Faust (1926), Manhattan (1979), Pelle the Conqueror (1987), Pressure Point (1962), Of Mice and Men (1992), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), Following (1998), Full Moon in Paris (1984) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Black And White Cinematography movies.
Storyline: In the Seventeenth Century, in Maldavia, Princess Asa Vajda and her lover Javutich (Arturo Dominici) are killed by the local population, accused of witchcraft. A mask of Satan is attached to their faces. Princess Asa curses her brother, promising revenge to his descents. The body of Javutich is buried outside the cemetery, and the coffin of Princess Asa is placed in the family's tomb with a cross over it for protection. Two hundred years later, Professor Thomas Kruvajan and his assistant, Dr. Andre Gorobec, are going to a congress in Russia and they accidentally find the tomb. Dr. Thomas breaks the cross, releasing the evil witch. When they are leaving the place, Dr. Andre meets Princess Katia Vajda, descendant of Princess Asa, and falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Katia is threatened by the witch, who wants to use her body to live again.
Plot Keywords: horror, gothic, black and white, italian cinema, classic, vampire, witch ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young German (Rudiger Vogler) and his companions (Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech) discuss dreams, poetry and politics.
Plot Keywords: road movie, drama, 1970s, existentialism, self-discovery, loneliness, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: western, crime, revenge, betrayal, gunfight, fugitive, outlaw ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A tale of innocence abroad, with racial overtones. Turner is a Black American, stationed at an air base in France. His captain thinks Turner's a good Negro, obedient, cheerful, and frightened, so he gives him a promotion and a three-day pass. On the first night, at a club, he meets Miriam, a White Parisian shop clerk. They dance, talk, and fantasize about each other. He's amazed when she agrees to spend the weekend with him at a Normandy beach hotel; in fact, he guesses she's a prostitute. She's not, they go; it's off season, they have their pick of rooms, and romance ensues. Then, racial misunderstanding and real prejudice complicate the weekend and its aftermath.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: race relations, identity, romance, racial discrimination, france, african american, military ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us one of the stories of his people and his land. It's a story of an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife. So, over a few days and several trips to hunt and gather, Minygululu tells Dayindi a story set in the time of their ancestors when a stranger came to the village and disrupted the lives of a serious man named Ridjimiraril, his three wives, and his younger brother Yeeralparil who had no wife and liked to visit his youngest sister-in-law. Through stories, can values be taught and balance achieved?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: australian film, indigenous culture, epic, oral history, wilderness survival, cultural heritage, mythology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The Consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.—Eric Wees <eric_wees@ccmail.chin.doc.ca>
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, history, romance, tragedy, alcoholism, mexico ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: independent film, drama, american film, social issues, family, tragedy, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah embraces an imagined world all on his own.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, family, childhood, brotherhood, poverty, father-son relationship, mother-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Having discovered that she is pregnant, Natalie Ravenna, a Long Island housewife panics and leaves home to see if she might just possibly have made something different out of herself; if she can manage to unshackle her grocery list worth of responsibilities that add up to a life with a husband she loves. In a motel room where Natalie stops to rest during the day, she sits motionless on the bed, and experiences the exuberance of complete freedom and the queasy feelings of new beginnings. Natalie continues on with her journey and picks up a young hitch-hiker named Killer, an attractive brain-damaged football player. It is through Killer that a more disturbing question is posed to Natalie than that of domestic responsibility. How deeply are we wedded to chance meetings and are we responsible for the crimes that we witness?—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: drama, road movie, female protagonist, marital crisis, escapism, self-discovery, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being "owned" by a single partner.—James Meek <james@oz.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, female director, new york, urban life, female empowerment, romantic comedy, social commentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Iago convinces Othello, The Moor of Venice that his wife, Desdemona has been unfaithful. Iago is an evil, manipulative character with his own agenda. A plot of jealousy and rage transpires in this classic Shakespearean tale.—Jason Ihle <jrihl@conncoll.edu>
Plot Keywords: shakespeare, tragedy, play adaptation, jealousy, betrayal, race, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman Dana Stribling who has a personal reason for getting him back into his jurisdiction. Both men join Breckenridge and his wife on the drive. As they near Texas tensions mount, not least because Stribling is starting to court Belle and O'Malley is increasingly drawn by her daughter Missy.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: western, drama, romance, revenge, fugitive, gunfight, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hamlet returns to Denmark when his father, the King, dies. His mother Gertrude has already married Hamlet's uncle Claudius, the new King. They urge Hamlet to marry his beloved Ophelia. But soon the ghost of Hamlet's father appears and tells Hamlet that he was murdered by Claudius and Gertrude. Hamlet must choose between passive acquiescence and the need for a vengeance which might lead to tragedy.
Plot Keywords: tragedy, shakespeare, revenge, denmark, prince, classic adaptation, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America. Set in 1902.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, female director, historical drama, family saga, visual art, cultural heritage, female perspective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brothers Vincent (rich) and Clay (poor) meet up for the first time after their father's funeral and remark on how similar they look. But unknown to Clay, who thinks his life is taking a turn for the better, Vince is actually plotting to kill him with a car bomb and pass the corpse off as his own, planning to start a new life elsewhere with his father's inheritance. But Clay survives the blast and has his face, memory and identity restored in hospital... but are they the right ones?—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: film noir, psychological thriller, mystery, crime, memory, visual style, independent film ...
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