Best Black & White Films by Director
937
416
1957
Billy Wilder
Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1100
486
1953
Billy Wilder
William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger
Drama / War / Comedy
USA
English
1240
544
1954
Billy Wilder
Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1324
584
1942
Billy Wilder
Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1360
603
1943
Billy Wilder
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck
Thriller / War / Spy / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1367
605
1961
Billy Wilder
James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin
Comedy
USA
English
1478
659
1957
Billy Wilder
Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Van Doude
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1823
810
1948
Billy Wilder
Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1904
845
1966
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Judi West
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2541
1179
1964
Billy Wilder
Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond, Barbara Pepper
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2628
1224
1919
Irvin Willat
Harry Houdini, Thomas Jefferson, Ann Forrest, Augustus Phillips, Tully Marshall
Adventure / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2719
1278
1919
Irvin Willat
Hobart Bosworth, Jane Novak, Wallace Beery, James Gordon, Richard Wayne
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2661
1241
1941
Spencer Williams
Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley
Drama / Fantasy / Religion
USA
English
2719
1278
1920
Lawrence C. Windom
Babe Ruth, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, Margaret Seddon, Frances Victory
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2294
1045
1951
Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh
Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Roy Roberts
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
2712
1273
2004
Irwin Winkler
Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Sandra Nelson
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA / UK
English
2445
1129
2002
Michael Winterbottom
Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha, Hiddayatullah, Jamau, Wakeel Khan
Drama
UK
English
2712
1273
1995
Michael Winterbottom
Amanda Plummer, Kathy Jamieson, Saskia Reeves, Des McAleer, Lisa Riley
Thriller / Drama / Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2768
1311
1996
Michael Winterbottom
Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, June Whitfield, Rachel Griffiths
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
667
307
1951
Robert Wise
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Family
USA
English
1003
442
1949
Robert Wise
Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter
Film-Noir / Drama / Sports / Cult
USA
English
1033
458
1963
Robert Wise
Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1161
511
1958
Robert Wise
Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel
Crime / Drama / Biography
USA
English
1186
522
1954
Robert Wise
William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March
Drama
USA
English
1645
727
1945
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1780
786
1956
Robert Wise
Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart
Drama / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2008
895
1944
Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, Eve March, Julia Dean
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
2223
999
1959
Robert Wise
Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Film-Noir
USA
English
2628
1224
1975
Robert Wise
George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young
Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2628
1224
1962
Robert Wise
Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan, Elisabeth Fraser, Eddie Firestone
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2759
1306
1958
Robert Wise
Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter
War / Action / Drama
USA
English
2661
1241
1970
Frederick Wiseman
Eugene Friedman M.D., Stanley Friedman M.D., Robert Schwartz M.D.
Documentary
USA
English
2628
1224
1919
Chester Withey
Norma Talmadge, Pedro de Cordoba, Charles K. Gerrard, Stuart Holmes, Marc McDermott
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2681
1250
1959
Konrad Wolf
Sasha Krusharska, Jürgen Frohriep, Erik S. Klein
War / Drama / Romance
East Germany / Bulgaria
Bulgarian
38
21
2000
Kar Wai Wong
Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ping Lam Siu, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Romance / Drama / Period Film
Hong Kong / France / Thailand
Cantonese
1142
504
2004
Kar Wai Wong
Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Li Gong, Takuya Kimura, Faye Wong, Ziyi Zhang
Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi
China / France / Germany / Hong Kong
Cantonese
1170
513
1997
Kar Wai Wong
Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Chen Chang
Drama / Romance
Hong Kong
Mandarin
2661
1241
1916
Marion Wong
Violet Wong, Harvey Soo Hoo, Marion Wong, Chin Shee
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2584
1199
1953
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Timothy Farrell, Dolores Fuller, Edward D. Wood Jr.
Drama / Cult
USA
English
2658
1240
1959
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Tom Keene, Carl Anthony
Horror / Sci-Fi / Action / Cult
USA
English
427
213
1935
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Comedy / Family / Romance / Musical
USA
English
944
418
1942
Sam Wood
Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1074
475
1942
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright
Drama / Family / Biography / Sports / History
USA
English
1492
665
1940
Sam Wood
Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1533
683
1937
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2396
1101
1949
Sam Wood
James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2412
1112
1948
Sam Wood
Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford
War / Drama / Action
USA
English
2591
1204
1933
Sam Wood
Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Helen Mack, Beulah Bondi, Russell Hardie
Comedy
USA
English
2591
1204
1941
Sam Wood
Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2717
1277
1945
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Jerry Austin, John Warburton
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
2719
1278
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2719
1278
1920
Sam Wood
Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Raymond Hatton, Willis Marks, George B. Williams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2719
1278
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Richard Wayne, Stuart Holmes, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Ogle
Western / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2585
1200
1984
Billy Woodberry
Nate Hardman, Kaycee Moore, Angela Burnett, Ronald Burnett, Kimberly Burnett
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2719
1278
2014
Chuck Workman
Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2006
893
1923
Wallace Worsley
Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson
Drama / Horror / Period Film / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2456
1138
1920
Wallace Worsley
Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2494
1159
1919
William Worthington
Sessue Hayakawa, Toyo Fujita, Edward Peil Sr., Tsuru Aoki
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2719
1278
1921
John Griffith Wray
Florence Vidor, Lloyd Hughes, Theodore Roberts, Gertrude Claire, Madge Bellamy
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
101
57
1946
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
365
183
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
388
193
1953
William Wyler
Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
529
251
1949
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
900
402
1937
William Wyler
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
1050
462
1942
William Wyler
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
1091
481
1951
William Wyler
Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Detective
USA
English
1750
772
1936
William Wyler
Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet
Drama
USA
English
1886
834
1940
William Wyler
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker
Western
USA
English
1958
871
1955
William Wyler
Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin
Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2016
899
1952
William Wyler
Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2141
964
1933
William Wyler
John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell, Melvyn Douglas
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2221
998
1965
William Wyler
Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore
Drama / Horror / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2446
1130
1961
William Wyler
Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter
Drama
USA
English
2591
1204
1935
William Wyler
Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Eric Blore
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2591
1204
1929
William Wyler
Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway, Joe De La Cruz
Drama / Western
USA
English
2719
1278
1929
William Wyler
James Murray, Barbara Kent, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Hanlon
Drama / Sports / Crime / Comedy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2628
1224
1937
Sadao Yamanaka
Tsuruzo Nakamura, Emitaro Ichikawa, Shizue Yamagishi, Choemon Bando
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2776
1317
1936
Sadao Yamanaka
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Utaemon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2776
1317
1935
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2628
1224
1945
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers, Lois Collier
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2719
1278
1952
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones
Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2719
1278
1953
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones
Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2719
1278
1929
Hal Yates
Edgar Kennedy, Stuart Erwin, Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2591
1204
1952
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Yumiko Miyagino, Mitsuko Miura, Yuko Tsumura, Kinuyo Tanaka, Jukichi Uno
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2628
1224
1940
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Shozaburo Abe, Munenobu Aburai, Shôtarô Fujimatsu, Toyama Fumio
War
Japan
Japanese
2755
1302
1993
Andrew Young, Susan Todd, Michael Roemer, Robert M. Young
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2661
1241
1931
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
1410
632
1934
Harold Young
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
Adventure / Comedy / Period Film / Family
UK
English
2538
1177
1961
Robert Youngson
Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Houdini
Adventure / Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2538
1177
1970
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, Jay Jackson
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2538
1177
1957
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Ben Turpin
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2538
1177
1963
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Douglas Fairbanks
Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2538
1177
1960
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2591
1204
1965
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Anita Garvin, Edgar Kennedy
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2645
1233
1931
Sergei Yutkevich
Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky, V. Fedoseyev, Nikolai Michurin
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2424
1117
1947
Luigi Zampa
Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, Mirella Monti, John Kitzmiller
Drama / War / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2699
1263
1947
Luigi Zampa
Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante
Drama
Italy
Italian
2688
1254
1982
Krzysztof Zanussi
Robert Powell, Brigitte Fossey, Sigfrit Steiner, Matthias Habich, Jan Biczycki
Drama
West Germany
English
2719
1278
2012
Leslie Zemeckis
Violet Hilton, Daisy Hilton, Nancy Allen, Blake Boyd, Tim Stack, Lea Thompson
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
416
208
1994
Robert Zemeckis
Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2712
1273
2008
Marina Zenovich
Roman Polanski, Samantha Geimer, Douglas Dalton, Roger Gunson, Mia Farrow
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA / UK
English
2776
1317
1964
Mai Zetterling
Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré,
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
970
429
2002
Yimou Zhang
Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Daoming Chen
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance / History / Epic
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
2693
1259
1999
Yimou Zhang
Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng, Yulian Zhao, Bin Li, Guifa Chang, Wencheng Sung
Drama / Romance
China
Mandarin
2628
1224
1920
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
G. Budzhalov, A. Solovyov, Nikolai Kostromskoy, Ye. Sokolova, M. Kudelko
Drama
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2776
1317
1949
Junli Zheng
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Drama
China
Mandarin
2764
1309
1994
Rafal Zielinski
Renée Humphrey, Alicia Witt, William R. Moses, Leslie Hope, Ania Suli
Drama / Crime
Canada
English
2690
1256
1969
Zelimir Zilnik
Milja Vujanovic, Bogdan Tirnanic, Cedomir Radovic, Marko Nikolic
Comedy / Drama
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
117
64
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
247
129
1953
Fred Zinnemann
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
861
389
1950
Fred Zinnemann
Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb
Drama
USA
English
1088
478
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey
Drama / War
Switzerland / USA
English
1383
617
1957
Fred Zinnemann
Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan
Drama
USA
English
2352
1078
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2456
1138
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates
Drama
USA
English
2628
1224
1944
Fred Zinnemann
Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead
Drama / War
USA
English
2699
1263
1951
Fred Zinnemann
Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Richard Bishop
Drama
USA
English
2673
1247
1962
Albert Zugsmith
Vincent Price, Linda Ho, Richard Loo, June Kyoto Lu
Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2127
956
1961
Valerio Zurlini
Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy / France
French
2488
1156
1988
Charlotte Zwerin
Jimmy Cleveland, Harry Colomby, John Coltrane, Ray Copeland
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
