Top 10: The best B/W movies reviewed by Film Excess to date

1. Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz

2. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) - Michael Curtiz

3. Roman Holiday (1953) - William Wyler

4. The Blue Angel/Der Blaue Engel (1930) - Joseph von Sternberg

5. The Big Sleep (1946) - Howard Hawks

6. Dead Man (1995) - Jim Jarmusch

7. Down by Law (1986) - Jim Jarmusch

8. 8½/Otto e Mezzo (1963) - Federico Fellini

9. The Battle of Algiers/La Battaglia di Algeri (1966) - Gillo Pontecorvo

10. Carnival of Souls (1962) - Herk Harvey

Other B/W masterpiece reviewed by Film Excess to date

The Artist (2011) 

Other great B/W movies and a short reviewed by Film Excess to date (in alphabetical order) 

A Star Is Born (1937) 
Cape Fear (1962) 
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) 
The Dark Corner (1946) 
Frances Ha (2012) 
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Ida (2013) 
Nebraska (2013) 
Two Men and a Wardrobe/Dwaj Ludzie z Szafą (1958, short) 


Other good B/W movies, a documentary and a short reviewed by Film Excess to date (in alphabetical order)


The 39 Steps (1935) 
Antoine et Colette (1962, short) 
Captain Kidd (1945) 
Celebrity (1998)
Citizen Kane (1941) 
Cul-de-Sac (1966) 
Danmark (1935, documentary)
Doomed to Die (1940) 
Double Indemnity (1944) 
Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report (1955) 
The Mummy (1932) 
The Mysterious X/Det Hemmelighedsfulde X/Orders Under Seal/Sealed Orders (1914) 

Mediocre or poor B/W movies and a documentary reviewed by Film Excess to date (in alphabetical order)


Alexander Nevsky (1938)
The Ape (1940) 
Atom Age Vampire/Seddok, l'Erede di Satana (1960) 
The Birth of a Nation/The Clansman (1915) 
Black Dragons (1942) 
Bloodlust (1961) 
The Bridge/The Spy (1929, short) 
Child Bride/Child Brides/Child Bride of the Ozarks/Dust to Dust (1938) 
City Lights (1931) 
The Corpse Vanishes/The Case of the Missing Brides (1942) 
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) 
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) 
Man with a Movie Camera/Человек с киноаппаратом (1929, documentary) 
Nights of Cabiria/Le Notti di Cabiria (1957) 
The Turin Horse/A Torinói Ló (2011) 

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Previous Top 10 lists:

The best action movies reviewed by Film Excess to date  
The best adapted movies reviewed by Film Excess to date
The best adventure movies reviewed by Film Excess to date

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