List of black-and-white films produced since 1970

Since the 1970s, fiction feature films have been filmed almost exclusively in color. Some films after the transition to color are occasionally presented in black-and-white for budgetary or stylistic reasons. This is a list of notable feature films made after the 1960s that have a significant amount of their running time in black-and-white or monochrome/sepia tone. Many modern black-and-white films are shot in color and converted in post-production.[1][2]

Note: This list does not include short films, documentaries, or films with black-and-white footage lasting less than 5 minutes.

1970s

FilmYearExclusively B/W
Evil Spirits of Japan (Nippon No Akuryo)1970Yes
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Tokyo Senso Sengo Hiwa)1970Yes
This Transient Life1970Yes
The Honeymoon Killers1970Yes
Heroic Purgatory1970Yes
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!1970Yes
Awakening of the Beast1970No
The American Soldier1970Yes
Gods of the Plague1970Yes
Quiet Days in Clichy1970Yes
The Wild Child1970Yes
Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową1970Yes
Summer in the City1970Yes
Ucho1970Yes
Even Dwarfs Started Small1970Yes
Multiple Maniacs1970Yes
Demons1971Yes
Emperor Tomato Ketchup1971Yes
Johnny Got His Gun1971No
The Salamander1971Yes
Love1971Yes
Uma Abelha na Chuva1971Yes
Hydrozagadka1971Yes
The Last Picture Show1971Yes
The Morning Schedule (Gozenchu no jikanwari)1972No
Nathalie Granger1972Yes
Solaris1972No
The Goat Horn1972Yes
Tomorrow1972Yes
The Stone Wedding1972Yes
The Mother and the Whore1973Yes
Tu brûles... tu brûles...1973Yes
Noël et Juliette1973Yes
Coup d'Etat1973Yes
Paper Moon1973Yes
Vase de Noces1974Yes
The Man Who Sleeps1974Yes
Duhul aurului1974Yes
Young Frankenstein1974Yes
Je, tu, il, elle1974Yes
Il tempo dell'inizio1974Yes
Lenny1974Yes
Uttarayanam1974Yes
Effi Briest1974Yes
The Traveller1974Yes
Alice in the Cities1974Yes
The Noah1975Yes
Thundercrack!1975Yes
Örökbefogadás1975Yes
C'eravamo tanto amati1975No
La fille du garde-barrière1975Yes
Pastoral: To Die in the Country1975No
Hester Street1975Yes
Overlord1975Yes
Under the Pavement Lies the Strand1975Yes
Evrydiki BA 2O371975Yes
The Mirror1975No
Coup de Grâce1976Yes
Kings of the Road1976Yes
Agraharathil Kazhutai1977Yes
The Ascent1977Yes
The Consequence1977Yes
Hot Tomorrows1977Yes
A Special Day1977Yes
Eraserhead1977Yes
Hitler: A Film from Germany1977No
Northern Lights1978Yes
The Whole Shootin' Match1978Yes
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting1979Yes
Killer of Sheep1978Yes
Stalker1979No
Family Nest1979Yes
J-Men Forever1979Yes
Manhattan1979Yes
Radio On1979Yes

1980s

FilmYearExclusively B/W
Forbidden Zone1980Yes
Stardust Memories1980Yes
The Elephant Man1980Yes
Raging Bull1980No
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End1980Yes
You Are Not I1981Yes
Muddy River1981Yes
The State of Things1982Yes
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid1982Yes
Konopielka1982Yes
Veronika Voss1982Yes
Chassé-croisé1982Yes
Chan Is Missing1982Yes
Strasek, der Vampir1982Yes
Zelig1983No
Rumble Fish1983No
Confidentially Yours1983Yes
The Gold Diggers1983Yes
Le Dernier Combat1983Yes
Stranger Than Paradise1984Yes
Klassenverhältnisse1984Yes
Calamari Union1984Yes
Boy Meets Girl1984Yes
Broadway Danny Rose1984Yes
The Angelic Conversation1985No
Mala Noche1985No
Noir et Blanc1986Yes
Tree Without Leaves1986Yes
Under the Cherry Moon1986Yes
She's Gotta Have It1986No
To Sleep So as to Dream (Yumemiru yôni nemuritai)1986Yes
Down by Law1986Yes
Wings of Desire1987No
Epidemic1987Yes
My Best Friend's Birthday1987Yes
A Hungarian Fairy Tale1987Yes
Border Radio1987Yes
The Noisy Requiem (Tsuitō no Zawameki)1988Yes
Damnation1988Yes
Heart of a Dog1988Yes
Hard Times1988Yes
L'imperatore di Roma1988Yes
Tales from the Gimli Hospital1988Yes
Begotten1989Yes
Black Rain1989Yes
Roadkill1989Yes
The Asthenic Syndrome1989No
My 20th Century1989Yes
Circus Boys (Nijisseiki shônen dokuhon)1989Yes
O Sangue1989Yes
The Pregnant Laddie (A legényanya)1989Yes
Sidewalk Stories1989Yes
Tetsuo: The Iron Man1989Yes
The Big Picture1989No

1990s

FilmYearExclusively B/W
Pervyy etazh1990Yes
Singapore Sling1990Yes
Freeze Die Come to Life (Zamri, umri, voskresni!)1990Yes
Archangel1990Yes
Korczak1990Yes
The Hours and Times1991Yes
Night of the Day of the Dawn Part 21991Yes
Dead Again1991No
Europa1991No
Kafka1991No
A Little Stiff1991Yes
Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful1991No
Swoon1992Yes
La Vie de Bohème1992Yes
In the Soup1992Yes
Life According to Agfa1992Yes
Shadows and Fog1992Yes
Man Bites Dog1992Yes
The Days1993Yes
Anchoress1993Yes
En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud1993Yes
Suture1993Yes
Schindler's List1993No
Go Fish1994Yes
Nadja1994Yes
Woyzeck1994Yes
Sátántangó 1994Yes
Rhythm Thief1994Yes
Federal Hill1994Yes
Eclipse1994No
Ed Wood1994Yes
Natural Born Killers1994No
Clerks1994Yes
The Corridor1995Yes
Dead Man1995Yes
Institute Benjamenta1995Yes
La Haine1995Yes
The Addiction1995Yes
A Midwinter's Tale (aka In The Bleak Midwinter)1995Yes
Dream for an Insomniac1996No
Rubber's Lover1996Yes
The Toilers and the Wayfarers1996Yes
Bitter Sugar1996Yes
Foreign Land1996Yes
Growing Artichokes in Mimongo1996Yes
Drawing Flies1996Yes
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day1996Yes
House of the Damned1996Yes
Labyrinth of Dreams (Yume no ginga)1997Yes
The Tango Lesson1997No
Desert Sky (To athoo soma)1997Yes
Leather Jacket Love Story1997Yes
Kasaba1997Yes
How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate1997Yes
24 7: Twenty Four Seven1997Yes
The Cruise1998Yes
Pleasantville1998No
American History X1998No
Khrustalyov, mashinu!1998Yes
Pi1998Yes
Bullet Ballet1998Yes
The Red Dwarf1998Yes
Samurai Fiction1998Yes
The General1998Yes
The City1998Yes
Celebrity1998Yes
Capuccino1998Yes
Following1998Yes
Of Freaks and Men1998No
Okraina1998Yes
Man of the Century1999Yes
Judy Berlin1999Yes
Juha1999Yes
Wisconsin Death Trip1999No
Chi Girl1999Yes
Tuvalu1999No
Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras1999Yes
Girl on the Bridge1999Yes

2000s

FilmYearExclusively B/W
Mysterious Object at Noon2000Yes
Devils on the Doorstep2000Yes
Eureka2000No
La Commune (Paris, 1871)2000Yes
A Snake of June2000Yes
Werckmeister Harmonies2000Yes
Acne2000Yes
Memento2000No
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra2001Yes
25 Watts2001Yes
Makibefo2001Yes
Electric Dragon 80.000 V2001Yes
Return to Innocence2001No
Bolivia2001Yes
The American Astronaut2001Yes
Don's Plum2001Yes
Planet der Kannibalen2001Yes
In Praise of Love2001No
The Man Who Wasn't There2001Yes
Mongoland2001No
Box Head Revolution2002Yes
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary2002No
Back Against the Wall2002Yes
Don't Ask Don't Tell2002Yes
Sin Destino2002No
Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino2002No
Woodenhead2003Yes
The Saddest Music in the World2003No
Cowards Bend the Knee2003Yes
A Thousand Clouds of Peace2003Yes
Coffee and Cigarettes2003Yes
Temporada de patos2004Yes
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster2004Yes
Late Bloomer2004Yes
Evolution of a Filipino Family2004Yes
After the Apocalypse2004Yes
À tout de suite 2004Yes
Aaltra2004Yes
Sin City2005No
Regular Lovers2005Yes
I'm Going to Tell You a Secret2005No
The Notorious Bettie Page2005No
Good Night, and Good Luck2005Yes
Dark Horse2005No
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari2005Yes
Ashes and Snow2005Yes
Angel-A2005Yes
The Call of Cthulhu2005Yes
Night of the Day of the Dawn Part 32005Yes
Mutual Appreciation2005Yes
Mother of Mine 2005No
Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove2005Yes
13 Tzameti2005Yes
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (or The Prolonged Sorrow of Filipinos)2005Yes
Renaissance2006No
The Bridge2006No
Slow Days2006Yes
Automatons2006Yes
Brand Upon the Brain!2006No
Asudem2006Yes
The Good German2006Yes
Destination Mars2006Yes
Ten Canoes2006No
Factory Girl2006No
Vermilion Souls (Shureitachi)2007Yes
Persepolis2007No
The Mist (alternate video version)2007No
The Man from London2007Yes
La León2007Yes
La Antena2007Yes
Dreamscape2007Yes
J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster2007Yes
Tin Can Man2007Yes
...a bude hůř2007Yes
In Search of a Midnight Kiss2007Yes
Dr. Plonk2007Yes
Control2007Yes
Zift2008Yes
Aegri Somnia2008No
Somers Town2008No
Frontier of the Dawn2008Yes
Fear(s) of the Dark2008No
Melancholia2008Yes
The White Ribbon2009Yes
Tetro2009No
Stingray Sam2009Yes
Rewers2009No
Polytechnique2009Yes
City of Life and Death2009Yes
Antichrist2009No
The Lost Skeleton Returns Again2009No

2010s

FilmYearExclusively B/W
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench2010Yes
Dharma Guns (La succession Starkov)2010No
Dark and Stormy Night2010Yes
The Bunny Game2010Yes
Lotus Eaters2011Yes
For Lovers Only2011Yes
The Turin Horse2011Yes
Keyhole2011Yes
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)2011No
The Whisperer in Darkness2011Yes
Heleno2011Yes
The Day He Arrives2011Yes
Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story2011Yes
Century of Birthing2011Yes
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same2011Yes
The Color Wheel2011Yes
The Artist2011Yes
Alois Nebel2011Yes
Tabu2012Yes
Oh Boy!2012Yes
Much Ado About Nothing2012Yes
Frankenweenie2012Yes
Frances Ha2012Yes
Caesar Must Die2012No
Blancanieves2012Yes
Florentina Hubaldo, CTE2012Yes
Artémis, cœur d'artichaut2013No
Quod Erat Demonstrandum2013Yes
Nebraska2013Yes
A Field in England2013Yes
Ida2013Yes
Escape from Tomorrow2013Yes
Computer Chess2013No
Hard to Be a God2013Yes
L'arbitro2013Yes
Village of Hope (Wang Pikul)2013Yes
Jealousy2013Yes
Thou Gild'st the Even2013No
Weekend2013Yes
Quatre nuits d'un étranger2013Yes
Wolf2013Yes
From What Is Before2014Yes
The Better Angels2014Yes
In the Crosswind2014Yes
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For2014No
Tu dors Nicole2014Yes
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night2014Yes
Güeros2014Yes
The Sea Is Behind 2014Yes
Embrace of the Serpent2015No
Chorus2015Yes
Bleak Street2015Yes
Aferim!2015Yes
The Assassin2015No
Ausma2015Yes
In the Shadow of Women2015Yes
Tharlo2015Yes
Tikkun2015Yes
Darling2015Yes
The Chronicles of Melanie2016Yes
A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery2016Yes
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki2016Yes
Weirdos2016Yes
Frantz2016No
The Woman Who Left2016Yes
The Eyes of My Mother2016Yes
Mad Max: Black & Chrome [fn 1]2016Yes
Blue Jay2016Yes
Cartas da Guerra2016Yes
Death by Death2016Yes
The Summer Is Gone2016No
Logan Noir [fn 1]2017Yes
The Tesla World Light2017Yes
The Party2017Yes
The Day After2017Yes
The Great Buddha+2017No
I Love You, Daddy2017Yes
November2017Yes
Grass2018Yes
Cold War2018Yes
Hotel by the River2018Yes
Season of the Devil2018Yes
Roma2018Yes
The Other Side of the Wind2018No
Leto2018No
The Halt2019Yes
The Lighthouse2019Yes
The Painted Bird2019Yes
Parasite [fn 1]2019Yes
Bait2019Yes
Beats2019No

2020s

FilmYearExclusively B/W
The 40-Year-Old Version2020No
Genus Pan2020Yes
Mank2020Yes
Time2020Yes
Some Southern Waters2020Yes
Malcolm & Marie2021Yes
Vindication Swim2022No

Footnotes

  1. Black-and-white version of an existing color movie.

References

  1. "Indie movie directors delve into black and white filmmaking". Variety.com. June 19, 2013. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
  2. Killian Fox (June 30, 2013). "How black-and-white movies made a comeback". The Guardian. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
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