than USD $100,000, and converted to black-and-white film in post-production. Larry Blamire acted in and directed the film, wrote its screenplay and provided the voice of the...

2001
Judy Berlin
Judy Berlin
Judy Berlin is a 1999 American drama film directed by Eric Mendelsohn. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.Mendelsohn won the directing prize for Judy Berlin at the 1999 Sundance International Film Festival...

 
2000
Acne
Acne
Acne is a general term used for acneiform eruptions. It is usually used as a synonym for acne vulgaris, but may also refer to:*Acne aestivalis*Acne conglobata*Acne cosmetica*Acne fulminans*Acne keloidalis nuchae*Acne mechanica...

2000
Werckmeister Harmonies
Werckmeister Harmonies
Werckmeister Harmonies is a 2000 Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr, based on the novel The Melancholy of Resistance , by László Krasznahorkai...

 
2000
Migrating Forms 2000
A Snake of June
A Snake of June
A Snake of June is a Japanese movie directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. His seventh film, it is notable for its striking monochrome blue cinematography tinted in post production...

 
2000
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
La Commune is a 2000 historical drama film directed by Peter Watkins about the Paris Commune. It is a historical re-enactment in the style of a documentary, and was shot in just 13 days in an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Paris...

 
2000
Eureka
Eureka (2000 film)
Eureka is a 2000 Japanese film directed and written by Shinji Aoyama. It stars Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, and Masaru Miyazaki.-Synopsis:...

 
2000
The Atrocity Exhibition 2000
Devils on the Doorstep  2000

1990s

FilmYearPartial color
Girl on the Bridge 1999
Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras
Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras
Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras is an independently-produced comedy horror film directed by Karl DeMolay, Will Frank and Mike Lyddon.-Synopsis:...

1999
Tuvalu
Tuvalu (film)
Tuvalu is a 1999 experimental movie from Germany. The style evokes early 20th Century Silent movies and motifs commonly found in German expressionism. The sparse dialog is presented in a mix of European languages...

1999
Chi Girl
Chi Girl
Chi Girl is a 1999 award-winning film produced, directed, written by, and starring Heidi Van Lier. The film is in a mockumentary style in black-and-white film....

1999
Wisconsin Death Trip
Wisconsin Death Trip
Wisconsin Death Trip is a non-fiction book by Michael Lesy, first published in 1973. It has been adapted into a film.The book is based on a collection of late 19th century photographs by Jackson County, Wisconsin photographer Charles Van Schaick, mostly in the city of Black River Falls, and local...

1999
Juha
Juha (film)
Juha is a 1999 Finnish film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film is based on a famous 1911 novel by the Finnish author Juhani Aho marking this as the fourth time the novel was adapted for the screen. The original story takes place in the 18th century but Kaurismäki's remake is set in...

1999
Man of the Century
Man of the Century
Man of the Century is a 1999 comedy film directed by Adam Abraham and written by Abraham and Gibson Frazier. The film stars Frazier, Cara Buono, Susan Egan, Dwight Ewell and Anthony Rapp. It is a farce about the attitudes, values, and slang displayed in the popular culture of the 1920s . Man of...

1999
Dead Dogs 1999
Okraina
Okraina
Okraina is a 1998 Russian film starring Yuri Dubrovin, Nikolay Olyalin, Alexey Pushkin, and Alexey Vanin. Loosely based on the 1933 film by Boris Barnet, it was directed and written by Pyotr Lutsik...

1998
The Leafblower 1998
Of Freaks and Men
Of Freaks and Men
-Premise:Filmed entirely in sepia tone and set in turn of the century Russia, the story is centered on two families and their decline at the hands of one man, Johann, and his pornographic endeavours...

1998
Following 1998
Scotch & Milk 1998
Cappuccino
Cappuccino
A cappuccino is an Italian coffee drink prepared with espresso, hot milk, and steamed-milk foam. The name comes from the Capuchin friars, referring to the colour of their habits.- Definition :...

1998
Celebrity
Celebrity (film)
Celebrity is a 1998 comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. The screenplay focuses on the divergent paths a couple takes following their divorce.-Plot:...

1998
The City
The City (1998 film)
The City is an American neo-realist film written and directed by David Riker, his first feature film, and shot in gritty black-and-white film stock. The drama features actor Joseph Rigano and, in neo-realist fashion, an ensemble cast of non-professional actors...

1998
The General
The General (1998 film)
The General is a British-Irish crime film directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s, and attracted the attention of the Gardaí, PIRA, and UVF. The film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998...

1998
Samurai Fiction
Samurai Fiction
is a 1998 comedy-samurai film directed by Hiroyuki Nakano. It is almost entirely black-and-white, and follows a fairly standard plotline for a comedy and jidaigeki samurai film, but the presence of Tomoyasu Hotei's rock-and-roll soundtrack separates it from the films it was inspired by, such as the...

1998
The Red Dwarf
The Red Dwarf (film)
The Red Dwarf is a Belgian comedy drama directed by Yvan Le Moine released in 1998. It is based on Le nain rouge, a story by Michel Tournier.- Synopsis :Lucien L'Hotte, a dwarf becomes enamoured and begins an affair with the singer Paola Bendoni...

1998
Bullet Ballet
Bullet Ballet
Bullet Ballet is a Japanese film directed by and starring Shinya Tsukamoto, and co-starring Hisashi Igawa, Sujin Kim, Kirina Mano, Takahiro Murase, Tatsuya Nakamura and Kyoka Suzuki....

1998
Pi
Pi (film)
Pi, also titled ,WorldCat gives the title as [Pi] and provides a note which states, "Title is the mathematical symbol for Pi." . Amazon gives the title as Pi with no notation concerning the math symbol . is a 1998 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky...

1998
American History X
American History X
American History X is a 1998 American drama film directed by Tony Kaye and starring Edward Norton and Edward Furlong. It was distributed by New Line Cinema....

1998
Pleasantville
Pleasantville (film)
Pleasantville is a 1998 American fantasy comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Gary Ross. The film stars Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, Marley Shelton and Jeff Daniels. Don Knotts, Paul Walker, Jane Kaczmarek, and J. T. Walsh are also featured.The film...

1998
24 7: Twenty Four Seven 1997
How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate
How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate
How To Cheat In The Leaving Certificate is an independent film directed by Graham Jones, in which six teens devise a plan to cheat on their Leaving Certificate. The film was shot in black and white on Super 16mm. After being hailed by critics it was blown up to 35mm for theatrical distribution...

1997
Leather Jacket Love Story
Leather Jacket Love Story
Leather Jacket Love Story directed by David DeCoteau is the story of poet Kyle who wants to find true love with Mike , a handsome, aggressive older man who Kyle met on a one night stand. Mink Stole from "Hairspray" and "Serial Mom" fame plays Martine, and civil rights activist Morris Kight plays...

1997
Zero
Zero (film)
Zero is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Stewart Rome, Fay Compton and Jeanne De Casalis. It was based on a novel by Colinson Owen.-Cast:* Stewart Rome - John Garth* Fay Compton - Mrs Garth...

1997
Mr. Vincent 1997
The Tango Lesson 1997
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day is a 1996 drama film written and directed by Christopher Münch. It stars Peter Alexander and features R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe...

1996
Drawing Flies
Drawing Flies
For the Soundgarden song of the same name see Drawing Flies .Drawing Flies is a View Askew Production made by two Canadian filmmakers, Malcolm Ingram and Matt Gissing...

1996
Foreign Land
Foreign Land
Foreign Land is a 1996 action film directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas.-Cast:* Alberto Alexandre - Maitre Machado* Fernando Alves Pinto - Paco* Alexandre Borges - Miguel* Canto e Castro - Porteiro* Laura Cardoso - Manuela...

1996
Bitter Sugar 1996
The Toilers and the Wayfarers
The Toilers and the Wayfarers
The Toilers and the Wayfarers is a 1996 film written and directed by .-Plot:Phillip and Dieter nearly suffocate hiding their sexual identity in the face of puritanical small town values...

1996
Rubber's Lover
Rubber's Lover
Rubber's Lover is cult filmmaker Shozin Fukui's 1996 follow-up to 964 Pinocchio. Like its predecessor, it is an underground cyberpunk horror, with tense atmosphere, alarming visuals and graphic violence....

1996
Bullet on a Wire 1996
A Midwinter's Tale
A Midwinter's Tale
A Midwinter's Tale is a 1995 romantic comedy written and directed by Kenneth Branagh. Many of the roles in the film were written for specific actors....


(aka In The Bleak Midwinter)
1995
The Addiction
The Addiction
The Addiction is an unconventional 1995 vampire film by Abel Ferrara, starring Lili Taylor, Edie Falco, Paul Calderón and Christopher Walken...

1995
Art for Teachers of Children 1995
La Haine
La Haine
La Haine is a 1995 French black-and-white film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. It is commonly released under its French title in the English-speaking world, although its American VHS release was entitled Hate. It is about three teenage friends and their struggle to live in...

1995
Institute Benjamenta
Institute Benjamenta
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, released in 1996, was the first feature-length film by the Brothers Quay. It is based on Jakob von Gunten, a novel written by Robert Walser...

1995
Dead Man
Dead Man
Dead Man is a 1995 American Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott, Lance Henriksen, and Robert Mitchum . The film, dubbed an "Acid Western" by its director, includes twisted...

1995
Curtis's Charm 1995
A Trick of the Light 1995
The Corridor
The Corridor
The Corridor is one of the world's earliest retail arcades, designed by architect Henry Goodridge and built in 1825, in Bath, Somerset, England....

1994
Clerks.
Clerks
Clerks is a 1994 independent comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film as Silent Bob. Starring Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two store clerks and their acquaintances...

1994
Ed Wood
Ed Wood (film)
Ed Wood is a 1994 American comedy-drama biopic directed and produced by Tim Burton, and starring Johnny Depp as cult filmmaker Edward D. Wood, Jr. The film concerns the period in Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau...

1994
Eclipse 1994
Federal Hill
Federal Hill
Federal Hill may refer to:in Malaysia* Federal Hill, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysiain the United States :** Federal Hill, a mansion featured on Kentucky's State Quarter and the centerpiece of My Old Kentucky Home State Park in Bardstown, Kentucky...

1994
Rhythm Thief 1994
Satantango
Satantango
Sátántangó is a film directed by Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Shot in black-and-white, completed in 1994, it runs 7 hours and 12 minutes. It is based on the novel Sátántangó by Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, who has been providing Tarr with stories since his 1988 film Kárhozat...

1994
Second Cousin, Once Removed 1994
Woyzeck
Woyzeck
Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously "finished" by a variety of authors, editors and translators. Woyzeck has become one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre...

1994
Apart from Hugh 1994
Nadja
Nadja (film)
Nadja is a 1994 film by Michael Almereyda starring Elina Löwensohn as the creature Nadja and Peter Fonda as Van Helsing. As the character's names suggest, Nadja is a vampire film, but treating elements of the genre in an understated arthouse style....

1994
The Most Terrible Time in My Life 1994
Half-Cocked
Half-cocked
Half-cocked can refer to:* half-cock* Halfcocked, a hard rock band* Half-Cocked...

1994
Go Fish
Go Fish (film)
Go Fish is a 1994 American lesbian-themed independent drama film. Directed and co-written by Rose Troche, the film tells the story of the interrelationships of a small group of lesbian friends in Chicago...

1994
Schindler's List
Schindler's List
Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...

1993
Suture
Suture (film)
Suture is a 1993 neo-noir film directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and stars Dennis Haysbert and Mel Harris. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...

1993
Child Murders 1993
Anchoress
Anchoress
Anchoress is a Canadian hardcore punk band that was formed in 2010.The band released their debut EP, Set Sail, via Bandcamp on 4 March 2011.-Members:* Rob Hoover – vocals* Keenan Federico – guitar* Chris Lennox-Aasen – drums* Ricky Castanedo – bass...

1993
The Birth of Love 1993
The Days
The Days (film)
The Days is filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai's 1993 directorial debut. Filmed entirely in black-and-white, The Days follows the life of Dong , and Chun , married artists who have recently graduated from the Beijing Art Institute...

1993
Man Bites Dog
Man Bites Dog (film)
Man Bites Dog is a darkly comedic crime Belgian mockumentary starring Benoît Poelvoorde. In the film, a crew of filmmakers follow a serial killer, recording his crimes for a documentary they are producing...

1992
Shadows and Fog
Shadows and Fog
Shadows and Fog is a black-and-white film directed by Woody Allen and based on his one-act play Death. It stars Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Madonna, and Kenneth Mars. It was filmed on a set at Kaufman Astoria Studios, which holds the distinction of being the biggest set ever...

1992
Life According to Agfa
Life According to Agfa
Life According to Agfa is a 1993 Israeli drama film directed by Assi Dayan. It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention.-Cast:* Gila Almagor as Daliah* Akram Tillawi as Samir...

1992
In the Soup
In the Soup
In the Soup is a 1992 independent film comedy directed by Alexandre Rockwell. It stars Steve Buscemi as a self-conscious screenwriter who has written an unfilmable 500-page screenplay and is looking for a producer....

1992
La Vie de Bohème
La Vie de Bohème (film)
La Vie de Bohème is a 1992 film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi and André Wilms. Kaurismäki's screenplay for the film was based on Henri Murger's influential novel Scènes de la Vie de Bohème which has spawned several on-screen adaptations as well as plays and...

1992
Swoon
Swoon (film)
Swoon is an independent film written and directed by Tom Kalin, released in 1992. It is an account of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, focusing more on the homosexuality of the killers than other movies based on the case...

1992
A Little Stiff
A Little Stiff
A Little Stiff is a 1991 minimalist comedy directed by Caveh Zahedi and Greg Watkins based on true events and re-enacted by the actual participants...

1991
Kafka
Kafka (film)
Kafka is a 1991 mystery thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Ostensibly a biopic, based on the life of Franz Kafka, the film blurs the lines between fact and Kafka's fiction , creating a Kafkaesque atmosphere...

1991
Europa 1991
Dead Again
Dead Again
Dead Again is a 1991 psychological thriller/neo-noir directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Branagh and his then-wife Emma Thompson. Andy García, Derek Jacobi and Robin Williams are also featured.-Plot summary:...

1991
Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D 1991
The Hours and Times
The Hours and Times
The Hours and Times is a 1991 drama film written and directed by Christopher Münch. Starring David Angus and Ian Hart, it is a fictionalized account of what might have happened during a real holiday taken by John Lennon and The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein in 1963.-Plot:It is 1963 and John Lennon...

1991
Puss Bucket 1991
Begotten
Begotten
Begotten is a 1991 experimental/horror film, directed and written by E. Elias Merhige.The film deals with the story of Genesis. But as Merhige revealed during Q&A sessions, its primary inspiration was a near death experience he had when he was 19, after a car crash. The film features no dialogue,...

1991
Korczak 1990
Archangel
Archangel (film)
Archangel is a 1990 comedy-drama film directed by Guy Maddin.The film is set in 1919. News of the war's end has not yet reached the remote Arctic Ocean port of Archangel in Russia, so they fight on. The Russian Civil War is also underway. The protagonist is Lt. John Boles, a soldier missing a leg...

1990
It's Only a Movie! 1990
Singapore Sling
Singapore Sling
The Singapore Sling is a cocktail that was developed sometime before 1915 by Ngiam Tong Boon , a bartender working at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel Singapore...

1990

1980s

FilmYearPartial color
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films...

1989
Sidewalk Stories 1989
My 20th Century
My 20th Century
My 20th Century is a 1989 Hungarian comedy-drama film written and directed by Ildikó Enyedi. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Enyedi won the Golden Camera award at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:...

1989
The Asthenic Syndrome
The Asthenic Syndrome
The Asthenic Syndrome is a 1990 Soviet drama film directed by Kira Muratova. It was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize.-Cast:* Olga Antonova as Natasha* Sergei Popov as Nikolai...

1989
The Plot Against Harry
The Plot Against Harry
The Plot Against Harry is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Michael Roemer and filmed in 1969. It was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Martin Priest as Harry Plotnick* Ben Lang as Leo* Maxine Woods as Kay...

1989
Roadkill 1989
Black Rain
Black Rain (Japanese film)
is a 1989 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura and based on the novel of the same name by Ibuse Masuji. The events are centered on the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.-Plot:...

1989
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Tales from the Gimli Hospital, directed by Guy Maddin, is a black-and-white 1988 psychodrama which incorporates elements of surrealism, black comedy, and expressionism.-Plot synopsis:...

1988
The Virgin Machine 1988
Heart of a Dog 1988
Damnation 1988
Border Radio
Border Radio
Border Radio is a 1987 independent film directed by Allison Anders, Dean Lent and Kurt Voss, in which two musicians and a roadie who haven't been paid rob money from a club and one flees to Mexico leaving his wife and daughter behind...

1987
A Hungarian Fairy Tale
A Hungarian Fairy Tale
A Hungarian Fairy Tale is a 1987 Hungarian film directed by Gyula Gazdag.- Plot :Andris is a child living in Budapest. He is conceived when his mother Maria is attracted to a mysterious stranger during a performance of "The Magic Flute". The stranger disappears after the conception, and as a...

1987
My Best Friend's Birthday
My Best Friend's Birthday
My Best Friend's Birthday is a black-and-white amateur film written by Craig Hamann and Quentin Tarantino and directed by Quentin Tarantino, while he was working at the now shuttered Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, California...

1987
Epidemic
Epidemic (film)
Epidemic is a 1987 film directed by Lars von Trier. It is the second of Trier's films known collectively as the Europa trilogy. The other two films in the trilogy are The Element of Crime and Europa ....

1987
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire is a 1987 Franco-German romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of the human inhabitants and comfort those who are in distress...

1987
Down by Law
Down by Law (film)
Down by Law is a 1986 black-and-white independent film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni....

1986
She's Gotta Have It
She's Gotta Have It
She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee. It was also Lee's first feature-length film. The film stars Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks and John Canada Terrell. Also appearing are cinematographer Ernest Dickerson as a Brooklyn resident and...

1986
Under the Cherry Moon
Under the Cherry Moon
Under the Cherry Moon is a 1986 film directed by and starring Prince as a gigolo named Christopher Tracy and Time member Jerome Benton as his partner, Tricky. Together, the pair swindle wealthy French women...

1986
Noir et Blanc
Noir et Blanc
Noir et Blanc is a 1986 French film written and directed by Claire Devers.- Cast :*Francis Frappat, Antoine*Jacques Martial, Dominique*Catherine Belkhodja, la femme de ménage*Joséphine Fresson, Edith*Benoît Régent, l'hôtelier*Marc Berman, Roland...

1986
Mala Noche
Mala Noche
Mala Noche is a 1985 American drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, based on an autobiographical novel by the Oregon poet Walt Curtis. The movie was shot in 16 mm, mostly black-and-white. Mala Noche is the first feature film by Gus Van Sant...

1985
The Angelic Conversation
The Angelic Conversation (film)
The Angelic Conversation is a 1985 arthouse drama film directed by Derek Jarman. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving photographic images and Shakespeare's sonnets read by Judi Dench...

1985
Broadway Danny Rose
Broadway Danny Rose
Broadway Danny Rose is a 1984 American black-and-white comedy film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen. It was screened out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.- Plot :...

1984
Boy Meets Girl
Boy Meets Girl (1984 film)
Boy Meets Girl is a 1984 French drama film written and directed by Leos Carax, starring Denis Lavant and Mireille Perrier. It was Carax' first feature film...

1984
Calamari Union
Calamari Union
Calamari Union is the second full-length film by director Aki Kaurismäki, 1984.-Plot:Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank apart from a single confrere, Pekka...

1984
The Element of Crime
The Element of Crime
The Element of Crime is the first feature film directed by noted Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. The film, released in 1984, is also the first in the director's Europa trilogy...

1984
Stranger Than Paradise
Stranger Than Paradise
Stranger Than Paradise is a 1984 American absurdist/deadpan comedy film. It was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and stars jazz musician John Lurie, former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson, and Hungarian-born actress Eszter Balint...

1984
Le Dernier Combat
Le Dernier Combat
Le Dernier Combat , released in 1983 French film is the first feature film made by Luc Besson. The film is a dark vision of post-apocalyptic survival.The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation...

1983
The Gold Diggers
The Gold Diggers (1983 film)
The Gold Diggers is a 1983 British film directed by Sally Potter and starring Julie Christie, Kassandra Colson and Siobhan Davies....

1983
Confidentially Yours
Confidentially Yours
Confidentially Yours is a 1983 French film directed by François Truffaut. It is based on the novel The Long Saturday Night, by the American author Charles Williams, and was Truffaut's last film...

1983
Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish is a 1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the novel Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay....

1983
Chan Is Missing
Chan Is Missing
Chan Is Missing is a 1982 film directed by Wayne Wang, which tells the story of two taxi drivers searching the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown for the man who ran off with their money. It stars Wood Moy, Marc Hayashi and Laureen Chew....

 
1982
Veronika Voss 1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Rachel Ward. It is both a parody of, and an homage to, film noir and the pulp detective movies of the 1940s....

1982
The Prefab People 1982
The State of Things
The State of Things (film)
The State of Things is a 1982 road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It tells the story of a film director travelling from Portugal to Los Angeles in search of his missing producer....

1982
Zelig
Zelig
Zelig is a 1983 American mockumentary film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Allen and Mia Farrow. Allen plays Zelig, a curiously nondescript enigma who is discovered for his remarkable ability to transform himself to resemble anyone he's near.The film was shot almost entirely in...

1981
Raging Bull 1980
The Elephant Man
The Elephant Man (film)
The Elephant Man is a 1980 American drama film based on the true story of Joseph Merrick , a severely deformed man in 19th century London...

1980
Stardust Memories
Stardust Memories
Stardust Memories is a 1980 film written and directed by Woody Allen, who considers this to be one of his best films in addition to The Purple Rose of Cairo and Match Point. The film is shot in black-and-white, particularly reminiscent of Federico Fellini's 8½ , which it parodies...

1980
Forbidden Zone
Forbidden Zone
Forbidden Zone is a 1982 musical comedy film based upon the stage performances of the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. The film stars Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell and members of the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, and features appearances by Warhol Superstar Viva, Joe Spinell and The...

1980

1970s

FilmYearPartial color
Radio On
Radio On
Radio On is a film directed by Christopher Petit and released in 1979. It is a rare example of a British road movie, shot in black and white and featuring music from a number of New Wave bands from the time, as well as established artists such as Kraftwerk and David Bowie...

1979
Manhattan
Manhattan (film)
Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen about a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl before eventually falling in love with his best friend's mistress...

1979
J-Men Forever
J-Men Forever
J-Men Forever is a 1979 comedy film by Philip Proctor and PeterBergman of the Firesign Theatre. The film is a pastiche using film clips from Republic serials, re-dubbed with comic dialog to tell a tale of world conquest by sex, drugs and rock and roll....

1979
Family Nest
Family Nest
Family Nest is a 1979 Hungarian black-and-white drama film, directed by Béla Tarr. The film won Grand Prize at the 1979 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, which tied with Spanish film El Super.-Cast:*Laszlone Horvath as Irén...

1979
Stalker
Stalker (film)
Stalker is a 1979 science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, with a screenplay written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, loosely based on their novel Roadside Picnic...

1979
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting is a 1979 French mystery film directed by Raúl Ruiz.-Cast:* Jean Rougeul - The collector* Chantal Paley - Tableaux Personnel* Jean Raynaud - Tableaux Personnel* Daniel Grimm - Tableaux Personnel...

1979
Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy 1978
The Whole Shootin' Match
The Whole Shootin' Match
The Whole Shootin' Match is a 1978 American independent film directed and co-written by Eagle Pennell and starring Sonny Carl Davis, Lou Perryman and Doris Hargrave. The Black-and-white film was originally shot in 16 mm...

1978
Northern Lights
Northern Lights (1978 film)
Northern Lights was a 1978 independent film which dramatizes the founding of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, a Socialist political movement which took place in the American Midwest in the early 1900s....

1978
Eraserhead
Eraserhead
Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist film and the first feature film of David Lynch, who wrote, produced and directed. Lynch began working on the film at the AFI Conservatory, which gave him a $10,000 grant to make the film after he had begun working there following his 1971 move to Los Angeles...

1977
Hot Tomorrows 1977
Killer of Sheep
Killer of Sheep
Killer of Sheep is a 1977 American film written, directed, produced and shot by Charles Burnett. It features Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, and Charles Bracy, among others. The drama depicts the culture of urban African-Americans in Los Angeles' Watts district...

1977
Julio comienza en Julio 1977
The Consequence 1977
Kings of the Road
Kings of the Road
Kings of the Road is a 1976 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It was the third part of Wenders' "Road Movie Trilogy" which included Alice in the Cities and The Wrong Move...

1976
Coup de Grâce 1976
The Ascent
The Ascent
The Ascent , is a 1977 black-and-white Soviet war film directed by Larisa Shepitko and made at Mosfilm. It was Shepitko's last film before her death in a car accident in 1979...

1976
The Mirror
The Mirror (1975 film)
The Mirror is a 1975 Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is loosely autobiographical, blending childhood memories, newsreel footage and poems by his father Arseny Tarkovsky...

1975
Overlord
Overlord (film)
Overlord is a 1975 black-and-white film written and directed by Stuart Cooper. Set around the D-Day invasion , Overlord is a war film about a young soldier's meditations on being part of the war machinery, and his premonitions of death...

1975
Hester Street 1975
Pastoral
Pastoral
The adjective pastoral refers to the lifestyle of pastoralists, such as shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasturage. It also refers to a genre in literature, art or music that depicts such shepherd life in an...

1975
La fille du garde-barrière 1975
C'eravamo tanto amati
C'eravamo tanto amati
We All Loved Each Other So Much is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Ettore Scola and written by Scola and the famous screenwriter duo of Age & Scarpelli...

1975
Thundercrack!
Thundercrack!
Thundercrack! is a pornographic black comedy film, combining an "old dark house" mystery with hardcore sex scenes. It was directed by Curt McDowell and written from Mark Ellinger and George Kuchar.-Plot summary:...

1977
The Noah
The Noah
The Noah is a complex and innovative feature film written and directed by Daniel Bourla, starring Robert Strauss in his final film performance. Noah , the sole survivor on our planet after a nuclear holocaust, finds himself unable to accept his unique predicament...

1975
Alice in the Cities
Alice in the Cities
Alice in the Cities is a 1974 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. This was the first part of Wenders' "Road Movie Trilogy" which included The Wrong Move and Kings of the Road...

1974
The Traveller
The Traveller (film)
The Traveler is a 1974 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami that tells the story of Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town. He wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in Tehran. In order to achieve that, he scams his...

1974
Effi Briest
Effi Briest
Effi Briest is widely considered to be Theodor Fontane’s masterpiece and one of the most famous German realist novels of all time. Thomas Mann once said that if one had to reduce one’s library to six novels, Effi Briest would have to be one of them...

1974
Les Hautes solitudes 1974
Lenny
Lenny (film)
Lenny is a 1974 American biographical film about the comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Julian Barry is based on his play of the same name.-Plot:...

1974
Je, tu, il, elle
Je, tu, il, elle
-Cast:* Chantal Akerman as Julie* Niels Arestrup as truck driver* Claire Wauthion as friend of Julie...

1974
Young Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The supporting cast includes Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard...

1974
Un homme qui dort
Un homme qui dort
The Man Who Sleeps and his alienation as he wanders the streets of Paris. His inner musings are narrated in the form of an unwritten diary by Ludmila Mikael. The hero remains silent throughout the film. The film won the Prix Jean Vigo in 1974....

1974
Vase de Noces
Vase de Noces
Vase de Noces is a Belgian arthouse film directed by Thierry Zéno and stars Dominique Garny.The film deals openly, and sometimes graphically, with bestiality, and is informally known as The Pig Fucking Movie...

1974
Paper Moon
Paper Moon (film)
Paper Moon is a 1973 American comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white. The film is set during the Great Depression in the U.S. states of Kansas and...

1973
Coup d'Etat
Coup d'Etat (film)
is a 1973 Japanese film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. It was Japan's submission to the 46th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-See also:*Cinema of Japan...

1973
The Mother and the Whore
The Mother and the Whore
The Mother and the Whore is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache. Examing the relationship between three characters in a love triangle, it was Eustache's first feature film and is considered his masterpiece.-Plot:...

1973
Tomorrow
Tomorrow (1972 film)
Tomorrow is 1972 film directed by Joseph Anthony. The screenplay was written by Horton Foote, adapted from a play he wrote which was based on a story by William Faulkner...

1972
The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry....

1971
Love
Love (1971 film)
Love is a 1971 Hungarian drama film directed by Károly Makk. Based on two short stories by Tibor Déry, Szerelem and Két asszony , it stars Lili Darvas and Mari Törőcsik. It won three prizes, including the Jury Prize at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival...

1971
La Salamandre 1971
Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun (film)
Johnny Got His Gun is a 1971 anti-war film based on the novel of the same name written and directed by Dalton Trumbo and starring Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland with Diane Varsi...

1971
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Emperor Tomato Ketchup (film)
Emperor Tomato Ketchup is a Japanese film directed by Shūji Terayama in 1971.-Plot summary:A youngboy is the emperor of a country in which children have overthrown the adults....

1971
Multiple Maniacs
Multiple Maniacs
Multiple Maniacs is a 1970 comedy film by American cult filmmaker John Waters; his second feature film. The film features several actors who were part of the Dreamland acting troupe for Waters' films, including Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, and Cookie...

1970
Heroic Purgatory 1970
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Even Dwarfs Started Small is a 1970 film by German director Werner Herzog.-Plot:A group of dwarfs confined in an institution on a remote island rebel against the guards and director in a display of mayhem...

1970
Ucho 1970
Summer in the City
Summer in the City (film)
Summer in the City is the first full-length feature film by director Wim Wenders, released in 1970 and starring Hanns Zischler.Wenders' first full-length film was produced as his graduation project at the Academy of Film and Television in Munich which he attended from 1967 to 1970...

1970
Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową 1970
The Wild Child
The Wild Child
The Wild Child is a French film by director François Truffaut. The film features Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, Françoise Seigner and Jean Dasté. The film had a total of 1,458,164 admissions in France...

1970
Quiet Days in Clichy 1970
The American Soldier 1970
There Once Was a Singing Blackbird 1970
Awakening of the Beast
Awakening of the Beast
Awakening of the Beast is a 1970 Brazilian horror/exploitation film by filmmaker and actor José Mojica Marins. Marins is also known by his alter ego Coffin Joe...

1970
Gods of the Plague 1970
Reconstruction 1970
The Honeymoon Killers
The Honeymoon Killers
The Honeymoon Killers is a 1970 American film written and directed by Leonard Kastle, and starring Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco. It tells the story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, the notorious "lonely hearts killers" who murdered at least 12 women in the 1940s...

1970


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